Re: emacs cvs over ssh question

[Kevin Rodgers]

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

--
Kevin Rodgers