From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 15 15:16:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9A137B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:16:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd5mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F5343F3F for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:16:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: from pd6mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd6mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.218]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HBT004GRCNWPH@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:16:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml7so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.151]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HBT00IQOCNWFV@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:16:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net (h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net [24.82.238.48]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HBT00701CNVG7@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 16:16:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2FNGgWM052301 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:16:43 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Received: (from robin@localhost) by h24-82-238-48.wp.shawcable.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2FNGgpM052300 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:16:42 -0600 (CST envelope-from robin@damm.ca) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:16:41 -0600 From: Robin Damm Subject: Re: Problems with TermCap In-reply-to: <006a01c2eb41$0c9f6710$0307a8c0@VCHIT2> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20030315231641.GA52259@h24-82-238-48.bad.dog> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <006a01c2eb41$0c9f6710$0307a8c0@VCHIT2> 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 Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:20:13PM -0000, Richard Brumpton wrote: > Accidently, I delted the /usr/misc/share/termcap file. > I grabbed the termcap.small from freebsd.org (only one I could find) and > installed it and then ran the cap_mkdb util. > > The console seems to be ok, but when I telnet in or ssh into the system I > get an error. > > Telnet says cannot read termcap database, using dumb terminal settings and > ssh says csh: cannot open etc/termcap > > Etc/termcap is a symbolic link to /usr/misc/share/termcap. > > I am sure it is something simple I have missed, but would appreciate help Only console terminals are listed in termcap.small, hence the error when using ssh. Provided you have the sources installed, the following should get termcap installed as before. # cd /usr/src/share/termcap # make install -- Robin Damm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message