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From: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: where to have "stty erase ^H" executed?, .profile
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 16:07:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: dkeller@psln.com
In-Reply-To: <199706061912.MAA06759@psln1.psln.com> from Daniel Keller at "Jun 6, 97 12:42:43 pm"
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> Hi,
> I would like to have "stty erase ^H" executed whenever the computer is
> booted up, which file should I put it in so it effects every user? I
> noticed that the file /.profile has this line, but the file is not
> executable and I never see and output from it.

i) Well, because you have to say it in every terminal line, I think the correct
place is
1) /etc/profile - for sh/ksh/pdksh/bash/i don't knot the other sh-like shell
2) /etc/csh.login - for csh/tcsh/       -"-                   csh -"-

ii) Or you have to make your changes into /etc/gettytab, and put into its
default section an er=^H - or something like this.
(man 5 gettytab)

Gabor

-- 
#!/bin/ksh
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