Informix remote access.

Hi group, Something is wrong when I access informix database from my laptop. I use telnet to access an internal AIX server, then I run "dbaccess" to control my informix server. When I make this from a DOS window everything works fine, but if I try to use a Linux shell to access the AIX server, when I run "dbaccess" I get this error message: [/informix]dbaccess The type of your terminal is unknown to the system I think this is something to do about terminal configuration. What has got the DOS window that is missing on other types of windows? I need to access from another type of windows because I need to make remote administration, and usualy I use Putty or a Linux shell. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Nuno Paquete

This usually means that the terminal type specified in your TERM environment variable is not described in the file indicated by your TERMCAP variable. You can often fix this quite simply with export INFORMIXTERM=terminfo to get Informix to use the files in the directory specified in the TERMINFO variable instead. -- Regards, Doug Lawry www.douglawry.webhop.org "Nuno Paquete" <nunopaquete@lusocargo.pt> wrote in message news:1132248155.992418.251530@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Hi group, > > Something is wrong when I access informix database from my laptop. > I use telnet to access an internal AIX server, then I run "dbaccess" to > control my informix server. > When I make this from a DOS window everything works fine, but if I try > to use a Linux shell to access the AIX server, when I run "dbaccess" I > get this error message: > > [/informix]dbaccess > The type of your terminal is unknown to the system > > I think this is something to do about terminal configuration. What has > got the DOS window that is missing on other types of windows? > I need to access from another type of windows because I need to make > remote administration, and usualy I use Putty or a Linux shell. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Best regards, > Nuno Paquete