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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: stty
Keywords: terminal settings
Message-ID: <620@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 20 Apr 89 14:24:41 GMT
References: <506@contact.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <506@contact.UUCP> root@contact.UUCP (root@contact.uucp) writes:
> An interesting idea I cam across while trying to fix a user's tty settings. 
>stty sane will reset the terminal settings of your own terminal, but is there
>any way to include (say, for root) the option to affect another user's
>terminal? (ie. in my case, the best way to fix the problem would have been to
>issue a stty sane at the affected terminal (that way done), but is there
>anyway root, or the administrator could issue this in a remote fashion?)

Assumging the terminal to be reset is `/dev/tty4a' :

stty sane < /dev/tty4a

BTW, you probably don't have to be `root' to do this, since user's tty
devices are often world-writeable.

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com