Re: dumb newbie question about file-name completion

From: Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] (Danovitsch_at_Vitsch.net)
Date: 05/25/03

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    To: Adam <raindogs_1@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 23:52:35 +0200

    On Sunday 25 May 2003 23:31, Adam wrote:
    > Here's a dumb newbie question...
    >
    > I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on my PC and, while I'm
    > extremely happy about this and have already spent many
    > hours playing around, I've hit an annoying snag with
    > the tab key file-name completion. Everything works
    > just fine when I'm logged in as root, but when I try
    > to use any of my other accounts I can't use this
    > feature (I don't even get the [BEEP]). What am I doing
    > wrong? Is it possible that my keyboard configuration
    > is not carried over to the user accounts I set up?
    > Obviously I don't want to go stomping around as root
    > when I don't really know what I'm doing, but this has
    > made entering commands a bit cumbersome and I'd like
    > to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
    You have probably given the user accounts a shell that doesn't have
    tab-completion.
    with the chsh command you can change your shell.
    (in /etc/master.passwd you can see what shells your users have)

    grtz,
    Daan
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