On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: [...]
> This bring up another issue. This terminal obviously has special needs. Is > there a way in /etc/profile (or somewhere else) to set up the proper > conditions based on the terminal rather than the user? That is, can I > determine at login time what tty is being used and set the proper > conditions reguardless of the user logging in? > Here's what I have in /ect/profile to do what I think you want; --------------------------cut--------------------------------- TTYTYPE=`tty|cut -f 3 -d /|grep -f - /etc/ttytype|cut -f 1 -d " "` if [ "$TTYTYPE" = "" ]; then : else TERM=$TTYTYPE fi unset TTYTYPE -------------------------cut---------------------------------- /etc/ttytype looks like this; -------------------------cut---------------------------------- vt100 ttyS0 vt100 ttyS1 vt100 ttyS2 vt100 ttyS3 -------------------------cut---------------------------------- In this case I set all the serial ports to vt100 and leaving everything else alone. I forget where the ttytype idea came from but I ripped it off from somewhere. -- Bruce Walzer |Voice: (204) 783-4983 Winnipeg MB |Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada |Amateur Radio: VE4XOR
