Re: $(dothis) construct acts as a text tool in pipe (\r removed)

argue that: \r at EOL should never being stripped out of a cygwin binary pipe. Why shouldn't binary pipes behave the same in Cygwin and UNIX? respectfully/regards, Tom Rodman --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v-- PS I find it significant that the design

NTSEC ntwrk drives?; chown/chmod/ls -l only wrkg on local drives

for this, or do I have an incorrect config setting? I have included more background info below. -- thanks/regards, Tom Rodman perl -e 'print unpack(u, \.\=\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`);' --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v-- (Were running NT4.0 SP6A) background on my

STDOUT of non cygwin command lost - prob started after late Oct snapshot

, but will not be able to finish it for a few days; at that time I will followup later with a post that follows the problem reporting guidelines. -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

STDOUT of non cygwin command lost (in automated ssh session)

TCP10.125.15.180:1106 10.125.15.180:1339 ESTABLISHED TCP10.125.15.180:1106 10.125.15.180:1343 ESTABLISHED TCP10.125.15.180:1106 10.125.15.180:1367 ESTABLISHED --snip (it also works w/out the -wait) -- Tom Rodman -- Cygwin Configuration

expect script hanging: ssh to localhost w/password authentication

expect from another bash session -- Tom Rodman -- Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon Dec 19 09:32:23 2005 Windows 2000 Advanced Server Ver 5.0 staffuser2 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: c:\aut\cyg\home\local\staffuser1\bin c:\aut\cyg\home\local\staffuser1\bin c

Re: expect script hanging: ssh to localhost w/password authentication

Related ssh/expect script post by Corinna: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00801.html FYI: The Dec 16 cygwin1.dll snapshot test case hung again in the same way, after I ran a rebaseall - just tried this 10 min ago. Is it recommended that one do a rebaseall each time the

Re: expect script hanging: ssh to localhost w/password authentication

My guess is that cgf is aware of this, and working on a fix..: ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer108 1.5.19s(0.148/4/2) 20051220 00:11:57 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin ~ $ ssh localhost date [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: ~ $ I manually entered the correct password above, the output

Re: expect script hanging: ssh to localhost w/password authentication

On Wed 12/21/05 12:36 +0100 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Dec 20 23:00, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:02:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a new (related?) issue w/this Dec 20 snapshot. I don't have time to log the test formally now; I hope you

ssh localhost date #fails for me, but WJFFU; report enclosed

) debug3: channel 0: close_fds r -1 w -1 e 6 c -1 debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 0.4 seconds debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0 debug1: Exit status 0 ~ $ Any suggestions? -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current

Re: ssh localhost date #fails for me on two boxes

Problem: 'ssh localhost date' asks for password, I type it, I'm authenticated, but no output is seen from the date command (original post has details) Corrina, and cgf wrote WJFFM: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00801.html So what is special about my setup? What

Re: ssh localhost date #strace tests enclosed

Thanks Igor for your help, pls see strace results below: On Sat 12/24/05 23:45 EST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Tom Rodman wrote: Problem: 'ssh localhost date' asks for password, I type it, I'm authenticated, but no output is seen from the date command

Re: ssh localhost date #missing strace log-will post link..

On Mon 12/26/05 16:01 EST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: --snip Hmm, you didn't attach the strace output -- just the sshd debug output. The command above will put the strace output into /var/tmp/sshd_strace. Also, there's no need to post the working case strace. FWIW, the strace output is likely

Re: ssh localhost date #http links to strace logs

On Mon 12/26/05 16:01 EST Igor wrote --snip As an adaptation of your own command: --snip Try: cygrunsrv -I sshd_test -p /usr/bin/strace.exe -a '-o /var/tmp/sshd_strace /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -ddd' -e CYGWIN=$CYGWIN I setup the sshd_test service as you indicated above Igor.

Re: ssh localhost date # ls -lu = remote command not being read

Solving this issue is important to us. We have a tool that triggers a remote job via an ssh client. If this general approach works: ssh remotehostname job arg1 arg2.. I think our tool will work. On Mon 12/26/05 16:31 CST Tom Rodman wrote: --snip my mistake, I just re-ran the failing test

scp/ssh: non-interactive commands using PasswordAuthentication fail

2 informal tests on my home PC, /etc/ssh_config is OTTB no problem, using PubkeyAuthentication: $ uname -a #login shell is bash, started by 'sshing in' CYGWIN_NT-5.0 argon 1.5.19s(0.149/4/2) 20051227 16:45:51 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin $ ssh localhost date Wed Dec 28 21:03:43 CST 2005

Re: expect script hanging: ssh to localhost w/password authentication

above (*really*), but could it have resurrected the expect script problem? - admittedly a WAG. Sorry, I'm out of the loop; have not been following the cygwin mailing list for about a week.. When I get time, I will post simple log of the failing expect script test case. -- thanks, Tom Rodman

Re: expect script hanging: ssh to localhost w/password authentication

+0100 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Dec 19 11:00, Tom Rodman wrote: Enclosed is an expect script (to ssh to the localhost with password authentication) that hangs (search ahead for parent: waiting for sync byte) with the Dec 16 snapshot. Please take a look at the working and non

$windir chg'd from upper to lower case for ssh sessions,in new snapshot?

Believe this is correct, will someonelse pls verify? If so, is this intended, ie permanent? If so, I need to adjust a script or two. I'm aware that it %windir% is usually lower case for windows, but I think it was changed to uppercase in an ssh cygwin session in previous releases. -- thanks,

Re: console-started expect script hanging: ssh to localhost..works w/new snapshot

On Sun 1/8/06 at 13:13 CST I wrote: --snip The test case at the console may not have worked for the last several cygwin releases. --snip It's working just fine at the console under the 1/8/06 snapshot :- -- Thanks! Tom Rodman -- At the risk of wasting bandwidth, here are the test cases

Re: No takers? (was Re: ssh localhost date # ls -lu = remote command not being read)

On Wed 1/4/06 18:39 EST Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:07:01PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: My output seems similar to Igor's, though mine is longer :-( (and therefore also bzipped) but definitely against the 12/29

Re: Warning: Never use M$ files+settings transfer wizard to move a cygwin installation.

sorry if this is OT for the list On Thu 1/26/06 17:57 GMT Dave Korn wrote: --snip I made the terrible mistake of trying to use M$ migwiz.exe to recover my old cygwin installation from a dead machine's drive to a new one. I thought it might be just a simple archiver that would conveniently

ssh session w/reduced credentials;whoami shows OurSrvr064\sshd_server

lines. Our AD domain and forest has mixture of global, and domain local groups. This host is used as a software 'build engine', ie windows software is compiled there. -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Jan 31 09:04:08 2006 Windows 2003 Server

Re: ssh session w/reduced credentials; simple TEST CASE to show problem

a comment or two below: On Tue 1/31/06 10:32 CST Tom Rodman wrote: --snip -- The Problem -- On Monday several compilers were loaded on this host (OurSrvr064); because of this, 4 new local groups were created. So, I updated /etc/group, by running 'mkgroup -ld', and subsequently re-doing

password-authenticated ssh session..;whoami shows OurSrvr064\sshd_server

On Wed 2/1/06 10:20 +0100 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Jan 31 10:32, Tom Rodman wrote: Also notable, was that whoami shown: OurSrvr064\sshd_server, instead of staffuser2. That's normal for passwordless login. Sorry, I should have emphasized that when I ssh'd in, the password

Re: password-authenticated ssh ..;cygwin's whoami shows OurSrvr064\sshd_server

by 'whoami', I'm refering to the *cygwin* 'whoami' In addition, to 'whoami' reporting OurSrvr064\sshd_server, the account does not have full rights. For details, see: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01495.html -- thanks, Tom -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: password-authenticated ssh session..;whoami shows OurSrvr064\sshd_server

On Wed 2/1/06 15:26 +0100 Corinna wrote: On Feb 1 08:07, Tom Rodman wrote: On Wed 2/1/06 10:20 +0100 Corinna wrote: On Jan 31 10:32, Tom Rodman wrote: Also notable, was that whoami shown: OurSrvr064\sshd_server, instead of staffuser2. That's normal for passwordless login

(OT?) stress test 2tickle fork error;to exhaust heap..

[Informal post. I'm not a developer. Is this a fair test, does it have any value?] We have a test box (Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition), w/10GB RAM (PAE enabled). Trying to stress the limits of cygwin 1.5.19 or the OS, I ran this test from a bash session: # preliminary step: load

mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied. #just subset of domain users listed

- what rights do I need ask our corporate admins to give my account so mkpasswd -l -d completes w/o error? (I *am* a local administrator.) -- thanks/regards, Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied. # cygcheck output; windows 2003 server..

More background: The box is running windows 2003 server. The user running mkpasswd is a domain user (ie not a local computer account). This user is in the host's local administrators group. Help would be greatly appreciated :- -- thanks, Tom Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current

Re: [SPAM] mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied. #workaround speculation on cause

CST Tom Rodman wrote: When running mkpasswd -l -d I get the error: mkpasswd (249): [5] Access is denied. See below bash session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ date; uname -a Wed Mar 2 10:37:14 CST 2005 CYGWIN_NT-5.2 c7mkes132 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01 i686 unknown

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, group as windows would

$ CYGWIN=nontsec touch foo Thanks Brian, that should do it. On Wed 5/18/05 13??:34 PDT Brian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like and depend on NTSEC, but sometimes I want pure windows behavior. How can I create a new file from the bash prompt without umask being honored- what I

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, group as windows would

On Wed 5/18/05 16:18 CDT Tom Rodman wrote: $ CYGWIN=nontsec touch foo Thanks Brian, that should do it. Here's a function I plan to use: wtouch() { local file=$1 CYGWIN=nontsec touch $file setacl -on $(cygpath -aw $file) -ot file \ -actn setowner -ownr n:Administrators;s:n

ssh-host-config -y w/CYGWIN set to ntsec..; ssh works but CYGWIN *not* set

/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. There is also a long delay (15 sec or so) when logging in. -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

tool2SeeIf inheritable parnt perms r allw'd 2 propgat 2 this dir?

, setacl, cygwin getfacl. I've also modified a USENET script that uses the perl Win32::Perms module from David Roth; the script works fine but does not show the flag I need. thanks/regards, -- Tom Rodman -- PS The Usenix perl script that I modified was called perms.pl. You can pry it out

binmode() workaround; non :raw default- is this a bug or by design?

to review.. the problem (UNIX style lines converted to DOS): --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v-- bash-2.05b$ printf \r\n\n|perl -pe '1;'|od -a 000 cr nl cr nl 004 work around:

Re: Should PERLIO=no_crlf be the default on Cygwin?

What am I missing, it's still broke. PERLIO=raw works fine though.. bash-2.05b$ printf \r\n\n|PERLIO=stdio perl -pe '1;'|od -a 000 cr nl nl 003 bash-2.05b$ printf \r\n\n|PERLIO=raw perl -pe '1;'|od -a 000 cr nl nl 003 thanks much/regards, -- Tom Rodman pls run

\dev\pipew or \dev\pipew.lnk SMB STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND

a bug though - any comments would be appreciated. __ thanks/regards, Tom Rodman pls run for my address: perl -e 'print unpack(u, \.\=\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`);' PS googling brought up, a possibly related thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q1/msg00291.html Frame 542

/bin/rbash in passwd, but starts a *non* restricted shell

Interactively rbash seems to work fine: ~ $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 c7mkes108 1.5.17(0.129/4/2) 2005-05-25 19:38 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin ~ $ ls -l /bin/{bash,rbash} -r-xr-xr-x+ 2 scmcron Users 512512 Oct 29 2004 /bin/bash* -r-xr-xr-x+ 2 scmcron Users 512512 Oct 29 2004 /bin/rbash*

how2 set PATH for noninteractive restricted rbash shell?

know I'm rushing a bit.. -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

ssh localhost date # no startup files read: ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc}

Larry: Thanks for taking the time to reply, and thanks for the (~/.bash_login) suggestion. Below are two tests cases for ssh localhost date. The Linux test shows that ~/.bashrc is read. The Cygwin case shows none of ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc} are read. Doesn't this seem like

ssh localhost date # no startup files read: ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc}

starting new thread, trying for attention :- old thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00306.html Larry: THANKS for taking the time to reply, and thanks for the (~/.bash_login) suggestion. Below are two tests cases for ssh localhost date. The Linux test shows that ~/.bashrc

Re: screen THANKS so much for your work, at 1st glance/looks great, end of msg

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ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced..

//OurBox108/scm/toss.$RANDOM touch: cannot touch `//OurBox108/scm/toss.29272': Permission denied I would appreciate it if anyone can try the above two cases and let me know of they work OK for you. -- Tom Rodman -- minor (3rd) problem: ssh session does not have proper rights for drive mapped

Re: ssh session can't see share permissions; rights for disk share reduced

I say little new below, I don't have time to try again until ~Thursday Pierre: I may not be able to get back to this until Thursday, but I will post again, with more detail (working or not working). -- thanks again, Tom see comments below: On Tue 7/26/05 17:26 EDT Pierre A. Humblet wrote: I

Re: ssh session can't see share permissions; Pierre's /etc/group edit, WORKED..

Pierre: On Tue 7/26/05 17:26 EDT Pierre A. Humblet wrote: snip I don't follow exactly what you did, but you must make sure (show us !) that id when you are logged in at the console reports exactly the same groups as when you are logged in under ssh. If there are fewer groups under ssh,

'id' groups listing conflicts w/'net group GROUPNAMEHERE /domain'

sessions; Pierre A. Humblet supplied me with a workaround: (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-07/msg01287.html). How can we determine if user staffuser1 is or is not in group ABC_NA-CTX-Notepad-A? -- thanks, Tom Rodman console bash session: --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E

Re: 'id' groups listing conflicts w/'net group GROUPNAMEHERE /domain'

Thank you again Pierre. I appreciate the increased rights ;-It fixed up more than just the net drive issue, a couple of my database admin commands that were failing, now work again in an ssh session. see comments below -- regards, Tom On Thu 7/28/05 13:22 EDT Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Tom

tlist may hang, Ex: tlist bash

than ~2 min Not sure if this is exposing a bug. Just an observation. -- regards, Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

Re: tlist hang, Ex: tlist bash - tlist invoked from cmd.exe shell

Thanks Larry. The hang happens completely outside of cygwin also. It hangs if you type tlist bash from a cmd.exe prompt. -- Tom On Wed 8/3/05 14:10 EDT Cygwin List wrote: At 11:25 AM 8/3/2005, you wrote: Under 1.5.18 and several earlier releases the w2k resource kit tool tlist hangs for me

Re: tlist may hang, Ex: tlist bash

see comments below, thanks again for your help. This issue is pretty minor to me, but I had thought it might be interesting to the list. On Wed 8/3/05 14:10 EDT Cygwin List wrote: At 11:25 AM 8/3/2005, you wrote: Under 1.5.18 and several earlier releases the w2k resource kit tool tlist hangs

Re: tlist may hang, Ex: tlist bash

A 'tlist 5664' launched from the cmd.exe shell finished after ~20 min. --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v-- Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\staffuser1timethis tlist 5664 TimeThis :

expect script exits login shell OK,yet ssh.exe never exits;1.5.18

Greetings: Our expect script, starts an ssh session on the localhost (w/password authentication; login shell is bash), then starts another script. The benefit- network drives are writable. This wrapper script is used in our crontabs. Recently (since 1.5.18, possibly earlier), this script has

Re: expect script exits login shell OK,yet ssh.exe never exits;1.5.18

hyperthreading issues have been solved early this year - is this true? -- My next workaround for this has been to abandon the expect script, and the cygwin ssh client, and use a plink based script instead. -- thanks much, Tom On Sat 8/13/05 15:37 CDT Tom Rodman wrote: Greetings: Our expect script

Re: bash not running bash_profile or bashrc

On Mon 9/19/05 21:21 EDT Poor Yorick wrote: snip mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd seems to hang. I get no output and it never completes. For us, mkpasswd -d dumps ~1500-2000 users and then errs out. Our domain is hugh. My work around is to build /etc/passwd with a script that repeatedly calls

Re: bash not running bash_profile or bashrc

wrote: Original Message From: Tom Rodman Sent: 20 September 2005 14:51 On Mon 9/19/05 21:21 EDT Poor Yorick wrote: snip mkpasswd -d /etc/passwd seems to hang. I get no output and it never completes. I don't suppose you've actually allowed it to run forever yet, so never

Re: expect script exits ..yet ssh.exe never exits;fixed now in snapshot..

This problem is gone w/recent snapshots (I'm using the 9/19 snapshot). -- thanks, Tom On Sat 8/13/05 15:37 CDT Tom Rodman wrote: Greetings: Our expect script, starts an ssh session on the localhost (w/password authentication; login shell is bash), then starts another script. The benefit

fairly repeatable fork(?) errors in (contrived) test script

All: I'm using the 9/19 snapshot. The sleep in the below test script seems to be required, otherwise the script could be simplified and still cause errors. The test script works (always?) without errors on 1.3.20. Here are a couple of test runs: ~ $ /tmp/test x: 1 x: 2 x: 3 x: 4 x:

Re: fairly repeatable fork(?) errors in (contrived) test script

On Wed 9/21/05 11:44 EDT (cgf) cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:13:09AM -0500, Tom Rodman wrote: All: I'm using the 9/19 snapshot. The sleep in the below test script seems to be required, otherwise the script could be simplified and still cause errors. Today I carefully

fork errors - search snips from cygwin mailing list archive

will be purchased in the next couple of months. :- -- thanks again, Tom Rodman -- See below for the snippets { enclosed in curly braces }. This is an egrep of last ~200 days of cygwin archives for: fork: No such file or directory died waiting for longjmp fork: Bad file fork: Resource temporarily

/bin/rbash in passwd, but starts a *non* restricted shell (1.3.20)

Interactively rbash seems to work fine: bash-2.05b$ uname -a; ln -s /bin/bash /bin/rbash;rbash CYGWIN_NT-4.0 ws011206 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin rbash-2.05b$ cd / rbash: cd: restricted When I set the login shell to /bin/rbash in /etc/passwd and login

rxvt mouse pointer selection: how do you get / recognized as word boundary?

Consider the path: /tmp/xxx/yyy/zzz Within rxvt I want to doubleclick on xxx with the result that only xxx is highlighted. Unfortunately the complete path highlights. Interestingly enough it works with \, ie: \tmp\xxx\yyy\zzz Is there a switch to fix this? __ thanks/regards, Tom Rodman

ssh-host-config: mkpasswd -l -u sshd; should it be -d on domain controller?

/etc/passwd. -- thank/regards, Tom Rodman pls run for my address: perl -e 'print unpack(u, 1\:6UP\,\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`);' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

test post: how2 prevent a cygwin post from being spam-blocked?

. Yesterday I used a procedure that had worked many times (weeks earlier). -- thanks/regards, Tom Rodman perl -e 'print unpack(u, \.\=\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`);' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: test post: how2 prevent a cygwin post from being spam-blocked?

This is just FYI, no response needed. (BTW - I did get the answer to my post to via the package maintainer. ) -- thanks, Tom Rodman # # header for first failed msg, sent ~12:47 CST 12/4/03 # o e-mail sent to the below From

bash bad interpreter - a new twist!

sure others can correct some of what I just said, but I believe is mostly right ;- -- Tom Rodman pls run for my address: perl -e 'print unpack(u, 1\:6UP\,\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`);' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: bash bad interpreter - a new twist!

On Fri 3/26/04 1:15 EST : The #! construct must always refer to a binary, never to another script (to avoid loops?). I ran into the same issue. The UNIX standard is what I just said, but earlier (and current?) cygwin versions (wrongly) sorta supported a script. In 1.3.20 it works about 2 out of

observation on cygwin file locking, just an FYI

Assume you have two hosts w/cygwin installed: one that sees script foobar as a local file and one that is running this same foobar but through a network drive. Based on tests, if bash is running the script foobar, w/foobar on a remote drive; then while foobar is running on this remote box,

observation: cygrunsrv -env option: max env var size is 256 chars

the help as saying up to 255 separate env vars may be defined. -- thanks, Tom Rodman perl -e 'print unpack(u, 1\:6UP\,\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O\;0H\`);' -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: observation: cygrunsrv -env option: max env var size is 256 chars

On Sun 4/18/04 13:15 +0200 Corinna wrote: snip I've uploaded version 1.0-1 which allows arbitrarily sized environment variables. The number of variables is still limited to 255. Thank-you Corinna! -- Tom Rodman pls run for my address: perl -e 'print unpack(u, 1\:6UP\,\$\!T\F\]D\;6\%N\+F\-O

consider chg to hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

Placing localhost.localdomain in hosts as shown here: ~ $ cd /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc $ grep localhost hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost eliminates application event log entries like: --snip sshd: PID 6204:

bash process substitution (list) possible bug

test script /tmp/foo, and test run showing the problem: ~ $ cat /tmp/foo #!/bin/bash file=$1 TMPF=$(mktemp /tmp/XX) set -x test -s $file || echo $? cp $file $TMPF cat $TMPF ~ $ /tmp/foo (echo ABC) + test -s /proc/self/fd/63 + echo 1 1 + cp /proc/self/fd/63

Re: bash process substitution (list)

On Sat 3/10/07 15:55 MST Eric Blake wrote: According to Tom Rodman on 3/10/2007 8:14 AM: ~ $ /tmp/foo (echo ABC) + test -s /proc/self/fd/63 + echo 1 The 'test -s $file' in the test run above should return 0. How do you figure? pipes are special file types, and st_size

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ddrescue-1.4-1

On Tue 6/19/07 10:23 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: Version 1.4-1 of ddrescue has been uploaded. (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html) I'm a big fan of ddrescue, thanks for the tool! I used it recently under linux to repair an image hard disk that contained an NTFS file system.

symbolic link untar issue

n \ b a s h 108 Is that an old style cygwin snybolic link? If so how do I identify all of them, so I might update them on my system? -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Cleanup.., how to delete the zero byte '/bin/bash': /tmp/ZZ $ (cd /bin ; chmod 777 bash;cmd /c del bash; ls -l bash

/etc/group manual-edits-workaround still reqd in 1.7?

I use cygwin in a large domain, from time to time my account is added or removed from domain groups without any warning (last time 'IT' added 'Domain Users' to some other domain group - so all domain users were impacted!). When this happens my credentials in a password-authenticated ssh session,

Re: /etc/group manual-edits-workaround still reqd in 1.7?

On Mon 7/28/08 10:18 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 26 09:12, Tom Rodman wrote: I use cygwin in a large domain, from time to time my account is added or removed from domain groups without any warning (last time 'IT' added 'Domain Users' to some other domain group - so all domain

awk -v BINMODE=rw

Hello: awk is removing the \r below: ~ $ date;uname -sr Thu Aug 21 18:26:08 CDT 2008 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) ~ $ printf HI\r\n| awk -v BINMODE=rw '{print}'|/bin/od -Ad -c -toC 000 H I \n 110 111 012 003 ~ $ cygcheck -f /bin/gawk gawk-3.1.6-1 --

bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

Greetings: ~ $ date;cygcheck -c cygwin Sun Aug 24 11:37:36 CDT 2008 Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK ~ $ $COMSPEC -bash: D:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found ~ $ ls -l $COMSPEC -rwxrwxr-x+ 1

Re: bash -c '$COMSPEC' # worked sometime b4 cygwin 1.5.24-2

On Thu 8/28/08 22:38 +0200 Reini Urban wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: There hasn't been any effort to support Windows paths in Cygwin for a long time. That doesn't mean it wouldn't have worked sometime in the past. it worked in cygwin 1.5.19-4 It's just that doing so is not a goal

groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

tools we call from cygwin, will not run unless the session is in S-1-2-0. I'm not sure if this is a cygwin version issue, or due to windows 2003. Any thoughts/can others test this in an ssh session?: $WINDIR/system32/whoami /all |grep -q S-1-2-0 || echo OOPs -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

Thanks for your help Matthew. On Wed 8/16/06 14:44 CDT mwoehlke wrote: Tom Rodman wrote: Hosts effected: several boxes running windows 2003 server w/cygwin (1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060403 13:33:45) Problem (or feature?): when you ssh to these boxes, and run

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

On Wed 8/16/06 23:11 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Aug 16 15:49, Tom Rodman wrote: On Wed 8/16/06 14:44 CDT mwoehlke wrote: Tom Rodman wrote: Hosts effected: several boxes running windows 2003 server w/cygwin (1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060403 13:33:45) Problem

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

On Fri 8/18/06 8:58 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Aug 17 18:49, Tom Rodman wrote: tried that.. no joy, take a look: --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v-- $ $WINDIR/system32/whoami /all #we're in an ssh session before edits made to /etc/group

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

On Fri 8/18/06 16:28 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Aug 18 08:35, Tom Rodman wrote: On Fri 8/18/06 8:58 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Aug 17 18:49, Tom Rodman wrote: tried that.. no joy, take a look: --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v

Re: groupS-1-2-0(users who login locally)in ssh;windows 2003

On Wed 8/23/06 9:43 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Aug 21 11:13, Tom Rodman wrote: On Fri 8/18/06 16:28 +0200 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: The trick using /etc/group only works for password-LESS authentication, sorry for not mentioning it, but usually the problems reported here

zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it?

Greetings: Admittedly just barely worth posting.. Over the years I've seen a /bin/bash file, with 000 (-) perms. This file is empty, has no extension, and bash.exe is not touched. How the zero byte /bin/bash get's created is a mystery. It subsequently blocks you from 'sshing' in. It was

Re: zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it?

On Wed 10/11/06 18:07 EDT cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: Are you untarring files into '/' and does that tar file have a '/bin/bash' file? Thanks Larry. I was untarring to a subdir below root. I can check the tar archive, but I doubt it has a bash file w/000 perms, even if it did I would expect that

Re: zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it?

On Wed 10/11/06 18:11 CDT cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Wed 10/11/06 18:07 EDT cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: Are you untarring files into '/' and does that tar file have a '/bin/bash' file? Thanks Larry. I was untarring to a subdir below root. I can check the tar archive, but I doubt it has a

best practice?: make admin user root, edit passwd to make uid 0

account.) Should the group name Administrators in /etc/group be swapped out with root - I got this idea from a post or two in the cygwin mailing list. -- thanks Tom Rodman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: best practice?: make admin user root, edit passwd to make uid 0

related links: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00567.html http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

echo hi|egrep -v ho #no output

VersionStatus grep 2.5.1a-2 OK ~ $ -- thanks, Tom Rodman -- Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Dec 01 14:29:40 2006 Windows 2000 Server Ver 5.0 staffuser2 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: c:\aut\cyg\home\local\staffuser1\bin c:\aut\cyg\bin

Re: echo hi|egrep -v ho #no output

just a sorry : I forgot to make the cygcheck.out an attachment -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: echo hi|egrep -v ho #no output

[back from shoveling out 2 driveways, a sidewalk, and a stuck car :-] On Fri 12/1/06 12:53 PST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: Tom Rodman wrote: ~ $ echo hi|egrep -v ho WJFFM. Note that egrep is a /bin/sh script that just calls grep -E. So if your sh.exe was in use or something went

printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

Should this directed to the file package maintainer?: ~ $ date;uname -a Mon Dec 4 14:31:38 CST 2006 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer121 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - /dev/stdin: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 192 kBits, 32 kHz,

Re: printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

Thanks Corinna On Mon 12/4/06 22:10 +0100 cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: On Dec 4 14:47, Tom Rodman wrote: Should this directed to the file package maintainer?: No. You're using different versions of the `file' package. The output of `file' is based on data files which are updated with each

Re: printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

On Mon 12/4/06 14:47 CST cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: --snip ~ $ date;uname -a Mon Dec 4 14:31:38 CST 2006 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer121 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin ~ $ printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - /dev/stdin: MPEG ADTS, layer I, v1, 192 kBits, 32

Re: printf '\377\376h\000\r\000\n\000'|file - #wrong result?

On Wed 12/6/06 14:34 EST Larry Hall wrote: This is a change (or bug) in 'file', not Cygwin. I get the same thing as you do with Cygwin's version on FC4. If you think there is an issue here, you should take it upstream. Per, the upstream maintainer of 'file', it is a bug that can not be fixed

OT observation: displaying share perms while in an ssh session

Thought this was interesting. My theory: if your in a cygwin *password* *authenticated* ssh session, and you try to get a reporting of the permissions for a network share, that the report will fail, unless SYSTEM has read rights on the share. Both examples below were invoked on the same host (

Re: OT observation: displaying share perms while in an ssh session

On Wed 12/20/06 17:06 EST Andrew Louie wrote: On 12/20/06, Tom Rodman cygzx at trodman.com wrote: Thought this was interesting. My theory: if your in a cygwin *password* *authenticated* ssh session, and you try to get a reporting of the permissions for a network share, that the report

`setfacl -m u:jdoe:rwx foo` returns 0, but file not writable by jdoe??

/html/doc-reference.html ) to protect and clear the DACL, and set owner and group. Pls see example below. -- thanks, Tom Rodman --v-v--C-U-T---H-E-R-E-v-v-- $ cd /tmp $ object=foo owner=staffuser2 $ rm -f foo; ls foo ls: foo: No such file or directory

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