From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 30 18:40:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.tor.primus.ca (mail2.tor.primus.ca [216.254.136.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3DE37C2A1 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 18:40:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lalala@iprimus.ca) Received: from dialin151.montreal.globalserve.net ([209.167.12.152] helo=martyc) by mail2.tor.primus.ca with smtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 12arP7-0006IG-04; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:43:22 -0500 Message-ID: <000f01bf9ab9$d0b0faf0$0100a8c0@martyc> From: "Martin M" To: "Newbies FreeBSD" , "Yong Lim" References: Subject: Re: Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:35:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Root is using a different shell from the other users is my guess... try "echo $SHELL" for a few different users: if this is the case, type "chsh" at the command prompt while logged in as root to change to the shell you prefer... probably bash... type "which bash" to find out where bash is (likely /usr/local/bin/bash) and put that in root's info using vi. you want to run "bash" from the command line prior to "chsh", so that when you are in vi, your backsapces will work... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yong Lim" To: "'FreeBSD Newbies'" Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:29 PM > Hi, > I'm not sure if this is the correct area to pose this question but here > it is. . .If I pose this question on the wrong mailing list please let me > know. Naturally, the title seems to fit my state of FreeBSD understanding. > > I just installed FreeBSD 4R last weekend and everything went pretty well. > The odd thing is during the drive partition if I select auto for the drive > allocation then I was not able to go back and change the size of the various > mount points. May be I was doing something wrong. . .Great job by the way > to those that made these happened. > > Any way on to my question: I also installed XFree 3 with rxvt and Window > Maker. If I login to the system using any other users beside root with rxvt > my backspace function properly. But if I su to root or login as root the > backspace no long work inside of rxvt. > > Yong > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message