termcap under single luser

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:58:20AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> > if i boot single luser, /rescue/(vi|ed) etc barf because
> >
> >   lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  23 Oct 11  2007 /etc/termcap@ ->
> > /usr/share/misc/termcap
> >
> > is not mounted.
> >
> > should i
> >
> >  rm /etc/termcap
> >  cp /usr/share/misc/termcap /etc
> >
> > post build, or is there something else i am missing?
> >
> > randy
> 
> You can ever resort to ed if you can not mount /usr. It saved my neck
> several times!

I almost always use ed in single user mode, because I'm using serial
consoles and I'm too lazy to setup my terminal environment each time.
But I clearly vote for termcap in /etc.
It is just a about 200k, while /etc is already almost 2M and /boot
is much bigger.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd at bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.