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Re: openssh not reporting the correct errorlevel
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 06:19:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 28 August 2007 18:02, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
>
>>> * (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT))
>>>> Here are the command sequence I ran on Windows 2003 x86 SP2 servers (delhi
>>>> is the hostname) C:\>ssh delhi net The syntax of this command is:
>>>>
>>>> NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP |
>>>> HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION |
>>>> SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> C:\>echo %errorlevel%
>>>> 0
>>>>
>>>> ANALYSIS:
>>>> The errorlevel returned from the second command should be "1"
>>>> instead of "0".
>
>> The command entered looks correct to me.
>>
>> He is connecting to remote host 'delhi' using ssh and executing the
>> 'net' command on 'delhi' which correctly outputs its usage
>> information. Ssh then disconnects and returns him to the local
>> system.
>
> I spent some time trying to reproduce this with various combinations of linux
>and windows servers, native win32 and cygwin commmands being run at the remote
>end when windows, etc., etc., and I couldn't find any way to reproduce it.
>Absolutely everything WJFFM, including the original example:
That's why we need cygcheck output. If this is an older version of cygwin1.dll
then there was a problem with the reporting of error codes from non-cygwin apps.
cgf
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