Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020110131930.02161ef0@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:20:05 -0500 To: James Garrison , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: resize command hangs from ssh session In-Reply-To: <3C3DD8B0.6030602@athensgroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:08 PM 1/10/2002, James Garrison wrote: >I've searched the archive and can't seem to find anything >applicable. My problem: > >Win2000SP2 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.6(0.47/3/2) 2001-12-08 17:02 i686 unknown >OpenSSH_3.0.2p1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090602f > >Open a Cygwin command shell (my default is configured to 80x45) >ssh to a RH Linux 7.1 box >Change the window size to, say, 80x60 >Run the 'resize' command (on linux host) > >The text cursor jumps to the bottom-right corner of the window >(this is normal) and just stays there (this is not normal). >resize never returns. This behavior ALWAYS happens even if >I don't physically resize the window (i.e. run resize >immediately after logging in and it still hangs). > >I've tried setting TERM=ansi, TERM=vt100 and TERM=cygwin >in the Linux shell with identical results. > >If I logout (back to cygwin shell) and re-ssh from >the resized (80x60) window everything works and the >COLUMNS and LINES environment variables are correctly set. > >As I understand it, resize sends a specific terminal control >sequence that requests the hardware to reply with the current >size. I assume that either cygwin's bash isn't playing just >right, or something gets garbled over ssh. > >As a side note, I tried running resize locally (in the >cygwin bash shell) and it fails looking for cygncurses5.dll, >which is not in any of my bin directories. I did find >cygncurses6.dll in /usr/bin. Is this related or just a >coincidence? > >Suggestions on how to debug this further? Did you see this? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00212.html Is it applicable? Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- 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/