Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?

To: rlheest@neosoft.com (Richard Heestand)
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: How can I set the TERM environment variable?
From: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:23:00 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 199609200223.WAA30631@sgk.tiac.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 20:50:07 CDT." <[🔎] 199609190150.UAA14391@mailbox.neosoft.com>

Hi Richard --

You said:
> After installing Debian base packages I installed elvisnox.  But, I see that
> after booting the TERM environment variable is set to cons80x25. How can I 
> best set it to another value (eg linux) during boot for all users?  Where is 
> it set anyway?

In looking over some old mail, I found that having TERM set to cons80x25 is
a consequence of booting an old kernel.  You can check what kernel you're using
by executing 
   cat /proc/version
Apparently, this problem is particularly likely if one is using LILO,
and hasn't set up LILO's definition of the root directory just right.

Newer kernels won't do this.

HTH,
Susan Kleinmann

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