Re: emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -f gnus-agent-batch

[Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@giotto.sj.ru>]

>>>>> On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 14:18:17 +0200
>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> wrote:
KG> 
KG> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@giotto.sj.ru> writes:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 03 Sep 2002 11:26:00 +0200
>>>>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> wrote:
KG> 
KG> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@giotto.sj.ru> writes:
>>>> imap: Opening IMAP connection with `ssh -q %s /usr/sbin/imapd'...
KG> 
KG> Can you run this command from the shell with no controlling terminal?
>> 
>> Actually, I do not understand the question.
>> 
>> I am able to run the command throm shell. But I am not able to run it,
>> for instance, with cron. Simple way to replroduce the problem is to
>> put /dev/null on the command's stdin while running it from shell.
KG> 
KG> Yes, I meant whether it is possible to run
KG> 
KG>     ssh -q %s /usr/sbin/imapd </dev/null
KG>                               ^^^^^^^^^^
KG> 
KG> I underlined the important part, and the %s needs to be replaced with
KG> something else, of course.
KG> 
KG> Now here is my reasoning:
KG> 
KG> It does not work to let "ssh -q ... /usr/sbin/imapd" read from
KG> /dev/null, probably because the command needs some input.  The need
KG> for input doesn't go away by letting it run under Emacs, so you
KG> shouldn't be surprised that letting Emacs (and thus, sshd) read from
KG> /dev/null doesn't work, either.
KG> 
KG> Or am I misunderstanding something?

Hm... I think something is wrong here. emacs/gnus should read not the
input on console, but the output of ssh -q %s /usr/sbin/imapd. The
latter command do not want any input, since ssh auth is made via keys.

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Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia