From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 4 11:36:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05964 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA05907 for ; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA29274; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:31:57 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA00948; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:31:51 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA03639; Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:25:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610041825.UAA03639@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: suggested patch to tab initialization in tset/set.c To: m-braithwaite@sjca.edu (Matt Braithwaite) Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 20:25:03 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610031535.LAA12487@whorfin.sjca.edu> from Matt Braithwaite at "Oct 3, 96 11:35:18 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Matt Braithwaite wrote: > > The TERM variable is already initialized well from within /etc/ttys, > > or passed down from the telnet remote peer. I would vote for killing > > this beast from the default .login/.profile templates. > > i'm not so sure about this. i might just be nostalgic, because i have > a few real terminals sitting around the house (one is an > ADM3---definitely NOT vt100 compatible!), but it really gives me a > warm fuzzy to have tset around to kick my terminal when i login. But then you are one of the 1 % of people who would add the tset anyway. For the other 99 %, it only scares the people, and often enough innocent enough people who don't quickly realize that it's this messy tset -q (or who simply don't know what it does, and thus won't ever kill it from their .login). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)