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: <42F3B888.F088ADE2@dessent.net> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:05:44 -0700 From: Brian Dessent MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Fwd: Outbound telnet/ftp from cygwin not working References: <65e812bc05080508255ebb07eb@mail.gmail.com> <65e812bc050805113772df9eb3@mail.gmail.com> <42F3B4CB.89A51445@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Report: -5.7/5.0 ---- Start SpamAssassin results * -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.2 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list ---- End SpamAssassin results X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Brian Dessent wrote: > This happens when ... .. or alternatively, your $SYSTEMROOT variable wasn't set at all, as Dave said. Hard-coding it will fix the problem, but you really should find out why it's not set if that is the case, because it could lead to future mysterious problems. Past versions of the Cygwin DLL had minor bugs where it would not propagate the SYSTEMROOT variable in certain circumstances, such as when sshing into a machine. But that should be fixed with any recent version. Brian -- 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/