Stefan Jeglinski <jeglin@4pi.com>:
 > My arrow keys don't work, instead sending escape sequences like
 > ^[[A for the up-arrow. Rather, the arrow keys -are- working as this
 > appears to be the correct escape sequence, but they may not be
 > being interpreted correctly by the shell. The default shell appears
 > to be csh.

I personally have /bin/sh as root's default shell, and with that,
"set -o emacs" in ~/.profile lets the cursor keys be parsed appropriately.

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Chris Baird,, <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au