From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 16:50:00 2004 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 1449416A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:50:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7399E43D54 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 652F84DD; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:49:56 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:49:56 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040118004956.GB93386@seekingfire.com> References: <000501c3dd54$f90c4c70$13c01dd0@webjogger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000501c3dd54$f90c4c70$13c01dd0@webjogger.net> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: Using Vi through a Serial Console X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:50:00 -0000 On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:52:31PM -0500, Mario Antonio wrote: > Dear List, > > When I make a serial connection to a FreeBSD server that has its serial port > configured as a console, how can I make the "vi" editor work? What doesn't work about it? And you've already set your TERM environment variable to appropriate value for whatever is on the other end of the serial cable? -T -- Nahh, that impending sound of doom is just the blades on my leatherman locking. - A.S.R. quote (Majdi)