From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jul 5 19:34:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB33D37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep1.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E83443E31 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:34:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dlavigne6@cogeco.ca) Received: from d226-33-213.home.cgocable.net (d226-33-213.home.cgocable.net [24.226.33.213]) by fep1.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA55BD8EB; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:34:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:39:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru X-X-Sender: dlavigne6@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca To: James Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about up-arrow when non-root In-Reply-To: <001e01c22494$c63643c0$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Message-ID: <20020705223727.E253-100000@x1-6-00-80-c8-3a-b8-46.kico2.on.cogeco.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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