Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8

2008-02-25 Thread Fredrik Staxeng
I am trying to run cygwin on Windows Server 2008, under Hyper-V, accessing via Remote Desktop. I somehow succeeded in installing 1.5.25-7, then I upgraded to the experimental 1.5.25-8. When I try to start X programs, sometimes it succeeds, but mostly I get a message like this: 31089349 [main] xs

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.10b-1

2008-02-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.10b-1, is available, replacing 1.4.10-1 as current. NEWS This is a new upstream release. It is marked as a beta release upstream, but I think it is worth promoting to current right away because of the speed increase it

Re: SSHD Passwordless - Connection closed

2008-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
victor hooi wrote: NB: I found this: http://erdelynet.com/archive/ssh-l/2003-01/1056.html Glad to see you searched the web though. which had a similar issue, but not quite the same, unfortunately. I have a Windows box I'm attempting to back up using RSnapshot, running cwrsync and Cygwin

SSHD Passwordless - Connection closed

2008-02-25 Thread victor hooi
NB: I found this: http://erdelynet.com/archive/ssh-l/2003-01/1056.html which had a similar issue, but not quite the same, unfortunately. I have a Windows box I'm attempting to back up using RSnapshot, running cwrsync and Cygwin sshd (OpenSSH_4.5p1). The client from which we're running Rsnapsho

Re: Uuencoded cygcheck

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: > Is this really a recommended way of transmitting this information? I made a minor mistake in addition... I didn't remember correctly the reason for the 'remotefile' argument of uuencode, and I gave cygcheck.uue, instead of cygcheck.out. Marc -- Unsub

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: codeville 0.8.0-1 -- A distributed version control system implemented in Python

2008-02-25 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/codeville/ License : GPL A python-based distributed version control system that began with a novel idea for a merge algorithm and has grown from there. It is designed to be easy to use and scale from small personal pr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: wiggle 0.6-1 -- A program for applying patches with conflicting changes

2008-02-25 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/wiggle License : GPL A program for applying patches that patch(1) cannot apply due to conflicting changes in the original. Wiggle will always apply all changes in the patch to the original. If it cannot fin

Uuencoded cygcheck - was - Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Marc Girod wrote: I now add the updated and uuencoded cygcheck.out: begin 700 cygcheck.uue I may have missed something in the recent conversation here or maybe it's just my email client (Thunderbird) which doesn't automatically handle this decoding but this is the first time the notion of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.3.2-40

2008-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of inetutils to 1.3.2-40. This is a security release. Please update as soon as possible. Changes related to the previous version 1.3.2-37: - Fix a security problem in rshd which results in running user scripts under the SYSTEM account when inetd is sinstalled as servi

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > I always set my basic CYGWIN settings in the windows system properties > global environment. Thanks. I did it now. > If the remote drive supports proper NTFS ACLs, any file cygwin creates on it > /while/ CYGWIN=smbntsec is in effect will have proper NTFS acce

RE: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 February 2008 10:39, Marc Girod wrote: > But for now, I assume that my problem being 'solved', this is not > necessary anymore? I don't think we need it any more, no. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

RE: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Korn
On 25 February 2008 10:36, Marc Girod wrote: >> So, try your original test again, but with >> >> ~> export CYGWIN=ntsec smbntsec >> >> at the start. > > Thanks. This helpped. > I didn't even have to give the chmod again. > With the environment variable, the rights showed up correctly. > [I no

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Will Parsons nodomain.invalid> writes: > What I've done is to uuencode it (I think uuencode is part of sharutils): > > $ uuencode cygcheck.out cygcheck.out > cygcheck.uue > > and inserted the uuencoded text into the message. Nobody's complained, so > I think it must work. Thanks. I believe th

Re: chmod o-r woes...

2008-02-25 Thread Marc Girod
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > Highly significant ... No doubt. > -> the words "CYGWIN environment variable" are a link to >http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html This I had found... But not clearly understood whether I was supposed to set it myself, or whether Cygwin woul

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8

2008-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:10:33 +0100) > On Feb 24 21:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Anyway, I installed Windows 2008 Server about one week ago and at > > this time I had not read about a major issue preventing > > installation. I didn't report that because I was not sure if I > > miss

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8

2008-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:09:59 +0100) > On Feb 24 17:09, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Corinna Vinschen (Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:38:05 +0100) > > > The desktop icon exists, but you have to press F5 once on the desktop, > > > otherwise the desktop content gets not refreshed. > > > > Never

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8

2008-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:28:19 +0100) > The main purpose of this update is to allow Cygwin to run correctly > on Windows 2008 Server. A change in the exception handling in > Windows 2008 Server requires to change the exception handling in the > Cygwin DLL as well, otherwise an except

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8

2008-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 21:37, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Brian Dessent (Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:21:39 -0800) > > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > Well, I found this out the "hard" way. Was that a known fact? "Known" > > > as in "known to the public". > > > > Did you miss this text in the announcement that you're replyin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: [experimental] cygwin-1.5.25-8

2008-02-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 24 17:09, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Corinna Vinschen (Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:38:05 +0100) > > The desktop icon exists, but you have to press F5 once on the desktop, > > otherwise the desktop content gets not refreshed. > > Never heard of this. New feature of 2008? F5 is the refresh key for ag

Re: Grace distribution is not standard

2008-02-25 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hi Thank you for your reply. This is due to miscommuication. Previously I have alredy reported by other title. Please see, http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2008-02/msg00228.html However, Goldschmidt, Yadin Y gave me a solution. It has been solved. Many thanks to the cygwin community. Regards T

Re: grace

2008-02-25 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello "RE: grace" ""Goldschmidt, Yadin Y" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"wrote; >Please try the following: >Close all cygwin processes and if you have sshd running kill it with kill -9. >open a dos command window (not cygwin window). type:cd c:\cygwin\bin >then type: ash you will get a $ prompt. Type: reba