From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 12:48: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fap.abaid.com (fap.abaid.com [194.242.196.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC1437BD5D for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:47:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amutsch@abaid.com) Received: from wap.sam.com (abaid.dnet.it [194.242.203.121]) by fap.abaid.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA83556; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:54:58 GMT (envelope-from amutsch@abaid.com) Received: from localhost (amutsch@localhost) by wap.sam.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01127; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:45:04 GMT (envelope-from amutsch@abaid.com) X-Authentication-Warning: wap.sam.com: amutsch owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:45:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Andreas Mutschlechner X-Sender: amutsch@wap.sam.com To: Joseph Wright Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty config In-Reply-To: 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 hello, you can set your terminaltype in the TERM environment variable. with csh use setenv TERM vt100 with bash i think export TERM=vt100 you can put this commands in the .login script on the isp host. greetings andreas On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Joseph Wright wrote: > My ISP provides me with a unix shell account. It's very cool, as it has allowed > me to use ssh, which was easy and fun to set up. > The problem I have is not being able to use some programs like pine or vi > over the account because it doesn't recognize my terminal type, > cons25. > However, it works fine from an xterm, because I'm writing from it now. > What type should I set in /etc/ttys? I suppose I should just choose of the > virtual terminals to configure and always use that one when logging in to my > ISP. Correct? > > > > > 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