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Resolved: Cygwin B20/Win95: ssh/scp: "no controlling tty"


On 1999.07.27, Sergey Okhapkin wrote:
: 
: Tres Hofmeister wrote:
: > bash$ export CYGWIN=tty
: > ...but I get the following error:
: > You have no controlling tty and no DISPLAY.  Cannot read passphrase.
: 
: Set CYGWIN to "tty" _before_ running bash.

	Ah!  That led to an "out of environment space" error on startup,
but that was fixed by adding the following to C:\CONFIG.SYS, per the
Cygwin FAQ:

shell=C:\command.com /e:4096 /p

	Woohoo!  There are a few setsockopt(2) errors here and there,
but things seem to work.  Thanks very much!

-- 
Tres Hofmeister <tres@rap.ucar.edu>  http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/tres/
Research Applications Program   National Center for Atmospheric Research

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