Bug 33810

Summary:

/etc/ttys: document how to make console interoperable

Product:

Base System

Reporter:

pfeifer <pfeifer>

Component:

conf

Assignee:

Gerald Pfeifer <gerald>

Status:

Closed FIXED

Severity:

Affects Only Me

Priority:

Normal

Version:

4.4-RELEASE

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

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Description pfeifer 2002-01-12 12:10:07 UTC

	This is a solution for the problem mentioned in the now closed
	PR conf/21593 (Whither cons25, or, cons25 causing interoperability
	problems).

	The problem is that cons25 is not supported by most non-BSD
	systems like GNU/Linux or Solaris, and the comments in /etc/ttys
	incorrectly indicate that cons25 is the only right setting for
	console.

	This badly hurts interoperability with non-BSd systems.

Fix: Install the patch below which describes setting console to vt220
	as a possible alternative in these heterogenous environments.

	I believe this patch also should be applied in etc.alpha/ttys
	and etc.ia64/ttys, though I only tested it on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE/i386
	by connecting to a Debian GNU/Linux and a Solaris 8 box.
How-To-Repeat: 	Log in on FreeBSD console, ssh to any GNU/Linux or Solaris host
	and invoke a full-screen application like Pine.

Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2002-03-27 12:19:59 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray

I will take a look at this.

Comment 2 Gerald Pfeifer freebsd_committer

2002-04-17 10:16:50 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: murray->gerald

David O'Brien will lead me through committing an updated version 
of the patch in this PR (which I had submitted before becoming a 
committer).

Comment 3 Gerald Pfeifer freebsd_committer

2002-04-17 11:42:33 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Updated patch committed (also for alpha, ia64, and sparc64).