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Re: ssh: Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket
Jeff Mincy wrote:
>
> From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov@syntrex.com>
> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:11:20 +0100
>
> Jeff Mincy wrote:
> >
> > I get "Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket"
> > when I try to do ssh X11 forwarding for the following command:
> > 'ssh -X -f jeff@delphioutpost.com xemacs'
> >
> > The contents of ssh -v output is attached:
>
> Ok you can look for more information on this topic and possible
> solutions if you search the mailing list using "The descriptor is a
> file, not a socket".
>
> [ ... ]
>
> I had searched the archive for the entire
> "Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket"
> and got 5 hits (starting with my report of this problem in a snapshot)
> doing the search on
> "descriptor is a file not a socket"
> gets ten pages of hits on rsync, inetd, postgres, cvs, getpeername.
> Is there a particular message that I'm missing?
Hehe, ok :) This seems to be a common problem on Win9x systems. The
suggested
solution generally was to upgrade to a recent CVS snapshot version of
cygwin1.dll
and see if it helps or upgrade to WinNT/2k/XP.
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