Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 08:41:19 -0800 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org> Cc: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console Message-ID: <20190307164119.GA43724@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <20190307101011.GH2492@kib.kiev.ua> References: <20190307035427.GA42903@www.zefox.net> <30423F14-4038-4656-83FC-14DE0943B26B@dons.net.au> <20190307101011.GH2492@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:10:11PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:08:07PM +1030, O'Connor, Daniel wrote: > > > > > On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote: > > > > > > Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console > > > is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying > > > the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't > > > much fun. Is there a better option? When the machine > > > boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap", > > > is something misconfigured? > > > > /etc/termcap is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/termcap - if you mount /usr (read only is fine) then it should work. > > > > ie since you are in single user mode only / has been mounted. > > > > If / and /usr are the same FS them something else is wrong :) > > There is /etc/termcap.small, and I remember our libcurses uses TERMCAP > env variable to point to the termcap file. It never occurred to me that /etc/termcap might actually live elsewhere. That's almost certainly the problem. Would there be any drawback to simply moving the file back to /etc ? Thanks to everybody, bob prohaska
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