problem using putty on openBSD 4.7 (fresh install)

spatieman · 07-23-2010, 09:13 AM

well, today i installed openBSD 4.7 on my old routerbox.
went as it should be.
default term on the machine VT220 ,the 2 programms i install as 1st are EE and MC.

now it comes.
when i start EE in the box, no problem.
when i start MC in the box, MC is in black white mode, this sucks.

term mode in putty is xterm.
when i start EE in putty i got below message.
# ee
sorry, unable to use this terminal type for screen editing
#

when i start MC, i got the nice blue theme.
so, i guess something is screwing up.
i am not a guru, but on older versions i NEVER this kind of problems.
i can force putty to use VT220, but i hate the black/white mc.

how can i solve this.

thnxs.

PS
when i log in as user ,term is xterm, EE and MC are working as it should be.

spatieman · 07-29-2010, 11:30 AM

dont tell me no one can help me with this.

rocket357 · 07-30-2010, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spatieman

dont tell me no one can help me with this.

Sorry, no one can help you with this =)

Booted up, no X, directly on the box (i.e. no ssh):

Code:

$ dmesg | head -n2
OpenBSD 4.8-beta (GENERIC.MP) #239: Wed Jul 28 10:36:23 MDT 2010
    deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
$ mc
# yup, that's black and white...hit F10
$ printenv > env_no_x.txt
$ startx
# start up xterm
$ printenv > env_x.txt
$ diff env_no_x.txt env_x.txt
<snip-some-output>
> TERM=xterm
> COLORTERM=
---
< TERM=vt220
<snip-remaining-output>
# exit out of X
$ COLORTERM= mc
# yay we have color!  Hit F10

Doesn't matter what you set COLORTERM to. COLORTERM= works just fine.

rocket357 · 07-30-2010, 02:40 PM

Wow...I'm feeling pretty dumb...

Quote:

Originally Posted by man mc

If the program is compiled with the Slang screen manager instead of
ncurses, it will also check the variable COLORTERM, if it is set, it
has the same effect as the -c flag.

Guess checking the man page would've been the "simple" way of figuring that out.

spatieman · 08-02-2010, 11:30 AM

hey, as sayed.
i am NOT a *nix/BSD guru..
just a small n00b who is still learning all xD
thnxs, i shall try it !

ps.
i dont use, and have installed the X stuff..

spatieman · 08-02-2010, 11:45 AM

ok, mc -c does the trick..
now the ee isue in putty.

fun thing is, i just did for fun screen.
mc color, and ee is working...fun, but weard xD