Are you wanting color on your console, or on terminals?
And the solution depends on which open seriver version.
In /etc/ttytype you describe the type , normally ansi for color, or ansic, or scoansi for the console, or some others depending on what you have. But all generally have some ansi as part of the description except if it is a color capable terminal.
Then in the .profile you set up eval `tset -s` to force the system to look at /etc/ttytype.
You can log as root and do env, it will tell you what it thinks you are, wherever you are.
Or in the .profile for the user that needs color, you can specify TERM=type , then export TERM. This also forces the ttytype.
Sorry if this is more than you want. You have to be more specific in the description of what you have to get more specific help.
And you could look in the manual ,as root 'man setcolor' Ed Fair
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