Turning off terminal esca[pe sequences ?

How do I tell Linux that my terminal will not accept escape sequences ?

I'm logging in via /dev/ttyS0, and it seems to think my terminal can handle colors etc. How can I tell it it can't ?

Thanks in advance

I knew it had to be a simple thing.

Many thanks.

Better yet, configure getty to properly set the terminal type. Otherwise you'll get TERM=dumb on virtual consoles as well.

I spoke too soon. That makes no difference what so ever.

Looking at the source it looks like it's down to the function isatty() which appears to simply look at the file attributes in /dev.

How about setting the LANGUAGE variable ? When I telnet to a RH9 box, some of the characters display incorrectly. If I use a export LANGUAGE=C, then the characters display correctly. I do not know where one can find the list of values one can use for the LANGUAGE variable.

Hope this helps

Regards Anton Erasmus

What do you mean? Most software will respect the TERM variable. Is it set properly? What does echo $TERM show?

Right, I was talking about what 99.9% of all linux does. I suspect busybox is a little different.

The TERM enviroment variable alters nothing in itself. It's up to programs to look at the value, and output the appropriate control codes, when they want to use something. The termcap library is what performs this lookup. It's quite possible that busybox, or whatever the program your using, in order to save space does not support this, and hardcodes a given setting at compile time.

You may need to recompile this.

After a boot, echo $TERM returns the string 'linux'

I can set it to 'dumb' or an empty string, or even delete the environment variable and it seems to make no difference at all.

This is running kernel 2.4.16 and Busybox 0.60.5