On Feb 27 22:22, Charles Wilson wrote:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
(4a) rewrite syslog-ng-config to use it
Okay, thanks.
Don't get me wrong. I was not suggesting that you should do all these
conversions. It would be nice to have one or two template scripts, like
iu-config and
On Feb 27 13:00, Jari Aalto wrote:
Included in Debian unstable. Needs votes.
http://packages.debian.org/nrss
This is quite nice RSS reader with easy configuration file:
$ cat ~/.nrss/config
browser /usr/bin/lynx \%u\
columns 2
add
On Feb 27 18:58, Jari Aalto wrote:
http://cygwin.cante.net/iprint/iprint-1.3-1-src.tar.bz2 \
http://cygwin.cante.net/iprint/iprint-1.3-1.tar.bz2 \
http://cygwin.cante.net/iprint/setup.hint
Uploaded.
Thanks,
Corinna
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On Feb 28 11:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Actually it's deprecated to use the SYSTEM account for services unless
the service really needs SYSTEM permissions. In XP Microsoft
started with introducing the LocalService (S-1-5-19) and
NetworkService (S-1-5-20) accounts which have much less rights
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According to Jerry D. Hedden on 2/26/2008 7:18 AM:
| The newly added distribution 'colordiff' is set to install by default
| in setup.exe. Please change it such that it needs to be selected to
| be installed. Thanks.
|
I noticed that current
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Subject: Re: cygwin-services-helper [was: Re: [ITA] inetutils-1.5-1]
| only reason we need another account for those of our services which have
| to switch user context w/o password
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I'm about to upload tar 1.19.90, which adds the --lzma command-line
option. Should I make tar depend on the lzma package?
Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk
on this list a while ago about switching to lzma,
Eric Blake wrote:
Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk
on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, instead of bzip2, for
files installed via setup.exe, since it gives the best compression ratios
to decompression speed tradeoff among all the popular
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According to Brian Dessent on 2/28/2008 9:07 PM:
| The --lzma option only works if lzma
| is properly installed.
|
| This would also allow the new automake dist-lzma to function.
automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
Eric Blake wrote:
automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
rather than 'tar --lzma'.
Right; I meant having lzma (vicariously) in Base would also help users
of automake.
Brian
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According to Brian Dessent on 2/28/2008 9:32 PM:
| Eric Blake wrote:
|
| automake's dist-lzma already functions if you install lzma (I know,
| because I used it when creating m4 1.4.10b); automake uses 'tar | lzma'
| rather than 'tar --lzma'.
|
|
CVSROOT:/cvs/src
Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-02-28 11:11:12
Modified files:
winsup/utils : ChangeLog mkpasswd.c
Log message:
* mkpasswd.c (main): Simplify generating SYSTEM entry. Add entries
for LocalService and
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Module name:src
Branch: cr-0x5f1
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-02-28 11:11:18
Modified files:
winsup/utils : ChangeLog mkpasswd.c
Log message:
* mkpasswd.c (main): Simplify generating SYSTEM entry. Add entries
for
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Module name:src
Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-02-28 17:57:42
Modified files:
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Log message:
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leave through
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Module name:src
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Modified files:
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Log message:
* exceptions.cc (_cygtls::handle_exceptions): When being debugged,
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
===
Homepage: http://packages.debian.org/iprint
License : GPL
A simple utility to print out the decimal, octal, hexadecimal, and
binary or ascii values of the characters fed to it on the command
line.
CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE
==
Hi,
I wonder why on cygwin we can't use chown with numeric id that don't exist in
/etc/passwd, /etc/group [1] ?
On linux this works perfectly [2]
Matthieu
[1]
$ touch /tmp/toto
$ chown 12345:12346 /tmp/toto
chown: changing ownership of `/tmp/toto': Invalid argument
[2]
$ touch /tmp/toto
$
On 28 February 2008 13:59, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
Hi,
I wonder why on cygwin we can't use chown with numeric id that don't exist
in /etc/passwd, /etc/group [1] ?
Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs,
which are owned, allocated and controlled by the
Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff? How
can this be turned off (without installing colordiff, of
course)?
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On 28 February 2008 14:35, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
Why does setup insist on trying to install colordiff? How
can this be turned off (without installing colordiff, of
course)?
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to Skip in the
Hi,
Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes:
Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs,
which are owned, allocated and
controlled by the system, and not under the arbitrary choice of the user, so
the semantics wouldn't be the
same even if we did create
On 28 February 2008 14:45, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
But then why does it works if I create dummy user in /etc/passwd.
Because cygwin relies on the contents of /etc/passwd to be accurate. Cygwin
cannot in general know what SIDs exist out there in a domain (or even on a
local machine), it treats
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to Skip in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl
On 28 February 2008 15:05, Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
It's a minor bug, there is no workaround at the moment apart from to
manually set the package to Skip in the chooser. Frankly it's a hundred
times quicker and easier to just let it install, the package is tiny.
My problem is that
On Feb 28 14:55, Dave Korn wrote:
On 28 February 2008 14:45, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
But then why does it works if I create dummy user in /etc/passwd.
Because cygwin relies on the contents of /etc/passwd to be accurate. Cygwin
cannot in general know what SIDs exist out there in a domain
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
brought it up.
Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this sorted out we should remove the
dependencies.
Nobody's quite sure where exactly the bug is yet, but how
it's /supposed/ to work is that everything in the Base
category is mandatory, and everything else is optional.
I notice that for colordiff the category is Misc, and there
are no other modules for that category. Shouldn't the
category
On Feb 28 18:31, Kostya Altukhov wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
My problem is that colordiff requires Perl, and I build my own version
of Perl and don't want it downloaded via setup.exe. Hence why I
brought it up.
Oh, ouch. Maybe until we get this
Is there a cygwin command line utility that will perform the function that
Windows does when you safely remove hardware - like before unplugging
a USB drive ?
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Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes:
It's in Utils now. Somebody already changed that on cygwin.com
a couple of hours ago.
No, all I did was touch the file on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago, hoping
that it would be enough to trigger a setup.ini regeneration. But before I
On 28 February 2008 17:01, Eric Blake wrote:
(unless I
misunderstand how frequently setup.ini is regenerated).
Every ten minutes, regardless of timestamps, IIUIC.
cheers,
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Tom Hall wrote:
Is there a cygwin command line utility that will perform the function
that Windows does when you safely remove hardware - like before
unplugging a USB drive ?
Not in the main distribution, but in the past I got both
http://www.hoopyfrood.net/DevEject and
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:36:38PM -0500, Igor Peshansky wrote:
Not in the main distribution, but in the past I got both
http://www.hoopyfrood.net/DevEject and
http://www.heise.de/ct/03/16/links/208.shtml to work with minor
modifications... I've been meaning to package them, but haven't
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
No, all I did was touch the file on cygwin.com a couple of hours ago, hoping
that it would be enough to trigger a setup.ini regeneration. But before I
touched the file, it _already_ was in Utils (in fact, in the original ITP,
the
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00820.html
I am having the same problems as in the discussion and would appreciate any
help to resolve it. After I log into a ssh session, the drives are not
automatically mapped and typing 'net use' gives me unavailable. I can map them
manually, but I
Dang, Robin wrote:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00820.html
I am having the same problems as in the discussion and would appreciate
any help to resolve it. After I log into a ssh session, the drives are not
automatically mapped and typing 'net use' gives me unavailable. I can map
them
Kostya Altukhov kacygwinlist at gmail.com writes:
Looks like the category field in setup.hint has uppercase C. This
might cause it to be ignored by the script - please change it to
lowercase c.
Bingo. That was it. Now you can wait for the fixed setup.ini to propagate to
a mirror near you.
I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start - Settings [-
Control Panel] - Network Connections - Dial-up Connection) and
click the Dial button on a Windows box that's inconvenient to get
to. It would be much easier if I
Gary Johnson wrote:
I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start - Settings [-
Control Panel] - Network Connections - Dial-up Connection) and
click the Dial button on a Windows box that's inconvenient to get
to. It
Hi,
I have a linux serial port problem compiled by Cygwin on window, it
runs fine if it connects a 9-pin serial cable and the device name is
/dev/ttyS0 (it does not work with com1, I have to translate it to
/dev/ttyS0). The problem is when I run the program in a PC without a
physical 9-pin
Hi -
I know this is a long shot but I like to throw it out
to see if anyone can help. I have C/C++ programs
which printed the following characters via printf
(which looks like terminal control):
^[[?1;2c
Does anyone know what that means and how I can spot
them from the source code?
On 2008-02-28, Brian Dessent wrote:
Gary Johnson wrote:
I'm running some tests of a radio modem where I need to bring up the
Windows Connect Dial-up Connection dialog (Start - Settings [-
Control Panel] - Network Connections - Dial-up Connection) and
click the Dial button on a Windows
Kostya Altukhov wrote:
I've actually looked in setup.exe source and I found this piece of code:
if (installed
|| categories.find (Base) != categories.end ()
|| categories.find (Misc) != categories.end ())
{
desired = default_version;
So by default setup attempts
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cygcheck doesn't handle the max arg length as shown by xargs...
I.e. -
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