Fwd: sysvinit and TERM

[Robert Millan]

Hey.

I'm forwarding this mail. Miquel kindly sent an explanation on where does the
TERM variable initialisation belong.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:07:53PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> On 2004.07.17 00:48, Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Miquel!
> > 
> > I have a quick question about init and wonder if you could help:
> > 
> > Does sysvinit initialise the TERM variable? Or is someone else (e.g.
> > getty or login) in charge for that?
> > 
> > I ask this because we need to define TERM="cons25" on GNU/kFreeBSD and
> > are not sure where it belongs yet.
> 
> On Linux, the kernel initializes TERM (to "linux"). That's used in single
> user mode.
> 
> After that, for login sessions, getty is responsible for setting it - probably
> leaving it as "linux" for the console and "vt100" for serial lines.
> 
> Mike.

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