Editing on the serial console

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 8:42 AM bob prohaska <fbsd at 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 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.
>
> 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.

Warner


Thanks to everybody,
>
> bob prohaska
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