UPDATE: Unix System Adminer (USA) Bill "Elvis" Gibbs [elvis@goebusiness.com] found a typo in my csh code, "default" was spelled wrong. Sorry, and thanks Elvis! I display TERM and DISPLAY from .login so that when I first jump to another box, I can see what was automatically setup for me. Sometimes it wrong, like when I jump from server to server to server without returning home first between jumps. If this becomes a problem for me, I will request that me PC get a static ip and put it out in a ~/.display.conf file on all servers and read that in (Xterminals rule, PCs suck). Also if your firm has a policy that all global vars must come ssh you can use the value of SSH_CLIENT in place of "who am i" and change the awk to suit. SYNOPSIS: Auto setting setenvs DISPLAY, TERM, and key codes can be done with some limited successes. Problems occur if you do not return to your original terminal before jumping off to another server. Auto-setting is done in .login for csh or .profile for sh. OS: Solaris 2.6, SunOS 4.1.4, MS-WinNT HARDWARE: Sparc, Intel SOFTWARE: Reflection-X, vi, vim, gvim. ORIGINAL QUESTION: How do I setup my unix environment so that keyboard input is correct for vi and command-line as I ssh, ftp or telnet from machine to machine? ORIGINAL PROBLEM: As I move around from system to system, my key code setup for my keyboard and environment vars DISPLAY and TERM are not self-setting like they once were. I get strange results from "vi" even after manual setting DISPLAY, TERM, and "stty erase ^H". Delete and arrow keys still do not work correctly in vi. ORIGINAL SUPPORTING DETAILS: This is probably a basic unix thing, but I have forgotten the answer. The company has moved all admins to a new work environment and I am encountering some frustrations with keyboard entry not being correct. Admins had been logging in via real NCD X-terminals to their main SunOS 4.1.4 servers and then ssh, ftp, or telnet their way around to different boxes as needed. With this, things worked great, environment vars such as DISPLAY and TERM were always self-setting and correct (DISPLAY was always "$xterminal:0.0" and TERM was either "xterm" or "vt125" depending on what was needed) as you jumped from machine to machine, you never had to set these or do any thing like "stty erase ^H" and everything worked. Now all the X-terminals have been replaced with MS-WinNT PC using Reflection-X software and a central Solaris 2.6 login-server has been installed. All logins goto this login-server and then from there you can login (jump) to "your boxes" (SunOS 4.1.4 types). As I jump from machine to machine, typically with ssh but sometimes with telnet and ftp, I am having to manually set my DISPLAY, TERM and enter "stty erase ^H" all over the place and still the interface between my keyboard and vi (vim and gvim too) does not work correctly (delete key does not delete and arrow keys work but move you to a line different from that displayed to you). I want to setup my personal environment so that I can return to the good old days when the settings for DISPLAY, TERM, and key codes were always correctly self-setting. How do I do this? ================================================= SOLUTION: I found a setting in my Reflection-X under Settings, Keyboard, Options, UNCHECK Backspace key sends delete. Sometimes I still get strange results in vi, vim, and gvim. I have not figured this out. Also, the display no longer returns to previous view when exiting vi like it did in SunOS 4.1.4, I guess that is a Solaris thing. I use csh and to have DISPLAY and TERM set I did the following in my .login file....... ### ### Try to set DISPLAY to IP address. ### setenv USER `/usr/ucb/whoami` setenv RLOGIN `/bin/who am i | /bin/awk '{if (NF > 5 ) {print (substr($6,2,length($6)-2))}}'` if ( "${RLOGIN}" != "" ) then if ( `echo "${RLOGIN}" | grep :` == "" ) then setenv DISPLAY ${RLOGIN}:0.0 else setenv DISPLAY ${RLOGIN} endif endif ### ### Try to set TERM to correct setting. ### setenv OSV `uname -r | awk -F. '{print $1}'` switch ( $OSV ) case 4: #SunOS setenv TERM xterm breaksw case 5: # Solaris setenv TERM dtterm breaksw default: # Unknown setenv TERM vt100 breaksw endsw stty erase ^H rows 25 echo "DISPLAY= $DISPLAY" echo "TERM= $TERM" Add the following to the bottom of your .cshrc..... ### ### Set-up a mutli-line prompt with hostname, login, path, and history number displayed. ### set USER=`whoami` set HOSTNAME=`uname -n` alias setprompt 'set prompt="\\ ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:${cwd}\\ \! % "' alias cd 'chdir \!* && setprompt' setprompt # to set the initial prompt THANK YOU I would like to thank the following for their responses... - Moti Levy [mlevy@lannet.com] - Peter [fbsdq@yahoo.com] - Bryan Hodgson [bryan@verne.myxa.com] - Marcelino Mata [mmata@multiinc.com] Thx, Chris O'Neal email: onealwc@agedwards.com DATE: 05-15-2001 **************************************************************************** *********** WARNING: All e-mail sent to and from this address will be received or otherwise recorded by the A.G. 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