Which shell are you using ?
CODE
env
It should work ok as root, but not with other shells. (bourne for one)
The default shell for users is sh while default for root is csh.
Check your $home directory for .cshrc or .bashrc and it can be specified in there.
Here is a snippet of my .cshrc (FBSD 4.7)
CODE
if ($?prompt) then
# An interactive shell -- set some stuff up
set prompt = "`hostname -s`# "
set filec
set history = 100
set savehist = 100
set mail = (/var/mail/$USER)
if ( $?tcsh ) then
bindkey "^W" backward-delete-word
bindkey -k up history-search-backward
bindkey -k down history-search-forward
endif
endif
Or have a look in the handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1...books/handbook/ or here
http://www.uwizone.com/unix-basics.shtml
alan