Bug 448152 - less fails with tcsh
Summary: less fails with tcsh
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: tcsh
Version: 5.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Vitezslav Crhonek
QA Contact: Bill Huang
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-23 19:31 UTC by K. Scott Rowe
Modified: 2010-04-14 07:39 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: setup-2.5.58-6.el5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-04-14 07:39:23 UTC
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Description K. Scott Rowe 2008-05-23 19:31:08 UTC 
Description of problem:
Even with no .tcshrc or .cshrc in the users home directory, if the login shell
is tcsh, using less produces "ESC%@".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
tcsh-6.14-12.el5
less-394-5.el5
setup-2.5.58-1.el5

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Login as a user whos shell is tcsh
2.  less /etc/passwd
3.
  
Actual results:
ESC%@

Expected results:
seeing the contents of /etc/passwd

Additional info:
But (299221) claims to have solved this, but it still happens in 5.2.
Comment 1 Vitezslav Crhonek 2010-04-06 13:47:53 UTC 
Should be fixed in setup-2.5.58-6.el5, can you confirm it please?
Comment 2 K. Scott Rowe 2010-04-13 15:45:14 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Should be fixed in setup-2.5.58-6.el5, can you confirm it please?    

I don't know about setup-2.5.58-6.el5 but setup-2.5.58-7.el5 seems to have
fixed the problem.  I am running rhel5.4 now and no longer see this problem.
I had actually forgotten about it.  I think you can close this ticket now.
Comment 3 Vitezslav Crhonek 2010-04-14 07:39:23 UTC 
Thanks for information.
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