Re: writing csh scripts with cygwin

2004-04-08 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Christopher Spears wrote: > #csh that gives system status > > set d = `date` > echo "Today's date: $d[2-3] $d[6]" > echo "Current time: $d[4]" > echo Number of users: `who | wc -l` > echo Current disk storage: ` du -s .` > You need to include a #!/bin/tcsh line at the top of the scri

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think John Williams wrote: > > It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think > if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier, > because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process. OK, I've gotta ask -- WHY do you want to do this in the fi

Re: Avoid creation of DOS-conole

2003-02-26 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:38:00PM +0100, Robert Fenk wrote: > >$hi $you, > >$point > >$bye$i > >$forward > > Yep. Uh huh. Ba bye now. > > cgf > I think the OP was contributing a new cygwin tool; here's the whole message he intended to send. # CYGWIN Auto-

Re: kudos!

2003-02-15 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Randall R Schulz wrote: > Alec, > > There appears to have been an error in the delivery your message. All > that got through was a simple thank-you and a compliment. Boy, I can just see poor Alec scratching his head... - Ernest Fr

Re: ssh x forwarding

2003-01-27 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
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 to see what ssh reports regarding whether X forwarding was actually established, and/or check the sshd_config file on the remote machine (if you have p

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

2003-01-24 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Rafael Kitover wrote: > > From: "Brian Kelly" > > To: > > > > Boy I just don't GET IT!! Anyone who wants to use ANY cmd.exe > > command, including start just needs to use cmd /c > > ANY-WINDOWS-CMD-COMMAND-HERE > > Assuming cmd.exe is available, and it's not under windows 9x/ME or >

Re: Using cygwin and JAVA/JNI

2003-01-17 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
Randall is usually 100% right about everything, but here he's actually not. I haven't done it in a long time, but I've certainly written JNI libraries with cygwin -- and in fact, used some fairly cygwin specific features in doing so (my JNI library explicitly used dlopen() to open another library,

Re: sshd/passwd

2003-01-08 Thread friedman_hill ernest j
I think Erik Moreau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup. > > I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to > setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I > have installed sshd and ran ssh-host-