Have to tried it yet Brain but will do. Will keep informed. Tks Andy H
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:52 AM To: Karl M Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: A problem with OpenSSH 3.8.p1-1 - ssh-agent On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 Andrew J Halls wrote: > Second is that I first noticed this problem after upgrading >Cygwin-1.5 dll at around 1.5.3 or 1.5.4 back in September last year. > >As I only run one ssh-agent for all by rxvt/bash sessions that I run I use >to run a script, out of /etc/profile.d, that would check to see if there was >a ssh-agent all ready running for the user , if not run one, is so export >the correct SSH_XXXX into the environment if the script could communicate >with that instance else give and error message. I do this so that I can >close all of my rxvt/bash sessions if I needed to and reattach to the >agent later when I started them up again. > >What I was noticing was that the first rxvt/bash session started would not >complete it's shutdown until I killed the ssh-agent, this was not the >pervious way the ssh-agent did things before in Cygwin-1.5.1 or 1.5.2. >This means to me that the ssh-agent was not closing all its file descriptors >properly when going into daemon mode or that the semantics of the fork or >exec call had changed to be more like SVR4. > I don't remember the details, but there were bugs like this somewhere in the 1.5 series. Search the archives if you are still interested. >I have another couple of machines running with Cygwin (the version of the >dll has also been upgraded along the way) and OpenSSH-3.7.1p2 on them with >the same results at above. > You mean they are running Cygwin 1.5.7, and they have the bash/rxvt hang for the bash/rxvt that started ssh-agent? The best advice for you is still: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Does this happen all the time, reproducibly? If yes, did you try >a recent Cygwin snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ to see if that >cures the problem? > >If not, it would be interesting to see an strace of ssh-agent, perhaps. > So, please try it. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- 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/
