From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 01:28:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22079 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA22068 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA03223; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:28:16 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:28:16 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Steve Friedrich cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: TERM variable In-Reply-To: <199809170023.UAA16654@laker.net> 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 > When I log in from ttyv0-2, my term gets set to cons25, and I can see > that being "set" in /etc/ttys. > > But when I log in via telnet, my term gets set to ansi, and I have NO > IDEA where that's getting set. It appears that it ignores /etc/ttys in > the case of pseudo ttys, because I changed: > > ttyp0 none network > > to > > ttyp0 vt100 network > > to no avail. Is there someplace I can set this default ?? yeah, put "export TERM=cons25" in your .profile, and leave /etc/ttys alone ;) but you are setting ansi somewhere ... it's not an evil daemon from nowhere ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message