Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Vidiot wrote: > >Probably because you had no mount table. > > But that shouldn't be anywhere near the C:\WINDOWS directory. Permissions > like before? The mount table is not stored in a file, it's a set of keys in the registry. (Which makes sense, because the whole point of a mount table is t

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Vidiot
Brian responded: Sorry about all of the silly questions, though not so silly to me, since I don't set up cygwin everyday and have only done it once, quite a while ago. THerefore I have forgotten most of what I did to set it up in the first place. >Probably because you had no mount table. But th

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Vidiot wrote: > After bringing up the system, I tried running the cygwin batch file and it > complained about not being able to find the zsh program (I run Z-shell). Probably because you had no mount table. > So, I figured that I needed to reinstall cygwin. Hence the question I > previously pos

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Ross Smith
Vidiot wrote: Jason reponded: The reason you need to update your permissions is because Windows ties permissions to a unique SSID for each user. When you reinstall, even if you set up the same user names, the SSIDs associated with them are different. Ah, a hidden thing I never have had to de

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Vidiot
OK, now I am completely confused. After bringing up the system, I tried running the cygwin batch file and it complained about not being able to find the zsh program (I run Z-shell). So, I figured that I needed to reinstall cygwin. Hence the question I previously posted. Well, I ran the installe

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Vidiot
Jason reponded: >Is this Windows XP Professional or Home? You may be using Simple File >Sharing (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304040) which dumbs down the >security permission rules quite a bit. Pro >Turn it off if you can and you will have a 'Security' tab on the >properties when you right-

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/24/07, Vidiot wrote: Larry Hall responded: >'setup.exe' will only remove files when uninstalling or upgrading. It won't >remove configuration files that have been modified. Also, if the "user >files" in question were not installed by Cygwin, they will not be touched. Thanks. >> Also, w

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Vidiot
Larry Hall responded: >'setup.exe' will only remove files when uninstalling or upgrading. It won't >remove configuration files that have been modified. Also, if the "user >files" in question were not installed by Cygwin, they will not be touched. Thanks. >> Also, where was/is the crontab file

Re: getting emacs in cygwin

2007-06-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
illuzioner wrote: Wynfield Henman wrote: Lou, yes, you can run emacs in cygwin in either of two modes, which emacs figures out by itself. Either in terminal mode if invoked from a terminal emulator like, say putty or in full graphical mode if executed from one of cywin's X-windows. And ye

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

2007-06-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Vidiot wrote: I had to replace the mobo because, well, simple, the other one died :-( I had to reload WinXP-SP2 because the mobo drivers that were there didn't simply cause an error and abort, they caused (or at least the one that did this) the boot process to fail and caused a reboot. So, XP-S

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated chere-0.8-1

2007-06-24 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Dave Kilroy wrote: The chere package has been updated to 0.8-1 chere is a tool to manage context menu items for starting shells from Windows Explorer. See the man page for detailed instructions. Bug fixes --- * xterm invoked with /usr/X11R6/bin in the path. This allows it to find various DL

Re: Building Apache Custom Modules on Cygwin?

2007-06-24 Thread Max Bowsher
Lee Goddard wrote: > Can anyone recommend a URI or book for custom-coded C modules for the > Apache 2.2.* series, specifically on cygwin? I very much doubt that anything dealing specifically with Cygwin has been written. > I've been looking at a few tutorials for the same on Unix, but they end >

Re: cygwin on usb problems

2007-06-24 Thread Brian Dessent
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > The last solution I could think of was removing the umask 022 command from > > the /etc/profile. This (I think) would have the effect of making all new > > created files having 777 or 666 permissions. However, does this affect files > > created from scripts or other progr

Re: cygwin on usb problems

2007-06-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* nanothief (Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:15:01 -0700 (PDT)) > I've installed cygwin onto my usb drive using the guide at > http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/ but I am having > problems with file permissions with it. For various reasons, I choose to > install cygwin onto a ntfs partition

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated chere-0.8-1

2007-06-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
The chere package has been updated to 0.8-1 chere is a tool to manage context menu items for starting shells from Windows Explorer. See the man page for detailed instructions. Bug fixes --- * xterm invoked with /usr/X11R6/bin in the path. This allows it to find various DLLs it requires. * DI

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: astyle-1.21-1

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I've uploaded a new version astyle, 1.21-1, in keeping with the current upstream release. For a list of changes check out http://astyle.sourceforge.net/astyle_release_notes.html. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloa

Re: pcre-7.2

2007-06-24 Thread Reini Urban
Greg Chicares schrieb: On 2007-06-24 11:47Z, Reini Urban wrote: Can we please have a pcre update? We have 6.6, latest is 7.2 Though it's not 7.2, perhaps pcre-7.1-1 would help: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00440.html Almost. But a few pieces are still missing. -- Reini Urban htt

Re: pcre-7.2

2007-06-24 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2007-06-24 11:47Z, Reini Urban wrote: > Can we please have a pcre update? > We have 6.6, latest is 7.2 Though it's not 7.2, perhaps pcre-7.1-1 would help: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00440.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

pcre-7.2

2007-06-24 Thread Reini Urban
Can we please have a pcre update? We have 6.6, latest is 7.2 This will be closer to the perl-5.10 semantics. See http://use.perl.org/~avar/journal/33585 for a comparison of perl (5.10) against pcre. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ http://helsinki.at/ http://spacemovie.m

cygwin on usb problems

2007-06-24 Thread nanothief
I've installed cygwin onto my usb drive using the guide at http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/sezer/software/cygwin/ but I am having problems with file permissions with it. For various reasons, I choose to install cygwin onto a ntfs partition. When I create files on one computer from within cygwin, a