Problem: I am setting up a linux based intranet in our department. I have already configured the linux machine. We have a Sun sparc unix server and a digital alpha unix server. The problem is that when I try to connect to dec server from outside X Windows I am unable to do so. Although it writes ' connected to decserver' , I do not get the login prompt. However I am able to do it from an xterm window from inside X. It is also possible if I telnet to linux server from netware client and from linux server to dec server. Telnet works fine with sun sparc server. Solution: The problem was with the TERM variable. I changed the TERM variable to vt100 and it started working fine. however i could not take advantage of the user friendly features of LINUX especially in vi editor. So i did the following. created a file .telnetrc in the root directory and also in /etc/skel/ . i wrote <servername> environ var TERM = vt100 in the .telnetrc file. this allowed me to maintain TERM = linux when working within Linux and sent TERM = linux to the other server. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
