PATCH: login under privileged user != SYSTEM

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Wilson
I've been trying to get all the bugs in inetutils-1.5 squashed, and I ran into an issue with rlogin when rlogind was running under a privileged user (that is, not SYSTEM), as is required for Windows Server 2003, 2008, and Vista. The problem was, although rsh would honor my .rhosts and allow p

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to smr on 4/16/2008 6:29 PM: Please don't top-post: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU | Hi Christopher, is there currently an ETA for a release that would | include this fix (whether that's 1.5.25-xx, or 1.6/1.7)? In the classic open

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.20-1

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of tar, 1.20-1, is available, replacing 1.19.90-1 as the current version, and leaving 1.19-1 as previous. NEWS: = This is a new stable upstream release. It finalizes the new --lzma feature that can be used to achieve better compres

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread smr xxxx
Hi Christopher, is there currently an ETA for a release that would include this fix (whether that's 1.5.25-xx, or 1.6/1.7)? I've been out of the loop for a long time, so apologies if this is a question you've been badgered with recently. Thanks, Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Christoph

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:04:12PM -0700, smr wrote: >Thanks very much Eric and Corinna for the responses -- glad to hear >it's already fixed. FYI, this will even be fixed in the 1.5.25 series eventually. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread smr xxxx
Thanks very much Eric and Corinna for the responses -- glad to hear it's already fixed. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > > > According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM:

RE: info needed

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Marchywka
>> "R" ? I was looking for source code to add to my code for doing right >> censored > non-parametric significance >> tests that I can integrate with some wavelet code. > > I have no idea. Never used R. But on the PSPP fora there is something written > about it. fwiw, if I understand this, it lo

Re: Trouble installing DBD::Oracle on Cygwin

2008-04-16 Thread Dunston Rocks
I can't seem to find any of the header files oci.h, Oracle.h:37:17: oci.h: No such file or directory Oracle.h:39:20: ocidfn.h: No such file or directory Oracle.h:40:18: orid.h: No such file or directory Oracle.h:41:17: ori.h: No such file or directory under C:\oracle\ I realize I should have chec

Re: info needed

2008-04-16 Thread unknown-1
Mike Marchywka hotmail.com> writes: > I'm trying to build this right now but I'm curious to know how you think this compares to something like > "R" ? I was looking for source code to add to my code for doing right censored non-parametric significance > tests that I can integrate with some wavele

Re: Trouble installing DBD::Oracle on Cygwin

2008-04-16 Thread Reini Urban
2008/4/16, Dunston Rocks: > Hilling DBD::Oracle on Cygwin > Steps followed : > Download from CPAN > tar –zxvf DBD-Oracle-1.20.tar.gz > cd DBD-Oracle-1.20 > make realclean > perl Makefile.pl > make : *** [ Oracle.o ] Error 1 ; output attached (make_results.txt) > perl – V (attached : p

RE: info needed

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Marchywka
I'm trying to build this right now but I'm curious to know how you think this compares to something like "R" ? I was looking for source code to add to my code for doing right censored non-parametric significance tests that I can integrate with some wavelet code. I managed to get past ./config

Re: info needed

2008-04-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
unknown-1 wrote: Hi I am afraid I am running for the most stupid question award but I give it a try anyway. I installed Cygwin on WindowsXP with the setup program from the Cygwin.COM. I used the program yesterday to get the latest updates. Now I try to compile PSPP (a statistical package)

info needed

2008-04-16 Thread unknown-1
Hi I am afraid I am running for the most stupid question award but I give it a try anyway. I installed Cygwin on WindowsXP with the setup program from the Cygwin.COM. I used the program yesterday to get the latest updates. Now I try to compile PSPP (a statistical package) with Cygwin. But .

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Hugh Sasse wrote: I want to recover as much of the data I wrote to the old system onto a portable drive (which being new is big, I forget how big now but of the order of 200GB), and I want to put the files somewhere on my as yet unbuilt new machine, which will probably be running Vista dual boot

Trouble installing DBD::Oracle on Cygwin

2008-04-16 Thread Dunston Rocks
Hi I am having trouble installing DBD::Oracle on Cygwin Steps followed : Download from CPAN tar –zxvf DBD-Oracle-1.20.tar.gz cd DBD-Oracle-1.20 make realclean perl Makefile.pl make : *** [ Oracle.o ] Error 1 ; output attached (make_results.txt) perl – V (attached : perl_V

Static cygwin perl + Win32CORE

2008-04-16 Thread Reini Urban
I've had a bit of a hack-day enabling static cygwin perl compilation (-Uusedl), esp. needed for bleadperl so that I can have more easily multiple versions around for testing. This is the Win32CORE hack for blead, perl-5.10 later. Don't apply yet, needs more testing. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Thanks, will you roll a new version ? try test version 1.3.30c-1. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > > According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: > > | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the > > | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know > > | whether this is a

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: > Hugh Sasse wrote > > > > Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy > > old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears. > > > Ahah! > > Finally, you tell us about what you intended to do in the first pla

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: > | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the > | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know > | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. > > Not known to

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to smr on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. Not known

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Sylvain RICHARD
Hugh Sasse wrote Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears. Ahah! Finally, you tell us about what you intended to do in the first place! Could you be more specific, please? Sylvain RICHARD -- U

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Hugh Sasse wrote: > Great, thanks. The last time I tried to use native backup on it, it was > from the disk->properties->tools, and it only allowed me to backup to ... > floppy disk. For a 70GB drive that was marvellous. Now I know what to > look for. That's the same ntbackup. There is a box

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I want to flag this for the sake of completeness Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > alternatives --display gs > path to alternate expected in /var/lib/alternatives/gs I have tried to reinstall ghostscrip* in a clean way. Since uninstalling does not remove /etc/postinstall/ghostscript*.done, /etc/prerem

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: > Hugh Sasse wrote: > > > Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat > > but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of > > the problem. > > It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access f

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Hugh Sasse wrote: > Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat > but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of > the problem. It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access files that are opened with sharing disallowed. > So I'd n

Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 16:42, Luke Kendall wrote: > Suppose that when it does a stat() on "fred", before it decides that > it's found the right file to exec, it should check that "fred" isn't a A stat() call can't know for what purpose it has been called. Calling stat on "foo", it will return the information

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: > Hugh Sasse wrote: > > > Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools > > I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not > > ntuser.dat is the filename of the per-user registry hive > (HKEY_CURRENT_USER). It

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: > Hugh Sasse wrote: > > Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools > > I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not > > particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in > > Ruby, but I onl

Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution

2008-04-16 Thread Mark J. Reed
I still don't understand why you would put the ici dir in the same place as the ici script. You can't do that on Unix, so why do it on Cygwin? On 4/16/08, Luke Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Apr, Dyck, David wrote: > > how much control do you have on unix side? > > (you could cre

Re: [Attn: alternatives maintainer] - ghostscript preremove breakage

2008-04-16 Thread Tim
Charles Wilson cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes: > > I just tried again: > > > > I deleted /usr/bin/gs symlink, /etc/alternatives/gs symlink and /var/lib/alternatives/gs. > > > > 12:13 AM [506]> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gs gs /usr/bin/gs-native 10 > > 01:20 AM [507]> update-alternatives