On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 06:00:45PM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Karel Zak at 03/06/13 13:28 did gyre and gimble: > > * term type is optional (default is 'linux' for virtual terminals > > and 'vt102' for serial lines) > > It may no longer matter (especially if the fix mentioned by Michael in > comment 1 of the bug quoted below is now merged) but FYI the "linux" > term type was specified explicitly due to agetty not respecting TERM env > var:
agetty has been never designed in this way > commit 2161de72c517d34d1ceb9b4c1a300f0b54ce5a9c > Author: Michal Schmidt <mschm...@redhat.com> > Date: Mon Oct 29 21:59:34 2012 +0100 > > units: agetty overrides TERM > > Environment=TERM=... has no effect on agetty who sets it by itself. To > really set TERM to a specified value, it has to be given on the command > line. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870622 > > > From comment 1: > "Furthermore, I believe there's a bug in agetty. It attempts to detect > the distinction between the vc and a serial line and set TERM > accordingly, but it does not work as expected. I will send Karel a fix." ... hmm, I don't remember any discussion. Add term name to the command line is very poor workaround, distinction between the vc and a serial line is critical thing for agetty as it modifies many settings on the line. Karel -- Karel Zak <k...@redhat.com> http://karelzak.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
