Re: ssh confused about home directory?

. From: Boylan, Ross Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:15:47 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: ssh confused about home directory? I recently installed cygwin on Win 10, both 64 bit. When I run ssh in a cygwin shell it complains Could not create directory '

ssh confused about home directory?

I recently installed cygwin on Win 10, both 64 bit. When I run ssh in a cygwin shell it complains Could not create directory '/home/rdboylan/.ssh'. The /home directory is empty--that is, it has no rdboylan subdirectory. My home directory appears to be /cygdrive/c/Users/rdboylan; that i

Re: Programs become a no-op [SOLVED]

Thanks Marco, David and Brian for your responses. After the diagnostic steps described below, suggested by you, I ran the setup program and told it to reinstall cygwin, cygwin-base, and adwaita-icon-theme. ssh and man are working again. I'm a little puzzled how I got in this state, although it

Programs become a no-op

I've tried ssh -V ssh --help ssh -v somene@somewhere and in all cases nothing happens except that I get a new command prompt. They used to work fine. I tried reinstalling ssh and libssh2_1. No help. I think the problem is more general: man ssh man -V man --help man man also all get nothing. O

RE: Adding font path to X server

X server Boylan, Ross writes: > I need the Cygwin X server to have access to fonts from dosemu; currently I have to add the path manually each > time I start. I thought I was following the manual by setting up .startxwinrc as > xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/dosemu > xterm > > but

Adding font path to X server

I need the Cygwin X server to have access to fonts from dosemu; currently I have to add the path manually each time I start. I thought I was following the manual by setting up .startxwinrc as xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/dosemu xterm but startxwin fails to start (details below). How do I avoid ha