From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 16 05:11:42 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA09607 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 05:11:42 -0700 Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA09581 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 05:11:16 -0700 Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.140) with smtp id ; Fri, 16 Jun 95 14:10 MEST Received: by sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de; id AA13815; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 14:09:54 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <9506161209.AA13815@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: problems with termcap-entries To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 14:09:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1226 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk hello we had her some problems with xterm - some people were able to run xterms - other ones not - they got the message: unable to find usable termcap entry (this comes from main.c of xterm) we had to look a long time before we've found the problem - the homedir of the person has to be -*******x (*may be everything) this is only needed for FreeBSD (not for Dec OSF/1 or Linux) - after changing this the problem went away - should this be so (i don't think so) - and why this is so ? - do you have any ideas ? here some more description of our setup: FreeBSD-950412-SNAP - homedir's mounted via nfs (via amd) - passwd etc. via nis/yp - if you leke to know more please mail to me hope this helps - t _______________________________________________________||_____________________ __|| Perfection is reached, not when there is no __|| thomas graichen longer anything to add, but when there __|| freie universitaet berlin is no longer anything to take away __|| fachbereich physik __|| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - __|| ___________________________||____email: graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de____