set term problem

[Kenn Chen]

Normally, when I su to my oracle user , system won't prompt me (TERM=hp) to input the vt100.But now, system always prompt me the set term and I need to key vt100 all the time. I have checked the .profile and env setting but it still the same problem. any idea ?

[jim bidebo]

have you tried to set the term in the .profile ?
TERM=vt100
export TERM
?

[Santosh Nair_1]

Typically it prompts you to enter the TERM type when it can't determine the TERM by itself using the ttytytpe command. Check your telnet client, what does IT think its terminal type is? If its not set to VT100, then try setting it to that.

Also see this forum thread for more details:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x686187dc4d7dd5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html

-Santosh

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi,
Are you doing su - oracle or su oracle ?
"su - oracle" will execute .profile of oracle.
Hope you have set the term in .profile.
export ORACLE_TERM=vt100
export TERM=vt100

Best of luck
Animesh

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Idris,

The prompt is being generated by the ttytype command, which is normally called in /etc/profile. I would check this file + any other login scripts to find out why the TERM is not being set properly.

Rgds, Robin.

[Wodisch]

Hello Idris,

instead of "ttytype" and could be the command
"tset", so look for that in "/etc/profile" and
in your "$HOME/.profile" (well, oracle's).

HTH,
Wodisch

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi Idis,

Check your .profile and comment this line.

eval ` tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `

make it
# eval ` tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `

and set your term as

export TERM=vt100

or

TERM=vt100;export TERM

Hope this helps.

thanks