[TriLUG] Centos command line question

[Craig Taylor]

I haven't messed with setterm on pennyOS but most issues like this are
related to what the $TERM variable is set to. Most commonly it's either
'xterm' or something along the lines of 'vt220' etc.

Try doing an  'export TERM=xterm' and seeing if the bold starts appearing.
It may not be set on the console based upon how the console is being
initialized. I'm not sure of the exact console terminal emulation sequence
but I believe that it can be told what console identification string to
return. If there is no match, or it fails to recognize the console query
sequence then you'll end up with an empty TERM variable.

Hope this helps,

- Craig Taylor

On 7/12/07, Mike Norwood <norwoodm at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a bit of command line weirdness that I wondered if anyone else
> could verify for me.  I have a machine we just loaded with Centos 5.0 and
> from the console it appears that the setterm command will not turn on bold
> lettering as in "setterm -bold on".  This command does not change
> anything, but SHOULD make the text appear bright and shiny (bolder). I did
> check the linux terminfo with infocmp and it looks to have the same entry
> for bold as other machines that do work.
>
> I only have this problem directly on the command line console. From a
> terminal window I can use this command and it will change the text and
> also if I ssh in from another machine it will work.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas, Mike N.
>
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