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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: setting TERM on System Vr2
Message-ID: <190@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 20:38:03 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 17 20:38:03 1985
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Organization: Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ 07764
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>> > Anyone know of a good method to keep TERM information for System V? 
>> > I know that you can type TERM=xxx when typing your login 
>> > name, but we have a lot of hardwired terminals, and it would be 
>> > more convenient to have that terminal types kept in a file and 
>> > have it be set automatically.  
>> 
>> Step 1 - rip "login" so that it doesn't destroy the environment it's
>> given, but adds to it.
>> 
>> Step 2 - make your "inittab" lines look like:
>> 
>> 	hb::respawn:env TERM=vt100 /etc/getty ttyhb 9600	# Console VT100
>> ...
>Or put a test in the .profile 
>
>if [ `tty` = "/dev/tty??" ]
>then
>	TERM=5620	# or whatever
>fi
>

Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious (we run v7), but why not this:

1) Set up a file with a name like '/etc/ttynames'. It contains lines
	of the form:

		tty1	adm3a
		tty2	5620
		.
		.
		.

2) Run the following shell script from the .profile

	a=`tty`
	b=`basename $a`
	awk '$1='$b' {print $2}' /etc/ttynames


I may be a bit off on the awk invocation, but you should get the idea. This
is how we did it here.


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