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Date:      Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:13:54 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: passwd file repair
Message-ID:  <20000217181354.B71035@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <200002171553.KAA20962@akiva.homer.att.com>; from J. W. Ballantine on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:53:35AM -0500
References:  <20000217173411.G38813@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <200002171553.KAA20962@akiva.homer.att.com>

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On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:53:35AM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> 
> Since I'm at work and not at home, I don't have access to that specific
> machine.  On a similar one, ie 3.4-Stable, I get:
>   #vipw
>   ex/vi: Error: unknown: No such file or directory
>   vipw: vi: Operation not permitted
>   vipw: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> 
>   #/usr/bin/vi [FILE]
>   ex/vi: Error: unknown: No such file or directory
> 
>   # EDITOR=/usr/bin/ee vipw
>   Error opening terminal: unknown
>   vipw: /usr/bin/ee: Operation not permitted
>   vipw: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged
> 
> Jim

Your $TERM environment variable is not set, or set to "unknown" value.
Please set it to the correct terminal type you use, and try again.
BTW, vipw(8) in this case reports the following:

vi: unknown: unknown terminal type
vipw: vi: Operation not permitted
vipw: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged


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