Odd ttyvN TERM settings

[George Mitchell]

On 07/08/12 10:14, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2012 16:00:16 +0200, George Mitchell
> <george+freebsd at m5p.com> 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
>
> What is in your /etc/ttys?
>
> This is the ttys file on 9-STABLE on amd64:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/etc/etc.amd64/ttys?revision=225736&view=markup&pathrev=238244
>
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.
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Apparently I raced through mergemaster too fast (on two different
machines, as well).  That's where the problem was.  Thanks for the
help!                                                   -- George