From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 14:29: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acmey.gatech.edu (acmey.gatech.edu [130.207.165.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9717C37B405 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by acmey.gatech.edu (Postfix, from userid 19753) id BFED131F1C; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 17:28:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by acmey.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86C8330DF; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:28:56 +0000 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:28:56 +0000 (EDT) From: Michael Imamura X-Sender: gte255n@acmey.gatech.edu To: chip Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Eterm error when going su In-Reply-To: <200111252219368.SM03488@there> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, chip wrote: > I have Eterm 0.9.1 installed and working. but when I su I get the following > error: > > _su: cannot open /etc/termcap. > _su: using dumb terminal settings. > > /etc/termcap is symlinked to /usr/share/misc/termcap. The permissions are set > to read and execute by all. > Any ideas what this means and how I can fix it? Just a shot in the dark (and because I didn't see any other replies), check the value of $TERM from within Eterm ("echo $TERM"). If it's "Eterm", then that might be causing some problems. Try starting Eterm with "Eterm --term-name xterm-color" to see if that fixes the problem. The term name can also be set in the theme config file (look for the line that starts with "term_name"). Hope this helps. - Michael Imamura mimamura@resnet.gatech.edu LUG@GT Web Guy http://www.lugatgt.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message