ssh top

[Tonatiuh]

$ ssh remote_host top
top: Unknown terminal "VT100" in $TERM

The remote host is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and has the environment variable XTERM=vt100.

The local host is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and has the environment variable XTERM=xterm.

Any idea?
Should I change set XTERM=xterm into the remote host? what other funcionaliti is going to change or fail if I change that variable in remote host?

[Ivan Ferreira]

I think that is complainig about VT100 upper case, change to lower case vt100.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom

export TERM=vt100

Might want that in the user profile as well.

SEP

[Tonatiuh]

Ivan:

The upper case is only the message shown, the value of the env variable is "vt100".

Steven:
I have set the env variable XTERM=vt100 in the local machine but the result is exactly the same error message.

[TwoProc · Accepted solution]

Even if you get the TERM assignment to work, the command will probably still fail.

I've got a test below going from RH5 to RH4 (not the same, I know, but as close as I could come)...

$> ssh remote_host "(export TERM=xterm; top)"
top: failed tty get

I tried with "ssh -X" and got the same thing.

The problem is, it will fail the "isatty()" code check in the program.

So, what you need is a whole new xterm:


$> ssh -X remote_host "xterm -e top"

Now you'll get a new window with top running in it.

Close enough???

[Tonatiuh]

ssh -X remote_host "xterm -e top" works well for me.

Thank you!