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Reply-To: "James" <effdefender@earthlink.net>
From: "James" <effdefender@earthlink.net>
To: "Dru" <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca>
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Subject: Re: Question about up-arrow when non-root
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 19:55:46 -0700
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Thank you very much.
-James Turnbull
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dru" <dlavigne6@cogeco.ca>
To: "James" <effdefender@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: Question about up-arrow when non-root


>
>
> 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
>
>
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