Re: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer

2022-08-21 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:24 AM Oskar Skog wrote: > You either have multiple installations of Cygwin and are using the old > one, or you haven't installed the latest version (bad mirror?). Or possibly another copy of grep earlier in your path; I recommend "which -a grep" to see how many you have,

Re: sshd

2022-02-13 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 7:38 AM Ernie Rael wrote: > Doesn't seem to be a firewall issue. NetStat took about 90 seconds. > > $ ps -lp 255 >PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND >255 254 255 4176 ? 1006 Feb 1 > /usr/sbin/sshd > >

Re: sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-18 Thread Erik Soderquist via Cygwin
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:12 PM Bill Stewart wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM Erik Soderquist wrote: > > > I've had weird instances where the Windows Firewall tools lied; I > > confirmed this by temporarily shutting down the Windows Firewall > > entir

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-18 Thread Erik Soderquist via Cygwin
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:06 PM Charles Russell wrote: > > SOLVED > > On 12/17/2020 3:24 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > > > in some cases I could not find any real > > issue, but deleting and recreating the rules fixed the issue. > > That did the trick: si

Re: sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Erik Soderquist via Cygwin
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:51 PM Charles Russell wrote: > > On 12/17/2020 11:49 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: > > > Make sure to look carefully through all of the firewall rules and > > check whether there is a rule blocking that executable or port. > > > > Selecting "Advanced Settings" and then "inco

Re: DD bug fails to wipe last 48 sectors of a disk

2020-09-14 Thread Erik Soderquist via Cygwin
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:45 AM Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin wrote: > > Was this ever resolved? I could have sworn I saw some discussion about > this but I can't find it in the archives. I still have the thread in my local email; a couple viable work arounds were provided, but the issue's ro

Re: Getting an SSH key

2020-08-31 Thread Erik Soderquist via Cygwin
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:45 PM Kyra Gray wrote: > > Hello, > I am using a remote mac called macincloud. I am connected to a server, > but I am having a hard time getting an SSH key. I am using unreal engine. > In my command prompt I get the error "WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST _CWD > po

Re: What is wrong with the name excel?

2020-04-17 Thread Erik Soderquist via Cygwin
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 7:11 AM Gerlach van Beinum wrote: > > I made a program to read a csv file from Excel. I called it excel.c > and it made an executable excel.exe > If irun that executable with: > ./excel.exe > nothing happens, i.i. no output. > > If I rename it to a.exe it runs OK. > > What a

Re: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-13 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:20 AM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin wrote: > One could put a script, batch file, or a link thereto in one's startup > folder that will run on Windows' boot. The OP's issue is that the data must be destroyed instantly even in the event of a power failure.

Re: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-12 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:45 PM Erik Soderquist wrote: > This is very hacky, but I believe you can get the effect you want by > having an admin process auto-start at host startup, identify itself, > and then set parts of its own /proc/ process ID tree as world > read/write. I think th

Re: non-persistent storage?

2019-12-12 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:08 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > On Thu 2019-12-12 (21:59), Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin wrote: > > > If the temp file was created by mktemp and the name saved in an > > environmental variable, each bash shell could have its own file with not > > risk that a

Re: 0 [main] rsync 25012 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.

2019-09-03 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 11:31 AM John Penrod wrote: > > Hello, > > Getting the above error and also says "Profile weekly data copy failed to > execute". Please advise. Thanks! Go back to whomever provided that rsync package and get an update https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast

Re: Problems seeing/mounting partitions from ssh

2019-07-18 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:29 PM Erik Soderquist wrote: > You may be able to work around this by adding the subst command to > your .profile, but should not expect subst commands from one user > session to be visible in another user session. I just tested, and yes, executing the subst

Re: Problems seeing/mounting partitions from ssh

2019-07-18 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 5:04 PM Henry S. Thompson wrote: > > Achim Gratz writes: > > > Henry S. Thompson writes: > >> But if I come in to this machine via ssh (public key or password), the > >> virtual partitions are lost: > > > > That's how Windows is designed. If you have no desktop session, the

Re: Are archived lists downloadable?

2019-06-04 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:43 AM Henning wrote: > > Is there a possibility to download compressed archives of cygwin mailing > lists for offline searching and reading? I vaguely recall a script to traverse the tree and download any messages that were not already present in a local copy, but it was

Re: Is our use of Cygwin to build & run OpenOCD a good one?

2019-05-20 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 3:44 PM Bob Cochran wrote: > "Cygwin? this is probably still functional, but now can be considered a > (pre)historic solution." The words of the ignorant, in my opinion. Cygwin has done an excellent job of maintaining currency and usefulness. > I would appreciate any fe

Re: How to become root/root (0/0)

2019-05-08 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:50 AM Henning wrote: > > In order to not be misunderstood: the question is not about executing > a single command as a priviledged user. > > Instead, I'm asking how to get rid the annoying Unknown+User and > Unknown+Group with six digits IDs permanently. This indicates us

Re: SSL not required for setup.exe download

2019-03-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:25 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > ... corporate policies, proxies, firewalls, security products. > Systems or images older than a year may need the new root CA installed - some > enterprises are very selective about including support for anything in their > images - and users ma

Re: sshd 2FA?

2019-02-26 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:54 AM Lester Ingber wrote: > > On a Virtual Private Server under Ubuntu, for the past few years, I have had > 2-factor authentication (2FA) set up along the lines described in > https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-multi-factor-authentication-for

Re: chattr version/verbose options

2019-01-18 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:12 AM Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: > > Hi, > > Thank you for adding the chattr/lsattr utilities to Cygwin base, I think they > can come very handy. > > May I have a small suggestion, please: > > To use -V/--version (that lsattr does already) consistently f

Re: OpenSSH server on latest Windows 10

2019-01-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:56 PM Jari Fredriksson wrote: > It is indeed removed. There is no ”Cygwin sushi” service any more. I have encountered this as well, but it seems very inconsistent. People on this list who have tried to intentionally reproduce it have been unable to. At the same time, on

Re: John the ripper (couldn't compute the FAST_CWD Pointer)

2018-10-05 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:49 PM Victor L. wrote: > > *Entered in the command:* > zip2john.exe README5.zip > README5.hash > > *What I got:* > 1 [main] zip2john 17748 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD > pointer. Please report this problem to > the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.co

Cygwin sshd vs Microsoft sshd

2018-10-05 Thread Erik Soderquist
referencing threads https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2018-06/msg00249.html https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2018-07/msg00171.html Microsoft's 1803 update for Windows 10 breaks and/or interferes with the normal operation of Cygwin's sshd On one of my work-provided laptops, I will be required to up

Re: equivalent to su or sudo?

2018-09-30 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 6:01 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > I need to run some scripts with full administrator rights (for chown, > chmod, setfacl). > Is there a cygwin equivalent to su or sudo? I've actually found that after installing and configuring sshd as a service, "ssh localhost" gives me an e

Re: please resoudre this problem

2018-08-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:29 PM, Jokermed gamar wrote: > 1 [main] john 3876 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD > pointer. Please report this problem to > the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > stat: hash.txt: No such file or directory https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.f

Re: After installing nc (netcat), nc.exe is not found

2018-07-11 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Mark Hansen wrote: > Unfortunately, it looks like it won't let me create an exception for these > executables, so I don't > have any way to stop it from deleting them :( > > ... and I know better than to ask my corporate IT folks to make an exception > for me :(

Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

2018-06-05 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Frank Farance wrote: > Third, I believe a registration mechanism (just your E-mail address) is > necessary for discussion: How would you be getting follow-up messages if > you're not on the list? And E-mail clients may prefer Reply-To-List rather > than Reply-All, w

Re: Spam On List

2018-05-23 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:55 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Well, if there is a filter set up I didn't mean to be insensitive. I > thought to ask because some work accounts I use get these messages but > they are properly flagged. Work accounts generally also deliver the message to a quarantine of some kind

Re: Spam On List

2018-05-18 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > There is. It's not perfect. Depending on how it's tweaked, either we get > false positives or some spam makes it through. It goes back and forth and > right now it seems were on the latter side. Personally, I much prefer some getting th

Re: Problem

2018-04-30 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On 2018-04-30 15:52, Ariel prro wrote: >> Hello, im having a problem with one program in my PC, it says couldn't >> compute CWD_FAST pointer, and to report it to you, can you help me >> please? > > https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.

Re: update batch file

2018-04-29 Thread Erik Soderquist
I did, but later decided against using it in general, as more often than not I was rebooting windows again anyway. -- Erik -- "I do not think any of us are truly sane, Caleb. Not even you. Courage is not sanity. Being willing to die for someone else is not sanity." ... "Love is not sane, nor is fa

Re: Report

2018-03-29 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Evil World wrote: > 3 [main] john 7512 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD > pointer. Please report this problem We need more detail to be able to do anything... please refer to the instuctions at https://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Erik -- Prob

Re: ssh login to cygwin bash?

2018-03-29 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: >> I would actually like to know how you managed this, as I have a couple >> use cases where this is what I do need... > > W10 Developer mode installs and enables minimal MS SSH server for Settings > "Device discovery" mDNS service "SSDP Discover

Re: ssh login to cygwin bash?

2018-03-29 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > > I have installed cygwin openssh and the sshd is running. > When I log in, I get a "DOS shell": > > ~: uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 WIN-LS0QDOSDIBL 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:21 i686 Cygwin > ~: ssh localhost > admin@localhost's password:

Re: Explicit dash rebaseall instructions from a CMD.EXE shell requested

2018-01-04 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Keith Christian wrote: > So: I tried to execute rebaseall and rebase from a CMD.EXE window under DASH: > > > Thu 01/04/2018 7:10:13.23 c:\cygwin\bin>dash /bin/rebaseall > rebaseall: only ash or dash processes are allowed during rebasing > Exit all Cygwin process

Re: ssh keys not working after server crash

2017-10-20 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > maybe someone who does could post their output > of > > ls -ld ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > > so you could compare your permissions to theirs. my results: username@computername /tmp $ ls -ld ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys drwxr-xr-x

Re: Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.6

2017-09-25 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Kevin McCaffrey wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to "Install Permanent Root with Superuser" with Kindle Fire I think you have the wrong list -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: System crontab with username containing a space

2017-08-24 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > I ran into a similar issue where I had a space in a mount, and I had > to use some form of octal/hex encoding, but I no longer remember the > exact details... > > > I will try to reproduce this and see what I can find.

Re: System crontab with username containing a space

2017-08-24 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 7:19 PM, Gene Pavlovsky wrote: > Hey folks :) > > Due to circumstances beyond my control, I've got a user account on a > remote PC which contains a space in the username, i.e. "Test > Computer". > I've set up Cygwin and cron, and am having problems with the system crontab.

Re: Request to the git maintainer

2017-07-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > I'm not asking "every vendor". I'm asking a limited number of > cygwin port maintainers (and so far only one specifically). > > CrashPlan does not have "bizarre" limitations -- it quite > naturally has some difficulty if a file's access does no

Re: Unable to download Cygwin from dedicated server

2017-07-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Simon Choucroun wrote: > Hi guys, > > We are renting a dedicated server at OVH Canada. For some reason, we get a > 403 forbidden when trying to either download or visit Cygwin.com from the > dedicated server. Can someone please take a look at this? The IP is > 1

Re: XLanuch.exe is a Trojan-It allows remote control of my pc without my knowledge or permission [Reference Link]

2017-06-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Sagar Kapadia wrote: > Thanks for the detailed reply. > However, one thing still puzzles me. Even if a another trojan/virus > were to start XLaunch, it would still require another user to connect > to my pc remotely over xlaunch to be any use. I have a static ip. b

Re: XLanuch.exe is a Trojan-It allows remote control of my pc without my knowledge or permission [Reference Link]

2017-06-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Sagar Kapadia wrote: > Hi Erik, > Thanks for your reply. I could not find the file in the windows > directory or its sub folders. However, I saw the xlaunch configuration > screen on my pc. It came up on its own. I tired killing it but it > would start again. That

Re: XLanuch.exe is a Trojan-It allows remote control of my pc without my knowledge or permission [Reference Link]

2017-06-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Sagar Kapadia wrote: > http://www.file.net/process/xlaunch.exe.html #1: please do not top post on this list. #2: Any program can be renamed, and the description in that page has the wrong location in general for standard cygwin installations. I ask again, where

Re: XLanuch.exe is a Trojan-It allows remote control of my pc without my knowledge or permission

2017-06-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Sagar Kapadia wrote: > HI, > I wish to report that Cygwin.XLaunch.exe is a Trojan and it allows > remote control of a pc without the users knowledge or permission. I > installed the cygwin package and the Xwindows server too. However, > today, I found somebody con

Re: CR-LF handling behavior of SED changed recently - this breaks a lot of MinGW cross build scripts

2017-06-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 2:42 PM, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: >> I don't see another way than having sed strip away the CRs. It >> doesn't make sense to build programs intended to be run under plain >> Windows such that they do not produce CRs. > > > I believe it makes much more sense than you think.

Re: PPID in ps -efW not accurate

2017-06-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Worse, given the fact that Windows reuses PIDs quickly after a process > died, this information can be totally wrong. I was not aware Windows would reuse a PID when children of the previous process still existed... Thank you for the infor

PPID in ps -efW not accurate

2017-06-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
The information exists in Windows somewhere, but either does not seem to be available to ps, or is not fetched by ps, and I don't know enough to know which... I tested with both elevated and non-elevated bash sessions, and ps -efW shows 0 (zero) as the PPID for all Windows processes Is there any

Re: SSH Keys breaking symlink access?

2017-05-19 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > This is expected behavior if you have not used "password -R" to > provide the network password. from the doc (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview): So what we do is to utilize this regis

Re: SSH Keys breaking symlink access?

2017-05-19 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Dave Pierce wrote: > Hello! > > I am running Cygwin-64, 2.8.0(0.309/5/3) on a Windows 2016 Server. This > system is intended for use by a fairly wide audience of devs. We have this > working correctly on an old Windows 2008 box running Cygwin > 1.7.9(0.237/5/3). >

Re: rsync problem -- just times out -- rsync or cygwin ?

2017-05-05 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 5:51 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > rsync hasn't been working for local->local copy which seems a bit > strange. > > All it seems to want to do is 'timeout' -- It's my understanding that even for local --> local copies, rsync spawns multiple instances and pipe between "sender" and "

Re: Missing announcements for screen?

2017-05-03 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: > FWIW, I also care about announcements. It's how I monitor whether or not I > should update. I hope they continue. Same here -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: What is the proper mailing list for server issues?

2017-04-21 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 9:46 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 4/21/2017 2:35 AM, Greywolf wrote: >> I am having a server issue that neither I nor my ISP seem to be able to >> resolve with regards to connecting to Cygwin.com -- namely, only from my >> house, I get a 403 Forbidden. if you try https rathe

Re: Cygwin Time Machine has moved

2017-03-28 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > Greetings, All, > First, my apologies in advance if this is considered off-topic, or > unwelcome in some way. I figured this would be an appropriate audience in > which to express this information. If a more appropriate forum is > sugges

Re: setup redownloads everything all the time, including the packages list, and also has a foolish UI

2017-03-20 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Leif W wrote: >> Setup re-downloads the entire 2MB packages file every single time. > > It has to do this; the packages file might have changed since the previous > run. The original post isn't clear to me, b

Re: suggest adding posting dates to follows-up and references

2017-02-22 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > It's a reasonable suggestion, and there's no harm in politely asking for > it. You can include a link to this thread so they can see whether the > community wants the change. I'm in agreement, and if it needs a vote, count me in favor of ad

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-7.4p1-1

2016-12-21 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > In /etc/sshd_config: > > UsePrivilegeSeparation yes Essentially this no longer becomes optional? Or am I misreading? -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-14 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > And if we were purely *nix your argument might hold merit but this setup > executable provides a Windows OS based install of a Windows based > application set known as Cygwin. If we were purely *nix, we wouldn't be on Windows in the first place

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-14 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Vlado wrote: > Erik (and others), > > don't worry about Setup version, please. > > Use this script: > https://gist.github.com/Vlado-99/1d59bf05b70481377ff90bb53e13bb2d > > - Setup is downloaded only if gpg signature changes (only very small .sig > file is re-downloa

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > If I'm going to relegate rsync to the trash bin due to it not > supporting Windows permissions well enough to be useful, I've got > other Windows recursive copy tools I use that don't preserve > permissions either. I still use rsync in cygwin

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > Use wget -N to prevent duplicate downloads when the name, date, > and size don't change. That only works if I am downloading to the same location/name as the source is -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Installer names not meaningful enough

2016-12-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote: > I'd agree that adding "cygwin" to the setup program would be nice but it's > certainly not the windows "way", lots of programs use just "setup.exe". I don't recall "the Windows way" being a goal of Cygwin. > Versioning can't be added to the file

Re: permission question

2016-12-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
> I really like cygwin and have used it for a decade plus. Only in the > last year or 18-months have I noticed significant permission issues > that slow down my workflow. > > Copying these folders/files from one drive to another is a task I'd > like to accomplish, but even more importantly I'd lik

Re: DMARC - gmail.com or is it yahoo.com

2016-11-29 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:19 AM, David Macek wrote: > What happens is that ezmlm (the mailing list software) broadcasts this > message (after adding a bunch of links at the bottom) to everyone > subscribed, but with the sender unchanged. Yahoo has got a DMARC policy > set up that is supposed to en

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin 2.6 for Windows XP

2016-11-22 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > I needed Windows XP support in cygwin, so I reverted the XP-removal > patches from cygwin 2.6 git and I compiled a version that works with > Windows XP. Intriguing... Are you also planning to code in the new features that were th

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

2016-11-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > Greetings, Erik, > > A good magician never reveals how the trick works. 8^) > > Sadly I'm not a good magician. > > It's not all that complicated, if you think about it. Each time a new > setup.ini is generated only a hand full of packages

Re: Complaining after fair notice of dropping XP support. Was: Not very nice at all.

2016-11-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote: > And for those who think keeping a private mirror is trivial, let me give you > some stats. A full snapshot of Cygwin, 32-bit + 64-bit (+noarch) + source > packages (Current and Previous) is about 137Gb. Don't believe me? Your > setup.ini h

Re: New Cygwin "setup" program useless on my Win-XP box. Not very nice at all.

2016-11-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote: > I understand that Cygwin 2.5.2 was the last version that actually worked > with Windows-XP. > I tried to run the setup-x86.exe program, and it just fails. Quite > unfortunate, as this > will simply force me to abandon further usage of Cygwin. > Short

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux starts to compete with Cygwin?

2016-10-27 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Duncan Roe wrote: > CMD.EXE has supported input and output redirection since forever (XP at > least). > I suggest claiming it as a "new feature" is just marketing hype. I believe the point was that WSL is no longer quite the completely isolated island it started a

Re: intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote...

2016-10-08 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > As for package maintainers needing some specific behavior -- > if a backdoor to your system was part of the "base" system, would you If there is a "back door" in a base package, that is a security failing and needs to be reported and fix

Re: install cygwin on windose xp

2016-09-12 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Peter Lazar wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > Please advise: what is the way to install Cygwin on XP (for example: > (i) how to install version 2.5.2; (ii) how to obtain/download > setup.exe for 2.5.2?) the "cygwin time machine" http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#c

Re: where to download cygwin 2.5.2???

2016-09-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:15 PM, wrote: >I'm sorry to bother maillist with this - but i've searched EVERYWHERE, and > i can NOT find a link to download cygwin x86 setup version 2.5.2. > >could someone please point me in a good direction??? the "cygwin time machine" http://www.fruitbat.org

Re: Bash shell script issue

2016-09-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> I have been using notepad++ for my windows editor. > > \r = Carriage Return > \n = New Line / Line Feed > > so Notepad++ produced a file with CRLF as line termination and you need > to convert it with d2u. Notepad++ can also do unix line term

Re: updated vim broke arrow/delete keys

2016-09-02 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Felipe Vieira wrote: > no my vimrc. From http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/map.html: > > ** > A easier way to get a mapping that doesn't produce anything, is to use > "". > > Anyways this is not the expected behavior. Is there some complexity > here that I'm not

Re: Extreme Slowness of cygwin commands [SOLVED?]

2016-09-01 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:18 PM, bzs wrote: > I have spoken to the bank involved numerous times but never got past a > very chipper, helpful person who is ready to show me how to start/stop > the software, listens to my problem (slowness) politely and then goes > back into their technical support d

Re: Extreme Slowness of cygwin commands [SOLVED?]

2016-09-01 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM, wrote: > I've no idea what it does except in the most general terms but one of > my banks won't let me log in unless it's running so this has been > quite a nuisance as I have to stop it w/ their management interface > and then use task manager to kill their managem

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] qpdfview 0.4.16-1]

2016-09-01 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Does this require X? No mention in the announcement, nor in the > dependencies when I installed it. > > But if I try to launch I get > >QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display >[1]+ Aborted (core dumped) qpd

Re: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)

2016-08-31 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:17 PM, cyg Simple wrote: > > In other words, don't trust a default Exactly! -- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: Different representations of time in ls -l and date(1)

2016-08-31 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > So, the answer to your question is determined by what your locale thinks > is the appropriate representation; and I have no control over whether > Windows' locale defaults will match glibc's locale defaults for en_US or > any other locale outsid

Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux

2016-08-30 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Now try to pipe something from a native application to your UFW build, and > then the results from it to something else native. > I'm eagerly awaiting reports of your success. Done it already, using netcat and a few localhost ports, using ssh,

Re: openSsh

2016-08-30 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Massimo Balestra wrote: > Forget it > > I copied the sshd_config from /etc/defaults/etc/sshd_config to /etc and now > it works again as it should. > > Now I need to figure out what was the parameter that broke it I look forward to those results too. Also, please d

Re: cygpath -w and .exe magic

2016-08-26 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > Here is a contrived example: > > $ cmd /c DIR $(cygpath -w hello.exe) > Volume in drive C has no label. > Volume Serial Number is 6A15-FFB2 > > Directory of C:\cygwin\home\knellis\dev\c\hello > > 08/26/2016 10:4760,927 hello

Re: File create problem

2016-08-25 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works just fine, > e.g. C:\cygwin64\bin\bach.exe. > > There is no existing C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe that has permissions > that can be examined, so the only permissions that can reasonably > ha

Re: Cygwin SSHD 32bit

2016-08-23 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Marcel Grandemange wrote: > I have entirely disabled the firewall at one point and this didn't help. > Also keep in mind I did install bitvise ssh server to do a comparison and > this worked. Then I don't know, though I will be watching this thread for a possible

Re: Cygwin SSHD 32bit

2016-08-23 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Marcel Grandemange wrote: > Good Day > > I would really appreciate it if someone can assist me. > > I have a Windows server 2003 server with the latest Cygwin installed. > > CYGWIN_NT-5.2 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:27 i686 Cygwin > > I have setup the SSH serv

Re: Wrong file permissions

2016-08-23 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Eliot Moss wrote: > Thank you, Erik -- you answered better than I could have! I don't > use a domain login, so the fact that my local SID is different has > been very plain to me! Multiple years as a network admin managing Windows/Linux/UNIX hybrid environments

Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

2016-08-23 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Andreas Wettergren wrote: >> Why 32 bit rather than 64 bit in a 64 bit environment? (more curious than >> anything else, I don't think this affects the outcome). >> > > This is partially for historical reasons, and partially because I'm > personally not > 100% s

Re: Wrong file permissions

2016-08-23 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Björn Kautler wrote: > Hi Eliot, > > thanks for your answer. > > It seems this was an issue with the NTFS permissions. > I also was not able to access the folders via Windows Explorer. > After also fixing the Windows permissions it works now as expected so far. > >

Re: Trouble installing to UNC path and/or mapped network drive

2016-08-22 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Andreas Wettergren wrote: > The computer I’m using to launch the setup from is running Windows 7 > Professsional (64 - bit). > I’m using setup-x86.exe version 2.874. Why 32 bit rather than 64 bit in a 64 bit environment? (more curious than anything else, I don't

Re: /dev/ptmx fails with Azure accounts

2016-08-19 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: ... Azure users that happen to be still running XP. Is that actually possible? I thought Azure's minimum requirements would not accept XP... --- Erik -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-10 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Erik Soderquist! > >> PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association. I warned >> previously in this thread about getting the two confused. > > Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory. &

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:15 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/9/2016 10:13 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >>> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin >>> assuming the text file is a scrip

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote: > I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin > assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file. > If PATHEXT were used only to determine that the file should be passed to > ShellExecute instead it might b

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-08 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >>> >>> code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want* >>> PATHEXT support anymore. >>> >> >> Moreso, this cod

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-08 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote: >> >> code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want* >> PATHEXT support anymore. >> > > Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin. > It tried to see if a directory /dir/subdir/something existed, > and Cygw

Re: fresh cygwin installation

2016-08-07 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote: > I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install > to is detailed in; > > http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg > > It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes. I see no problem with the params thems

Re: PATHEXT is fundamental to Windows and Should be recognised by CYGWIN

2016-08-05 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote: > Well my first foray into the world of CYGWIN mailing lists has been > a lot of fun so far. Glad you enjoyed it :) > Rather than replying to each respondent, I will try to respond to > each in one email. This may be a mistake. It is, as is

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.6.0-0.1

2016-07-25 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers, > Hi everyone else, > > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.1. If I recall correctly, this is also the release that is expected to break XP compatibility, yes? -- Erik -- Problem reports

Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs

2016-06-24 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> I am inclined to try S-1-5-7 (Anonymous). But I do not know if that is a >> bad choice for some reason or other. > > I thought about Anonymous myself when I wrote my reply to your OP. I > refrained from mentioning it because it might have

Re: malware

2016-06-09 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 9 18:02, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> On 09/06/2016 17:52, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: >> > Are you referring to the 83.dotm file? Looks highly suspicious. o.O >> > >> >> It is clearly spam or worse. >> >> But some of them will always pass

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