yman@fees.vut.edu.au (Y.M. NG) (06/12/91)
One of our 3500 suddenly developed a very strange problem. While login on the console as non superuser, we cannot run program that need to know the terminal information. If one login as root (or su) all is fine. I have checked the access permission on the termcap file and its content. In fact if one login from another machine by using telnet and set TERM to apollo_1280_bw, the application behave normally. Any help or pointer as to how this can be fixed (short of invol and reload the OS) will be greately appreciately. Thank you in advance. $ set DISPLAY=:0 HOME=/user/ee_staff/yman IFS= ISP=m68k ... (deleted) SHELL=/bin/sh SYSTYPE=bsd4.3 TERM=apollo_1280_bw TZ=EDT-10 TZNAME=EDT USER=yman $ elm Failed trying to initialize your terminal entry: unknown return code -3 $ rn No termcap file found. $ vt100 Cannot create vt100 window $ vi abc apollo_1280_bw: Unknown terminal type [Using open mode] "abc" [New file] $ set DISPLAY=:0 HOME=/user/ee_staff/yman IFS= ISP=m68k ... SHELL=/bin/sh SYSTYPE=bsd4.3 TERM=apollo_1280_bw TZ=EDT-10 TZNAME=EDT USER=yman $ pwd //fees/etc/bsd4.3 $ ls -l termcap -rw-r--r-- 1 root 130943 Aug 16 1989 termcap -- Yauman NG E-mail: yman@fees.vut.edu.au Dept of Electrical Engineering, FIT Tel: (03) 688-4724 Victoria University of Technology, Australia 3011