RE: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services
Thanks for correcting me Larry (it is you I should thank this time, I hope :-) Erik, sorry for the mis-directed gratitude, I guess I should put my mind in gear before I try and use it. > -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:45

Re: problems with configuring ksh (pdksh) in Cygwin and following problems with Linux cross-compilation there

2004-08-05 Thread Arturus Magi
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: {building of pdksh, modifying cygwin.bat} : not foundrofile[2]: : not foundrofile[8]: : not foundrofile[11]: : not foundrofile[14]: : not foundrofile[17]: : not foundrofile[20]: : not foundrofile[23]: : not foundrofile[26]: : not foundrofile[30]: : not foundrofile[36]: ksh:

Re: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)

2004-08-05 Thread Errol Smith
Christopher Faylor wrote: >FYI, the win98 testcase that I reported >(http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg01120.html) locks up in the >same way (as the testcase in this thread) on my hyperthreaded machine >at work (P4, XPPro), but runs fine fine with HT disabled in BIOS. >Maybe seeing what the tw

Re: problems with configuring ksh (pdksh) in Cygwin and following problems with Linux cross-compilation there

2004-08-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote: > *** Igor Pechtchanski wrote: *** > >yes, Cygwin can be configured to use ksh > >instead of bash. The two places that should be changed are "/Cygwin.bat" > >(you'll have to invoke "pdksh.exe", though, since "ksh.exe" is a symlink), > >and "/etc/pa

Re: Need help using cygwin and ssh

2004-08-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Philipp, Please address all Cygwin-related mail to the appropriate Cygwin mailing list unless private mail was specifically requested. That way you get access to more expertise than any one person can provide, and your questions and answers to them are archived on the web, so that others can sear

Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread zzapper
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:34:24 -0500, wrote: >one words: bc >8-) > >somebody wrote on 08/05/2004 04:28:50 PM: >> >whence calc >> /c/WINDOWS/system32/calc >> >> Of course I may be the only one who didn't know this!!! > Thanx,how come I forgot bc? I remember there was also a reverse polish calculato

Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread Fred Kulack
one words: bc 8-) somebody wrote on 08/05/2004 04:28:50 PM: > >whence calc > /c/WINDOWS/system32/calc > > Of course I may be the only one who didn't know this!!! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

RE: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Zzapper, I placed c:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in my path and to timidity to work. It will even make music from the MS prompt. I'm using Windows ME now. Got fed up with Windows XP Corperate. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread zzapper
Hi, I got fed up going to Start-Run-Calc, and just typed calc from my CygWin prompt and up she came! Of course I've got system32 in my $path >whence calc /c/WINDOWS/system32/calc Of course I may be the only one who didn't know this!!! zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrT

RE: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:14 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth >> Sent: 05 August 2004 19:01 > >> adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error: >> >> troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file >> or directory > > Looki

unused libraries in basic install

2004-08-05 Thread Robert Scheiber
Hi! In the standard install cygwin-setup installs libraries which no program in the basic install needs: libncurses5 libncurses6 libreadline4 for all of them newer versions exist, and are in the standard install. Why install older versions by default (if there is a dependency, cygwin-setup woul

RE: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Chris Herborth > Sent: 05 August 2004 19:01 > adding spaces between -P and {-c,-h} gives this error: > > troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P -c -mandoc': No such file > or directory Looking at the docs for the -P option, that woul

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 07:45, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called if > >sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes that > >sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window. In > >that

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Chris Herborth
Larry Hall wrote: I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory I've tried tracking down this problem, presumably in one of the shell scripts (such as /usr/bin/nroff), without luck. Just a WAG but I'd su

RE: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:43 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >Thanks Cristopher this looks like a very useful site. Actually, I believe you meant to thank Erik. Chris was simply pointing out that this site isn't officially affiliated with the Cygwin site or project. As such, discussion of (or more importantly questions

RE: Bug in GCC Install

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 05 August 2004 18:44 > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:40:19PM -0400, Philip Brown wrote: > >There appears to be a bug in the configure scripts for GCC. This bug > >relates to the install procedure for gcov.exe,

Re: WinXP service problem

2004-08-05 Thread Rachan Malhotra
That's all right. I got what you were trying to say. Besides, it made me feel good about my own typos ;-) Larry Hall wrote: Boy, I didn't proofread that one very well. ;-) At 11:56 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote: At 10:53 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote: Ok. I think I figured out the problem. But I still

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:27 PM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >Fish wrote: > >>Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the same/similar >>problem with 'man' recently or at some time in the past? > >I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: > >troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No s

Re: Bug in GCC Install

2004-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:40:19PM -0400, Philip Brown wrote: >There appears to be a bug in the configure scripts for GCC. This bug >relates to the install procedure for gcov.exe, and only appears when you >build gcc for multiple targets. > >The install snippet for gcc is: > >if [ -f gcov.exe ]; \

Bug in GCC Install

2004-08-05 Thread Philip Brown
There appears to be a bug in the configure scripts for GCC. This bug relates to the install procedure for gcov.exe, and only appears when you build gcc for multiple targets. The install snippet for gcc is: if [ -f gcov.exe ]; \ then \ rm -f /usr/bin/gcov.exe; \ /bin/sh /cygdrive/g/Choice

Re: Anyone having problem with 'man' permissions?

2004-08-05 Thread Chris Herborth
Fish wrote: Is anyone else HAVING, or HAS anyone else HAD, the same/similar problem with 'man' recently or at some time in the past? I haven't seen that, but when I try to use 'man', I get this error: troff: fatal error: can't open ` -P-c -mandoc': No such file or directory I've tried tracking down

Re: WinXP service problem

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
Boy, I didn't proofread that one very well. ;-) At 11:56 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >At 10:53 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >>Ok. I think I figured out the problem. But I still do not have a solution for it. >>Here's what I think the problem is: >>When the script is run as a windows service, the user that

Re: WinXP service problem

2004-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:53 AM 8/5/2004, you wrote: >Ok. I think I figured out the problem. But I still do not have a solution for it. >Here's what I think the problem is: >When the script is run as a windows service, the user that's calling the script is >SYSTEM. Inside the script is a call to ssh client with the

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:45:25AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called if >>sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes that >>sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console w

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:43:07PM +0200, Mike Kenny - BCX - Infrastructure Services wrote: >Thanks Cristopher this looks like a very useful site. Huh? Don't thank me. I didn't provide the URL and I'm not advocating the use of that site in any way. I consider it to be an irritant more than any

Re: WinXP service problem

2004-08-05 Thread Rachan Malhotra
Ok. I think I figured out the problem. But I still do not have a solution for it. Here's what I think the problem is: When the script is run as a windows service, the user that's calling the script is SYSTEM. Inside the script is a call to ssh client with the required parameters. I pass it the a

RE: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)

2004-08-05 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 05 August 2004 12:31 > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:28:26PM +1000, Errol Smith wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>For the record I have never doubted that people were reporting real > >>problems. I doubt

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called if sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes that sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window. In that case, chown'ing to system wouldn't make much sense. But

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pango-1.4.0-2, pango-devel-1.4.0-2, pango-doc-1.4.0-2, pango-runtime-1.4.0-2

2004-08-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pango has been updated NEWS Cygwin: Use GLib 2.4.5, latest gettext, libiconv & binutils releases. DESCRIPTION === Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. It forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.0. Canonical websi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: atk-1.6.1-2, atk-devel-1.6.1-2, atk-doc-1.6.1-2, atk-runtime-1.6.1-2

2004-08-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
ATK - has been updated NEWS Cygwin: Use GLib 2.4.5, latest gettext, libiconv & binutils releases. DESCRIPTION === The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for accessibility. By supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used with such tools as screen readers

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: glib2-2.4.5-1, glib2-devel-2.4.5-1, glib2-doc-2.4.5-1, glib2-runtime-2.4.5-1

2004-08-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
I have updated GLib, the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. NEWS Cygwin: Use GLib 2.4.5, latest gettext, libiconv & binutils releases. General: This is a bug fix release and is source and binary compatible with 2.4.0. The main reason fo

Re: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)

2004-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:28:26PM +1000, Errol Smith wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>For the record I have never doubted that people were reporting real >>problems. I doubt that Corinna has either. >> >>No more "me toos" are required here. So, as Larry implied, either >>debugging of the prob

Re: Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls

2004-08-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:09:40AM +0200, Peter Ekberg wrote: >I have read several messages stating that dlopen does not work for dlls >that depend on cygwin1.dll. >(e.g. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg01056.html). >I have also understood that this is due to some structures not bein

Re: question about shared memory in the cygwin daemon

2004-08-05 Thread Reini Urban
Clarke, Trevor schrieb: We currently run on 32bit windows and 32/64but solaris with near future plans to run on 64bit windows. The product is for a specific client so we can assume 4gb or more of physical ram. As for Matlab, the problem is that the library routines for embedding matlab spawn a sepa

Re: Mutt and Paths

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 03:42, George wrote: > If this is mutt-specific I apologise in advance but I'm trying to figure > out why shell commands executed within mutt fail if the command includes > the '~' notation. For example: > > !less /etc/passwd # works > !less ~/.muttrc # fails - no such file or d

Mutt and Paths

2004-08-05 Thread George
If this is mutt-specific I apologise in advance but I'm trying to figure out why shell commands executed within mutt fail if the command includes the '~' notation. For example: !less /etc/passwd # works !less ~/.muttrc # fails - no such file or directory What's curious is that in the seco

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxslt-1.1.8-1

2004-08-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Libxslt has been updated. NEWS Please read the news since the previous Cygwin release (1.1.6) here: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html DESCRIPTION === Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the Gnome project. XSLT itself is a an XML language to define transformation for XML. Lib

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libxml2-2.6.11-1

2004-08-05 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Libxml2 has been updated to version 2.6.11 NEWS Please read the news since the previous Cygwin release (2.6.9) here: http://www.xmlsoft.org/news.html DESCRIPTION === Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), i

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Gernot Hillier
Hi! Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 11:24 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > - setup ssh: > > - set environment variable CYGWIN to "ntsec tty" (Control Panel/ > > System/Advanced/Environmental Variables) > > - call "ssh-host-config -y" in a cygwin window --> creates a user "sshd" > > - ch

Re: cygwin1.dll problem with Hyperthreaded machines (reprise)

2004-08-05 Thread Errol Smith
Christopher Faylor wrote: >For the record I have never doubted that people were reporting real >problems. I doubt that Corinna has either. > >No more "me toos" are required here. So, as Larry implied, either >debugging of the problem or the donation of a system is necessary. FYI, the win98 testc

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 11:11, Gernot Hillier wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 10:59 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > Perhaps that's the problem. People running the script and decide not > > to install sshd as service, but change their mind at some later point. > > Well, for me it didn't work. Here's exactl

Re: question about shared memory in the cygwin daemon

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 14:53, Clarke, Trevor wrote: > > We currently run on 32bit windows and 32/64but solaris with near future > plans to run on 64bit windows. The product is for a specific client so > we can assume 4gb or more of physical ram. You can't access more than 2GB (or 3GB with the appropriate kern

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Gernot Hillier
Hi! Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 10:59 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called > if sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes > that sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console > window. In that case

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 10:53, Gernot Hillier wrote: > Hi! > > Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 10:38 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > > For me it was necessary to chown /etc/sshd_* and /var/empty to user > > > SYSTEM manually in current Cygwin versions so that sshd would start. > > > > > > I also didn't need to do t

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Gernot Hillier
Hi! Am Donnerstag, 5. August 2004 10:38 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > > For me it was necessary to chown /etc/sshd_* and /var/empty to user > > SYSTEM manually in current Cygwin versions so that sshd would start. > > > > I also didn't need to do that in earlier Cygwin versions. > > That's what the s

Re: isfinite returning wrong results

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 14:46, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:01:32AM -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:10:35AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > >I'm having trouble figuring this out. isfinite is sometimes returning > > >

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 10:07, Gernot Hillier wrote: > Hi! > > Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 14:33 schrieb Erik Weibust: > > > I installed the entire cygwin package for use by everyone. Then, as > > > Administrator, I run > > > $ cygrunsrv -I sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd > > > $ cygrun -S sshd > > > > > > this resu

RE: RESEND man.conf permissions problem

2004-08-05 Thread Fish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just thought I'd throw this into the mix too in case it might help: I *do* have Microsoft's "Virtual PC" product installed on my system (and already have a couple of test Windows 2000 systems setup under it), so if there's any type of "experimentati

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Gernot Hillier
Hi! Am Mittwoch, 4. August 2004 14:33 schrieb Erik Weibust: > > I installed the entire cygwin package for use by everyone. Then, as > > Administrator, I run > > $ cygrunsrv -I sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd > > $ cygrun -S sshd > > > > this results in a Win32 error 1062 starting a service. For me it

RE: RESEND man.conf permissions problem

2004-08-05 Thread Fish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Larry Hall wrote: > From the information you provided so far, it looks to me > like you installed initially some things as "Administator" > and subsequently some others as "fish". Correct. Is that not allowed?? Would that cause problems? (and if

Dynamic loading of cygwin dependent dlls

2004-08-05 Thread Peter Ekberg
Hello! I have read several messages stating that dlopen does not work for dlls that depend on cygwin1.dll. (e.g. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-06/msg01056.html). I have also understood that this is due to some structures not being initialized in that case. Is this dlopen problem limite