I'm in cleanup mode, and just found that this bug was missfiled (thus,
most of you haven't seen it yet):

>> Number:         161
>> Category:       pending
>> Synopsis:       Root's dot-files should be consistent.
>> Confidential:   no
>> Severity:       non-critical
>> Priority:       low
>> Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>> State:          open
>>
>> Description:
>> The .login and .profile for root that are installed into /root
>> behave differently.  For instance, the .login maps erase to
>> ^H and the .profile maps it to ^?.  The latter is correct on the
>> Mac, and the former is correct for the 386.

I agree that the erase and kill characters should be set consistantly
between root's .login & .profile.

Perhaps setting the erase & kill chars explictly via stty is the
incorrect thing to do.  I'd prefer that the "correct" setting for the
erase & kill chars for a particular machine's console be added to the
gettytab file.  Then getty will set the erase and kill characters
appropriately automatically.

	--jtc


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