Interesting... I used to use ~/.terminfo/ on OpenBSD, but when I upgraded to 5.4 (skipping several releases), it stopped working. That is when I switched to ~/.terminfo.db. I'll have to check when I next upgrade. -- Iain On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 23:34:40 +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > Hi > > .terminfo/ should work on OpenBSD too (as well as .terminfo.db), at > least it does on -current and I don't remember any recent changes. > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:01:02AM -0700, Iain Morgan wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 20:35:06 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:06:51 PDT (-0700), imorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 15:33:29 -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > > > > > This is pretty much the same request as an old mailing list thread > > > > > > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=134073696320230&w=2 > > > > > > > > > > for almost exactly the same reason: some machines don't have > > > > > new-enough terminal info databases to support newer TERM strings > > > > > ("rxvt-unicode-256color" in my case). As such, I'd like to be able to > > > > > override the TERM that is forwarded to some machines from my > > > > > .ssh/config. > > > > > > > > > > The solutions proposed in that post don't work well for me because I > > > > > like having a shared .bashrc and don't want to go making it super long > > > > > just to have a big list of hosts that don't support "*-256color". > > > > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps you could use tput to test for terminal capabilities rather than > > > > keeping a list of hosts. > > > > > > > > I've had to deal with a somewhat different issue; preferring to suppress > > > > color support. I used to use "tput colors" to test for the number of > > > > colors supported, and re-define TERM as needed. More recently, I taken > > > > to simply overriding the terminfo definitions for those terminal types > > > > that I use by creating a ~/.terminfo directory or ~/.terminfo.db > > > > database. > > > > > > These are all hosts that are managed by the university, so I've got to > > > have some username overrides in there anyway. This way just seemed > > > like the path of least resistance. > > > > > > Just doing a "tput colors" doesn't seem to do it for me: > > > > > > $ tput colors > > > tput: unknown terminal "rxvt-unicode-256color" > > > > > > I could just check for a "tput" failure and redefine the terminal, I > > > don't really like overriding TERM because I worry about how it'll > > > interact with screen and such. > > > > > > I think overriding the terminfo database is probably the best way to > > > do this, I didn't know that was possible! Unfortunately it doesn't > > > appear to work on OSX, but that might just be user error... > > > > OS X may need a ~/.terminfo.db file rather than a ~/.terminfo directory. > > On Linux (RHEL and SLES) ~/.terminfo works, whereas on OpenBSD you need > > ~/.terminfo.db. I haven't experimented with OS X. > > > > -- > > Iain Morgan > > _______________________________________________ > > openssh-unix-dev mailing list > > openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev -- Iain Morgan _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
