On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:04:58PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Emilio Perea<[email protected]> wrote: > > There have been some changes to the default /root/.login recently that I > > don't understand, and hope someone can enlighten me. > > > > On my oldest server, the root shell is still csh, so the change is very > > noticeable: Using the /root/.login from the 4.5 CD, when I login there > > is a terminal type prompt which has always included the proper terminal > > type as default. The /root/.login from the current snapshot always > > results in an unknown terminal type, so I have to type in the terminal > > type myself before proceeding. Is this as intended? > ... > > Last login: Fri Jul 10 11:35:12 2009 from herakles.walkereng.net > > OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC) #58: Thu Jul 9 21:24:42 MDT 2009 > ... > > tset: unknown terminal type !* > > Terminal type? nxterm > > Erase is delete. > > Kill is control-U (^U). > > Interrupt is control-C (^C). > > Read the afterboot(8) man page for administration advice. > > Something is weird about your 4.6-almost system: > - the error from tset implies that it was passed "!*" on the command line > - the "Erase is.../Kill is.../Interrupt is..." output implies that > tset was *not* > passed the -Q option > > The latter would seem to imply that the tset in the /root/.login file > has either been changed or it is not the tset invocation that's > causing that output. Do you perhaps have anything in your /etc/csh.* > files?
That was it! The line alias tset 'set noglob histchars=""; eval `\tset -s \!*`; unset noglob histchars' which was removed in version 1.9 (25-Apr-1998!) was somehow still in root's .cshrc. My apologies... I'm ashamed to say that I thought .login was executed ahead of .cshrc and didn't check the man page.
