X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:24:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh from remote system into cygwin bash, JScript engine won't run In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, David Wuertele wrote: > I have an IDE ("VDSP++") from a vendor on which I'm trying to automate > software builds. It is a windows-only application, and they require > that I write scripts for the IDE in JScript. > > When I use the windows host's console display to run a cygwin bash > shell, I can execute my automated build just fine: > > /path/to/vendors/Idde.exe -f /path/to/my/script.js > > But when I use ssh to remotely login to the windows host, also on a > bash shell, and try to execute the automated build, it complains that > the JScript engine can't be loaded. > > I verified > 1) my environment variables are set identically in both the local case > and the remote login case > 2) in the service control panel, the sshd's login properties tab has > "allow interaction with display" enabled > > My vendor tells me that something in cygwin's sshd is probably > preventing the windows JScript DLL from loading properly. Does anyone > here have experience running an appliaction over sshd that uses > JScript? It's quite possible that the JScript engine needs to allocate an invisible window, and is unable to do so because sshd cannot interact with the desktop. You might play with the "-i" and "-j" flags to cygrunsrv when installing sshd. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/