From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 22 19:55:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C23106566B for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:55:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from horos11@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f171.google.com (mail-yx0-f171.google.com [209.85.210.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661468FC13 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:55:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe1 with SMTP id 1so7260906yxe.3 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:55:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=knxt+dSCDT0xZIEYp8mdjxYCkr7zEsexTpXQZLuYtjs=; b=GAfF3hqCjvvER7ZKEi/CE8zOQ7PNavW19UXlGrNnTMJI9yHQYijS8vSO5yIKOW2Ydt 00st457zTzskSk7wtKUynOI66Z8Br0N7EWZ8DYyJKy6GBQXzCSLb97/dbzFKI3XzhT2O yAltzhliYNWL5TbFPV/fiu5eTK+Vhem+Dr+iw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=AQiDu6377x6EHzAVYm8k0Z8bUEYpQt0r5xaOfFTBqSw3r2et6MTBV4pZpUQCkG7QSs NzNluOKBtT/kbUIqsYSdJXh4HuzZSy/0P9D//4itBPGUKHydY2EuDlSQRorNg/+UHUOm MxDDdzmlFdWslTJLFLe0zDHnQvLMaBGcxqh7I= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.40.2 with SMTP id n2mr16352997ybn.122.1256239784068; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:29:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Edward Peschko Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:29:24 -0700 Message-ID: <5cfa99000910221229g4fde381fpaa77718d20520e24@mail.gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: terminal setup issues on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:55:23 -0000 All, I cannot believe that this is not a faq - yet a search of google didn't turn up any hits. How exactly do you set terminal settings for bsd? I've done a setenv TERM xterm where I'm ssh'ing into a local box in an rxvt (in a screen session), but there is no resize, and the variables COLUMNS and LINES don't work as they do on linux. In addition, the terminal that I've got doesn't handle newlines correctly; I get a 'looping' effect; where the prompt loops back onto itself onto the same line. Anyways, sorry if I missed any obvious FAQs, but this is exceedingly annoying, as a result of the above, it makes maintenance and work on the said machine impossible. The OS in question I'm using is unfortunately of necessity very old, ie: freebsd-4.4, so whatever solution to this will have to take that into account. Thanks much for any pointers, Ed