group names in /etc/passwd, ssh root login more

Hallo, the cygwin user guide says its a feature that groups can be the owner of files. can somebody tell me why this is so when you can set the group attributes accordingly? also in linux you have a group root and a user root. if both occur in your /etc/passwd file sshd won't allow root to login.

mod_php4

Hi, there have been some problems installing mod_php4 with apache, using setup.exe. i had the problem previously and here is how you can install php anyways: what happens is that setup.exe installs mod_php4, returns and nothing. php doesn't work. what i did was: extract the libphp4.dll from

mod_auth_ntsec

Hi, I just mentioned the problem with mod_php4, the same applies to mod_auth_ntsec. However this time I extracted the mod_auth_ntsec.dll directly to /lib/apache/new and re-run: $ ./apache-mod_auth_ntsec.sh.done [activating module `ntsec_auth' in /etc/apache/httpd.conf] cp mod_auth_ntsec.dll

need help in compilation

Hi, I get the following error message whin compiling anacron for cygwin: -- gcc -c -DSPOOLDIR=\/var/spool/anacron\ -DRELEASE=\2.3\ -DANACRONTAB=\/etc/anacrontab\ -Wall -pedantic -O2 readtab.c -o readtab.o readtab.c:32:21: obstack.h: No such file or directory readtab.c:33:1: warning: C++ style

compiling for cygwin in generall; compiling anacron;

Hi, I got two questions by my heart: First, if I successfully compiled a linux program for cygwin and it is running as expected, should I try to publish it so that it is available via the cygwin setup tool? I don't have much experience with this though (see 2nd question) but I'd like to help

Re[2]: compiling clicq, problems with c++

Hallo Gareth, Monday, November 18, 2002, 10:12:52 AM, you wrote: GP if you look at the actual contents of those files - they include each other GP the standard method of including socket.h is GP #define sys/socket.h ok, changed that. Thanks. GP first point - a given line of output doesnt cause

upgrading - apache fails

Hi, I've been upgrading to cygwin 1.3.14-1. After the update the apache web server won't start up again. The /var/log/apache/error_log contains: [Thu Oct 31 22:24:51 2002] [notice] Apache/1.3.24 (Cygwin) configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Oct 31 22:24:51 2002] [notice] Accept mutex:

Re[2]: crontab: no changes made

Hallo Igor, Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote: IP The correct name for the variable is VISUAL, although EDITOR also works. I found it again. man 1 crontab export EDITOR=emacs Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e. /tmp/cron.1900) However, when I close

Re[2]: crontab: no changes made

Hallo, I found the solution to the emacs problem discussed below: Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote: IP On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Uwe Mayer wrote: When I start crontab -e it won't run, because I haven't vi installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE

Re[2]: ssmtp and cron

Hallo Elfyn, Sunday, October 6, 2002, 9:49:53 PM, you wrote: E I forgot to mention this bit of important info... E Unless you config file has the domain that you use for email (hadiko.de) in E the rewriteDomain directive it will not work correctly. Also if you use E other names other than the

invalid user?

Hallo, I installed sshd as 'cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a -D -d' - which worked. The server starts (cygrunsrv -S sshd) properly. Then I tried to connect: ssh localhost -l Uwe Mayer Where Uwe Mayer is my regular W2k login. The following is what was printed to the /var/log/sshd.log

crontab: no changes made

Hi, When I start crontab -e it won't run, because I haven't vi installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set export EDITOR=emacs Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e.

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

Dear Sir, Due to the high frequency of spam e-mail received from *@*.ru this domain has been denied e-mail access to this account. Your message has been deleted from the server. Yours Uwe Mayer - This e-mail has been created automatically Date: Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 Time: 11

Re[2]: file permissions for /cygdrive/c

/xp:1000:544:Uwe Mayer,U-M111\Uwe Mayer,S-1-5-21-1801674531-1606980848-1708537768-1000:/home/Uwe Mayer:/bin/bash But changeing the primary group in /etc/passwd won't do anything under windows. The problem is that files created under windows have the group None... Windows won't care for /etc/passwd

Re: cygwin service

Hallo Christoffer, Friday, October 4, 2002, 1:58:28 PM, you wrote: CW I can see the sshd runs as 'service' even when I close the CW shell window, thats nice. I wanted to do the same with apache, CW I did: '/sbin/cygrunsrv -I apache -p /usr/sbin/apachectl -a start' CW However, when I do:

Re[4]: file permissions for /cygdrive/c

Hallo Vince, Friday, October 4, 2002, 12:48:58 PM, you wrote: VH ahh i missread, sorry i shouldnt try and answer questions before my 3rd VH coffee. VH changing ownership to another administrator shouldnt make any difference, VH but i would have though not giving everyone at least read access to

file permissions for /cygdrive/c

Hi, I've got some questions regarding file permissions with cygwin under w2k (ntsec turned on). I want to use 2k together with cygwin while allowing other people to login via ssh onto my computer and would like to get the obvious loopholes closed. As a member of the administrators group all