Hi

I have a unix box and a linux box.
I am writing a script that will get a date and time from a windows box which acts as a reference clock for the unix and linux boxes.
I can only ssh to the windows XP box from the unix/linux boxes.

This is my problem.

So I have
-bash-3.00# ssh x...@4.4.4.4 "cmd /c c:/\cygwin/\cygwin.bat date"
x...@4.4.4.4's password:


xyz@xyz_pc2 ~


But I'm not getting a response back with the date.


But if I


-bash-3.00# ssh x...@4.4.4.4 "cmd /c date /T "
x...@4.4.4.4's password:
Fri 02/08/2008


How can I retrieve the date and time from cygwin ?
I need that to format the date and time which XP DOS doesn't allow me
to.
thanks
Any help is appreciated


Ideally, I'm looking to retrieve a format that's like
YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS format from Windows but its peculiarities
is difficult for me to get it right. I can't format DOS to what I like to achieve. Any suggestion to this ?

Any help is appreciated
Thanks

DOS needs back slashes in directory paths to work, it looks like you are using forward slashes:

c:/\cygwin/\cygwin.bat date

if you have to escape backslashes in the bash code try:

c:\\cygwin\\cygwin.bat date

Just suggestion, wouldn't it be better to setup something like Tardis and broadcast NTP from windows? Or if they aren't on the same network ntpdate from *nix to Windows via SSH (port forward)?

Seems like any work with scripting will just plain loose any time resolution.

Also you could have the *nix clients sync together as well as a pool.

I'm getting this now.
Do you know what parameters in sshd.config file those 2 permissions are denying me ?

-bash-3.00# ssh xyz@4.4.4.4 "cmd /c date /T "
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

HV - I don't quite understand you meant in your reply.

Thnaks

Perhaps you should try simply opening an (interactive) SSH session to that machine and back again.
That 'permission denied' error usually means one of the machines the SSH keys have not yet been exchanged both ways.

(You get that error a lot if you combine SSH/scp with sudo for local write permissions)


Also, you might need to change some permissions.
SSH daemons tend to log the reason they deny permission in their syslog file.
I know this file is called /var/log/secure in Linux, I have no idea what it is called in cygwin