Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/24/2012 10:17 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Sorry that I was unclear. What I meant is that your negative assessment of Corinna's character, whether online or in real life, is totally off base and off-topic. Please exercise the self restraint necessary to let this drop. I'm so sorry. I

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 01:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my

Re: setting up a xdmcp to ubuntu 11.10 w/lightdm

2012-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2012 1:58 AM, Scott Webster Wood wrote: Does anyone know how to configure cygwin to do xdmcp to the new ubuntu 11.10? It appears to have swapped out the old gdm for lightdm. I found the conf option that supposedly turns it on to listen for xdmcp and see an entry in the lightdm log that

Re: uid is 0 on first open of cygwin window, nonzero next time

2012-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2012 11:24 AM, Saurabh T wrote: When I open a cygwin window for the first time (that is, when no other cygwin window is open), uid and group are 0 (superuser/root; however username is correctly mentioned). Upon subsequent opens (without closing the first), a reasonable uid is set

Re: uid is 0 on first open of cygwin window, nonzero next time

2012-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 16:24, Saurabh T wrote: When I open a cygwin window for the first time (that is, when no other cygwin window is open), uid and group are 0 (superuser/root; however username is correctly mentioned). Upon subsequent opens (without closing the first), a reasonable uid is set (1004).

Re: setting up a xdmcp to ubuntu 11.10 w/lightdm

2012-01-25 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Scott Webster Wood! Does anyone know how to configure cygwin to do xdmcp to the new ubuntu 11.10? I'd start asking this on ubuntuforums.org or your local Debian/Ubuntu forum. It appears to have swapped out the old gdm for lightdm. I found the conf option that supposedly turns

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my testing, so far, I've

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe anymore. In my testing, so far, I've

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
I now have several hours of intense use, and I haven't seen one crash. Kudos to all that have contributed to this fix. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.24.0-1 [SECURITY]

2012-01-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** curl-7.24.0-1 *** libcurl4-7.24.0-1 *** libcurl-devel-7.24.0-1 curl is a library and command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: netpbm-10.57.01-1

2012-01-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** netpbm-10.57.01-1 *** libnetpbm10-10.57.01-1 *** libnetpbm-devel-10.57.01-1 Netpbm is a suite of image conversion and manipulation tools, supporting a wide range of formats. This is an update to the last release in the

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Robert Miles
On 1/25/2012 1:58 PM, Kevin Layer wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:03:05PM -0800, Kevin Layer wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This problem is killing me. I'm currently looking msysgit + GnuWin32 because I just can't take the crashes of bash.exe and git.exe

Re: YA call for snapshot testing

2012-01-25 Thread Kevin Layer
Robert Miles wrote: NOTE: I run with CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning proc_retry:1 because I run a lot of non-cygwin software from shell scripts, and during testing, that can take 10's of minutes, I can't afford to have those programs restarted if they crash on exit. Before setting proc_retry:1,

Updated: curl-7.24.0-1 [SECURITY]

2012-01-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following packages have been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** curl-7.24.0-1 *** libcurl4-7.24.0-1 *** libcurl-devel-7.24.0-1 curl is a library and command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting numerous protocols, SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP

Updated: netpbm-10.57.01-1

2012-01-25 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
The following package has been updated for the Cygwin distribution: *** netpbm-10.57.01-1 *** libnetpbm10-10.57.01-1 *** libnetpbm-devel-10.57.01-1 Netpbm is a suite of image conversion and manipulation tools, supporting a wide range of formats. This is an update to the last release in the