From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 17: 8:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8987C37BC52 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:08:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA04510 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:08:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA68315 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:32:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: tty config Date: 14 Apr 2000 01:32:05 +0200 Message-ID: <8d5ldl$22me$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joseph Wright wrote: > 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. > What type should I set in /etc/ttys? "cons25" (or "cons25l1"), of course. The ISP's box not recognizing this terminal type is a problem on said ISP's box, not on your machine, and it's preferable to fix problems at their source. Alfred's already provided two suggestions. Personally, I tend to look for a syscons-compatible terminal type that is supported on those target machines which don't know about cons25*, and I set TERM appropriately in the remote ~/.profile: case $TERM in cons25*) TERM=at386 ;; esac syscons is largely compatible to the SCO console, which should be available under some name on most machines. It's "at386" on Solaris, "scoansi" on some Linux distros. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message