Re: [Testbed-admins] Problem with TERMCAP in MFS image

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

FYI, ee gives the equivalent error:

Error opening terminal: xterm

I tried changing TERM to ansi, ANSI, xterm, vt100  but nothing changed
anything.  I suspect I'm changing the right setting, or at least not
all of the right settings....  I assume I am missing something.  how
should TERM be set? do I need to recreate the TERMCAP database?  Is
this something that is done automatically when a user logs in to let
apps know what type of terminal is being used?

thanks.


Ben Burnett
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Cheng Cui<ccui1@tigers.lsu.edu> wrote:
> Does ee work there? If I remember right.
>
> Cheng
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com> wrote:
>>
>> We did make customizations to the MFS images on boss directly (mounted
>> on bossthen edited...)
>>
>> but to customize the full images the instructions say to imageunzip
>> onto a test node with the admin MFS then edit files on the testnode.
>> That is where I'm having problems.   are there any editors loaded in
>> the MFS image?  I assume if vi isn't there not much else is.
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ben Burnett
>>  R&D Software Engineer: wired, wireless, ad hoc, mesh networking,
>>    network monitoring and data visualization
>>  ATC (Architecture Technology Corporation)   http://www.atcorp.com/
>>  bburnett@atcorp.com                         (952) 829-5864 x167
>>  --------Views expressed are mine and not those of ATC--------
>>  Personal:
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>> http://ben.burnett.ws/
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>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Leigh Stoller<stoller@flux.utah.edu>
>> wrote:
>> >> I can't use vi in the MFS image to edit files to customizre the
>> >> various images
>> >>
>> >> when I try to edit a file (with vi) I get:
>> >>
>> >> "vi: no terminal database found"
>> >
>> > Yep, we try to keep the MFS images as small as possible since they are
>> > transferred via tftp, a very simplistic protocol.
>> >
>> > Typically you would modify the MFS images directly on boss by
>> > following the instructions in the README file in each of the subdirs
>> > of the mfs tarball.
>> >
>> > I see that the wiki makes no mention of this though. Sorry about
>> > that. I'll try to get something into the wiki.
>> >
>> > Lbs
>> >
>> >
>> >
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