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2005-02-05 Thread Daniel Newhouse
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Test testing 1...2...3

2005-02-05 Thread Daniel Newhouse
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Re: Startin cygwin-x as guest user or any non-administrator user

2005-02-05 Thread Paul Griffith
This problem has been solved in the mailing archive. Here is snip from my modified startxwin.bat file. ---snip REM REM Cleanup after last run. REM REM Mount local user %TEMP% as /tmp mount -f -u -t %TEMP% /tmp if not exist %CYGWIN_ROOT%\tmp\.X11-unix\X0 goto CLEANUP-FINISH attrib -s

Re: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-05 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Carlo Florendo wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 01 February 2005 14:57 On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:20:54PM +0200, Jani Tiainen wrote: list-subscriber

List/setup-run problems

2005-02-05 Thread linda w
It seems the cygwin server is still down, so I don't know exactly when this note may post -- but as failsafe -- I wanted to try to do a package download from one of the mirror sites, but I can't get past the point where setup tries to download the list of mirror sites. It would be a helpful

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-02-05 Thread linda w
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 1 22:00, linda w wrote: I've tried twice to build from CVS, but never seem to have gotten a full build to run w/no errors (not to mention having a woefully inadequate machine to build such a project on...(sigh)). Did you read

gethostbyname() problem?

2005-02-05 Thread HelpBytes
The following code performs a lookup at a DNS block list, the DNS has an entry for this, and returns 127.0.0.2. In Linux using gcc, and in Windows using Visual Studio, this code works fine, and outputs 127.0.0.2. However, in cygwin, it simply outputs 202.149.167.69., it seems no matter what is in

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

2005-02-05 Thread Jeff . Hodges
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:43:04AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 31 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon problem. Super. Tho, will fixing the icon problem also fix the behavior

Re: /dev/hda overwritten on local cygwin mirror

2005-02-05 Thread Carlo Florendo
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 3 15:59, Carlo Florendo wrote: Truth to tell, I was annoyed by cgf, Igor, and Dave's responses and that was great since, for the first time, I experienced the meanness of this list, which is nice and entertaining. I'm honestly shocked. Apparently I'm

RE: How to start up cygwin so all users use the same home dir and environment?

2005-02-05 Thread Jesper Vad Kristensen
Dear Dave, -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Jesper Vad Kristensen Sent: 03 February 2005 14:18 I'm trying to do something odd (I'll explain the why later), but here's what I would like to do: All users here are in the same Windows Domain, and I would like an

Re: cygrunsrv problem

2005-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 11:56, Jeremy Deither wrote: When trying to install DynDNS Updater as a service, I keep getting error messages such as Given path doesn't point to a valid executable. My question is how should I format the --path string to recognize C:\Program Files\DynDNS Updater\DynDNS.exe? I

Re: pwck

2005-02-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:47:37PM -, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Zbynek Vrtiska, Certicon a.s. Sent: 02 February 2005 12:33 Hi, I would like to use command pwck. I found out, that in RedHat it should be in a package named

Re: FindNextFileA (fhandler_disk_file::readdir) Bizareness under NTFS - Resolved

2005-02-05 Thread Reini Urban
Mark Paulus schrieb: I finally got enough time to track down this issue, and it comes down to a perl issue. Seems that a perl script is creating the file, but it isn't doing a close on the file, so it's making the file hang around a bit too long (like maybe it's a race condition of NTFS). Anyway,

Re: slow handling of large sets of files?

2005-02-05 Thread Reini Urban
Brian Dessent schrieb: Ken Sheldon wrote: Not only Cygwin apps incur this large performance penalty. Something similar happens with the cmd.exe prompt command DIR, with the windows file explorer, or with IIS (FTP server). This only seems to happen in the directory structures created by my CygWin