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Date:      Sat, 22 Sep 2001 04:39:26 +0200 (SAST)
From:      The Psychotic Viper <psyv@sec-it.net>
To:        David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>
Cc:        'Rob Andrews' <rob@cyberpunkz.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: making the shell more entertaining
Message-ID:  <20010922043438.E39981-100000@lucifer.fuzion.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <005b01c142fc$d48da910$3000b1d8@sickness>

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Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, 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=<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?
Try removing the line from .profile and log in and out again,

HTH
PsyV


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