Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40337FAB.6040301@acm.org> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:07:23 -0800 From: David Rothenberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior References: <16434.32879.365152.633519@forbin.entomo.com> <20040217212425.GB18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> <40328A2E.80900@acm.org> <1077054294.1254.4.camel@localhost> <4032B5E4.3080703@acm.org> <20040218100245.GH18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040218100245.GH18953@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 17 16:46, David Rothenberger wrote: > >>Robert Collins wrote: >> >>>you may find that >>>ssh somehost -- bin/bash --login -c date >>>also works. >> >>In fact, I did, and mentioned that in my first email. Unfortunately, I >>use this with some old Solaris boxes, which require "-login" instead of >>"--login", and >> >> ssh somehost -- /bin/bash -login -c date >> >>does not work, for some reason. > > > Huh? It does for me. I just tried it again and it definitely does not work for me. The key is to use "-login" and not "--login". My cygcheck output is attached to the initial report if you're interested. I'm now running the latest CVS, not the snapshot, though. Dave -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/