[OLUG] Terminal Settings

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Has anyone run into problems with TERM settings when connecting to other
> machines?

Yep: connecting from Linux to HP-UX.  I think NetBSD as well, but it's
been a while since I've powered up my sparcstation.

> The problem I'm running into is that the 'SunOS 5.6' I'm connecting to
> doesn't recognize 'linux' (from console) or 'xterm-color' (from within
> X)?

You need to either:
a) tell the admin to add either 'linux' or 'xterm-color' to the equivalent
   of the termcap
b) what I did: explicitly set TERM to vt100 or xterm in .profile (or
   .bash_profile, whichever is relevant)

The latter is the easiest, obviously.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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