Failed to execute rsh on Windows Vista

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

vachan shetty wrote:
>  
>  12 [main] rsh 268 C:\Program
>  Files\Cygnus\bin\rsh.exe:
>  *** fatal error - co
>  uldn't dynamically determine load address for 'rcmd'
>  (handle 0x70040000), Win32
>  error 127
>  
>  The above error occured when I was trying to execute
>  the rsh from the Latest Cygwin Version 1.5.25-7 on a
>  Windows Vista machine.
>  
>  I replaced the cygwin1.dll with the cygwin1.dll 
>  obtained from the http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>  2007-12-21 (last update 2007-12-21 15:11 GMT). It
>  seemed to work. Do you know when you would be
>  incorporting the cygwin1.dll from the above snapshot
>  into an official release.


Not for a while.  There's allot of work that needs to go into making
the Cygwin internals handle long filenames/unicode before this will
happen.  You should consider 'ssh' instead.  'ssh' is a secure alternative
to 'rsh' and so is recommended over 'rsh'.  For more info on the changes
here, see:

<http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/msg00219.html>


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