Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Jeff Nokes wrote:

> --- Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> > Don't know why this would make a difference with one server and not the
> > other but do you have 'tty' set in your CYGWIN environment?  If not, you
> > might try it.  The fact that rxvt doesn't have the problem sounds like
> > it's a tty thing, though playing around with it here, I still can't
> > reproduce the behavior you described.
> >
> > Larry
>
>
>
> Hi Larry,
> One point I'd like to add to my previous post is that I have since found out
> how to get rid of my xauth warning.  I tried the advice in the following link
> and it worked:
>
>   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00245.html
>
> But, even now, while successfully creating ssh sessions that forward X packets
> fine, without the xauth warning, a Ctl+C still kills my ssh session.  Weird! 
> I guess the bottom line with my particular issue (in my environment) is that
> whenever I forward X packets over ssh in my cygwin bash (cmd.exe) shell, my
> local ssh client is trapping the Ctl+C I'm trying to send the remote host.
>
> OK, so here's what happened when I tried setting tty in my cygin bash
> (cmd.exe) environment.  I set CYGWIN='tty' in my .profile and tried it again. 

Don't do that.  Set CYGWIN to 'tty' in your environment before starting
Cygwin.  See <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html>.

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