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 Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 22:10:24 -0700 From: David Rothenberger Subject: Re: "ssh-host-config -y" w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set In-reply-to: <42940762.4FFDCE84@dessent.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <429408C0.4070903@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200505250445.j4P4jGmN029773@tigris.pounder.sol.net> <42940762.4FFDCE84@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/24/2005 10:04 PM, Brian Dessent wrote: > I could be wrong here but I thought that setting of $CYGWIN for the > service affects only the environment of the actual service, not for the > general cygwin environment. If you want the CYGWIN environment variable > set to a certain value globally, just set it in the system properties > dialog. I have CYGWIN set in my sshd service and globally to "server", but when I ssh to my machine, CYGWIN is empty: % echo $CYGWIN server % ssh localhost Last login: Wed May 4 20:20:04 2005 from localhost % echo $CYGWIN % This is with the 2005-05-20 snapshot. -- David Rothenberger spammer? -> spam@daveroth.dyndns.org GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF 2C5F C8E1 43DF B44F BA26 7F67 E734 Old soldiers never die. Young ones do. -- 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/