xterm/tty problems

[Brad De Vries]

Something easy to check is the TERM environment
variable.  The value should have come across the
rlogin from the originating session but that doesn't
mean that it's correct.  There is also a possibility
that it's being reset in the .bashrc/.profile scripts.

To check it:
$ echo $TERM

To set it:
$ export TERM=vt220

Good luck,
Brad.
--- Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:
> A colleague at work asked me the following, and I
> couldn't quite remember
> how to fix it. 
> 
> She logs into a Linux frontend for our beowolf
> cluster, using rlogin, and
> when she runs man, it leaves the xterm in a state
> such that everything is
> underlined after that. If she uses more, then
> everything is reverse video.
> 
> Where do you go to stop this from happening, and
> what do you put there?
> 
> This is a tty thing, isn't it. I understood those
> things, sort of, years
> ago, but I've forgotten almost all of it...
> 
> The front end (and the clusters too) are running
> some version of Redhat.
> 
> -- 
>
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