Xref: utzoo comp.unix.i386:2777 comp.unix.questions:19688 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ndcheg!ndmath!nstar!larry From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions Subject: syscon on vt01 Keywords: syscon Message-ID: <511165@nstar.UUCP> Date: 5 Feb 90 23:20:34 GMT Organization: Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN, USA Lines: 13 I notice when loggin on vt01 - I am always prompted for the terminal type (ie: TERM= ) yet it is defined in the .profile; yet if I use the same login on another virtual console, I am not prompted for the TERM variable - and the one from the .profile gets set in the environment. Somehow I have vt01 set up as syscon - how do I change this? -- Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA uucp: larry@nstar -or- ...!iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry 4 inbound dialup high speed line public access system