From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon May 26 07:23:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA20791 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 07:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA20786 for ; Mon, 26 May 1997 07:23:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA08337; Mon, 26 May 1997 16:21:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA25882; Mon, 26 May 1997 15:59:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970526155955.BO13767@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 15:59:55 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: gary@systemics.com (Gary Howland), davidn@blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/ttys is broken References: <199705261224.OAA10363@internal-mail.systemics.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705261224.OAA10363@internal-mail.systemics.com>; from Gary Howland on May 26, 1997 14:24:07 +0200 Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Howland wrote: > The latest release of /etc/ttys is broken. Do a diff with an old release > and the problem will be obvious. You could have been more specific. It's not obvious to me what you mean. Btw., David, i think `dialup' is a poor choice. The probably most ``generic'' TERM entry that could be used is vt100. It constitutes something like a least common denominator. People having something else want to adjust their $TERM anyway, and for the remaining 90 %, it's a good default. -- 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. ;-)