Cannot open /etc/termcap

Pollywog lists-fbsd at shadypond.com
Wed Jun 4 03:20:44 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 04 June 2008 03:10:13 Frank Shute wrote:

>
> A quick fix would be to scp /usr/share/misc/termcap from your home
> machine to ~/.termcap on the remote host.
>
> Then ssh into remote host and:
>
> $ echo "TERMCAP=$HOME/.termcap" >> ~/.ssh/environment
>
> Log out and ssh in again.
>
> Might work.

In other words, do it with a test account first, so you don't lock yourself 
out of your regular account.  I have locked myself out a few times while 
testing things.



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