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Keep getting a message in Terminal saying 

tput: unknown terminal "xterm-256color"

This message typically appears when running homebrew, and while I can swear it's popped up on other places, I can't precisely remember. echo $TERM outputs xterm-256color. I'm not the best at diagnosing Terminal problems, so any help is greatly appreciated.

(I know this may be an issue when SSHing to remote servers that don't support xterm-256color, but in this case I'm just concerned about my actual system.)

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Nevermind, answered my own question. Stackoverflow had a post that I missed that described how the /usr/share/terminfo folder can get corrupted. Downloaded a replacement from that post, and the error message went away.

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It would help if you could provide any information that might narrow down how this situation arose. Did you upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard, for example? Did you install Xcode? – Chris Page Oct 4 '11 at 19:21
I had upgraded Lion from Snow Leopard and installed Xcode, but did so well before this problem started. I did uninstall MacPorts and install Homebrew instead - that's the one "unix-y" think I can imagine that may have triggered the issue. – canderson Oct 5 '11 at 18:11

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