[cobalt-users] weird shell errors

[John Shireley <jshirele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

I'm working with a customer's Cobalt RaQ3i, which I believe may be hacked,
but I'm just no sure.  Given the recent spate of this going on, I wouldn't
be suprised.  

When I'm at the shell prompt and attempt to edit something
using pico, I get "Incomplete terminfo entry", and it will not allow me to
edit the file.  Vi only fills the screen with a bunch of unintelligible
characters.

When I'm at the shell prompt and attempt to do a directory reading piped
to less, I get "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional", which I
imagine must be related.

I compared the contents of the terminfo directory to another *presumed*
good box, and they both look the same.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.  That is, if I this gets
posted in the next 6 days, as it seems any post I send to this list seems
to take that long to show up, whereas I've noticed that sometimes others
are able to post and reply almost immediately.  Hrphf.


Regards,

- John