From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 09:46:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA11460 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.iupui.edu (root@felix.iupui.edu [134.68.45.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA11449 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 09:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona (jrclark@freak.alternate [199.3.65.5]) by felix.iupui.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA08472 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:46:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 11:46:42 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960611114757.0091d78c@felix.iupui.edu> X-Sender: jrclark@felix.iupui.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: gettytab Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, I am having trouble setting "erase" (^?) to backspace (^H) before login. I thought that I had solved this problem by changing the default entry in the /etc/gettytab: original: --------- :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: modified: --------- :cb@:ce@:ck@:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: I also want to add that this worked as well (explicitly setting "er"): ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :cb:ce:ck:er=\b:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: What I am finding most odd is that when the box was on my LAN, either of the second two entries worked well -- my pc backspace moved the cursor backward on the login prompt. I have the box at an ISP now, and I access it across the Internet -- my backspace is broken again. I have tried very hard to put it right. It won't. If anyone out there is using FreeBSD and has the login prompt accepting "^H" as backspace (at login), let me know how you did it. Considering "cdrom.com" also has the same trouble as me (^H does not backspace) I think my efforts are futile. BTW -- When testing this, make sure getty spawns a new process. Otherwise, you will reuse an old one that tset or stty has put right, and ^H will work on the login prompt. John Clark [jrclark@indy.net]