Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS? *** SOLUTION *** ???

surendar jeyadev wrote: [snip] > > One last question (and we may change the thread). All > this > is because I want to use 'cdrecord' from Joerg > Schilling > on my PC. Is there a package available? I am brand new > to Cygwin and am not sure how one mine's the stuff -- No, no package, but there i

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS? *** SOLUTION *** ???

First of all, many thanks to all you who have pitched in to help me out. I followed Rene's advice and added 'hostname.exe' to the NIS 'allowed' list. I found that things moved along, but got stuck at 'uname'(should have expected that to happen!). So I added 'uname.exe' to NIS's list. And, lo and b

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 6:30 AM: The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. Yo

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 6:30 AM: > > The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is > deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it > makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. You're right th

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM: I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` <-- should this be being changed to HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon?) Th

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM: > > I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as > well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` <-- should this be being changed to > HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon?) There is no diffe

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

René Berber wrote: surendar jeyadev wrote: [snip] I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes ago, Norton popped up a message saying 'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS server'.

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

surendar jeyadev wrote: [snip] > I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and > unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy > going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes > ago, Norton popped up a message saying > 'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS server'. Bingo! ho

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

If I remember right (It's been a while - I don't update often) I have to disable NIS firewall to run (cygwin) setup. After setup I am able to run cygwin with firewall enabled. Dennis J. Darland Treasurer of the Bertrand Russell Society, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solve Systems of Ordinary Differenti

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

--- Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having a similar problem and so far have no > solution. > But my circumstances are slightly different and > might > suggest, if the underlying problem is the same, that > the > problem resides in another direction. > > I am running Windows 2000 Profe

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

Brett adelphia.net> writes: > > I am having a similar problem and so far have no solution. > > Specifically, "Could not open > service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee may not > be installed, or we don't have access.". > Some more info: I am behind a LynkSys WRT54GS Router/Firewall

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

surendar jeyadev yahoo.com> writes: > > > But, I need to be > completely exposed. Even if I turn on NIS after the > shell > initialises, it freezes and does not unfreeze. > > So, my questions: > > 1. What are the recommended settings for Norton? > 2. Why is a connection to the Internet needed

Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

I am changing the Suject line as this could be a new thread. The 'old problem', I think, has been solved. --- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me, this really sounds like a firewall problem > but you > might need to actually debug 'setup.exe' to verify > that. Well, in some

Re: security and cygwin

e NT Family of the OS, in contrast to the Windows3-based family, which we call Win95. -Original Message- From: Reini Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:13 PM To: Koskie, Sarah Cc: Cygwin List Subject: Re: security and cygwin Koskie, Sarah schrieb: Are there a

RE: security and cygwin

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Koskie, Sarah wrote: > Actually, Reini, I didn't say that I didn't know what a daemon was, I > said that I didn't know how to find out which ones were running (without > additional research, which, has thus far been fruitless). If I type ps > -fA on my linux box at home, I ge

RE: security and cygwin

At 12:50 PM 9/21/2004, you wrote: >(Wish the documentation addressed XP Pro rather than just NT.) Unless it's clear that the reference is specifically for NT 4.0, you should read "NT" as "NT/W2K/XP/W2K3". These are all platforms based on the NT code base, versus the 9x code base of "95/98/Me

RE: security and cygwin

cumentation addressed XP Pro rather than just NT.) > -Original Message- > From: Reini Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 12:13 PM > To: Koskie, Sarah > Cc: Cygwin List > Subject: Re: security and cygwin > > Koskie, Sarah schrieb

Re: security and cygwin

Koskie, Sarah schrieb: Are there any other security related issues I should know about? I have to assume that cygwin as installed is safe until I have time to look into it, so I am hoping that my faith is not misplaced. See the FAQ entry: How secure is Cygwin in a multi-user environment?

RE: security and cygwin

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Koskie, Sarah wrote: > > > >Are there any other security related issues I should know about? I > > >have to assume that cygwin as installed is safe until I have time to > > >look into it, so I am hoping that my faith is not misplaced. > > > > Strange that you should ask this

RE: security and cygwin

> >Are there any other security related issues I should know about? I have > >to assume that cygwin as installed is safe until I have time to look > >into it, so I am hoping that my faith is not misplaced. > > > Strange that you should ask this question now, since you admit to using > Cygwin pr