OT: linux vs vt100 termcap problems + screen - help!

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Brian K. White shouted:
>> I have not looked deeply into it since I haven't cared yet, but trying 
>> to help someone else here the other day I saw that screen sets TERM to 
>> "screen.${TERM}", and in /etc/termcap there are screen.linux, 
>> screen.rxvt etc...
>
>THANK YOU!
>
>Setting local to linux and remote to screen.linux works perfectly for both
>yast on Linux, and mutt on Solaris and Linux.
>
>My only real annoyance is that I might log into the Solaris server either
>directly from Anzio (or PuTTY), or I may log in from inside screen--both
>from the same IP#--and they won't enable sshd environment setting for users
>due to (valid) security concerns.  So I have yet to figure out an
>-automated- way of making my login process decide if it should run linux or
>screen.linux, since I'm coming from the same IP# no matter what (in this
>case, anyway).  If anyone has a genius solution to that, let me know.  I've
>been over things six ways from Sunday and can't figure out a decent way to
>determine a decent way to automate setting TERM to the right one yet.

Not a genius solution, but copying the FilePro ``p'' command to
/usr/local/bin in the PATH before /usr/bin, put in an appropriate
``case'' statement or other tests to look at the TERM environment
variable and reset as necessary.

Another thing we have done for years is to copy /etc/termcap to
/usr/local/etc/termcap and point the TERMCAP environment variable
to this.  Any changes made to that will not be affected by system
updates, and it's easy to use ``diff'' to see what changes might
have been made in /etc/termcap that need to be moved over.

Bill
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