[ This is my second try because the first time my e-mail address was not the subscribed address due to a bug. This means that Jan Kundrát's reply to this message may get threaded strangely or be missing. ]
Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joe Wells wrote: >> The best solution to this that I can think of is to extend OpenSSH >> with the capability to copy terminfo information to ~/.terminfo on the >> remote system. > > IMHO automated overwriting files in $HOME on every login is a *very* bad > thing. Hi, Jan! In reply, my first question is: What makes you think files would be overwritten? These would be new files. Look at how the terminfo database is structured. Adding a new terminal description is done by adding a new file (possibly in a new directory, if there are no other descriptions whose name begins with the same character). My second question is: What would be wrong with overwriting files in $HOME on every login? I currently have a bunch of files/directories in $HOME (e.g., .history, .gconfd, .fonts.cache-1, .bash_history, .recently-used, .Xauthority, .macromedia, .adobe, .subversion, .nvu, .gnome, .mozilla, .java, etc.), that regularly get overwritten by various random programs, without my asking, and things continue to work. Some of these changes even automatically happen every time I log in. The SSH program regularly rewrites files (e.g., ~/.ssh/known_hosts) successfully. > And if you wanted to remove those "-via-ssh-#" lines after > logout, what will happen if your connection hungs? I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question at all. What "-via-ssh-#" lines? There are no such lines in my proposal. -- Joe P.S. As I do not get this mailing list (I'm subscribed, but to the no-mail version), if anyone wants me to see any replies, it would help to send a copy of the e-mail to me, as I probably won't have time to check the forum. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
