On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:32:53AM +0200, H M Kunzmann wrote:
> As soon as I ssh to another machine, I get errors that confuse me
> greatly (on that machine)
>
> Using vim or vi, joe, emacs:
>
> Terminal entry not found in terminfo
> 'Eterm' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
> builtin_ansi
> builtin_xterm
> builtin_iris-ansi
> builtin_dumb
> defaulting to 'ansi'
>
> If I locally use an xterm window to ssh to the target machine, I don't
> get these errors.
>
> 1.)Why does my local terminal impact what happens on the remote machine?
Because the TERM variable is passed to the process you run on the remote
machine (so that it can display properly). Unfortunately your remote machine
doesn't know Eterm.
> 2.)What do I do about it ?
TERM=xterm ssh foo@bar
Mirek
