Terminal Gobbledegook

[scottyjohn]

Hi Guys,
Im totally new to Solaris and am working through a book to get up to speed. My system seems to be having a small problem in that if I log in as root and open a terminal window from the CDE and hit ls, the screen returns a bucnch of ASCI characters and I have to close the terminal wondow to get clear text again. If I CD into another directory and do the ls command I get the file list no problem, it only seems to happen at the root directory. Also when I am running a backup operation fronm my Lucent CentreVu app again the screen turns to gobbledegook as soon as I kick off the backup. Any ideas what is causing this? John

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[jamisar]

fix your TERM variable
cde (if you use dtterm) need
export TERM=dtterm in your .profile (sh,ksh,bash) or
setenv TERM dtterm in .login

 

[scottyjohn]

Sorry,
Again I am totally new to the Solaris environment, can you explain how I would carry out these steps? John

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[jad]

type:

eval `/usr/ucb/tset -s -e -Q`

the ticks are backward ticks (possibly the top left key on your keyboard)

this should run the code to modify your window automatically.

 

[KenCunningham]

John, as jamisar says, you need to edit either your .profile or .login files (use vi) in your home directory and add the lines described above, ie either

export TERM=dtterm

in your .profile (if using sh,ksh,bash) or

setenv TERM dtterm in .login

Hope this helps.