A closer look at Process Explorer revealed the cause of the problem: rxvt.exe 3732 8 444,184 K 4,740 K 6,332 K me 1,630 C:\cygwin17\bin\rxvt.exe --geometry 170x60+0+0 -e ssh -Y lab1 rxvt.exe 5276 8 431,304 K 3,628 K 3,940 K me 1,023 C:\cygwin17\bin\rxvt.exe ssh.exe 8640 8 449,540 K 3,704 K 6,224 K me 1,807 C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe -Y lab1
It was running the ssh from Cygwin 1.5 ! It is true that c:\cygwin\bin is in the Windows path although I don't understand why rxvt didn't pick its own ssh. I assume rxvt wasn't started in C:\cygwin17\bin (the shortcut launched C:\cygwin17\bin\run.exe in C:\cygwin17) The easy fix is to make sure rxvt launches its own ssh by supplying an absolute path: Target: C:\cygwin17\bin\run.exe rxvt --geometry 170x60+0+0 -e /usr/bin/ssh -Y lab1 Csaba -- Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
