Haha!!! http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2007-06/msg00030.html had the solution.. finding the terminfo directory: find / -name terminfo and setting the terminfo variable: export TERMINFO=/mnt/ext/usr/share/terminfo
and now it works!! great! thanks guys for the help (by the logs) :) Am 10. Oktober 2010 17:03 schrieb Thomas Käfer <kaef...@gmail.com>: > Okey now since i've found > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2005-03/msg00045.html > I've looked at my environment variables, and I found that the variable > TERM is set to xterm. So I tried to delete it by exporting an empty > value to it, and now when trying to start a screen session i get the > error: "Please set a terminal type." I also tried to set the term > variable to "vt100" and then i get the error "Cannot find terminfo > entry for 'vt100'." > > So how can I get valid terminfo entries for any term, or which other > terminal could i try? > > Am 10. Oktober 2010 16:35 schrieb Thomas Käfer <kaef...@gmail.com>: >> Hi there, I hope someone can give me a hint how I can make screen work >> on my qnap-ts110. >> I downloaded the latest screen version from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/ >> then: >> tar -xvf screen-4.0.3.tar.gz >> ./configure >> make >> make install >> >> in between i had some problems with missing an compiler but i managed >> to overcome those. now i have an "running" screen command which can >> tell me with screen -ls that no session is active but when i want to >> start a session i get the error: >> >> Cannot find terminfo entry for 'xterm'. >> >> What can cause this, and how to overcome this error? >> >> Thanks for your help, >> >> Thomas >> > _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
