Unknown terminal type network, Error opening terminal: network

Hi Andrew,
You don't really include enough information for me to understand what is throwing the error and under what circumstances. From what kind of machine are you connecting?

Anyway, the only thing I've read about a terminal type of network was a suggestion by Chris Zubrzycki on the Fink users forum:

well, by trial and error, I found something that works, at least on mac systems. Make sure you have ncurses installed, and put this in your .bashrc:
<PRE>
# Fix the term variable in OS X

if [ "$TERM" == "network" ]; then
export TERM=mach-color
fi
</PRE>
(you need to adapt this for (t)csh. it checks and sees if your terminal is network, the default, and then will set it to mach-color if it is. that way if u ssh in from linux or something, it wont mess it up.

Chris was trying to get color to work in the terminal but the statement about not messing up things when logging in via ssh seems like it might be pertinent. I'm making a wild guess that your TERM variable has been set to "network" although I've never seen that mess up anything. With no other information, it's hard to tell what is happening.
--
Gary
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-- Black Sabbath

It could be that you use a different path on this shell than you did on your other account or something.

I'm just guessing here, but when I've seen this in the past, I've copied over some .cshrc or .bashrc or .csh or whatever file and it execute on login from a different environment, say a solaris box copied to os x.

Have you checked those files?

Andrew,

Another option. would be to check the system that you're logging in from, to see if it has a terminfo or termcap file that decribes this "network" terminal. if so, and it's terminfo file, then running the following may help.

infocmp network > /tmp/network.terminfo

mv the file over to the mac. and run

tic /tmp/network.terminfo

the output file will probably be saved as: /usr/share/terminfo/X/network file.
where X is some integer value. see the tic manpage if you want to save the output file elsewhere '-o' option.

If it's a terminfo file, then you'll just need to run the 'tic' command above.

Andy