From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 21 03:25:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA22306 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:25:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from myplace.org (host-207-53-120-7.mia.bellsouth.net [207.53.120.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA22301 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 03:25:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by myplace.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA00175; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 05:11:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Leonard Root Message-Id: <199706210911.FAA00175@myplace.org> Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4 To: un_x@anchorage.net (Steve Howe) Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 05:11:42 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: kleon@bellsouth.net In-Reply-To: from Steve Howe at "Jun 20, 97 02:46:08 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy for what it's worth this is the problem I had a number of months ago, and kindly BSD'er suggested a number of termcap entries - what finally worked was - looking at my (former) ISPs termcap. I found an entry for 'at' that was close to '386at-m' in the BSD termcap. I then merely added the 'at' name to that entry (eg. at|386at-m|...) and set TERM to 'at' from that point on everything seemed to work fine when telneting in. Hope this helps Keith kleon@bellsouth.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Character is what you are in the dark - John Warfin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > i gave my freebsd cons25/50 entries to my RehHat4 > > > isp, but i still get "connection closed by foreign host" > > > when telnet-ing. i can ftp/http/etc, and can even telnet > > > from an xterm. > > > > I can't even get it to work through an XTerm, but I have cons25 as a > > specified environment variable... I too passed on my termcap entries for > > cons25 and nothing changed. :( > > i have TERM=xterm for xterms, where telnet does work. > ------------------------------------------------- > FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA > http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747 > ------------------------------------------------- > > >