From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 8 14:20:31 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 4ABE6106566B for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:20:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (ip-2-1-0-2.r03.asbnva02.us.ce.gin.ntt.net [IPv6:2001:418:0:5000::16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26E48FC08 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 14:20:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q68EKOd4042329 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2012 10:20:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from george@m5p.com) Message-ID: <4FF99728.6040207@m5p.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:20:24 -0400 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120623 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4FF99270.9010002@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 08 Jul 2012 10:20:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.72 on 10.100.0.3 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 14:20:31 -0000 On 07/08/12 10:14, Ronald Klop wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:00:16 +0200, 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 > > What is in your /etc/ttys? > > This is the ttys file on 9-STABLE on amd64: > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/etc/etc.amd64/ttys?revision=225736&view=markup&pathrev=238244 > > > Regards, > Ronald. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Apparently I raced through mergemaster too fast (on two different machines, as well). That's where the problem was. Thanks for the help! -- George