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From: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie 2.1 Impressions
Date: 5 Jan 1996 14:02:52 -0500
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Perry Grieb (c23peg@mail.delcoelect.com) wrote:

: Also, file protections seem to be different than under linux.
: I could not "su root". 

Did you add yourself to the "wheel" group?  See group(5) and su(1) for
more info.

: Is there any way to prevent the login sequence from asking what
: your terminal type is?

Yes, edit $HOME/.login and comment out the following line:

	tset -Q \?$TERM

-- 
Jeff Aitken
jaitken@vt.edu