The Amazon AMI images have a default information panel at the bottom of the terminal window. I would like to remove this (it disables me from being able to scroll backwards in putty).
It looks like this at the bottom of my terminal window:
0*$ sh my_login_name@ec2-100-00-100-10.compute-1.amazonaws.com 100.10.100.10 ...
U Ubuntu oneiric 1# 3d20h 0.00 2.6GHz 592MB,43% 2011-09-26 18:12:05
Best Answer
Unfortunately, the 11.10 AMIs automatically run the
screen
command on ssh from a terminal using a package namedbyobu
which uses up the bottom two lines with colorful line noise.You can disable this on a given instance by typing the command:
which will log you out. The next ssh will work fine.
Note: This post includes statements that express my personal opinions. Other people have different opinions.