SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

Fri Aug 8 20:09:00 GMT 2003

Jeff Nokes wrote:
>>Don't do that. Set CYGWIN to 'tty' in your environment before starting
>>Cygwin. See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.
>>> Hi Larry,
> Sorry about the confusion, I've never had to set this before, and I thought
> that you meant the bash environment. Your suggestion worked, but only when I:
>> set CYGWIN tty
>> ... in the .bat file I use to start the cygwin bash shell (cmd.exe). If I set
> this same environment variable in my windows environment (settings ->
> control_panel ...) it didn't work. Interestingly enough, either way I set it,
> it did show up as being set in my bash environment once I started the shell. 
> But I'm not sure why one way works over the other.
>> Anyway, I'm happy your suggestion works; no more Ctl+C killing my ssh
> sessions. Thank you very much. Maybe we can end this rediculously long
> thread now!

Glad to hear this works. Setting 'tty' in CYGWIN from the control panel
should work as well. That's the way I do it. So there's something a
bit fishy there. But, no matter (for you) I expect. I am still surprised
that it's dependent on the server you log into, all things considered.
I'm fine with leaving that as a mystery for another day though.
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