Broken install, postinstall problems

2004-04-12 Thread Greg Mosier
Hi list, It's been a while since I've played with cygwin and I've just recently came back to it. Well... I had the same problems this time as I did in the past, only last time I wasn't aware that there was a problem. It seems that there are quite a few users that have experienced this same issu

Re: $HOME Directory Relocation

2002-02-05 Thread Greg Mosier
From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: $HOME Directory Relocation > The problem with setting HOME to a fixed value in cygwin.bat or /etc/profile > is that limits your cygwin installation to a single user. That's why the > default /etc/profile allows $HOME to be passed through

Re: /dev/registry

2002-02-04 Thread Greg Mosier
From: "Gerald Villemure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: /dev/registry > So this: > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] > "WinVNC"="data goes here" > > would become: > /proc/registry/HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/WinVNC.sz > > Good or bad idea

Re: A real fork() on NT

2002-02-02 Thread Greg Mosier
From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A real fork() on NT > Cygwin fork works just fine. It's slow but it should work as well as UNIX > fork for a ported application. The only exception that I can think of is > if you use dlopen to load a non-cygwin DLL. In that case the

Re: A real fork() on NT

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Mosier
From: "Chris January" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A real fork() on NT > > That isn't really new. I'd like to point you to the example 6.1, > > "Forking a Win32 Process" on p. 161ff of Gary Nebbett's excellent > > book "Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference", published by MTP, > > ISBN 1-578

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Mosier
From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Why not a news server? > "Reply-To" munging has also been discussed on this list previously. > Please familiarize yourself with the arguments that have already been > hashed out on this list in the past before continuing this line of > disc

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Mosier
ad enough have them search the archives of the list for it, or else join the list for the short time that it takes them to resolve their issue. I mean, really, should a list be supportive of it's long standing members or people that don't have the time to invest in finding an an

Re: FW: Updated: rxvt-2.7.2-8

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Mosier
Yeah ;-/ This was my first reply to the list and I didn't realize that the default reply-to address was set to sender as opposed to the list *sigh*. Cheers, Greg Mosier - Original Message - From: "Roth, Kevin P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greg Mosier" &

Re: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Mosier
e has something to say to someone that is off topic they can switch the email addresses quite easily. Cheers, Greg Mosier From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Why not a news server? > >And again, currently this is not very convenient. For exa

Fw: Why not a news server?

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Mosier
sages based on subject similar to that of the method a news server stores messages. It's just my opinion, but as far as I can see the only real advantage to using 'news' instead of a listserv is that you're not wasting bandwidth on people that aren't even reading the