top - uknown terminal type

Egerton, Jim jegerton@akamai.com
Fri Oct 2 13:09:00 GMT 2009


Works fine after running /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh.

thanks Chuck/Christopher,
jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:54 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: top - uknown terminal type
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Chuck
> 

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