Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:39:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca> To: James <effdefender@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about up-arrow when non-root Message-ID: <20020705223727.E253-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <001e01c22494$c63643c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net>
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, James wrote: > Should I be posting this in Freebsd-questions? Yes :) > Whenever I log in using one of my accounts (except for root), and I want to > access a command that I typed previously, I keep trying to hit the up arrow. > Unfortunately, what I get is : ^[[A and not the previous command. When I'm > logged in as root I have no trouble. The superuser account uses the tcsh shell, thus it has history and the up arrow works. By default, regular users get the sh shell which gives the behaviour you just described. As the superuser, you can use "vipw" to modify your existing user's shell to either "csh" or "tcsh". Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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