Logout Terminal Services RDC ends ssh invoked by W2k3 service

We run an application under Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition as a service using Firedaemon. That application invokes ssh connections using the command c:\cygwin\bin\ssh -T -l fill_in_the_username with the appropriate ssh keys setup well ahead of time. When a user logs onto the W2k3 Server

Re: Setup 2.510.2.1 does nor work!

Angelo Graziosi roma1.infn.it> writes: > > > I have upgraded setup.exe to new 2.510.2.1 and tried to use it to install > (Install from Local Directory) some upgrading package (file-4.15-3 etc.) : > all in setup.ini 20050907 16:30 that requests this new version of > setup.e

slogin and problems with network shares

When I slogin to WIndows now, and enter my password, the network shares seem to behave differently. Previously, I could do this to restore all the network connections: if [ ! -z "$SSH_CONNECTION" ] then echo "Logged in via ssh: now restoring any network connections" net use | \ se

Re: UID not correct - not getting domain's UID

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: New contract, new employer, new problems. Now I know that I need to do mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group, etc. However when I start a bash shell id returns: $ id uid=400(adefaria) gid=401(Domain Users

Re: Setup 2.510.2.1 does nor work!

Bug reports for setup.exe should be sent to cygwin-apps@, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please direct replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Angelo Graziosi wrote: > But it fails when 'parsing ini file': a popup window appears saying: > > Application error: cygwin setup > > The instruction '0x009501bd'

Re: UID not correct - not getting domain's UID

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: New contract, new employer, new problems. Now I know that I need to do mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group, etc. However when I start a bash shell id returns: $ id uid=400(adefaria) gid=401(Domain Users) groups=544(Administrators

UID not correct - not getting domain's UID

New contract, new employer, new problems. Now I know that I need to do mkpasswd -l -d > /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group, etc. However when I start a bash shell id returns: $ id uid=400(adefaria) gid=401(Domain Users) groups=544(Administrators),545(Users),38018(CTXSJCA),28526(dept-67

About Cygwin announcements

Despite reading all the Cygwin announcement emails assiduously, I'm occasionally surprised to learn of significant improvements that weren't mentioned in the announcements. No one has a perfect memory, so I can easily see how it'd be easy to overlook mentioning some great new feature, in an announ

Setup 2.510.2.1 does nor work!

I have upgraded setup.exe to new 2.510.2.1 and tried to use it to install (Install from Local Directory) some upgrading package (file-4.15-3 etc.) : all in setup.ini 20050907 16:30 that requests this new version of setup.exe. But it fails when 'parsing ini file': a popup window appe

Re: file not working on executables?

On 7 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Oh well, why are you still using textmode? We should drop this choice from > setup.exe entirely. The logic went: 1) Under Windows, most of the programs we use are native Windows ones, so we choose DOS style line endings during Cygwin install. 2) I ass

Re: sftp "connection closed"

Hi Jack, On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:57:59PM -0700, Jack Offerman wrote: > On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > > > >I appreciate your help. > > > > I guess you could try

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:07:57PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:01:31PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to >20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots >on this machi

Re: sftp "connection closed"

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jack Offerman wrote: > On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . Thanks. > > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > > > >I appreciate your help. > > >

Re: sftp "connection closed"

On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > >I appreciate your help. > > I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and > see what you get from the logs ther

Re: sftp "connection closed"

At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > >Both were working before. But I realized that I needed to fix >/etc/passwd and /etc/group >for another reason, so I did mkpasswd and mkgroup. Then did >ssh-host-config again. > >With that done

Re: Simple find command does not work for * .html

> > For some reason the following find command will not complete for *.html. > > It says: find: paths must precede expression User error. Remember that the shell does filename globbing before find ever sees its input (unless you have done set -f in a POSIX shell). If the current directory c

Re: 1.5.18-1 Segfault on setup postinstall

> I left the install running overnightstill no progress... Part of your problem is explained by this: > Not Found: sh /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh tries to set up a working /bin/sh. If that fails, then everything else is suspect. > Apparently its not cygcheck that crashes but id.exe: > >

Simple find command does not work for * .html

For some reason the following find command will not complete for *.html. It says: find: paths must precede expression however, all of the other ones work. I searched on google and all I came up with was this. http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hmjamieson/favs/my_favourites/?item=&display=full

Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn wrote: > Each of those warnings represents incorrect code on your part. Your > coding techniques would have barely scraped by back in 1979. Since 1989, > they've just been completely invalid. Stop taking these crude shortcuts - I'm a bi

RE: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

Original Message >From: Lapo Luchini >Sent: 07 September 2005 19:32 > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Try this: >> #include > > It works. > Silly me, I didn't think about checking headers, as it was good at > compile-time No, it wasn't "good at compile-time". It was bad at compile-time

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New version of the Cygwin setup.exe program released

Original Message >From: Sean McMahon >Sent: 07 September 2005 19:06 > Any chance of getting accessability support in setup.exe? The list of > packages should be setup as a standard listview with the graphic for > each item as a multistate checkbox similar to what you have in the > window

Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Try this: > #include It works. Silly me, I didn't think about checking headers, as it was good at compile-time (strange thing, tough, read did work, but lseek didn't). Oh well, thanks. - -- Lapo Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

Try this: On Sep 7 20:11, Lapo Luchini wrote: > At the bare minumum it all boils down to: > > % cat short.c > #include > #include > #include > #include #include > #define GAG_OFFSET 0x59BD > main() { > char sect[512]; > int dev, i; > dev = open("/dev/sdb", O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0);

Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I really thought you know better. But you know that using a "user" mailing list you can't resist to do silly question ;-) Except jokes, what I really forgot to tell is that the program is still that small (119 lines) that wou

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:01:31PM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more frequently. >>

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New version of the Cygwin setup.exe program released

Any chance of getting accessability support in setup.exe? The list of packages should be setup as a standard listview with the graphic for each item as a multistate checkbox similar to what you have in the windows setup utility. - Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

On Sep 7 19:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 7 19:42, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > Is is normal that Cygwin's lseek doesn't work on /dev/sda? > > What should I do? > > My own personal work-around would be to read all those 44 sectors (and > > discarding them), but I don't like that very much, is t

Re: Hang with snapshot 20050905

I just discovered that after upgrading from snapshot 20050716 to 20050905 my OOo build hangs. Sorry, I didn't update/test the snapshots on this machine (Opteron 2.4GHz, cygcheck.log attached.) more frequently. ... Is the newest snapshot any better? I'll it try now. This will take a few hours.

Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

On Sep 7 19:42, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Is is normal that Cygwin's lseek doesn't work on /dev/sda? > What should I do? > My own personal work-around would be to read all those 44 sectors (and > discarding them), but I don't like that very much, is there some > better/cleaner alternative? > > If any

happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there. I'm (trying to) writing a program to configure a GAG boot manager installation (gag.sf.net) from command line, while trying to create a program as portable as possible. I began the developement under FreeBSD, and there I learnt that /dev/ad0

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New version of the Cygwin setup.exe program released

> > I have updated the Cygwin setup utility to version 2.510.2.1. This release > contains a number of bugfixes and additional features, which are summarized > below. Hooray! Much improved! Minor bugs I have noticed: On the file chooser page, all text has a white background rather than using th

sftp "connection closed"

When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? Both were working before. But I realized that I needed to fix /etc/passwd and /etc/group for another reason, so I did mkpasswd and mkgroup. Then did ssh-host-config again. With that done, now I am happy to see the ssh user fina

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New version of the Cygwin setup.exe program released

I have updated the Cygwin setup utility to version 2.510.2.1. This release contains a number of bugfixes and additional features, which are summarized below. The setup.exe file can be downloaded from or by clicking on "Install Cygwin Now" on the main cygwin.com page

Re: Intermittent scp crash on completion, Win98 SE, snapshot

On 9/6/05, Aaron Humphrey wrote: > I tried a few times on the weekend, but no success yet. The first time, > strace crashed right away, leaving me with an unkillable error window, > which left me gunshy for a couple of days. When I tried it again this > morning, it did much the same thing, except

Re: XEMACS and $HOME

> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > > > According to Achim Schaefer on 9/6/2005 7:50 AM: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a problem with my $HOME setting. > > > Starting xemacs I get the following message: > > > > > > $ xemacs > > > Syntax error: "Bad format environment-variable substitution", >

Re: XEMACS and $HOME

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Achim Schaefer on 9/6/2005 7:50 AM: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with my $HOME setting. > > Starting xemacs I get the following message: > > > > $ xemacs > > Syntax error: "Bad format environment-variable substitution", > > "//SV018182/luxca

Re: XEMACS and $HOME

> According to Achim Schaefer on 9/6/2005 7:50 AM: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with my $HOME setting. > > Starting xemacs I get the following message: > > > > $ xemacs > > Syntax error: "Bad format environment-variable substitution", > > "//SV018182/luxcasch$" > > My only guess is that xem

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.2p1-1

I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.2p1-1. This is an official new upstream release. The official release message: OpenSSH 4.2 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at http://www.openssh

Re: 1.5.18-1 Segfault on setup postinstall

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Andrew Comport on 9/6/2005 1:53 PM: > Hello, > > It has now been 2 weeks that I am trying to get my cywin setup working > again. After having problems with an update I have deleted everything > including registry values and tried a fresh

Re: XEMACS and $HOME

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Achim Schaefer on 9/6/2005 7:50 AM: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my $HOME setting. > Starting xemacs I get the following message: > > $ xemacs > Syntax error: "Bad format environment-variable substitution", > "//SV018182/luxcasch$"

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-4.15-3

I've updated the version of file to 4.15-3. This release is supposed to solve problems examining binary files on textmode mounts. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and

Re: file not working on executables?

On Sep 7 15:05, Luke Kendall wrote: > I installed the latest Cygwin a couple of days ago. "file" now > produces no information for binary executables. Anyone else seeing > this problem? (I checked that "file" is /usr/bin/file.) > > $ file /usr/bin/ls.exe > /usr/bin/ls.exe: > $ file /cygdrive/