On 9/7/05, Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jack Offerman wrote: > > > On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > > > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > > > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > > > > > >I appreciate your help. > > > > > > I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and > > > see what you get from the logs there. Results from that are usually > > > more instructive. > > > > It started working again after I changed /etc/passwd. When I recreated > > the file by doing mkpasswd -l, I also hand-editted something. That is > > the last part of the line, the login shell. Originally it was bash, and > > I changed it to tcsh. Being a tcsh fan all my life, I've always hated > > when I had to type "tcsh" right after logging in on a ssh session > > because the login shell is bash. When I did mkpasswd, I thought it was a > > perfect time to change my login shell to tcsh. And I was happy with the > > result: tcsh running as a login shell. > > > > With tcsh as a login shell, however, sftp didn't work. > > With bash, it is working now. So I take it. > > This looks like a bug in sftp -- it should work regardless of what shell > you have as your default. I'm guessing some environment variables > (probably PATH) aren't set up correctly if tcsh is used as the shell. > Try adding PATH settings, similar to those in /etc/profile, to > /etc/csh.cshrc, and see if it fixes your problem. If it does, I'd submit > these changes as a patch to the "base-files" package.
Okay, that was my .tcshrc, in which I had this check: if ( $term == "xterm" ) on a non-interactive session, $term is not set and it coughs like "term: Undefined variable", which must've messed up the sftp handshake. Now, having tcsh as my login shell and sftp working as well, I couldn't be happier. J -- 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/
