Where does TERM get set for Telnet logins.(Solution!)

Blair P. Houghton bhoughto at pima.intel.com
Wed Dec 19 03:27:39 AEST 1990


In article <1990Dec18.041334.7498 at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
>The moral of the story would appear to be Don't restart
>inetd from a terminal unless it is absolutely unavoidable.
>This probably applies to other daemons as well. If you do
>have to, then a boot of the system should be scheduled asap.

You could unset/unsetenv TERM before starting that daemon, though yes,
there could be other lurking environment hooks for this and other daemons.

				--Blair
				  "setenv VACATION Christmas"



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