Greetings,
Note that I missed a '"' in the last message. ...My bad.
When I did a "man term" I discovered that terminal types were kept in
alphabetical order under the directory "/lib/terminfo". On my distro of
Linux, A painless way to list them is the following:
find /lib/terminfo/. |cut -d "/" -f 6 |grep . |less && wc -l
Which lets you look at them and tells you how many there are.
My first attempt, which is also valid is as follows:
sudo apt-get install tree or
yum install tree
Then this bit of flummery:
tree /lib/terminfo | cut -c 14- |strings
Either of these will give you a list of terminal types available on your
system.
My Linux Mint appears to have 41 choices.
To pick one for use try:
echo $TERM # note where you start.
export TERM=ansi # you can pick one of the terminal types
# both "dumb" and "linux" are viable
echo $TERM # see the new type.
Enjoy.
Flint
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Paul Flint wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:15:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Flint <fl...@flint.com>
To: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: Re: TERM=linux instead of TERM=dumb
Greetings John Campbell and Dell Harris,
I find that the output from the excellent line of bash provided below by Big
John great entertainment. But before we disappear into troff (or sphinx :^),
could I suggest a different approach if you are "man" enough...
Try this:
man term
Much information will come your way, and I look forward to further discussion
of this issue.
My favorite resolution of this has always been to type in:
echo $TERM
I always the same answer...
xterm
Finally, the bash line supplied by John will only work with "root
privilege. For now I would advise staying away from root, particularly on
production systems... I would be happy to consult on this topic some more at
your convenience and pleasure.
Sincerely,
Flint
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, John Campbell wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:53:15 -0400
From: John Campbell <soup...@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU>
To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TERM=linux instead of TERM=dumb
Well...
Perhaps pawing through /etc/profile _might_ be edifying.
You can cheat by:
cd /etc
find . -type f -print | while read F ; do grep TERM "${F}" && echo "${F}" ;
done
to find out where this can be getting set. It might even be somewhere
under /etc/defaults but don't quote me on that.
Mind you, I don't currently have access to BFI (Big Fast Iron, either a
zSeries or an S/390) at this point so YMMV.
A long, long time ago when there were many, many deviants of Unix, I tended
to paw through various /etc and /usr/include files to pick up tricks. Man
pages gave some hints but the actual _structures_ you need for ioctl() and
fcntl() calls were a bit more entertaining :-) ...
-soup
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Dell Harris <dell.har...@suse.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why TERM is being set to linux instead of dumb on
the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in the /etc/default/grub line of a system-z
guest on install of SLES 12 SP2. TERM=dumb is set in the parmfile but
after the install it's set to linux. Does anyone know of a way to get it
to set TERM=dumb on install?
Thanks
Dell Harris
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