From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 17:24:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8C1537B66C for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 61574 invoked by uid 100); 11 Oct 2000 00:24:14 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14819.45870.23745.796601@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 19:24:14 -0500 (CDT) To: Jeremy Vandenhouten Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A couple of questions In-Reply-To: <108649151@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremy Vandenhouten writes: > I have a PPP connection running just fine, but when I try to telnet > into a VMS box remotely I get 'terminal type not supported.' Can anyone > enlighten me as to how to change the terminal type to a basic VT100 > type under the bash shell. Um - the terminal type describes how your terminal behaves. If you're not on a VT100 (or some superset thereof), telling VMS that you're on a VT100 can result in some really, really obnoxious behavior. Fortunately, VT100's were sufficiently popular that lots of terminals emulated them. Which led to lots of terminal emulators emulating them, including xterm. If your bash is running in an xterm, try "TERM=vt100", and then doing a telnet. That assumes that the VMS box is using the terminal type passed it by telnet. You might check with your VMS sysadmin, to find out how it's determining the terminal type. I can't help with that - the last time I worked on VMS, it was still >50% PDP-11 code. > Also, at this moment in time I have a particular login account that I > would like to add ppp access too. When I try to run ppp under this > account it tells me access denied. What can I do to correct this? If you are using userland ppp, check man page. It provides the details on doing that.