Tip (under Unix systems anyway): Use '&' to put a process in the background and return your command prompt.
% <---- I'm assuming this is what your prompt looks like :-) It could be a $ or [user@machine directory] $ % ssh -l dmkarr -C -L 2401:localhost:2401 cvs.apache.org & That would free your command-line up and cut down one window you have to keep open. If that winds up being the only window you keep open (I've never used Emacs under Cygwin, so I'm not sure how it works), you could close the window. It *may* be necessary to "nohup" the process: % % nohup ssh -l dmkarr -C -L 2401:localhost:2401 cvs.apache.org & That could be handy anyway, as most unices I've used will then create a file named nohup.out, which should capture any output generated by the command. Of course, if you keep the window open, you could just read it right off the window :-) DISCLAIMER: I've never used Cygwin, so I can't speak for how useful you'll find this tip. The shell may be "broken" under Windoze and not function as *I* would expect it to ;-) That being the case, you'll have to suffer through having an extra window around. If I'm right though, you can get rid of it :-) Thanks again for the excellent enhancements David! I can't begin to tell you how much easier their being around has made my life! Craig R. McClanahan wrote: >On 20 Sep 2002, David M. Karr wrote: > >>Date: 20 Sep 2002 19:33:29 -0700 >>From: David M. Karr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Help getting remote CVS set up >> >>Thanks for voting me in as a committer. I'm sure it will be worthwhile. >> >Definitely. > >>Now, I could use a little help getting my remote CVS set up. I'm using Cygwin, >>on Win2k. Does anyone else here use that environment, and know how to properly >>set this up? I tried doing a normal ssh login to cvs.apache.org, and then >>setting up WinCVS to log in. I'd also like to be able to use Cygwin CVS, and >>the CVS interface inside XEmacs (which I guess just uses the external "cvs"). >> >>I tried setting my CVSROOT to the following, which I thought was close to what >>was recommended in the CVS setup on the Jakarta pages: >> >> :pserver:dmkarr@localhost:2401/home/cvs >> >>However, I got the following when I tried to log in: >> >>cvs [login aborted]: connect to localhost(wondark):2401 failed: No connection could >be made because the target machine actively refused it. >> >>I would guess this has something to do with "tunnelling" not being properly set >>up, but I'm unsure. >> >What you have to do on Unix systems (and I'd imagine it's the same with >CYGWIN) is to use two different command windows. > >In the first one, set up tunnelling like this: > > ssh -l dmkarr -C -L 2401:localhost:2401 cvs.apache.org > >In the second one (or from EMACS or other CVS clients), you should now be >able to use the CVSROOT you tried. Tunnelling will only work while the >connection to cvs.apache.org (established in the first window) is active. > >Craig > -- Eddie Bush -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
