Solaris

Hi boys and girls,

I'm having a little problem and I hope someone could help me out.

The problem arises whenever I try to modify any file on my solaris system using vi. I'm using Solaris 10 and Mac OSX operating Systems. I'm connected to Solaris through SSH.

Now, when I try to modify any file, I tend to get this message (shown below). How can I get around this?

vi shutdown
xterm-color: Unknown terminal type
I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'.
[Using open mode]
"shutdown" [Read only] 218 lines, 4094 characters
#!/sbin/sh

The result is the same if I run the command from both the superuser console or just an ordinary cosole.

Thanks in advance.

try setting your TERM environment variable to either 'xterm' or 'vt100' after ssg-ing into the remote, e.g.:

Code:

export TERM='xterm'

Thanks for your reply, Im totally new to Unix and I wouldn't have a clue how to do it. It is possible to give a step by step guide if its not too much to ask of you.

Thanks

THANKS alot I've figured out how to do it.

Cheers

better use "vt100" or "dtterm" as TERM variable.... if you use always the standards during installation "dtterm" is used... but vt100 works almost on every solaris box