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From: Julio Costa <costaju AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:06:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: ssh setup fails on cygwin
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:36, prakash babu wrote:
> I know that cygwin 1.5 is no longer supported but since my application re=
quires ssh to be setup and =C2=A0extensively uses chmod on MS-DOS paths I w=
ant atleast the the cygwin 1.5 install and ssh setup done successfully.
>

Why don't you use the cygpath utility, like was already proposed to you?

> Hence I installed cygwin 1.5 on three windows XP machines using setup-leg=
acy.exe
>
(...)
>
> Why is this inconsistent behaviour.
> i. How do I go about debugging this issue and setup ssh(any logs to look =
into). Could this be a mounting issue

That is, at least, a mounting issue. The quick, dirty, fix is to copy
all executables from /usr/bin to /bin
Personally I wouldn't spend more time in a 1.5 installation than that
needed to 'quick, dirty, fixes' :)

> ii. Can this behaviour be because of the mirror site chosen.

not probable

> iii. Can this behaviour be because of the OS flavour, patches or the soft=
wares installed in the OS

Not this behaviour directly, but maybe the failure to achieve a
correct installation could be explained by BLODA (see
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda)

> iv. Why does echo $SHELL on a bash shell =C2=A0display /bin/sh instead of=
 /bin/bash.

because it din't found /bin/bash (it was in /usr/bin/bash), and for
some strange reason, /bin/sh could be installed correctly, while
/bin/bash did not (or the other way around).

As from package, both are installed in /usr/bin, but if the
installation is working properly, they should have appeared in /bin,
through mounting.

___________
Julio Costa

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