Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

I don't know for sure either, but by the end of a day, it is not unusual for me to see multiple instances of bash.exe within my task manager, despite having closed them in windows. Therefore I don't think there is windows-posix signal translation, just the other way around. Igor Pechtchanski

Re: Problem running emacs under XP

I strongly expect you are typing emacs into the bash shell you are starting X from. Type it into an xterm... - Original Message - From: martin cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 9:05 PM Subject: Problem running emacs under XP I installed cygwin

Re: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

Windows Services for Unix does not get updated very often, if ever. If you phone microsoft about it they say it is just for migrating old unix software to a windows environment. terry wrote: I just received an evaluation copy with Linux Magazine as was wondering if this is a direct

Re: Spammers watching this user forum

I reckon it is not Spam itself that is blocking up the net, it is all the bouncing programs and people visiting websites to try and unsubscribe from the lists. If you get spam, just delete it. Earnie Boyd wrote: Please consider not ``bouncing'' SPAM. There have been various DoS type virus

user accounts and moving cygwin

Hi all, A couple of questions I wanted root privleges on my user account within cygwin, so I simply changed the user and group numbers in /etc/passwd to 0:0. Now, I have set up SSHD to allow for remote logins, I would prefer user account privlages. How do I go about setting up a root user