Comments on: OS X terminal type σε Solaris http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/os-x-terminal-type-%cf%83%ce%b5-solaris/ even if you don't see something, it doesn't mean it's not there Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:02:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: panoskrt http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/os-x-terminal-type-%cf%83%ce%b5-solaris/#comment-10 panoskrt Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:13:52 +0000 http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-10 Good point. Based on your suggestion, I did the following and works perfectly with my NIS account that I use to login on both Solaris and Linux hosts: sys=`uname -s` if [ $sys == "SunOS" ]; then case $TERM in color-xterm*|xterm-color|xterm-[0-9]*color) export TERM='xtermc' ;; esac else export TERM=vt100 fi Good point. Based on your suggestion, I did the following and works perfectly with my NIS account that I use to login on both Solaris and Linux hosts:

sys=`uname -s`
if [ $sys == "SunOS" ]; then
case $TERM in
color-xterm*|xterm-color|xterm-[0-9]*color)
export TERM=’xtermc’
;;
esac
else
export TERM=vt100
fi

]]> By: keramida http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/os-x-terminal-type-%cf%83%ce%b5-solaris/#comment-7 keramida Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:47:55 +0000 http://panoskrt.wordpress.com/?p=41#comment-7 You might want to keep those colors. There is an 'xtermc' terminal type that supports *some* colors in Solaris too. FWIW, one of the tricks I used in my Solaris-specific ".bashrc" was to run an autoconf-style "config.guess" script that tries auto-detect the system type, and then use something like the following in my "~/.bashrc" file: cfscript="$HOME/bin/config.guess" host='' if [ -x ${cfscript} ]; then host=$( ${cfscript} ) fi case $host in *sunos*) case $TERM in color-xterm*|xterm-color|xterm-[0-9]*color) export TERM='xtermc' ;; esac # More Solaris-specific bits. ;; # More OS-specific bits, for other systems. esac This tends to keep all the OS-specific tweaks of my .bashrc file more "organized". You might want to keep those colors. There is an ‘xtermc’ terminal type that supports *some* colors in Solaris too.

FWIW, one of the tricks I used in my Solaris-specific “.bashrc” was to run an autoconf-style “config.guess” script that tries auto-detect the system type, and then use something like the following in my “~/.bashrc” file:

cfscript=”$HOME/bin/config.guess”
host=”
if [ -x ${cfscript} ]; then
host=$( ${cfscript} )
fi

case $host in
*sunos*)
case $TERM in
color-xterm*|xterm-color|xterm-[0-9]*color)
export TERM=’xtermc’
;;
esac
# More Solaris-specific bits.
;;

# More OS-specific bits, for other systems.
esac

This tends to keep all the OS-specific tweaks of my .bashrc file more “organized”.

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