Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:09:51 -0600 (CST) From: "Roger P. Johnson" <rpj@fep.hirshfields.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help: TERM environment var not being set from /etc/ttys file ... Message-ID: <199903261609.KAA14096@fep.hirshfields.com>
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I have FreeBSD 2.2.6, a Digiboard PC/16e serial board, and when I set the
terminal type in /etc/ttys (see below) for the ports, my TERM environment
variable is not set to what I specify in /etc/ttys. All I get is TERM=unknown.
Is this broken. It works on my, well, SCO Xenix just fine.
Thanks,
Roger.
Here is an example:
<just logged in and now at the first system prompt. I print the
value of TERM from my .profile>
TERM=unknown # from my .profile; 1st line executed as .profile starts up
hirsh@hot2$ tty
/dev/cuaD00
hirsh@hot2$ grep cuaD00 /etc/ttys
cuaD00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.19200" wyse60 on secure
hirsh@hot2$ echo $TERM
unknown
hirsh@hot2$ uname -a
FreeBSD hot2.hirshfields.com 2.2.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 26 10:23:59 CST 1999 roger@hot2.hirshfields.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/HOT2 i386
Here is my .profile:
# $Id: dot.profile,v 1.2.4.1 1996/06/23 20:35:22 wosch Exp $
#
echo "TERM=$TERM"
umask 0007 # -rw-rw---- && drwxrwx---
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/u/hirsh/bin:/u/hirsh/comm/bin:/u/hirsh/comm/fep/bin:~/bin; export PATH
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi; export EDITOR
# system term type
#TERM=cons25; export TERM
set prompt: ``username@hostname$ ''
PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"
case `id -u` in
0) PS1="${PS1}# ";;
*) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
esac
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