From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 15: 0:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15F037B405 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:00:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from there [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net (SMTPD32-6.06) id A99F40E100CC; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:00:47 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: chip To: Michael Imamura Subject: Re: Eterm error when going su Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:00:03 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200111261500743.SM03544@there> 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 Monday 26 November 2001 02:28 pm, Michael Imamura wrote: > 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), there haven't been any other replies. > check the value of $TERM from within Eterm ("echo $TERM"). If it's > "Eterm", then that might be causing some problems. it is Eterm > Try starting Eterm with "Eterm --term-name xterm-color" to see if that > fixes the problem. =20 I did, it doesn't work. > The term name can also be set in the theme config file > (look for the line that starts with "term_name"). I opened up the themes.cfg file and changed the term_name line to xterm-c= olor=20 but am still getting the same errors when going to su. I verified the cha= nge=20 with echo $TERM.=20 > Hope this helps. Unfortunately is doesn't. Any other ideas? I am going to give this machin= e to=20 a friend so he can learn fbsd, and I would like it to work without any=20 errors, no matter how small. -- Chip > - 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