Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:38:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adding linux terminal entry in FreeBSD 2.2.2 - how? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970711093204.1980A-100000@DonaldBurr.dyn.ml.org>
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I just added a new FreeBSD 2.2.2 box to my home ethernet. I strongly
doubt that hardware has anything to do with this problem, so the details
aren't that important. Suffice it to say that this is a FreeBSD 2.2.2
system running on a fairly generic 486 with 16 MB of RAM.
I've also got a Linux machine here at home (running RedHat 4.2, based on
kernel 2.0.30). This is also a 486, incidentally, but with 24 MB of RAM.
Alot of times I am on the Linux machine on a text console (I don't use X
that much) and need to telnet or rlogin into my FreeBSD box. Alot of
times I need to use programs that use full-screen mode, such as "vi",
"trn", "nn", etc.
Unfortunately, I get the following error message when I telnet or rlogin
in to my FreeBSD box:
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[dburr@greatbird dburr]$ telnet voyager
Trying 192.160.60.3...
Connected to voyager.starfleet.gov.
Escape character is '^]'.
FreeBSD (voyager.starfleet.gov) (ttyp0)
login: dburr
Password:
Last login: Fri Jul 11 09:26:15 from starfleet.gov
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE (VOYAGER) #0: Wed Jul 9 20:49:02 PDT 1997
Welcome aboard the U.S.S. Voyager!
tcsh: No entry for terminal type "linux"
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
[dburr@voyager:101]%
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"Hmm," I thought, "guess FreeBSD doesn't know about the 'linux' terminal."
So I figured I'd rip out the "linux" entry in /etc/termcap on my linux box
and stick it in /etc/termcap on my FreeBSD box. This is the entry I used:
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linux|linux console:\
:am:eo:mi:ms:ut:xn:xo:\
:co#80:it#8:li#25:\
:&7=^Z:@7=\E[4~:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:\
:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:F3=\E[25~:F4=\E[26~:F5=\E[28~:\
:F6=\E[29~:F7=\E[31~:F8=\E[32~:F9=\E[33~:FA=\E[34~:\
:IC=\E[%d@:K2=\E[G:al=\E[L:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:\
:ch=\E[%i%dG:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:\
:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:cv=\E[%i%dd:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:\
:do=^J:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=\E[4h:k1=\E[[A:\
:k2=\E[[B:k3=\E[[C:k4=\E[[D:k5=\E[[E:k6=\E[17~:\
:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:kB=\E[Z:\
:kD=\E[3~:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=^H:kd=\E[B:\
:kh=\E[1~:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:le=^H:mr=\E[7m:\
:nd=\E[C:nw=^M^J:r1=\Ec:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:sf=^J:sr=\EM:\
:st=\EH:ta=^I:u6=\E[%i%d;%dR:u7=\E[6n:u8=\E[?6c:\
:u9=\E[c:up=\E[A:vb=200\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?25h:\
:vi=\E[?25l:tc=klone+sgr:tc=klone+color:tc=klone+acs:
linux-m|Linux console no color:\
:Co@:pa@:\
:AB@:AF@:Sb@:Sf@:tc=linux:
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(of course, to do this, I had to load up X, because FreeBSD had a
pretty decent (i.e. working) "xterm" termcap entry.) After adding these
lines to /etc/termcap, I was then able to log in to FreeBSD from a Linux
console without the "no entry for terminal type 'linux'" message... BUT I
still couldn't use visual-mode programs! Witness the following two error
messages, one from the "clear" command (which simply clears the screen...
or should, at any rate), and one from the "vi" command:
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[dburr@voyager:101]% clear
tput: tgetent failure: No such file or directory
[dburr@voyager:102]% vi foo.c
ex/vi: Error: linux: No such file or directory
[dburr@voyager:103]%
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I must confess that I am at a total loss here. What does this error mean,
and how can I fix it?
If you folks can offer any suggestions whatsoever, I'd be very grateful.
Please either respond to the list or (preferably, if possible) send me an
e-mail response as well.
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
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