Re: Problem with tcsh?

Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> There I use tcsh as shell. When I use Openssh with this machine, it logs
>> in and tells me "tcsh: using dump terminal settings. type cygwin unknown
>> TERM = <unknown>". I can't use any unix command like ls or so.
>> I don't have cygwin on my computer. My operating system is windows xp
>> professional.
>>
>> It works with other remote machines where the default shell is bash or so.
>>
>> Has somebody a solution?

> Yes. The "TERM" on your client is set to "cygwin", and that's being
> propagated to the server when you log in, which has no idea of how to handle
> it. If you're operating from CygWin, instead download and stasrt up your X
> serve in Cygwin. Then run "startx", which gives you a very nice "xterm" and
> a running X server. Then from the X term, use "ssh -X solarisbox" and you
> should have both a TERM=xterm setting, and X tunneling setup to run X
> applications on the Solaris box displayed locally on your Cygwin machine,
> securely.

Whoa, starting up a whole X server just to remotely log in? That might
be a little heavyweight. I generally prefer 'rxvt' to do simple shell
stuff.

However, neither might be available for the OP. There are some SSH
distributions for XP that just bundle enough of the cygwin tools to get
it running. I doubt that X is included in them.

I would try just setting TERM=vt100 after logging in and seeing how the
emulation works. If that's not good enough, then go for a more complete
cygwin installation (with X and/or rxvt), or something other than
openssh like 'putty'.

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