top - uknown terminal type

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri Oct 2 05:40:00 GMT 2009


On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:54:19PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Egerton, Jim wrote:
>> top gives me 'cygwin': unknown terminal type with a fresh 1.7 install on server 2008.   Any ideas what I am missing?
>
>Well, top uses:
>> libncurses8          5.5-10              OK
>which needs the "old-style" terminfo database in
>> terminfo0            5.5_20061104-10     OK
>which you have. I'd try to re-run
>   /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh.done
>and try again.

...and make sure you're using the cygwin version of top.

cgf

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