Is there a way to avoid the question about term type at boot time? The
system hangs and waits for an answer and does not continue until you hit
enter.

This is on AIX 4.3.2.

smitty tty has the right information entered for the terminal type.
lscons shows the right terminal (tty0).

Thanks,
Doug

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:56:30 -0500, Doug Kite <dougkite@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Is there a way to avoid the question about term type at boot time? The
>system hangs and waits for an answer and does not continue until you hit
> enter.
>
>This is on AIX 4.3.2.
>
>smitty tty has the right information entered for the terminal type.
>lscons shows the right terminal (tty0).
>
>Thanks,
>Doug

Doug;

If the question comes up AFTER you attempt to login then you can place
an entry in the /etc/profile that reads "export TERM=whatever" and
this will force the device type. If other users have different term
types they can rely on their own /home/username/.profile entry.

Hope this helps.

Bob_M wrote:
> If the question comes up AFTER you attempt to login then you can place
> an entry in the /etc/profile that reads "export TERM=whatever" and
> this will force the device type. If other users have different term
> types they can rely on their own /home/username/.profile entry.

It comes up before the login prompt.

Thanks for the reply,
Doug

Doug Kite wrote:
> Is there a way to avoid the question about term type at boot time?
The
> system hangs and waits for an answer and does not continue until you
hit
> enter.

I've always just typed the term type there. After you complete the
software load, you can set the console type, but I don't recommend
that, since someone can come after you with a difference type, and that
could mess up the display. For example you may use an IBM 3151
terminal, and they could come in with a laptop using VT100 emulation.

> This is on AIX 4.3.2.

If you can, upgrade that guy to 5.1 at least. It may or may not help to
save the TERM setting until the next reboot.

>
> smitty tty has the right information entered for the terminal type.
> lscons shows the right terminal (tty0).

If you are the only user of this system, then smitty tty should do the
trick. After the boot process finishes, it shouldn't ask for your
terminal type.