Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

[David Antliff <david dot antliff at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:28, David Antliff wrote:
> Ok, an update - I've managed to solve this problem - the vendor
> informed me (indirectly) that the error I was seeing was due to the
> access of files in c:\lsc_env - turns out I hadn't ensured that the
> LSC_INI_PATH environment variable was set properly in the 'ssh'
> instance.

Actually there is one outstanding issue with this "Hudson slaves over
SSH" issue - due to the inability for Cygwin's bash to run scripts
with DOS line endings, we've had to use SHELLOPTS=igncr in our
Cygwin.bat files, since it cannot be modified once bash is running.

But for a bash shell running over ssh, this option is not set, so
coupled with git's strange autocrlf behaviour in Cygwin (which I have
reported before) this leads to bash scripts that are freshly cloned
from git being un-runnable from an ssh session.

So my question is - how do I get the bash shell that runs when I ssh
to a Cygwin host to have the SHELLOPTS=igncr option set? Somehow I
need to get the sshd service to spawn the new bash instance with this
option set.

I did a search and found an old cygwin mailing list thread
from 2007 that resulted in "use the new version of Cygwin", which I
believe I have covered as I'm using Cygwin 1.7.5.

-- David.

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