[arm-allstar] Weird Editor Issue

[David Lang]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2017, "Dan Ozment via arm-allstar" wrote:

> First, great job on Supermon!  Looks great!
>
> Something strange has happened on one of my nodes.  Any time I open a file for editing I get strange characters in it as I move the cursor down.  For example, when I open rpt.conf in vi and move down 3 lines I get the following. The weirdness is the ?121 that shows up at the beginning of each line when I move to that line.
>
> ?12lRNING - THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED FROM A
> ?12lMPLATE FILE IN   /usr/local/etc/asterisk_tpl   BY THE
> ?12lDE-CONFIG.SH SCRIPT.
> ?12l
> ; EACH TIME THIS SCRIPT IS RUN, THIS FILE WILL BE OVERWRITTEN.
> ; IF YOU CHANGE ANYTHING IN THIS FILE AND RUN THE NODE-CONFIG.SH
> ; SCRIPT, IT WILL BE LOST.
>
> I can edit and save a file, and it doesn't corrupt the file, it's very difficult to see what I'm doing. The admin.sh menu is totally trashed on this node.
>
> Has anyone experienced this?
>
> I'm am using Putty.  When I connect to other nodes it doesn't do this.  If I connect to another node and then SSH from there to this node I still have the problem.
>
> Has anyone experienced this?

This means that your terminal type isn't set correctly, try 'linux' or 'vt100'

David Lang