[2970] in SIPB_Linux_Development
odds and ends
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Sep 11 01:54:18 2000
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 01:54:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
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I've been playing with my linux box.
Two things I've noticed: the "unknown" terminal type, and the
conflict over /etc/krb5.conf.
1) The reason that people get TERM type of "unknown" when logging
in on one of the virtual consoles is that athena's inittab uses
/sbin/getty to manage the tty, instead of /sbin/mingetty (which
is what stock redhat uses). The terminal situation has other warts
too, like the fact that /sbin/getty and /bin/login treat ^H as
the erase character while /sbin/mingetty treats ^? as erase. (The
physical keyboard generates ^?.)
A workaround is to specify the terminal type as a command-line option
to getty in the inittab. (I specify a speed of "38400" only because
that's what stty reported on a line where I used mingetty to log in.)
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 38400 linux
2) With a stock redhat "gnome" installation followed by an installation
of the layered RPMs specified in /afs/athena/system/rhlinux/control/...,
there is conflict over two files: /root/.cshrc, and /etc/krb5.conf.
The /etc/krb5.conf conflict is because the cvs package claims to
depend on krb5-configs.
[root@well RPMS]# rpm -qf /etc/krb5.conf
krb5-configs-1.1.1-9
athena-krb5-8.4-10
[root@well RPMS]# rpm -e krb5-configs
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
krb5-configs is needed by cvs-1.10.7-7
krb5-configs is needed by fetchmail-5.3.1-1
krb5-configs is needed by mutt-1.0.1i-6
krb5-configs is needed by pine-4.21-8
