Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:22:11 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kill -HUP 1 Message-ID: <199912292322.AAA18009@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> I suppose I should have been more precise as to what I was doing and
> wanted to do:
>
> TERM=cons25
>
> In /etc/rc.conf, I've been experimenting with various fonts. I now
> understand from a reply to a previous question of mine, that the fonts I
> use must be "matched" to the correct termcap console. So I've been
> editting ttys, trying out cons25l1, cons25w, etc etc. Before I got the
> nerve to try "kill -HUP 1", I simply did "shutdown -r now", to
> re-initialize the system. When I first tried "kill -HUP 1, I _did not_
> expect a "pat on the back" from the system, congradulating me on a
> successful "kill" ;-) -- rather I was looking for the problem's symptoms
> to have disappeared, or different symptom's for the same problem. Nothing
> happened; nothing changed with my consoles, leading me to believe that I
> had screwed up the command somehow.
OK, here are step-by-step instructions.
- Be sure that you have ISO 8859-1 fonts loaded.
Use ``vidcontrol -f'' for this; see the manual page.
Add the appropriate entries to /etc/rc.conf to have
the fonts loaded upon boot automatically (see
/etc/defaults/rc.conf). DO NOT use a screenmap.
- Edit /etc/ttys and change "cons25" to "cons25l1".
This will change the default $TERM (termcap) setting
for the console and virtual terminals.
- For the change to take effect, type ``kill -HUP 1''
(be careful to type this command exactly like that --
a typo can cause a reboot! See "man 8 init").
This should restart the getty processes that are running
on the vritual terminals.
- You can type ``echo $TERM'' to verify the correct
setting. It should print ``cons25l1''. If it doesn't,
try setting it manually -- this depends on your shell.
For sh, ksh, bash, zsh:
export TERM=cons25l1
For csh, tcsh:
setenv TERM cons25l1
Regards
Oliver
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