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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:02:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sam Snitman <ssnitman AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server
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Brian,

Not sure why we have cygwin2 directory.  There does
not appear to be much under this directory only tmp
and var directories and a log directory under var.  I
will check out the mount command. Thanks for your
help.

Thanks,
Sam
--- Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net> wrote:

> Sam Snitman wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your response.  Not sure what you mean
> by
> > "however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2.
> > > That's definitely not right"
> 
> It means that when scp refers to /usr/bin/ssh it
> will be actually be
> looking for d:/cygwin2/bin/ssh.exe which -- I'm
> guessing -- doesn't
> exist.  What is and why do you have this d:/cygwin2
> directory if
> apparently everything in installed in d:/cygwin?
> 
> > Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. 
> Can
> > you please elaborate what mounts are and about how
> > to/risks of changing them to point to d:\cygwin
> > instead of d:\cygwin2.  We are currently using
> cygwin
> > for our ITG application to connect with remote
> servers
> > and I wouldn't want to negatively affect anything.
>  I
> > will also start looking at the documentation on
> mounts
> > on the cygwin site.
> 
> You can change it with the mount command.  See the
> manpage, or run mount
> -m to get a set of mount commands that if run would
> recreate your
> current mount table (i.e. edit them.) 
> Alternatively, just running setup
> and entering d:/cygwin for the Root Directory page
> should accomplish the
> same thing.
> 
> Brian
> 
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