Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread GMANE
I also see this behavior. It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo "LANG=en_US; export LANG" >> ~/.bashrc), but this didn't work the next time I ran rxvt. Hopefully somebody will see us and help out. "tim richardson" wrote in message news:loom.20100104t115636-...@post.gmane.org... I

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 04:19, Gmane User wrote: I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can "less" the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege th

Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can "less" the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in session. The administrator can also "mv" the file to a diff

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-08 Thread Gmane User
Dave Korn wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote on 08 April 2008 16:51: >> Gmane User wrote: >>> About the log file, you're right. You need another "analyze" >>> after normal boot. It generates c:/FRAGLIST.HTM, which can be >>> saved as text. Turning

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-08 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Okay, so JkDefrag's boot time defrag does not appear to be a real > boot-time (offline) defrag. Anything dealing with the task > scheduler is way too late in the game, Win32 is already running at > that point. I wonder why anyone want to do that under a permissions-limited

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-08 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> Let's make sure we're comparing the same situation. I've used bash to >> explicitly change permissions to go-rwx for most of my files. This is > > To be pedantic, you used chmod (or some other utility);

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-07 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> I'm defragging the whole disk, so I need the defragger to be able >> to access all files from whatever account it runs under. > > I've never had any problem doing that without having to specifically > loosen any A

Re: A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-07 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: >> The defragger I used was JkDefrag. And there was the explanation, >> right in the online documentation. The files to be defragged need >> to be accessible by admin. I never suspected that something as >> system-wide as defra

A FAQ regarding defrag and permissions of nonadmin files?

2008-04-07 Thread Gmane User
Today was a revolutionary day. Ever since I started using cygwin years ago, I just assumed that defrag was doing whatever it does best, and that it was normal to have a whole whack of user application files un-defragged. This list of "fragged" files got enormous over the years, and almost all the

Re: Home directory

2007-10-03 Thread Gmane User
Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: > >> Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: >>> Gmane User wrote: >>> >>>> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software >>>> systems have cumu

Re: Home directory

2007-10-02 Thread Gmane User
o was coreutils. Unfortunately, the quoting containing the relevant thread details had to be trimmed because of the limit on quoting when posting through gmane, which was the case in some of my posts. Don't get me wrong, gmane is great, it's just a circumstance that needs to be pointed

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> If I were make c:/cygwin/home/UserName my home directory, what is the best >> way? >> Ssh only considers /etc/passwd, so it seems best to manually set it there, >> though I'd have to manually fix it each time I

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> Is there somewhere online >> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating >> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a >> period

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I >> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils >> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a n

Home directory

2007-09-30 Thread Gmane User
ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home, the cygwin home directory is determined by the checking the following, in the order listed: 1. Windows HOME environment variable 2. /etc/passwd 3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH variables in the Windows environment 4. / I recently got a ne

Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space

2007-01-12 Thread Gmane User
Frodak wrote: > < - Original Message > < From: Gmane User > < To: cygwin > < Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:16:32 AM > < Subject: Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space > < > < By the way, Dav

Re: "cscope -d" can't find trailer offset if path contains space

2007-01-11 Thread Gmane User
By the way, Dave, if you're going to be poking & prodding mlscope, I was wondering if you might have time to look at a problem with its interface with vim. Mlscope works find from the command line, but simply hangs when I do a symbol search from within vim. Vim works fine with non-ml-cscope, howe

Re: Exclude cygwin folder from malware scans?

2007-01-10 Thread Gmane User
Fred Ma wrote: > After some surfing, I haven't found any evidence of malware targetting > cygwin. I'm considering excluding the massive file tree from scans > (AV, SpyBot, AdAware). I'd be interested in more experienced opinions > about this. Thanks. Thanks for your response. In summary, the l

Re: whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages

2006-01-29 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > >>Fred Ma wrote: >> >>>I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. >>>This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old >>>cygwin installation at th

Re: whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages

2006-01-28 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Fred Ma wrote: >>I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. >>This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old >>cygwin installation at the moment. I eventually found that "stat" >>resides in coreutils, but I was wondering if there

Re: Is This Impossible?

2004-05-01 Thread GMANE
"Thorsten Kampe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Tennis Smith (2004-05-01 01:34 +0100) > > I have the need to remotely access Windows via an expect app (on Unix) > > and run various DOS commands and possibly start/stop Windows > > applications too. Based on earlier conversation

rebase error

2003-04-02 Thread gmane
$ rebaseall ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygz.dll) failed with last error = 6 what does the above error mean? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

ld cannot find -lrt

2003-04-01 Thread gmane
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot fi nd -lrt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [dump.exe] Error 1 Trying to compile rpm4.0.4 sources and get this error in ./tools . What does this indicate? I have the latest cygwin packages installed. thank

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