Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:31:42 -0500 From: "Martin MacT" <martinm@visualedge.com> To: "FreeBSD Newbies" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>, "Yong Lim" <yong@csfi.com> Subject: Re: root backspace Message-ID: <04a901bf9b3f$5ea8f800$7400a8c0@visualedge.com> References: <NDBBLNEEEKNNPEMEDDDKKELNCEAA.yong@csfi.com>
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hmmm... I'm somewhat stymied then...
a Window Maker Xterm is still just an Xterm, and what'll determine how
characters behave is the shell attached to said term as well as X's kb
config... But you say root has the problems only OUTSIDE of X, meaning X
hasn't misconfigured your kb... Also, you should have only one X installed,
used by all users so if the problem were with X, everyone would have it...
hmmm...
I don't mean to be stupid, but have you tried "/usr/local/bin/bash"
rather than tcsh? I seem to recall having no problems with tcsh, but...
You might want to try throwing this one to
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.... Those people are all smart and stuff (as
in not all newbies).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yong Lim" <yong@csfi.com>
To: "Martin M" <lalala@iprimus.ca>; "Newbies FreeBSD"
<freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 8:39 AM
Subject: RE: root backspace
> I did try that. After I su to root from another user, I execute
> /usr/local/bin/tcsh and it still won't work. The odd thing is if I use
the
> XTerm that comes with Window Maker it works fine without any change at
all.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions,
>
> Yong
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin M [mailto:lalala@iprimus.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:36 PM
> To: Newbies FreeBSD; Yong Lim
> Subject: Re:
>
>
> 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" <yong@csfi.com>
> To: "'FreeBSD Newbies'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
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