Re: Subscribe me

2002-03-14 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 20:23 Subject: Subscribe me I doubt subscribing you would do any good since you are incapable of following the instructions given in http://cygwin.com/lists.html . -- Mac :}) ** I normal

cygpng2.dll & pdflatex

2002-03-14 Thread Brendan Drew
I've been trying to get PdfLaTeX & PdfTeX up and running but with little luck -- the installation of the kpathsea packages went smoothely until it came time to the post-install stuff with pdf(la)tex. Both complained about not being able to find cygpng2.dll. I looked around and, sure enough, I coul

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Either that or something like (untested): > > mkdir c:\cygwin > cd c:\cygwin > c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2 > mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin / > mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib > mount -f -s -

RE: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

2002-03-14 Thread Surendar Singh Bisht
How 'bout using "gcc -w" for compilation. It SILENCES the complaint. (I'm using gcc version 2.95.3-5.) -Original Message- From: sam alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 15 March 2002 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence

RE: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

2002-03-14 Thread Al Slater
use unsigned int x = 4294967294UL; ^^ regards Al > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of sam alexander > Sent: 15 March 2002 07:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can

Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

2002-03-14 Thread sam alexander
Hi The useless compiler warning is this: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned I KNOW that it's unsigned, and it's supposed to be. It's the right hand side of an initialization like this: unsigned int x = 4294967294; I'd just ignore it as a minor annoyance, but my

RE: cygwin.com suggestions

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Here are a couple of suggestions for making the cygwin.com > website more > helpful. Thanks for your suggestions, feedback on them in-line. > 1) Include the current version number of setup.exe on the front page. > Otherwise, there

setup.exe v2.125.2.10: package selection strangeness, behavior not documented

2002-03-14 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
I have a working cygwin installation. I want to download only a single package (cron, say) and its dependenciess. To do this, I need to start the package-selection screen in setup from a "skip or keep everything" state, that is, do not download anything. Is this what prev/curr/exp are designed

cygwin.com suggestions

2002-03-14 Thread felixmendelssohnn
Here are a couple of suggestions for making the cygwin.com website more helpful. 1) Include the current version number of setup.exe on the front page. Otherwise, there is no way for the infrequent visitor to the website to know if setup.exe has been updated other than to re-download and run it

"reboot -h now" take effect but "-r now" don't

2002-03-14 Thread Iman Lee
a tester (thanks) test my machine, find "reboot -h now" take effect, but "reboot -r now" don't work. -Original Message- >first thank you for reply my question. >I setup a test win2k machine.(new installed system, no other application) >no user logon through console, no application is runn

Subscribe me

2002-03-14 Thread lkapoor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "DISCLAIMER: This message is proprietary to Hughes Software Systems Limited (HSS) and is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged or confidential information and should not be circulated or used for any purpose other

Re: "start" for Cygwin

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Schaap
At 08:33 13-3-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: >Michael -- > Did you want to add this to cygutils? I'm getting ready to release > 1.0.0 and I'd like to put start(cygstart, whatev) in it for v1.0 rather > than later -- if its going in at all. If you'd rather keep it separate, > that's fine too.

new app: fcd-1.0

2002-03-14 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi all, Just writing to announce my first Unix/Cygwin app, it's a tiny utility that makes changing directories faster. It tries to expand each 'step' of a path as a wildcard from both the current directory and also from each directory in an environment variable. For example, if you have ~/my_we

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:23 PM 3/14/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:42:40PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >>Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea > >>for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for s

there is a test machine for 'reboot' on the net

2002-03-14 Thread Iman Lee
first thank you for reply my question. I setup a test win2k machine.(new installed system, no other application) no user logon through console, no application is running. IP: 152.104.150.111 ssh user: test (have shutdown capability) pass: reboot if you like to see, it just can't

struct flock, off_t, and __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

2002-03-14 Thread Matt Seitz
I am porting a program that assumes 32-bit gid/uid, so I defined __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__. Unfortunately, that is causing my compiler to compain when I try to assign an off_t value to the l_start or l_len fields of struct flock. It appears this is because l_start and l_len are hard coded as 32-b

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:42:40PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >>Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea >>for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so >>long that I was afraid Cygwin would never reach such

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken,1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Gareth Pearce
> >Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >>Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for >>all >>subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I >>was >>afraid Cygwin would never reach such heights again. Boy am I relieved! I >>guess there'

RE: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:40 AM > To: Chris Tooley > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ldconfig??? > > > Chris Tooley wrote: > > > I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this >

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all > subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I was > afraid Cygwin would never reach such heights again. Boy am I relieved! I > guess there's no n

Read this Carefully, See what you think!

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Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Chris Tooley wrote: > I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this > something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers > as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me? your "something" shouldn't be looking for ldconfig on cygwin. It is

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:52 AM > Is there a method, when using "install from > local," of simply installing every package that's present in > the local cache? Not in the current released setup. The next ver

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
Or with the next release of setup.exe, just 1) click on the top most category's "default" button, till it says install. 2) Click next. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: Perl Update problems

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Corey, >> I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the >> Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via >> 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error: >> Cannot forceunlink >> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey >> /Read

Re: Perl Update problems

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Corey, Am 2002-03-14 um 19:19 schriebst du: > I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the > Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via > 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error: > Cannot forceunlink > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/

Re: Looking for a mail server

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Andrew, Am 2002-03-14 um 09:11 schriebst du: > Adrian Phillips wrote: >>>"Andrew" == Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >> >> Andrew> I'm looking for a mail server a la sendmail. I've looked a >> Andrew> little but apparently sendmail has not been ported to >>

RE: Passing File Descriptors

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: David E Euresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Passing File Descriptors > > > Hello, > > I noticed there was some talk in January about passing > file descriptors between process

Re: Strange exec behavior

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:38:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] > >Yes. > >cgf > >>~> ps -W | fgrep /a >> 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15

Passing File Descriptors

2002-03-14 Thread David E Euresti
Hello, I noticed there was some talk in January about passing file descriptors between processes. I'm in the process of porting a daemon to Windows and was wondering if there had been any progress made on this. By looking at the code I haven't seen any way of getting around passing the s

Looking for local software developers.

2002-03-14 Thread Matt Sarad
I am in need of local software developers to handle the growing number of clients servicing us in Sacramento. We are looking for someone who will give us a small finders fee (10% your net) on the transactions we send. Our reputation of course is on the line for whomever we work with, and so the

Bash - bind Alt-Arrow keys

2002-03-14 Thread Scott Goldstein
I want to bind \M-right and \M-left to forward-word and backward-word respectively in bash. I've tried the following in my .inputrc file: # forward word bind '"\M-\e[C":forward-word' # backward word bind '"\M-\e[D":backward-word' It seems to work, but have some strange side affects. Specifica

RE: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi Corinna, does that also mean there's no difference between logging in, as a given user on a PDC, locally or in the domain? Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 21:51 > To: cygwin >

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:10:55PM +0100, Martin Bene wrote: > Given: cygwin on a W2k Primary domain controller. > > When running mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l, you get primary group 513 in passwd, and no >mention of either 513 or 10513 in group file. Ok, I've found the reason, probably. Basicall

Re: Strange exec behavior

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] Yes. cgf >~> ps -W | fgrep /a > 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a > 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a > 50

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:25:36PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >But when running setup again and chosing the "install from local" >> >option, I have to make the same choices over again, not all of which I >> >remember (and it's

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Edwards
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >But when running setup again and chosing the "install from local" > >option, I have to make the same choices over again, not all of which I > >remember (and it's a lot of clicking besides). Is there a method, when > >using "in

Strange exec behavior

2002-03-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] ~> ps -W | fgrep /a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 345

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:51:38PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: >We need to install Cygwin on a /lot/ of W2K boxes, and we need to >include some packages not in the base set (openssh and its prereqs, for >one). To save time, I've done the "download from internet" option, >selected the things we nee

Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Edwards
The closest FAQ I could find was "How do I install everything?" which may or may not apply to my situation, I don't know. (I suspect it does, unfortunately.) We need to install Cygwin on a /lot/ of W2K boxes, and we need to include some packages not in the base set (openssh and its prereqs, fo

Re: Net::Telnet needs line of code added for fhopen to work withcygwin-perl and IO::Pty module in MSWin

2002-03-14 Thread Jay Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First I'd like to say THANKS Brian, you're most welcome. > Recently, the IO:Pty module was successfully ported to > work with cygwin-perl. Now it is truly possible to use your > fhopen method (per Lincoln Stein's chapter on your Telnet > module) to do Expect-l

Perl Update problems

2002-03-14 Thread Corey T. Holzer
I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error: Cannot forceunlink /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey /ReadKey.dll: Permission denied

AW: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Corinna, > Currently I don't understand how setup could create a /etc/passwd file > with gid 513 and a group file with gid 10513. > > IIRC, setup calls both, mkpasswd and mkgroup, using the -l option. > This should naturally result in using the 513 in both files. > > If anybody could sched s

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:00 PM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: >On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:33, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > At 11:24 AM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: > > >I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this > > >something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:21:47PM +0100, Martin Bene wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > > That's fine. Patches gratefully accepted. > > Just for the record: I ran into the problem as well, and of course your analysis was >correct. > > the passwd/group files automaticaly generated during install didn't

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Tooley
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:33, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 11:24 AM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: > >I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this > >something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers > >as to where to get it, or do I have po

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:24 AM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: >I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this >something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers >as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me? http://cygwin.com/packages/ answers questions lik

Re: Looking for a mail server

2002-03-14 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Andrew" == Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> Adrian Phillips wrote: >>> "Andrew" == Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Andrew> I'm looking for a mail server a la sendmail. I've looked >> a Andrew> little but apparently sendmail

ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Tooley
I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me? Chris Tooley -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reportin

AW: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Corinna, > That's fine. Patches gratefully accepted. Just for the record: I ran into the problem as well, and of course your analysis was correct. the passwd/group files automaticaly generated during install didn't match wrt to groups (group 513 in passwd, 10513 in group file). The solut

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Lapo Luchini
> Just some food for thought. For my needs manually adding group [10]513 if /etc/group is OK, and anyone can do this easily.. OF COURSE it someone would had the time&will to find&fix the problem it WOULD be better eheheh ;-) (again, as you always say: "patches gratefully accepted") BTW: this is

sshd as a service

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Huddleston
We're trying to get sshd running on a Windows 2000 server box. We're using the latest version of everything (as of yesterday morning). We're trying to get DSA authentication setup and we seem to have succeeded. *If* we launch sshd from the command line, the DSA authentication works as expected a

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:11:33AM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: >subject says all. There are other reports on this NG of same. Yep. As soon as we reach the critical mass of "me toos" the problem will magically go away. I think we only have 2^31 - 14 to go. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:11 AM 3/14/2002, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: >subject says all. There are other reports on this NG of same. Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I was afraid Cygwin would never re

Re: make core dumping

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Teske
On Monday 11 March 2002 17:51, I wrote: > I did some research for the "make somtimes core-dumping problem", which > still seems to be open from what I read in the release notes. The latest cygwin release fixes that, so maybe somebody should change that in the FAQ/ReleaseNotes. Greetings, --

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:11:33AM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: > subject says all. There are other reports on this NG of same. That's fine. Patches gratefully accepted. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: weird... ssh from windows to other host only works when CYGWIN=""

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:10:39AM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: > > I went back to cygwin 1.3.9 and the problems went away. There are now > multiple reports of 1.3.10 being broken in extracting the groups / users > from Win2K. And that means? Did you only went back or did you actually try

Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Stephen Gutknecht
subject says all. There are other reports on this NG of same. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: weird... ssh from windows to other host only works when CYGWIN=""

2002-03-14 Thread Stephen Gutknecht
I went back to cygwin 1.3.9 and the problems went away. There are now multiple reports of 1.3.10 being broken in extracting the groups / users from Win2K. Stephen "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 0

Re: step by step how-to set up sshd on a Windows 2000 host?

2002-03-14 Thread Stephen Gutknecht
Thanks for the replies. I was doing everything correctly, just that the 3.10 release is broken! Went back to 3.9 and my security-related config problems went away. "Stephen Gutknecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message a6pbdl$jd6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:a6pbdl$jd6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, >

Re: gcc compiler for 64-bit windows

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:07 PM 3/13/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Please check out the project web page for links to available information >and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . > >If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is >the best place to make observations or get questions answered. >Inf

Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Earnie, Donnerstag, 14. März 2002 15:29:35, du schriebst: > NTFS already does on the fly compression. No other utility is needed. What about FAT drives? UPX compresses binaries about 50%! How much does NTFS on the fly compression handles? >> > What about reducing distributed exes size using

AW: poll() bugs and patch

2002-03-14 Thread Boris Schaeling
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag > von Corinna Vinschen > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. März 2002 13:16 > An: cygwin > Betreff: Re: poll() bugs and patch > [...] > Thanks for the patch. I've applied it with some changes. Sorry for >

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:50:50PM +0100, Gerrit Cap wrote: > I don't get any errors when editing the file, and when crontab -e is > running I do see a temporary file in /tmp which is according to the status > line of vi the file being edited. I don't have that problem. You should debug that.

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit Cap
I don't get any errors when editing the file, and when crontab -e is running I do see a temporary file in /tmp which is according to the status line of vi the file being edited. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.

Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX

2002-03-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
NTFS already does on the fly compression. No other utility is needed. Earnie. "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Lapo, > > Mittwoch, 13. März 2002 22:36:35, du schriebst: > > > What about reducing distributed exes size using UPX? > > Has it any side-kicks on cygwni binaries? > > Of course bz2 arc

Opening a new window

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit Cap
Hello, Does anybody knows on how to open a new "window" executing a particular command, e.g. when a script is launched it executes in 1 window and then it should start another script/command running in its own window. Regards, Gerrit. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: weird... ssh from windows to other host only works when CYGWIN=""

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:09:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [dave@xpgrave]~/:{194}:$ CYGWIN="ntsec tty" ssh alphonse -l root > setgid 513: Invalid argument > > What is the "ntsec tty" doing anyway? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntse

Re: 1.3.10 ssh X forwarding fails: Write failed: invalid argument

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:32PM -0800, Daryl Spartz wrote: > ssh with X forwarding worked for me, on some version like 1.3.2, but after > upgrade I get failure below. On the OpenSSH developers list it currently turns out that there might be a X forwarding problem in the current 3.1p1 version.

Re: mmap of large amount returns invalid pointer

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:57:33PM -0800, Stephen Weeks wrote: > I don't think this explanation is correct. I still think that mmap is > returning a pointer to an invalid chunk of memory. To demonstrate > this, here is a program that does an mmap, fprintf, and then attempts > to write to the fir

Re: ftp anonymous on NT server

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:02:51PM +0100, Jorge Goncalvez wrote: > Hi, I use cygwin setup on Both Windows NT Workstation and Server > I create ftp and anonymous users but I didn't put them in a group. > It works on Nt workstation but it fails on NT server (Login failed). > I wonder if there is a w

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:09:29AM +0100, Gerrit Cap wrote: > Hello, > > Running the current latest version of cygwin (and cron) on NT 4.0 SP6. When > I edit a crontab file using the crontab -e command, only the first editing > session is handled and I get a response : new crontab installed (or

Re: step by step how-to set up sshd on a Windows 2000 host?

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:11:33PM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone recommend some step-by-step instructions on setting up sshd on a > Windows 2000 host? /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-.README Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cy

Re: weird... ssh from windows to other host only works when CYGWIN=""

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:59:22PM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: > I'm having problems with "setgid 513" too... what is going on here? Check /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If you have a group 10513 but no group 513 you should change either your /etc/passwd entry to have 10513 as primary group or

Re: poll() bugs and patch

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Boris Schaeling wrote: > > Ok with me. However, I'll not take that patch w/o a ChangeLog entry. > > Please create one, Boris. > > Here they are: > - change.log > - poll.patch > - newpoll.cc (new implementation) > - polltest.c (testcase) Thanks for the p

RE:ftp anonymous on NT server

2002-03-14 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I use cygwin setup on Both Windows NT Workstation and Server I create ftp and anonymous users but I didn't put them in a group. It works on Nt workstation but it fails on NT server (Login failed). I wonder if there is a way to know the Nt group with for exemple the registry to add by code ftp

Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin

2002-03-14 Thread Jonathan Larmour
Max wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:40 PM > > To: Jonathan Larmour > > Cc: ecos; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; max rtos > > Subject: Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002

Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit Cap
Hello, Running the current latest version of cygwin (and cron) on NT 4.0 SP6. When I edit a crontab file using the crontab -e command, only the first editing session is handled and I get a response : new crontab installed (or similar message, don't know it anymore) But every next editing of th