Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 13:23:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TERM=cons25 in roots' .profile?!? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961018120631.18111R-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <199610181604.LAA03240@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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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 ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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