Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <002501c0cd55$70d1dd50$c4332041@campbell> From: "Christopher Dale Campbell" To: "Cygwin" Subject: Starting cygwin from a telnet session Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 03:00:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 When I try to start cygwin.bat from a telnet session (using Microsoft's telnet server under Win2000), I get the following error: - ------------------------------------------ D:\cygwin>cygwin 0 [main] bash 980 stdio_init: couldn't make stderr distinct from stdout bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! bash-2.05$ pwd /usr/bin bash-2.05$ - ------------------------------------------ I checked and /tmp does in fact exist. Also, as noted by `pwd`, I get dropped off in /usr/bin. It doesn't seem like /etc/profile get's executed because PS1='[\u:\w]\\$ ' This only happens, I believe, when I'm logged in as the Administrator through telnet. My other (normal) users don't experience this problem. Any way around this? Christopher Dale Campbell DaleCampbell(at)revolutionist(dot)com /******************************* For PGP & GPG Keys, finger campbell(at)cyberspace(dot)org *******************************/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOuZ2E4XnWfGgRqP+EQJpwgCeMV087d6cjvT/3GxrZL4hPsTU+soAoMsq bfDg+bQvPgiKMNtsgmc6+q76 =78kq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple