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I have successfully connected to my server via puTTy and I am entering commands but they are unresponsive. I do not know what is wrong.

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    If a command is successful, usually there is no success message. There is only error/warning messages when something goes wrong. It depends on the command, obviously. Can you describe what "unresponsive" means? It could also mean delayed, or you get disconnected when you type a command, or... – Radley Sustaire Sep 07 '14 at 09:17
  • Unresponsive means nothing happens. I have no experience with putty or ssh but I'd have expected that when a command is entered the command line interface will return a few lines to show that it has been executed. So far this has not been the case. – divergent Sep 07 '14 at 17:57
  • Also I do expect the command line to return something. I am running the following command for example '#/scripts/whoowns exampledomain.com' and I expect to see who owns the domain name. Is there something I am missing. Thanks for your response. – divergent Sep 07 '14 at 18:02
  • I'm not familiar with that command (not very familiar with SSH myself). If you have connected to your server, logged in with your username/password, the command line should show the directory you are working in. You can type `ls` to see a list of current files in the directory, or `cd /` to go to the root folder. If these commands work as expected, then it's working. anything after that is specific to your host/script and I don't know how to help you there. – Radley Sustaire Sep 07 '14 at 21:24

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If you are using PuTTY, and get an apparently freezed screen, you could have accidentally pressed ctrl + s. This sends an Xoff signal blocking the terminal's output.

The solution is to press ctrl + q to send the Xonsignal.

See also: The GNU screen is unresponsive, seems blocked

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