SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

[Dan Littley]

Hi,

I have recently installed Cygwin mainly to use Mutt as
a mail client.

I have set everything up and all works fine.

I want to SSH into Cygwin (localhost) with PUTTY, and use Mutt from there. 

I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine.  But everything looks crap!  The bash prompt looks like this:


No passphrase required.
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$

and mutt is all in black and white.

I assume this has something to do with the terminal type/settings.

Any help much appreciated.


Cheers - Dan Littley

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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine.  But everything looks crap!  The bash prompt looks like this:
> 
> 
> No passphrase required.
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $

Your /etc/passwd contains /bin/sh as login shell.
/bin/sh is "ash", not "bash". So you will have to
change your /etc/passwd entry to contain /bin/bash
as login shell.

> and mutt is all in black and white.

Isn't PUTTY an vt100+ emu? Try setting TERM to vt100 or
similar.

Corinna

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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

[Dan Littley]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> > I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine.  But everything looks crap!  The bash prompt looks like this:
> > 
> > 
> > No passphrase required.
> > \[\033]0;\w\007
> > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> > $
> 
> Your /etc/passwd contains /bin/sh as login shell.
> /bin/sh is "ash", not "bash". So you will have to
> change your /etc/passwd entry to contain /bin/bash
> as login shell.
> 
Thanks, that fixed the prompt issue.


> > and mutt is all in black and white.
> 
> Isn't PUTTY an vt100+ emu? Try setting TERM to vt100 or
> similar.
> 

Mutt is still in black and white.  It is in colour when using Cygwin itself
but remains black and white when run in a SSH session with Putty.  Putty is
set to xterm and I tried setting Cygwin to xterm using "export TERM=xterm". 

I also tried vt100.  Any other ideas?

NB. after running mutt in SSH, it is also black and white is subsequent mutt
sessions back in Cygwin, until I close/restart Cygwin.


Thanks - Dan

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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:40:00PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> Mutt is still in black and white.  It is in colour when using Cygwin itself
> but remains black and white when run in a SSH session with Putty.  Putty is
> set to xterm and I tried setting Cygwin to xterm using "export TERM=xterm". 
> 
> I also tried vt100.  Any other ideas?

Try TERM=linux.

Corinna

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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

[Dan Littley]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:23:55PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:40:00PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> > Mutt is still in black and white.  It is in colour when using Cygwin itself
> > but remains black and white when run in a SSH session with Putty.  Putty is
> > set to xterm and I tried setting Cygwin to xterm using "export TERM=xterm". 
> > 
> > I also tried vt100.  Any other ideas?
> 
> Try TERM=linux.
> 
Cool, that worked for the colours fine! :)

Finally, how do you get things more spread out?  All the messages
are left aligned, and the status bar only goes half way across.
How to I spread it out to the extents of my Putty window?

Thanks - Dan

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Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...

[Earnie Boyd]

Dan Littley wrote:
> 
> 
> No passphrase required.
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $
> 

This is what the prompt looks like when you use sh as your shell.  Your
/etc/passwd file says you want /bin/sh as your shell.  Change this to
/bin/bash for your shell if you want pretty colored prompts.  Change PS1
setting /etc/profile if you want to change the prompt value.

Earnie.

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