At 05:59 AM 1/27/2004, Trevor Vaughan you wrote: >Hi, > >I have successfully installed the latest (22 Jan 04) Cygwin release on 3 >computers: 2 running Windows 2000 and one running Windows 95. I can now >successfully access my CVS repository remotely from any of these machines, >using the Cygwin ssh and cvs utilities, which was my primary goal. > >In the bash shell I also run "ssh-agent $SHELL" followed by "ssh-add", and >this works fine on the Windows 2000 machines. However, on my Windows 95 >machine "ssh-add" simply hangs. Once this has happened the incidence of >blue-screen-of-death memory errors increases markedly. However, ssh-add does >not itself crash with a memory-error screen or return any error messages -- >it just hangs. I tried changing the permissions on the files in my ~/.ssh >directory, but (as I see from other postings) chmod has little or no effect >in Win 95. In any case, the key files should be OK because they work fine >for ssh and remote cvs calls: only ssh-add seems to have a problem. > >My Win 95 system is a Pentium 166 MHz with 64 MB RAM. I'm not running any >exotic background software. What have I done wrong?
See : >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html My WAG is you need to try the latest snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> but the information that the problem report page asks for would help confirm that. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/