Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:17:23 -0300 From: Ronan Lucio <ronanl@melim.com.br> To: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error on Terminal Message-ID: <20020618091723.28d9a774.ronanl@melim.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20020616162038.E37028-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> References: <20020617195913.7a48c962.ronanl@melim.com.br> <20020616162038.E37028-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com>
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William, > donkey terminal = dumb terminal in English. Also a "serial console". Thank you, > > > > Ok, when a user logs in, such terminal open a telnet section > > on a FreeBSD Internet Server where the user execute the pine > > program. > > Serial console -> AIX -> telnet Freebsd, right? Right. > > If I log in with telnet from a PC running windows, it works fine > > but, from the donkey terminals it gives me the following errors: > > > > When I execute pine, it says: > > "Can't open terminal capabilities database" > > > > When I execute vi, it says: > > "No terminal database found" > > > > Does anyone knews what could it be? > > FreeBSD console oddness. I think FreeBSD expects the $TERM variable to > be something different to what AIX says it is. > > If AIX uses sh (that is, bourne shell) try: > > $ TERM=cons25 > $ export TERM > $ telnet freebsd.host.name Thank you very much William, I've solved my problem... :-) Ronan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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