X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4F8349E5.7000702@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:43:17 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem starting an executable from SSH References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 4/9/2012 4:35 PM, Jacques Guillou wrote: > Hello, > > I have some trouble using SSH to remotely start an executable on a > Windows XP which is running SSHD on Cygwin. > If I log into the windows machine using a simple "$ ssh > username AT machine_name" command and then start the executable from the > BASH in interactive mode, then everything is fine, but I would > actually like to start the executable directly from the SSH > command-line with the following command: > $ echo "myExecutable" | ssh username AT machine_name "bash -s" > The problem is that, in that case, my executable (a C/C++ compiler ".exe" file) > starts successfully but then reports a failure during the check of the > validity of the license. > > So my questions: > - What actually happens when I log with SSH into a Cygwin machine ? > What scripts are started after the authentication has succeeded ? > - What could explain that the behavior of my executable is not the > same in both situations (started from interactive BASH session, or > started directly as input of "bash -s") ? According to the 'ssh' manpage: If command is specified, it is executed on the remote host instead of a login shell. Since you've specified 'bash -s', the statement above applies. Add '-l' and see if that helps. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple