path problems when logged in through ssh

Peter Buckley peter.buckley@cportcorp.com
Mon Dec 17 12:40:00 GMT 2001


What is your system path? It looks rather unusual. Maybe there is a 
problem with it.

HTH,
Peter

C. Porter Bassett wrote:

> Like I said in my original post, d:/cygwin/bin *IS* in my system path,
> but when I try to run something through ssh, it doesn't use the sytem
> path.
> 
> I did find the solution, which is to put /bin in my .bashrc.  I did not have
> it there because it was never needed before.  For some reason, now it is.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:22:29AM -0500, quoth the Larry Hall (RFK
> Partners, Inc):
> 
>>At 04:01 PM 12/15/2001, C. Porter Bassett wrote:
>>
>>
>>Hm, I wonder how one would fix a problem where the path is set
>>incorrectly! ;-)
>>
>>Make sure you're path is set correctly by checking around in your
>>environment.  Most likely, your path is not set correctly in your
>>~/.profile or something.  YMMV.
>>
> 
> AND
> 
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:28:52AM -0500, quoth the Peter Buckley:
> 
>>It sounds like D:\cygwin\bin is not in your system path. The location
>>of
>>the cygwin1.dll needs to be in your system path to run sshd as a
>>service.
>>
>>HTH,
>>Peter
>>
>>Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>
> 
> 
>>>When I ssh into my machine and try to run things installed in
>>>/usr/local/bin or /usr/sbin, windows pops up an error message saying "The
>>>dynamic link library cygwin1.dll could not be found in the specified path
>>>d:\cygwin\usr\local\bin;.;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNTsystem;C\WINNT;."
>>>or if it is for a program installed in /usr/sbin, replace \local\bin with
>>>\sbin.
>>>
>>>Of course it doesn't find it in that path -- it's in d:\cygwin\bin, right
>>>where it should be.
>>>I do have d:\cygwin\bin in my path, but for some reason it doesn't look
>>>
> at
> 
>>>the normal path when running stuff from sshd, it only looks in the above
>>>5 directories.
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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