Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Holden
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 8/6/07, Steve Holden wrote: Joel Rubin wrote: pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files being spammed just a few

Re: rysnc 2.6.6 under cygwin 1.5.24-2 hangs on WinXP pro SP2, doesn't seem to be historical blocking io issue

2007-08-06 Thread Joel Harrison
Guys I appreciate the input, unfortunately, it doesn't seem that this particular issue is the same as the historical issue with blocking vs non-blocking io, since rsync hangs immediately, not after some period of time. I'm downloading binaries, not compiling. I'm not sure how to proceed with troub

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/6/07, Steve Holden wrote: > Joel Rubin wrote: > > pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* > > comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. > > > > > > Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files > > being spammed just a few lines

Re: mcshield.exe hangs update installation

2007-08-06 Thread Olumide
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: The best solution would be to uninstall McAfee (I'm serious!) But if you don't want to do that, try disabling real-time scanning. I did it differently. I "asked" McAfee to consider setup.exe a low risk process :-) . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: OpenSSH services stops after 14 seconds

2007-08-06 Thread Carlo Florendo
Craib, Andrew wrote: I've got 2 Win2003 SP1 servers where Open SSH appears to have installed correctly. The service will start, run for 14 seconds and then stop. The sshd.log file shows the following 54 [main] sshd 1404 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 2 6979793 [main] sshd 1

Re: mcshield.exe hangs update installation

2007-08-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Olumide wrote: Hi - I've got the version 1.5.23 of cygwin (downloaded from http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/cygwin ) and I'm trying to update my installation. The older setup executable (setup.exe) that I have recommends that I download a new version if I have trouble installing -

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Holden
Joel Rubin wrote: pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files being spammed just a few lines of text and all I want to do is forward the text to t

mcshield.exe hangs update installation

2007-08-06 Thread Olumide
Hi - I've got the version 1.5.23 of cygwin (downloaded from http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/cygwin ) and I'm trying to update my installation. The older setup executable (setup.exe) that I have recommends that I download a new version if I have trouble installing -- which happens

RE: cygwin 1.5.20-1, spinning pdksh, 100% CPU

2007-08-06 Thread Igor Peshansky
FYI, there is no need to Cc: me -- I read the list. I set my Reply-To: for a reason -- please make sure your mailer respects it. On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Ernie Coskrey wrote: > > Quite possibly. There were changes to signal handling since 1.5.20, > > IIRC. Unless I'm mistaken, there's even a patch f

Re: "net use" command works locally on the sytem where cygwin is installed but using rsh doesnt work

2007-08-06 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, jaimin bhavsar wrote: > Hi There, > > I am trying following command locally : > > net use z: \\ > > works > > but the same thing if I try using rsh It does not work > > rsh -l Administrator net use z: > \\ > > I get following message : > > The syntax of this command is

RE: cygwin 1.5.20-1, spinning pdksh, 100% CPU

2007-08-06 Thread Ernie Coskrey
> Quite possibly. There were changes to signal handling since 1.5.20, > IIRC. > Unless I'm mistaken, there's even a patch for a race condition in > process handling code (though it's not in 1.5.24, I think). > I just want to make sure I understand this - are you talking about a change that h

"net use" command works locally on the sytem where cygwin is installed but using rsh doesnt work

2007-08-06 Thread jaimin bhavsar
Hi There, I am trying following command locally : net use z: \\ works but the same thing if I try using rsh It does not work rsh -l Administrator net use z: \\ I get following message : The syntax of this command is: NET USE [devicename | *] [\\computername\sharename[\volume] [

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread Joel Rubin
pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files being spammed just a few lines of text and all I want to do is forward the text to the Securities and Ex

[ADMINISTRIVIA] We soon will be blocking legal disclaimers

2007-08-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:18:43PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >First, dang your legal disclaimer is long. This is just a heads up - in keeping with long-standing site policy, we soon will be blocking legal disclaimers detected in email. So, if you have previously sent email here with a disc

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/6/07, Joel Rubin wrote: > The PDF's in question are part of pump and dump spam via botnets so I > see no legal or ethical reason to respect any expressed desire of the > author as to how they may be used. > > I googled that XPDF didn't respect the no copy/no print flags in PDF's > but the ver

Re: Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess

2007-08-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/6/07, jason.stott wrote: > > Hello, > > We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user > Citrix server environment. > > One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted > each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after ru

Re: White screen & can't amend buffer size

2007-08-06 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, gags_78 wrote: > Hey folks, > > I installed cygwin on my local machine there recently. before > when I used cygwin I got the black screen with green cygwin icon that > denoted it in the taskbar. > > Now I get the following. > http://www.nabble.com/file/p11979162/cyg

Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess

2007-08-06 Thread jason . stott
Hello, We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user Citrix server environment. One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after running the commands): Your group is curren

Re: Fwd: Permissions issue with managed mounts

2007-08-06 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andrew Kruse wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a new managed mount point and am running into > some problems. > > The exact command I am running: (after successfully creating both > /usr/.managed/portage and /usr/portage as myself in the cygwin shell) > mount -o managed `cy

RE: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread Bob McConnell
I seriously recommend that you consult with a qualified copyright attorney before you act on your first assumption. You are likely to find that there are risks you have not considered. I also believe that asking the Cygwin team to publish an application that can circumvent those features just to h

Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread Joel Rubin
The PDF's in question are part of pump and dump spam via botnets so I see no legal or ethical reason to respect any expressed desire of the author as to how they may be used. I googled that XPDF didn't respect the no copy/no print flags in PDF's but the version that I got with Cygwin does and give

Using gcov with DLLs

2007-08-06 Thread Sweval, Jevin A
How can I get gcov coverage to work when making DLLs? I compile with `-fprofile-arcs -ftest-coverage` and link with `-lgcov` yet I get undefined references to `___gcov_init' and `___gcov_merge_add'. I see that somebody else on the mailing lists had trouble doing this a while back but he was nev

OpenSSH services stops after 14 seconds

2007-08-06 Thread Craib, Andrew
I've got 2 Win2003 SP1 servers where Open SSH appears to have installed correctly. The service will start, run for 14 seconds and then stop. The sshd.log file shows the following 54 [main] sshd 1404 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 2 6979793 [main] sshd 1404 fork: child -1 - Cr