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From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Problems with cygwin cvs over ssh.
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> CVS_RSH=/bin/ssh
> CVS -d fred AT x DOT x DOT x DOT x:/test-repository co test1
> ...password....
> cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-server1396/.
> No such file or directory.
>
> I am running OpenSSH on a cygwin windows server.
>   The CVS repository is on the windows server.
>
> From CYGWIN:
> OpenSSH_4.2p1
> CVS 1.11.17
>
> So, the problem is the ssh and cvs combined.
> If I ssh, then run cvs it checks out fine. The problem is getting the
> information back through the ssh pipe.

Are you able to "mkdir /tmp/cvs-server1396" from an ssh session?  What are
the permissions on /tmp?

Also, please read and follow the Cygwin problem reporting guidelines at
<http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, particularly the part that tells you to
attach (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck
-svr" on your system.
	Igor
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