Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Heh, this is the first time I accessed the FAQ after the switch, and > > > the direct question links don't work. :-( I think the presence of the > > > id= attr

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:23:53PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As I understand it, DocBook is an XSLT stylesheet, right? Do you know Slightly OT: http://www.docbook.org/";> DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer har

[OT] Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: According to David Arnstein on 8/18/2005 1:01 AM: Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash: --

Re: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jerrad Pierce on 8/18/2005 10:37 AM: > /cygdrive/c should not be invisible objects in the ether, they should live > on the filesystem like a proper mounted filesystem, allowing them to > accessible with tab completion. It's a general prob

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to David Arnstein on 8/18/2005 1:01 AM: > Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window > running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash: > > --

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > > On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just > > > > to make sure links t

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

On 8/18/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > > > sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source > >

Re: Proposed FAQ in DocBook

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 8/3/05, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > I'm tired of tip-toeing around the texinfo source for the FAQ just to make > > sure links to the numbered questions work, so I've converted the source > > to DocBook and put up preliminary versions: >

Re: Permissions and Shared Folders

At 12:33 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote: >I must really be missing something here; I hope someone can give a >brief explanation and (as a bonus) direct me to where I can find out >more. > >I've been trying to copy files off a Windows XP shared folder in Windows >explorer, and it keeps telling me that I

RE: Windows hardening and system paths

At 05:55 PM 8/18/2005, you wrote: >I installed Cygwin using the installer, and after installing the packages - >as I have done at least 10 times before - I ran the ssh-host-config -y (yes >to all). This usually generates the host-keys automatically, and as you >correctly state; it also sets the rig

RE: Windows hardening and system paths

Hello again, I installed Cygwin using the installer, and after installing the packages - as I have done at least 10 times before - I ran the ssh-host-config -y (yes to all). This usually generates the host-keys automatically, and as you correctly state; it also sets the right permissions per defau

Re: how to view the cygwin developer archives?

At 04:34 PM 8/18/2005, you wrote: >I understand that the subscription is limited, but the archive seem to be >password protected to? > >I am I nuts? Probably not. See the FAQ entry: What Cygwin mailing lists can I join?

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Aug 18 13:31, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Aug 18 12:39, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without > smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I > can't think of a situation where you'd want

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 18 12:39, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I can't think of a situation whe

how to view the cygwin developer archives?

I understand that the subscription is limited, but the archive seem to be password protected to? I am I nuts? or is there a reason for this? -jason -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason P

Re: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

On Aug 18 15:14, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Okay, I just read DaveK's reply. I don't do much with domain users, so I > missed that. Pierre or Corinna, care to comment? I've checked in a patch to passwd, which contacts $LOGONSERVER by default. If that doesn't help, I added a new option: $ pass

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Aug 18 12:39, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > >>To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without > >>smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I > >>can't think of a situation where you'

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I can't think of a situati

Re: misbehavior of ftell on stdin?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 04:51:12AM +0900, June Kim wrote: >I run cygwin on Windows XP through rxvt. When I compile and run the >following code: > >#include > >main() >{ > printf("isatty=%d\n",isatty(fileno(stdin))); > char *s=(char *)malloc(1024+1); > char *s2=(char *)malloc(1024+1); > > fgets

misbehavior of ftell on stdin?

Hello I run cygwin on Windows XP through rxvt. When I compile and run the following code: #include main() { printf("isatty=%d\n",isatty(fileno(stdin))); char *s=(char *)malloc(1024+1); char *s2=(char *)malloc(1024+1); fgets(s,1024,stdin); free(s); printf("stdio = %ld\n", ftell(stdi

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > > > To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without smbntsec. I > > > forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I can't think of a > > > situation w

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without smbntsec. I forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I can't think of a situation where you'd want Cygwin to honor ntsec but not honor smbntsec... W

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > To me it's just not natural to think of having ntsec without smbntsec. I > forget what, if any, issues might have been involved. I can't think of a > situation where you'd want Cygwin to honor ntsec but not honor > smbntsec... When the SMB server doesn

Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one?

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Umm, again, ... > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: >

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:56:15AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because this is a share mounted using SMB. Thus, as I said before,

RE: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > Igor said: > > >How's this going to help? rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs > >/bin/sh by default. > > It might be slightly more obvious that one needs to change something > other than /etc/passwd to specify the invoked shell (for terminals th

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 07:56:15AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is > mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because > this is a share mounted using SMB. Thus, as I said before, you need to > set CYGWIN=smbnt

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Dave Korn wrote: -- You can't trust dogs to watch your food. You can if you're a vegetarian! My old dog, since dead, used to eat anything. -- Is it possible to brush your teeth without wiggling your ass? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Unexpected File Name Too Long Error With #includes

Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Rob Hatcherson Sent: 17 August 2005 20:49 All, This issue involves a "File name too long" error being generated by the C preprocessor that came along with 1.5.18-1. The compiler reports version 3.4.4, the distro file says 3.4.4-1.

Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one?

- Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 6:05 PM Subject: Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one? On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > On Tue,

RE: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

Original Message >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 18 August 2005 18:47 > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c]$ passwd >> passwd: unknown user jpierce > > Your user is missing in /etc/passwd. Try "mkpasswd -u jpierce >> > /etc/passwd". O

RE: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

Igor said: >Eh? From "tcsh --help": >-l act as a login shell, must be the only option specified > ^ >"tcsh -l" works just fine. Doh! indeed. >How's this going to help? rxvt doesn't look in /etc/passwd -- it runs >/

RE: Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky

Original Message >From: Jerrad Pierce >Sent: 18 August 2005 17:38 > /cygdrive/c should not be invisible objects in the ether, they should live > on the filesystem like a proper mounted filesystem, allowing them to > accessible with tab completion. But they don't have to be actual objec

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: typespeed-0.44-2

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Lapo Luchini wrote: > If you're not sure what version do you have you can use the following > command: > $ cygcheck -c typespeed > Cygwin Package Information > Package VersionStatus > typespeed0.4.4-2OK Or, if you just want to find out

Re: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > It's rather frustrating that there is no chsh, or worse still that the > /etc/passwd shell is ignored and one has to resort to ugly hacks to get > a desire(d/able) shell on startup. I've seen mention of a chsh here, why > not include it? > > http:/

Virtual drives should not be pies in the sky

/cygdrive/c should not be invisible objects in the ether, they should live on the filesystem like a proper mounted filesystem, allowing them to accessible with tab completion. cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

Original Message >From: Jerrad Pierce >Sent: 18 August 2005 18:09 > the /etc/passwd shell is ignored No it isn't. That's complete fiction. You need to log in, of course. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

id_rsa is 400 here and that works fine. You don't need anyone to read your private key file. Have a look at the wincvs documentation which explains how to connect ssh with wincvs. - Original Message - From: "Jörg Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 11:59 P

permission inheritance issues - setgid bit broken?

I'm running a CVS server through Cygwin on an XP SP1 machine. I recently updated the cygwin dll, all related base files (especially those pertaining to ssh and cvs), and ran mkpasswd and mkgroup afterwards. I'm trying to manage multiple repositories, and to do that I'd like newly created/updat

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: typespeed-0.44-2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Version 0.44-2 of typespeed has been uploaded. Typespeed gives your fingers' cps (total and correct), typoratio and some points to compare with your friends. If you're not sure what version do you have you can use the following command: $ cygcheck -c

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rsync-2.6.6-1

Version 2.6.6-1 of the open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer has been uploaded. If you're not sure what version do you have you can use the following command: $ cygcheck -c rsync Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus rsync2

Unavailability of Chsh / ability to change user shell

It's rather frustrating that there is no chsh, or worse still that the /etc/passwd shell is ignored and one has to resort to ugly hacks to get a desire(d/able) shell on startup. I've seen mention of a chsh here, why not include it? http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00532.html Dis

Re: Subversion 1.2.0: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL

Alexey Lyubimov wrote: Hello Max! Thank you for the "/cygdrive/c" advice. It works for SVN import, but it doesn't work for SVN co :( I've post the question about the local repositories under Win98 to Subversion forum and got the following answer from Ben Collins-Sussman: "The problem is that the

RE: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Original Message >From: Andrew DeFaria >Sent: 18 August 2005 15:56 > -- > You can't trust dogs to watch your food. You can if you're a vegetarian! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 11:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is > > > mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because > > > this is

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Aug 18 11:12, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > It appears as if your home directory is on the H drive and this is > > mounted from another system. Thus CYGWIN=ntsec does not apply because > > this is a share mounted using SMB. Thus, as I said before, you

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: > > > > > How does one set permissions on id_rsa in such a way as to make ssh > > > > happy? Nothing I have done has made chmod 700 id_rsa actually work. > > > > > > chmod 600 has always worked fine for me. > > > > [09:3

Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one?

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:11 PM > > > Subject: Re: May g++ output windows-style

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: How does one set permissions on id_rsa in such a way as to make ssh happy? Nothing I have done has made chmod 700 id_rsa actually work. chmod 600 has always worked fine for me. [09:39:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh]> ls -l id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 cbenson mkpasswd 887 A

Re: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

> > How does one set permissions on id_rsa in such a way as to make ssh > > happy? Nothing I have done has made chmod 700 id_rsa actually work. > > chmod 600 has always worked fine for me. [09:39:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.ssh]> ls -l id_rsa -rw-r--r-- 1 cbenson mkpasswd 887 Aug 17 15:54 id_rsa [09:4

Re: openssh-4.1p1-2/cygwin-1.5.18-1: write(2) misbehaving?

On Aug 17 18:22, Dave Kilzer wrote: > On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 3:58 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > ...this isn't. Are you really sure? If my fix is really helping, you > > should really have seen this message. Did you, by any chance, use > your > > patched ssh version, accidentally? It wo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libexif-0.6.12-1

Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Gerrit P Haase writes: > The EXIF Tag Parsing Library has been updated to version 0.6.12 > NEWS > > This is an update to latest upstream release. This will leave your exif-0.6.9 package non functional. libexif-0.6.12-1 bundles a cygexif-12.dll but

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.40-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.40-1, is available. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the changes since 1.39-1 are: 15-Aug-2005 diffstat 1.40 add options -l, -r and -t. add to -f option (patch, comment

RE: Unexpected File Name Too Long Error With #includes

Original Message >From: Rob Hatcherson >Sent: 17 August 2005 20:49 > All, > > This issue involves a "File name too long" error being generated by the > C preprocessor that came along with 1.5.18-1. The compiler reports > version 3.4.4, the distro file says 3.4.4-1. > I can #include this

Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working

Hello, On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > > > Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > > > >>Why is background disabled? And why ncurses instead of S-Lang? > > > > > > Because using the subshell leaves stale subshell processes and each > > > time

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libexif-0.6.12-1

> Gerrit P Haase writes: > The EXIF Tag Parsing Library has been updated to version 0.6.12 > NEWS > > This is an update to latest upstream release. This will leave your exif-0.6.9 package non functional. libexif-0.6.12-1 bundles a cygexif-12.dll but the last libexif-0.6.9

Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one?

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: - Original Message - From: "Angel Tsankov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:11 PM Subject: Re: May g++ output windows-style paths instead of cygwin-style one? > - Original Message - > From:

Re: libdv

Jason Pyeron wrote: whilst doing the configure, it claims to not find lib Xv. I thought it was part of x11? checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.4... yes checking for XvQueryAdaptors in -lXv... no configure: error: Could not find Xv Lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] libdv]$ any ideas? It is the X Window S

Re: Windows hardening and system paths

Mikkel Rostock wrote: > > whether you set the permissions and ownership of files correctly > I haven't changed permissions for any files, since usually when I install it > on Windows XP this is not necessary. > > > created the proper user accounts > The service is set to use LocalSystem account

RE: Windows hardening and system paths

Hello again, I have installed Cygwin on Windows Server 2003, with the purpose of using SSH in Windows. Cygwin is installed with the initial option (in setup) to use UNIX file format and install for All Users. I have installed the following packages: . (1.10-1) cygrunsrv: NT/W2K service initia

Re: 1.1.18: bug in strerror ?

On Aug 18 17:13, Bill Metzenthen wrote: > #include > #include > int main(int argc, char *argv[]) > { > char *s; > s = strerror(-8); > printf("strerror returned pointer %p\n", s); > printf("string is \"%s\"\n", s); > return 0; > } > > The output on my system is: > $ ./test-strerror.exe

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, David Arnstein wrote: Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash: -- 10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't

fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash: -- 10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't create pipe tracker for pid 3768, Win32

RE: Permissions on .ssh/id_rsa

Ensure that .ssh is 700 and id_rsa is 600. Otherwise ssh will not take'em ... and this is standard on all OS. Christopher Benson-Manica wrote on Wednesday, August 17, 2005 10:16 PM: > How does one set permissions on id_rsa in such a way as to > make ssh happy? Nothing I have done has made chmo