Re: XWin doesn't close by itself

2004-03-21 Thread Volker Lenhardt
Am 21 Mar 2004 um 17:46 hat Volker Lenhardt geschrieben: > Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 14:01 schrieb Alexander Gottwald: > > Volker Lenhardt wrote: > > > There's some cleaning up mechanism at the start of startxwin.bat, but it > > > doesn't seem to be helpful. How can I check for a running X serve

PATH in startxwin.sh

2004-03-21 Thread Fabio Somenzi
Recent versions of startxwin.sh contain the following line: export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH I have changed it to export PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:"$PATH" to avoid problems with PATHs containing spaces. Maybe this is of general interest. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 Univ

Okay, how about an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ to 2100+ with Palomino core?

2004-03-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Hmm... no one seems to have the old Athlon 1.33 or 1.4's lying around. Oddly enough, they are selling for more on eBay than used Athlon XP chips. Which brings me to my next point: I just discovered that I could actually use any of the AMD Athlon XP 1600+ to 2100+ chips that use the Palomino cor

Re: windowed mode seemingly unavailable

2004-03-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Brian, On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Brian Deckard wrote: > Takuma, thanks for your quick response. My apologies in advance to all > (because I don't think this will end up in the proper thread), but I have > still not received a copy of either Takuma's e-mail or mine in my inbox. FYI, you can use the "

Re: Logfile symlink vulnerability

2004-03-21 Thread Eran Tromer
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > With two distinct users, not in the same group, and with neither an > administrator? > What OS was this with? Were you using NTFS or FAT32? > Please provide more details of your test. Windows XP, NTFS drive. Two different users; the attacker is a "restricted user", the v

Re: Logfile symlink vulnerability

2004-03-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Eran Tromer wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: Eran Tromer wrote: If /tmp/XWin.log is a symlink, XWin will merrily follow it and write to whatever it's pointing to (see LogInit() in os/log.c). This allows standard symlink-following attacks. In theory, but have you actually tried it and confirmed that

Re: Logfile symlink vulnerability

2004-03-21 Thread Eran Tromer
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > Eran Tromer wrote: >> If /tmp/XWin.log is a symlink, XWin will merrily follow it and write >> to whatever it's pointing to (see LogInit() in os/log.c). This allows >> standard symlink-following attacks. > > In theory, but have you actually tried it and confirmed that it wo

Re: Logfile symlink vulnerability

2004-03-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Eran Tromer wrote: Hi, If /tmp/XWin.log is a symlink, XWin will merrily follow it and write to whatever it's pointing to (see LogInit() in os/log.c). This allows standard symlink-following attacks. Example: Alice runs "ln -s /home/Bob/phd-thesis.tex /tmp/XWin.log" under her account. Later Bob run

Logfile symlink vulnerability

2004-03-21 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi, If /tmp/XWin.log is a symlink, XWin will merrily follow it and write to whatever it's pointing to (see LogInit() in os/log.c). This allows standard symlink-following attacks. Example: Alice runs "ln -s /home/Bob/phd-thesis.tex /tmp/XWin.log" under her account. Later Bob runs XWin under his ac

Re: Cygwin Tk for X?

2004-03-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Jeffrey C Honig wrote: I'm curious why the only Tk for Cygwin opens Windows windows, why isn't there one that opens X11 windows? I'd like to be able to use send between apps running other hosts. Because, I believe I have this correct, Cygnus developed a Win32 native port of graphical interface i

Re: windowed mode seemingly unavailable

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Deckard
Takuma, thanks for your quick response. My apologies in advance to all (because I don't think this will end up in the proper thread), but I have still not received a copy of either Takuma's e-mail or mine in my inbox. I did read the response on the website though and am now very close to a sol

Re: how to use dll created by cygwin in MS Visual C++?

2004-03-21 Thread Harold L Hunt II
This has nothing to do with running the X Window System on Cygwin. Try another mailing list. Harold wxWindows_study wrote: > I follow cygwin's user guide,create a dll as following: > > // > // this the dll file :@test_dll.c > //created by son

Cygwin Tk for X?

2004-03-21 Thread Jeffrey C Honig
I'm curious why the only Tk for Cygwin opens Windows windows, why isn't there one that opens X11 windows? I'd like to be able to use send between apps running other hosts. Is it just because no-one has taken the time to build it? Thanks. Jeff -- Jeffrey C. Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www

Re: XWin doesn't close by itself

2004-03-21 Thread Volker Lenhardt
Am Sonntag, 21. März 2004 14:01 schrieb Alexander Gottwald: > Volker Lenhardt wrote: > > But the X server stays running, its logo lingers in the systray. I have > > to shut it by a series of 3 clicks. No alt-f4. If I don't do so, I get > > another X server the next time I start my xsane batch. > >

Re: how to use dll created by cygwin in MS Visual C++?

2004-03-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
wxWindows_study wrote: > But I failed to use the test_dll.dll in MS Visual C++? This question is not specific to the cygwin xserver and should go to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailinglist. But I think this question is asked quite often so I'd advice you to look into the FAQ and the other documentation

Re: XWin doesn't close by itself

2004-03-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Volker Lenhardt wrote: > But the X server stays running, its logo lingers in the systray. I have > to shut it by a series of 3 clicks. No alt-f4. If I don't do so, I get another > X server the next time I start my xsane batch. if you don't use mulitwindowmode or the clipboard you can add the opti

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XWin doesn't close by itself

2004-03-21 Thread Volker Lenhardt
Hello, I'm new to Cygwin. I need it in my home lan to manage scanning from a Windows XP notebook to a Linux print and scan server. I need to start the server's xsane on the notebook via ssh with one mouse click. It works. I use a copy of the startxwin.bat adding "-e ssh ... xsane" to the line "ru

Re: Hydravision problem?

2004-03-21 Thread Takuma Murakami
Peter, I'm afraid if you are using older versions of Cygwin/X. Please confirm its version by 'cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv' and upgrade if it is older than 4.3.0-59. Takuma Murakami > Here is what I have used: > REM Startup the X Server with the integrated Windows-based window manager. > start XW

Re: windowed mode seemingly unavailable

2004-03-21 Thread Takuma Murakami
Brian, The default mode from startx is now -multiwindow that you got. Although its performance has been improved, you can edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx to modify defaultserverargs. Or you can override default args on invocation, for example 'startx -- :0' ("--" indicates that following arguments sho

Re: Changes to multiwindow mode and always-on-top (ping Takuma)

2004-03-21 Thread Takuma Murakami
Harold, > > At 07:56 PM 3/20/2004 +0900, Takuma Murakami wrote: > > > >> You give me a good insight to improve Z order handling. > >> I believe we can approach to better solutions. The attached > >> is my latest code which should fix all problems on restacking > >> and a-o-t windows without usin