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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Root problems?? Post 302213983 by razordp on Friday 11th of July 2008 03:39:47 PM
Old 07-11-2008
Root problems??

So when I log in as root on my eMac (running tiger, 10.4.11), some things don't work or reluctantly work. Examples:

Computer:/Users/mat/Desktop root# pico test.doc
Error opening terminal: network.

Computer:/Users/mat/Desktop root# emacs test.doc
Error opening terminal: network.

Computer:/Users/mat/Desktop root# vi test.doc
E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo
'network' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
builtin_ansi
builtin_xterm
builtin_iris-ansi
builtin_dumb
defaulting to 'ansi'

also,

Computer:~ root# man who
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
- (press RETURN)

Then the man seems to work fine, but I have never gotten a message like this before when logged in as a regular user.

While logged in as a regular user, i can sudo pico (or nano, emacs, or vi) files fine, but I can't pico files while logged in as root.
Is it something that I screwed up?
Can I fix any of these problems?
 

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This manual page documents briefly the nwdiag commands. nwdiag is generate sequence-diagram image file from spec-text file. OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. -h, --help show this help message and exit. --version show program's version number and exit. -a, --antialias Pass diagram image to anti-alias filter. -c FILE, --config=FILE read configurations from FILE. -o FILE write diagram to FILE. -f FONT, --font=FONT use FONT to draw diagram. -T TYPE Output diagram as TYPE format. SEE ALSO
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