Cannot open /etc/termcap

swell.k at gmail.com swell.k at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 04:58:12 UTC 2008


"Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman at gmail.com> writes:

> I have a FreeBSD 6.2 server installed in June of 2007
>
> yesterday I did a portsnap fetch update
> and a portupgrade -ar
> now when I ssh in I get the following error
>
> csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.
> csh: using dumb terminal settings.

Are you sure /usr/share/misc/termcap isn't empty and accesible
on the target machine?
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    23B May 31  2007 /etc/termcap@ -> /usr/share/misc/termcap

>
> as a result I can not run vi nor can I build /usr/ports/editors/vim
>
> can anyone help?
>
> Sam Fourman Jr.



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