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Old 03-18-2005
diff between $TERM & $DISPLAY
Can anybody pls explain me the diff between $TERM & $DISPLAY ?

Thanks in advance.
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Old 03-18-2005
$DISPLAY is the console from where you login - if you are on system A (ip 10.140.20.20) and you logged onto the console, then your display is a:0.0 or just 0.0. When you go to another server (system B) and want to run a X windows command on B, you have to tell it to send the display back to system A (or it won't allow you to view the X command output since the default is to send it to system B's console on b:0.0).

$TERM is the type of terminal you are on - if logged system B from system A, your TERM may or may not be correctly set. Normally you can set it to vt100 to insure you can view everything correctly (normally you will be able to tell when editing a file that your TERM isn't set correctly).
 
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