From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs cvs over ssh question Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:07:38 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FE9F20A.2010608@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072296980 18946 80.91.224.253 (24 Dec 2003 20:16:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 20:16:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 21:16:18 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZFQY-00062U-00 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 21:16:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AZGN6-0003p9-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:16:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1072296451 12431007 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119625 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15566 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15566 M. Serkan Apaydin wrote: > gebser@speakeasy.net wrote: >> This will depend upon the OS and, in the case of Linux, the >> distribution. On my system: >> >> # echo $SSH_ASKPASS >> /usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass >> >> Seeing this and reading the askpass section of the ssh manpage and the >> doc distributed with the package leads me to believe/guess that >> ssh-askpass is used in an X (or other GUI) environment. If you're >> doing the emacs cvs call in a GUI, this could be the problem. Try >> doing it at the console-- i.e., go to runlevel 3 or, in X/Linux, do a >> Ctrl-Alt-F2 and run it there. >> So which OS are you using? > > I am running it on an SGI supercomputer. Typing > >uname > IRIX64 > > echo $SSH_ASKPASS > SSH_ASKPASS: Undefined variable. Try: env | grep ssh-askpass and: env | grep /usr/bin -- Kevin Rodgers