Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: postgresql-8.0.4-1 and 8.1.0-1

2005-11-17 Thread Weiqi Gao
Reini, Thanks for the new release. I went through the installation process and wrote up my experience at http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/11/17/postgresql_8_1_0_comes_to_cygwin.html. -- Weiqi Gao (高为奇) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/

Re: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:38:26AM -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: And I'd love to have PerlTk officially packaged :-) If you're building it OOTB, you're only a couple of steps away from being a package maintainer. Want to volunteer? Indeed

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-11-17 Thread Anh Vo
First, it works on my system. In fact, I just checked for replying to this email. Could you tell what exactly you did since it is a while back. If I recall MinGW must installed first. Then, take the binary, include and lib directories and lay on top of cygwin directory. I hope it helps. AV >

RE: hidden share - latex error - Unrecognized variable construct `$'

2005-11-17 Thread Eric Blake
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted > > > > My pwd is drive mapped to a windows share where the last character is a > > "$" (dollar sign). Latex reports lines of identical warnings: > > > > warning: ///$: Unrecognized variable construct `$' If anything, it is a LaTex bug, report it

RE: hidden share - latex error - Unrecognized variable construct `$'

2005-11-17 Thread Stephan Mueller
Being pedantic: you haven't actually asked a question, so it's not clear what you're looking for. But you're right that it's more of a LaTeX thing, and so, a LaTeX list is probably better. If you're looking for a workaround, I'd say easiest (and probably obvious) is to net use a share name that d

windres VERSIONINFO not working

2005-11-17 Thread Paul J. Lucas
I'm trying to use gcc and windres to build a small native Windows application. When compiling, I'm using -mno-cygwin; when linking, I'm using -mwindows. To generate a .res file from a .rc file, I'm using: windres -O coff $< $@ in my makefi

Re: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:38:26AM -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: And I'd love to have PerlTk officially packaged :-) If you're building it OOTB, you're only a couple of steps away from being a package maintainer. Want to volunteer? Indeed, it builds, not entirely

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-11-17 Thread CRAIG SORENSEN
Sorry for the late response. I downloaded the 4 zip files from Mingw.org and extracted them to my cygwin file replacing all. This didn't seem to do anything. Is there something I missed after I extract the files? Thanks for the help Craig Sorensen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

hidden share - latex error - Unrecognized variable construct `$'

2005-11-17 Thread Poor Yorick
My pwd is drive mapped to a windows share where the last character is a "$" (dollar sign). Latex reports lines of identical warnings: warning: ///$: Unrecognized variable construct `$' I know that this is more a Latex thing, but since there's some relation to my cygwin environment, I thought

Re: upgrade/add a single package

2005-11-17 Thread Brian Dessent
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > BTW, this doesn't work (last I tried) if you want an experimental > version of a package. Should it? It should work, but you will have to click twice (or however many times necessary) on the desired package to cycle to the experimental version. There's no way to

Re: Lock down CYGWIN SSH User to single directory.

2005-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 20:08, JMCColorado wrote: > René Berber computer.org> writes: > > http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/ > > I have heard that CHRoot might work, but I have also heard that it > still allows someone to SCP outside of where they can SSH to. The chroot system call only works inside Cygwin.

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-11-17 Thread CRAIG SORENSEN
Peter W Meyer wrote: I am also trying to run tasking using GCC-Ada and cygwin and I'm getting the Tasking not implemented message. I took a look at the emails regarding this and the responses. > I went back to Cygwin setup to see what I had installed already and found that I already had the Mi

Re: Lock down CYGWIN SSH User to single directory.

2005-11-17 Thread JMCColorado
René Berber computer.org> writes: > > JMCColorado wrote: > > > Is there any way to only allow a user SSH access to a single directory tree? > > I need to lock the user out of EVERYTHING else. > > You need something like this: > > http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/index.html#intro > > It ha

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.10.2-2

2005-11-17 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Harold L Hunt II wrote: > The wget-1.10.2-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. > > Changes > === > 2005-11-15 Harold L Hunt II > - Upstream fix for remotely exploitable vulnerability: > - http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08300.html > - http://www

Re: Lock down CYGWIN SSH User to single directory.

2005-11-17 Thread René Berber
JMCColorado wrote: > Is there any way to only allow a user SSH access to a single directory tree? > I need to lock the user out of EVERYTHING else. You need something like this: http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/index.html#intro It hasn't been tested under the Cygwin environment and it's not

RE: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Milam
Using d2u on the text file worked as you indicated. My assertion that the -f option worked as I expected in a previous version was not true in that respect. I probably used a DOS-style editor on the file at some point and that exposed the problem that I described. My general impression is that m

Re: Lock down CYGWIN SSH User to single directory.

2005-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 17:18, JMCColorado wrote: > Is there any way to only allow a user SSH access to a single directory tree? > I need to lock the user out of EVERYTHING else. The file and directory permissions are the key. Cygwin can only lock the user as far as the underlying permissions go. After all, C

Re: upgrade/add a single package

2005-11-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:40:27PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > beau wrote: > > > I think I've got my /etc/setup properly in place > > Huh? Normally there is no need to touch anything under /etc/setup at > all. > > >, but when I try to add a new package I end up getting > > everything. The on

Re: Tasking not implemented on this configuration - again

2005-11-17 Thread CRAIG SORENSEN
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:43:47PM -0500, Anh Vo wrote: >>> "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/11/2005 1:54 PM >>> Peter W Meyer wrote: > I am also trying to run tasking using GCC-Ada and cygwin and I'm getting > the Tasking not implemented message. I took a look at the emails regarding

RE: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Milam
Thanks! -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:00 AM To: Chris Milam Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chris Milam wrote: > In the latest release of grep (2.5.1a-2

Re: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken

2005-11-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chris Milam wrote: > In the latest release of grep (2.5.1a-2), I believe that the -f option > (read expressions from a file) is no longer working. > [snip manpage quote] > However, it appears that no match of any input is ever found for any set > of strings in the file specifi

Lock down CYGWIN SSH User to single directory.

2005-11-17 Thread JMCColorado
Is there any way to only allow a user SSH access to a single directory tree? I need to lock the user out of EVERYTHING else. Thanks in advance for any replies! - JMC -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documen

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.10.2-2

2005-11-17 Thread Harold L Hunt II
The wget-1.10.2-2 package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. Changes === 2005-11-15 Harold L Hunt II - Upstream fix for remotely exploitable vulnerability: - http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08300.html - http://www.mail-archive.com/wget@sunsite.dk/msg08295.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gawk-3.1.5-2

2005-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of gawk to 3.1.5-2. This is a bugfix release. In some circumstances gawk tried to free an area which wasn't allocated dynamically before which could result in a crash. If you have general questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: "cygwin at

FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Milam
In the latest release of grep (2.5.1a-2), I believe that the -f option (read expressions from a file) is no longer working. This option is documented as follows: -f FILE, --file=FILE Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line. The empty file con- tains zero patterns, and therefore

Re: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:38:26AM -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:44 PM: >>Bruce Dobrin wrote: >>>Well, obsolete or not, the tk800.025 for win32 from sourceforge is >>>building and working on 1.5.18 with it's perl5.8.5. Any chance a >>>

RE: PerlTk under Cygwin?

2005-11-17 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:44 PM: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bruce Dobrin wrote: >> Well, obsolete or not, the tk800.025 for win32 from sourceforge is >> building and working on 1.5.18 with it's perl5.8.5. Any chance a >> non-obsole

Re: 1.5.18: problem with drag and drop using XEmacs

2005-11-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 11/17/2005 1:26 AM, Frank Papenfuss wrote: When I try to drag and drop a file into XEmacs it will not open the file. I am not using X, just plain Windows. This behaviour of XEmacs is specific to the distribution that comes with cygwin. XEmacs needs to be built with the "--with-dragndrop" o

Re: gawk 3.1.5-1 coredumps on file open error

2005-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 16 23:12, Christian Franke wrote: > Hi, > > gawk 3.1.5-1 coredumps on file open error. > > cygwin-1.5.18 on XP SP2, gawk-3.1.5-1: > > $ gawk "/test/" no_such_file > Aborted (core dumped) Confirmed. This is an upstream bug which uses a static buffer address in a later free call. I have

Re: fork problem in latest snapshot on Win98

2005-11-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 17 04:18, Eric Blake wrote: > I'm getting a repeatable fork memory allocation error with snapshot > 20051116 on Win98, when trying to build CVS head of libtool; this was > not a problem with 20051020. > > $ make > cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status libtool > config.status: executing libtool co

Re: upgrade/add a single package

2005-11-17 Thread beau
On 11/16/05, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put the radio button at the top to 'keep', then select whichever > individual package you want. Wow but I'm feeling thick right about now. Many thanks. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

1.5.18: problem with drag and drop using XEmacs

2005-11-17 Thread Frank Papenfuss
When I try to drag and drop a file into XEmacs it will not open the file. I am not using X, just plain Windows. This behaviour of XEmacs is specific to the distribution that comes with cygwin. I have seen a similar bugreport "Drag and Drop Dead on cygwin on win XP" but no solution so far. I ana