Petriborg's questions

So I'm working on a Solaris 10 box from Putty running on Windows 7, and having a lot of trouble getting the terminal colors to work properly in actual programs like vim or tmux.

Here is the output from 256colors:

On the left is my putty terminal connected to Solaris, on the right is running tmux. Vim has very similar problems.

I've tried changing the TERM values: xterm, xtermc, screen-256color, xterm-color, etc. The output from tput colors says 8, and usually 256 from within tmux.

Whats going on?

I'm a software engineer, not a system admin, so if this question seems a little green you know why! ;-)

As a personal project I've been working on a home NAS system using FreeNAS. One of the features of FreeNAS is the ability setup a SMART check to run ever X number of seconds. By default this is set to run every 1800 seconds (30 minutes). This seemed high to me though, is this really a reasonable value? I would think checking once every 6 hours or something would be reasonable enough...

So my question is: How frequently should a SMART check be run on a drive?

OK so I fully admit that I am new to administrating Open Solaris but I had been a user of it back in Solaris 8 days. Since I wanted to build a ZFS NAS server I figured that Open Solaris would be be a better platform choice over FreeBSD.

Anyway - I've been having a humdinger of a time getting into the groove here admin wise and its frustrating me completely.

I've got a couple of questions:

1. Am I loosing my mind or is Open Solaris seem overly complex? I haven't had to deal with any #3 in years...
2. Should I switch to FreeBSD for simplicity?
3. How do I setup the term so that it properly works with remote logins from my Windows (putty) and Linux boxes?
   1. Specifically, vim gets no colors unless TERM=xtermc which according to the community is not a bug (HA). Is there some standard way to setup the .bashrc/.profile script to consistently fix term colors?
   2. A standard way to fix special keys like del, pgup, pgdn, end etc. which don't work in any remote terms but also don't work on Open Solaris's own install of gnome-terminal.
   3. Are there some software (from 3rd party repos or opensolaris's) which help with these problems?

Please keep in mind that the reason this is important is because this is a headless server with primary administration via ssh and thus it is important to me that the shell terminal work correctly from all of the places I login from, preferably without needing special client-side settings. Ideally fixes would go in a shell script / bash script / whatever executed on account login.