On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:45:47PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >I have seen that running > >$ runas /user:pippo "C:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i" > >works if it is given from Cygwin.bat console, i.e. it asks the >password for 'pippo' and then it opens a pippo's Cygwin.bat-like >console. > >Instead it doesn't work when one uses another console like xterm, >urxvt, rxvt, mrxvt and... the recent MinTTY, i.e. it seems to exit >silently (but 'ps' shows that there is yet some process running). > >I have flagged this because it would be fine to have MinTTY instead of >Cygwin.bat, but at the moment it looks that there is something that >runs on Cygwin.bat but not in other consoles.
It's a standard problem with Cygwin ptys not being recognized as windows consoles. cgf -- 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/
