Nano editor suspended using Ctrl+Z does not resume properly while run in switch user (su) environment
Issue
-
Login to a RHEL5 server as any user
-
Switch to another user with su command
su - username
- Now launch nano editor using -z option to enable suspend ability
nano -z filename
- Hit Ctrl + Z to suspend the file
- Type fg to return to the file
- File is not displayed properly and unable to use any nano commands.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Nano
- Switch User (su)
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