[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node-image] Set "linux" as the terminal type.

[Jeremy Katz]

On Friday, February 06 2009, Perry Myers said:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Friday, February 06 2009, Darryl L. Pierce said:
>>> Creates /home/.bash_profile and exports the TERM environment variable.
>>
>> If root logs in from some other terminal type (say, an xterm) over ssh,
>> this is going to break.
>
> Hmm, what should we set term to then?  The problem I've been having is  
> that when sshing from gnome-terminal to a Node I get problems because 
> TERM is set to xterm and w/ that it doesn't like top, vi, etc...  Setting 
> to linux seems to clear that up.

It looks like you're removing the relevant terminfo files
(/usr/share/terminfo/*) and so any app that requires termcap information
isn't going to work.  You're getting lucky with linux as
a) there are also copies in /lib/terminfo and
b) linux is sort of close to xterm for the set of capabilities needed
for top

Jeremy