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AIX - Running SMIT on Putty
I am new to AIX 5.2.  I need to do a simple task such as mount a CD ROM using SMIT.  Everytime I try to run smit command it says that a TERM variable needs to be set.  Can anyone help?  Many thanks

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And what is your TERM variable set to?
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i am totally new to AIX, do I find out by running the env command on ksh?
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echo $TERM
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dumb
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eval `tset -sQ \?$TERM`

then enter smitty and set your default terminal type to whatever TSET offered.
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Run the following:

TERM=xterm
export TERM

Then try smitty. You can automate this in your .profile. You can also force putty to send a terminal type to the telnet server, but it sends it in uppercase so you can code your .profile to change the value of TERM to lower case or by checking for a specific value of term as in the attached code snippet, assuming that ksh is your login shell.
TERM=`echo $TERM | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
 
or
 
if [ "$TERM" = "XTERM ]
then
        TERM=xterm
fi

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PS Set the term type string to send in putty -> configuration -> connection -> term-type string to "xterm".
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I made a mistake in the snippet above.
if [ "$TERM" = "XTERM" ]
then
        TERM=xterm
fi

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And if F3 doesn't work on smitty, check to see that putty -> configuration -> terminal -> keyboard -> function keys is set to ESC[n~.

Purists like me would prefer to write our own terminfo definition but putty doesn't seem to support 8-bit characters to eliminate the ESC in the function key codes and this needs root to install up to AIX 5.3 and whatever RBAC is necessary under AIX 6 and later.
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What are you talking about? AIX uses termcap, not terminfo.
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Well gheist the question was actually about smitty ... have you tried running smitty with a TERM valid in TERMCAP and not in TERMINFO or it's default? I have.
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Smit runs awk etc behind interface, and some oldish cr.p may still lie down there. Its assumption that helps.
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