From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 21 18:58:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B58837B417 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 18:58:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b105.otenet.gr [195.167.121.233]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8M1wHn03681; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:58:18 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8M1w2F04888; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:58:02 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:58:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: David Loszewski Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: making the shell more entertaining Message-ID: <20010922045759.B4624@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010921191932.D58688@switchblade.cyberpunkz.org> <005b01c142fc$d48da910$3000b1d8@sickness> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <005b01c142fc$d48da910$3000b1d8@sickness> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ 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 David Loszewski 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=, I changed > that to TERM=, 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