From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 14:51:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24909154FD for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:51:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17699; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:08:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Scott Cotton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles terminals q In-Reply-To: <19990907171537.A97565@chronis.pobox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG my suggestion is to install "screen" it's a vt100 emulator with a lot of nifty features, it's in the ports tree under misc/screen. good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Scott Cotton wrote: > I have the sc console driver installed with FreeBSD3.2 on an intel box, and > whenever a user logs in to a console, the terminal type is 'cons25', which > breaks many programs. Setting the session to use other things, such as vt100, > dec-vt100, etc helps but none of these things are acting quite right. The > problem is only for users logged into the console. > > Any hints on how to fix this? > > scott > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message