Please upload: docbook-xsl-1.61.3-1

2003-06-23 Thread Marcel Telka
Hi. Please upload new docbook-xsl packages: http://tortuga.etc.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl-1.61.3-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tortuga.etc.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl-1.61.3-1.tar.bz2 and remove old 1.60.1-1. Thank you. -- +---+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-23 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still a little leery, as the already pointed out limitations - are there machines with vector instead of bitmaps Dlg fonts. As I already mentioned before, that is not the issue at all. It's nice for debugging to wonder if the actual

Re: Please upload: docbook-xsl-1.61.3-1

2003-06-23 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: Hi. Please upload new docbook-xsl packages: http://tortuga.etc.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl-1.61.3-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tortuga.etc.sk/cygwin/docbook-xsl-1.61.3-1.tar.bz2 and remove old 1.60.1-1. Done. Please send an announcement in a couple of hours.

Re: Please upload: xmlto-0.0.14-1

2003-06-23 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Marcel Telka wrote: Hi. Please upload new xmlto packages: http://tortuga.etc.sk/cygwin/xmlto-0.0.14-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tortuga.etc.sk/cygwin/xmlto-0.0.14-1.tar.bz2 Done. Please send an announcement in a couple of hours. Thanks, Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney Systems

Re: Setup.exe: Font issue

2003-06-23 Thread Robert Collins
Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote: Hi Robert, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm still a little leery, as the already pointed out limitations - are there machines with vector instead of bitmaps Dlg fonts. As I already mentioned before, that is not the issue at all. It's nice for debugging

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-23 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: ... Whilst I'm tidying up the names of the include guards, I might as well tidy up the locations of the include guards (with respect to the comments at the start of the file). Is this ordering OK? : ... Please do - this is fine. OK, I've committed the

Re: Homogenizing include guards - and copyright comments

2003-06-23 Thread Robert Collins
Max Bowsher wrote: OK, I've committed the bulk of these changes - that is, all files which have both and inclusion guard and a standard-form copyright comment. Here are some comments on the remainder: md5.h rfc1738.h: Imported from elsewhere, so I'm not changing them. Cool. resource.h: Special

Script program

2003-06-23 Thread William J. Moulton
Is there a cygwin version of the script utility available? William J. Moulton

Re: Script program

2003-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:28:44PM -0500, William J. Moulton wrote: Is there a cygwin version of the script utility available? William J. Moulton Wrong mailing list. Redirected.

Re: Xfree issues under Windows 2000

2003-06-23 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
Just a thought, try editing the /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file. Look in the [Xdmcp] section, change Enabled=False to Enabled=True Then restart kdm. Jeremy Ken C wrote: Shut down the already running login manager with /etc/init.d/xdm stop (maybe this file is kalled kdm or gdm or how the

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread msg
Alexander Gottwald wrote: 'rdesktop.exe' will not open a session on the remote display. 'rdesktop.exe' does open a session window on the console display if invoked from a console command prompt. is the DISPLAY variable set? If not, then rdesktop does not know where to display the

Re: What is a good Windows Manager for cygwin/XFree86

2003-06-23 Thread David Arnstein
The best window manager might be no window manager at all. If you start XWin.exe with the command line option -multiwindow, then you won't need a window manager. Instead, your X11 applications will all appear in separate windows, managed by Microsoft Windows. The cygwin guys have done a lot of

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread Earle F. Philhower, III
Howdy Michael, -- Original Message - Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal? 'rdesktop.exe' doesn't honor a command-line display argument and setting Windows and Cygwin environment variables 'display' and 'DISPLAY' has no effect.

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread msg
Earle, Thanks for your reply. Yes, rdesktop on Unix works well for us too but we need to build a standalone Win2k-serving-Xterminals-with- Windows-Desktop-sessions solution. Other than Citrix, rdesktop seems to be the only alternative?? Michael Grigoni Cybertheque Museum Earle F.

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread Earle F. Philhower, III
Howdy Michael, -- Original Message - Subject: Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal? Thanks for your reply. Yes, rdesktop on Unix works well for us too but we need to build a standalone Win2k-serving-Xterminals-with- Windows-Desktop-sessions solution. Other than Citrix,

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew Markebo
hi! Just a couple of quick thoughts here.. * I don't think rdesktop can display the xfree sessions from windows. * xfree can't send stuff like word and so on from windows to a x-session on other machine. What is sent is to be X-applications. /Andy / msg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Earle,

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread msg
Andrew Markebo wrote: hi! Just a couple of quick thoughts here.. * I don't think rdesktop can display the xfree sessions from windows. Indeed, this was never the intent * xfree can't send stuff like word and so on from windows to a x-session on other machine. What is sent is to

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread terry
'rdesktop.exe' doesn't honor a command-line display argument and setting Windows and Cygwin environment variables 'display' and 'DISPLAY' has no effect. Do an xhost + before you telnet in, and then do the set DISPLAY after you log in - then run rdesktop. terry

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew Markebo
| On a test machine using Cygwin/Xfree86 one may telnet from the | X-terminal and establish an xterm (bash) session but then invoking | 'rdesktop.exe' will not open a session on the remote display. | 'rdesktop.exe' does open a session window on the console display if | invoked from a console

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread msg
Hi again, Even if rdesktop has some server type mode, it wouldn't let you share Windoze desktops: XWin.exe only knows about X windows that it creates, and doesn't send events or examine non X windows... Let me clarify how we're using 'rdesktop.exe' (and rdesktop on Unix) to show the network

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread msg
Andrew Markebo wrote: rdesktop.exe, compiled how? It needs to be compiled with X11 support to be displayed on the X11 terminal. Indeed...I didn't know anyone would remove X11 suppoprt from the sources: Chris January provided the binary and said it was built on Cygwin tools from the 1.2.0

Re: rdesktop.exe session on an X-terminal?

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew Markebo
I think I have found your 'problem', assuming you are using rdesktop.exe from http://www.atomice.com/rdesktop.html.. If I have gotten stuff right, The target of this rdesktop.exe is to do a rdesktop running natively on a windows-machine, no X11 stuff needed during link (gcc -mno-cygwin

Cygwin/XFree86 With Remote KDE 2.2.2

2003-06-23 Thread Amir Safavi
Hello, Currently, I have to log into a Debian linux machine remotely and do some of my work there. I have on KDE 2.2.2 installed on that machine. Basically, I ssh in, and startkde. KDE loads up fine, antialiased fonts and all. After several minutes however, either KWin (kde's wm) crashes, or

A more general problem actually

2003-06-23 Thread Amir Safavi
Sorry, since I posted the last message, I've done more testing... I installed KDE3 and some more apps, and now it seems like there's a more general problem with my setup. Basically, I startx in cygwin, ssh into my debian machine, and start program from there after setting the display and xhost.

new cygwin assignment received from AJ Reins

2003-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
Patch away! cgf

Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows

2003-06-23 Thread Ling F. Zhang
Hi: In your case 1, it looks like you ran that command from bash. No, I ran it from WINXP command prompt It's pretty obvious why it didn't work - bash needs POSIX paths. You had unquoted spaces, which bash interpreted as argument separators, and it also interpreted backslashes as escapes.

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Subject: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me Windows XP - High Explosive edition? ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Request Help for link problem

2003-06-23 Thread Jiang zhou
I have build a lib. It create h file and lib file in usr/local/include and usr/local/lib dictionary. But when I create application using this lib, the link problem occur. The lib is Jrtplib come from http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jori/jrtplib/jrtplib.html. I can build this lib. But when I compile the

RE: win32 dia and HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% fix

2003-06-23 Thread John Morrison
From: Soren A. this isn't a BUG in Cygwin, this is a FEATURE. I personally *want* Cygwin to honor my setting of $HOME (%HOME%) because I keep my user dir files outside the Cygwin fs hierarchy (makes my life easier if I decide a total wipe-and-reinstall of my Cygwin installation is

Re: Request Help for link problem

2003-06-23 Thread gilles civario
Jiang zhou wrote: I have build a lib. It create h file and lib file in usr/local/include and usr/local/lib dictionary. But when I create application using this lib, the link problem occur. The lib is Jrtplib come from http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jori/jrtplib/jrtplib.html. I can build this lib. But

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
Gary R. Van Sickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me Windows XP - High Explosive edition? ;-) Heehee. I didn't choose it (to install). HE = Home Edition. -- Unsubscribe info:

User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread andrew brian clegg
Hi folks, My username on one of my machines has had a space in it since long before I started using cygwin on it. I've run into one or problems because of this now, so for the time being I've set up another account with a different name with no space. However I'd like to just change the name

Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

2003-06-23 Thread Alan Miles
All, I have a file called /etc/skel/a/b/c/d.txt, /etc/skel/e/f.txt Under Linux (and I certainly believe the same is true for UNIX), anything, directory(s), file(s) etc put in /etc/skel gets put into the user's home directory when the sys admin creates the account and its home directory.

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
Soren A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Attachment decoded: cygcheck.2003.Jun.22 --==_=_37794.70672821764D1BD3B9== Sheesh. Did Gmane trip me up? There WAS all this text before the attached `cygcheck` output:

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
Is this any help ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php -Original Message- From: Soren A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 June 2003 10:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me Soren A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

2003-06-23 Thread John Morrison
From: Alan Miles All, I have a file called /etc/skel/a/b/c/d.txt, /etc/skel/e/f.txt Under Linux (and I certainly believe the same is true for UNIX), anything, directory(s), file(s) etc put in /etc/skel gets put into the user's home directory when the sys admin creates the account and its

openssl question

2003-06-23 Thread james lankton
I have configured open ssl-0.9.7b with the command ./ but am having a problem with the make command. Here is the result. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd openssl-0.9.7b [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/openssl-0.9.7b $ make making all in crypto... make[1]: Entering directory

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.3-2

2003-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.3-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:06:03AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Jason Tishler wrote: New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.3-1.

Re: User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: Hi folks, My username on one of my machines has had a space in it since long before I started using cygwin on it. I've run into one or problems because of this now, so for the time being I've set up another account with a different name with

Mysterious Cron error solved

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Jervis
I'd been trying to get cron running for a day or three. Came accross someone who had the EXACT same problem as me: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00624.html But found no solution. Now I have solved it, so here is my solution: /var/run was set to be owned by my user. Not the SYSTEM

RE: User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Yes. Cygwin only really cares about the SSID. Say my local administrator account is 'Administrator' with an SSID of S-1-5-21-11-11-11-500. However, I want cygwin to call it 'root' and call it's home directory 'admin'. So the line in /etc/passwd would look like this:

Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Eager
jordi wrote: As win FAT's doesn't allow any filename with that kind of characters (\,/,:,*,?|), would like to know if a sometimes used character like colon :, can be mapped through cygwin as it just does with slashes. Could be possible? Thanks. There are a few packages (Perl for example) which

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this any help ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like it is what I need, but it's only made available as a file in the NT/Win2K Resource

No userid

2003-06-23 Thread Fox, Michael K
I have installed Cygwin on a Win2K box here at my job. The Cygwin environment appears to operate (I can open the Cygwin terminal and execute commands successfully.) However, Cygwin has installed with a strange userid. When I type whoami the answer is 'SMSCliSvcAcct'. My home directory is

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
Soren A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like it is what I need, but it's only made available as a file in the NT/Win2K Resource Kit, Hehe. Altavista to the rescue, when Google fails. Thx agin. S. A. --

Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's jarcommand)

2003-06-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: David M. Karr wrote: It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I can't use Cygwin setup to uninstall it. Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with. Is there any way we can persuade cgf to build the gcc distribution without

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Soren, On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:18:26PM +, Soren A. wrote: Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is this any help ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like it is what

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Soren, On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:14:02AM +, Soren A. wrote: Soren A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I understand that the ftpd has to have privs like SYSTEM and that looking at past List messages, Jason Tischler says run it as s/Tischler/Tishler/ LocalSystem user.

Re: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's jarcommand)

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Shankar Unni wrote: Larry Hall wrote: David M. Karr wrote: It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I can't use Cygwin setup to uninstall it. Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with. Is there any way we can persuade cgf to build the gcc

cygwin presentation ???

2003-06-23 Thread Baer, Scott [LBRT/LNA]
Hello, I'm getting ready to do a presentation to our local LUG on cygwin.. and wondered if anyone has put something together that I can work from ? If not, I'm sure I can come up with something.. (basically the way I use it,.. remote X... but I know cygwin is so much bigger than that) Just

RE: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's jar command)

2003-06-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: I know I shouldn't answer a question with a question but you intend this to be rhetorical, right? Never mind. I'll bite. If you or someone else is interested in providing a gcj package, I expect Chris would work with that person to avoid any package clash. No, that

Re: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's jarcommand)

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall
Shankar Unni wrote: Larry Hall wrote: I know I shouldn't answer a question with a question but you intend this to be rhetorical, right? Never mind. I'll bite. If you or someone else is interested in providing a gcj package, I expect Chris would work with that person to avoid any package

Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows

2003-06-23 Thread Ling F. Zhang
Just based on what I have learned so far...I figure out a more geniune way of how this works: in cygwin, I made a shell script quo that goes like: #!/usr/bin/bash # this program takes user input (STDIN) and put a quote around it... # why do I have to do this? well, I can't figure out a way in dos

Cygwin DLL init error

2003-06-23 Thread Doru Carastan
Hello, Maybe I am missing something here but I am getting consistent errors when I try to run apps linked against a cygwin1.dll built from sources. I have tried with source from cvs, cygwin-1.3.22-1-src.tar.bz2 and cygwin-snapshot-20030617-1 without success. The build commands I used are:

download the older version of openssh

2003-06-23 Thread Arnold Wang
Can someone tell me whether I can still download the older version, 3.5p1-3, of openssh? It fixed the display problem I'm experiencing. With the latest version, 3.6.1p1-2, I downloaded, certains NT console applications, like net commands, won't have its output displayed through ssh session.

Inline-0.44 fails test on Cygwinperl 5.8.0 (xpstd article)

2003-06-23 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello Cygwinauts, Perl5-Porters, Ingy, The current release of Inline.pm won't build for me on the latest cygwinperl (Gerrit's most recent release, 5.8.0-3). I tried running 'test' from CPAN's shell and then went into manual analysis mode, produced some output build logs (attached to this message)

Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows

2003-06-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Matthew, FYI, I've been able to associate the following with the .pl extension (in Explorer) and have it work: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c '`/bin/cygpath -u %1`' There was no need for extra batch files or anything else. The above also worked when the path contained spaces, but I haven't tested

Re: download the older version of openssh

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall
Arnold Wang wrote: Can someone tell me whether I can still download the older version, 3.5p1-3, of openssh? It fixed the display problem I'm experiencing. With the latest version, 3.6.1p1-2, I downloaded, certains NT console applications, like net commands, won't have its output displayed through

Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Eric Benson
I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there a recommended way to handle this

Re: Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Eric Benson wrote: I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there

FAQ Alert - Re: Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall
Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Eric Benson wrote: I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist

Re: Request Help for link problem

2003-06-23 Thread Jiang zhou
Thank you. I have get help from Dave Fletcher. The main problem is the lib is written by c++. So we have use g++ to using it. -- Best Regards Jiangzhou gilles civario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jiang zhou wrote: I have build a lib. It create h file and lib file

Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?

2003-06-23 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
At 08:58 AM 6/23/2003 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: There are a few packages (Perl for example) which create file names with colons. Windows doesn't like this. Perl creates no such files, thus Windows does not complain. It would be good if Cygwin mapped these into something compatible, say, an

Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

2003-06-23 Thread Charles Wilson
Similar to my message of 9-May-2002, but updated with regards to python-2.2.3-2, the official rebase-2.2-2 package which was not available last May, and the recent tk-8.4 release (tcltk-20030214-1). To compile PIL on cygwin, you need: gcc/binutils python-2.2.3-2 rebase-2.2-2

Re: Script program

2003-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:28:44PM -0500, William J. Moulton wrote: Is there a cygwin version of the script utility available? William J. Moulton Wrong mailing list. Redirected. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Weird error message? What does it mean?

2003-06-23 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
law find / -name \*.lnk -exec grep -is Documents and Settings {} \; -print /tmp/oldlinks find: /pagefile.sys: No such file or directory C:\bin\find.exe: *** WFSO timed out for after longjmp. I was trying to find all links that referenced Documents and Settings, since I moved users to 'home'. My

is this known bug still known to be around? (re: rsync)

2003-06-23 Thread book-girl
Often, after transfering a large number of files, rsync will hang when done (src + dst on same machine). I remember this being mentioned ages ago as a problem. It seems to still be around. Same as it ever was -- all files seem to be transferred, it just doesn't want to exit when done. (rsync:

RE: unexpected behavior: setup v2.340.2.5

2003-06-23 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
-Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 11:39a I don't know what you mean by beta. If you mean packages installed when you press the Exp radio button in setup, then that's how it works. You pick Exp to install any experimental

Re: Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

2003-06-23 Thread S . L .
Chuck, Similar to my message of 9-May-2002, but updated with regards to [...] LONGING, for the same 'bout gtk2 suite. Especially now, when tml advertises http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/ where it's quite a patch suite, nice organized with win32/cyg-xfree86 backends. Except a