Corrupted terminal types on login. (HELP !)

Russell J Fulton;ccc032u russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz
Thu Dec 13 10:15:02 AEST 1990


Yesterday we changed the uic of some accounts on our 4D/240 running 3.3.1 and
chowned the users files as part of a move towards a common UIC domain on
campus.

About the time this was going on all telent logins suddenly decided that 
their terminal type was wyse-50. This caused chaos for a while until we
patched the /etc/cshrc file to reset TERM to vt220 (which is correct in
95% of the cases).

stty line 1 erase '^?' kill '^U' intr '^C' echoe -onlret
eval `tset -s -Q`

The term is setup by the above lines (extracted from /etc/cshrc). I have read
the man pages for tset but it does not explicitly say where it gets the
terminal type from for telnet logins when you do tset -s.

Does anybody know? 

Thanks Russell.

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton at aukuni.ac.nz>



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