From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 18 10:55:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7062016A4CE for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from catflap.slightlystrange.org (cpc2-cmbg1-3-0-cust94.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [213.107.104.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5C743D5C for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danielby@slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1Cqr11-000Jlk-FG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:15 +0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:15 +0000 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050118105515.GA75927@catflap.slightlystrange.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200501182030.52598.shinjii@virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Tab to Auto-Complete + .... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Bye List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:55:17 -0000 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:30:52PM +1000, Warren wrote: > What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to autcomp= lete=20 > a name to work? It works fine in root .. also when i press the up or dow= n=20 > arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous command issued ...=20 >=20 > im using FreeBSD5.3-STABLE What shell are you using? I guess you haven't installed any shells from ports yet, and are using the system default, /bin/sh, which doesn't support autocomplete or command history. The root shell is csh, which does have such things. So, either set your user's shell to be /bin/tcsh, or install one of the several shells in ports. HTH Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB7OsThvzwOpChvo8RApSBAKDExaXM7wb85ISRN1dfLjDtWU96pACgnP/R ltwdrBcNELISHATmzarOU8s= =oQEQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/--