Unix Tip: Clearing the screen
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com
Every now and then I come across a system which, when I issue a request to clear the screen (i.e., the clear command), I get something like this instead:
oopsy# clear
ld.so.1: clear: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or
directory
Killed
Often, on encountering this problem, I simply growl, press enter a couple dozen times and continue working. When I'm in a particularly "fixit" mood, on the other hand, I figure I shouldn't be putting up with annoying configuration problems and decide to break my train of thought just long enough to tackle this distracting problem head-on. Here's what you can do when you get an error such as this.
Read the full article here.
Every now and then I come across a system which, when I issue a request to clear the screen (i.e., the clear command), I get something like this instead:
oopsy# clear
ld.so.1: clear: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or
directory
Killed
Often, on encountering this problem, I simply growl, press enter a couple dozen times and continue working. When I'm in a particularly "fixit" mood, on the other hand, I figure I shouldn't be putting up with annoying configuration problems and decide to break my train of thought just long enough to tackle this distracting problem head-on. Here's what you can do when you get an error such as this.
Read the full article here.
posted by ITworld Editors at 9:40 AM
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