Setting terminal in single user mode

YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt.dfly at les.ath.cx
Wed Jan 5 22:25:32 PST 2011


On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:57:54PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Tried to go into single user mode to fix, but TERM is not set so I
> can't use an editor.
> 
> Tried set TERM=vt100
> TERM=ansi
> TERM=cons

It's an environment variable, and at least ``cons25'' works, so you
should type either
$ export TERM=cons25	(bourne shell)
or
% setenv TERM cons25	(csh or tcsh)

However, I remember I didn't have to set it myself in the past
even in single user mode.  Not sure when it's changed, though.





More information about the Users mailing list