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From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
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To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: TERM=cons25 in roots' .profile?!?
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On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Joe Greco wrote:

> > >Anyone have ideas about a more general fix than throwing an explicit
> > >TERM=xxxx in .profile?
> > 
> > Don't login as root, use su :-).
> 
> THAT should be in /root/.profile.
> 
> > /.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.
> 
> That would be pretty reasonable, I think.
> 
> ... JG
> 

 I was trying to find a way to get the run level on a FreeBSD
 machine.. and I did not come up with a way.  I can prove what level
 it is at by what is mounted.. etc.. but nothing that definiativly
 proves it. If we could find somthing ( that worked with just root
 mounted r/o ) we could use that as a switch for the console setting. 

  -branson

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