Editing on the serial console
Konstantin Belousov
kib at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 7 10:10:40 UTC 2019
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:08:07PM +1030, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
>
> > On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd at 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.
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