On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Mark Phillips wrote: > 1. How does TERM get set?
TERM is set from the kernel in init/main.c to linux. init, login, et al, propagaate it. > When bash is the login shell for a user, it > seems that TERM gets set to linux when logging in from the console. > But when I changed my shell to tcsh, TERM no longer gets set to linux > as it should. Why? Perhaps your .tcshrc or .cshrc is messing with it. > P.S. Is there any advantage to using bash instead of tcsh? Does bash > have all the features that tcsh has? Read "csh programming considered harmful". Just do a web search and you'll have many hits. > # pppd -d -detach /dev/cua1 & Use "ppd -d /dev/cua1" instead, and your program will go away. > Also, why is there no "ppp-off" script included with the ppp package? There is - /etc/ppp/ip-down > 3. My machine name is "destiny", yet I cannot rlogin to my own > machine. When I type "rlogin destiny" I get: > > destiny.phillips.com.au: No route to host > 192.1.1.1 destiny.phillips.com.au destiny > I would have thought though that doing "rlogin destiny" would use the > "lo" interface? Look at what you've told it destiny's address was. Guy