From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 15:47:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11238 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:47:21 -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 PAA11226 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona (jrclark@freak.out [199.3.65.5]) by felix.iupui.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA10102 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:47:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 17:47:33 -0500 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960612174841.00932ff4@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: getty bug? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I seem to have isolated a problem with getty in FreeBSD 2.1. I am curious to know if anyone else is experiencing similar problems, or if someone can instruct me as to what I am doing wrong. To modify the default behavior of many of the tty attributes _before_ login, the /etc/gettytab can be modified. Presumably, er=X should set the capital "X" as the delete character. It does not. The im message is correct every time, so I know this is the proper entry in the gettytab file to modify. This is what I have noticed: the first two consoles always default to "^H" as the erase key (pressing 'delete' generates ^?), thereafter every tty defaults to "?" as the erase key (pressing 'backspace' generates ^H). Am I noticing the default behavior of another config file? Remember, I am talking about the tty behavior _before_ login -- neither tset nor stty has executed yet. Thanks, John Clark [jrclark@indy.net]