Per Qvindesland wrote: > Hi List > > Has anyone got any clue of why on a centos 4.3 when I am logging in to the > machine I am geting the following error tput: unknown terminal "xterm-color" > do I am not using xterm-color I can not start top of any other except vi. echo $TERM What terminal software are you using to login? You can work around it in most cases by: export TERM=vt100 nate