Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:56:28 +1000 From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: termcap under single luser Message-ID: <48977B0C.6030405@mawer.org> In-Reply-To: <20080804145907.GJ94193@cicely7.cicely.de> References: <4896818D.5040904@psg.com> <e71790db0808040558o437ecc61w8ec3354c4c6b6d33@mail.gmail.com> <20080804145907.GJ94193@cicely7.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:58:20AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote: >>> if i boot single luser, /rescue/(vi|ed) etc barf because >>> >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 23 Oct 11 2007 /etc/termcap@ -> >>> /usr/share/misc/termcap >>> >>> is not mounted. >>> >>> should i >>> >>> rm /etc/termcap >>> cp /usr/share/misc/termcap /etc >>> >>> post build, or is there something else i am missing? >>> >>> randy >> You can ever resort to ed if you can not mount /usr. It saved my neck >> several times! > > I almost always use ed in single user mode, because I'm using serial > consoles and I'm too lazy to setup my terminal environment each time. > But I clearly vote for termcap in /etc. > It is just a about 200k, while /etc is already almost 2M and /boot > is much bigger. Isn't there a minimalistic termcap file that is used by NanoBSD or PicoBSD (I forget where I stumbled across it once upon a time...)? Maybe this is a nice compromise, depending on what 'minimalistic' happens to omit... --Antony
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