Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:58:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the shell more entertaining Message-ID: <20010922045759.B4624@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <005b01c142fc$d48da910$3000b1d8@sickness> References: <20010921191932.D58688@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> <005b01c142fc$d48da910$3000b1d8@sickness>
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David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net> wrote: > Um...k...I think I just screwed things up...first mistake is that I was > playing around with the root terminal, I know, big mistake. Well, in > the .profile file, the part that says TERM=<terminal type>, I changed > that to TERM=<xterm-color>, big mistake, because now every time I log in > as root and try to use vi it comes up saying 'vi: No terminal database > found'. So I do 'TERM=cons25' and then 'export TERM' and that > temporarily works but the editors are all screwed up. So what do I do > now to get myself out of this mess? Set TERM=cons25 temporarily in your environment, and use an editor to remove the offending line from your shell startup file. And for DAEMON's shake, read the bloody manual before making future changes! With the `ls --classify ..' thing, that's two silly things in one day. One too many... -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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