On Nov 2 12:20, Brian Dessent wrote:
I'm not sure if the SYSTEM user
has mounts issue would come up enough to warrant checking for it,
because I can't really think of how that would come to happen.
I don't think this is really still an issue. AFAIR, the mounts in the
HKU/S-1-5-18 area were
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements.
Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being
wrong.
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
cgf
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements.
Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being
wrong.
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements.
Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like /etc/services being
wrong
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements.
Ideally
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck improvements.
Ideally, cygcheck should report on things like
Christopher Faylor wrote:
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
cgf
It should search the browser's webcache/history log, and if it doesn't find
that the user's been to view the FAQ lately, it forces it open in a
full-screen window!
cheers,
DaveK
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
Hey, I had another idea. It should definitely scan /etc/postinstall
and
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
Hey, I had another idea. It should definitely
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:50:28PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:37:25PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Seeing Igor's analysis of corrupt /etc/services symlinks reminded me
that I wanted to start a discussion on cygcheck
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Fair enough. I guess what I was saying is that the addition of the two
things I mentioned would make that part of cygcheck output all the more
valuable. :-)
Oh yes, totally agree! But that's a slightly longer-term project :)
BTW, one thing that's been suggested
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:31:46PM -, Dave Korn wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
Fair enough. I guess what I was saying is that the addition of the two
things I mentioned would make that part of cygcheck output all the more
valuable. :-)
Oh yes, totally agree! But that's a slightly
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Christopher
Christopher Faylor wrote:
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of
$PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value of
$PATH. That way, you can tell if Cygwin is being added to the
Dave Korn wrote:
if lots of
packages register check-callbacks with cygcheck, we're going to end up
(implicitly) making it dependent on a whole lot of other stuff being there and
working.
You could create a new directory, say /etc/cygcheck[.d]. Any package
that wants cygcheck to run a test
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:20:22PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
What other kind of common things could cygcheck be testing for?
I was thinking that instead of just reporting the current value of
$PATH, it would be handy to also report on the Windows/Registry value of
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:23:39PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
Here's a scary one: How about a cygcheck --report option which queries
for a from email address and sends the report (as an attachment) to
the cygwin mailing list?
Sounds like a separate program to me. As flea is to mutt, so
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