Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 23:52:35 +0200 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> To: Adam <raindogs_1@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dumb newbie question about file-name completion Message-ID: <200305252352.35423.Danovitsch@Vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <20030525213116.24291.qmail@web10405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030525213116.24291.qmail@web10405.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 25 May 2003 23:31, Adam wrote: > Here's a dumb newbie question... > > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my PC and, while I'm > extremely happy about this and have already spent many > hours playing around, I've hit an annoying snag with > the tab key file-name completion. Everything works > just fine when I'm logged in as root, but when I try > to use any of my other accounts I can't use this > feature (I don't even get the [BEEP]). What am I doing > wrong? Is it possible that my keyboard configuration > is not carried over to the user accounts I set up? > Obviously I don't want to go stomping around as root > when I don't really know what I'm doing, but this has > made entering commands a bit cumbersome and I'd like > to figure out what I'm doing wrong. You have probably given the user accounts a shell that doesn't have=20 tab-completion. with the chsh command you can change your shell. (in /etc/master.passwd you can see what shells your users have) grtz, Daan
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