Re: ssh tunnel and permission denied

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Léonard Bouchet wrote: Thanks for your answer. I tried $ mount //myserver/user /test the command worked as shown with $ mount \\myserver\user on /tmp type system (binmode) ... but I still have my 'permission denied' $ cd /test BASH: cd:

Re: 1.5.18: ld command generates stackdump

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Dessent
Peter J. Stieber wrote: Sorry in advance for the stupid questions, but... I downloaded the binutils source package, and extracted the source. When I ran ./configure --help I didn't see a --enable-debug option or anything I though was equivalent. Am I missing something? Normally,

Re: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-15 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: 3. Setting Cygwin TERM to xterm and logging in to either Debian machine has no effect on top, and now the cursor keys are broken. You're setting TERM before connecting? Have you verified that the setting is indeed changed once you are logged on to the remote? You

Re: Customising prompt

2005-10-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Bram wrote: The issue is this: the I am getting black text on grey background - why is this? I thought \e[30;47m means black text on white background. That is what I understood from this page: http://www.pantz.org/scripting/shell/colorterm.shtml The way that the ANSI escape

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: 1. The font looks like a scalable font; I prefer the 7x12 bit-mapped font so that I can put six consoles on my desktop (1280x1024) and the stroke width makes the characters legible. man rxvt and playing around with the -fn (7x14, 7x13, 7x12) option

Re: Convert an old Laptop into an X Terminal

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Bbn wrote: I have an old laptop with a broken hard-drive. I want to boot it with a very light linux, like ubuntu or Kaella (Knoppix for french). Then, I want to connect to my XP desktop using cygwin. If you mean that you want to display your native Windows desktop on the laptop running

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Brian Dessent
David Christensen wrote: Yes, that's better. :-) But, I still like Cygwin Bash's use of gray for text, white for bolding, cyan (?) in perldoc pages, etc., and the way I can control things via the DOS box Properties. But, I have and will use rxvt for top on Debian 3.1 until the extraneous

Re: making .so files...

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Jason Pyeron wrote: I am not sure if this can be done on windows but here it goes. I am working with the Asterisk application, it uses modules these are .so files which are linked against the main executable. Asterisk will load a module, which may or may not make use of code exported by

Re: cygrunsrv --list Access is denied (Was: Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced)

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Rolf Campbell wrote: Every time I try to list services using cygrunsrv, I get an error: $ cygrunsrv --list cygrunsrv: Error enumerating services: OpenService: Win32 error 5: Access is denied. That means that there is some service that you do not have access to. When cygrunsrv goes to try

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Herb Martin wrote: Wouldn't we also need to stop all Shells or any other CygWin process? Yes, of course. And: If there are not CygWin processes (services, shells, other apps) is it considered a bug if Setup cannot complete the update? What do you mean cannot complete the update? Setup

Re: sshd refuses ssh connections

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Chris Taylor wrote: i followed all instructions from: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html You should ask the administrator of pigtail.net for help then. We don't support other sites here. The process is running: p4-3000:marcj:{/home/marcj}160 % ps -ef ... SYSTEM 480

Re: sshd refuses ssh connections

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: No, it's a red herring. The host keys should be readable only by the process that runs sshd. This must be SYSTEM in order for impersonation to work. Thus they should be readable only by SYSTEM, and that is how ssh-host-config sets things up, correctly. So if you try

Re: Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Sean McMahon wrote: Well, getting decent keyboard access is naturally an interest of mine. I'll see what I can dig up about this from my screen-reader manufacturer. More then likely your assumption is correct, but if it doesn't work with standard windows controlls, that's also something

Re: exiting vim changes background colour of console

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Bram wrote: None of the PS1s above fix the issue! I.e. when I open a console I see what I want: console with white background and black foreground, with the prompt rendered as black foreground on grey background, but then whenever I do a man, less, vim and exit, the screen get a

Re: exiting vim changes background colour of console

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Lennart Borgman wrote: I do not remember anything about this now, but comparing to my current PS1 I can see that I has a \] after the last m. I have PS1=\[\033[32;47m\w \033[0m\] That's incorrect. The \[ and \] are to be used only to delineate nonprinting sequences. If you include \w

Re: exiting vim changes background colour of console

2005-10-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Lennart Borgman wrote: Thanks very much this! However I still have problem with long commands. I start Cygwin with ** cygwin.cmd: @echo off set chere_invoking=1 D:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i When the command wraps into the next line then I can not edit the command

Re: BASH version 3.00.16(11)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)

2005-10-20 Thread Brian Dessent
Christoph Jeksa wrote: the command-line completion doesn't work properly in a case-insensitive fashion regardless of the setting: set completion-ignore-case On in ~/.inputrc. That issue is every time reproducible on both 32 and 64-bit Windows systems. You'll have to be more specific

openssh connection multiplexing with cygwin

2005-10-20 Thread Brian Dessent
I've been trying to get the connection multiplexing feature of openssh to work with Cygwin without success. I set ControlPath /tmp/ssh_%h_%r in ~/.ssh/config. Then I do $ ssh -M -N -vvv host which works fine, and there is a socket in /tmp: $ ls -l /tmp/ssh* srw--- 1 brian None 53 Oct 20

Re: BUG? mkdir ACLs

2005-10-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Jeff Newmiller wrote: ACLs for directories created with cygwin mkdir are significantly different than ACLs for directories created by native methods. In particular, the cygwin mkdir fails to include the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM user ACL, preventing services from accessing directories made this

Re: Socket read problem on Windows XP Pro Cygwin

2005-10-21 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong here...and I'm just lucky to have it work right on my laptop...can anyone help? Your test case does not compile, because you've omitted the #includes and #defines. I think you will find that posting code that someone can

Re: Socket read problem on Windows XP Pro Cygwin

2005-10-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Todd Rearick wrote: #define OUTPUT_DEVICE COM4 *cough* -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Socket read problem on Windows XP Pro Cygwin

2005-10-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Todd Rearick wrote: #define OUTPUT_DEVICE COM4 *cough* Like I said. I'm not having a problem with output. The program fails even when I run it with the options -x -din this case, COM4 is never even opened..and no attempts are made to write to it. All the program does in this

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-22 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: $ cygpath -d c:/Program\ Files/Internet\ Explorer c:\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1 I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the real name? Huh? What do you mean? Does the short form uniquely identify the file? Yes, of course. But only in

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: Generation of the short name from the long name is not even not guaranteed to exist or work. s/not even not guaranteed/not even guaranteed/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-23 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: I've just had another case where the I had to use the short form, is the short form the real name? I think I've may be mislead you, I think my problem was more that when theres an interaction between *nix scripts environment. Sometimes even quoting doesn't seem to carry the

Re: Error creating files in /tmp

2005-10-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Alastair Burnett wrote: Now, when I run the tools from another mapped drive - say a g: drive, I initially got the error about not being able to find a /tmp directory, so I simply did 'mkdir /tmp' and got past this. However, now the tools bail out because it can't create a file in /tmp -

Re: Please help on GCC

2005-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
estech users wrote: Please, can someone help me with a running program on how to read and output to texfile in gcc using c language. That's off-topic for this mailing list because it's not Cygwin specific. This is not a list about how to program in C, there are plenty of those elsewhere.

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: See script below sja.exe is actually in program files, my kludge below was to use a mount (rather than the short name) I don't see anything here that necessitates using a mount or 8.3. sjaprog=/sqlyog/sja.exe sjaprog=/cygdrive/c/program\ files/whatever/sja.exe

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
zzapper wrote: /usr/local/sbin/jraynersqlzip: line 14: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/SQLyog\ Enterprise/sja.exe: No such file or directory But a ls is just dandy There's double quoting now. My email wasn't quite correct, use one or the other but not both: foo=/path\ with\ spaces or

Re: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Satish Balay wrote: Q: Does cygwin setup run rebaseall either during initial install or during subsequent updates? [guessing no] No, setup has no clue about rebaseall. Q: Is it safe to say: 'if cygwin is installed from scratch - rebaseall is not required' That's not quite correct. Whether

Re: problem with sendto and raw sockets

2005-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Fernando Barsoba wrote: snapshot. I only got the socket.h header file from the snapshot... and not the whole thing. I have been able to build the program, but I am not sure if using only the socket.h could be the problem... Using a modified header with the old 1.5.18 cygwin1.dll is probably

Re: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Satish Balay wrote: Ok so the problem is likely to go away for python users. I don't know if Jason has started compiling Python with --enable-auto-image-base or not. It will also depend on the maintainers of any libraries that are dynamically loaded by a python module using the flag as well.

Re: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Satish Balay wrote: So the curent assesment is : - python - and similar tools can break - is so use rebase to fix it. - rebase is broken - is lets not use it all the time. As far as I know almost all of the issues of corrupted DLLs have been fixed, but there still remains at least one

Re: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Satish Balay wrote: Doesn't setup have similar problem with updating 'packages' for running apps? I think it prompts for a reboot to complete. So I'm guessing the same approach can be used when it needs a rebase. Yes, of course setup already has that logic. That's what I was referring to

Re: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Satish Balay wrote: - open a dialog box with a message: some packages that require 'rebaseall' are updated. This operation cannot be done at this time due to active cygwin processes. Please reboot, shutdown cygwin services, and run 'rebaseall' from 'ash'. The thing is, you can't just do a

Re: Running ssh in background [solution/patch]

2005-10-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Jörg Schaible wrote: OK. Works in rxvt, but not in a plain Windows console. That's because rxvt doesn't use a Windows console, it uses a Cygwin pty. -mwindows essentially just tells the system to not allocate a Windows console to the process when it is created. This means if the program reads

Re: cygwin-setup rebaseall

2005-10-26 Thread Brian Dessent
Satish Balay wrote: According to Jason's post, --enable-auto-image-base is been in use for a while. [Since python doesn't always work without rebaseall] - is there some other issue with this approach? [mabye some dependent package should be built with --enable-auto-image-base - but it

Re: Executable flag

2005-10-26 Thread Brian Dessent
David Rasmussen wrote: Open cygwin. Write 'notepad test.txt'. Notepad opens, write something and then save the file. Now do an ll. The file test.txt has been created and has the executable flag set. I want it to not be set in such cases. This is really out of Cygwin's control. The

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Chris Taylor wrote: When I say editing the registry, I'm talking about the ability to directly manipulate it with .reg files, regedit, or other registry editing tools. You can block access to certain known tools like regedit. This does *nothing* to block access to the registry itself, except

Re: how to get a coredump [was RE: Asterisk Cygwin]

2005-10-27 Thread Brian Dessent
Joe Smith wrote: Add error_start:/usr/bin/dumper.exe to your CYGWIN environment variable. Well either that or the man page is slightly wrong. the manpage says: The manpage and users guide are correct, it takes a win32 path. That makes it explicit that windows paths must be used, but your

Re: Files not accessible after reinstalling OS and cygwin

2005-10-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Deb* Mohanty wrote: I had windows2k and cygwin installed on my machine, and I had marked some files as read-only (using cygwin chmod). For some reasons, I had to reinstall windows2k. I also reinstalled cygwin in the same location as it was installed earlier. However the files which were

Re: where can I find the source to the cygwin setup.exe installer?

2005-10-29 Thread Brian Dessent
jerry wrote: I would like to find the source of the cygwin setup program so that I can help them write a better installer. Where is the source to the cygwin setup program setup.exe? cygwin.com - Cygwin Packages http://cygwin.com/setup.html - setup homepage

Re: problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Andy Kosela wrote: I got a problem with displaying graphical characters in mc 4.6.1-2 under rxvt 2.7.10-6. The lines are screwed up. I tried setting CYGWIN=codepage:oem but the problem persists. When I launch bash under cmd.com everything is ok with mc. It only happens in rxvt. I'm using

Re: problem with displaying graphical chars in mc under rxvt (CYGWIN=codepage:oem didnt fix it)

2005-10-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Pavel Tsekov wrote: You can get a font with line drawing characters here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/bashprompt/luconP.zip This is a 404, I think Charles shut down his site in 2004. For the sake of the archives, you can get this at

Re: Cygwin setup of sshd for non-administrators documentation?

2005-10-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Theo Kanter wrote: Two often cited pages with guides for setting up sshd on Win32: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html http://ncyoung.com/entry/389 These sites are wrong if they suggest that users must be administrators. In general we frown on sites like the above on this

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of $PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value of $PATH. That way, you can tell if Cygwin is being added to the

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: Well, how about sandboxing? It's the ideal way to test out a virus or other suspect warez: run it on a virtual machine where it can't escape into your real one. But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of protection. You would need Xen / VMWare /

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: But WINE isn't a virtual machine, and it doesn't offer that kind of protection. You would need Xen / VMWare / etc for that. Oh, I stand corrected. You mean it doesn't even do virtual-drive-in-a-file-on-the-real-HD then? That's a shame. Well, considering WINE stands

Re: RXVT blurry fonts

2005-11-04 Thread Brian Dessent
Justin Grote wrote: I've been getting my rxvt to look just like putty for aesthetic reasons, and so far I've gotten everything similar except the bold fonts. In putty, the bolded version of the font I use (either Lucida Console or Terminal) is simply a brighter-colored version of the

Re: Windows 98 + OpenSSH + cygwin

2005-11-05 Thread Brian Dessent
David Di Biase wrote: Since there are no services I need to setup the system through another mean, except I'm very limited on my 98 knowledge. Does anyone happen to have a solution? Since 98 has no concept of a service or users you start sshd in the normal way. After running ssh-host-config

Re: Windows 98 + OpenSSH + cygwin

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
David Di Biase wrote: Well I did notice an error, like I mentioned, that it couldn't setup the service. What I'm worried about is if there was any process it might have skipped after it returned the error. Although at the end it did say Configuration success, enjoy or something like that. I

Re: BUG: alternatives

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: Revised patch attached. I'm wondering, tho, about the advisability of using alloca'ed (rather than malloc'ed) memory to hold the contents of a file of unrestricted size. Aren't there limits on the available space within a single stack frame? Does it make sense (is it

Re: bug report place

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Carl Karsten wrote: Where should bugs be reported? All discussion of the setup.exe program belongs on the cygwin-apps (at) cygwin.com mailing list, including bug reports. Where should potential bugs be discussed? as in, is this a bug: setup-2.513-1-alpha.exe defaults the Local Package Dir

Re: X Copy/Paste ?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Roy Wiseman wrote: A quick question, and I have a feeling this is asked regularly, but I couldn't find an answer on searching the forum. How can I copy/paste to/from xterm to another xterm windows and also how can I copy/paste to/from an xterm window and a windows application like say

Re: where is setup.exe source?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Carl Karsten wrote: What builds the setup.exe source? Anyone who wants to. If you mean who compiles the setup.exe binaries that are on the mirrors, that would be the maintainers (currently Max Bowser and myself, although Igor helps so much he's a de facto maintainer.) As to the location of

Re: where is setup.exe source?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: I disagree. FWIW, keeping the local ping response time information for mirrors and re-pinging on demand has been on my TODO list for a while. The only thing I would strenuously object to is re-pinging the mirrors automatically on every setup -- it's much better to

Re: where is setup.exe source?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Carl Karsten wrote: I meant what compiler is used. I am used to things like InnoSetup, so I was expecting something of that nature. It's built with gcc, just like Cygwin itself and every Cygwin package. It is however a mingw application, and does not depend on cygwin1.dll for obvious

Re: where is setup.exe source?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Well, yes, if you put it that way. However, there's a chicken-and-egg problem here, right? As in I want to download Cygwin fast needs Cygwin to figure it out[*]? Well, it's not hard to bootstrap yourself. The base cygwin install is currently 13.5MB to download,

Re: where is setup.exe source?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: Maybe a starting point would be a awk[1] script that lives in the base-files package that grabs mirrors.lst and downloads some relatively small package from every mirror, and generates a report. That way, we could at least say try running mirror-check.awk when users have

Re: how to make a cygwin ftp mirror?

2005-11-06 Thread Brian Dessent
Linsong wrote: Now I want to make a ftp mirror of cygwin, but I am not very clear how to do it. http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html Is there any tools or script to make this process automatically? rsync lftp -c mirror wget --mirror Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: __assert linker error

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Thomas Porschberg wrote: I compiled cppunit-library as a mingw32 (using -mno-cygwin) application and libqttestrunner as an cygwin library. That is why it isn't working. You can't mix Cygwin and non-cygwin objects in the same executable. Cygwin and mingw use completely different C runtimes

Re: __assert linker error

2005-11-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Thomas Porschberg wrote: Is this roadmap ok ? I have no idea, I don't know anything about QT under windows and whether it will compile as a mingw app. Regardless, you must either compile every object with -mno-cygwin or none of them with it. Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: i686-pc-cygwin crash gcc-4.0 branch

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: /home/sherlock/gcc/o/gcc/xgcc -B/home/sherlock/gcc/o/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-c ygwin/bin/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-cygwin/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-cygwin/i nclude -isystem /usr/local/i686-pc-cygwin/sys-include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../. ./../../gcc-4_0

Re: Old versions of setup.exe

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Dave's running this command on a self-compiled version of setup. The setup on the Cygwin site is compressed with upx, which mangles all strings (except the PE header). So, one way to get version information into setup is to use the Version: tag in the PE header (or

Re: boost program_options library with cygwin

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Thomas Porschberg wrote: This is of course nice but can someone give an explanation ? What do you want an explantion of? The fact that you can't mix and match Cygwin and non-Cygwin objects in an executable? That's because mingw and Cygwin use different C runtimes. It boils down to the fact

Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1

2005-11-09 Thread Brian Dessent
Luke Kendall wrote: Are there still countries left, in which this patent has not yet expired? The unisys patent has expired in most major countries. There is still an IBM patent that is valid until sometime in 2006. I think that most people believe that IBM would never enforce this patent

Re: boost program_options library with cygwin

2005-11-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Thomas Porschberg wrote: because libcppunit was built as cygwin-library. I resolved the problem by compiling the library from sources with -mno-cygwin flag. And then I used this library for both, my application cygwin-build and my application mingw-build. If I understand you right, this is

Re: Error in GetICMProfile() declaration

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Dessent
Paul J. Lucas wrote: So this really looks like a bug in the declaration. It looks like you're right. I believe that the w32api headers are maintained by the mingw project so the best thing to do would probably be submit a patch here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=2435atid=302435 or a

Re: Xemacs broken after postgresql upgrade

2005-11-13 Thread Brian Dessent
René Berber wrote: A better fix is to link cygpq.dll to pq.dll: # ln /usr/bin/cygpq.dll /usr/bin/pq.dll That's not a great habit to get into. It will only work if the program uses Cygwin methods (e.g. dlopen()) to dynamically load the dll at runtime. It will absolutely not work for a .exe

Re: Simple cygwin script doesn't work with Windows schedular/Command prompt

2005-11-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Pandey, Sunil K wrote: However when I try to launch the same script with windows scheduler via following command line it doesn't work. That is because if you type /tmp/test.csh at the prompt, bash will ask the system to execute the script and the #!/bin/csh line will be honored. It will also

Re: WINE on Cygwin

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Informações wrote: Can anyone point me to any reference covering the implementation of the missing sendmsg functionality (exchanging file descriptors across processes) ? Any (incomplete) piece of code ? Any help ? Stevens, UNIX Network Programming Volume 1, chapter 15, section 7. --

Re: cppunit problems

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, i installed cygwin version 2.457.2.2 in a windows xp, i install That is *not* the version of Cygwin, that is just the version of the installer, and it tells us nothing useful. Cygwin is a collection of many packages and they each have a version number.

Re: upgrade/add a single package

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
beau wrote: I think I've got my /etc/setup properly in place Huh? Normally there is no need to touch anything under /etc/setup at all. , but when I try to add a new package I end up getting everything. The only way I can see to stop this currently is to manually set each package to keep in

Re: buffer overflow on cygwin vs solaris.

2005-11-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Song Ken Vern-E11804 wrote: for (i=0; i=4028; i++) buffer[i]='A'; Wow. That's some horrible code. Hasn't this person heard of memset()? On Solaris, it does. How do I get the core dump equivalent on cygwin installation? That's because you're trying to exploit a bug in Solaris.

Re: upgrade/add a single package

2005-11-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: BTW, this doesn't work (last I tried) if you want an experimental version of a package. Should it? It should work, but you will have to click twice (or however many times necessary) on the desired package to cycle to the experimental version. There's no way to

Re: Folder ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.sunsite.utk.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin remains after install

2005-11-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Van Snyder wrote: 1. Must this folder be kept? It appears to consist entirely of tar files (plus Setup.ini)? No. 2. If it must be kept, must it be kept on the desktop? No, it can be placed anywhere. The location is specified in setup.exe on the third step when prompted for Local Package

Re: Folder ftp%3a%2f%2fftp.sunsite.utk.edu%2fpub%2fcygwin remains after install

2005-11-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Christian Franke wrote: Somewhat offtopic and probably FAQ: The local package cache fills up with outdated (no longer in setup.ini) versions. Is there any hidden setup.exe functionality or cleanup script available to delete old package files? There's nothing in setup.exe, but I do remember

Re: XInternAtom XRectInRegion ... not found ... where to get these XLIB components

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Body wrote: Hi, I am getting errors about xlib components missing. Running find gives me this: This is the wrong mailing list. X11 related topics go to cygwin-xfree (at) cygwin.com. /home/Owner/games/simp make gcc -Wall -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lX11 -lXpm -lXext

Re: Proper distribution of cygwin-dependent software.

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Oliver Wienand wrote: had I to ship the sources or it is sufficient to install an unmodified version of Cygwin setup, which allows to get all the sources? No, you can't just point people to the cygwin mirrors to get sources, even if your binaries are unmodified. You have to provide them as a

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup - initial setup of group, home dir

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Body wrote: Hi, I installed on a networked computer, but i don't want my cygwin to be part of that network as far as username/groups go (I don't want to add all Use -l instead of -d when running mkgroup and mkpasswd. I would like to change these to Owner and mygroup, and I would like

Re: mkpasswd, mkgroup - initial setup of group, home dir

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Umm, sorry, Brian, but this is not true. The username in /etc/passwd doesn't matter at all, and neither does the UID -- it's the SID field that's important. That's good to know. Sorry for the misinformation. Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: escape codes in ksh \033]0;\$PWD\007\$PWD

2005-11-22 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Body wrote: I have not been able to figure out how to send escape codes to ksh I saw a syntax for ksh on http://www.steveshilling.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/scripts/xtermtitle.txt - PS1='^[]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ${PWD}^Gksh$ ' I don't think ksh supports pasrsing of escape

Re: Enscript error with passwd uid field (enscript-1.6.3-3)

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Jurgen Defurne wrote: enscript: cannot find password for uid=45056: No error My generated passwd file however, contains 176128, not 45046. By replacing the former uid with the latter, the problem is solved. However, should this still be necessary ? I thought that a long time

Re: Practical method for automatic Cygwin install?

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Or you could look at how setup.exe/cygcheck does it and help extract the mount code into a library that could be linked into other apps. FWIW, this idea of creating a mingw libcygpath really appeals to me and it's been an idea I've been meaning to look at for a while.

Re: Is there a default ssh password if no Windows password is present?

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Jerry Moody wrote: I believe PermitEmptyPasswords no is the solution. Unfortunately, this keyword doesn't show in Cygwin's man pages for sshd, and I came up empty searching the web without knoweldge that the keyword even existed. Thanks for the pointer. You're looking at the wrong manpage.

Re: basename(1) defect

2005-11-23 Thread Brian Dessent
Stan Tsu wrote: This is a bug with basename 5.3.0 found in the latest Cygwin 1.5.15.1. 1.5.15 was three releases ago, it's most certainly not the latest. But that's not really relevant to your question, I don't think. $ basename NA A N $ basename N/A A A ==

Re: Fwd: cygwin tools in context menus

2005-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Rupert Brooks wrote: What i would like to do, is be able to right click on a file in Windows explorer and have a cygwin tool be avaiable either for the open, or the open with command. I've tried quite a variety of things, and i've gotten close... but so far no cigar. Heres a description of

Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)

2005-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Christian Franke wrote: Unlike syslog, windows event log is intended to store only message parameters, not complete messages. The (probably localized) messages must be provided by such an event message file (the misleading MS-term;-), which is essentially an .exe or .dll containing (message

Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)

2005-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is that worth the effort? I really love to use syslogd (and logging to my remote Linux box ;-)) True. However there is something to be said for keeping all of the logging in one place, rather than having to look in the event log for windows apps and in a separate

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.15.0-3, curl-devel-7.15.0-3, libcurl2-7.11.1-2, libcurl3-7.15.0-3

2005-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
I've updated cURL to version 7.15.0. cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,

Re: sshd via XP Service vs. sshd init daemon

2005-11-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher McIntosh wrote: QUERY: What are the pros and cons of each method? IMO, I prefer to have less full-fledged services; then it is simpler to start several daemons (e.g., xinetd, sshd, ftpd, ...) via a single 'net start init' or 'cygrunsrv --start init' reducing the number of tasks

Re: Where is rsh ?

2005-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Krithivasan, Balasubramaniyan (STSD) wrote: The last time I installed Cygwin about 4 months before, I could install Cygwin rsh in my box. Today for about 3 -4 hours I am trying to find how to install Cygwin rsh . But I failed hence this email. I went to find

Re: Where is rsh ?

2005-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Balasubramaniyan K (Bala) wrote: I don't find the rsh.exe or rsh when I try to install using setup.exe (Cygwin installation). So you selected the inetutils package and you don't have /usr/bin/rsh.exe afterwards? If that's the case then we need more information to be able to help you, please

Re: Where is rsh ?

2005-11-25 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: In the specific case of inetutils you probably will not find a canonical upstream site because it is all code derived from the original BSD unix. No, it's gnu these days, isn't it? http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/inetutils.html I suppose... I said that because

Re: Query: issue with cygwin-curl 7.15.0 - cannot close some connections

2005-11-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Soh Kam Yung wrote: Brian, Please send all questions about using the Cygwin curl packages to the cygwin (at) cygwin.com mailing list, which I follow. Please do not email me personally. I have been using curl under cygwin and noticed an issue with closing of connections with some websites

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.15.0-4, curl-devel-7.15.0-4, libcurl3-7.15.0-4

2005-11-28 Thread Brian Dessent
I've updated the curl cURL packages to 7.15.0-4. This package contains a small workaround to prevent hangs at the end of the transfer. Prior to 2005-11-13, the Cygwin DLL returned POLLHUP for poll() on closed connection, which caused curl to go into an endless loop. cURL is a command line tool

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Cary Jamison wrote: I think we all know that encryption is a factor. The site still states : No, I wouldn't say that we all know that. I just ran openssl speed and on my very modest Athlon XP 1700 machine and both the aes-128 and blowfish ciphers clocked in at approximately 60-65

Re: Redirect SSHD messages from Application to Security log in Win2k

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Listmail wrote: 1) The sshd messages in the Windows Event Viewer Application log are half junk and half real message. The following junk paragraph appears in every logged message. How can I get rid of it ? It is possible, but not a simple change that you can just enable. You'll need to add a

Re: Syslog event source registration [Was Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)]

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Why complicate openlog()? Let the Cygwin applications that use openlog() do this (e.g., in a postinstall script). We could even add a utility package in Base, similar to editrights, that contains scripts for adding and removing this setting (something like 'regtool

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Oliver Vecernik wrote: I'd like to use Courier New as font for Cygwin, but the only choices I've got are Lucida Console and Rasterschriftart. One solution is to use PuTTY to connect via ssh to localhost, but I think this is a bit of overkill. Is there another posiibility? You seem to be

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