Hi there, Thanks, all, for the responses.
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > rdesktop to connect to their Windows 2000 server and I'm not _very_ > > careful how I close down the rdesktop session then the server crashes. > > I've never seen this happen at all. By definition, any user application > able to crash a system is a bug. You got a bug there. It should be fixed. Agreed. :) > > If there are any tips for a safer way of connecting to a Windows 2000 > > server to do routine upgrades of Cygwin and other remote admin that I > > can't do using ssh, I'd be very happy to hear them. > > You could try VNC. Thanks, I'll give it a try > [...] RDP is nicer and much faster then VNC. VNC, however, works [...] I'll be happy if it just does that. :) > Then again, rdesktop crashing a server is odd. Is it actually > dumping core? Yes. But I don't want to hijack this thread by going on to debug that particular problem. :) Actually I'm not sure that it's rdesktop itself that's causing the crash. It will crash if I do other things remotely using rdesktop, such as paging rapidly through the system log using the log viewer from 'administrative tools'. It isn't something that I can easily investigate, largely because I'd be lynched by an angry mob from the welding shop. FWIW I've never caused a crash using Cygwin+ssh, and that's how I try to do most of what I need to do. -- 73, Ged. -- 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/
