On 03/12/12 15:21, [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Administering Linux Suse boxes makes it opf need to login onto those >> boxes and use the well designed kiddy-cloaking scripting environment, >> called YAST/YAST2. >> >> The problem I face now is that I can not use DEL key to delete >> characters or even use the ALT key to enforce actions like ALT-e or >> ALT-d for enabling/disabling. >> >> I tried to set environment variable "TERM = xterm" to "TERM = cons25" >> since I thought this could be a problem with the terminal. But it >> wans't. Either the outdated X on FBSD causes problems or there is >> another issue. I desperately need some help ... > > Simple questions first just to be sure: > > You set TERM with the command "export TERM=xterm", correct? No extra spaces?
Of course, it is either setenv TERM xterm in csh or TERM=xterm in bourne-alike shells. In my FreeBSD driven environment everything is fine and shiny, but when login into a Suse 12.1 box and doing a YAST2, DEL key does not work (produce nothing) and ALT-plus-key doesn't work either. But in several cases, I need to edit lines and confirm those changes with key shortcuts like ALT-e, for instance for "enable" is much appreciated than hopping around with the TAB key. > > And you are using xterm (not rxvt)? No, pure and plain and conservative xterm as it comes with the port and no extravagant terminal thingy. > > What happens when you use the DEL key? Except in YAST/YAST2, it works as expected ... > > I'm not familiar with YAST. Are you having problems at a normal shell > command line, or are you having problems in something run from a shell? I'm also not familiar with YAST (I start hating this crap), but I need it since I have not the scientific support on FreeBSD platforms I need as I have on Linux (we run TESLA driven boxes acting as supercomputers. Try it, "es ist, als würden Engel schieben ..."). Regards, Oliver
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