From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 6:30:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9054F37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A28143E4A for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 06:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBUEU59Y061497 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:30:05 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBUEU0tw061496 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:30:00 GMT Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:30:00 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ttyv3 cons2511 Message-ID: <20021230143000.GB60420@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions References: <20021230141734.GA181@pooh.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021230141734.GA181@pooh.nagual.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 03:17:34PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > In my /etc/ttys is a line which mentions ttyv3 as a cons2511 on secure > resulting in a strange message when I log in on this tty. The console is > not supported? Strange, as I never changed this file, so it is the one > that came w/ the 4.7-release. I changed ttyv3 into cons25 fot the time > being, but I wonder what the other cons2511 was for. cons25l1 (that's the letter `l' between the 5 and the 1) is a modification of the default cons25 terminal type which supports Latin-1 character sets. Handy if your native language includes accented characters. It's never been used in the default /etc/ttys as far as I know --- that's still using the US-ASCII cons25 type for all the vty's --- so what you've found must be the result of an experiment you or somebody made on your machine a while back and have subsequently forgotten about. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message