From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 14:11:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55499106566B for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imb@protected-networks.net) Received: from sarah.protected-networks.net (sarah.protected-networks.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:4e1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECE08FC14 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from toshi.auburn.protected-networks.net (toshi.auburn.protected-networks.net [202.12.127.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Iain Butler", Issuer "RSA Class 2 Personal CA" (not verified)) (Authenticated sender: imb@protected-networks.net) by sarah.protected-networks.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 093A86194; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 10:11:11 -0400 (EDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=200509; d=protected-networks.net; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject: references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=FuBOL+5ozxy1KHKLxGYg8Fh2yjWdW2yfh5MMvwIWNiNlCoR+l4OFB/2JwDtanqLFR bOW0aX0cKN/h8C+o+0b6QuR0PynQT/S4eWpodyWfF8cTLLIj5OpYofdnS88AtVW Message-ID: <4FF994FE.5040605@protected-networks.net> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:11:10 -0400 From: Michael Butler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120619 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: George Mitchell References: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 OpenPGP: id=0442D492 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd ttyvN TERM settings X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:11:19 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/08/12 10:00, George Mitchell wrote: > Up through FreeBSD 8.x, the ttyvN consoles had a TERM setting of cons25. > On FreeBSD 9.n, it appears to be xterm for ttyv0, but it's still cons25 > for ttyv1-ttyv8 (even though they all appear to act like xterms). Not > surprisingly, this leads to less than desirable results when trying to > run vi (or other such programs) on ttyv1 through ttyv8, unless you > remember to setenv TERM xterm. > > Why did we change from cons25 to xterm? How can we get all the ttyvNs > to get the correct TERM setting? -- George Mitchell The console driver has been replaced/updated. You likely missed updating your /etc/ttys, imb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk/5lP0ACgkQQv9rrgRC1JKkLQCeLzOuP1oCaplYpBAQIgFsU82r jwMAoKgHFQvdvSBK81Pf1wrOCuEJmkVD =YADR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----