[18327] in Athena Bugs
Re: two bugs in athena-krb5 RPM on IS-Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 20 21:03:06 2000
Message-Id: <200009210058.UAA10109@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Ronnie G Misra <rgmisra@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, linux-testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:33:51 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:58:01 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi, we'll fix the typo in the pre-uninstall script.
> The second bug causes the TERM variable to be set to unknown on
> console logins. When the package is installed, it modifies
> /etc/inittab, replacing /sbin/getty with /sbin/mingetty. On RedHat,
> mingetty is responsible for setting the TERM variable, and getty
> does not do this unless the terminal type is passed on the command
> line.
I think you have this backwards (the default is mingetty, we use
getty). We use getty because mingetty doesn't have a way of
specifying a different login program to use. The right answer is to
specify the terminal type when we run getty; I'll (hopefully) fix that
for the next patch release.
