On 2011-09-02, Alexei Malinin <alexei.mali...@mail.ru> wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: >> On 2011-09-02, Alexei Malinin <alexei.mali...@mail.ru> wrote: >>> Christian Weisgerber wrote: >>>> but if you log into a non-OpenBSD >>>> system that terminal name may be unknown. >>> terminal descriptions proposed by me are intended for >>> OpenBSD consoles only (these descriptions are of >>> questionable value in other systems) >> >> Do you never ssh or telnet from OpenBSD to another type of system? > > of course I do ssh/telnet to other systems, > I understand Christian's notice, I mean that > my terminal descriptions are of questionable value > for other systems _consoles_
ssh and telnet pass the TERM variable to other systems. If you are using a TERM which the other system doesn't understand, they will fall back to a dumb terminal, which can be very annoying. There are workarounds but they can be annoying too. So, while it might be useful to have this in termcap (or adjust the existing wsvt* console entries which may perhaps be a better option), it doesn't seem sensible to set it by default in /etc/ttys.
