Pine?

2010-09-14 Thread Wes S
Just setting up a new XP pro box, can't find Pine. So what MUA is supported atm? Thanks, Wes -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

2010-06-26 Thread Wes S
On 25 Jun 2010 at 19:27, Dan Platt wrote: cygwin.somos at xoxy.net writes: I might suggest someone checking if their hard drive happens to be full or nearly so. I'm having the same problem since Tuesday - plenty of disk space for it. It is Saturday, first upgrade in months,

putty isn't displaying correctly with 1.7

2009-12-25 Thread Wes S
Below is excerpt from man file on touch. Highlighted text is showing strange characters when I use putty to ssh in. It was working fine before the 1.7 upgrade. How do I fix this? Thanks, Wes âd, ââdate=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time âf

Re: 1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

2009-12-24 Thread Wes S
On 23 Dec 2009 at 22:44, Charles Wilson wrote: Wes S wrote: 60% Cygwin Setup Installing libncurses8-5.5-10 /MZ| Stops here. I picked another mirror, downloaded everything again and installed. Stopped at same place. I suspect you have a cygwin process still running

1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

2009-12-23 Thread Wes S
60% Cygwin Setup Installing libncurses8-5.5-10 /MZ| Stops here. I picked another mirror, downloaded everything again and installed. Stopped at same place. W2K SP4 Wes -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

nice program for network usage?

2009-09-19 Thread Wes S
Is buried in the Cygwin project, a program like nice which keeps the system responsive when heavy cpu jobs are running except this is to use as much of bandwidth as possible unless other processes want bandwidth. I dags but came up empty, too many false positives. Thanks, Wes -- Problem

Find cron failed script

2009-08-25 Thread Wes S
Drove myself nuts trying to figure out why my script ran fine from a console and died under cron. Find is part of w2k, cron doesn't seem to have a path unless I tell it to. I got the following: FIND: Invalid switch FIND: Parameter format not correct I should have directly specified path to

best way to get sshd to re-read its configuration

2009-08-01 Thread Wes S
I have a few boxes at home I'd like to get to using vnc, ssh and tunneling. Not a lot of open ports from where I'd like to do this from so my thought was to ssh into whatever box I have listening to on 22, ssh into whatever box I want to talk to from the first box and change the port sshd

What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box?

2009-05-01 Thread Wes S
Maybe I'm not getting things but this seems to be a problem I can not get my head around. I have two w2k boxes on a home network. No domain controllers, just a home network. The box that has the install that works fine for me needs to have cygwin moved over to another box while I reinstall

Re: Just upgraded last night pop3 now giving errors

2008-04-26 Thread Wes S
it was looking up to a couple days ago? I guess I need another clue. Thanks, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

IRC server for Cygwin

2007-12-28 Thread Wes S
that work on this project. It is so cool to have ssh and a smtp server on my w2k box without having to pay for electricity to run a *nix or *bsd box. Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

RE: setup keeps ending with setup.exe generated errors and will be close By Windows

2007-09-22 Thread Wes S
On 22 Sep 2007 at 22:13, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Wes S wrote: I was upgrading my install on w2k when noticed that setup was stuck. So I canceled setup. As the window closed, I saw that there was a dialog box behind the main setup.exe dialog box asking something. So now my install

RE: setup keeps ending with setup.exe generated errors and will be close By Windows

2007-09-22 Thread Wes S
On 22 Sep 2007 at 18:01, Wes S wrote: On 22 Sep 2007 at 22:13, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Wes S wrote: I just tried that and I still get setup.exe generated errors when uninstalling bash. I have all services shut down and no shells running. Okay problem is solved. I told setup

Permisson problems backing up cygwin

2007-06-03 Thread Wes S
Could someone give me a clue here. I am trying to back up my cygwin installation running as the administrator and am denied rights to read various files in the /home/nameofuser directory structure. I guess I could ssh in as various users and make a tarball but it seems this should be easier.

tin, leafnode and gecos field

2007-05-06 Thread Wes S
I was working on getting tin to post using leafnode and kept getting an invalid sender header message when I tried to post. U-BAREFOOT\News kept coming up I didn't have that anywhere in tin configuration. After poking around I saw that U-BAREFOOT\news is in the passwd gecos field. I changed

Leafnode now that W95,98,ME is going away

2007-04-30 Thread Wes S
With the impending non support of pre-ntfs windows is it possible that leafnode would be added to the supported packages? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-04/msg00022.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00276.html I'm using the package that A. Alper kindly made available

Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only

2007-04-01 Thread Wes S
On 1 Apr 2007 at 0:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: After some intense discussion with Corinna, we've decided that we will soon be removing all support for any version of Windows other than Windows Vista 64. How much did Bill pay ya? If you didn't score $100M each you got helically rotated.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

2007-02-15 Thread Wes S
Will this have any impact on having a version of screen that works? Thanks, Wes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Wes S
On 18 Sep 2006 at 15:44, Francis Rossi wrote: for practical reasons. The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of time in the search because of dozens of thousands files, especially in /usr.

Re: help needed for portable exes

2006-03-21 Thread Wes S
to discuss it). [snip] What list is appropiate for discussing mingw? Sorry for jumping in, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

trouble automating ftp with cron

2006-01-23 Thread Wes S
this as both Administrator and power user wess. I updated cywin to whatever was current this morning and tried again before posting this. Thanks, Wes S crontab -- start 33 15 * * * /home/wess/csplog/myscript.sh crontab -- stop email from cron -- start Connected to cadillacsportsmansclub.org

Re: trouble automating ftp with cron

2006-01-23 Thread Wes S
. Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sshd_conf and local groups

2006-01-01 Thread Wes S
On 1 Jan 2006 at 2:07, René Berber wrote: Wes S wrote: [snip] Just for grins, I added wess to the group ssh_allow and tried logging in before / after uncommenting AllowGroups. Can not log in when AllowGroups is uncommented. When you say I added wess to the group ssh_allow you mean

sshd_conf and local groups

2005-12-31 Thread Wes S
into these problems at 14:30 Eastern today. Thanks in advance, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sshd_conf and local groups

2005-12-31 Thread Wes S
On 31 Dec 2005 at 18:05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Wes S wrote: I'm trying to lock down ssh access. I use exim for a mail server so I have a bunch of accounts on my w2k box. I don't want most to be able to use ssh. [snip] I'm confused by your apparent confusion of the above. If you

netcat nc ???

2005-12-30 Thread Wes S
, is netcat in the cygwin dist? If you were trying to copy a hard drive image from a remote pc over the lan to your pc running cygwin what would the commands be at both ends? Thanks, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-25 Thread Wes S
On 25 Oct 2005 at 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings I would like to be able to have a portable version of cygwin in my Flash Drive. I have been able to do it but it requires that I enter some registry entries such as: [snip] I'd like to add a 'me too' to this request. I have the

Re: Timestamps

2005-08-27 Thread Wes S
On 26 Aug 2005 at 10:05, Wes S wrote: I'm using exim and sshd which is working wonderfully on my w2k box. My cygwin programs are recent as of the last 7 days if that matters. What I can't figure out is how to get time/date stamps on the log files such as sshd.log and exim_main.log. I

Timestamps

2005-08-26 Thread Wes S
I'm using exim and sshd which is working wonderfully on my w2k box. My cygwin programs are recent as of the last 7 days if that matters. What I can't figure out is how to get time/date stamps on the log files such as sshd.log and exim_main.log. I got entries but when they were made, who

RE: What's in it for Redhat?

2005-07-26 Thread Wes S
On 26 Jul 2005 at 12:49, Dave Korn wrote: It's all part of a conspiracy. Cygwin developers, please keep conspiring! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

getting sshd to log to /var/log/sshd.log

2005-07-22 Thread Wes S
that I needed single quotes after the -a . So Trying, cygrunsrv -I sshd -d CYGWIN sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D -e' made my day. My thanks to Corinna and Brian. Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

exim and imap3d

2005-07-10 Thread Wes S
I've spent most of saturday trying to get exim and imap3d to work. By inserting a bunch of echo some thing statements in the exim-conf file, I figured out where the config script was bombing on me. So exim seems to be working a-ok. At least it sends and I can get pine to read my

Re: exim and imap3d

2005-07-10 Thread Wes S
On 10 Jul 2005 at 2:17, René Berber wrote: So in exim.conf I changed this: local_delivery: driver = appendfile file = /var/mail/$local_part Now I get 2005-07-09 21:27:41 IJDXRD-0001D4-AT == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission denied: creating

exim setup

2005-07-08 Thread Wes S
Does anyone have an idea of how long the exim install script runs? It has been going for 30 minutes on a w2k 1.2ghz box. I really didn't mean to run it, I typed exim and figured it would tell me something and not launch the config script. As far as versioning and such, I told setup.exe to

Re: exim setup

2005-07-08 Thread Wes S
On 8 Jul 2005 at 16:37, Wes S wrote: Does anyone have an idea of how long the exim install script runs? Nevermind, I read comment at top of program output. Sorry for bothering everyone. Wes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http

Re: print.exe

2005-06-01 Thread Wes S
print.exe sounds like an old dos print spooler. Wes On 1 Jun 2005 at 20:07, Evert Coetzee wrote: Which cygwin package contain print.exe? I have an application that calls this : newpath=`print -r $PATH | tr [A-Z] [a-z] | tr '\' '/' | sed -e s+/+#+g -e s+;\.;+;+g` but that first print is

Re: Unable to install and run Apache httpd as Windows service

2005-04-30 Thread Wes S
On 30 Apr 2005 at 2:50, Matthew M wrote: I know this has been asked half a dozen times recently, but I haven't found a solution that works for me. [snip] I ran many variations on these commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cygrunsrv -I httpd -p /usr/sbin/httpd -a -f /etc/apache/httpd.conf

e-list request

2005-04-28 Thread Wes S
Could the mailing list software be set to either? A. Strip out the urgent flag B. Bounce it. Thank you, Wes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: e-list request

2005-04-28 Thread Wes S
On 28 Apr 2005 at 12:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: cgf (FWIW, I did force the mailing list software to strip out the Priority field. Maybe that's what this is all about.) Yes it was. I stand chastised for not specifying the proper nomenclature for the flag. Thank you very much. Wes