On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:30:52PM +1000, Warren wrote: > What is need for me to add/do in order for the pressing of Tab to autcomplete > a name to work? It works fine in root .. also when i press the up or down > arrow keys it dosent bring up the previous command issued ... > > im using FreeBSD5.3-STABLE
What shell are you using? I guess you haven't installed any shells from ports yet, and are using the system default, /bin/sh, which doesn't support autocomplete or command history. The root shell is csh, which does have such things. So, either set your user's shell to be /bin/tcsh, or install one of the several shells in ports. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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