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Topic: screen error: Cannot find termcap entry for 'cygwin'.

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Hi,

Just installed OpenWrt and installed screen as well but when I want to start it I get the following error:

root@OpenWrt:~$ screen
/var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
Cannot find termcap entry for 'cygwin'.
root@OpenWrt:~$


Can anyone advise?

Thanks,
Vlad.

Nevermind, just found out the problem only shows up when using Windows OpenSSH client (hence the cygwin thing which was really weird). Got Putty and everything is OK.

If you were using a cygwin client, the following could have been in use:

     ~/.ssh/environment
             Contains additional definitions for environment variables.

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