A bunch of system variables are missing in Cygwin when using ssh. Some that I noticed include:
This impacts trying to compile source, such as ruby, via ssh. These variables exist when using rdesktop.
How do I get these variables to exist in Cygwin when using ssh?
I found a post describing how to work around this: http://smithii.com/node/44
Here is the bit 'o bash from that page:
if [ "$SSH_TTY" ]; then
pushd . >/dev/null
for __dir in \
/proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session\ Manager/Environment \
/proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Environment
do
cd "$__dir"
for __var in $(ls -1 | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')
do
test -z "${!__var}" && export $__var="`cat $__var`" >/dev/null 2>&1
done
done
unset __dir
unset __var
popd >/dev/null
fi
edited: Moved the tr
so it is only done once. It was painfully slow otherwise.