svn commit: r46427 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 2 06:24:56 UTC 2015
Author: eadler
Date: Thu Apr 2 06:24:54 2015
New Revision: 46427
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46427
Log:
faq: mail-loopback
- update full-screeen terminal question answer to be accurate now that we use
xterm and not cons25
Submitted by: Daniel O'Connor
Mangled by: me
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Thu Apr 2 06:05:57 2015 (r46426)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml Thu Apr 2 06:24:54 2015 (r46427)
@@ -2090,52 +2090,27 @@ bindkey ^[[3~ delete-char # for xterm</p
</question>
<answer>
- <para>The remote machine may be setting the terminal type
- to something other than the <literal>cons25</literal>
- terminal type required by the &os; console.</para>
-
- <para>There are a number of possible work-arounds for this
- problem:</para>
-
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>After logging on to the remote machine, set the
- <envar>TERM</envar> shell variable to
- <literal>ansi</literal> or <literal>sco</literal> if
- the remote machine knows about these terminal
- types.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Use a VT100 emulator like
- <application>screen</application> at the &os; console.
- <application>screen</application> provides the
- ability to run multiple concurrent sessions from one
- terminal.
- Each <application>screen</application> window behaves
- like a VT100 terminal, so the <envar>TERM</envar>
- variable at the remote end should be set to
- <literal>vt100</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Install the <literal>cons25</literal> terminal
- database entry on the remote machine. The way to do
- this depends on the operating system on the remote
- machine. Refer to the system administration manuals for the
- remote system.</para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>Fire up an X server at the &os; end and login to
- the remote machine using an X based terminal emulator
- such as <command>xterm</command> or
- <command>rxvt</command>. The <envar>TERM</envar>
- variable at the remote host should be set to
- <literal>xterm</literal> or
- <literal>vt100</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ <para>The remote machine may be setting the terminal type to
+ something other than <literal>xterm</literal> which is
+ required by the &os; console. Alternatively the kernel
+ may have the wrong values for the width and height of the
+ terminal.</para>
+
+ <para>Check the value of the <envar>TERM</envar>
+ enviroment variable is <literal>xterm</literal>. If the
+ remote machine does not support that try
+ <literal>vt100</literal>.</para>
+
+ <para>Run <command>stty -a</command> to check what the
+ kernel thinks the terminal dimensions are. If they are
+ incorrect, they can be changed by running
+ <command>stty rows <replaceable>RR</replaceable> cols
+ <replaceable>CC</replaceable></command>.</para>
+
+ <para>Alternatively, if the client machine has
+ <package>x11/xterm</package> installed, then running
+ <command>resize</command> will query the terminal for the
+ correct dimensions and set them.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
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