From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 13 21: 0:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rapidsite.net (mail.rapidsite.net [207.158.192.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D19537B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 21:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from r00.nat.boca.verio.net (208.55.254.110) by mail.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.62s) with SMTP id 014797078; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:00:26 -0500 (EST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason Vervlied To: consol , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: trouble with Eterm Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:00:22 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <3C18F5FE.1080102@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <3C18F5FE.1080102@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Message-Id: <20011214050037.6D19537B405@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:39 pm, consol wrote: > hey all... > > I have just recently started using FreeBSD and think it's very > *refreshing* coming from a mostly Windows based environment..... > > Anyway whenever I start E-Term it displays something like: > > tcsh: Cannot open /etc/termcap. > tcsh: using dumb terminal settings. > > > Anybody seen this be4? > > Greetz > Yes, I have dealt with this before. This is caused by the new version of Eterm setting the TERM enviornment variable to Eterm rather than xterm or xterm-color as previous versions did. You can either for Eterm to user xterm as the TERM environment vairable by launching Eterm with the flag --term-name=xterm(or whatever else you would like to set TERM to). Or you can add Eterm as a valid TERM in your termcap database with the followin set of commands, assuming you installed Eterm from the ports. Other wise find the location of Eterm.tcap. cd /usr/share/misc/ ; cat /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Eterm/Eterm.tcap >> termcap ; cap_mkdb ./termcap - -Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message