From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 22 16:19:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA15315 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA15310 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maryann.eng.umd.edu (maryann.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.209]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05409; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by maryann.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA11219; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:19:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 19:19:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@maryann.eng.umd.edu To: Kim Culhan cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vipw broken in 612 snap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Kim Culhan wrote: > > Running vipw returns: > > vipw /stand/ee: Undefined error: 0 > > Looks like ee was moved from /stand, copying it into /stand allows > vipw to run although the editor it starts isn't vi. It's not broken, really, it's just deciding to use the editor defined by the EDITOR variable, but vipw can't work with ee. Do a sentenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi Then vipw will work again. > > Anyone know what this editor is? If you hit escape while running the > editor it puts up a little menu :) > > kim > > -- > kimc@w8hd.org > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------