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Re: SSH-AGENT problem
- To: David Starks-Browning <starksb at ebi dot ac dot uk>,Cygwin Library General Discussion <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: SSH-AGENT problem
- From: "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit at home dot com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:18:58 -0400
- Organization: Excite/AtHome User on Cox Cable
- References: <3BABBB98.3040005@home.com> <3910-Sat22Sep2001091647+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>
David Starks-Browning wrote:
> On Friday 21 Sep 01, David A. Cobb writes:
>
>> 701k 2001/09/13 C:\#Cygwin#\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
>> "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2001/9/12 23:54
>>
>
>>:[S!] Bash $ ssh-add-2
>>Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
>>====
>>As I suggested above, the identical procedure was working - perhaps late
>>July - early August.
>>
>
> Something got broke just before 1.3.3 was released. It should be
> fixed in snapshots from 2001/9/14 or later. I'm surprised there's
> nothing in the mailing list about this.
>
> Hope this helps.
It does, indeed. Thanks. Running cygwin1-20010918.dll it works as
expected.
>
> (It took some digging to figure out what your problem was. Please
> describe the problem at the beginning of the message, not after 100s
> of lines of cygcheck output. And try to describe your problem
> succinctly with the minimum of extraneous steps. Why all the aliases
> and xemacs-related scripts?)
OK, sorry. In future I'll tack that stuff on as attachments. The
"extraneous steps" /might/ have been contributing to the problem, I
included exactly what I had done when it failed as I would for a test
report.
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