cyradm/Cyrus::IMAP::Shell -> missing characters?

[Michael Bacon]

We used to see something similar, and I can't quite remember how we fixed 
it, but you might try making sure you have either the Term::Readline::GNU 
or Term::Readline::Perl modules installed.  They help clean up the i/o 
stuff.

Michael

--On Wednesday, May 14, 2003 4:00 PM +0200 "Efler, Lukas" <lef at zuehlke.com> 
wrote:

> Hmm, no answers so far...
> Does anyone else have this phenomenon?
>
> Cheers
>
> Lukas
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Efler, Lukas [mailto:lef at zuehlke.com]
>> Sent: Freitag, 9. Mai 2003 13:58
>> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
>> Subject: cyradm/Cyrus::IMAP::Shell -> missing characters?
>>
>>
>> Hi list
>>
>> With my installation, cyradm/Cyrus::IMAP::Shell behaves
>> strange in the way that with every output, the very first
>> character is missing, ie., if I type help, the output is:
>>
>> uthenticate, login, auth         authenticate to server
>> <-----------------
>> chdir, cd                         change current directory
>> createmailbox, create, cm         create mailbox
>> deleteaclmailbox, deleteacl, dam  remove ACLs from mailbox
>> deletemailbox, delete, dm         delete mailbox
>> etc...
>>
>> notice the missing a in uthenticate. The same thing happens
>> with any command.
>>
>> Does anybody know what could be causing this?
>>
>> OS is Solaris 8, cyrus is 2.1.12, perl is 5.8.0
>>
>> The actual call to perl in cyradm is 'exec perl
>> -I/opt/cyrus/lib/perl5/site_perl -MCyrus::IMAP::Shell -e
>> shell -- "$@"'
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Lukas Efler
>>
>>
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