NetworkSimplicity SSH (the cause of: bin dir not created during cygwin setup)
Jim Langston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cygwin installed now, this is a follow up report, as promised, as to the mess I found in the registry. ... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin1\mounts v2 Subkeys /bin /etc /ssh /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /var all set incorrectly off of: e:\Program Files\NetworkSimplicity\ www.networksimplicity.com/openssh is distributing a cut down ssh/cygwin environment. This is the cause of all these problems. The don't seem to be providing the source to their distribution, or even linking to cygwin.com (although they do mention the name cygwin). :-( Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: NetworkSimplicity SSH (the cause of: bin dir not created during cygwin setup)
-Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb;ukf.net] Sent: 25 October 2002 14:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NetworkSimplicity SSH (the cause of: bin dir not created during cygwin setup) Jim Langston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cygwin installed now, this is a follow up report, as promised, as to the mess I found in the registry. ... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin1\mounts v2 Subkeys /bin /etc /ssh /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /var all set incorrectly off of: e:\Program Files\NetworkSimplicity\ www.networksimplicity.com/openssh is distributing a cut down ssh/cygwin environment. This is the cause of all these problems. The don't seem to be providing the source to their distribution, or even linking to cygwin.com (although they do mention the name cygwin). :-( Max. They supply source http://www.networksimplicity.com/openssh/source/ but its not easily found to, and no link to cygwin.com as Max says -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: NetworkSimplicity SSH (the cause of: bin dir not created during cygwin setup)
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:48:25PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Jim Langston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have cygwin installed now, this is a follow up report, as promised, as to the mess I found in the registry. ... HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin1\mounts v2 Subkeys /bin /etc /ssh /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /var all set incorrectly off of: e:\Program Files\NetworkSimplicity\ www.networksimplicity.com/openssh is distributing a cut down ssh/cygwin environment. This is the cause of all these problems. The don't seem to be providing the source to their distribution, or even linking to cygwin.com (although they do mention the name cygwin). :-( Hmm. The last time I looked, they were compliant with the GPL even if they were a little disingenuous about what they were providing. This is rather frustrating though both because it took the original poster so very long to figure out that he'd installed a variant cygwin release and because said variant caused such problems. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
