[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node-image] Set "linux" as the terminal type.

[Perry Myers]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Friday, February 06 2009, Perry Myers said:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Friday, February 06 2009, Darryl L. Pierce said:
>>>> Creates /home/.bash_profile and exports the TERM environment variable.
>>> If root logs in from some other terminal type (say, an xterm) over ssh,
>>> this is going to break.
>> Hmm, what should we set term to then?  The problem I've been having is  
>> that when sshing from gnome-terminal to a Node I get problems because 
>> TERM is set to xterm and w/ that it doesn't like top, vi, etc...  Setting 
>> to linux seems to clear that up.
> 
> It looks like you're removing the relevant terminfo files
> (/usr/share/terminfo/*) and so any app that requires termcap information
> isn't going to work.  You're getting lucky with linux as
> a) there are also copies in /lib/terminfo and
> b) linux is sort of close to xterm for the set of capabilities needed
> for top

Hmm, /usr/share/terminfo is only about 432k so I suppose we could just 
stop blacklisting those files.

Perry