Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
Ok, final feedback and bug-killing time folk. A big thanks to Michael, Jason, Pavel, Gary, and everyone else who has helped make this latest incarnation of setup.exe the best yet. Chuck, your fix is in there :}. Chris, thank you for humouring me with regards to that... 300 line changelogs tend

ttcp package ready

2002-02-18 Thread Stanislav Sinyagin
Hi all, The voting results regarding my package (TTCP) are the following: one voted positive, one has not decided, none objected. Please allow me to maintain it. All the 3 files are TARed and accessible from http://briefcase.yahoo.com/ssinyagin I can send the attachment of you like. The

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Keener
Robert Collins wrote: Ok, final feedback and bug-killing time folk. I just built from CVS and the big thing I noticed in the past and still seems to be there has to do with doing an Install from Local Directory after doing the Download. It appears the download is working fine but when I

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Brian Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Collins wrote: Ok, final feedback and bug-killing time folk. The other couple of things I've noticed are probably open for preference so I will throw them out for general consensus: 1) If I have a group of

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Brian Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:06 AM Subject: Re: Setup Robert Collins wrote: Ok, final feedback and bug-killing time folk. I just built from CVS and the big thing I noticed in the past and

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've found the cause, and stopped the silent failure (fix is in setup200202). I'm working on correcting the behaviour now. And a complete fix is in CVS now. Rob

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:27:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: 1) If I have a group of packages installed and I select the Test option to see what packages are available for in Test should all the packages I have installed that do not have a Test Version show Uninstall or should they should

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Setup On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:27:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: If the question is Should 'upset' add a dummy Test entry for every

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Brian Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Setup Robert Collins wrote: I have emailed trying to start a discussion on this at least twice. My contention

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Keener
Robert Collins wrote: Setup doesn't *default* to uninstall. Two things have to happen: The user has to select Test (which means 'give me a testing distribution'). Their has to be no valid testing version for that package. But if I select test (which means 'give me a testing package not a

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Brian Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] But if I select test (which means 'give me a testing package not a testing distribution') No it doesn't. Clicking on a package version is how one selects per package versions. and the only test version available is a

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Brian Keener
Robert Collins wrote: But if I select test (which means 'give me a testing package not a testing distribution') No it doesn't. Clicking on a package version is how one selects per package versions. That's where our view differs because I see the radio buttons as a way of selecting the

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: Brian Keener [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: Setup Robert Collins wrote: But if I select test (which means 'give me a testing package not a testing distribution') No it doesn't.

Re: Setup

2002-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:46:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Setup doesn't *default* to uninstall. Two things have to happen: The user has to select Test (which means 'give me a testing distribution'). Their has to be no valid testing version for that package. If I click on Test, then a

Re: XDCMP

2002-02-18 Thread Patrick Jaromin
Joop- Thanks for the reply. I made the changes you specified, but still no joy. Digging a little deeper into the Xsetup script, I noticed the call to domainname. This system (as it turns out) was not properly setup on a domaindomainname was returning null. Running domainname and adding the

[PATCH]Correct setup.exe log file line endings

2002-02-18 Thread Michael A Chase
The log_save() currently writes ' instead of \n at the end of log lines that don't already have \n at the end. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish

[PATCH]setup.exe passwd-grp.bat being created when not needed

2002-02-18 Thread Michael A Chase
Currently /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.bat is opened before the need for it is determined. This results in the file always being executed even though it is normally empty. This patch may eliminate the flashing console window at the end of setup.exe when no action is expected. I left the

Re: Avail for test: tiff-3.5.7-1

2002-02-18 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Charles == Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Any objections if I remove the 'test' status on this release? Has Charles anybody experienced a regression failure? (Has anybody even tested Charles it?) It works fine with xemacs. Charles --Chuck Ciao Volker

Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?

2002-02-18 Thread Mattias Brändström
After searching the FAQ for the phrase 'mkpasswd -d' I must report that it does not exist within the FAQ. Do you have any other information on where I can RTFM? On 17 Feb 2002, Alex Malinovich wrote: Have you considered RTFM? Or more specifically, the FAQ. Look for mkpasswd -d. -Alex On

Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?

2002-02-18 Thread Andrew Markebo
/ Mattias Brändström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | After searching the FAQ for the phrase 'mkpasswd -d' I must report that | it does not exist within the FAQ. Do you have any other information on | where I can RTFM? Well there is a users guide at http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/, more exaktly

Re: Core dumped just only with strcat!

2002-02-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Just tried it - it doesn't dump core here. Is this snippet taken from a larger source ? If so maybe it would be usefull to paste it all. Maybe the core happens somewhere else... Still you can try to debug this by yourself - compile with -g option and launch gdb. Then come back to the list if you

Re:Sprintf issue

2002-02-18 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, i tried to modified a C program running on linux and make it running on windows with gcc for cygwin: like this: sprintf(arpbuf, arp -s %s `echo %s | sed -e s/:/-/g` piaddr (lease - ip_addr), print_hw_addr (lease - hardware_addr.htype, lease -

Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread axellec
Hi, I've got a problem concerning file permissions between CygWin/Windows and Unix. 1. I've checked-out a file on a Unix server (my login is axelle): colibri{axelle}[/home/axelle/papers] ls -al total 160 drwx--x--x 3 axelle nss 512 Feb 15 16:58 ./ drwx--x--x 9 axelle nss

Problem with ~

2002-02-18 Thread Colm Aengus Murphy
Hi folks, I've installed the latest version of Cygiwn (1.3.9) last friday (15-Feb-02) and my environment no longer works as it did before. (the last time I downloaded was 13-Nov-01 Cygwin 1.3.5.2) Specifically the ~ behaviour is broken. my .tchsrc contains the line: source ~$user/.alias This

Re: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Hack Kampbjørn
Axelle Apvrille wrote: Hi, I've got a problem concerning file permissions between CygWin/Windows and Unix. 1. I've checked-out a file on a Unix server (my login is axelle): colibri{axelle}[/home/axelle/papers] ls -al total 160 drwx--x--x 3 axelle nss 512 Feb 15 16:58 ./

Re: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Axelle Apvrille
Hi, Thanks for your answer. But the problem I have does not concern group ids, but user ids (or so I believe). I have made the fix you suggested. Okay so now, my group id is no longer None but Administrators. I have : ls -al total 108 drwxr-xr-x 1 Administ Administ0 Feb 18 11:37 .

cygwin 1.3.9 login problem

2002-02-18 Thread Vadim Lebedev
Hello I'm trying to use cywin sshd to login to my pc from remote location (using password authenitficattion) without succes I've traced the problem down to login.exe, which get failuer while executing One thing to note is that sshd is started not as service but simply from the command line

Re: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Hack Kampbjørn
Axelle Apvrille wrote: Hi, Thanks for your answer. But the problem I have does not concern group ids, but user ids (or so I believe). I have made the fix you suggested. Okay so now, my group id is no longer None but Administrators. I have : ls -al total 108 drwxr-xr-x 1 Administ

Re: Re:Sprintf issue

2002-02-18 Thread David Means
This sounds more like a sed problem than an sprintf problem. First, can you get the sed command to work at the cygwin prompt? If not, it's quite possible that the environment from which your running the program does not have sed in its' path. You should also try this: `echo yada | sed

Re[2]: Sprintf issue

2002-02-18 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Jorge, Please, can you check the return value of the system () call ? Also are you trying to run the compiled program from the cygwin shell or from the windows command prompt ? Output of cygcheck -r -s -v would be vuseful too. This is a problem which was brought to the mailing list some

AW: Re[2]: Sprintf issue

2002-02-18 Thread KRISTOF . DOFFING
Hello Jorge. To answer the second part of your question: char buffer[1024]; strcpy(buffer,print_hw_addr (lease - hardware_addr.htype, lease - hardware_addr.hlen, lease - hardware_addr.haddr)); char * pos = buffer; while (*pos != '\0') {

Build a residual income ....

2002-02-18 Thread 2002 Stars
Build a residual income from time you spend on the Internet . Did you know that the internet is growing at an incredible rate of 160,000 new members per day? Did you know that everyday, ordinary people, just like you and I, are finding incredible ways to enhance our income by taking

1.3.9:diff (side by side ) bug (NT and 98 )

2002-02-18 Thread joseph . collard
Hello, I found a bug related to diff (and sdiff) on NT 4.0 or Win98 (2) The file cygcheck.out is attached The Test case is as follows: The Command $ diff -a -b -B -i -y -W 72 base.txt modified.txt diffout.txt The files base.txt modified.txt and diffout.txt are attached Expected : 3 | , 3

Specifying a .def file for use with libtools libraries

2002-02-18 Thread Stephano Mariani
Hello, Is there a way to use something similar to .def files with libtool. I have no way of limiting the export list, and the -export-symbols file directive in the libname_la_LDFLAGS seems not to work. I could go and rename all the symbols to avoid conflicts, but I would rather not... there has

Re: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Axelle Apvrille
Last I checked emacs was not part of the cygwin distribution, so we should find out which emacs you're using. Start with something simpler. Try to find out if it's a cygwin issue, a emacs thing or a combination. Thanks that's a good idea. $ touch testing $ echo Testing write access with

RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Robinow, David
If I log on the Unix machine, check out my file, then go to my NT machine and try to modify it using Emacs, Emacs complains it is unwritable (though Cygwin shows I have rw- access, and if I right click on the file on Win2000, the read-only check box is not checked). As a matter of

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-18 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, Well, this news server certainly does not address the issue of archive searching, as it goes back only a few days (as of this writing, the earliest posting still there is from Feb. 06, 2002). My own local archive of [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes back to Jan 01, 2001. Using Eudora I can do

Problem with ~

2002-02-18 Thread Chris January
I've installed the latest version of Cygiwn (1.3.9) last friday (15-Feb-02) and my environment no longer works as it did before. (the last time I downloaded was 13-Nov-01 Cygwin 1.3.5.2) Specifically the ~ behaviour is broken. my .tchsrc contains the line: source ~$user/.alias

how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?

2002-02-18 Thread Chris January
/ Mattias Brändström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | After searching the FAQ for the phrase 'mkpasswd -d' I must report that | it does not exist within the FAQ. Do you have any other information on | where I can RTFM? Well there is a users guide at http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/, I

Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?

2002-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:31:58PM -, Chris January wrote: / Mattias Br?ndstr?m [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | After searching the FAQ for the phrase 'mkpasswd -d' I must report that | it does not exist within the FAQ. Do you have any other information on | where I can RTFM? Well

Updating the DLL build instructions

2002-02-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
Anyone interested in providing more up-to-date build instructions for the cygwin web site? html, please. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Specifying a .def file for use with libtools libraries

2002-02-18 Thread Charles Wilson
You do know that there are TWO (or more) different versions of libtool in the cygwin distribution, right? One is based on libtool-1.4.2 and uses dlltool to generate the DLL. The other is based on libtool-cvs(2002-02-02) and uses gcc/ld directly to build the DLLs. (Note that there are TWO

RE: Specifying a .def file for use with libtools libraries

2002-02-18 Thread Stephano Mariani
I am using the current libtool-devel (libtool-devel 20020202-1) provided under cygwin (updated this morning 11:?? GMT). I have coded the package from scratch, and libtoolized... I have AC_PREREQ(2.52) in my configure.ac. FYI: I have read the docs, and have been using libtool for a while... just

Re: how does cygwin see what user I am in windows?

2002-02-18 Thread Mattias Brändström
Thanks! Now everything works absolutely spiffing!! Andrew Markebo wrote: Well there is a users guide at http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/, more exaktly (well to be honest I searched for mkpasswd, and assumed that the stuff about -d would be told)

Process handle not closed when child process terminated

2002-02-18 Thread Chris January
If you launch a Cygwin program, such as bash that launches new processes, and then they terminate, the original process (e.g. bash) still holds an open handle for the terminated process. This handle never gets closed. Is this a minor bug or intentional behaviour? Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe

Re: Updating the DLL build instructions

2002-02-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Anyone interested in providing more up-to-date build instructions for the cygwin web site? html, please. If you are talking about generic How do I build a DLL using cygwin tools - I think I volunteered for that at some point in the past, but I haven't had a

Unix style ping

2002-02-18 Thread AM Shaikh
HI Is the UNIX like ping been ported for Cygwin ? if no any plans ? I tried compiling NetBSD/FreeBSD source .. but no luck. I am specifically trying to use the SOURCE ADDRESS in the Ping request and the default windows Ping doesn't allow it ... Pls advise Thanx AMS

Problem with ~

2002-02-18 Thread Ronald W. Cook
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg01272.html -- 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: Problem with ~

2002-02-18 Thread Chris January
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-12/msg01272.html This message fails to explain why tcsh segfaults. Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Possible patch for gdb

2002-02-18 Thread AJ Reins
The gdbint.info file contains duplicate START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY entries. Proposed patch: --- gdbint.texinfo.old Wed Apr 18 15:27:14 2001 +++ gdbint.texinfo Sun Feb 17 22:01:52 2002 @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ @include gdb-cfg.texi @dircategory Programming development tools.

Proposed patch for bash (completion spec problem related)

2002-02-18 Thread AJ Reins
Possible patch for bash to fix the problem noticed by Jason Tishler in msg: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00581.html --- subst.c.old Mon Nov 5 07:19:50 2001 +++ subst.c Mon Feb 18 16:58:50 2002 @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@ break; i = te /* + member (string[te],

Possible patch for time

2002-02-18 Thread AJ Reins
Time.info is missing START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY entries that are used by install-info. Proposed patch: --- time.texi.orig Wed Jun 12 12:40:29 1996 +++ time.texi Mon Feb 18 09:20:02 2002 @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ @end iftex @ifinfo +@dircategory Utilities +@direntry + *

Re: print command setting in config.ps for cygwin

2002-02-18 Thread Gene C. Ruzicka
. Dunno if this will help your specific problem, but Rick Rankin posted an lpr program to this mailing list in July 2000 (check the mailing list archives). He and I have discussed adding that to the cygutils package in the near future, but if you're in a hurry you can grab the source

proftpd on cygwin?

2002-02-18 Thread dave
Hello, Has anyone ever tried to compile proftpd on cygwin? If so, what all is involved? Thanks. Dave. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: