For some reason after my terminal window stays open for a while, these weird characters populate on the blue bar at the top-left corner. Below is a screen shot:
http://www.spikfrank.com/terminal.jpg
any idea what those are?
On 2011-05-13 22:06, abacabb wrote:
> [image: http://www.spikfrank.com/terminal.jpg]
Is that putty?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
If you read the mail the message will disappear unless the system keeps sending mail to root. Use the command mail to read the message, it message may contain some hint.
Fredrik
On 2011-05-13 23:06, holmfred wrote:
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> If you read the mail the message will disappear unless the system keeps
> sending mail to root. Use the command mail to read the message, it
> message may contain some hint.
He doesn’t refer to the contents of the window, but to what is in the
tittle bar of the window itself.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)
If you are talking about the characters in the Putty title bar you can set them with the xtermset command.
Example:
/usr/bin/xtermset -title `hostname`
I couldn’t tell you how they got there…
Good luck,
Hiatt
Yeah it’s weird because it does not match the hostname.
It’s a public facing web server. I hope this isn’t a sign of something gone wrong.
From reading the guessing/answers from the others, migh it be that the window you show is not on a Linux system at all? When this is true, why don’t you tell so???
When true, it might be that somewhere in the contact between the system of one OS type and the system of another OS type the translation between encoding goes wromg.
Linux system tend to use UTF-8 encoded Unicode for everything, I do not know if the not Linux system you show does completely understand that this is the case.
Yeah, what hcvv said. †is symptomatic of a Unicode character displayed in an ISO8859 context. If that’s putty you are using, then set the display charset to UTF-8.