ssh2 in xterm problem

2002-03-14 Thread Hans Werner Strube
I have the Windows version of ssh2 (SSHWinClient-3.1.0-build235 from ssh.com) installed. Besides the Windows GUI client, there is also a command line client ssh2. This works well from the Cygwin login shell. But when I call it from an xterm shell in XFree86-4.2.0, the password prompt appears not

proposing a different aproach for XwinClip (but need some help)

2002-03-14 Thread Joan Bertran
Hi, I have implemented a different aproach about copying clipboard contents between XFree86 and Windows based on the original xwinclip. It's less automatic but allows the user to control when to copy. There is a windows trayicon with a menu to copy from Windows or from X11. As it is

RE: Problems getting xfree up and running was: Re: question

2002-03-14 Thread Suhaib Siddiqi
Well this mail came there so you managed to do it :-) Lets get started! Gentlemen, this fellow of ours is having a problem, he have downloaded xfree, installed it, I think all by the manual.. (I assisted him a little and can fill out with some of my thoughts) When he runs

Re: question

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Genisio
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xclients using tcp protocol

2002-03-14 Thread O'BRIEN,STEVE (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1)
Hi Using Xfree86 4.2.0 with latest cygwin, I see the following problem whcih may relate to the xdmcp connection problems reported by several people recently, although I am not using xdmcp. I set up the DISPLAY variable: export DISPLAY=ntbox:0 I start the X server with: XWin -ac -noreset then

RE: ssh2 in xterm problem

2002-03-14 Thread Harold Hunt
Hans, That sounds like normal behavior for Windows applications. ssh2 would have to be *specifically* designed in order to be usable from an xterm in Cygwin/XFree86. The reason that it runs in a Cygwin shell is that the Cygwin shell is actually an MS command prompt that is running bash... but

Re: xclients using tcp protocol

2002-03-14 Thread O'BRIEN,STEVE (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1)
I've just found the problem - its the firewall. If I disable the firewall, then everything works fine from both local and remote hosts Hi Using Xfree86 4.2.0 with latest cygwin, I see the following problem whcih may relate to the xdmcp connection problems reported by several people

RESOLVED: X -query problems after update to xfree86 4.2

2002-03-14 Thread Scott Baer
Well, I don't know why this would cause a problem.. but some how some one in my lab was kind enough to move my connection from a 100Meg to a 10Meg.. Once I moved that over.. everything worked fine.. So I am assuming that their were some sort of time out thing going on.. My only suggestion

RE: ssh2 in xterm problem

2002-03-14 Thread Harold Hunt
Hans, Don't forget to cc the list in all replies. Harold -Original Message- From: Hans Werner Strube [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ssh2 in xterm problem That sounds like normal behavior for Windows

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2002-03-14 Thread Venkatesh Ballani
Hi, I would like to build only Xserver in Xfree86. how to do? any there any cut down source code for Xfree86 4.0.3. Please let me know Thanks regards Ballani DISCLAIMER: Information contained and transmitted by this E-MAIL is proprietary to MASCOT SYSTEMS LTD and is intended for use

Hardware Accelerated OpenGL

2002-03-14 Thread George D. Plymale
I recently read a note that someone is interested in Hardware Accelerated OpenGL with Cygwin/Xfree86. I, too, am very interested in such a project, but would be unable to write the necessary code to interface the windows hardware accelerated OpenGL libs and Xfree86. I am stuck with Windows on

Re: mkgroup usage/version patch

2002-03-14 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I'm going with the decision to add a version information I don't understand why you changed - the usage output method. I don't like to have a big multiline format string in fprintf. Well, I could just as easily changed all the lines to

Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit Cap
Hello, Running the current latest version of cygwin (and cron) on NT 4.0 SP6. When I edit a crontab file using the crontab -e command, only the first editing session is handled and I get a response : new crontab installed (or similar message, don't know it anymore) But every next editing of

Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin

2002-03-14 Thread Jonathan Larmour
Max wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 2:40 PM To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: ecos; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; max rtos Subject: Re: [ECOS] copy redboot to floppy on cgywin On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:19:11PM

RE:ftp anonymous on NT server

2002-03-14 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I use cygwin setup on Both Windows NT Workstation and Server I create ftp and anonymous users but I didn't put them in a group. It works on Nt workstation but it fails on NT server (Login failed). I wonder if there is a way to know the Nt group with for exemple the registry to add by code

Re: poll() bugs and patch

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Boris Schaeling wrote: Ok with me. However, I'll not take that patch w/o a ChangeLog entry. Please create one, Boris. Here they are: - change.log - poll.patch - newpoll.cc (new implementation) - polltest.c (testcase) Thanks for the patch.

Re: weird... ssh from windows to other host only works when CYGWIN=

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:59:22PM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: I'm having problems with setgid 513 too... what is going on here? Check /etc/passwd and /etc/group. If you have a group 10513 but no group 513 you should change either your /etc/passwd entry to have 10513 as primary group or

Re: step by step how-to set up sshd on a Windows 2000 host?

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 09:11:33PM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: Hi, Can someone recommend some step-by-step instructions on setting up sshd on a Windows 2000 host? /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-version.README Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:09:29AM +0100, Gerrit Cap wrote: Hello, Running the current latest version of cygwin (and cron) on NT 4.0 SP6. When I edit a crontab file using the crontab -e command, only the first editing session is handled and I get a response : new crontab installed (or

Re: ftp anonymous on NT server

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:02:51PM +0100, Jorge Goncalvez wrote: Hi, I use cygwin setup on Both Windows NT Workstation and Server I create ftp and anonymous users but I didn't put them in a group. It works on Nt workstation but it fails on NT server (Login failed). I wonder if there is a way

Re: mmap of large amount returns invalid pointer

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:57:33PM -0800, Stephen Weeks wrote: I don't think this explanation is correct. I still think that mmap is returning a pointer to an invalid chunk of memory. To demonstrate this, here is a program that does an mmap, fprintf, and then attempts to write to the first

Re: 1.3.10 ssh X forwarding fails: Write failed: invalid argument

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 03:01:32PM -0800, Daryl Spartz wrote: ssh with X forwarding worked for me, on some version like 1.3.2, but after upgrade I get failure below. On the OpenSSH developers list it currently turns out that there might be a X forwarding problem in the current 3.1p1 version.

Re: weird... ssh from windows to other host only works when CYGWIN=

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 07:09:21PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [dave@xpgrave]~/:{194}:$ CYGWIN=ntsec tty ssh alphonse -l root setgid 513: Invalid argument What is the ntsec tty doing anyway? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

Opening a new window

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit Cap
Hello, Does anybody knows on how to open a new window executing a particular command, e.g. when a script is launched it executes in 1 window and then it should start another script/command running in its own window. Regards, Gerrit. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX

2002-03-14 Thread Earnie Boyd
NTFS already does on the fly compression. No other utility is needed. Earnie. Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Lapo, Mittwoch, 13. März 2002 22:36:35, du schriebst: What about reducing distributed exes size using UPX? Has it any side-kicks on cygwni binaries? Of course bz2 archives

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit Cap
I don't get any errors when editing the file, and when crontab -e is running I do see a temporary file in /tmp which is according to the status line of vi the file being edited. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Crontab -e strange reaction

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:50:50PM +0100, Gerrit Cap wrote: I don't get any errors when editing the file, and when crontab -e is running I do see a temporary file in /tmp which is according to the status line of vi the file being edited. I don't have that problem. You should debug that.

Re: reducing binary distribution size with UPX

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Earnie, Donnerstag, 14. März 2002 15:29:35, du schriebst: NTFS already does on the fly compression. No other utility is needed. What about FAT drives? UPX compresses binaries about 50%! How much does NTFS on the fly compression handles? What about reducing distributed exes size using

Re: gcc compiler for 64-bit windows

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:07 PM 3/13/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: Please check out the project web page for links to available information and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered.

Re: step by step how-to set up sshd on a Windows 2000 host?

2002-03-14 Thread Stephen Gutknecht
Thanks for the replies. I was doing everything correctly, just that the 3.10 release is broken! Went back to 3.9 and my security-related config problems went away. Stephen Gutknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message a6pbdl$jd6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:a6pbdl$jd6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, Can

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:11:33AM -0800, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: subject says all. There are other reports on this NG of same. That's fine. Patches gratefully accepted. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer

Re: make core dumping

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Teske
On Monday 11 March 2002 17:51, I wrote: I did some research for the make somtimes core-dumping problem, which still seems to be open from what I read in the release notes. The latest cygwin release fixes that, so maybe somebody should change that in the FAQ/ReleaseNotes. Greetings, --

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:11 AM 3/14/2002, Stephen Gutknecht wrote: subject says all. There are other reports on this NG of same. Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I was afraid Cygwin would never

sshd as a service

2002-03-14 Thread Brian Huddleston
We're trying to get sshd running on a Windows 2000 server box. We're using the latest version of everything (as of yesterday morning). We're trying to get DSA authentication setup and we seem to have succeeded. *If* we launch sshd from the command line, the DSA authentication works as expected

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Lapo Luchini
Just some food for thought. For my needs manually adding group [10]513 if /etc/group is OK, and anyone can do this easily.. OF COURSE it someone would had the timewill to findfix the problem it WOULD be better eheheh ;-) (again, as you always say: patches gratefully accepted) BTW: this is

ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Tooley
I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me? Chris Tooley -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:24 AM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me? http://cygwin.com/packages/ answers questions like

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Tooley
On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:33, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 11:24 AM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers as to where to get it, or do I have porting

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:21:47PM +0100, Martin Bene wrote: Hi Corinna, That's fine. Patches gratefully accepted. Just for the record: I ran into the problem as well, and of course your analysis was correct. the passwd/group files automaticaly generated during install didn't match

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:00 PM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 16:33, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 11:24 AM 3/14/2002, Chris Tooley wrote: I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers

Re: Looking for a mail server

2002-03-14 Thread Adrian Phillips
Andrew == Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew Adrian Phillips wrote: Andrew == Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew I'm looking for a mail server a la sendmail. I've looked a Andrew little but apparently sendmail has not been ported to

AW: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Bene
Hi Corinna, Currently I don't understand how setup could create a /etc/passwd file with gid 513 and a group file with gid 10513. IIRC, setup calls both, mkpasswd and mkgroup, using the -l option. This should naturally result in using the 513 in both files. If anybody could sched some

Perl Update problems

2002-03-14 Thread Corey T. Holzer
I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error: Cannot forceunlink /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey /ReadKey.dll: Permission

Re: Net::Telnet needs line of code added for fhopen to work withcygwin-perl and IO::Pty module in MSWin

2002-03-14 Thread Jay Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First I'd like to say THANKS Brian, you're most welcome. Recently, the IO:Pty module was successfully ported to work with cygwin-perl. Now it is truly possible to use your fhopen method (per Lincoln Stein's chapter on your Telnet module) to do Expect-like

Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Edwards
The closest FAQ I could find was How do I install everything? which may or may not apply to my situation, I don't know. (I suspect it does, unfortunately.) We need to install Cygwin on a /lot/ of W2K boxes, and we need to include some packages not in the base set (openssh and its prereqs, for

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:51:38PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: We need to install Cygwin on a /lot/ of W2K boxes, and we need to include some packages not in the base set (openssh and its prereqs, for one). To save time, I've done the download from internet option, selected the things we need to

Strange exec behavior

2002-03-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] ~ ps -W | fgrep /a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 345

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Phil Edwards
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: But when running setup again and chosing the install from local option, I have to make the same choices over again, not all of which I remember (and it's a lot of clicking besides). Is there a method, when using install from

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:25:36PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:03:35PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: But when running setup again and chosing the install from local option, I have to make the same choices over again, not all of which I remember (and it's a lot of

Re: Strange exec behavior

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] Yes. cgf ~ ps -W | fgrep /a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a 506

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:10:55PM +0100, Martin Bene wrote: Given: cygwin on a W2k Primary domain controller. When running mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l, you get primary group 513 in passwd, and no mention of either 513 or 10513 in group file. Ok, I've found the reason, probably. Basically

RE: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi Corinna, does that also mean there's no difference between logging in, as a given user on a PDC, locally or in the domain? Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 21:51 To: cygwin

Bash - bind Alt-Arrow keys

2002-03-14 Thread Scott Goldstein
I want to bind \M-right and \M-left to forward-word and backward-word respectively in bash. I've tried the following in my .inputrc file: # forward word bind '\M-\e[C:forward-word' # backward word bind '\M-\e[D:backward-word' It seems to work, but have some strange side affects.

Looking for local software developers.

2002-03-14 Thread Matt Sarad
I am in need of local software developers to handle the growing number of clients servicing us in Sacramento. We are looking for someone who will give us a small finders fee (10% your net) on the transactions we send. Our reputation of course is on the line for whomever we work with, and so

Passing File Descriptors

2002-03-14 Thread David E Euresti
Hello, I noticed there was some talk in January about passing file descriptors between processes. I'm in the process of porting a daemon to Windows and was wondering if there had been any progress made on this. By looking at the code I haven't seen any way of getting around passing the

Re: Strange exec behavior

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:38:18PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Is this normal? [ please cc: me directly] Yes. cgf ~ ps -W | fgrep /a 506 1 3454303 11054 13:49:15 /h/a

RE: Passing File Descriptors

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: David E Euresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Passing File Descriptors Hello, I noticed there was some talk in January about passing file descriptors between processes. I'm

Re: Looking for a mail server

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Andrew, Am 2002-03-14 um 09:11 schriebst du: Adrian Phillips wrote: Andrew == Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew I'm looking for a mail server a la sendmail. I've looked a Andrew little but apparently sendmail has not been ported to Andrew Cygwin. Are

Re: Perl Update problems

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Corey, Am 2002-03-14 um 19:19 schriebst du: I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error: Cannot forceunlink

Re: Perl Update problems

2002-03-14 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Corey, I am running Cygwin 1.3.9-1 on a Win2k Workstation. I am logged in as the Administrator and when I try to update some perl modules via 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' I get the following error: Cannot forceunlink /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey /ReadKey.dll:

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
Or with the next release of setup.exe, just 1) click on the top most category's default button, till it says install. 2) Click next. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:52 AM Is there a method, when using install from local, of simply installing every package that's present in the local cache? Not in the current released setup. The next version

Re: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Chris Tooley wrote: I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something that needs to be installed, and if so are there any pointers as to where to get it, or do I have porting work ahead of me? your something shouldn't be looking for ldconfig on cygwin. It isn't

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I was afraid Cygwin would never reach such heights again. Boy am I relieved! I guess there's no need

RE: ldconfig???

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:40 AM To: Chris Tooley Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ldconfig??? Chris Tooley wrote: I'm having something complain that it can't find ldconfig. Is this something

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken,1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Gareth Pearce
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I was afraid Cygwin would never reach such heights again. Boy am I relieved! I guess there's no need for

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:42:40PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long that I was afraid Cygwin would never reach such

struct flock, off_t, and __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__

2002-03-14 Thread Matt Seitz
I am porting a program that assumes 32-bit gid/uid, so I defined __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__. Unfortunately, that is causing my compiler to compain when I try to assign an off_t value to the l_start or l_len fields of struct flock. It appears this is because l_start and l_len are hard coded as

there is a test machine for 'reboot' on the net

2002-03-14 Thread Iman Lee
first thank you for reply my question. I setup a test win2k machine.(new installed system, no other application) no user logon through console, no application is running. IP: 152.104.150.111 ssh user: test (have shutdown capability) pass: reboot if you like to see, it just

Re: Having problems with sshd and user accounts? 1.3.10 appears to be broken, 1.3.9 fixed it...

2002-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:23 PM 3/14/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:42:40PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: Thank goodness someone has found the Cygwin release that's a panacea for all subsequent Cygwin ills! I'd heard B20 touted as this for so long

new app: fcd-1.0

2002-03-14 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi all, Just writing to announce my first Unix/Cygwin app, it's a tiny utility that makes changing directories faster. It tries to expand each 'step' of a path as a wildcard from both the current directory and also from each directory in an environment variable. For example, if you have

Read this Carefully, See what you think!

2002-03-14 Thread lakers8
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Re: start for Cygwin

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Schaap
At 08:33 13-3-2002, Charles Wilson wrote: Michael -- Did you want to add this to cygutils? I'm getting ready to release 1.0.0 and I'd like to put start(cygstart, whatev) in it for v1.0 rather than later -- if its going in at all. If you'd rather keep it separate, that's fine too.

Subscribe me

2002-03-14 Thread lkapoor
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reboot -h now take effect but -r now don't

2002-03-14 Thread Iman Lee
a tester (thanks) test my machine, find reboot -h now take effect, but reboot -r now don't work. -Original Message- first thank you for reply my question. I setup a test win2k machine.(new installed system, no other application) no user logon through console, no application is running.

cygwin.com suggestions

2002-03-14 Thread felixmendelssohnn
Here are a couple of suggestions for making the cygwin.com website more helpful. 1) Include the current version number of setup.exe on the front page. Otherwise, there is no way for the infrequent visitor to the website to know if setup.exe has been updated other than to re-download and run

setup.exe v2.125.2.10: package selection strangeness, behavior not documented

2002-03-14 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
I have a working cygwin installation. I want to download only a single package (cron, say) and its dependenciess. To do this, I need to start the package-selection screen in setup from a skip or keep everything state, that is, do not download anything. Is this what prev/curr/exp are designed

RE: cygwin.com suggestions

2002-03-14 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are a couple of suggestions for making the cygwin.com website more helpful. Thanks for your suggestions, feedback on them in-line. 1) Include the current version number of setup.exe on the front page. Otherwise, there is no

Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

2002-03-14 Thread sam alexander
Hi The useless compiler warning is this: warning: decimal constant is so large that it is unsigned I KNOW that it's unsigned, and it's supposed to be. It's the right hand side of an initialization like this: unsigned int x = 4294967294; I'd just ignore it as a minor annoyance, but my

RE: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

2002-03-14 Thread Al Slater
use unsigned int x = 4294967294UL; ^^ regards Al -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of sam alexander Sent: 15 March 2002 07:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i

RE: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence it?

2002-03-14 Thread Surendar Singh Bisht
How 'bout using gcc -w for compilation. It SILENCES the complaint. (I'm using gcc version 2.95.3-5.) -Original Message- From: sam alexander [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 15 March 2002 12:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Useless compiler warning in GCC, how can i silence

Re: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-14 Thread Jesper Eskilson
Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Either that or something like (untested): mkdir c:\cygwin cd c:\cygwin c:\whereever\tar xjf /cygdrive/c/whereever/cygwin-*.tar.bz2 mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin / mount -f -s -b c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib mount -f -s -x -b

cygpng2.dll pdflatex

2002-03-14 Thread Brendan Drew
I've been trying to get PdfLaTeX PdfTeX up and running but with little luck -- the installation of the kpathsea packages went smoothely until it came time to the post-install stuff with pdf(la)tex. Both complained about not being able to find cygpng2.dll. I looked around and, sure enough, I

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2002-03-14 Thread Michael A Chase
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