Re: .dll question

2002-10-02 Thread Phil Dempster
> Try not to add to noise for this list unless it > seems necessary for something I am currently > porting. That is my apology ahead of time. > > Does msvc/c++ load .dlls generated using > gcc -shared -mno-cygwin? You can use gcc compiled DLLs with MSVC compiled executables. However, you won'

CVS as pserver & modules file is not supported

2002-02-15 Thread Phil Dempster
I have drafted a basic HOWTO on :pserver: with Cygwin. It is currently awaiting verification before finding its way into the CVS docs. I personally recommend following Chuck's advice (which he's supplied repeatedly to various flavours of the same question). If, however, anyone wants to try my p

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
> Did you check your /etc/group? Is there a group Guests and > Guest has that group as primary group in /etc/passwd? > > Corinna There is a group Guests and a user Guest - however, I'm not sure how to tell the primary (or the secondary) group of a user. I think the group entries may be wrong -

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
> Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > following (quoted): [snip] Apologies and thanks... So: Since CVS is evidently running as Guest (there are no entries in the event log to contradict this) and t

ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
Hi folks, I've managed to get CVS pserver running on Win2K (ntsec) and am in the process of preparing some documentation for it. I'm trying to grasp just how the user ID switching works when CVS is spawned from inetd. I've found that it is not necessary to specify the user as `root' in inetd.co

RE: CVS PServer problem

2002-01-28 Thread Phil Dempster
> RTFMLA > > [Heh. Been waiting to use that one...] > > Pserver doesn't work yet. Using :external and SSH does. > > Geoff Actually, I have had CVS pserver work under Win2K/Cygwin and a certain amount of duress. I _might_ even be able to work out how I did it, if there is sufficient demand and t