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[MichelleButler]

I am using Telnet as an emulator to connect to my AIX server, but every time I connect I have to run Export TERM=vt100 for the terminal settings. Does anybody know any good scripts that the terminal accepts the vt100 type on logon.

Many thanks

Michelle

 

[alexhu]

put 'export TERM=vt100' in your .profile file on the server

Alex

 

[mrn]

Just edit your .profile and insert

TERM=vt100;export TERM
set -o vi
stty erase <backspace>


The 'set -o vi' allows you to use esc j or k to go through the history of previous commands

The stty erase <backspace> sets up the backspace key to delete text backwards, where I've typed <backspace> you need to press the backspace key, you'll see something like ^h then press return


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[MichelleButler]

Many thanks for your suggestions, I have tried all the solutions mentioned but this doesn't seem to work when I log in as root. This will work for other users but not as root. Any other suggestions!!

Michelle

 

[bi]

What shell does root use?

 

[Yegolev]

root has his own .profile so you can either do &quot;su&quot; without the dash to keep your profile (I'm assuming you are doing &quot;su -&quot or put the lines in /etc/profile so they apply to everyone (unless overriden in the user's .profile).

 

[gheist]

first check which terminal is set up by your terminal emulator and change if you feel this is incorrect

>eval `tset -sQ ?$TERM`

next
check custom key mapings (with same reason as above)

>tset

usually one of these work :
dumb vt100 vt200 vt220 xterm

to check if brand new setup is ok i'd check at least one of:
screen pg vi mc

and now append my 1st command line with exact paths to tset and eval in your root's profile

 

[qaz123]

Hi Michelle,

If your emulator is sending it's identifycation (Ex: vt100), then this line should help you:

[ $TERM ] && eval `tset -m :\${TERM} -r -s -Q`

If Not, try this one:

eval `tset -m ibm3151:${TERM:-ibm3151} -m :\?${TERM:-ibm3151} -e -r -s -Q`

Have a nice day