native emacs and manual page

2008-12-30 Thread peter360
I run a native windows build of gnu emacs (downloaded binary distribution from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/) on my vista box. I can launch emacs either from a windows terminal (cmd.exe), or from a cygwin bash shell. I run native emacs instead of cygwin emacs so that I can get the em

Re: Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-30 Thread Jeenu V
>You were subscribed to the list from Wed Dec 31 05:21:39 2008 GMT to >Wed Dec 31 05:35:48 2008 GMT. > >I'm not too suprised to hear that you didn't see many replies. Err! That was a mistake. -- Thanks Jeenu -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:02:19AM +0530, Jeenu V wrote: >PS: Though I've subscribed to the list, replies to this topic is not >reaching my inbox for some reason. I'm reading replies at the archive. You were subscribed to the list from Wed Dec 31 05:21:39 2008 GMT to Wed Dec 31 05:35:48 2008 GMT.

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:32:12PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't really feel comfortable having another ssh implementation in >>Cygwin. The call is obviously Corinna's in this case but that's my 2c. > >wget, curl lftp, ncftp links, lynx GraphicsMagic, ImageMagick

Re: cygwin-1.7, sshd, tcpd, and IPv6/Vista

2008-12-30 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Charles Wilson wrote: So, the "allow" entries in hosts.allow are really only enabling access form the actual "127.0.0.1" aka "::1" machine -- that is, the actual local host. They do not REALLY enable access from those bad guys that spybot maps to localhost. Can anybody thi

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:34:52PM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin >> environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that >> with a shortcut is there? > > In this case, it could be one of MinTTY

Re: Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-30 Thread Jeenu V
Thanks for the link. I removed the default CYGWIN sshd service and ran: cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --user jeevis01 --args '-D' --env 'CYGWIN="ntsec" It asked for my password and installed successfully. However I couldn't start the service, and my /var/log/sshd.log was emp

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Warren Young
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: What do any of the programs you've listed have to do with ssh? Not a thing. But if we can't tolerate two ssh implementations, why can we tolerate two command line web page fetchers? Or two FTP clients? Or two web clients? Or two graphics manipulation packages

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Warren Young wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't really feel comfortable having another ssh implementation in Cygwin. wget, curl lftp, ncftp links, lynx GraphicsMagic, ImageMagick ash, bash, tcsh, zsh, scsh, pdksh, posh vim, nano, emacs, joe, xemacs, nedit, xedit, gvim need I go on?

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: I think the only reason to use cygwin.bat is to set the cygwin environment variable before bash starts. There's no way to do that with a shortcut is there? In this case, it could be one of MinTTY's settings, because it can set up the environment before calling bash.

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Warren Young
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't really feel comfortable having another ssh implementation in Cygwin. wget, curl lftp, ncftp links, lynx GraphicsMagic, ImageMagick ash, bash, tcsh, zsh, scsh, pdksh, posh vim, nano, emacs, joe, xemacs, nedit, xedit, gvim need I go on? Not that I'm pushin

Openssh compatibility problem?

2008-12-30 Thread Michael Makuch
Recently installed latest cygwin and can't ssh to it from older openssh rev. Is there a known compatibility problem? 3 systems: plum, oak, pecan I can ssh from pecan to oak. I cannot ssh from pecan to plum, it appears to timeout. Versions of the 3 systems: plum $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 plum

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:44:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it >> would get enough votes. > > That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission > requirements and process. Unles

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Christopher Faylor wrote: I wouldn't mind making MinTTY a regular cygwin package. It sounds like it would get enough votes. That would be great. I'll need to read up on the package submission requirements and process. Unless someone would like to volunteer as the MinTTY package maintainer?

cygwin-1.7, sshd, tcpd, and IPv6/Vista

2008-12-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Noticed an odd behavior when setting up cygwin-1.7 and sshd. Because cygwin-1.7 (and the cygwin-1.7 flavors of openssh and tcp_wrappers) support IPv6 when the underlying host OS supports it...the default /etc/hosts.allow "paranoid" setting matches for "localhost". That is, 'ssh localhost' is denie

Re: editrights - which permission is necessary to fork a process

2008-12-30 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use rsync's pre-xfer in Vista. Unfortunately it didn't work if I > run the rsync daemon within in the system account. > I would believe that theire are rights necessary which are not included in > the system account. Nearly the same as I found in ssh-host

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Robert Pendell wrote: I modified cygwin.bat to execute mintty. Looks like mintty doesn't detach completely on it's own Yep, that's a known issue (number 4 in the issue tracker), and I haven't yet worked out how to do this properly. I've tried closing files 0 through 3 and doing a setsid(), but

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Hmm, looks very interesting, I'll give it a try and report back to the class. I've been looking for a replacement for my preferred terminal emulator, MedicineTTY, for quite some time. ;-) Each to their own. I actually prefer PeaTTY. 1. Good work. Thanks! 2. Su

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Pendell
Robert Pendell wrote: > It runs on 1.7 but does not appear to execute the shell as a login one. > I use bash and .bash_profile never gets executed when using MinTTY > directly. I can help you debug it if you wish. > I stand corrected here. I checked some more. The batch script (which I forgot

find assert (was Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys),...)

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:52:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Hmm. After removing the /dev/fd directory that I had created years >ago, find now just SEGVs. And, it seems to be dying in find itself >if the stack dump is any indication. > >Eric, is there any way that you could confirm or den

Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7 (question for Eric Blake)

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:41:04PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:06:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Gregory C. Sharp wrote: >>>I'm testing out cygwin 1.7, and ran into a problem. I run a small >>>script which checksum

Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:06:38PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Gregory C. Sharp wrote: >>I'm testing out cygwin 1.7, and ran into a problem. I run a small >>script which checksums my dvd+r backups, something like this: >> >>find -L /cygdrive/d -nolea

Re: [1.7] System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:25:43AM -0500, Gregory C. Sharp wrote: >I'm testing out cygwin 1.7, and ran into a problem. I run a small >script which checksums my dvd+r backups, something like this: > >find -L /cygdrive/d -noleaf -type f -exec cksum {} \; > >I try it out on cygwin 1.7, and 3 out of 4

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:58:15AM -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Gary R. Van Sickle wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:26 AM: >> 5. It needs a regular Windows installer. >> 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should whip one up >> for you? > >Just curious: Why

Re: System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7

2008-12-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Gregory C. Sharp wrote: I'm testing out cygwin 1.7, and ran into a problem. I run a small script which checksums my dvd+r backups, something like this: find -L /cygdrive/d -noleaf -type f -exec cksum {} \; I try it out on cygwin 1.7, and 3 out of 4 times I get a system panic and reboot. Dump

System reboot (udfs.sys), cygwin 1.7

2008-12-30 Thread Gregory C. Sharp
I'm testing out cygwin 1.7, and ran into a problem. I run a small script which checksums my dvd+r backups, something like this: find -L /cygdrive/d -noleaf -type f -exec cksum {} \; I try it out on cygwin 1.7, and 3 out of 4 times I get a system panic and reboot. Dumpchk/WinDBG reveal access

Re: Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeenu V wrote: Hi, I've a Cygwin ssh server up on Windows XP. My home directory on the host is a network drive (H:) which I'm able to acess locally as /cygdrive/h. When I do ssh to localhost using PuTTY, I'm unable to access the /cygdrive/h path - the mount command only shows c: mounted as /cygd

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:26 AM: > 5. It needs a regular Windows installer. > 5a. I'm good with Windows installers. You want I should whip one up > for you? Just curious: Why does this need "a regular Windows installer"? Why not make this a cygwin package? (I su

Mouting network drives from Cygwin ssh client

2008-12-30 Thread Jeenu V
Hi, I've a Cygwin ssh server up on Windows XP. My home directory on the host is a network drive (H:) which I'm able to acess locally as /cygdrive/h. When I do ssh to localhost using PuTTY, I'm unable to access the /cygdrive/h path - the mount command only shows c: mounted as /cygdrive/c. I can nei

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Arun Biyani
Very Good. On the options dialog box, an apply button would be a good Addition. Arun -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Robert Pendell
Andy Koppe wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >> It will be interesting to play with the codepage support >> (already present, apparently) in this terminal -- perhaps UTF-8 + >> cygwin-1.7... > > That would be interesting indeed, and hopefully I haven't broken any of > PuTTY's Unicode support. Just

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hey Andy, After a thorough 2-minute evaluation, I can give you the following feedback: 1. Good work. 2. Super fast. 3. Cut and paste in a Unixoid terminal for Cygwin finally conforms to Windows norms (AKA "The One True Way"). That alone is worth it. 4. I wasn't getting color from ls, but tha

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hmm, looks very interesting, I'll give it a try and report back to the class. I've been looking for a replacement for my preferred terminal emulator, MedicineTTY, for quite some time. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle > From: Andy Koppe > > Hi, > > I'd like to introduce "MinTTY", a terminal emulato

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Charles Wilson wrote: It will be interesting to play with the codepage support (already present, apparently) in this terminal -- perhaps UTF-8 + cygwin-1.7... That would be interesting indeed, and hopefully I haven't broken any of PuTTY's Unicode support. Just set the codepage to UTF-8 to try

Re: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Andy Koppe
Reini Urban wrote: Transparency in XP! Good. That's only a matter of a couple of function calls actually. Unfortunately though it applies to the window as a whole, not just to the background. Per-pixel alpha can be done, but only at the cost of painting all the window decoration manually, s