Re: perl-5.14.2-3 installs broken symlinks

2012-09-27 Thread Reini Urban
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Steven Hartland wrote: > The following are dangling symlinks after a clean cygwin install updated > today. > /lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll > /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll > > $ cygcheck -p cyg

Re: Attn: base-files maintainer? [Was: sshd from user account - env issues]

2012-09-27 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:18:57PM -0700, jafa wrote: > On 9/19/2012 10:45 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > > On 9/19/2012 1:41 PM, jafa wrote: > > Try installing the test version of the base-files package (4.1-2). > > There was a thread six months ago or so where it was decided that > > setting vars in

RE: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread Garrison, Jim (ETW)
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor > Subject: Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS > > There is another aphorism that trumps all of this: "Someone has to do > it". I seem to not be making it clear that it is very unlikely that a > cygwin site maintainer (m

Re: ssh-host-config seg fault on Vista

2012-09-27 Thread Alex Brown
Workaround succeeded using an earlier version's ssh-keygen.exe: old $ ls -l ssh-keygen.exe -rwxr-xr-x 1 gislab None 168462 Jun 5 08:19 ssh-keygen.exe old $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 ACSV-OLNFLEXLM1 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55 i686 Cygwin which appeared to be the same as the version th

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:29:56PM +0200, Noel Grandin wrote: >On 2012-09-27 17:22, James Johnston wrote: >>This is just as pointless as serving over plaintext HTTP and creates a >>false illusion of security. > >And in the words of Linus Torvalds: "The perfect is the enemy of the >good". (Not actu

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Earnie Boyd wrote: >> >> Not in total. /usr/bin would only be available if the working device >> is the same as the device containing the link. > > > ??? > I think you are confusing junctions with symlinks. > > symlinks can point to anoth

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread Noel Grandin
On 2012-09-27 17:22, James Johnston wrote: This is just as pointless as serving over plaintext HTTP and creates a false illusion of security. And in the words of Linus Torvalds: "The perfect is the enemy of the good". (Not actually originally by him, but he probably carries more weight around

RE: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread James Johnston
> -Original Message- > Behalf Of Bry8 Star > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 05:14 > Subject: Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and HTTPS > > James, you are right, a combination approach would be better. > > But before doing any major changes (on setup.exe), for now, at-le

Re: clean cygwin install sshd crashes

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Steven Hartland" More info, adding -e to the command line of the service I get the following in /var/log/sshd.log: Server listening on :: port 22. Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22. Accepted publickey for root from 85.236.96.27 port 19861 ssh2 Exception: STA

Re: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline

2012-09-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 06:49:35AM -0700, Hazel wrote: >What do I have to do in order to fix this?. > >My XP Cd does not offer a repair option. Fix *what*? There were suggestions in this thread. If you tried them and they didn't work then make it clear precisely what isn't working. Also, if thi

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and use HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:04:52AM -0700, Bry8 Star wrote: >Is "cygwin.com" domain DNSSEC signed yet ? > >can "setup.exe" be able to re-programmed to connect with dnssec signed >cygwin.com (by using a builtin dnssec supported basic dns resolver) ? >and can also be made to use the pre-included self-

Re: clean cygwin install sshd crashes

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Steven Hartland" Rebase seems to have no impact on this sshd still randomly crashing sshd: PID 584: service `sshd' failed: signal 11 raised I'm able to provoke this at will by running:- root@testhost:~> cygserver-config Overwrite existing /etc/cygserver.c

Re: peflags makes perl not print to stdout

2012-09-27 Thread Saurabh T
Hi, I asked this before and havent gotten a reply. Is there any other information I can provide? This is currently quite a bummer for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. From: saurabh To: cygwin Subject: peflags makes perl not print to stdout Date: Mon,

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Earnie Boyd wrote: Not in total. /usr/bin would only be available if the working device is the same as the device containing the link. ??? I think you are confusing junctions with symlinks. symlinks can point to another device (including network shares). Note, you may have to enable set

Re: clean cygwin install sshd crashes

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Steven Hartland" Rebase seems to have no impact on this sshd still randomly crashing sshd: PID 584: service `sshd' failed: signal 11 raised I'm able to provoke this at will by running:- root@testhost:~> cygserver-config Overwrite existing /etc/cygserver.c

Re: Cygwin corrupted taskkill in windows commandline

2012-09-27 Thread Hazel
What do I have to do in order to fix this?. My XP Cd does not offer a repair option. -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-corrupted-windows-commandline-tp92938p93113.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports:

Patch to fix tar directory access time changes under cygwin

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
The following little patch fixes tar under cygwin not ignoring directory change times. Without it a simple tar can easily fail. --- src/create.c.orig 2011-01-07 10:04:33.297364800 -0800 +++ src/create.c2011-01-07 09:51:37.804364800 -0800 @@ -1788,7 +1788,7 @@ /* Original ctime wi

Re: clean cygwin install sshd crashes

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Steven Hartland" After a clean install today of cygwin sshd is randomly crashing. The only trace I can find is in the windows event log which shows:- The description for Event ID 0 from source sshd cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Jiri Engelthaler wrote: >> >> 2012/9/23 marco atzeri : >> >> >> And if I'm looking a way how to avoid this ...buggy feature..., my >> answer is yes. If someone can help me with how to run gcc compiler >> (see first post) which looks in ../libexe

Re: [BUG] Cygwin default mounts in 1.7

2012-09-27 Thread Linda Walsh
Jiri Engelthaler wrote: 2012/9/23 marco atzeri : And if I'm looking a way how to avoid this ...buggy feature..., my answer is yes. If someone can help me with how to run gcc compiler (see first post) which looks in ../libexec/.. for cc1.exe, I'll be happy. My question is still same: How to

perl-5.14.2-3 installs broken symlinks

2012-09-27 Thread Steven Hartland
The following are dangling symlinks after a clean cygwin install updated today. /lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll $ cygcheck -p cygperl5_14_2.dll Found 1 matches for cygperl5_14_2.dll perl/perl-5.1

Re: No support for sharing unnamed semaphores between processes through shared memory?

2012-09-27 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 9/25/2012 2:03 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Matt Sexton wrote: Hello, I am attempting to port to Cygwin an application that synchronizes between processes using unnamed semaphores in shared memory. Both processes have mapped the shared memory region, one process initialize There's a cy

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and use HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread Bry8 Star
Is "cygwin.com" domain DNSSEC signed yet ? can "setup.exe" be able to re-programmed to connect with dnssec signed cygwin.com (by using a builtin dnssec supported basic dns resolver) ? and can also be made to use the pre-included self-signed cert's key for a secured & encrypted connections (for obt

Re: include SHA1/MD5 hash/digest of setup.exe, and use HTTPS

2012-09-27 Thread Bry8 Star
Sorry, i have failed arrange my thoughts & requests properly and then post. i have been requesting in IRC, but no one seems to care a bit. if it is too hard for devs, to do any of the mentioned things/requests/improvements, PLEASE at-least show the SHA1 (over http) next to setup.exe. . think of,