From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "M. Serkan Apaydin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs cvs over ssh question Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:28:20 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3FE9F20A.2010608@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072305031 11599 80.91.224.253 (24 Dec 2003 22:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:30:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 23:30:28 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 1AZHWN-00015Y-00 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 23:30:27 +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 1AZISr-00036k-8i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:30:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: antioch.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1072304901 23260 171.64.68.180 (24 Dec 2003 22:28:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030917 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3FE9F20A.2010608@yahoo.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119627 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:15568 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15568 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > 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 > Vesalius:/u/apaydin> env | grep ssh-askpass Vesalius:/u/apaydin> env | grep /usr/bin PATH=/usr/local/sge/bin/irix6:/u/apaydin/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bsd:/bin:/sbin:/usr/etc:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/freeware/bin:/usr/local/bin:./ thanks, serkan