[Techtalk] opengear console carriage returns

[N. Leenders]

Hi All,

I'm running RHEL on 5 opterons, and 4 of the 5 are working just fine with 
a serial console.  The 5th one doesn't.  The 5th one uses a keyspan USB to 
serial converter.

The console works fine until I log in.  Then the lines overwrite each 
other, ie, the carriage returns are not happening.  Bash works a little 
better than tcsh in that with bash, there are carriage returns when you 
press the return key, they just don't happen for the end of computer 
generated lines, eg, in the following, the carraige return happened with 
the "ls" command, but not after each line of the listing of the files or 
for the resulting prompt.

[root at leo ~]# ls
[root at leo ~]# g  Desktop  install.log  install.log.syslog

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks!
  - Nadine


Nadine Leenders
HPC System Administrator, Research Support
Academic Information and Communication Technologies
University of Alberta