SSH from MacOS X or PPC Debian to SUSE # Odd terminal chars # Eventual scripting


 
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# 1  
Old 11-04-2011
SSH from MacOS X or PPC Debian to SUSE # Odd terminal chars # Eventual scripting

Well. I was recently given access to my work's machine via SSH. I'm pretty sure it's a SUSE machine, uname -a gives
Code:
Linux machinename 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-bigsmp #1 SMP Fri Sep 4 01:28:03 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I'm not doing anything all that exciting, mostly data entry stuff.

We connect to the machine from inside the office using PowerTerm which I would prefer not to use if I can help it. In PowerTerm we specify the terminal type to be SCO-ANSI but all other settings (port numbers, security type, etc) appear to be ones that I am used to seeing.

When I connect via SSH using iTerm, Apple's Terminal/X11, or Debian's terminal I get odd behavior like the screen not refreshing and keyboard mismatching-- eg if I type "05" the screen will echo " =14;12C=10;12C"

The actual program I am using on the remote machine is written in COBOL. Behavior outside of the program in question appears to be normal, eg I can use standard UNIX commands and keyboard translation is normal. I have access to the usual home documents like .profile and .bashrc

I would eventually like to script some of the more mundane tasks but first is there something I can do to fix the keyboard issues?
# 2  
Old 11-14-2011
I haven't made much progress on this. The X11 that comes installed on Mac OS X 10.6.8 seems to work the best, but there is what looks like a line break mismatch. I have tried
Code:
export TERM=scoansi

But it didn't seem to change anything. Any thoughts?
# 3  
Old 11-14-2011
Hi.

For most Linux boxes, you should be able to find out what it is with:
Code:
cat /etc/issue

which produces on an SuSE machine:
Code:
Welcome to openSUSE 11.4 "Celadon" - Kernel \r (\l).

Are you entering "05" from the keyboard or the keypad ?

cheers, drl
# 4  
Old 11-14-2011
OK thanks.
Code:
cat /etc/issue

gives
Code:
Welcome to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).

The keypress transliteration thing only happens when connecting with iTerm or Debian terminal and it is not a keypad press. The line break thing seems to be in all cases.
# 5  
Old 11-14-2011
Hi.

The most common problem I run into is "locale". I set mine to "C". For example:
Code:
locale

produces:
Code:
LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=C

I use Gnome terminal:
Code:
gnome-terminal GNOME Terminal 2.30.2

and, between that and the locale setting above I generally have no trouble with chararacter sets -- even to HP and AIX boxes ... cheers, drl
# 6  
Old 11-14-2011
Code:
locale

produces
Code:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
 LC_ALL=

What does "C" mean?

---------- Post updated at 04:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:47 PM ----------

So the usual sequence of events is this:
Open X11, iTerm, PowerTerm, etc
Code:
export TERM=scoansi

Code:
ssh login@domain.com

Code:
login@domain.com:~> programname

Is that correct? I can't imagine I'd set my TERM after logging in right? Just making sure.
# 7  
Old 11-14-2011
Hi.
Quote:
Originally Posted by pagrus
What does "C" mean?
See The GNU C Library - Locales and Internationalization for a brief explanation.

For TERM settings I use TERM=vt100, because that is a very "vanilla" setting. What is the reason you use scoansi ?

cheers, drl
 
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