RE: The install dir

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Nelson
Robert Collins wrote: - On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:29, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Robert Collins (03-03-12 06:18 +0100) On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 15:46, Patrick Nelson wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: - I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about

FW: The install dir

2003-03-12 Thread Patrick Nelson
Max Bowsher wrote: Patrick Nelson wrote: Robert Collins wrote: - [snip] - Thanks again for clearing it up. Patrick, your style of quoting is *really*, *really* nonstandard and confusing. Wow was easier than I thought... Changed the quoting

The install dir

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Nelson
on my system I have d:\load\cywin as the intermediary setup directory. This directory has 150 mb in in currently and I decided I want to know about it. Looking at its structure doesn't tell me much so I'm wondering if anyone knows wud up with it. Question like the following come to mind: 1. Can

RE: The install dir

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Nelson
Thorsten Kampe wrote: - 1. Can I just frigg'n delete it? Yes. 2. Can I copy it to a CDR and us it as a starting point for and installation. Yes. You'd better delete the old packages first. - do you get the structure of it? I mean setup wont recognize that it

RE: The install dir

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Nelson
Thorsten Kampe wrote: - I don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about The setup directory is *not* temporary. Neither the packages are deleted after installation nor the older ones after updating. - So the older ones are maintained and that setup

RE: The install dir

2003-03-11 Thread Patrick Nelson
Robert Collins wrote: - The 'local package directory' is purely a cache, It's contents can be removed by you at any point (other than while setup is running) with no harmful effects as far as cygwin setup.exe is concerned. Setup *today* does not prune old files from the local

RE: cvs wont connect to remote [SOLUTION]

2003-03-06 Thread Patrick Nelson
Max Bowsher wrote: - on the server? Using pserver? anonymous pserver to: sourceforge.net red-bean.com sources.redhat.com lnx-bbc.org gnome.org subversions.gnu.org mozilla.org samba.org sunsite.dk ext/ssh to: sources.redhat.com - Hay Max, It was awhile ago (like

I love cygwin

2003-02-24 Thread Patrick Nelson
OK it official... I love you cygwin! Upgraded my company's remaining Windows users off Office to OpenOffice. Was having a problem with datasources and not having a Linux box handy I loaded up cygwin (and postgresql client). I was able to trouble shoot all my problems. It was great... so great

New Error

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Had cygwin working great, but did an upgrade today to all current versions and now I have an error on starting. when cygwin comes up the terminal says (prior to the prompt): BASH: /usr/bin/id: Permission denied then I get my prompt, but I also get a Error dialog box with a title of Error

RE: New Error

2003-02-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: - You must have had a Cygwin process running when you upgraded. This resulted in some important files (notably, cygintl-2.dll, and I'm guessing others as well) not being replaced. Rebooting should fix this. If it doesn't, try to reinstall libintl2.

RE: ssh x forwarding

2003-01-30 Thread Patrick Nelson
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: - Make an ssh connection to the remote machine with the -X option. Echo $DISPLAY and if you don't see something like localhost:10.0 then the ssh daemon is not configured for tunneling X. The ssh daemon allocates local virtual displays 10 and upper

ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Nelson
In ssh you get x forwarding. But, I can't seem to get it working. A command like: ssh -l user system x app always responds with something like: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Is there some configuration that needs to take place in cygwin first? Yes I can log in by dropping the x

RE: ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Not that this is sure to solve your problem, but it's a possibility: ssh daemons can be configured to prohibit X forwarding. Try ssh -v -l user system x app to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check

RE: ssh x forwarding [SOLVED]

2003-01-27 Thread Patrick Nelson
Patrick Nelson wrote: - My other Linux systems can connect to the remote sshd. Here is the output of a call: ---snip-- debug1: Sending command: evolution debug1: channel request 0: exec debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 debug1: channel 0: rcvd eof

RE: cvs wont connect to remote

2003-01-22 Thread Patrick Nelson
Max Bowsher wrote: - Neither do I, sorry. It looks like there is something strange with your server, because I use Cygwin's cvs with many servers, and no problems. - So, what servers are you attaching to? As what user to what account on the server? Using pserver?

RE: cvs wont connect to remote

2003-01-21 Thread Patrick Nelson
Max Bowsher wrote: - cvs -t login ? - This reveals: prompt$cvs -t login cvs login: notice: main loop with CVSROOT=:pserver:pnelson@systemname:full path to cvs repos (Logging in to pnelson@systemname) CVS password: full path to cvs repos: no such repository