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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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