Re: keyboard escape sequences; command history; etc.

> >> Ok, good, /env is mounted (login does this). "cd /env ; ls" shows
what?
> >just root (directory)
>
> Ok, and if you cd into root, you see more nodes?

$ ls /env
root
$ ls /env/root
CDPATH ENVROOT HOME PATH USER
$ /vsta/etc/rc
$ ls /env
LESS PATH PS1 SHELL TERM TMPDIR TZ root
$ ls /env/root
CDPATH ENVROOT HOME PATH USER

> >> >/vsta/etc/rc: cannot create /env/TERM: directory nonexistent
> >> Here's the heart of the matter. Why isn't /env available?
> >Good question. I don't really have a clue at this point. Can you give me
> >one? :)
>
> I'd have to guess that you've touched something in some unexpected way.
> Can you restore /vsta/etc from the distro and see what happens with the
> virgin files?

Done. (This time, I used gzip and tar inside vsta; last time, I did it from
linux. When I tried to untar in /tmp, tar failed to create directories.
Indeed, mkdir failed in /tmp. It worked on regular storage, though. What is
it about /tmp?)
Anyway, result after restoring /vsta/etc/*:
no apparent change (same "/vsta/etc/rc: cannot create /env/TERM: directory
nonexistent" on startup)
Are you running 1.6.8 distribution?

I'd like to build from source, but I can't quite get started. I have the
source ,v files; but I don't know the best way to check them out. (I know
RCS well but have very little CVS experience. I'm thinking if I do cvs
update from the right directory and with the right project name, I'm home
free. But what are the right directory and project name?
I have my vsta source ,v files in /vsta/vsta.
Is that the right location for the ,v files, or is that the expected
location for the working files?
(I could just do co *,v in each source directory, but I'd rather do it the
"right" way with CVS.)

> >And back to my original keyboard escape sequence question...
> >I tried the stat -w -- <can't remember the field... xkeys?> with no luck.
>
> xkeys is there, unless you're running some (very) old server. I use this
> all the time because I don't use arrow keys and I hate having their junk
> spewed into my input buffer when I bump them by accident.

I'm running whatever I unzipped from the 1.6.8 distribution.
It's not that xkeys isn't there; it's that xkeys=0 vs xkeys=1 makes no
difference. Up/down arrows still produce A/B. (This is both before and after
running /vsta/etc/rc to setup my TERM)
How do I get the arrow keys to work?

> >(The posts on this news server sure age out of existence fast!)
>
> You need to check on that; the server is configured to *never* age out
> posts, and I just took a quick look in spool/news and it sure looks like
> all the posts are there.

My mistake. I found the setting in my newsreader; sure enough, it was set to
erase after 5 days.

> stat -

Yup. stat //CONS:0, stat //CONS:1, etc. also work
Received on Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:22:57 -0700