The default terminal emulation when logging in on a text console is cons25. cons25 does not work on *any* of our non-FreeBSD boxes and seems incompatible with both vt100 and xterm, so it is causing all sorts of troubles in a heterogenous environment. Fix: Why can't FreeBSD use vt100, xterm, or some other sensible *and* common terminal emulation by default? How-To-Repeat: Console login on a FreeBSD box. Remote login on a Solaris/Linux/ whatever box. Invoke a full screen program. Good luck! :-(
State Changed From-To: open->closed This is more of a gripe than a bug report. If there's something technically wrong with cons25, please propose an alternative to an appropriate mailing list. Filing a bug report that effectively says "it sucks" isn't going to help :-).
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 dd@freebsd.org wrote: > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: dd > State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 6 06:16:48 PDT 2001 > State-Changed-Why: > This is more of a gripe than a bug report. If there's something technically > wrong with cons25, please propose an alternative to an appropriate mailing > list. Filing a bug report that effectively says "it sucks" isn't going to > help :-). > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21593 Well, you could call it a gripe. However, the fact that this PR was only closed after one year, and the fact that basically FreeBSD is not interoperable with any other system I have access, *does* show that the current situation is undesirable. If you don't want to call it a bug, call it a misfeature, but, please, reopen the PR. (PR stands for problem report, and this definitely *is* a problem.) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/