From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 23:41:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lexx.zssm.zp.ua (lexx.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B335E37B483 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (germes-comp.zssm.zp.ua [212.8.32.132] (may be forged)) by lexx.zssm.zp.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA00899; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:31:31 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.hermes-comp.zp.ua (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E11838302; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:59 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko To: Lee Cc: Subject: Re: Command History & Keyboard Setup In-Reply-To: <004a01c21895$6175d0a0$6400a8c0@Administrator> Message-ID: <20020621092948.B21649-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Lee wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed my first FreeBSD system, 4.6 release. I hope that someone will be able to help me with a couple of strange problems. > > I use a standard PS/2 UK keyboard, when logging in as root the £ sign does not, even though it does when logged in as a normal user. I am using UK Codepage 850. > > Also when I am logged in as a normal user I am unable to use the up / down cursor keys to navigate the command history, even though this does work when logged in as root. > > Has anyone else experienced this problem, or just possibly has some ideas on how to resolve the problem. > > Thanks in advance for any help anyone offers. > > Lee. > Seems like You set up /bin/sh for normal user (it does not support cmd_history, but it also real-unix-program and depend on console setup, so £ sign work properly). And for root default shell is /bin/csh (which is, as on man-page, in fact, tcsh. More powerful, with cmd_history controlled by up/down keys). Try to look at TERM variable ('echo $TERM'). And check ~/.login ~/.cshrc files (with 'more' command, or 'less', which is more apprepriate for You). There may b some setup for console that changed it behavior in such way. And one question to You: is it Your first FreeBSD box, or first UNIX-box at all. In 2nd case, mail if something is not clear for You. With respect, Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message