Re: emacs cvs over ssh question

["M. Serkan Apaydin" <apaydin@cs.stanford.edu>]

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