From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 03:10:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F0EF106564A for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 03:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222BE8FC15 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 03:10:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K3jOF-00038x-7j; Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:10:19 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id m543AIm8014656; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:10:18 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 83036FCA4AF; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:10:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 04:10:13 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: "Sam Fourman Jr." Message-ID: <20080604031013.GA70615@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: "Sam Fourman Jr." , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <11167f520806011526v438bc9f1j8ccf4c174ea35761@mail.gmail.com> <86iqwsh1rh.fsf@gmail.com> <11167f520806020317t223d2725y905b07b8ab3541dd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <11167f520806020317t223d2725y905b07b8ab3541dd@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:10:19 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot open /etc/termcap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:10:24 -0000 On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:17:28AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > > > > > > csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap. > > > csh: using dumb terminal settings. > > > > Are you sure /usr/share/misc/termcap isn't empty and accesible > > on the target machine? > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23B May 31 2007 /etc/termcap@ -> > > /usr/share/misc/termcap > > > > I receive the following > %cp /usr/share/misc/termcap /etc/termcap > cp: /etc/termcap and /usr/share/misc/termcap are identical (not copied). > > > is there a quick fix to this? A quick fix would be to scp /usr/share/misc/termcap from your home machine to ~/.termcap on the remote host. Then ssh into remote host and: $ echo "TERMCAP=$HOME/.termcap" >> ~/.ssh/environment Log out and ssh in again. Might work. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html