[expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
I'm using a web-based application which is trying to spawn a screen session to allow control of something which usually requires that it be running in a shell window. This application spawns the screen program to create a terminal environment, and when you click on the next thing that you want

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:15, David Guntner wrote: I'm using a web-based application which is trying to spawn a screen session to allow control of something which usually requires that it be running in a shell window. This application spawns the screen program to create a terminal

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:15, David Guntner wrote: So the big question is: Is there a way to tell screen to not *care* about your terminal type, but to just go ahead and run as though it were in a dumb terminal? Any information/ideas/etc

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
John McQuillen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 12:31, David Guntner wrote: Well, the TERM value that *I'm* using doesn't come in to play, in this case. :-) I'm using a PHP web application which uses expect to spawn screen and do its thing. So it's the apache user

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
John McQuillen grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Can't you just include ?TERM=xterm in your link to the application? FWIW, I just tried it that way, and it didn't work --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 20:31, David Guntner wrote: Well, the TERM value that *I'm* using doesn't come in to play, in this case. :-) I'm using a PHP web application which uses expect to spawn screen and do its thing. So it's the apache user that's executing this command from within the

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:44, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: This was from /usr/share/doc/screen-3.9.10/FAQ. It seems to me that a good place to start looking is at the environment variables present for apache. And what variables are being exported when a shell is generated by those apache

Re: [expert] Any way to tell screen to not *care* about term type?

2002-11-19 Thread David Guntner
Lyvim Xaphir grabbed a keyboard and wrote: See if this is relevant to your situation: [deleted] Actually, between you and John (I think that was his name), I got an idea. (Yea I know, always dangerous :) I edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd, and put in an export TERM=vt100 at the beginning of