Where does TERM get set for Telnet logins.

[Vernon Schryver]

In article <1990Dec17.034330.27909 at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
>...
> In the mean time I need a way of telling telnetd what the default terminal
> type to use. 


"tset" might be useful, as in "eval `tset -s -Q`" somewhere in a .login file.
The shipped /.login contains an example.  Notice that /etc/ttytypes can
contain "ttyq*" just as easily as "ttyd*".  Tset(1) descripes solutions
to what sounds like the problem at hand.



Vernon Schryver,   vjs at sgi.com