As Peter was saying, the TERM environment variable is used by
"ncurses" and other text screen presentation libraries to indicate
what kind of control sequences are used (especially for outbound
presentation; input is less well defined).
I think Mark also suggested setting TERM. I always do it with
two statements (because while I much prefer BASH, I hate to be
locked-in to any one shell and some handle 'export' differently):
TERM=vt220
export TERM
The "getty" program varies. Linux has several (where Solaris
and other Unix systems might only have one). As Peter said,
'mingetty' behaves differently from 'agetty' and may not be
what you want to run. If you manually set TERM, it does not
matter so much. In any case, you need a "getty" program
to handle the sign-on procedure. (It does a few communication
related things and then typically hands-off to /bin/login.)
-- R;
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