Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:20:58 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Alex Push <naberegu@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: termcap problems Message-ID: <441wspr905.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <E3B00604-C394-46E7-96AA-7B14BD9BF1FC@gmail.com> (Alex Push's message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:51:36 -0400") References: <E3B00604-C394-46E7-96AA-7B14BD9BF1FC@gmail.com>
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Alex Push <naberegu@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi All,
>
> I recently got FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on my server, and a couple of days
> ago I started getting this message when I ssh in:
> csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap
> csh: using dumb terminal settings
>
> This yields a very limited terminal -- I can execute basic commands,
> but can't open vi/vim ("vi: No terminal database found"), etc.
>
> I checked /etc/termcap, and it is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/
> termcap, and that file *does* exist. I don't think it's a permissions
> problem since both termcap and termcap.db are readable to all users (-
> r--r--r--). I rebuilt the termcap.db file (in /usr/share/misc/
> termcap) by running "cap_mkdb termcap", but this didn't fix the
> terminal.
>
> I also tried rebuilding and reinstalling the termcap source from /usr/
> src/share/termcap, but I am still getting this error, and it's making
> my box pretty unusable.
>
> Any thoughts? Thanks a lot in advance.
Any chance that the sshd or user shell are chroot'd?
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