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Hi.
When I ssh onto my netbook I don't have terminal colors in the urxvt window. There are some other problems, for instance I can't launch vi ("vi: No terminal database found"), but I can launch vim, and I get similar error messages with some other applications (with less: "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional").
Of course I don't have these problems when using my netbook directly.
What should I do?
The netbook is running FreeBSD and its shell is csh, but I don't know if it's relevant.
Thanks.
Last edited by pokraka (2010-06-27 19:10:41)
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A terminal's capabilities are described in a file stored on the machine that runs your programs. The error is because FreeBSD does not have termcap entry for your terminal. When in ssh, enter echo $TERM and note the output. This is your terminal. Badger the FreeeBSD people to add a termcap entry for it. (See man termcap for more information.)
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Thanks, I actually just figured this out. So it's a problem with FreeBSD (I thought it was some ssh client configuration issue).
If someone encounters the same problems, here's what I found :
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free … 34865.html
I mark the topic solved. Thanks.
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