Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:12:19 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org, BjXrn KXnig <bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] environment variable EDITOR is set wrong in fixit mode Message-ID: <200604171312.21710.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060415071815.56F845285C@eurystheus.local> References: <20060415071815.56F845285C@eurystheus.local>
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On Saturday 15 April 2006 03:18, BjXrn KXnig wrote: > > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Originator: Björn König > >Organization: > >Confidential: no > >Synopsis: [patch] environment variable EDITOR is set wrong in fixit mode > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: medium > >Category: misc > >Class: change-request > >Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RC i386 > >Environment: > System: FreeBSD hoppel.local 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Fri Apr 14 20:32:06 CEST 2006 bkoenig@hoppel.local:/home/bkoenig/obj/home/bkoenig/devel/freebsd/RELENG_6_1/src/sys/HOPPEL i386 > >Description: > If you start the fixit mode of disc1 then the > environment variable EDITOR is set wrong. Its > value is /mnt2/stand/vi, but vi doesn't exist > at this place. > > This concerns the variable PAGER likewise. > > >How-To-Repeat: > Go to fixit mode: > > Fixit# $EDITOR > /mnt2/stand/vi: not found > > >Fix: > There are at least two possible solutions. > > First of all /mnt2/stand is a symlink to /rescue, > but /rescue doesn't exist. It migth be better to > create a symlink to "rescue" instead of "/rescue". > In this case /mnt2/stand would be a symlink to > "rescue", i.e. /mnt2/rescue becomes the real path. > EDITOR don't need to be changed and vi works. PAGER > still doesn't work, because more doesn't exist > in rescue. > > A second approach would be to simply change EDITOR to > /mnt2/usr/bin/vi resp. PAGER to /mnt/usr/bin/more. > > These two patches deals with the issue. You may > apply both patches. I think the first patch is better and EDITOR should be unchanged. Perhaps the PAGER should be set only if /mnt2/usr/bin/more exists? If you use the fixit floppy instead of the CD I think it won't exist. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orghelp
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