Linux Terminal Emulation...

[forrie]

Hi everyone.

I recently opened a ticket with support, regarding some issues I'm having with Linux support emulation.

The problem has to do with, regardless of the LANG=en_US and TERM=Linux or whatever, when you pop up a dialog menu like "ntsysv" the characters are always garbled and/or will show the +---------+ within the colored borders.

Furthermore, when you scroll through an options list, the screen gets all garbled up and is nearly unintelligible.

I'm wondering about other's experience with this - and what observations you've see. More feedback to support will give them a better idea of how to resolve this problem.

For me, it's become a big pain, since my company is now deploying a LOT of linux systems, and I need to access these remotely.

It's worth noting that the same problem occurs if you ssh to another linux system (from the console, not SecureCRT) and bring up a similar dialog/application. Maybe a connection there?

The versions of Linux I'm using are CentOS-4.3 and Redhat AS 4 (Nahant).

Thanks!

[toloughlin]

I think I may know the issue ....

I'm using RHEL3 AS ... Linux Emulation / ANSI Color.

In 'env' does it show you emulating as 'linux'?
The other thing - your LANG.

When the Emulation set to DEFAULT in SecureCRT & you have something like: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 in Linux .. it will screw everything up.

I actually just replicated it for you ... see the attached image.

If all else fails, start using 'chkconfig' in Red Hat ... open a bunch of tabs, use the chat window & send 'chkconfig --level 345 sshd off' to all ... wham - all the Red Hat boxes have sshd off for levels 3, 4 & 5

Does this help? Good luck!

[forrie]

I did this with the support rep, changing the vars, etc.

We managed to get the screen to print, with color, the +----+ lines... but when you go to scroll, the same garbled problem occurs.


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[toloughlin]

Are you making an intermediate hop between where you are ending up?

For example, to access Node B:
SecureCRT - ssh to A - ssh from A to B?

What does your env tell you? what if you:
TERM=linux ; export TERM

[miked]

Hi Forrie,

I tested the same program (ntsysv) using ANSI emulation and it looked great. Have you tried ANSI emulation?

[forrie]

I changed my LANG=en_US and terminal emulation to ANSI and it does look better, though we still have th odd character interpretations (see below).

How does this differ from Linux emulation, and is it possible to fix this eventually.

The way I would expect to see it is the colors, minus the ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ etc. etc.


Thanks.



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[miked]

I used LANG=he_IL.UTF-8 with ANSI emulation.

Does the attached image look like what you're wanting to see?