Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:20:06 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> Cc: freebsd-questions mailing list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting term capability in /etc/login.conf Message-ID: <20010112.1200600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <20010111125818.A3300@goku.kasby>
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On 1/11/01, 12:58:18 PM, Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> wrote
regarding Setting term capability in /etc/login.conf:
> I've decided to change the localization settings. Previously I had a
login
> class for italian users in /etc/login.conf:
> italian:Italian Users Accounts:\
> :charset=3DISO-8859-1:\
> :lang=3Dit_IT.ISO_8859-1:\
> :tc=3Ddefault:
> In /etc/profile I had:
> export TERM=3Dcons25l1
> and everything was fine.
> Now I have removed the definition of the TERM variable from
/etc/profile,
> because not all users are in the italian login class. I have defined
the term
> capability in /etc/login.conf:
> italian:Italian Users Accounts:\
> :charset=3DISO-8859-1:\
> :lang=3Dit_IT.ISO_8859-1:\
> :term=3Dcons25l1:\
> :tc=3Ddefault:
> Then I have rebuilt the database with:
> cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
> When a user in the italian login class logs in, he has the TERM
environment
> variable set to cons25 instead of cons25l1. I grep'd into config files=
in /etc
> and user's home directory to search for an explicit definition of the
TERM
> variable, but I couldn't find it.
> As stated in the login.conf(5) man page:
> ENVIRONMENT
> Name Type Notes Description
> [snip]
> term string Default terminal type=
if not
> able to determine
from other
> means.
> so I understand that TERM is not set to cons25l1 because the terminal
type is
> determined from "other means". Now the question is: what are these
"other
> means"?
Francesco,
The value of the TERM variable at login time seems to be, as it were,
hardcoded in the third field of ttyv* lines in /etc/ttys. Specifying
TERM in /etc/login.conf (cf setenv in login.conf(5)) doesn't work;
specifying TERM in ~/.login_conf (by using setenv) doesn't work
either.
N.B. other variables (try eg PROVA=3Dproviamo in /etc/login.conf or in
~/.login_conf) ARE set. How come... :-)
I am missing the reason (feature or bug ?) for the above-mentioned
"hardcoding".
I may be completely wrong, but I am afraid that you'll have to append
one line containing the appropriate TERM variable to each of your
Italian users' startup file. This single two-liner awk command should
do the job:
# awk -F : '$5 =3D=3D "italian" {if ($10 =3D=3D "/bin/tcsh/") system("ec=
ho -n
" "setenv TERM cons25l1"">>/usr/home/"$1"/.login")} {if ($10 =3D=3D
"/usr/local/bin/bash/") system("echo -n " "export
TERM=3Dcons25l1"">>/usr/home/"$1"/.bash_profile")}' /etc/master.passwd
I am sure someone else will come up with either a solution or... a
perl script :-)
Regards,
Salvo
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