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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:39:40 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net>
Cc: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>, freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4
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In the last episode (Jun 18), Joshua Fielden said:
> Steve Howe wrote:
> > i can get a telnet login prompt to my ISPs server (RedHat4.0) with
> > an Xterm, but not from a ttyv? ...
> > 
> > how does this make sense?
> > 
> > from a ttyv?, i get "Connection closed by foreign host". i can
> > however get a prompt from a ttyv? when trying their nameserver.
> 
> 	What worked for me in the same situation, <from my BSD Box local, OR
> telnetting to a friend's BSD box then telnetting to RedHat, *brand-new*
> install> was to set my term type to <kinda arbitrary> vt100. i.e: NOT
> cons25. If this does work, please post the finale, as I am interested to
> see.

There's something in their /bin/login that dies when your terminal type
is not in /etc/termcap.  My solution was to copy the cons25 termcap
entries over to the Linux machine.  A better solution would be to fix
RedHat's /bin/login.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com