Re: [ITP] VOTE: nrss 0.3.9 -- A ncurses-based RSS reader
2008/3/28, Jari Aalto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Wed 2008-02-27 jari aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Included in Debian unstable. Needs votes. http://packages.debian.org/nrss + Volker Zell + Charles Wilson + Corinna Vinschen + David Rothenberger Needs one vote more to go... me +1 -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
[ITP] cdrkit 1.1.7.1-1: genisoimage, icedax, wodim
I would like to contribute the cdrkit package suite. See attached script for download links. cdrkit is included in Debian stable: http://packages.debian.org/etch/cdrkit-doc http://packages.debian.org/etch/genisoimage http://packages.debian.org/etch/icedax http://packages.debian.org/etch/wodim http://packages.debian.org/etch/mkisofs http://packages.debian.org/etch/cdda2wav http://packages.debian.org/etch/cdrecord setup.hint: sdesc: CD/DVD recording suite ldesc: cdrkit is a suite of programs for recording CDs and DVDs, blanking CD-RW media, creating ISO-9660 filesystem images, extracting audio CD data, and more. The programs were originally derived from several sources, most notably mkisofs, cdda2wav, and cdrecord. The programs are included in the packages genisoimage (create ISO images), icedax (extract audio CD data) and wodim (CD/DVD recording). This package contains README files only. category: Utils Audio requires: cygwin genisoimage.hint: sdesc: Create ISO9660/Joliet/HFS filesystem images ldesc: genisoimage is a pre-mastering program to generate ISO9660/Joliet/HFS hybrid filesystem images which can be written to CD/DVD by the wodim program. genisoimage includes support for bootable 'El Torito' CDs and for the 'Rock Ridge' extension. The package also includes extra tools useful for working with ISO images: * mkzftree - create ISO-9660 image with compressed contents * dirsplit - separate large directory contents into disks of predefined size * geteltorito - extract an El Torito boot image from a CD image This package is part of the cdrkit suite. category: Utils requires: cygwin file libbz2_1 libiconv2 perl zlib external-source: cdrkit icedax.hint: sdesc: Extract audio CD (CDDA) data ldesc: icedax stands for InCrEdible Digital Audio eXtractor. It can retrieve audio tracks (CDDA) from CDROM drives that are capable of reading audio data digitally to the host. This package is part of the cdrkit suite. category: Utils Audio requires: cygwin external-source: cdrkit wodim.hint: sdesc: Command line CD/DVD writing tool ldesc: wodim allows you to create CDs or DVDs on a CD/DVD recorder. It supports data, audio, mixed, multi-session, CD+ discs, DVD data and video disks. This package is part of the cdrkit suite. category: Utils requires: cygwin external-source: cdrkit mkisofs.hint: sdesc: Create ISO filesystem images (symlink to genisoimage) ldesc: This is a dummy package to ease the transition to genisoimage, the fork of mkisofs. It provides a mkisofs symlink to genisoimage for compatibility purposes. category: Utils requires: cygwin genisoimage external-source: cdrkit cdda2wav.hint: sdesc: Extract audio CD data (symlink to icedax) ldesc: This is a dummy package to ease the transition to icedax, the fork of cdda2wav. It provides a cdda2wav symlink to icedax for compatibility purposes. category: Utils Audio requires: cygwin icedax external-source: cdrkit cdrecord.hint: sdesc: Command line CD/DVD writing tool (symlink to wodim) ldesc: This is a dummy package to ease the transition to wodim, the fork of cdrecord. It provides a cdrecord symlink to wodim for compatibility purposes. category: Utils requires: cygwin wodim external-source: cdrkit Christian #!bin/sh wget -r \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/cdrkit-1.1.7.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/cdrkit-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/setup.hint \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/genisoimage/genisoimage-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/genisoimage/setup.hint \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/icedax/icedax-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/icedax/setup.hint \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/wodim/wodim-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/wodim/setup.hint \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/mkisofs/mkisofs-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/mkisofs/setup.hint \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/cdda2wav/cdda2wav-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/cdda2wav/setup.hint \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/cdrecord/cdrecord-1.1.7.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/release/cdrkit/cdrecord/setup.hint
Re: Changing cygwin account name (cygwin only)
--- Hussein Patwa ha scritto: Hello, Anyway the one final issue that remains is that I want to change the user name that is the default user for my cygwin installation. At the moment it's taking the name from my WinXP account name, so home/Hussein Patwa/. I'd like to change it to something that doesn't have a space, but don't want to rename my computer's account. How can I change the user for cygwin without messing up all the internal file paths, etc? Is there a function that will change the name, rename that folder, and also update all the various internals automatically? modify /etc/passwd this is the file where the Windows user are mapped to the cygwin one Thanks for any help. Bear in mind I'm no cygwin guru so please go gentle on me. so it is a good moment to read the user guide ;-) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#id317355 Kind Regards and Best Wishes, Hussein. Regards Marco ___ Scopri il Blog di Yahoo! Mail: trucchi, novità, consigli... e la tua opinione! http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog/ -- 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/
1.5.25(0.156/4/2): *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487
Hi Cygwiners I am trying to compile the OpenJDK package on a WXP SP2 platform. Building OpenJDK is using a lot of deeply inter nested makefiles that are lauching a lot a sub shells. I am constantly facing to this recurrent problem: $ make 6 [main] ? (14296) C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x68, top 0x6D, reserve_size 323584, al locsize 327680, page_const 4096 While this is a lot of messages related to this problem in the Cygwin mail archives -- the latest being this one http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00507.html --, this is persisting among all release of cygwin up to the latest one. What could I do to avoid this problem? $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 idefix 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-03-05 19:27 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -s -v -r Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sun Mar 30 11:16:45 2008 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 Path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin c:\Program Files\IBM\CICS Transaction Gateway\bin c:\zOS\Hercules\bin z:\isode-8.0\com.pac.osi.cpp\bin z:\DEV\3rd\poco\bin c:\DEV\WSSE\w3c\Client c:\DEV\WSSE\w3c\WS-XA c:\DEV\WSSE\w3c\Country\Bank c:\DEV\WSSE\w3c\Calculator c:\DEV\WSSE\bin\Debug c:\DEV\WSSE\bin\Release c:\boost\lib c:\Program Files\Perl\bin\ c:\WINDOWS\system32 c:\WINDOWS c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem c:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.00\Accessories\ c:\Program Files\cvsnt c:\Program Files\doxygen\bin c:\PROGRA~1\ATT\Graphviz\bin c:\Program Files\IDM Computer Solutions\UltraEdit-32 c:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN c:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\FUNCTION c:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\SAMPLES\REPL c:\Program Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse\lib c:\Program Files\Subversion\bin z:\DEV\WS\CPP\SAS\bin\debug c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\maven-2.0.4\bin z:\Jad c:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_09\bin c:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-ant-1.7.0\bin c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\BIN c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin\pre release c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\bin c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322 c:\PROGRA~1\FICHIE~1\MUVEET~1\030625 Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 1003(FrancisANDRE) GID: 513(Aucun) =0(root)513(Aucun) 544(Administrateurs)545(Utilisateurs) 1004(Utilisateurs du dÚbogueur) Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 1003(FrancisANDRE) GID: 513(Aucun) =0(root)513(Aucun) 544(Administrateurs)545(Utilisateurs) 1004(Utilisateurs du dÚbogueur) SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS USER = 'FrancisANDRE' PWD = '/home/FrancisANDRE' HOME = '/home/FrancisANDRE' MAKE_MODE = 'unix' WSTX_HOME = 'Z:\DEV\WS\openwstx-1.0.1' HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\FrancisANDRE' MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man:' DB2INSTANCE = 'DB2' APPDATA = 'C:\Documents and Settings\FrancisANDRE\Application Data' HOSTNAME = 'idefix' VS71COMNTOOLS = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tool s\' TERM = 'cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel' WINDIR = 'C:\WINDOWS' DB2TEMPDIR = 'C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SQLLIB\' CATALINA_HOME = 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5' OLDPWD = '/usr/bin' USERDOMAIN = 'IDEFIX' OS = 'Windows_NT' ALLUSERSPROFILE = 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users' ANT_HOME = 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-ant-1.7.0' APR_ICONV_PATH = 'C:\Program Files\Subversion\iconv' !:: = '::\' TEMP = '/cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/FRANCI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Fichiers communs' LIB = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Prog ram Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft V isual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\lib\prerelease;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual S tudio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\ SDK\v1.1\Lib\' USERNAME = 'FrancisANDRE' MAVEN_OPTS = '-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Xmx1024m' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '15' MAVEN_HOME = 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\maven-2.0.4' FP_NO_HOST_CHECK = 'NO' SYSTEMDRIVE = 'C:' JAVA_HOME = 'C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_09' USERPROFILE = 'C:\Documents
Re: 1.5.25(0.156/4/2): *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487
Francis ANDRE wrote: I am constantly facing to this recurrent problem: $ make 6 [main] ? (14296) C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x68, top 0x6D, reserve_size 323584, al locsize 327680, page_const 4096 snip Potential app conflicts: Logitech Process Monitor service Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process. You seem to have a Logitech webcam. Its process monitor is known to cause conflicts with cygwin (and is of dubious use at best). Try to deinstall it *and reboot* to see if it doesn't solve your problem. Btw, this is called BLODA interference in the local jargon. See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA . Best regards (Salut) Sylvain -- 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/
Embedded packaging of cygwin without installation
Hello list, I was searching for a packaging option of cygwin without an installation. The requirements are: - possibility of a copy/zip-deployment (no install) - no changes on existing preinstalled cygwin installation The first step was successful with http://www.cygwineasy.tk. But it destroyed the preinstalled cygwins, which I must not change... Does anybody here has an idea, how I could realize the requirements? Best regards, Hans -- 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: Building perl-5.10.0
- Original Message -
From: Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: Building perl-5.10.0
Sisyphus schrieb:
- Original Message - From: Matthew Persico
Well after a bit of googling around, the answer is this:
1) In a Windows cmd command prompt, cd where your cygwin lives - mine
is at c:\opt\cygwin
Mine is at C:\cygwin.
2) cd ..
I first ran 'attrib cygwin' to see what was already there:
Within cygwin you have better tools than the attrib or cacls.
Use your shell and the posix tools, and don't add additional ACL's by
using the explorer!
C:\attrib cygwin
C:\cygwin
3) attrib -r cywgin - that removed the read-only bit. Don't try it in
Windows Explorer; it does not stick
I then ran 'attrib -r cygwin' (even though it doesn't appear to be
readonly to begin with).
4) Then in a Cygwin window, cd /
5) chmod 777 .
That errors out as follows:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /
$ chmod 777 .
chmod: changing permissions of `.': Permission denied
After all that I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /
$ ls -alrt
total 165
dr-xr-xr-x 1 0 root 0 Jan 1 1970 cygdrive
dr-xr-xr-x 1 Rob None 0 Dec 1 2006 proc
d---r-x---+ 7 admin Users 0 Mar 12 12:37 var
d---r-x---+ 2 admin Users 0 Mar 12 12:37 dev
d---r-x---+ 2 admin Users 0 Mar 12 12:37 tmp
r-x---+ 1 admin Users 57 Mar 12 12:38 Cygwin.bat
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Rob None 0 Mar 12 12:38 home
d---r-x---+ 12 admin Users 4096 Mar 12 12:38 ..
d---r-x---+ 12 admin Users 4096 Mar 12 12:38 .
d---r-x---+ 11 admin Users 4096 Mar 12 12:50 etc
d---r-x---+ 11 admin Users 12288 Mar 12 12:51 lib
d---r-x---+ 16 admin Users 4096 Mar 12 12:51 usr
d---r-x---+ 2 admin Users 131072 Mar 15 21:20 bin
r-x---+ 1 admin Users 7022 Mar 15 21:20 Cygwin.ico
With such a mess, first fix your directories, than the files.
Or better start from scratch.
Ummm ... it's a fresh installation ... which I would have thought already
constitutes a start from scratch.
A sane initial permission concept for cygwin would help.
Your big problem is that cygwin has no write access, the user even no
read access! d---r-x---+
The second problem is the +, the special Windows ACL, which should not
be here on a plain new cygwin installation.
Well ... it *is* there. (I had to google for ACL ... just to give you some
idea of the extent to which I am already familiar with permissions.)
POSIX access() doesn't check the additional ACL's, just the underlying
windows calls allow or deny access then. This can be right or this can
be contradictive.
and running 'make' terminates as before.
Besides the obvious not-writable lib/auto dir, note that Dynaloader
requires the generated dll to be +x. Of course the blib/arch dir also as
for every dir.
I made (or at least I think I made) lib/auto writable, but it didn't make
any difference. I changed it so that the permisions now read:
drwxrwxrwx+ 3 Rob None 0 Mar 15 00:18 auto
The error remains unchanged, however.
Module::Install had a recent bug in doing POSIX::access() checks for
writable dirs, which is wrong for your cases. Without the +
(additional ACL's) it works fine.
This is a fairly new installation of Cygwin, btw. (I stuffed up the old
one trying to install rsync and had to delete the lot.) So there could
be some additional stuff here that needs sorting out. I have, however,
already built some perl extensions using the 5.8.8 build that was
installed when I created this fresh build of Cygwin.
And the fact that I can build 5.8.8 from source, but not 5.10.0 leads me
to wonder whether this is instead a query that should be raised on p5p ?
I would rather blaim cygwin and esp. you.
Ok ... I won't raise it on p5p. But I still don't understand why I can build
5.8.8 from source but not 5.10.0. (I would have expected that the very same
issues that prevent 5.10.0 from building would have also prevented 5.8.8
from building. That's obviously not the case, so I can only assume that
build requirements must have changed dramatically between 5.8.8 and 5.10.0.)
Module::Install is also faulty.
Note that perl 5.10 is a bit stricter, mainly in taint checking. Group
writable is forbidden with 5.10 taint now.
Thanks for the reply, Matthew ... appreciated.
I have a ACL sanifier in my /usr/local/bin/fixfacl,
which recursively removes first the additional ACL's for directories,
and then for the files, and simply overwrites it with my preferred
user/group.
But this a special hack just for me and my seperation into executable or
non executable files. I don't care for the additional ACL's.
Don't touch symlinks with setfacl or chmod!
#!/bin/sh
if [ $1=. ]; then
setfacl -f /etc/facl.dir .
find -type d \! -name '.*' -exec setfacl -f /etc/facl.dir '{}' \;
find -type f -executable -exec setfacl -f /etc/faclx.file '{}' \;
find -type f \! -executable -exec setfacl -f /etc/facl.file '{}' \;
exit
fi
if test -d $1;
typing capital T just blinks screen...
I can't seem to enter capital T into my terminal emulator (rxvt windows native).it just blinks the screen instead. Is this the default behavior? What can I do to change it? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/typing-capital-T-just-blinks-screen...-tp16384416p16384416.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: typing capital T just blinks screen...
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:12:52AM -0700, sayeo87 wrote: I can't seem to enter capital T into my terminal emulator (rxvt windows native).it just blinks the screen instead. Is this the default behavior? What can I do to change it? Thanks! Try either removing ~/.inputrc or running it through dos2unix. Barring that: http://cygwin.com/problems.html cgf -- 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: typing capital T just blinks screen...
Hmmm, at the very bottom of my .inputrc file I had a TERM=rxvt entry. I deleted that and now capital T works as it should...strange...thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:12:52AM -0700, sayeo87 wrote: I can't seem to enter capital T into my terminal emulator (rxvt windows native).it just blinks the screen instead. Is this the default behavior? What can I do to change it? Thanks! Try either removing ~/.inputrc or running it through dos2unix. Barring that: http://cygwin.com/problems.html cgf -- 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/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/typing-capital-T-just-blinks-screen...-tp16384416p16386401.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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: typing capital T just blinks screen...
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:42:59PM -0700, sayeo87 wrote: Hmmm, at the very bottom of my .inputrc file I had a TERM=rxvt entry. I deleted that and now capital T works as it should...strange...thanks for pointing me in the right direction! It sounds like you think .inputrc should contain shell commands. That is not how it works. You might want to take a look at the documentation by typing info bash and then searching for inputrc. cgf -- 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/
CMake: CPack dumps core
Hi, I am using CMake for one of my projects and I also want to use CPack but CPack dumps core for anything except cpack --help. -- VH signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: 1.5.25(0.156/4/2): *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487
Hi Sylvain Many thanks for your help... it works as you mention by removing the Logitech software and rebooting!! Francis Sylvain RICHARD a écrit : Francis ANDRE wrote: I am constantly facing to this recurrent problem: $ make 6 [main] ? (14296) C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allo cate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x68, top 0x6D, reserve_size 323584, al locsize 327680, page_const 4096 snip Potential app conflicts: Logitech Process Monitor service Detected: HKLM Registry Key, Named process. You seem to have a Logitech webcam. Its process monitor is known to cause conflicts with cygwin (and is of dubious use at best). Try to deinstall it *and reboot* to see if it doesn't solve your problem. Btw, this is called BLODA interference in the local jargon. See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda and http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA . Best regards (Salut) Sylvain -- 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/ -- 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: Changing cygwin account name (cygwin only)
Subject: Re: Changing cygwin account name (cygwin only) --- Hussein Patwa ha scritto: Hello, Anyway the one final issue that remains is that I want to change the user name that is the default user for my cygwin installation. At the moment it's taking the name from my WinXP account name, so home/Hussein Patwa/. I'd like to change it to something that doesn't have a space, but don't want to rename my computer's account. How can I change the user for cygwin without messing up all the internal file paths, etc? Is there a function that will change the name, rename that folder, and also update all the various internals automatically? modify /etc/passwd this is the file where the Windows user are mapped to the cygwin one Thanks, I got it done. The new named folder appeared, but I wasn't sure whether I could safely delete the old one. Anyway, fortunately or not I had to re-install due to some mistakes on my part (no doubt facilitated by lack of sleep) and edited the passwd file before launching cygwin for the first time. Voila. Now I have just one user, named as I want, and it's good. One more question though, how can I change the way bash (and tcsh as I sometimes use it for a change) display the type prompt? I use a screen reader and it can get tedious hearing it read out the whole [EMAIL PROTECTED] each time the prompt appears. Can I change it to just user, or rename the host part (which is a random laptop name ACER-12345678 for example) to say just [EMAIL PROTECTED] without changing the windows name for it? I'd experiment with passwd, but I'm not sure if the machine name given in there is taken from windows, or whether it would break if I changed it. Hope this makes sense. Sorry, but after all the problems, download, install, delete, re-install cycles I've had this weekend I'm weary of doing anything on my own that might break what's an almost perfect setup now. Thanks for any help. Bear in mind I'm no cygwin guru so please go gentle on me. so it is a good moment to read the user guide ;-) http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#id317355 Guilty as charged. I usually use Google though, maybe it's just that not being all that familiar with Unix, I find it hard to map what I'm looking for to what's in the manual. Take the NT security page you linked me to for example. I didn't understand most of it, just used the example near the foot of the page and hoped for the best, lol. But yes, I should probably spend a weekend 'learning' these things as knowledge for the future. Kind Regards and Best Wishes, Hussein Patwa. -- PatwaNet Tel: 0789 47 595 62 Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/p/Hussein_Patwa/510013486 Get FREE, full-featured IMAP and webmail NOW! Unlimited space, zero spam, what could be better? Respond now and get started today! -- 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/
