Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 2 12:20, Brian Dessent wrote: > I'm not sure if the "SYSTEM user > has mounts" issue would come up enough to warrant checking for it, > because I can't really think of how that would come to happen. I don't think this is really still an issue. AFAIR, the mounts in the HKU/S-1-5-18 area

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:23:39PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Here's a scary one: How about a "cygcheck --report" option which queries > for a "from" email address and sends the report (as an attachment) to > the cygwin mailing list? Sounds like a separate program to me. As flea is to mut

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? > >I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of >$PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Warren Young
Dave Korn wrote: if lots of packages register check-callbacks with cygcheck, we're going to end up (implicitly) making it dependent on a whole lot of other stuff being there and working. You could create a new directory, say /etc/cygcheck[.d]. Any package that wants cygcheck to run a test fo

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of $PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value of $PATH. That way, you can tell if Cygwin is being added to the pa

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
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Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:31:46PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> Fair enough. I guess what I was saying is that the addition of the two >> things I mentioned would make that part of cygcheck output all the more >> valuable. :-) > > Oh yes, totally agree! But that's a sl

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Fair enough. I guess what I was saying is that the addition of the two > things I mentioned would make that part of cygcheck output all the more > valuable. :-) Oh yes, totally agree! But that's a slightly longer-term project :) > BTW, one thing that's been sugges

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
>> that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. >>>> >>>> Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being >>>> wrong. >>>> >>>> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing f

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: > What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? >> >> Hey, I had another idea. It s

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>> What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? > > Hey, I had another idea. It should definitely scan /etc/postin

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? > > cgf It should search the browser's webcache/history log, and if it doesn't find that the user's been to view the FAQ lately, it forces it open in a full-screen window! cheers, DaveK --

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me >>> that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. >>>

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me >>> that I wanted to start a dis

Re: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me >> that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. >> >> Ideally, cygcheck should report on

RE: cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me > that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. > > Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being > wrong. > > What other kind of commo

cygcheck improvements

2005-11-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements. Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being wrong. What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for? cgf -- Unsubscribe