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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:59:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: David Corbin <dcorbin AT enttek DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.12  ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, David Corbin wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 10:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, David Corbin wrote:
>
> > The first thing anyone would notice is that 1.5.12 (and your
> > OpenSSH/OpenSSL versions) are very old.  The current Cygwin is 1.5.18
> > (going on 1.5.19), and OpenSSH is up to 4.2p1.  This list cannot afford to
> > support more than the current version of Cygwin and tools.  If you can
> > still reproduce your problem after upgrading to the latest versions of
> > Cygwin and OpenSSH/OpenSSL, please report back to this list.
>
> I will give it a try, but we do have a rather large set (~10000 systems
> in over 500 locations) that would need to be upgraded.

Initially, you only need to try this on one system that exhibits the
problem...

> Is there any direct/easy way to upgrade cygwin without user-interaction?
> The only way I know is to run the GUI install program, and that's going
> to be a big problem for us.

As I've said before, <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00086.html>.
This result from the search I suggested looks promising, if only to get
the setup options: <http://www.maths.lth.se/help/windows/cygwin/>.  See
also /var/log/setup.log after "setup --help" (yes, it does support this).
HTH,
	Igor
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