From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 11:24:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1162D37B40E for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-119a2km.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.10.150] helo=scee.dsj.net) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17LT5Q-0003lH-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:24:45 -0700 Received: from dsj by scee.dsj.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17LT5W-0000zB-00; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:24:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 14:24:50 -0400 From: "David S. Jackson" To: Lee Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Command History & Keyboard Setup Message-ID: <20020621182450.GD19430@scee.dsj.net> Reply-To: "David S. Jackson" References: <004a01c21895$6175d0a0$6400a8c0@Administrator> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004a01c21895$6175d0a0$6400a8c0@Administrator> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i 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 On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:02:16PM +0100 Lee wrote: > 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. As a normal user, go $ echo $SHELL If you see /bin/sh then you're using the original bourne shell which does not support history. I would recommend you use bash, which is in the ports directory or in package form on your CD-ROM or nearest FreeBSD mirror. Once you get bash installed (/usr/local/bin/bash), go $ chsh /usr/local/bin/bash and that should give you what you're used to, unless you're more used to a csh/tcsh/ksh/zsh type of environment... HTH! -- David S. Jackson dsj@dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. -- Steven Wright To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message