RE: [dmehler@siscom.net: trouble again downloading.]

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: trouble again downloading.] Anyone interested in helping this guy? Doesn't a subject like trouble downloading

RE: MD5 support

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:05 AM Ok. There is a setup-md5.ini in /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin (home of setup.exe and setup.ini). I generated it against my local release directory so there may

RE: cygwin ld import library issue fix (removing unused _nm_ symbols)

2002-05-02 Thread Ralf Habacker
Hi Charles, (*) tentative because I can't actually test it myself against HEAD, given the pre-existing problem with binutils HEAD on pe386. The unwanted symbols, which this patch avoid, seems to be exported in some packages. When this patch is applied, perhaps it makes sense to update the

SETUP: Is chooser integration as setup page really a good idea?

2002-05-02 Thread tvoverbe
Hello, Robert has been waiting with including Gary's patch to integrate the chooser as a 'normal' setup page. I am wondering if it actually is a good idea to do it. My main worry is the limited size of the 'normal' setup window compared with the size of the now separate chooser window.

RE: SETUP: Is chooser integration as setup page really a good idea?

2002-05-02 Thread Morrison, John
Can't the window be resizable? It would be nice to integrate it because if it looses the focus you can't alt-tab to it atm :( J. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Also if (some time) functionality is added to show the ldesc than we even need more space (or a separate

RE: SETUP: Is chooser integration as setup page really a good idea?

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Morrison, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 8:50 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SETUP: Is chooser integration as setup page really a good idea? Can't the window be resizable? It would be nice

RE: Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:46 AM Also, after checking out setup: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin-apps co setup I also get setup/libgetopt++, setup/cfgaux (and zlib and, bzlib, of

RE: Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:52 AM To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup. Required AUTHORS and NEWS files are missing. Required by what? Cheers, Rob

RE: Error in libgetopt++ from the setup build directory [WAS: Re: Error in configuring setup.]

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:57 AM http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html (which is linked from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps) documents the bootstrap.sh requirement for libgetopt++, and provides

RE: Error in libgetopt++ from the setup build directory [WAS: Re: Error in configuring setup.]

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 7:14 AM To: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: Error in libgetopt++ from the setup build directory [WAS: Re: Error in configuring setup.] BTW, the CVS has a configure file in the setup

Re: Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-02 Thread Earnie Boyd
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:52 AM To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup. Required AUTHORS and NEWS files are missing. Required by

RE: Error in configuring setup.

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:27 PM To: Robert Collins Cc: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: Error in configuring setup. Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: RFP: boost libraries

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Tishler
Dave, On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 05:50:09PM -0500, David Abrahams wrote: Sorry it took me so long to reply; I was in Curacao at the C++ committee meeting. Being anything but a Unix-style distribution expert (hell, I don't know anything about Windows distribution/installation either) I'm not

RE: RFP: boost libraries

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
Heh, Currently I use the regex boost library in a project, and it occurred to me that as they are a really good resource, so it would be a help to the community to have them available... I certainly don't have time, nor much of an itch myself. There's plenty of work that could be done in

rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-02 Thread Stipe Tolj
Hi there, could someone of the gurus arround tell a (half-)guru :)) what the standard way would be if packages have rebase problems? See cygwin@ list for recent posts about apache rebase problems. Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: setup.exe and inuse files for X

2002-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:58:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: I think I've got a handle on this... looks like read only (-r--r--r--) files don't delete properly, so setup fails to overwrite them. Patches gratefully accepted, it's going in the TODO for now. I recall having sent a patch for

RE: MD5 support

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:55 AM Thank you. Is it ok with you if I call it setup.ini and put it in a dir called test after inserting ../ in front of every instance of 'release/'? I guess so. I

Re: MD5 support

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:44:01AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:55 AM Thank you. Is it ok with you if I call it setup.ini and put it in a dir called test after inserting ../ in

RE: MD5 support

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:13 AM If you've got the bandwidth and disk space... cool. I figured that a single copy of setup.ini getting mirrored was a low-cost solution (vs a completely separate site).

Re: rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: Stipe Tolj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:10 AM To: cygwin-apps Subject: rebasing new packages?! Hi there, could someone of the gurus arround tell a (half-)guru :)) what the standard way would be if packages

RE: rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:28 AM I thought that the last time this subject came up, the consensus was that Jason's code should go into the cinstall area (now, of course, that means the setup repository).

RE: setup.exe and inuse files for X

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:44 AM To: CygWin Apps; Cygwin-Xfree Subject: Re: setup.exe and inuse files for X On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:58:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: I think I've got a handle on

RE: rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:45 AM Well, now libstdc++ is allowed, right? (assuming you can find and install one, since nobody's stepped forward with mingwlibs-for-cygwin package). Exactly, in fact libstdc++

RE: MD5 support

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 11:27 AM Actually, I decided to just creat a version of setup.exe (based on the setup200202 branch) which silently skips extra the md5 element in install: and source: tags. This

Re: rebasing new packages?!

2002-05-02 Thread Danny Smith
--- Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Collins wrote: Yes, and at that point we had two issues: 1) We couldn't use libstdc++, let alone the STL. The STL still isn't available - beyond whats in libg++-3. 2) I think that Jason's design needed some tweaking. Well,

unresolved external to XShmAttach

2002-05-02 Thread arun
Hello, I am compiling an X Windows program in win98 using cygwin/xfree86. But when I link I get an unresolved external to function XShmAttach. Any of u know what the problem is. thanx

Can't type letter e in password box

2002-05-02 Thread J S
Hi, I'm running Xfree86 4.2.0 on cygwin 1.3.10, and have had set my keyboard to xmodmap.uk. All the keys seem to work fine in xterm, but when I run the netscape directory 4.13 console, a login box comes up,and it won't let me print the 'e' character in the password box. I tried this with

can't open XDisplay

2002-05-02 Thread arun
Hello, I am compiling a linux XWindows application in win98 using cygwin/xfree86. But when I execute the program, opening XDisplay fails, due to the following code fragment dpy = XOpenDisplay(getenv("DISPLAY")); if (dpy == 0) { fprintf(stderr,"Can't open X display\n"); exit(1); }

MIT shared memory extension

2002-05-02 Thread arun
hello, Does cygwin/xfree86 support MIT shared memory extension. I am trying to port some code that uses these functions on linux. and I get a linker error. thanx

Re: F1 binding on twm failed.

2002-05-02 Thread Christian P. Momon
Harold Hunt wrote: Christian, This question is really off-topic for this mailing list. I am not agree (please, see below cause i think Cygwin/XFree doesn't give events to the window manager and so it is a bug). ... Thanks a lot for information links and usage about twm. When you

Re: setup.exe and inuse files for X

2002-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:58:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: I think I've got a handle on this... looks like read only (-r--r--r--) files don't delete properly, so setup fails to overwrite them. Patches gratefully accepted, it's going in the TODO for now. I recall having sent a patch for

Re: XFree86 Displaying on Desktops Shared with Netmeeting or (fwd)

2002-05-02 Thread Harold Leatherman Hunt II
I don't think this was cc'd to the list. Looks like I'm a genious. We'll just see what my discrete math final says about than in ten minutes... :) Harold Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 2 12:06:56 2002 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;

Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the semi-manual procedure that predates the release of Setup.exe packages. I want to know how I should handle switching over to the Setup.exe-based installation of XFree86/Cygwin. Should I just download the packages and install over the existing

problem with start Xfree86

2002-05-02 Thread mmira
I`ve installed Cygwin/XFree86, but I can not run it. It show error : XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server 127.0.0.1:0.0 In FAQ is this : Server Test Series release Test44, released on 2001-08-15, changes the maximum number of clients from 32 to 1024 by passing the

RE: problem with start Xfree86

2002-05-02 Thread Harold Hunt
Mi, ..so I`ve downloaded this XWin-Test44.exe.bz2 and run it, but another error: Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed' You really didn't want to do that. Test44 is wy older than the 4.2.0 release. Please revert to the previous executable. The 4.2.0 server is

RE: setup.exe and inuse files for X

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:44 AM To: CygWin Apps; Cygwin-Xfree Subject: Re: setup.exe and inuse files for X On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:58:36PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: I think I've got a handle on

Re: SSH -R problem

2002-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:12:08AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: That makes sense... but doesn't that again break something else? What it might break is the case for which linger was added in the first place, i.e. processes terminating and Windows flushing

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Mellman Thomas
-Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:17 PM To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: using Windows links An interesting side effect: I have a shortcut (Desktop.lnk) on my $HOME that was originally

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread fergus
If it helps anybody, which it might not : in the entire Cygwin provision there are I think a dozen *.lnk files. I found that 5 of them induced objections from Norton (invalid shortcuts). As was pointed out to me on this list, this is a Windows/Norton glitch, not a Cygwin glitch ... but it bugged

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Pierre Muller
At 08:15 02/05/2002 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: No problems, but is all the following expected behaviour? Having uncompressed the new .dll and copied it to /bin: 1. had to make /proc using mkdir /proc 2. ls -al / doesn't actually show /proc 3. ls -al /proc shows (something like) dr-xr-xr-x

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache-1.3.24-3

2002-05-02 Thread Stipe Tolj
I've updated the version of apache in release/apache to 1.3.24-3. Changes to the previous release: * This release includes a patched behaviour for the detach daemon mode (1.3.24-2), where httpd detaches from the calling parent process if invoked without any flags. This is the normal behaviour

Re[4]: trouble again downloading.

2002-05-02 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dave, I can neither confirm, nor deny this behaviour. I've tried hard to reproduce it but to no avail :( I'll take a look at the source code this night - hopefully I'll see something :) The disturbing thing about your issue is that no one (except you) has reported this behaviour. Usually

RE: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/or signal()

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Michael Beach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:16 AM thread - lock thread - state=run thread - signal main - lock main - test state (passes) calls pthread_cond_wait(). Doh. I need some real serious sleep. Linux

Re: using pine to run links to view url's

2002-05-02 Thread Mark Cooke
On 1 May 2002, Eduardo Chappa spoke unto us wif: *** Mark Cooke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) I know this may be off topic, but I've selected links as my web brower :) in pine (using the full path - /usr/bin/links), but when I go to view a :) url from pine, it just returns that it has

RE: mc

2002-05-02 Thread Emre Turkay
Thanx, it worked. But I also needed to add the --with-slang option. $ ./configure --with-ncurses --with-included-gettext --with-slang $ make $ make install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Frank Schmitt Sent: Wednesday, May 01,

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Chris January
No problems, but is all the following expected behaviour? Having uncompressed the new .dll and copied it to /bin: 1. had to make /proc using mkdir /proc Yes, same way you have to mkdir /cygdrive if you want it to show up in a directory listing I'm afraid. 2. ls -al / doesn't actually

RE: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/or signal()

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
Michael, that patch I included in my last email fixed the problem, and didn't introduce any regressions as far as I could tell, so I've checked it in. If you build yourself a cygwin dll, or grab the next snapshot to be generated, it will be fixed. Jason - -this- bug may be the one that

RE: libiconv

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:16 AM Come on Charles, you have a complete version of libiconv, ready for upload, what should the volunteer do? Repackage it to install in /usr instead of /usr/local ?

RE: 'redownload' aka download again and setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Ronald Landheer
Please write back (to me or the list, your choice) whether you use the DELIBERATE 'download again' functionality of setup.exe or not. And if so, how often and for what purpose. I don't, ever. Ciao, Ronald -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

RE: New version of setup - prerelease available

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Alan Dobkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:54 AM When I run this new version (2.216) and select Install from Local Directory, as soon as setup gets to the Progress window (before listing any available packages), the CPU

Re: cron and UNC files

2002-05-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Haven't done this myself. I don't know. It looks like a user rights problem, but I couldn't get it to work either. Maybe someone else on cygwin@ will know. Max. Mike Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I can see what the problem is but when I try to start cron as a specific user I get a

RE: Setup.exe problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Paul G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Setup.exe problem? Hi folks, Not sure if this is correct mailing list. It is. Tried using latest version of setup.exe on

mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi all, I got a problem when running mv : i have the directory abc and want to rename it as Abc (or something that changes the capitalisation only). I get the following result : $ mv abc Abc mv: cannot create directory

Re: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/or signal()

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Beach
On Thursday 02 May 2002 21:28, Robert Collins wrote: Michael, that patch I included in my last email fixed the problem, and didn't introduce any regressions as far as I could tell, so I've checked it in. If you build yourself a cygwin dll, or grab the next snapshot to be generated, it

Compiling/running code that used to work okay!

2002-05-02 Thread Rick Hellicar (QMP)
Hi all, I'm modifying some old code I last compiled in October 2000. The code uses a 3rd-party DLL, which comes with an import library. It used to link without fuss against that import library and run perfectly. I've moved on to cygwin_1.3.10, gcc version 2.95.3-5, and I now get a host of

Re: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/orsignal()

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Tishler
Rob, On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:28:54PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: Jason - -this- bug may be the one that killed python. Could you retest with a new dll when you have a few free moments? Bingo! This one is finally squashed! I am running the Python test_threadedtempfile regression test in

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Mellman Thomas
Just because it isn't recognized as a Cygwin symbolic link doesn't mean it doesn't exist as a file as far as Cygwin is concerned. The thing is, the Windows-created Shortcut is called Desktop.lnk and I'm trying to create simply Desktop. There is NO file called Desktop. But ln(1) fails,

CVS and binary mounts

2002-05-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
I think current port of CVS-1.1 does have a little problem with CVS/* files being read in binary mode... e.g. if CVS/Root has \r\n it prints cannot access cvsroot\rCVSROOT (you can read only CVSROOTces cvsroot as it overwrite the line itself). This is of course not a serious problem as an

make

2002-05-02 Thread Tim Orr
Ok, I'm new to this list. I was using cygwin a few months ago and changed computers... I just installed cygwin on my new computer but can not get make to be recognized. I keep getting this message: bash: make: command not found bash: gcc: command not found obviously gcc was when I tried to

Re: make

2002-05-02 Thread Arek \(James Potts\)
Did you install gcc and make when you installed Cygwin? They're no longer installed by default, you have to tell the installer you want them. James Potts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: Tim Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:40 AM

Re: Resource temporarily unavailable - bash fails but works with old versions

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 2 May 2002 11:29:03 -0400 Satya Nemana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry. Please ignore this as a false alarm. Here is an update. It does not occur anymore even with my new cygwin path and got fixed as follows. I could isolate this problem by getting rid of .profile which was same as

Re: make

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 02 May 2002 15:40:43 + Tim Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm new to this list. I was using cygwin a few months ago and changed computers... I just installed cygwin on my new computer but can not get make to be recognized. I keep getting this message: bash: make: command

Re: Patch: Re: Bug in stat()?

2002-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:54:18PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake wrote: [...] 2002-04-30 Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] * path.cc (hash_path_name): Improve hash function strength. $ diff -u path.cc.bak path.cc --- path.cc.bak Tue Apr 30 16:32:52 2002 +++ path.cc Tue

automake tests reveal other bugs... cp.exe and libtool

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
So I was building automake-1.6.1 and ran its self tests, which uncovered bugs in libtool-devel-20020316 and in cp.exe. I'll report the libtool bug to that list as well, but the cp.exe bug needs fixin'... Two unexpected failures: pr300-ltlib (libtool bug) subobj9 (cp.exe bug -- or

Re: using pine to run links to view url's

2002-05-02 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Mark Cooke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :)Could you please post the way that you set links as your browser. I :) will find a solution for you. Also, have you read :) /usr/doc/Cygwin/pine-4.11-1.README? The solution may be in there. I :) am working on expanding that document.

Re: Mathematical Functions

2002-05-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mr. Paul, [ This is entirely non-Cygwin-specific. ] Apart from the FORTRAN business, about which I know nothing... If you're running the ordinary BASH-in-a-console-window Cygwin, which is the default for a Cygwin installation when you launch using the Cygwin Icon on the desktop or in the

Re: make

2002-05-02 Thread Tim Orr
To Arek and Michael, That is exactly what I did not do. I thought I had selected all of the packages to install... works great now! thank you both, tim From: Michael A Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Michael A Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Winston Gutkowski
Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the situation. Thanks Winston Gutkowski -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Elmar Haneke Sent:

How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

2002-05-02 Thread Vsevolod Buzinov
Hello all! Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? Thanks! -- 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: Virus results

2002-05-02 Thread Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG
My computer here at work is required to do a daily scan with Norton. They also push updates when I log in in the morning. I have seen no hits of this kind. After the first post a few days ago, I also did a full scan with up-to-date Norton at home, where I run Cygwin also. Again, no virus was

Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, [ This message duplicates one with identical content (below this paragraph) to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so please don't redirect this message to that list. ] I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the semi-manual procedure that predates the release of Setup.exe packages. I want to know how I should

Re: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 2 May 2002 11:04:06 -0700 Winston Gutkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the situation. To date, every alarm about setup.exe has been either an

RE: New version of setup - prerelease available

2002-05-02 Thread Alan Dobkin
--On Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:41 PM +1000 Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, can you build setup from the -src tarball, and run it under gdb? If it crashes then, you can type\ 'bt full' and send me or the list the output. I haven't tried compiling the source yet, but using the

automake error

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Labhard
Just downloaded and replaced my cygwin1.dll with the latest containing /proc feature (cool!). But now automake does not work. So I did a complete setup of cygwin. Still automake does not work. Replaced the cygwin1.dll with the previous one. Automake works. Replaced it again with the newest.

Re: using pine to run links to view url's

2002-05-02 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** On Thu, 2 May 2002 I wrote: :) try /usr/bin/links _URL_, including the quotes. Does that work? Are you :) using bash as your shell? Just for the record in the archives, the additional symptom is that the original poster is using the bash shell and the problem is that the bash shell does not

Re: rfp: libiconv

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles schrieb: [...] Determine which patches should be sent on to Bruno Haible for inclusion in the upstream version. Advocate their adoption on that list. Monitor that list for information that may affect the cygwin port. That is easy...(monitoring), the other point, we both tried to

Re: The updatedb script is not included when binary package is installed

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
john schrieb: I hope the title explains the problem in full. http://62.138.63.18/cywgin/findutils/ Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-05-02 Thread Dave McLaughlin
Thank you very much -- that did it for me. I didn't try the first form, but the second form worked just fine. This enabled me to send my output to a shared network printer. Dave Charles Wilson wrote: Try this $ export PRINTER=computerprintername (or maybe) $ export

Re: advise on using fetchmail

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jason schrieb: On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:09:44PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: fetchmail -u mark results in this error all the time: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T I have never seen the above

Re: Color Output with Printf

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Edge
Westley Weimer wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 2 May 2002 14:41:24 -0700 (PDT): Clearly it is possible to get red text in a dos prompt window: cygwin does it somehow. My personal theory is that the normal cygwin version is doing some special setup before main is called that causes stdout

RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
There is no virus in setup.exe as distributed by Cygwin. I think there's been enough reports on this list to confirm that this is the case. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Chris January wrote: Chris Chris, Cool! Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? I'm torn between writing no, and no, not yet. The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complaining they typed rm

How to set system PATH for cygwin on nt?

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Bodenstab
My background is Unix and I'm *very* new with NT... so this has, I'm sure, a very simple solution. Trying to get inetd to work, the doc's say to set the system PATH. How? What file contains the settings? Somehow, NT pickeds up the PATH I had in my autoexec.bat when I open a DOS window... but

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: Two things: if /proc/registry isn't writable, cating 1 to /proc/registry/.writeable won't work - without special case code. I'd suggest /proc/sysopts/fs/registry/writeable. Two, why not have two options: writeable nextwrite one is persistent (until all cygwin

Re: problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Bodenstab
David Starks-Browning wrote: This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the archives. I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that enabling ntsec solved the problem for me. But there are lots of things to check, like the correctness of your /etc/passwd and

Re: problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:44:50 -0500 Dave Bodenstab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Starks-Browning wrote: This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the archives. I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that enabling ntsec solved the problem for me. But there

rebase (a) solution (?)[was: Problems starting apache, DLL base address conflicts?]

2002-05-02 Thread S . L .
Stipe, [...] Any hope to shorten this last method ?! Yep, do we (package contributors) have to rebase packages before tarballing them, or what's the standard way to do it? [...] No, I didn't mean that. What I was thinking, was if rebase couldn't actually be included in cygwin distro, and