openssh not reporting the correct errorlevel

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:55:23AM -0700, alaurente@surewest.net wrote:
>Here are the command sequence I ran on Windows 2003 x86 SP2 servers (delhi is the hostname)
>
>C:\>ssh delhi hostname
>delhi
>
>C:\>echo %errorlevel%
>0
>
>C:\>ssh delhi net
>The syntax of this command is:
>
>
>NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP |
>      HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION |
>      SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]
>
>
>C:\>echo %errorlevel%
>0
>
>-------------------
>
>ANALYSIS:
>The errorlevel returned from the second command should be "1" instead of "0".  Tectia ssh is reporting the correct errorlevel but Cygwin openssh is not.  The DLL version I am using is: cygwin1.dll version 1005.4..0

So, either use Tectia ssh (whatever that is) or investigate:

http://cygwin.com/problems.html

FYI, the above version does not represent a valid cygwin version number.
The information at the above page will show you how to report a problem
that will provide the version number and other useful information.

cgf


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