Odd ttyvN TERM settings

[Michael Butler]

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On 07/08/12 10:00, George Mitchell wrote:
> Up through FreeBSD 8.x, the ttyvN consoles had a TERM setting of cons25.
> On FreeBSD 9.n, it appears to be xterm for ttyv0, but it's still cons25
> for ttyv1-ttyv8 (even though they all appear to act like xterms).  Not
> surprisingly, this leads to less than desirable results when trying to
> run vi (or other such programs) on ttyv1 through ttyv8, unless you
> remember to setenv TERM xterm.
> 
> Why did we change from cons25 to xterm?  How can we get all the ttyvNs
> to get the correct TERM setting?                      -- George Mitchell

The console driver has been replaced/updated. You likely missed updating
your /etc/ttys,

	imb

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