Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:46:42 -0500 From: John Clark <jrclark@felix.iupui.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: gettytab Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960611114757.0091d78c@felix.iupui.edu>
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Hello all, I am having trouble setting "erase" (^?) to backspace (^H) before login. I thought that I had solved this problem by changing the default entry in the /etc/gettytab: original: --------- :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: modified: --------- :cb@:ce@:ck@:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: I also want to add that this worked as well (explicitly setting "er"): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :cb:ce:ck:er=\b:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: What I am finding most odd is that when the box was on my LAN, either of the second two entries worked well -- my pc backspace moved the cursor backward on the login prompt. I have the box at an ISP now, and I access it across the Internet -- my backspace is broken again. I have tried very hard to put it right. It won't. If anyone out there is using FreeBSD and has the login prompt accepting "^H" as backspace (at login), let me know how you did it. Considering "cdrom.com" also has the same trouble as me (^H does not backspace) I think my efforts are futile. BTW -- When testing this, make sure getty spawns a new process. Otherwise, you will reuse an old one that tset or stty has put right, and ^H will work on the login prompt. John Clark [jrclark@indy.net]
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