Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 11:13:37 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console Message-ID: <201903071913.x27JDbZR091956@ gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo8BnVdCSmqWvC=auD_5t8_p06kQwx2bhDSTiyDVd%2B_qA@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 8:42 AM bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 12:10:11PM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:08:07PM +1030, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console
> > > > > is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying
> > > > > the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't
> > > > > much fun. Is there a better option? When the machine
> > > > > boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap",
> > > > > is something misconfigured?
> > > >
> > > > /etc/termcap is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/termcap - if you mount
> > /usr (read only is fine) then it should work.
> > > >
> > > > ie since you are in single user mode only / has been mounted.
> > > >
> > > > If / and /usr are the same FS them something else is wrong :)
> > >
> > > There is /etc/termcap.small, and I remember our libcurses uses TERMCAP
> > > env variable to point to the termcap file.
> >
> > It never occurred to me that /etc/termcap might actually live elsewhere.
> > That's almost certainly the problem. Would there be any drawback to
> > simply moving the file back to /etc ?
> >
>
> On your system? None at all. I'd copy it, though. In the base system it is
> where it is so new entries get reflected right after install world w/o
> needing to run mergemaster.
It is where it is because it is not
/etc/ system configuration files and scripts
and is
/usr/share/ architecture-independent files
misc/ miscellaneous system-wide ASCII text files
The /etc/termcap link is for backwards compatibility.
> Warner
> Thanks to everybody,
> > bob prohaska
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Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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