troubleshooting a dumb terminal

[pfilippone]

Problem with a dumb terminal (VT100).
After attempting to login, the user gets this error:

"DCM Terminal Setup Program v1.1
Termset: could not open /u/nwsrm/client/unknown
TERM not found in VVTERMCAP file. "

This is only happening on one terminal, on port tty2a10.
I believe the file it's looking for is
/u/nwsrm/client/vt100
Where is TERM configured in the system?
SCO UNIX 5.0.6

THANKS IN ADVANCE

 

[fredericofonseca]

Thats not an OPEN SERVER problem.

Aparentely you have a piece of software (DCM Terminal Setup Program v1.1 ) that is started from one of your startup scripts (.profile, or .login or /etc/profile or other), and this one does not have the correct config for that tty.

You will need to speak with whoever admins your system, see what that software is for, and how to configure it.

the variable TERM can be set in either of the init scripts, or on /etc/default/tty

To see if the TERM variable is being configured correctly, login on that terminal and do a
echo $TERM

And then login on another terminal (some hardware please), and do the same, and compare the results.




Regards

Frederico Fonseca
SysSoft Integrated Ltd

http://www.syssoft-int.com

 

[PHV]

For default terminal type for a given tty, the file is /etc/ttytype, so :
man ttytype
Frederico, in OSR no /etc/default/tty file, AFAIK.

Hope This Help, PH.
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[edfair]

With the correct type in /etc/ttytype you change the .profile to look there with "eval tset -s" and a following line "export TERM".
Or you could tell the .profile to accept it as "TERM=vt.."
and then "export TERM".

Or to figure out what is going on , on the offending terminal log in and "env". That will tell you what you have.
Since it is a lowercase "a" I suspect you get a "TERM=unknown".

Ed Fair
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