Originally I submitted this twice to the list since I wasn't sure if it
ever went through since I got no responses on the first one.
Thanks to several people (on cc: list) who suggested looking at
/etc/profile and /etc/csh.login as system wide defaults for users.
I have tried doing my homework and checked these files to backups, these
files never contained any term settings, and didn't change. So I'm
confused where the default of vt100 was getting set before?
No other changes went on that I am aware of, as I was on vacation, and am
usually the only one doing changes. We did not do a system os upgrade.
And it did affect more than pine... such as vi, etc... most users just
noticed first with pine. The only remote possibilities I see so far are:
>Did someone replace some system utility that these things depend on?
>
>Something changed on the system. You either have a hacker, or someone else
>who has privileges (or maybe even yourself) changed something that had this
>side effect.
By adding TERM=vt100;export TERM in /etc/profile, and set term=vt100 to
/etc/csh.login took care of the default term settings for bash, csh, tcsh
and sh... but tcsh still gives the error: tcsh: No entry for terminal type
"1" tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
But it still sets term ok.
Thanks for the suggestions & help... but if term was never set through
system wide /etc/profile or /etc/csh.login, and not ser through users
.profile/.bashrc/.cshrc/.login etc, then how else has it been set in the past?
>How do I set the default terminal type for all users... is there a way
>independant than their individual profile/login files?
>
>All of a sudden, users are complaining that pine says:
>
> Your terminal, of type "", is lacking functions needed to run pine.
>
>They're using a mix of csh, bash, and tcsh. I know the term can be set
>command line and through the profiles, but what may have caused the
>default to stop working? I doubt all the users changed their profiles.
>
>Thanks,
>Dan
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Dan Kirkpatrick dkirk_at_phy.syr.edu
Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
http://www.phy.syr.edu/~dkirk Fax: (315) 443-9103
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Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 20:08:57 NZDT