Re: XDMCP

2002-11-17 Thread Staf Verhaegen
David Calkins wrote: At 02:57 PM 11/17/2002 +0100, you wrote: David Calkins wrote: I'm trying to connect up to a machine at work using XDMCP. My home machine is Win2k + Cygwin + XFree86. I made sure to use the cygwin setup program to get the latest packages. I'm using the -query

Window-95 (WIN95) and CYGWIN, unable to open display

2002-11-17 Thread G-F-I
Last week (14 of Nov. 2002) i downloaded CYGWIN, installed it on WIN98, all works fine. All WIN-Computers are connected in a LAN with my LINUX-Server. With CYGWIN on WIN98 i can do all, that i need: rlogin, rsh, ftp, telnet. And of course use CYGWIN as X-Server for programs, that run under

Re: Window-95 (WIN95) and CYGWIN, unable to open display

2002-11-17 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Georg, You more than likely just got a bad version of the Cygwin or one of the Cygwin packages... we have been working on fixing a few bugs over the last few weeks. Please run Cygwin's setup.exe again and let it grab any packages that have been updated. Then report to us if you still have

RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link

2002-11-17 Thread Thomas Chadwick
RTFM! Do man xinit from the Cygwin command-line and read the 1st 3 paragraphs. From: Jean-Claude Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:08:07 -0500 Thanks Artur, But that's not quite the info I

RE: XWin.exe -- xinit link

2002-11-17 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Thanks Thomas, The thing is, no matter what I put in those files, it either starts XWin with a border, or not at all. And when I do get it to start up, there is always a console mode window hanging around until I close it, and that closes XWin... *sigh* I AM trying to

Cygwin XFre86 - Redhat XDM login

2002-11-17 Thread Steven Whatley
Hi all, I've been reading man pages, FAQs, and everything I can think of under Cygwin, RedHat 7.1, and the XFree86 web site. I have been trying to figure this out off and on for months. However, I can not figure out how to run an XFree86 session under Cygwin on my WinXP Pro system to get a

Re: X11 and Heavy loadbalancing?

2002-11-17 Thread choice15
- Original Message - From: Papa Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:53 AM Subject: Re: X11 and Heavy loadbalancing? Hi, I *think* I understand what [EMAIL PROTECTED] is trying to do. The normal term for what he is attempting is host

src/winsup/doc how-using.texinfo

2002-11-17 Thread davidsb
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-17 15:49:15 Modified files: winsup/doc : how-using.texinfo Log message: indicate ntsec now on by default Patches:

src/winsup/doc how-using.texinfo

2002-11-17 Thread davidsb
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-17 15:54:12 Modified files: winsup/doc : how-using.texinfo Log message: re. copy/paste in console window: use rxvt instead Patches:

src/winsup/doc how-using.texinfo

2002-11-17 Thread davidsb
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-17 16:25:15 Modified files: winsup/doc : how-using.texinfo Log message: new entry: Is there a better alternative to the standard console window? (yes, rxvt) Patches:

Re: ntsec patch 1: uid==gid, chmod, alloc_sd, is_grp_member

2002-11-17 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 06:56 PM 11/15/2002 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Alternatively I could add it, but add a check for group sid is SYSTEM, and then skip the step. That would be very easy to do, and to remove later when ssh is ready. I like

Re: ntsec patch #4: passwd and group

2002-11-17 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Corinna, Almost same as last week, but with the diff and ChangeLog against current CVS. I also made a small change. Pierre At 09:52 AM 11/15/2002 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Corinna, Here is the ntsec patch #4 diff. As discussed before, the main motivation was to handle more robustly

Re: Problems with installer

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 06:37, Mark Bradshaw wrote: Here. Sorry if there is some confusion. Frankly, considering the number of installs I think the confusion has been minimal. As a side note I've many times been in conversation with a user and suggested that it might be time to can the

Re: SSHD on NT4... (SOLVED!!!)

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: In that vein, can anyone think of other improvements to cygcheck? For instance, maybe it could debug common /etc/passwd or /etc/group problems. Or, maybe it could detect a NetworkSimplicity installation and optionally uninstall it. I

Re: gcc headers

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 07:49, Lapo Luchini wrote: I don't understand completely the logic behind STL headers... e.g. there is map that uses bits/stl_map.h and there is list too but there isn't slist and multimap, though the stl_* version is there to be used. Is this normal/expected? Yes,

Re: gcc headers

2002-11-17 Thread Lapo Luchini
Robert Collins wrote: but there isn't slist and multimap, though the stl_* version is there to be used. Is this normal/expected? Yes, have a look at www.sgi.com/tech/stl Ohh, they're still-not-standard extensions... so either I use them with bits/stl_multimap.h header or I don't use

Discussing NetworkSimplicity (was: Re: SSHD on NT4... (SOLVED!!!))

2002-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: In that vein, can anyone think of other improvements to cygcheck? For instance, maybe it could debug common /etc/passwd or /etc/group problems. Or, maybe it could detect a NetworkSimplicity

Can't build gcc trunk or 3.2 branch under cygwin on Win XP/SP1

2002-11-17 Thread Christian Jönsson
I'm trying to build the gcc cvs sources from the 3.2 branch and trunk but I get the following problem: stage1/xgcc.exe -Bstage1/ -B/usr/local/gcc-binutils/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic

Latest Cygwin DLL release version is line on website doesn't seem to update when the rerelease (-1, -2, etc.) component of version number changes.

2002-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Latest Cygwin DLL release version is line on website doesn't seem to update when the rerelease (-1, -2, etc.) component of version number changes. I think I noticed this back with 1.3.14 too. Is this a manual process, or is it automatic? Max. -- Unsubscribe info:

cygwin release

2002-11-17 Thread Dennis Lubert
Hi, just saw the new cygwin release, and since I don't know who to ask, I ask you ;) Is there any other shell, oder shell-like program I can use cygwin with ? I use is currently with the MS-DOS command-line, but I can't resize this, can't do copy/paste and so on... I would like to use it like

Installing PostgreSQL on Windows using Cygwin

2002-11-17 Thread Chris Schneider
***For those accustomed to setting up on Linux, you do not need to run 'configure' and 'gmake' to install PostgreSQL...Cygwin performs the install for you, however it puts the executables in the /bin dir vs. the default PostgreSQL install dir of /usr/local/pgsql. ***

wine under cygwin under wine under...

2002-11-17 Thread Charles Wilson
Front page slashdot story: http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/11/17/1648220.shtml?tid=125 --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Discussing NetworkSimplicity (was: Re: SSHD on NT4... (SOLVED!!!))

2002-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 08:48:48PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 20:35, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But newbies wouldn't know to run it. 1) Link on the home page. I don't think Link on the home page is ever a serious solution for anything.

dd command problem??

2002-11-17 Thread Bizhong Hu
Hello, I am using cygwin 1.3.10 on win2k system. recently while I try to write some file into a: using following command: dd if=myfile of=a: bs=512 count=1, the computer tried to write and then come back give me error message: dd open a:, Permission denied. I switched to administrator account to

Re: cygwin release

2002-11-17 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Lapo Luchini wrote: Dennis Lubert wrote: just saw the new cygwin release, and since I don't know who to ask, I ask you ;) Is there any other shell, oder shell-like program I can use cygwin with ? I use is currently

libxml2/libxslt binaries: libxml2 version mismatch in xsltproc

2002-11-17 Thread Yves Forkl
In various versions of the libxml2/libxslt binaries, the executable xsltproc distributed with the latest libxslt package was compiled against an older version of libxml2 than the latest release currently distributed. From the most recent Cygwin releases of libxml2/libxslt: $ xsltproc -V Using

Re: libxml2/libxslt binaries: libxml2 version mismatch in xsltproc

2002-11-17 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:17, Yves Forkl wrote: In various versions of the libxml2/libxslt binaries, the executable xsltproc distributed with the latest libxslt package was compiled against an older version of libxml2 than the latest release currently distributed. ... To get xsltproc working

gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem

2002-11-17 Thread Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith
Hello all, Having happily upgraded my Cygwin to include gcc 3.2, I've encountered a show-stopper: The linker can't resolve symbols involving wide C++ strings. Here is an example: #include string #include iostream using namespace std; int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { std::stringwchar_t

Re: gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem

2002-11-17 Thread Danny Smith
gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem From: Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith nigels at nigels dot com To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:42:45 +1100 Subject: gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem ===snip=== $ g++ test.cpp

No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hi, I'm using cygwin 1.3.15 in WinME: Cygwin DLL version info: DLL version: 1.3.15 DLL epoch: 19 When I try to ls a file I know to be there, I'm told it isn't: $ which ftp telnet /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/telnet $ cd /usr/bin $ ls -l ftp telnet

Re: minires + rblcheck works

2002-11-17 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:33:18PM -0800, Andrew Lynch wrote: So I would like to know why is not minires a part of cygwin? There are numerous packages ported to cygwin using it, if I go by the cygwin mailing list. Is it just the lack of someone to package it or is it a policy issue? Here

Re: gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem

2002-11-17 Thread Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith
Hi Danny, Thanks for the hint. Does this mean that I need to rebuild libstc++? My impression is that this is a bug: Either wchar_t is supported, or it isn't, but that should be compile-error rather than link-error. And also, since I've done a full Cygwin install, what more is needed for wchar_t

Re: No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Shing-Fat Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to ls a file I know to be there, I'm told it isn't: No, as you show below, ls works, less doesn't. $ cd /usr/bin $ ls -l ftp telnet -rwxr-xr-x 1 unknown unknown 57344 Jan 6 2002 ftp* -rwxr-xr-x 1 unknown unknown

Re: No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Fred, Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix .exe for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and execute files files given only the base name (sans suffix), other uses (cat, less, or more apropos nm, size or file) demand the full file name,

Re: No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix .exe for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and execute files files given only the base name (sans suffix), other uses (cat, less, or more apropos nm, size or

Re: No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:35:57AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix .exe for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and execute files files given only the base name (sans

Re: No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:35:57AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix .exe for its binary executable files. While Cygwin will locate and execute

Re: No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:05:10AM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if you have a file called foo.exe 'ls -l foo' will work but 'cat foo.exe' won't work. You mean 'cat foo', don't you? Yes. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

No such file, but it's right there

2002-11-17 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Well the files are, of course, ftp.exe and telnet.exe. Cygwin's automagical .exe workarounds seems to not be working when going through a mount where there is no underlying directory. Max. Cygwin follows the Windows convention of using file file name suffix .exe for its binary executable

Re: gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem

2002-11-17 Thread Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith
Digging around the gcc.gnu.org site, came across PR 4764 in the bugs database: http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl *Description:* On Solaris 8, std::wstring is not available, because libstdc++/aclocal.m4 checks for too many functions The

ls problem

2002-11-17 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, I've been using cygwin for 3 years now and last week, I downloaded the latest cygwin from one of the mirrors and everything in well except for one problem. I noticed that whenever I type 'ls -', the output gets delayed for a few seconds. This never happened to me using the old cygwin. I

Re: cygwin release

2002-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, David Starks-Browning wrote: On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Lapo Luchini wrote: Dennis Lubert wrote: just saw the new cygwin release, and since I don't know who to ask, I ask you ;) Is there any other shell, oder

Re: ls problem

2002-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello, I've been using cygwin for 3 years now and last week, I downloaded the latest cygwin from one of the mirrors and everything in well except for one problem. I noticed that whenever I type 'ls -', the output gets delayed for a few seconds.

RE: cygwin release

2002-11-17 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Lapo Luchini wrote: Dennis Lubert wrote: just saw the new cygwin release, and since I don't know who to ask, I ask you ;) Is there any other shell, oder shell-like program I can use cygwin with ? I use is

FW: path to /etc/profile.default

2002-11-17 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Hi y'all, After brushing up on my C++, getting married, etc. etc. I decided to check out the source of cygwin to see if there's anything I can do on the work I kinda promised a while ago. Had to apply a little patch to the CVSROOT though, so to help you incite others to help you, here's the