Using ssh to get a remote xterm started..

Sun May 27 11:24:00 GMT 2001

Hi Andrew...
You may have a problem with ssh hanging when you fork off after 
authentication--as I did. Try my workaround patch (previous e-mail) and see 
if that fixes it for you.
Thanks,
...Karl
>From: Andrew Markebo <flognat@flognat.myip.org>
>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Using ssh to get a remote xterm started..
>Date: 27 May 2001 19:40:00 +0200
>>I am trying to fire up a remote xterm automagically through cygwin's
>ssh 2.9p1-2 (latest and greatest dll and so on.. What happens is:
>>I do (master is my linux machine.:
>>ssh -2 -v -X master xterm
>>The xterm pops up in my xserver on the `cygwin' machine. The last
>lines of the ssh log is:
>>[...]
>debug1: client_init id 0 arg 0
>debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
>debug1: Sending command: xterm
>debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 16384
>debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 2 win 4096 max 2048
>debug1: client_request_x11: request from 127.0.0.1 1189
>debug1: fd 7 setting O_NONBLOCK
>debug1: fd 7 IS O_NONBLOCK
>debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
>debug1: confirm x11
>>But if I try:
>>ssh -2 -v -X master xterm &
>ssh -2 -v -X -n master (with and without &)
>ssh -2 -v -X -f master (with and without &)
>>I get no xterm, and the log says:
>[...]
>debug1: client_init id 0 arg 0
>debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
>debug1: Sending command: xterm
>debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 16384
>[silence]
>>What have I missed??
>> /Andy
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