On Thu, 13 May 1999, Richard Massey wrote:

> In the recent 1.4 beta there has been a change of behaviour when one boots
> into single user mode (or rc.conf is not configured). The prompt fails to
> ask for a terminal type. This is a problem as then vi refuses to launch
> complaining that the terminal type is undefined (even if TERM is manually
> set). As ed is too much for me I was forced to cpout edit and cpin rc.conf.
> Interestingly when one boots into multiuser mode and then shutsdown into
> single user terminal type is asked for (shell is asked for in both
> scenarios).
> 
> Is this intended or an "undocumented feature" (TM Microsoft) ???

Did you change root's .login? Did you change the one in / ?

Which shell are you in, and how are you setting TERM?

sh:

export TERM=foo

csh:

setenv TERM foo

should work. Then vi will be happy.

Take care,

Bill