how to install XServer 1.6.0

2009-10-22 Thread Edmund Spatzenegger
I've tried to install XServer 1.6.0 but Cygwin setup only offers me 1.5.3 (I've downloaded the latest version of setup.exe: 2.573.2.3). Is there anything else I have to do? Thanks Edmund -- *** Edmund Spatzenegger

Re: how to install XServer 1.6.0

2009-10-22 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/22 Edmund Spatzenegger: I've tried to install XServer 1.6.0 but Cygwin setup only offers me 1.5.3 (I've downloaded the latest version of setup.exe: 2.573.2.3). Is there anything else I have to do? XWin 1.6.x is only available with the Cygwin 1.7 beta: http://www.cygwin.com/#beta-test

Re: Honor DESTDIR in w32api and mingw

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Latest rev, based on feedback @ mingw-dvlpr. Avoid gmake conditionals and use explicit rules, instead. Detect problems in all applicable installation paths, not just $(prefix). 2009-10-22 Charles Wilson ... Attached in .gz form, so that the web archive doesn't

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Cormie
On first look, it seems good. Would you consider packaging it as a Cygwin package? You'd get more people using it that way. If you haven't maintained a Cygwin package before, it wouldn't be much work to get this one going, since it's so simple. I don't think I'd want to maintain it,

Re: Write access for BUILTIN\USERS - cygwin privilege escalation vulnerability for Windows 2008 default installation

2009-10-22 Thread Andrew McGill
Here a workaround for this wide open flaming security hole in the default CYGWIN install. The workaround may or may not be correct: * Browse to C:\ * Right-click on cygwin folder * Choose Sharing and security * Choose Advanced * Remove the tick mark from Allow inheritable permissions from

Re: [1.7] windows 7 with networked drives - ls failure and mount -c does not stick...

2009-10-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 20 03:52, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: r...@nas-01 ~ # smbd -V Version 3.0.34 r...@nas-01 ~ # uname -a Linux nas-01 2.6.17.8ReadyNAS #1 Tue Jun 9 13:59:28 PDT 2009 padre unknown Yes, please go ahead and send a patched dll. The version of smbd is what is provided in the latest

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
On first look, it seems good. Would you consider packaging it as a Cygwin package? You'd get more people using it that way. If you haven't maintained a Cygwin package before, it wouldn't be much work to get this one going, since it's so simple. I don't think I'd want to

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 21 17:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Also, this is Windows 2008 R2. I'm told that 2008 R2 and Win 7 share the same code base. Is 2008 R2 an officially supported platform for 1.7? It's supposed to be, though right at the moment I haven't

grep -i --color does not always color

2009-10-22 Thread Morten Kjærulff
Hi, Is this an error, or have I misunderstod something? /morten $ echo ABCabc|grep --color=auto B ABCabc B is red $ echo ABCabc|grep --color=auto b ABCabc b is red $ echo ABCabc|grep -i --color=auto b ABCabc B and b is red $ echo ABCabc|grep -i --color=auto B ABCabc nothing is red ??? $

Re: grep -i --color does not always color

2009-10-22 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/22 Morten Kjærulff: Is this an error, or have I misunderstod something? /morten $ echo ABCabc|grep --color=auto B ABCabc B is red $ echo ABCabc|grep --color=auto b ABCabc b is red $ echo ABCabc|grep -i --color=auto b ABCabc B and b is red $ echo ABCabc|grep -i --color=auto

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Cormie
There's no maturity requirement as such. For a package such as cyg-apt that doesn't exist in other distros, you have to get 5 positive votes from current package maintainers. A clear explanation of what cyg-apt does that setup doesn't, would probably go a long way towards that. Thanks for

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Cormie
Correction: setup doesn't require Cygwin to be closed if not working on core packages. That makes sense. Chris. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Quantum LTO 4 tape drive and Cygwin 1.7?

2009-10-22 Thread Jeffrey C. Smith
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 17:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 21 10:19, Jeffrey C. Smith wrote: Also, this is Windows 2008 R2. I'm told that 2008 R2 and Win 7 share the same code base. Is 2008 R2 an officially supported platform for 1.7? It's supposed to be, though right at the

Problems with libintl-8

2009-10-22 Thread John Coppens
Hello all, Before sending me to FAQs etc, I have read probably most of them... And many other mails etc. I was finally able to compile a Linux program of mine for use of my students (the few I didn't convert yet), and, after quite a bit of work, got there. When I run the program from Windows, I

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/17/2009 12:04 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: How to solve my goal? The user backup should backup all data but not certain directories. It cannot be done. Your two requirements amount to: 1- I want the backup user to be able to access all files and directories without

Re: Problems with libintl-8

2009-10-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 22 12:53, John Coppens wrote: I don't know how Windows would find the .dll in \cygwin\bin - which is the mechanism? Don't I have to copy the dlls to \window\whatever? Or is there some path coded in the .exe? Help please. John

Re: Problems with libintl-8

2009-10-22 Thread Dave Korn
John Coppens wrote: When I run the program from Windows, I get a complaint that 'libintl-8.dll' is not found. It _is_ in \cygwin\bin - just in case, I reinstalled it from setup.exe (Yesterday's version), same luck. Are you sure you copied that error message completely 100% accurately?

Re: Problems with libintl-8

2009-10-22 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:00:08 +0200 Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: Help please. John http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586%28VS.85%29.aspx Thanks Corinna! I couldn't find any other solution, so I copied cygintl-8.dll to /usr/local/bin (which is where my

Re: Problems with libintl-8

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Wilson
John Coppens wrote: When I run the program from Windows, I get a complaint that 'libintl-8.dll' is not found. It _is_ in \cygwin\bin - just in case, I reinstalled it from setup.exe (Yesterday's version), same luck. libintl-8.dll should NOT be in \cygwin\bin -- and a cygwin-compiled

Re: Problems with libintl-8

2009-10-22 Thread Charles Wilson
John Coppens wrote: I couldn't find any other solution, so I copied cygintl-8.dll to /usr/local/bin (which is where my program installed, and where Windows always looks it seems.). This is usually a very bad idea. If I release an updated version of cygintl-8.dll (say, with a bugfix but no

Re: Cygwin package manager

2009-10-22 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 Chris Cormie wrote: I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface resembling apt-get. This is the package that I've been dreaming of for years! It would be great if some folks tried out the initial release and provided me with some feedback. I'll

Re: Cygwin 1.7 crontab question

2009-10-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/21/2009 02:14 PM, Larry W. Virden wrote: I now have access to a Cygwin 1.7 installation. I've been trying things out and I am having a spot of trouble that I hope someone can help me through. ... Um, when are you actually going to start a new thread rather than hijacking others? This is

Python throws error when closing /dev/urandom

2009-10-22 Thread Topher Cawlfield
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to post such problems, but I ran into this problem when trying to use the paramiko library with python 2.5.2 in Cygwin. Ultimately the problem is that an IOError is generated when opening /dev/urandom, reading some bytes from it (doesn't seem to

Re: Python throws error when closing /dev/urandom

2009-10-22 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/22 Topher Cawlfield I'm not sure if this is the right place to post such problems, but I ran into this problem when trying to use the paramiko library with python 2.5.2 in Cygwin. Ultimately the problem is that an IOError is generated when opening /dev/urandom, reading some bytes

Re: Python throws error when closing /dev/urandom

2009-10-22 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/10/22 Topher Cawlfield I'm not sure if this is the right place to post such problems, but I ran into this problem when trying to use the paramiko library with python 2.5.2 in Cygwin. Ultimately the problem is that an IOError is generated when opening /dev/urandom, reading some bytes

default ACLs

2009-10-22 Thread Mikel Ward
Hi All Default ACLs don't seem to work as they would on Linux, or for that matter as they do for files created via Windows Explorer. Is this expected? administra...@hostname:/ $ mkdir newdir administra...@hostname:/ $ getfacl newdir # file: newdir # owner: Administrator # group: None user::rwx

Re: gawk Has Problem With CRLF in Mixed Binary/Text Files

2009-10-22 Thread Paul McFerrin
I don't have an answer to your specific problem. But as a side issue, I see that your PATH is very long. You might consider using a lot of hard links say in a directory /lbin with a buch of hard links to the real executables in other directories. You can then shorten PATH and remove those

Re: gawk Has Problem With CRLF in Mixed Binary/Text Files

2009-10-22 Thread P.A.Long
Paul McFerrin wrote: I don't have an answer to your specific problem. But as a side issue, I see that your PATH is very long. You might consider using a lot of hard links say in a directory /lbin with a buch of hard links to the real executables in other directories. You can then shorten

Re: Re: gawk Has Problem With CRLF in Mixed Binary/Text Files

2009-10-22 Thread P.A.Long
Dave Korn wrote: t.a.n.s.t.a.a.f.l@ wrote: [ ... ] but as can be seen by the attached files, the downloaded gawk executable always changes CRLF to LF, Is this what you're looking for? File: gawk.info, Node: User-modified, Next: Auto-set, Up: Built-in Variables 6.5.1 Built-in

Re: gawk Has Problem With CRLF in Mixed Binary/Text Files

2009-10-22 Thread P.A.Long
P.A.Long wrote: Dave Korn wrote: t.a.n.s.t.a.a.f.l@ wrote: [ ... ] but as can be seen by the attached files, the downloaded gawk executable always changes CRLF to LF, Is this what you're looking for? ***snip*** [ ... continues ... ]

Re: Rsync link-dest not working for a host with the most recent rsync/cygwin 1.7

2009-10-22 Thread Steven Monai
Chris Francy wrote: First things first, I have narrowed it down and learned something that resolves the issue for what I am trying to do. For versions of rsync before 2.5.6 you could not use the link-dest reliably unless you copy the permissions/ownership information. With newer versions

Novice's stack dump interpretation issues

2009-10-22 Thread Chris Perkins
MAIN QUESTION: I can't seem to find any reference to my functions in the stack dump. The range of function addresses in the stack dump is 0x61002F32-0x7C802542 and yet my functions should be somewhere in the 0x00401000-0x004040A5 range (according to objdump and nm). Is this due to the Error