Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:29:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: ynelson@yahoo.com (Nelson Yu) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tech Questions Message-ID: <199902202229.RAA15338@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <19990220173912.23514.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> from Nelson Yu at "Feb 20, 99 09:39:12 am"
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Nelson Yu wrote, > As a root user, I was able to use shortcut !v for vi-editor I have > used earlier for editing file, which I want to use !v to re-edit the > same file without typing: vi filename.txt at the prompt. As a user > being a different login name, I wasn't able to do this. > Which file should I edit and what do I add in so that I can do the !v > shortcut command as a different user (not root)? The use of '!<string>' to recall the last command you typed that starts with '<string>' is part of the shell's history mechanisms. You are probably using csh or tcsh, right? See 'man csh' for more information about the history commands. To give your other user the same shell as root, use 'vipw' as root to change the shell of the user to the same one as root. The shell is the last entry on the line. You could also use 'finger' to check root's shell and then 'chfn -s <shell> [user],' where <shell> is the new shell. The user can do this himself in which case the [user] argument can be dropped. Root would need to add the user argument. > And I want to download and upload files from a:\ floppy to my account, > suppose I have a file hello.C, what command do I use? If the floppy is MS-DOS formatted, as root, # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt # cp /mnt/hello.C . The first command mounts the disk. The second copies 'hello.C' to the current directory. Remember to 'umount' the floppy before you remove it. > How do I do the same above as e:\cd-rom? # mount -t cd9660 /dev/wcd0 /mnt # cp /mnt/hello.C . Same thing. This assumes your CD-ROM is IDE, not SCSI. Both of the mounts can probably be done more easily since in the default distribution of FreeBSD there are /etc/fstab entries for the floppy and CDROM drives. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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