Re: emacs cvs over ssh question

[M. Serkan Apaydin]

gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:

> At 11:10 (UTC-0700) on Tue, 23 Dec 2003 Kevin Rodgers said:
>
> = M. Serkan Apaydin wrote:
> = 
> = > Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> = >> Try to add /usr/local/bin to exec-path, not load-path.  (load-path is
> = >> for *.el and *.elc files, that is Lisp files.)
> = >>
> = >> Or make sure that /usr/local/bin is listed in $PATH at the time when
> = >> you start Emacs.  (If you start Emacs from a button in the KDE panel,
> = >> then it can be difficult to find out whether the directory is in
> = >> $PATH, and if it isn't, how to put it there.  I never could figure
> = >> that out.)
> = > 
> = > Thanks, but that does not seem to work. Changing .emacs file does not 
> = > change
> = > the propensity of emacs to look for ssh-askpass in /usr/bin, and my path 
> = > lists
> = > both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin before running emacs (although /usr/bin 
> = > comes first).
> = 
> = That's because the /usr/bin/ssh-askpass path has been hard-coded somewhere,
> = 
> = either an executable or an Emacs Lisp file.
>
> 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.

There is no way to go to console for me, as I am always logging in to this 
machine from another.

serkan