From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 18: 9: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 554F237B401 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bouba.alxhost.com (bouba.alxhost.com [66.96.220.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E3343E77 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jimmy.lantz@lusidor.com) Received: from [212.162.175.101] (helo=lusidor2002.lusidor.com) by bouba.alxhost.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17sLJW-0001Yb-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:47:11 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020920124912.00be0c58@mail.lusidor.com> X-Sender: lusidor@mail.lusidor.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:49:21 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jimmy Lantz Subject: tput & term problem during rc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bouba.alxhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [0 0] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - lusidor.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm trying to run a shellscript during the rc (output to monitor connected directly to server) But when I do a "clear" I get the following error tput: no terminal type specified and no term eniviromental variable I also use the dialog utility ( /usr/bin/dialog ) but the output gets totally screwed up. What I gather is that the terminal info hasent been set yet. How do I set it? Any pointers to docs, howtos faqs are welcome TIA Jim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message