Re: emacs cvs over ssh question

[M. Serkan Apaydin]

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