On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Brett Serkez wrote: > [snip] > > It could also be that the script is assuming that ssh will close > > stdin. Try adding a redirection of stdin from /dev/null as well > > (i.e., use > > > > sh -c /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-OrQEQQHWXE/xauthfile generate > > > 7..0.1:0.0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200 2 > /dev/null < > > /dev/null > > > > ) and see if it helps. If it does, the script is actually buggy, and > > needs to be fixed. > > Well, this command is actually being constructed by ssh code and then > executed via popen. This would mean building my own ssh from scratch, I > suppose in order to figure this out, I might need to do this anyway.
Well, if you can find where ssh is invoked, you can also give it the "-n" parameter, which would result in equivalent functionality. > Just wanted to be clear on one point, that is this code executes > fine with ZoneAlarm Pro or no ZoneAlarm, it only starts failing > with ZoneAlarm Suite is installed which I'm thinking interfers with > the pipe created by popen. > > I'll have to build ssh to see if this will clear the problem. I doubt ZoneAlarm would affect pipes. It might very possibly affect sockets. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" -- 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/