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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: branson@widomaker.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com
Subject: Re: TERM=cons25 in roots' .profile?!?
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>Anyone have ideas about a more general fix than throwing an explicit
>TERM=xxxx in .profile?

Don't login as root, use su :-).

/.profile shouldn't be a (sym)link to /root/.profile.  It shouldn't
set HOME to /root.  Then you can just edit /.profile to suit the boot
environment.

Bruce