[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.0.6-1

2004-08-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Subversion (a version control system that aims to be a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community) has been updated to 1.0.6-1 in the Cygwin net release. Upstream changes (1.0.5 -> 1.0.6): -- Version 1.0.6 (19 July 2004, from /branches/1.0.x) http:

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 22:29, Greg Morgan wrote: > More on why I selected "tty ntsec" > http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html. It has always worked. These are useless. Since ssh sessions are running in a pty, they are in "tty" mode anyway, "ntsec" is on by default. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: F_ULOCK, F_LOCK, F_TLOCK, F_TEST missing in unistd.h

2004-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 21:27, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > On Aug 26 22:48, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > Well, I just did my 2 minute due diligence and looked up the > > > difference between advisory and mandatory file locking. Did I read > > > right? Does advisory locking actually in no way prevent >

Re: questions about DLL's: .a, .def, and .dll

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Oliver schrieb: Secondly, the resultant DLL will be linkable from a VC++ program, but the C++ functions in it will not be accessible from code compiled with VC++. Of course, the usual c++ name mangling incompatibilities. And there comes the .def file to help. You can define your needed aliases (ma

Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Moises Deangelo schrieb: My main interest is to work with the mathematics library GMP. In cygwin, the last version that I found was to 4.1.2-1, but in the site of the library GMP, the last version is to 4.1.3. I do not understand anything of Linux or Unix and my English is not anything good. but yo

Re: [BUG] Bad File Descriptor while trying to set up postgresql

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
David A. Cobb schrieb: At first, this stopped me entirely from initializing postgres; however, today the initdb & createdb succeeded -- I don't know what changed. In any case, references to the database directory during the initdb incur a Bad File Descriptor complaint when trying to set permiss

RE: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut (Was Re: xinetd Permissions; IMAP server)

2004-08-28 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Igor wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> [snip] >> Or you could try to get a SYSTEM-owned shell, and remove it from >> there. FWIW, I have a handy shortcut for that (see below). > > Sorry, I forgot to include the promised shortcut. Here it is: > > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c

Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?

2004-08-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini wrote: >> Someone who knows this library, you know tell me how to install the new >> version of her (gmp-4.1.3)??? >it's a female in portoguese? or just in brazil :) > get the cygwin gmp-4.1.2-1 src package. > get the updated gmp-4.1.3 package. > apply the cygwin build script to the ne

Re: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut

2004-08-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hannu wrote: > Hmm... I wasn't able to get your shortcut working. First it didn't fit in > the shortcut wizards textbox. Then after having put it in "isysbash.bat" it > failed with I have a shorter path and it fits in the shortcut target box (on NT4): H:\bin\bash.exe -c "at $(date +%H):$(($(date

Re: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut (Was Re: xinetd Permissions; IMAP server)

2004-08-28 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
> I've attached my "sysbash", which WFM. > Who knows there might be problems with it too ;-P It does display wrong number of seconds to start. Patch attached :) Besides there is small chance, that if run e.g. at 14:07:59 it will not manage to execute at command before 14:08:00, thus sheduling j

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Aug 27 22:29, Greg Morgan wrote: More on why I selected "tty ntsec" http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html. It has always worked. These are useless. Since ssh sessions are running in a pty, they are in "tty" mode anyway, "ntsec" is on by default. just "ntea" shou

Re: Problem with cygwin with KDE3.1.4

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Please do not send personal e-mail with Cygwin or Cygwin/X questions unless specifically requested. Please address all Cygwin-related questions to the main Cygwin mailing list at . Please address all Cygwin/X-related questions to the Cygwin/X mailing list at . Not only will that give you access t

Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > [snip] > Until then, I have a version online at > my site, this works and was the base of the actual port done by the > maintainer: > http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gmp/ > > To build from source with my patch, be sure to read the README: > http:

Re: grep: $ in PATTERN doesn't seem to work properly

2004-08-28 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:14:52AM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > You (Shankar Unni) wrote: > > Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > >> I would appreciate if this DOS-text-ism could be removed. > >> Would applying the above patch have hard to handle side effects? > >> I guess some important scr

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 15:13, Reini Urban wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > >On Aug 27 22:29, Greg Morgan wrote: > >>More on why I selected "tty ntsec" > >>http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html. It has always worked. > > > >These are useless. Since ssh sessions are running in a pty, they are > >in "t

RE: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Igor wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > >> [snip] > >> Or you could try to get a SYSTEM-owned shell, and remove it from > >> there. FWIW, I have a handy shortcut for that (see below). > > > > Sorry, I forgot to include

RE: cygwin nfs server

2004-08-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 08:44 PM 8/27/2004, you wrote: >To check the theory that Z drive is confusing Cygwin, >it is "foundable" using "ls" from "Cygwin bash shell" (via c: drive >reference): >$ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE >/cygdrive/c/cygwin/usr/sbin/PORTMAP.EXE > >Executing it from "Cygwin bash shell"

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Greg Morgan wrote: > OPTION 1.) > ... > I looked at Cygwin /usr/bin/ssh-host-config configuration script and > found the command line that I would use: > ... > OPTION 2.) > ... > The use vim's search and replace functions to > change all the sshd -a -D occurrences to sshd -a "-D -r" like so Optio

Re: [BUG] Bad File Descriptor while trying to set up postgresql -- ATTACHMENTS

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
David A. Cobb schrieb: creating configuration files... chmod: changing permissions of `/var/database/pgsql/pg_hba.conf': Bad file descriptor chmod: changing permissions of `/var/database/pgsql/pg_ident.conf': Bad file descriptor chmod: changing permissions of `/var/database/pgsql/postgresql.conf':

Re: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: [snip] Until then, I have a version online at my site, this works and was the base of the actual port done by the maintainer: http://anfaenger.de/cygwin/cygwin-1.5/gmp/ To build from source with my patch, be sure to read the REA

RE: cygwin nfs server

2004-08-28 Thread Povolotsky, Alexander
>But it's apparently not in your path for some reason. >Add it to the Windows system environment variables and see if that clears up >your problem. I added /usr/sbin to the path in my .bashrc (per above suggestion from Larry Hall) $ set ... PATH='/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cyg

Re: [BUG] Bad File Descriptor while trying to set up postgresql -- ATTACHMENTS

2004-08-28 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 07:20:54PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > David A. Cobb schrieb: > >creating configuration files... chmod: changing permissions of > >`/var/database/pgsql/pg_hba.conf': Bad file descriptor > >chmod: changing permissions of `/var/database/pgsql/pg_ident.conf': Bad > >file desc

Error when running cygserver from command prompt

2004-08-28 Thread landocalrissian
Hello from Gregg C Levine I am getting an error message when I attempt to cygserver from the command prompt: Gregg C [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ net start cygserver The CYGWIN cygserver service is starting. The CYGWIN cygserver service could not be started. A system error has occurred. System error 106

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Aug 28 15:13, Reini Urban wrote: Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Aug 27 22:29, Greg Morgan wrote: More on why I selected "tty ntsec" http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html. It has always worked. These are useless. Since ssh sessions are running in a pty, they are in

Re: May I suggest

2004-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 04:15:27PM -0400, Bruce wrote: >IDUAYCMMfor some people. I don't understand and you can't make me. Actually we need a WDNYSAS entry, I think. "We don't need your steenking acronym suggestions" There really is no need to suggest these things "out of the blue" with n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Release candidate: gcc-3.4.1-1

2004-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:28:31PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Krzysztof schrieb: > >> Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >>> > Is this true? I have 3.3.1 libraries in /lib and >>> > /lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1, but 2.95 libraries only in >>> > /lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-10. >>> >>> There wa

UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread overbored
I had posted this earlier as a sub-question, but I guess not a lot of people saw it I'm trying to get an IMAP server running, and it seems my only option today is uw-imapd. The cygwin package for that is installed, and I created an 'imap' file under xinetd.d with the following: # default:

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 11:08:03AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 27 22:29, Greg Morgan wrote: >>More on why I selected "tty ntsec" >>http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html. It has always worked. > >These are useless. Since ssh sessions are running in a pty, they are >in "tty" mode a

RE: cygwin nfs server

2004-08-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:55 PM 8/28/2004, you wrote: >>But it's apparently not in your path for some reason. >>Add it to the Windows system environment variables and see if that clears >up >your problem. >I added /usr/sbin to the path in my .bashrc (per above suggestion from Larry >Hall) Actually, that was not wha

Re: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut (Was Re: xinetd Permissions; IMAP server)

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. Cygwin-related mail should go to the Cygwin mailing list unless specifically requested. More below. On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: > Hi, thanks for your reply. After spending 10 minutes staring at i

Re: OpenSSH-3.9p1-1, mysterious -r option, and documented steps to resolve "Connection to host closed." message was sshd privilege separation problem

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Greg Morgan wrote: > > > OPTION 1.) > > ... > > I looked at Cygwin /usr/bin/ssh-host-config configuration script and > > found the command line that I would use: > > ... > > OPTION 2.) > > ... > > The use vim's search and replace functions to > > change

Re: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Reini Urban wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > [snip] > > > Until then, I have a version online at > > > my site, this works and was the base of the actual port done by the > > > maintainer: > > > http://anfaenger.de/cygwi

Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: I had posted this earlier as a sub-question, but I guess not a lot of people saw it I don't know much about xinetd and imapd beyond the general basics, but let me take a shot at answering. See below. [snip] Aside #1: how does this know what port to work wi

Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Some corrections below... On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote: > > [snip] > > > Aside #3: if ssh were also under xinetd.d (it's not currently), > > wouldn't that conflict with the ssh service that I already set up as a > > Service (as instructed at

One problem solved --SSHD, new problem using login and passwd

2004-08-28 Thread landocalrissian
Hello from Gregg C Levine There are probably man pages for that issue, and I've looked at the one for login, and also the one for passwd. But I must be missing something there. So here's the question: How can I have a bash shell ask for the password created by running passwd? For example I can re

Re: One problem solved --SSHD, new problem using login and passwd

2004-08-28 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:17 PM 8/28/2004, you wrote: >Hello from Gregg C Levine >There are probably man pages for that issue, and I've looked at the one for >login, and also the one for passwd. But I must be missing something there. >So here's the question: How can I have a bash shell ask for the password >created by

understanding effects of moving addons from site_perl to vendor_perl

2004-08-28 Thread linda w
It's been a few weeks since I've used perl on my Win machine, but noticed an error message about inability to find Win32.pm in my path just for starting up perl. It turned out in my env, I had one of the lib dirs set to /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8 and had it autoloading (not quite sure why at this poi

RE: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread Abraham Backus
For the xinetd question (how does it know what port?), it uses the "imap" string (e.g. "service imap") to look up in /etc/services to discover the port to bind with. Read the link provided by Igor for a more thorough explanation. Also, check that you've restarted your service after adding the ent

Re: Cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines.

2004-08-28 Thread David Chatterton
There was some discussion back in April regarding problems with loaded hyperthreaded machines including thread activation errors and other strange problems. Were these problems identified and resolved, or are they still outstanding? Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: UW-IMAPD woes and LOTS of related questions about xinetd

2004-08-28 Thread overbored
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: [snip] Did you add imapd to /etc/services? Well, I never even knew about this file before, but there's a line saying: imap 143/tcpimap4 #Internet Message Access Protocol Isn't there a UW-IMAP mailing list? The above question doesn't seem

RE: Package READMEs online? (Was Re: How to install an update of the library GMP in cygwin?)

2004-08-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> What about > $ egrep "search-regex" /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/* > > Must everything be on the web? > Maybe, because Google will not pickup the cygwin README's > then. And people trust Google more than the content of their harddisc. They can search the web with Google faster than they can search th