Re: ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Jari Aalto
2012-09-14 18:33 Peter Rosin : | | On 2012-09-14 16:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: | > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:05:08PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: | | >> $ ls -lG /usr/share/quilt/scripts | | >> -rw-r--r-- 1 peda 13114 May 24 2011 dependency-graph | >> ... | >> should all be chmod +x | | Oh, forgo

Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-14 Thread Wynfield Henman
Sorry about that. I was more making the point that it's not a cygwin port of emac's fault. I also have this problem using emacs built locally from the original gnu emacs source code. And also from the cygwin port. C-z puts emacs off the screen, but when its re-displayed the focus doesn't come

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 9/14/2012 9:00 AM, John Ward wrote: John Ward gmail.com> writes: I finally figured it out. It actually was a problem with a domain account that I broke when I ran "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" to make sure the new local account existed in the passwd file (obviously removing the Domain account

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread Sean Murphy
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Ward wrote: > John Ward gmail.com> writes: (edit) > Can anyone recommend a "cygwin for dummies" site, or a list of great resources > to learn more? > > Thanks > > John Ward Starting with the manual is always recommended. Handily contained on site at cygw

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread John Ward
John Ward gmail.com> writes: I finally figured it out. It actually was a problem with a domain account that I broke when I ran "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd" to make sure the new local account existed in the passwd file (obviously removing the Domain account in the process). So I identified the is

Re: ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 05:33:58PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >[I already had Jari on bcc, given the track record, but I managed not >to scream :-) He's on bcc this time too] I used all caps (and bcc'ed him) specifically because he often seems to miss these discussions. cgf -- Problem reports:

Re: ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Rosin
[I already had Jari on bcc, given the track record, but I managed not to scream :-) He's on bcc this time too] On 2012-09-14 16:16, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:05:08PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >> Hi! >> >> When working on some newlib patches, ran into this: >> >> peda@

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread John Ward
Andrew DeFaria DeFaria.com> writes: > It's hard to tell what you did wrong when you did not give us the exact > steps of what you did. I created a new local ID on a 2003 server. Then I logged in with that ID on the server and started a Cygwin session. It gave the message "Your group is curren

ATTENTION JARI AALTO Re: quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 01:05:08PM +0200, Peter Rosin wrote: >Hi! > >When working on some newlib patches, ran into this: > >peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib >$ quilt refresh >/usr/share/quilt/refresh: line 253: >/usr/share/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws: Permission denied >Patch patches/wordexp-a

Re: adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 09/14/2012 06:11 AM, John Ward wrote: I am very green with Cygwin and inherited a system where we had ssh passwordless authentication working with dsa keys. I needed to create a new ID that required a password and I was successfully able to do that, but it appears I broke the passwordless aut

adding an ID with ssh password authentication broken passwordless authentication

2012-09-14 Thread John Ward
I am very green with Cygwin and inherited a system where we had ssh passwordless authentication working with dsa keys. I needed to create a new ID that required a password and I was successfully able to do that, but it appears I broke the passwordless authentication in the process, as those accoun

Re: Enlarging the Dos box window and font

2012-09-14 Thread Herbert Stocker
Hi Bjørndal, have you tried mintty? i don't know if BRLTTY is compatible with it, but if so, it's a much much better alternative to the DOS box. You can freely change the window size, and it has no limit on the font sizes. To start mintty, Cygwin setup creates a shortcut on the desktop. But y

Re: multiwindow X11 and Emacs

2012-09-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/14/2012 1:56 AM, Wynfield Henman wrote: emacs hangs for me when invoking it from putty which has been initiated by cygwin X11 which I start with startx. But, I usually always have emacs up all the time and its not a big pain. I would be nice for it not to freeze when being re-activated.

quilt: permission denied problems with helper scripts

2012-09-14 Thread Peter Rosin
Hi! When working on some newlib patches, ran into this: peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib $ quilt refresh /usr/share/quilt/refresh: line 253: /usr/share/quilt/scripts/remove-trailing-ws: Permission denied Patch patches/wordexp-avoid-strdup.patch is unchanged peda@pulkan ~/newlib/src/newlib $ ls -