Did you get one of these messages ?
- Error opening terminal: rxvt-256color.
- Cannot find terminfo entry for ‘rxvt-256color’.
Not to worry… All you have to do is make a ~/terminfo directory and paste the rxvt-256color file into it.
mkdir ~/.terminfo
cp /usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-256color ~/.terminfo/r/rxvt-256color
If you don’t have the rxvt-256color file at this address (/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-256color) on your remote system, you’ll have to upload it from home and then ssh freely.