On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > Hi, > > When attempting a "cvs update" using over the ssh protocol (well, you > know what I mean ;), I get the following error: > > $ cvs up > Could not create directory '/home/Gavin Sinclair/.ssh'. > > > That is surprising, because: > > $ echo $HOME > /home/gavin > > > I have read the manpage, /usr/doc/*, googled, and searched the > archives, but found nothing. The manpage (ssh), in particular, says > that $HOME/.ssh is where the heart is, so I suspect a Cygwin nuance. > Of course cvs is involved here, but I doubt it's having any influence. > > Does anybody know what might be going on? > > Thanks, > Gavin
It's likely that the ssh daemon uses a different place to compute your $HOME (usually /etc/passwd). The default /etc/profile will use the Windows environment variable instead, if it's set. Please make sure your /etc/profile contains the correct path to your home directory, and that you don't set your $HOME somewhere where not all apps have access to it (e.g., your Windows environment). If that doesn't help, please (re)read the problem reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> before posting. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
