Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread ASSI
Jeremy Drake via Cygwin writes: > Well, Microsoft's LINK.EXE and LLVM's LLD have already been using these > new defaults for some time. But I was surprised how quickly my patch was > accepted/merged. That was not under dispute in any of the discussions I've seen on this topic. >

Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread Jeremy Drake via Cygwin
tery to me). Well, Microsoft's LINK.EXE and LLVM's LLD have already been using these new defaults for some time. But I was surprised how quickly my patch was accepted/merged. > I've > already nixed it for Cygwin, but I'm not yet sure what to do for the > cross compilation toolchain. While

Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread Achim Gratz
Christoph Reiter via Cygwin writes: > To clarify: I was referring to non-cygwin targets. I had assumed you > meant that by "cross compilation toolchain". Then maybe I don't understand what you meant when you said you've built MSys2 packages with ASLR on. The MingW-W64 toolchains indeed target

Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread Christoph Reiter via Cygwin
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 3:22 PM ASSI wrote: > > Christoph Reiter via Cygwin writes: > > MSYS2 builds all packages with ASLR since 6 months, so things look > > good. > > That doesn't tell you all that much since you will have to wait for some > unfavorable address space layout constellation to

Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread ASSI
Christoph Reiter via Cygwin writes: > MSYS2 builds all packages with ASLR since 6 months, so things look > good. That doesn't tell you all that much since you will have to wait for some unfavorable address space layout constellation to appear for the problem to announce itself and then you need

Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread Christoph Reiter via Cygwin
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 1:16 PM ASSI wrote: > > Christoph Reiter via Cygwin writes: > > binutils 2.36 now defaults to ASLR etc on Windows, so a cygwin compiled > > linker > > will give you: > > > >> peflags -v mydll.dll > > mydll.dll: coff(0x2026[+

Re: cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread ASSI
Christoph Reiter via Cygwin writes: > binutils 2.36 now defaults to ASLR etc on Windows, so a cygwin compiled linker > will give you: > >> peflags -v mydll.dll > mydll.dll: coff(0x2026[+executable_image,+line_nums_stripped,+bigaddr,+dll]) > pe(0x0160[+high-entropy-va,+

cygwin + binutils 2.36 + ASLR/dynamicbase defaults

2021-02-28 Thread Christoph Reiter via Cygwin
Hey, binutils 2.36 now defaults to ASLR etc on Windows, so a cygwin compiled linker will give you: > peflags -v mydll.dll mydll.dll: coff(0x2026[+executable_image,+line_nums_stripped,+bigaddr,+dll]) pe(0x0160[+high-entropy-va,+dynamicbase,+nxcompat]) Is this still problematic for cyg

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v3] Cygwin: accounts: Unify nsswitch.conf db_* defaults

2020-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 20:31, David Macek via Cygwin-patches wrote: > Signed-off-by: David Macek > --- > winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 11 +-- > winsup/doc/ntsec.xml | 21 ++--- > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) Thanks, all patches pushed. Corinna -- Corinna

[PATCH 1/3 v3] Cygwin: accounts: Unify nsswitch.conf db_* defaults

2020-04-21 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
Signed-off-by: David Macek --- winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 11 +-- winsup/doc/ntsec.xml | 21 ++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc index 57d90189d3..2d5fc488bb 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] Cygwin: accounts: Unify nsswitch.conf db_* defaults

2020-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 11:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi David, > > source patch is ok, just the docs... Patch 2 and 3 are ok, they just don't apply cleanly as long as patch 1 isn't applied. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer

Re: [PATCH 1/3 v2] Cygwin: accounts: Unify nsswitch.conf db_* defaults

2020-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
chnically* correct in terms of schemata, these *are* the default values. The target audience are users. A simple overview like the above is helpful to just look up the defaults, while the technical description below is for the more in-depth view. So from my POV this hunk should be remove from your patch. >

[PATCH 1/3 v2] Cygwin: accounts: Unify nsswitch.conf db_* defaults

2020-04-20 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
Signed-off-by: David Macek --- winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 11 +-- winsup/doc/ntsec.xml | 27 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc index 57d90189d3..2d5fc488bb 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH 1/2] cygheap_pwdgrp: Don't invent undocumented defaults in nsswitch.conf

2020-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
if (scheme[0].method == NSS_SCHEME_FALLBACK) > - { > - scheme[0].method = NSS_SCHEME_CYGWIN; > - scheme[1].method = NSS_SCHEME_DESC; > - } > } > } >break; > -- > 2.26.1.windows.1 The defaults are not un

[PATCH 1/2] cygheap_pwdgrp: Don't invent undocumented defaults in nsswitch.conf

2020-04-17 Thread David Macek via Cygwin-patches
--- winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc | 6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc index 57d90189d3..227faa4248 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/uinfo.cc @@ -831,12 +831,6 @@ cygheap_pwdgrp::nss_init_line (const char *line)

Re: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm refers to font "helvetica"

2016-06-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Rainer Blome" <rainer.bl...@gmx.de> | To: cygwin@cygwin.com | Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:22:37 PM | Subject: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm refers to font "helvetica" | | Since many months (and probably several Cygwin and X11 re

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm refers to font "helvetica"

2016-06-30 Thread Rainer Blome
ttps://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00184.html https://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?wm=wrd=extended=all=D=%2Fml%2Fcygwin%2F%25=helvetica At first glance, internet search provides only less relevant hits. It looks like the cause is in file `/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm`, in the follo

Re: OpenSSH client defaults

2015-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 17:24, Max Polk wrote: On a new 64-bit Cygwin install, no /etc/ssh* files or dirs exist, That's what /usr/bin/ssh-host-config is for. I copied over id_dsa and id_dsa.pub into my ~/.ssh, nothing else, and got the directory and file permissions right. Kept running into this failure

OpenSSH client defaults

2015-08-16 Thread Max Polk
On a new 64-bit Cygwin install, no /etc/ssh* files or dirs exist, I copied over id_dsa and id_dsa.pub into my ~/.ssh, nothing else, and got the directory and file permissions right. Kept running into this failure connecting: debug1: Skipping ssh-dss key /MYPATH/.ssh/id_dsa for not in

Re: Problem with Installation: No option to select DOS lines endings, defaults to UNIX.

2010-01-25 Thread David Heyman
Do you have any further help as to how I would achieve that? I am new to cygwin and *Nix, so any basic help is appreciated. How to I set it up that all text file will have DOS line endings? RE: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:09:10 -0800 On Jan 22 17:12, David Heyman wrote: I am having a problem with an

Re: Problem with Installation: No option to select DOS lines endings, defaults to UNIX.

2010-01-25 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/25/2010 11:51 AM, David Heyman wrote: Do you have any further help as to how I would achieve that? I am new to cygwin and *Nix, so any basic help is appreciated. How to I set it up that all text file will have DOS line endings?

Re: Problem with Installation: No option to select DOS lines endings, defaults to UNIX.

2010-01-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 22 17:12, David Heyman wrote: I am having a problem with an installation of Cygwin. When I run setup.exe, I do not get an option for choosing line endings. So, I want to select DOS ine endings but that option is never available during setup, so it ends up being UNIX line endings. How do

Problem with Installation: No option to select DOS lines endings, defaults to UNIX.

2010-01-22 Thread David Heyman
I am having a problem with an installation of Cygwin. When I run setup.exe, I do not get an option for choosing line endings. So, I want to select DOS ine endings but that option is never available during setup, so it ends up being UNIX line endings. How do I force that option during installation?

rxvt-20050409-9 or (less likely) new X clobbered my app-defaults/Rxvt

2009-01-19 Thread Henry S. Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I updated my cygwin installation, and lost my personal settings in app-defaults/Rxvt (now relocated). I presume this is a side effect of the 'addition' of some backgroundPixmap stuff to that file, per the description of rxvt-20050409-9 2008-11-15

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 21:55, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just found that, regardless of my privileges, setup-1.7 defaults to install for just me instead of all users while the standard setup defaults to all users. Why does that happen? This is very odd. Setup's is_admin

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not really, no. 1024 bytes should be big enough in most cases. Did you look for the desired size which now gets returned by the NULL call? Yes, it was in the neighborhood of 230 bytes or so. It wasn't that the buffer was too small, and I would have expected

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 02:12, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not really, no. 1024 bytes should be big enough in most cases. Did you look for the desired size which now gets returned by the NULL call? Yes, it was in the neighborhood of 230 bytes or so. It wasn't that the buffer was

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 11:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 16 02:12, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Not really, no. 1024 bytes should be big enough in most cases. Did you look for the desired size which now gets returned by the NULL call? Yes, it was in the neighborhood of

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 02:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Alignment? Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural alignment? The nonworking code was just UCHAR foo[1024] whereas the working was char buf[size], which I cribbed from grp.cc:internal_getgroups().

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Alignment? Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural alignment? The nonworking code was just UCHAR foo[1024] whereas the working was char buf[size], which I cribbed from grp.cc:internal_getgroups(). Brian

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 02:49, Brian Dessent wrote: Don't you love discovering these little pearls of joy inside the Win32 API? They're like little rays of sunshine. No wait, the opposite. Big rays of moonshine? ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I mean, token_info was an UCHAR array, so it's not aligned while the token_group information might require a 4 or 8 byte alignment which you now get by chance. Probably you'd be better off not using `char buf[size]' but PTOKEN_GROUPS groups = (PTOKEN_GROUPS)

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 02:45, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Alignment? Perhaps. Do you know if gcc aligns VLAs higher than their natural alignment? The nonworking code was just UCHAR foo[1024] whereas the working was char buf[size], which I cribbed from grp.cc:internal_getgroups().

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:49:33AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Don't you love discovering these little pearls of joy inside the Win32 API? They're like little rays of sunshine. No wait, the opposite. Windoze rulez! cgf

setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Brian, I just found that, regardless of my privileges, setup-1.7 defaults to install for just me instead of all users while the standard setup defaults to all users. Why does that happen? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co

Re: setup-1.7 defaults to Just me

2008-04-15 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I just found that, regardless of my privileges, setup-1.7 defaults to install for just me instead of all users while the standard setup defaults to all users. Why does that happen? This is very odd. Setup's is_admin() was returning 0 despite the user belonging

[Packaging error: netpbm-doc-10.33-1] CRLF's in /etc/defaults/etc/manweb.conf

2008-02-27 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
see subject -- 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/

does rxvt really read /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt as stated in cygwin documentation?

2005-11-30 Thread Elizabeth Grace Frank-Backman
In the rxvt documentation shipped with cygwin (as presented by 'man rxvt') it claims I can set system-wide defaults in a file in a file named /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt. I've been trying to do that but rxvt seems to completely ignore the contents of such a file. If, however

RE: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2005-01-13 Thread Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco
Gottwald wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:19:49PM -, Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: Maybe the setup cannot process such an amount of files like the one on a full installation at one time. setup.exe has been updated at http://cygwin.com/setup.exe so that it should no longer have this problem. cgf

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:40:03AM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Greg Schussman wrote: Hi. I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-20 Thread Brian Keener
Is this not the same hang that has been address here and in the Cygwin List and the cygwin-apps list. If so please see other threads on this same subject in the mailing list archives and the cygwin list archives and if it is then the fix (for now) as posted many times is break the install into

Re: Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
and if it is then the fix (for now) as posted many times is break the install into 2 steps: first install only the base packages and then install eveything else. If /etc/X11/app-defaults is really being created as a file instead of a directory, this is the first that I've heard of it. It would be very interesting

Full install on XP hangs at /etc/X11/abb-defaults/Bitmap

2004-12-19 Thread Greg Schussman
Hi. I've just tried to do a full install of cygwin/X on Windows XP. The install hangs at 90%, saying: Installing xorgx-x11-etc-6.8.180.1 /etc/X11/app-defaults/Bitmap When I look at the file structure, etc/X11/app-defaults is a file, not a directory. Perhaps this is the problem (how can one

SSHD installation defaults / security

2004-10-11 Thread Jochen Wezel
Hi! I've installed today the current release of cygwin (1.5.11-1) with OpenSSH package. There are 2 issues: 1. This package (or at least the ssh-host-config script) depends on cygserver, which doesn't gets installed automatically. Please can somebody change this dependency to select cygserver

Re: SSHD installation defaults / security

2004-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 13:29, Jochen Wezel wrote: Hi! I've installed today the current release of cygwin (1.5.11-1) with OpenSSH package. There are 2 issues: 1. This package (or at least the ssh-host-config script) depends on cygserver Neither the package nor ssh-host-config depend on cygserver.

Re: SSHD installation defaults / security

2004-10-11 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 13:29, Jochen Wezel wrote: Hi! I've installed today the current release of cygwin (1.5.11-1) with OpenSSH package. There are 2 issues: 1. This package (or at least the ssh-host-config script) depends on cygserver Neither

Re: SSHD installation defaults / security

2004-10-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:49:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 13:29, Jochen Wezel wrote: I've installed today the current release of cygwin (1.5.11-1) with OpenSSH package. There are 2 issues: 1. This package (or at least the

Re: SSHD installation defaults / security

2004-10-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 11 12:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 12:49:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not sure if the package should require cygrunsrv, though. The /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README file mentions that cygrunsrv is

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Please look at my message about your installation being out of date. Harold I had previously tried a setup.exe 'reinstall' and also uninstalling xserv and installing it from the easynet.be mirror, neither worked. However, last night I

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
Subject: RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc. From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Dr.D.J.Picton' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:39:42 + Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) On Thu, 2004-03-25

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:39, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Please look at my message about your installation being out of date. Harold I had previously tried a setup.exe 'reinstall' and also uninstalling xserv and installing it from the easynet.be mirror, neither worked.

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-26 Thread tulitanssi
Hi, I've had similar problems. I noticed that the problems existed due to lack of permissions. When I set permissions (on the Windows side) as Full Control to Everyone, the deletion of old installation and the re-installation of new version worked. It seems that permissions of the C:\cygwin

Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60. I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced a '\'). Then I realized that the server now

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
From: Dr.D.J.Picton dave at aps5 dot ph dot bham dot ac dot uk To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:22:01 + (GMT) Subject: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc. Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Reply-to: Dr.D.J.Picton dave at aps5 dot

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = xfree86 Model = pc105 Layout = gb Variant = (null) Options = (null) winBlockHandler - Releasing pmServerStarted winBlockHandler - pthread_mutex_unlock () returned XDM: too many retransmissions winProcEstablishConnection - Hello winProcEstablishConnection

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: XDM: too many retransmissions There is a problem with the xdmcp server. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Ago wrote: There is a problem with the xdmcp server. As I said, I ran the command as X :0, which IIRC should not require an xdmcp server. Even if it did, I have another machine which can log in to the same server fine. Regards, Ruth

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Ago wrote: There is a problem with the xdmcp server. As I said, I ran the command as X :0, which IIRC should not require an xdmcp server. Even if it did, I have another machine which can log in to the same server fine. The xserver is called

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: Would the following issue: Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60. Be why my X server doesn't start up any more? Does not appear to be. In addition to what Alexander said, if the XWin.log you sent

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Dr.D.J.Picton wrote: Earlier this week, I re-installed Cygwin from scratch. The current version of the X server is 4.3.0-60. I noticed various oddities - in particular, application default files were ignored and the keyboard map was incorrect (for example, '#' produced a '\'). Then I realized

RE: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Ruth Ivimey-Cook
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: The xserver is called XWin.exe. Maybe X is a custom script that starts the xserver with xdmcp parameters. The first lines of the log should contain the commandline parameters. Unfortunately you

Re: Pathnames for X server app-defaults etc.

2004-03-25 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Please look at my message about your installation being out of date. Harold Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 15:36, Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: The xserver is called XWin.exe. Maybe X is a custom script that starts the xserver with xdmcp

[FHS] what are the rules: /etc/defaults and system wide settings

2004-01-27 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
Could someone explain what is the difference between: /etc/defaults/ /usr/share/package/ 1) Say, a file includes a 'packagerc' default settings that are used in case $HOME/.packagerc is not set, where this file should be done? 2) If package includes a SAMPLE, what administrator must

[chris@areti.co.uk: Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host']

2003-12-31 Thread Chris Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host' References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 06:41:14PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Chris, Chris Green wrote: The problem is that when I connect using

Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host'

2003-12-31 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Chris Green wrote: I still have this autorepeat proplem though using an explicit xset command in my startup is OK as a workaround. (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0809 (0809) (--) Using preset keyboard for English (United

Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host'

2003-12-27 Thread Chris Green
: == (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = xfree86 Model = pc101 Layout = us Variant = (null) Options = (null

Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host'

2003-12-27 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Chris Green wrote: I have a odd problem with the keyboard auto-repeat setup. I have two verions of cygwin/xfree installed on two different win2k computers and the problem is the same on both. One has the latest cygwin/xfree (just downloaded) and the other has a version from a few months

Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host'

2003-12-27 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 02:31:58PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote: Chris Green wrote: auto repeat delay: 100repeat rate: 10 That auto repeat delay is much too short. XWin tries to set the repeat rate to something similar to the windows repeat rate. This is noted in the

Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host'

2003-12-26 Thread Chris Green
I have a odd problem with the keyboard auto-repeat setup. I have two verions of cygwin/xfree installed on two different win2k computers and the problem is the same on both. One has the latest cygwin/xfree (just downloaded) and the other has a version from a few months ago. I have searched

Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query host'

2003-12-26 Thread Harold L Hunt II
/XWin.log file has the following: == (--) Setting autorepeat to delay=500, rate=31 (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: 0409 (0409) (EE) No primary keyboard configured (==) Using compiletime defaults for keyboard Rules = xfree86 Model

Should --sysconfdir=/etc/defaults/etc/?

2003-10-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Current packaging instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents indicate that --sysconfdir should be set to /etc. Should this perhaps be changed to /etc/defaults/etc, with the subsequent instruction that if your package actually has anything in sysconfdir, it should conditionally

Re: Should --sysconfdir=/etc/defaults/etc/?

2003-10-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:43:31AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Current packaging instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents indicate that --sysconfdir should be set to /etc. Should this perhaps be changed to /etc/defaults/etc, with the subsequent instruction

Re: Should --sysconfdir=/etc/defaults/etc/?

2003-10-30 Thread Nicholas Wourms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:43:31AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Current packaging instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents indicate that --sysconfdir should be set to /etc. Should this perhaps be changed to /etc/defaults/etc, with the subsequent

RE: Should --sysconfdir=/etc/defaults/etc/?

2003-10-30 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:43:31AM -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Current packaging instructions at http://cygwin.com/setup.html#package_contents indicate that --sysconfdir should be set to /etc. Should this perhaps be changed to /etc/defaults/etc, with the subsequent instruction

Re: xterm.exe not reading XTerm file in app-defaults

2003-03-16 Thread Daniel Daboul
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:32:21AM -0500, Bryan Crader wrote: I think i have run in to a similiar problem with XTerm not reading the app-defaults file. I've deleted the cygwin directory and reinstalled it several times, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't load up the XTerm defaults

xterm.exe not reading XTerm file in app-defaults

2003-03-14 Thread Bryan Crader
I think i have run in to a similiar problem with XTerm not reading the app-defaults file. I've deleted the cygwin directory and reinstalled it several times, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't load up the XTerm defaults file. I then noticed that in the directory: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

xterm.exe not reading XTerm file in app-defaults

2003-03-07 Thread Bryan . S . Lakey
I have run into a problem where xterm.exe ignores the XTerm file in \usr\X11R6\lib\X11\app-defaults. I have been able to reproduce this problem on the current binaries and the current CVS tree. It has showed up on both Windows NT and XP. The tricky part is that the problem is intermittent

Re: wrong app-defaults in fresh installation

2003-02-06 Thread Frank-Michael Moser
It is the lesstif package which creates a folder /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults when /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Mwm is extracted. When there is already a link app-defaults - /etc/X11/app-defaults/ the everything is fine - otherwise later you will get the app-defaults link to /etc

wrong app-defaults in fresh installation

2003-02-05 Thread Danilo Turina
Hi, in in a fresh installation of Cygwin on my new XP PC, I noticed that xcalc (and other X apps) didn't work properly. I have had this problem some time ago: within the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults has been created a link to /etc/X11/app-defaults (where the app-defaults of many

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-05 Thread John Morrison
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: John, At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote: ... Please find for you perusal and review... (long links, will wrap!) Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets instead of forcing people to reintegrate the wrapped links?

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:32:50PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: I hope this isn't too far off-topic or excessive in its protractedness. If you'd like, I'll tease the cat a little and get some scratches on my arms. Mrrow! I do appreciate the education. Thanks. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: You don't need my permission. Just post to cygwin-apps and see what others think. Or, since you're the package maintainer and, I'm sure that you've tested this, feel free to just refresh your packages. Actually, I do have one

FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread John Morrison
/defaults/.* incver_ifdep: yes This would run automatically whenever packages are downloaded and installed in one shot. It wouldn't run if someone downloads everything and then installs piecemeal, though. I think there are lots of things that don't work when cygwin is not installed via setup. I

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
requires: ash findutils fileutils sed sh-utils autodep: etc/defaults/.* incver_ifdep: yes This would run automatically whenever packages are downloaded and installed in one shot. It wouldn't run if someone downloads everything and then installs piecemeal, though. I think there are lots

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
/ setup.hint: sdesc: Conditionally move default files to proper location category: _PostInstallLast requires: ash findutils fileutils sed sh-utils autodep: etc/defaults/.* incver_ifdep: yes This would run automatically whenever packages are downloaded and installed in one shot. It wouldn't run

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
if embedded in other text. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/update-defaults/update-defaults-1.0-.tar.bz2 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/update-defaults/defaults.html (this should be added to the 'how to create a package' instructions, or something

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:24:53PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote: Please find for you perusal and review... (long links, will wrap!) Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets instead of forcing people to reintegrate the wrapped links?

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 12:33, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:24:53PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote: Please find for you perusal and review... (long links, will wrap!) Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:58:10PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: Chris, I think it's in one of the email RFCs. I remember tracking it down once during an (ill-considered) debate on one of the Bay Area Usenet groups. I should have made note of where I found it, but I didn't. I can find a

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris, I hope this isn't too far off-topic or excessive in its protractedness. If you'd like, I'll tease the cat a little and get some scratches on my arms. Anyway, I found this in RFC 1738, Uniform Resource Locators (URL) (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt, lines 1183 through 1225):

RE: defaults

2002-12-08 Thread John Morrison
/defaults/.* incver_ifdep: yes This would run automatically whenever packages are downloaded and installed in one shot. It wouldn't run if someone downloads everything and then installs piecemeal, though. I think there are lots of things that don't work when cygwin is not installed via setup. I

Re: defaults

2002-12-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:52:53PM -, John Morrison wrote: From: Christopher Faylor The other would be to get people to use it ;) Well, that's my mental thoughts on paper(?!). Any comments? would it be worth doing? Here's how _update-info-dir does it: Thanks :) So - do you... 1)

defaults

2002-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
/[initial user files here] /etc/squid.conf.default I think creating... /etc/defaults/etc/apache/access.conf /etc/defaults/etc/apache/httpd.conf /etc/defaults/etc/apache/magic /etc/defaults/etc/apache/mime.types /etc/defaults/etc/apache/srm.conf /etc/defaults/etc/bash.bashrc /etc/defaults/etc

Re: defaults

2002-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
: _PostInstallLast requires: ash autodep: etc/defaults/.* incver_ifdep: yes This would run automatically whenever packages are downloaded and installed in one shot. It wouldn't run if someone downloads everything and then installs piecemeal, though. The script to move the files would

setup HEAD (2.278) defaults to older packages

2002-09-19 Thread Len Giambrone
On the dialogs I choose: Download Source: Download from Internet OR Install from Internet Local package dir: C:\cygdist Internet Connection: Direct Connection Download Site: ftp://archive.progeny.com Now when the Chooser window comes up, I click on Base, and I see ash:

Re: setup HEAD (2.278) defaults to older packages

2002-09-19 Thread Max Bowsher
Len Giambrone wrote: On the dialogs I choose: Download Source: Download from Internet OR Install from Internet Local package dir: C:\cygdist Internet Connection: Direct Connection Download Site: ftp://archive.progeny.com Now when the Chooser window comes up, I click on Base,

lesstif confuses app-defaults

2002-08-01 Thread Hans Werner Strube
After upgrading XFree86 and installing lesstif (so far, I had used my own lesstif), I found that the directory tree was confused: instead of a symlink /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults - /etc/X11/app-defaults, there was a directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults containing a symlink app-defaults

Re: lesstif confuses app-defaults

2002-08-01 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
-defaults - /etc/X11/app-defaults, there was a directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults containing a symlink app-defaults and a file Mwm (the latter should rather have been in /etc/X11/app-defaults). Thus no application (except mwm) could find its app-defaults file. This is obviously a bug

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