Odd ttyvN TERM settings

[Ronald Klop]

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.