Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:27:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Daniel \"the Bruce\" Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: More questions from the eternal newbie. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970726122430.4628K-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199707242101.OAA05240@psln1.psln.com>
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Daniel "the Bruce" Keller wrote: > Hi, I have yet more silly questions, > 1) How can I have X windows start on my last terminal when I boot the > system? Start xdm from /etc/rc.local. > 2) I put stty erase ^h in my start up file so the backspace would work > correctly, but at the login prompt it still gives me ^h, how should I fix > this? That should be in your .cshrc/.profile as stty erase '^H' > 3) Is there any way I can make the delete key functions as it does in dos > (i.e. not as a backspace key)? I don't think UNIX-style OSs understand this sort of functionality, so no. > 4) in ijppp, my login script doesn't work anymore, I think this is because > the login prompt now appears as "login:" instead of "login: " (with a > space), and I think the script expects the space to be there. How can I set > it up so it doesn't expect the script? Have the script match "ogin:" instead. (This is somewhat standard to omit the 'l' in case some silly person changes it to uppercase.) I'd have to see your script to see if it's trying to match the space; look for quotations around that item (which aren't necessary). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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