RE: Permissions problems after domain change

2006-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
(even if the names are the same of course.) There is a (fairly tedious) tool available on Windows for fixing such problems "SubInACL.exe" (I read it as (SUBstitute INstead a differenc ACL or permission".) It's a pain to use but quite powerful important when a mac

RE: Can NTFS junctions be listed?

2006-07-23 Thread Herb Martin
junctions don't search for them so you have to use something like "dir" to first find them so it is a bit ugly. -- Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://LearnQuick.Com 512 388 7339 -or- 1 800 MCSE PRO Accelerated MCSE in a Week Seminars > -Original Message- >

Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin

2006-04-27 Thread Herb Martin
Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

KillAll SpamAssassin Processes

2006-03-21 Thread Herb Martin
tive) and then respond to each confirmation. Thanks for straightening me out -- I am sure this is very easy but haven't gotten it right yet. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

RE: Calling shell script from DOS

2006-01-27 Thread Herb Martin
yway without the bash but you are correct that one must otherwise know "what type" of command it is. > Adding --login (-l) is optional, but may be useful for > scripts that make > assumptions about your environment. cool. -- Herb Martin > -- Unsubscribe info: http:

RE: Calling shell script from DOS

2006-01-27 Thread Herb Martin
her options: Make the shell (itself) the command and add the script as a parameter... bash script-file-name Worked for me. Other command processors should work too. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

RE: Utility to get IP address of the machine

2006-01-03 Thread Herb Martin
; DaveK While it is almost always more useful to use "Ipconfig /all" when working interactively, when one just wants the IP addresses just using plain "ipconfig" gets them without so much noise to parse through. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Herb Martin
sion ever gets higher than that.. unlikely in our > lifetimes to be honest) > > Chris Thank you Chris, that is precisely the information I was seeking. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Herb Martin
Eric Blake wrote: > Herb Martin wrote: > > So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated. > > Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you > installed the new one into another location, you presumably > don't need or want the ot

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-18 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:48 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced > > Herb Martin wrote: > > >

RE: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-18 Thread Herb Martin
ion: I had to use source to compile a module with different from default options. How can that module be installed so that Setup will STOP trying to replace it? (...and thus not need me to uncheck the item, or ensure it is unchecked, on each run of Setup. Is this procedure described some

RE: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-30 Thread Herb Martin
bin/aclocal-1.4 ---END FILE-- That's the entire thing, and it looks sick due to the 1.4 references and lack of higher numbers -- Herb Martin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---clip-- > auto > /usr/bin/automake > acl

RE: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-30 Thread Herb Martin
Sep 30 13:46 autom4te.cache 0 Sep 30 13:46 doc 0 Sep 30 13:46 m4 0 Sep 30 13:46 man 0 Sep 30 13:46 src 0 Sep 30 13:46 txt 0 Sep 30 13:46 webui 21679 Sep 30 13:46 Makefile.in 955821 Sep 30 13:46 configure Starting the make now... -- Herb Martin -- Unsubs

RE: [Spamprobe-users] new spamprobe BerkeleyDB on CygWin

2005-09-30 Thread Herb Martin
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:46:43AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: > > The system is a reasonably fast, not cutting edge, 2 Ghz > Celeron with > > 1 MB of RAM. > > Holy cow what operating system can run on 1 MB or RAM??? Obviously a type, should be 1GB. -- Herb Marti

RE: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-30 Thread Herb Martin
.sub 28 Sep 30 11:08 ltmain.sh -> /usr/share/libtool/ltmain.sh 329028 Sep 30 11:08 aclocal.m4 0 Sep 30 11:08 autom4te.cache ...but then receive the same error message. Currently I have just printed the first 40+ pages of the autoconf manual, and suppose that I must learn how this

RE: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:54 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current > Automake 1.9.2 ... > > Herb

Automake version 1.4 in CygWin vs. current Automake 1.9.2 ...

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
o bug-automake@gnu.org = (reported to suggested address) -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
e, util-linux > (http://freshmeat.net/releases/72929) apparently provides a > renice, but it has not yet been ported to cygwin. Is snice the same (or very similar) thing? -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > Dave The quoting was screwed up (somewhere along the line) and I am not

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> You can also use renice to re-prioritize a running process > > > > I have no renice. Did you compile this yourself? > > Dave The quoting was screwed up (somewhere along the line) and I am not

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
PID and use TaskManager each time I started some low-priority CPU intensive task. > If it works > exactly like on linux of course. I learned 'Linux' mostly from CygWin although I do know bits and piece from Unix (long time ago) and TiVo. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info

RE: ./configure and pthreads

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Ford > Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 10:26 AM > > Sure I would love someone to just 'solve' this for me but > what is the > > most useful way to diagnose (or learn to diagnose) this proble

RE: Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
; Yes, and a very nice one... :-) See "man nice". Yes it is very nice. And so are you for helping. BTW: It' default value -n 10 (nice factor) produces a "belownormal" setting which is exactly what I wanted. Presumably, -n 19 (the max) would give "idle" prio

./configure and pthreads

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
ly ignorant of make/configure issues...but I can learn.) -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Starting cygwin processess at reduced priority?

2005-09-29 Thread Herb Martin
e is a command right? -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Setup minor features request

2005-09-18 Thread Herb Martin
cated feature: Show updates in a flat list of JUST updates so that it is easy to see what is being selected without expanding each area or hunting for update checks. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Administrator vs Administrators

2005-09-05 Thread Herb Martin
(files, shares, printers, registry keys, etc.) to allow access to THAT object -- while rights are given to users or groups (Security Principals really) to allow some action to be taken that it unrelated to a particular object (e.g., change the time, logon locally, run as batch, etc.] -- Herb Mart

RE: Xargs positioning the arguments in a command -- is this a bug or a feature?

2005-08-27 Thread Herb Martin
even trying to specify the replacement string using -i, although I didn't exercise those other options as carefully as the "-i" and default {}. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

RE: Spaces in Environment Variables

2005-08-27 Thread Herb Martin
rt names have been disabled (and of course if the Program Files aren't on the C:\ drive path.) My practice (even under pure) Windows is to always setup an alternative path with "linkd". This is effectively the same principle as just going ahead and fixing it wi

Xargs positioning the arguments in a command -- is this a bug or a feature?

2005-08-27 Thread Herb Martin
s. It is an unusual command that requires switches to appear in a specific order, especially when the switches are not directly dependent on each other. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Exim 4.52 Cygwin 1.5.8 SPA authentication failures warnings in Reject Log

2005-08-23 Thread Herb Martin
ion (pure guess) is that Outlook is FIRST sending the "user logon name", maybe with domain included, and then perhaps failing over to the configured (in Outlook) name and that somehow works but this doesn't really hold together as a satifying answer. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubs

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1 SUCCESS

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
build (20050721 BlameitonNeilArmstrong). I do appreciate the help and patience in reading and responding to my messages. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
are created and what changes were needed to build this very > special package named crm114.BlameBillYerazunis. Thanks. Neither of those is downloading for me though. Neither through a browser, ftp, or wget. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
"How To" document -- it seems to hang on the second (Hello, world!) test, but the basic (make/link) problem is solved. Thanks Gerrit; thanks again eveyone. Now, to debug the program. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
I wonder if the author was > molested by automake as a kid and was scarred for life. > Nothing else explains the reasoning for doing things like > copying the same rule over and over for every .o file. I am not qualified to have an opinion, I just want it to make and run. -- H

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
114_tre #Originally# # $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) $(OFILES) \ # crmregex_tre.o \ # -lm -ltre -o crm114_tre -- Herb Martin Full original make file (it you care to see it, it's here): #Makefile for CRM114 # # # If you want to install the executables somewhere e

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
> From Behalf Of Brian Dessent > > -L takes a single path, no colon. You specify it multiple > times to add multiple paths. But /lib is already be in the > search path so this is redundant and unnecessary. Ok, so I just dropped the -L/lib (and :/lib) and even tried adding the TRE lib directo

RE: Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
DLL is in the path. This > normally means that if you configured with > --prefix=/usr/local (the default) that you should get a > cyg.dll in /usr/local/bin and hence you need > /usr/local/bin in the path. Only static libraries and import > libraries go in /usr/local/lib, and

Trying to build crm114 (20050721) under CygWin 1.5.18-1

2005-08-19 Thread Herb Martin
c' (which I did.) (CRM114 & Mailfilter HOWTO <http://crm114.sourceforge.net/CRM114_Mailfilter_HOWTO.txt>) [Needless to say, I am not very familiar with linking or writing make files on cygwin.] -- Herb Martin [There is a SourceForge project for ports that are NOT included in the standard

RE: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?

2005-08-16 Thread Herb Martin
; state. > HTH, > Igor spfd is now running fine as a server (which someone else here was kind enough to suggest) but I intend to try this in order to get "greylistd" to run as a service -- does this trick work for cygrunsrv services as well? I am saving this encantation

RE: Perl v5.8.7, CygWin DLL 1.5.18, script runs differently (hangs) on Cygwin while running open FH, "netsh ...|" or die "..."

2005-08-16 Thread Herb Martin
able |") or die > > "Can't run > > netsh: $!\n"; > > print "we got through the call to 'netsh'\n"; while () { Both versions hang on the open with these netsh switches. Usually I paste the actually tested code -- I apologize for this mistake and the confusion. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

FW: Cygwin perl hangs with open FH, "... |"

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
<$ipsec" or die "Cannot open $ipsec: $!\n"; ) The offlist message is attached inline (with permission) here: From: Jerome Zago [mailto:] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 11:06 AM To: Herb Martin Subject: RE: Cygwin perl hangs with open FH, "... |" Hi, I can reproduce thi

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake > Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 10:01 AM > To: Herb Martin; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 > -- Apropos still troubl

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
> From: Eric Blake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Herb Martin; cygwin@cygwin.com > > man hash and info hash are both worthless (except to admit > that "hash" > > is exists, i.e., is a built-in. > > Yes, bash documentation is not the best packaged (I li

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:11:09AM -0500, Herb Martin wrote: > > There is a man directory in /usr/bin, i.e., /usr/bin/man -- with > > man.exe being the program, while manpath gives: > > What created that directory? Having it is a really bad idea, > and probabl

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 -- Apropos still troublesome

2005-08-15 Thread Herb Martin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake > According to Herb Martin on 8/14/2005 10:22 PM: > > > > cygwin (like Linux apparently) keeps a database of > > programs and so deleting an incorrect program > > on the path may

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

2005-08-14 Thread Herb Martin
n, and then bash complained that the deleted file was missing even though the "right one" is in /usr/bin and the "wrong one" is gone. I still haven't found an encantation for "hash" (or the proper command) so temporarily I put a link in the "wrong locatio

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

2005-08-14 Thread Herb Martin
> Herb Martin wrote: > > > Arggh! That's 90% of the answer -- the one that was > running was from > > my NT native "unix" tools because the "real" one is missing. > > For future reference, no package that you install with > setup.exe sho

RE: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

2005-08-14 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 2:30 PM > To: Herb Martin > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8 > > Herb Martin wrote: > > > 'in

Perl v5.8.7, CygWin DLL 1.5.18, script runs differently (hangs) on Cygwin while running open FH, "netsh ...|" or die "..."

2005-08-14 Thread Herb Martin
le () { print; } #end test script ## Is this Perl, Bash, CygWin, or something that I have done wrong in the script? -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Another (differently) broken man on CygWin 1.5.8

2005-08-14 Thread Herb Martin
1.5p-1 xfig-man3.2.4-2 XFree86-man 4.3.0-10 xorg-x11-man-pages 6.8.2.0-1 xorg-x11-man-pages-html 6.8.2.0-1 -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Perl POE 0.32 under CygWin?

2005-08-12 Thread Herb Martin
Has anyone got the just released POE 0.32 (CPAN) working under CygWin? FYI: POE is a very cool development library. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

RE: Remove cygwin services

2005-08-12 Thread Herb Martin
at error. I believe that cygrunsrv has already changed the registry (unconfirmed) and therefore the service will be gone on next boot. (If not, I would consider this a bug in cygrunsrv.) It might help (pure speculation) to enable one of the "signals" when creating Cygwin-Apps as services.

RE: Remove cygwin services

2005-08-12 Thread Herb Martin
so by another process or by an actual manual user/admin request. I have been unable to use cygrunsrv to "modify" a service; so far, I have always removed the service and re-added it. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)?

2005-08-11 Thread Herb Martin
and for general functioning of UNIX-type sockets (and a bunch of other stuff as well.) This really is a big help. Being rather new to Posix style systems, the unix-socket stuff was too much of a black box without some type of test tool. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

RE: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?

2005-08-11 Thread Herb Martin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:45 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin? > > Herb Martin wrote: > > > I can find no combination of switches that will put it into the

RE: Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)?

2005-08-11 Thread Herb Martin
> From Brian Dessent >> Herb Martin wrote: >> >> Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)? > > socat using the UNIX-CONNECT: or UNIX-LISTEN: parameters > ought to work. > It is not a Cygwin package but it does build without much hassle. Excelle

RE: Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)?

2005-08-10 Thread Herb Martin
> From: Tim Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:35 AM > To: 'Herb Martin' > Subject: RE: Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)? > > > Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)? > > I use net

RE: Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)?

2005-08-10 Thread Herb Martin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Subject: Re: Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)? > > On Aug 10 11:30, Herb Martin wrote: > > Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)? > > You mean, besides netcat

Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?

2005-08-10 Thread Herb Martin
mon's functionality. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Is there a UNIX socket test client program (a la NetCat)?

2005-08-10 Thread Herb Martin
Unix sockets and it would help a great deal if I could interactively test such sockets. -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Herb Martin
Likely the "issue" is mostly for those who "just started" with CygWin -- those who have been around long enough to become accustomed to the file name probably understand how it does and does not work and one assumes that more people will adopt the system in the future than

RE: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Pyeron > Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:39 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: setup.exe filename > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote: > > > >

RE: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Herb Martin
ay chose to ignore them or not but any further explanation on my part would likely be redundant. -- Herb Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://LearnQuick.Com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Herb Martin
l) users, and probably most important: We teach everyone to NEVER RUN a program from the Internet directly but rather to download it and first virus scan it. Naming the program "setup.exe" is crude; it should have a version number and something about "cygwin" in the name. Coul

RE: pid confusion and pstree (Attn: User's Guide maintainer)

2005-08-04 Thread Herb Martin
Jason Pyeron wrote> > I did read the man page for ps, first, before posting. > > I does not say that the cygwin pid will be changed to the > windows pid for cygwin processes. It does indicate for > windows processes the PID is the same as the WINPID and can > be used in kill -f. I am a Cygwin

SysLogD for the naive?

2005-07-29 Thread Herb Martin
enerally) HUP a service and expect it to re-read a configuration file? (If it would do so on a kill -s HUP signal that is). -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwi

RE: Is the Cygwin installation process likely to change significantly anytime soon?

2005-07-25 Thread Herb Martin
hole 'setup.exe' issue -- most online docs send the user back to setup.exe when frequently all we want is one specific package. Not a big deal, but noticable; especially for the beginner to Cygwin. More users who thing Cygwin is cool and easy would be a GOOD THING. Herb Marti

RE: How to add user under Cygwin

2005-07-20 Thread Herb Martin
9x platforms but there are some minor differences with the NT version(s) even in the main commands, and I am unsure about the subcommands that deal with accounts which likely would be missing since 9x had no accounts database. Herb Martin, MCT, MCSD, MCSE, MVP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://LearnQuick.Com

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

2005-06-24 Thread Herb Martin
Thanks folks -- the confirmation that I was on the right path was a big help. The suggestions to "do it right" were well intentioned but impractical since I didn't want to take over support for TWO major software packages (or either one for that matter.) A small patch seems to work. (Keep the b

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

2005-06-24 Thread Herb Martin
> >Is there a standard Cygwin 'idiom' or function for dealing with this > >mismatch, or should I just re-invent the wheel. > > > If you actually believe that you want the file without cr/nl > conversion during a read, then you want to open it in binary > mode (fopen() with "rb" > instead of "r

RE: stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

2005-06-24 Thread Herb Martin
> >My suspicion is that stat is counting cr-lf as two > characters but the > >input routines are treating these as one. > > > >If the file has about 20 lines, then that's 20 missing characters??? > > > Yes, this is right. And yes, this could be the cause of the > situation you're noticing. I

stat file -- cygwin vs. Windows size?

2005-06-24 Thread Herb Martin
-lf as two characters but the input routines are treating these as one. If the file has about 20 lines, then that's 20 missing characters??? Herb Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://LearnQuick.Com 512 388 7339 -or- 1 800 MCSE PRO Accelerated MCSE in a Week Seminars -- Unsubscribe info: http:

RE: Exim 4.50 with Content filtering and SPF

2005-06-21 Thread Herb Martin
> > It looks mostly like IPv6 stuff is causing the glitches. > > This is the problem with libspf2, making the IPv6 stuff > conditional should do it, but I am not a programmer so I have > not really an idea how to start, all the IP stuff is mixed > together in several functions and it will be so

RE: Exim 4.50 with Content filtering and SPF

2005-06-20 Thread Herb Martin
You indicated that SPF might be dependent on SRS, I don't see that (but might be missing something). My limited experience confirms your previous email pointing to IPv6 support as the hangup. > > I compiled libspf & libsrs, though there were some tweaks > neccessary. I take it that you commente

Exim 4.50 with Content filtering and SPF

2005-06-20 Thread Herb Martin
.51 general version. Again, I am looking for strategy guidelines (unless you already know specific fixes etc.) -- Herb Martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/