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Re: [Xen-devel] pygrub launched from xend and $TERM

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] pygrub launched from xend and $TERM
From: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:51:07 +0000
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:11:36AM +0000, Tim Deegan wrote:

> At 04:46 +0000 on 31 Jan (1170218806), John Levon wrote:
> > Now that xend launches pygrub, it no longer picks up the user's
> > $TERM setting. This is fatal on Solaris where TERM isn't set, but it
> > also seems wrong on Linux.
> 
> Any suggestions?  We can't know what terminal type xenconsole is going
> to be running at before it attaches. :(  We could set some sensible
> (and, if you like, architecture-dependent) default value.

All I can suggest is a default plus maybe a config option for the
domain...

john

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