Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These user rights are by default only given to SYSTEM regardless > of the NT version. XP differs only by requiring less of these > user rights in one of the needed system calls. Ok, but I can't seem to add specific rights to users with this version

KDE under Cygwin?

2002-03-06 Thread Regnirps
Is anyone using KDE, KOffice, (especially) KDevelop with Cygwin? I assume it would need the qt library. Is this all workable? I have read that the new KDevelop and debugger can be configured for cross development. Charlie Springer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se

2002-03-06 Thread S . L .
> Thanks for replying! > > >Is /usr/bin in your current path? > > yes, everything´s fine > > >Did you select the sh-utils/grep/sed/et > >al. packages when you installed cygwin? > > also yes. this in fact was my first idea, but sed itself seems to work... > > >...it looks like it needs pos

Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Lauren
Thanks for replying! >Is /usr/bin in your current path? yes, everything´s fine >Did you select the sh-utils/grep/sed/et >al. packages when you installed cygwin? also yes. this in fact was my first idea, but sed itself seems to work... >...it looks like it needs postgres.exe in the same di

Re: stackdump about C language

2002-03-06 Thread Paul McFerrin
There can be multiple causes for this behavior depending upon the implementation of the C compiler. In all cases, you are over-writing an area of storage allocated for the contents of the *a pointer. This area may be in a initialized data segment (usually read-only), in a data segment, or even t

Re: xdvi runtime error

2002-03-06 Thread Nicolae Santean
I believe that the 128 megabyte realloc failure is a consequence (memory leak - maybe) of the other errors: "xdvi: fcntl F_SETOWN: Invalid argument", "setsid: Not owner" I am getting these errors first, and then I watch the memory being slowly flooded. By no means xdvi should go to 128Mb. I sus

Re: stackdump about C language

2002-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hello, [ No Cygwin-specific issues here. ] The compiler and / or linker are allowed to place those string literals in read-only storage, and apparently gcc under Cygwin does just that. If you modify your program like this: -==- #include char *strsave(char *); int main() { // char *a =

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 19:09 Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > - Original Message - > From: "Mi

Re: stackdump about C language

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:09 PM Subject: stackdump about C language > Hi, gentleman, could you do me a favour? > I had some trouble in running a C program. You are trying to overwrite a static memory area

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:35:07PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: > >It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk

stackdump about C language

2002-03-06 Thread taoism
Hi, gentleman, could you do me a favour? I had some trouble in running a C program. [C source code is] - from here #include int main() { char *a = "I am a teacher"; char *b = "You are a student"; printf("string_a = %s\nstring_b = %s\n", a, b); copy_string(a, b); printf("str

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:35:07PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: >It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc/group.lnk to >the test in desktop.cc. Would you accept it? I'm a bit hesitant >because there are lots of other files and directories that might also >be affected. Personall

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert, >It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc/group.lnk to the > test in desktop.cc. Would you accept it? I'm a bit hesitant because there > are lots of other files and directories that might

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael A Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 16:29 Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > Michael A Chase wrote: > > > The test has been in the code for quite a while, I tweaked the test so > > it w

Re: xdvi runtime error

2002-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Nicolae, A 128 megabyte realloc fails? No kidding?? There is a Cygwin-wide allocation limit that defaults, if I recall correctly, to 128 megabytes. There is a registry entry that overrides this default called HEAP_CHUNK_IN_MB. Here are the details, excerpted from an email by "Scott A. Hill"

xdvi runtime error

2002-03-06 Thread Nicolae Santean
Hello, I have recently compiled xdvi22.53 under cygwin1.3.9, but I am having problems running it. The runtime error is: xdvi: fcntl F_SETOWN: Invalid argument - mktexpk --mfmode cx --bdpi 300 --mag 'magstep(0.5)' --dpi 329 cmsl10 '>&3' setsid: Not owner xdvi: fcntl F_SETOWN: Invalid argument xd

RE: /cygdrive wierdness

2002-03-06 Thread Ross Smith
> From: Chris January [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Using Cygwin DLL 1.3.10. Likewise. (On Win2K.) > 1. Close all Cygwin programs > 2. Open bash > 3. Type: cd /cygdrive > 4. Type ls > I get a listing of C:\ instead > 5. Type bash > 6. Type: cd /cygdrive > 7. Type ls > I get a listing of availa

Re: cd dot dot dot slash dot weirdness

2002-03-06 Thread Chris January
> bash-2.05a$ pwd > /russ/scripts > bash-2.05a$ cd .../. > bash-2.05a$ pwd > /russ/scripts/... > ... is this a bug do I have a virus? I've posted a patch to cygwin-patches that corrects this. Regards Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se

2002-03-06 Thread Shelby Cain
"Tom Lauren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].. > So, this is what initdb offered me: > __ > $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data/ > basename: not found > grep: not found > grep: not found > sed: not found > The program '

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 13:46 Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > Michael A Chase wrote: > > > I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm

/cygdrive wierdness

2002-03-06 Thread Chris January
Using Cygwin DLL 1.3.10. 1. Close all Cygwin programs 2. Open bash 3. Type: cd /cygdrive 4. Type ls I get a listing of C:\ instead 5. Type bash 6. Type: cd /cygdrive 7. Type ls I get a listing of available drives as I should. Can someone else confirm this is a problem? I have a patch to fix it i

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
-- === "Andrew DeFaria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Rick Rankin wrote: > > > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* domain, and "mkpasswd > > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I definitely > > w

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* > > domain, and "mkpasswd > > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, > > so I definitely > > wouldn't want to run blindly run it with the -d

Re: Any existing routine for CPU-id on Cygwin?

2002-03-06 Thread Soren Andersen
On 5 Mar 2002 at 22:34, Tim Prince wrote: > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 17:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was just wondering if there is any existing code that's perhaps part of > > the Cygwin "code base" or else known to some readers, that will allow > > querying of the CPU type?

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Peter Buckley wrote: > >> Regardless, to me it's still would be a large security hole if all one >> needs to do is: >> >> $ echo "+" > ~/.rhosts >> >> to be able to abuse rsh to do something under somebody else's user ID >> is it not? > > rsh is inherently insecure. Attempts to make it secure

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Heribert Dahms
Is there an easy and fast way to get the count of domain members only? Setup (or an postinstall script) could then check against a sensible limit (100 or 1000?) and warn and ask: "There are 31415 domain members! I'll not load them unless you go to lunch now..." 8-) Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Printing locally

2002-03-06 Thread Heribert Dahms
Hi Karl, does your file have a formfeed at end? If not, you may create a helper file and try cat file ff > prn Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > -Original Message- > From: Karl M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 00:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

What is done to my computer during setup? basic configuration stuff

2002-03-06 Thread Adam Clark
hey, have installed the cygwin distrobution on a network drive and I am using xfree86/cygwin to connect to xdm on a few machines around our network. I have a batch file which sets up paths then executes XWin XWin sits there for about 4 seconds then dies wit no output or error messages. b

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Peter Buckley
> Regardless, to me it's still would be a large security hole if all one > needs to do is: > > $ echo "+" > ~/.rhosts > > to be able to abuse rsh to do something under somebody else's user ID is > it not? rsh is inherently insecure. Attempts to make it secure are not worthwhile (in fact, t

Re: Screen color question

2002-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Barry, I think I misunderstood you last time. There are indeed color-changing sequences in the prompt you've got (it originates in /etc/profile, by the way). But when I use that prompt, the color change is restricted to the prompt itself. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 13:49 2002-0

Re: Screen color question

2002-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Barry, When you confirmed the dialog, it asked you whether to apply the change only to the current window or to all subsequent uses of the same shortcut that created that window. If you did not start the shell via a shortcut, then the second alternative is based on subsequent windows with the

cd dot dot dot slash dot weirdness

2002-03-06 Thread Russell Cecala
Hi, I don't know if this is a bug but you all are probably aware of this strange behavior. bash-2.05a$ ls -al total 18 drwxr-xr-x2 user9 None 4096 Mar 6 12:14 . drwxr-xr-x 27 user9 None12288 Mar 1 15:16 .. -rwxr-xr-x1 user9 None 208 Jan 2 17:10 ftp.bash -rwx

Re: Scheduled processes

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Jeff Utz wrote: > "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >>At 03:01 PM 3/6/2002, Jeff Utz wrote: >> >>>I am running cygwin under WinNT and Win2000. Is there any way to call >>> > cygwin > >>>and start a particular p

Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Barry Goldstein
At 04:44 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: >Aha. Sounds like it might be a problem with the space in the name. I am >not sure how to work around that with mkpasswd. But you could probably >do a "mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd" (I didn't realize you weren't in a >domain environment). > >You ca

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:12:11AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>You imply that somebody has the ability to change user context! If so >>then who is that somebody (USER)? >> > > I have to tell that each week (day?) again, apparently. It's SYSTEM. Sorry, I saw th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-5

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of CRON in cygwin/contrib to 3.0.1-5. This version adds a postinstall script which creates the /var/cron and /var/cron/tabs directories on installation. This should lower the chance that cron creates these directories with wrong mode and ownership. ===

Re: Screen color question

2002-03-06 Thread Barry Goldstein
I should have thought of that, but having done it, it doesn't stick -- the next prompt restores the dim light-green-on-black. So I think it's my prompt that is 'insisting' on the dimness. The prompt strings are PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h \\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ ' PS2='

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Michael A Chase wrote: > I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it > only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist. When did this come about? Because every time I reinstall Cygwin it does indeed run mkpasswd -l. I wonder, since our /etc

Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Peter Buckley
Aha. Sounds like it might be a problem with the space in the name. I am not sure how to work around that with mkpasswd. But you could probably do a "mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd" (I didn't realize you weren't in a domain environment). You can also try Corinna's suggestion about "mkpasswd -u "Bar

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: > The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will > not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if > people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install. I see mkpass -l run each and every time Cygwin is inst

Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Barry Goldstein
At 04:17 PM 3/6/2002 -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: >Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >> >/etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in >fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe? > >It actually should just sit there for a lon

Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Peter Buckley wrote: > Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >> > /etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in > fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe? > > It actually should just

Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Peter Buckley
Hmm... I thought that when cygwin was installed, it did "mkpasswd -l >> /etc/passwd", so there was at least something in /etc/passwd. Do you in fact have a file in c:\cygwin\bin named mkpasswd.exe? It actually should just sit there for a long time when you do "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd". It i

Re: Updated: cron-3.0.1-5

2002-03-06 Thread postmaster
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Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Barry Goldstein
Sorry, but I'm a unix-newbie: My /etc/passwd file is in fact a 0-byte file. But when I type what you suggest mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd it just sits there for a long time (and so I kill it with Ctrl-C. And 'man mkpasswd' says it knows not what I ask. ??? BG = At 03:4

Re: Screen color question

2002-03-06 Thread Randall R Schulz
Barry, If you're using the Windows console, open the properties dialog, either of the shortcut you use to start your Cygwin shell or of an existing window (use the window menu) and view the "Colors" pane. There you can control the foreground (text) and background colors for plain text (i.e., w

Re: Screen color question

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:39 PM 3/6/2002, Barry Goldstein wrote: >I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came "out of >the box" (on an NT4 box). > >As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black >background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all >sorts

Re: Scheduled processes

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff Utz
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 03:01 PM 3/6/2002, Jeff Utz wrote: > >I am running cygwin under WinNT and Win2000. Is there any way to call cygwin > >and start a particular process? > > > >What I wish to do is

Re: Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Peter Buckley
I would guess it gets the "I have no name!" thing because you need to do a "mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd". I don't think your domain username is in the passwd file, so it doesn't know who you are. HTH, Peter -- 1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)- Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but

Prompt question

2002-03-06 Thread Barry Goldstein
In the bash shell, my prompt seems to be the two lines below I have no name!@INUK ~ $ INUK is the machine name (NT4), and '~' is my home directory, but where does the thing get the 'I have no name' thing and how can I change it? Thanks. BG == Barry Goldstein Pequod

Screen color question

2002-03-06 Thread Barry Goldstein
I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came "out of the box" (on an NT4 box). As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all sorts of stuff about setting colors in vim or emacs, but

Re: FW: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:32:24PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > Sorry, click on the wrong button and send a private mail to Corinna... :-) Unlikely since I'm using the mailing list address in my "From:" field. Just "reply" to my mailings and even Outlook sends only one message to the list.

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:12:11AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > You imply that somebody has the ability to change user context! If so > then who is that somebody (USER)? I have to tell that each week (day?) again, apparently. It's SYSTEM. > It's my understanding that the only thing(s) that u

Re: Scheduled processes

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:01 PM 3/6/2002, Jeff Utz wrote: >I am running cygwin under WinNT and Win2000. Is there any way to call cygwin >and start a particular process? > >What I wish to do is check out stuff from a cvs repository on a regular >basis to update the directories on my computer. If you want to do this

Failed: Installing Postgresql under Cygwin on win98se

2002-03-06 Thread Tom Lauren
Hi! Don´t know if it´s right here but I wasn´t succesful at news.postgresql yet :( ... Ok, main thing is: I downloaded&installed postgresql 7.2 (it seemed to be the new official package back then) recently and all of the stuff it needs. ipc-daemon & works (it did nothing foolish so far). Then

Scheduled processes

2002-03-06 Thread Jeff Utz
I am running cygwin under WinNT and Win2000. Is there any way to call cygwin and start a particular process? What I wish to do is check out stuff from a cvs repository on a regular basis to update the directories on my computer. Thanks. Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51 >Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > >> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Rick Rankin
I've never seen setup run mkpasswd or mkgroup when /etc/passwd or /etc/group exist, so I believe you're right, Chris, in saying that this is just a first time setup issue. Personally, I just didn't want to see a first time user around here get stuck with a 30 minute install process because setup b

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:25 Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > The code in setup.exe seem

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Michael A Chase
- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51 Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > >Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to a

Re: Blind carbon copy not blind (mutt ssmtp)

2002-03-06 Thread A. Alper AtIcI
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:28:39PM -, Bob Heckel wrote: > I've noticed unusual behavior using Cygwin Add the following to your .muttrc set write_bcc=no -- Key ID = 0xDB34E51C Key fingerprint = 77AD E027 BF3A 0382 DD70 B053 DC07 4F55 DB34 E51C msg04976/pgp0.pgp Description: PG

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2002-03-06 Thread Len Conrad
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Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >>>Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd >>>-d" in such a case would be useful. >> >>This is just an

Re: Blind carbon copy not blind (mutt ssmtp)

2002-03-06 Thread Jason Tishler
Bob, On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:28:39PM -, Bob Heckel wrote: > Couldn't find any answers in the Cygwin > mailing list archives. Has anyone else > experienced this? Thanks. AFAICT, I do not observe this behavior. Note that I use personal a build of mutt 1.3.24i instead of the standard Cyg

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > No, it didn't work. `who' isn't the right way to get your current > user name, try `id'. Basically, login is doing the following: > > execlp(pwd->pw_shell, tbuf, 0); > fprintf(stderr, "login: no shell: "); > perror(pwd->pw_shell); > exit(0); > > So, if it co

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > >>Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd >>-d" in such a case would be useful. >> > > This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT, > /etc/

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Rick Rankin wrote: > Depends on how you define "harmless". We have a *huge* domain, and "mkpasswd > -d" can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I definitely > wouldn't want to run blindly run it with the -d option here. If it were > implemented, it should be an option, at leas

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:52:20AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on >>stand alone systems. > >Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if >an error is returned issue a warning that i

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It's not harmless. mkpasswd -d will result in an error message on > stand alone systems. Seems to me that mkpasswd could be made smart enough to try -d and if an error is returned issue a warning that it's switching to -l mode. > It's actually the other way around

Re: gnome binary for cywin

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:58 PM 3/6/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > >I'm looking for a gnome Win2k (Windows 2000) binary, that will run ontop of cygwin. >Has anyone got this working? People are working on this. Check the email list archives for details. Larry Hall [EMAIL PR

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:29 PM 3/6/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > >At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > >> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corin

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK > Partners, Inc) wrote: > >At 12:02 PM 3/6/200

gnome binary for cywin

2002-03-06 Thread egon.phillips
Hi, I'm looking for a gnome Win2k (Windows 2000) binary, that will run ontop of cygwin. Has anyone got this working? Development Envirionment Windows 2000 SP2 Cygwin 1.3.10 PostgreSQL 7.2 Visual C++ 6.0 EE SP5 Thanx Egon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bu

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > >Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Ob

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running "mkpasswd >-d" in such a case would be useful. This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT, /etc/passwd should not be produced if there is a

FW: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
Sorry, click on the wrong button and send a private mail to Corinna... :-) -Original Message- From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:15 PM To: 'Corinna Vinschen' Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > -Original Message- > From: Corinn

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:22 PM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Robert Collins'; Stephano Mariani; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > > > > --- Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Blind carbon copy not blind (mutt ssmtp)

2002-03-06 Thread Bob Heckel
I've noticed unusual behavior using Cygwin mutt-1.2.5i-6 and ssmtp-2.38.7-3 that doesn't occur in standard Unix mutt/sendmail usage. If I Bcc: someone, the entire Bcc: line appears buried in the headers of the recipient's email (and of course the blind recipients are not hidden, just made ha

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100,

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > >> As this is quite a simple patch, I proc

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > >> As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and > >> mkpasswd.c

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >> As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and >> mkpasswd.c: > >I have two problems with this patch: > >- No ChangeLog entry. >-

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've wrote about special user rights needed... > > Ok, so while using login instead of su is possible in some cases (it > seems windows xp is not one of them), easiest is using ss

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -Original Message- > On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and > /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise, > ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP use

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and > mkpasswd.c: I have two problems with this patch: - No ChangeLog entry. - Do we have a signed copyright assignment from you? Corinna -- Corinna V

Re: Having problems running services under Win2K ( inetd/sshd/... )?

2002-03-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:05 PM 3/5/2002, John Tynefield wrote: >Over many frustrating hours I have been trying to get inetd ( or sshd ) to >work with my Win2K cygwin setup to enable civilized remote access. It >worked great on one of my local systems, but every time I tried to start the >service on a very similarly

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:32 PM > To: 'Corinna Vinschen' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > On the same ground, it would be ni

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:43:00PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > Ouch. Ok, just set the gid to 513 in /etc/group or set your > > primary group to 10513 in /etc/passwd and try again. > > Creating the group 513 "by hand" works perfectly, but nonetheless shouldn't > "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" create

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No. Did you read that article carefully? Aparrently not, I'm sorry. > I've wrote about special user rights needed... Ok, so while using login instead of su is possible in some cases (it seems windows xp is not one of them), easiest is using ssh.

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
> Ouch. Ok, just set the gid to 513 in /etc/group or set your > primary group to 10513 in /etc/passwd and try again. Creating the group 513 "by hand" works perfectly, but nonetheless shouldn't "mkpasswd" and "mkgroup" create automatically an "usable" system? If I use "-d" on both I get the corre

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:51:18AM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > Is that NT4 server a DC? If so, try if `mkgroup -d' returns > > the "Domaenenbenutzer" ("Domain Users") group. > > > > I just tried `mkgroup -l' on a german NT4 Wkst and I got the group 513: > > I get group "Domain Users - 10513"

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
> Is that NT4 server a DC? If so, try if `mkgroup -d' returns > the "Domaenenbenutzer" ("Domain Users") group. > > I just tried `mkgroup -l' on a german NT4 Wkst and I got the group 513: I get group "Domain Users - 10513" in "mkgroup -d" but no group 513 in "mkgroup -l"... (yes, my PC is a 2k PD

Re: 1.3.10 and setgid

2002-03-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
Sanjay wrote: > I was reading your message about about the 1.3.10 and setgid. I am > also getting the same error. Were you able to solve the problem, > please let me know. I am getting the following problem I didn't solve it, I just re-installed 1.3.9 as I need ssh now and have not an idea how t

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:20:48AM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hmm, so much for google. You adviced to use login before, > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg00337.html > > have things changed since then? No. Did you read that article carefully? I've wrote about special use

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ? But it worked anyway, so it seems. This is on a fresh, curr cygwin >> install. > > No, it didn't work. > > The problem you're seeing results from your inability to change > the user context. You can't do it, your account doesn't have the > perm

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and > /etc/group, setup.exe pass the "-d" flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup; otherwise, > ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP users that > happen

Re: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Nice to hear, so the patch could be simply to add the proper "-d" arg in the > mkpasswd/mkgroup call in the yet-to-be-written install-script; sorry, but I > can't do this either :-) :) :) Lol! Yes, well if I writ

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:53 AM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; Stephano Mariani; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > > > Sorry for not providing a patch, but it should be fairly > straight

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