Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3BEBC7E8.CBA26EA9@syntrex.com> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:11:20 +0100 From: Pavel Tsekov X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Mincy CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ssh: Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket References: <15339 DOT 18258 DOT 830000 DOT 776758 AT antarres DOT muniversal DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Mincy wrote: > > I get "Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket" > when I try to do ssh X11 forwarding for the following command: > 'ssh -X -f jeff AT delphioutpost DOT com xemacs' > > The contents of ssh -v output is attached: Ok you can look for more information on this topic and possible solutions if you search the mailing list using "The descriptor is a file, not a socket". [ ... ] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The cygcheck output is attached: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: cygcheck.out > cygcheck.out Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream) > Encoding: base64 > Description: cygcheck output > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now this looks kinda strange to me - the attached files has some garbage in it a two points - could that be some kind of bug in cygcheck ?! Does anyone see the garbage in the attached file as I do ? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/