Re: Binary package CVS using OpenSSH hang under Win98...

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Friar --
  Since cvs and ssh are both cygwin apps, you *may* get better results
using a unixy path for the HOME variable; that is, assuming c:\cygwin is
mounted as '/', try setting HOME=/home/friar.  I'm shooting in the dark
here, but I seem to recall some console-IO/tty issues; do you get better
performance running cvs under a bash shell rather than cmd.exe ?

Finally, check out the documentation in /usr/doc/Cygwin/cvs-xx.README
and /usr/doc/cvs-xx-x/*.  I listed several known bugs there -- some are
due to cygwin1.dll bugs and cannot be resolved until 1.1.5 (and don't
pester the core team about 1.1.5 -- like good coffee, it's ready when
it's ready).

--Chuck


--friar wrote:
> 
> I am a COMPLETE newbie to cygwin.  I am a longtime Linux user having
> to deal with Win32 development again.  I want to use my current Linux
> sshd-based CVS repository for this new project.  What I have done:
> 
> I just downloaded the setup.exe file from cygwin's ftp site, ran it,
> selected install from Internet, used the defaults for install locations,
> and then only selected the cvs, gdbm, cygwin, and openssh packages for
> install.  From there, I added the c:\cygwin\bin directory to my path,
> created a c:\cygwin\home\friar\.ssh directory tree
> added 3 environment variables:
> 
>         set HOME=c:\cygwin\home\friar
>         set CVS_RSH=ssh
>         set CVSROOT=friar@<testip>:/test/cvsroot
> 
> to my autoexec.bat and was ready to roll.  I can run ssh directly
> to connect to the server shell accounts securely.
> 
> The only catch I've found so far is that it can't seem to "finish"
> cvs commands.  CVS is left in a hung state after it's done performing the
> command tasks.
> 
> I see in the mailing list archives that someone reported a similar bug
> neer the end of August.  Has there been any progress on this?
> I can't seem to find any follow-up information.  Can anyone see something
> I may have missed?  I am not a member of this list so please reply direct
> to me.
> 
> --friar
> 
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