[TriLUG] Centos command line question

[Mike Norwood]

Hi,

I appreciate your reply. It is funny, because I tried this and it appeared 
to work (even though I was sure I was already using linux as the term 
variable), so I rebooted to see if it would work again and it did not.  I 
tried to remember what else I might have done to change it, and finally 
stumbled onto that I had run the command setfont from a remote session.
  
This appeared to fix it, so I added setfont to the end of rc.local and 
when I reboot it now works and displays the way I prefer.  It is strange 
because I am not giving setfont any parameters, so the only thing it is 
supposed to be doing is loading the default font.  I can only assume that 
somehow without running this, the system has loaded a font that does not 
support bold.

Thanks again. Mike

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Craig Taylor wrote:

> 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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