On Monday 01 March 2010 10:11:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > We just log the fact of running sudo. The admins are trusted to not
> > cock things up, and if they do, to not try and hide it. The philosophy
> > is simple - if we feel we can't trust you, we would not have hired you.
> 
> That is sensible, if not good for your BOFH rating :)
> 
> > Editing root's history after the fact to hide your tracks is considered
> > a heinous crime of unimaginable proportions. Anyone caught doing it is
> > sentenced to buy cake for the entire technical team. That's about 100
> > people. And when I saw cake I don't mean a teeny weeny jam tart each, I
> > mean cake - chocolate filled croissants, black forest and my personal
> > favourite: 4 inch high carrot cake.
> 
> I take that back :)

Coming back to the OP, on a brand new installation, while on the console and 
logged in as root user, I also see ESC all over the man pages.  I do not have 
this problem on older boxen, nor do I remember noticing it in the past.  What 
is causing it and what is the fix?
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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