On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 19:35:22 +0200 "Roberto E. Vargas Caballero" <[email protected]> wrote:
> login takes the value of TERM from its parent. If you executed login > in a telnet session, the telnet daemon will put the value. If you > have a SystemV inittab, then you configure in it the correct value of > TERM for every terminal. If you have a BSD /etc/ttys, then you configure > in it the correct value for every terminal. There is no other usages > of login, so the only way of getting a null value is a misconfiguration, > so you should to assume that the terminal only can handle the minimal > set of features, the features of a dumb terminal. Agreed. We can't work around any misconfiguration (see Gnome, GNU, ...). Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <[email protected]>
