From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 11 21:43:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA28020 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (serial.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA28012 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jack@diamond.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (zeus.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA06351; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:43:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:43:00 -0400 (EDT) From: jack X-Sender: jack@zeus.xtalwind.net To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term probs In-Reply-To: <19971012133557.09865@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > What happens is that Linux doesn't recognize cons25 and rather than > > say so and ask for a TERM type (a la BSDI) it just refuses the > > connection. It will do that with any TERM that isn't defined in its > > termcap. > > Which RFC allows that? Probably the one that Bill `I'll write my own standards, thank you.' Gates follows, religiously. > > Not very sociable, IMO. :) > > A bug IMO. After the year of hell I went through the month we had Linux on a box here I'm certainly not going to worry about it. Not a single tear was shed in our NOC the day I put a FreeBSD boot floppy into that box and hit the reset button. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------