X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:59:05 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7(even in 1.5) user logined through cygwin.bat can't show whit "w" command Message-ID: <20090527035905.GA23083@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4A1CB80E DOT 3000908 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A1CB80E.3000908@cygwin.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:48:30PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Huang Bambo wrote: >> As showed in the title. >> If I start a shell from cygwin.bat, the "w" and "who" command showed >> nothing while the shell from ssh can. >> And I also think the tty should be pts/x, not ttyx. > >Set "CYGWIN=tty" in your Windows environment if you want/need 'bash' >to register as a terminal when invoked from any 'cmd.exe' (like 'cygwin.bat' >does). See: > > > >Note that other terminals (mintty, xterm, rxvt) don't require this because >they know they are terminals. I think his point was that Cygwin doesn't make a distinction between ttys and ptys. That always sort of bugged me too but it isn't something that is going to be fixed anytime soon. I don't know what the "w", "who" problem is though. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/