Ubuntu 10.04 - Gnome Termainal - BASH

pressing cursor keys in certain users produces garbage. For example:

pressing up arrow produces: ^[[A
pressing down arrow produces: ^[[B
pressing right arrow produces: ^[[C
pressing left arrow produces: ^[[D

Naturally, I'd like my bash history instead of this. For root and my main user I have no problems. I have a few system users (who don't have a standard home directory) and this seems to occur with those users. For example, my amandabackups user has a home directory of /var/lib/amanda.

Any ideas?

As always, thanks to everyone here!

WT

do you have your regular files in the home directories? .bash_profile .bashrc etc...?

I copied my .profile and .bash* files to the home directory, but still get the same garbage when pressing the cursor keys. It's only when I su to those users...

Thanks for your response. Is there another file that might control this behavior?

WT

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