Re: How to distribuite an application built under cygwin ! HELP !

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Stefano Gallina wrote: Hello, I built an application under Cygwin called Sid by RedHat. On my pc where i built it everything works good, but when i copy all the files of it in another pc nothing works at all. I tryed to mount the directory with the file, but when i try to launch a file i

Re: How to distribuite an application built under cygwin ! HELP !

2003-02-05 Thread Elfyn McBratney
You might get a better response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] . cygwin-apps is generally for issues relating to setup.exe and cygwin packages. I've forwarded this there too ::-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk

Re: Pending packages status

2003-02-05 Thread Daniel Bößwetter
Little reminder: I haven't read anything about any of these lately (esp. TCM). My admin used to say that the best network is one with no users. Maybe this is true for software projects and testers as well ... :o) TCM-Testers welcome (anyway) Regards, Daniel Pavel Tsekov wrote: [...] 6. TCM

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: cygwin-xfree Digest 5 Feb 2003 11:06:42 -0000 Issue 998

2003-02-05 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Subject: Re[2]: Beginners questions. Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600 From: Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fred, Thanks for the reply, it eased my mind a _lot_. I think I have a fairly workable

Re: Beginners questions.

2003-02-05 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Sorry for the 2nd mailing. I forgot to change the subject line, as often happens. Subject: Re[2]: Beginners questions. Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:04:16 -0600 From: Magus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shing-Fat Fred Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Fred,

xwin parameter for xmodmap?

2003-02-05 Thread J S
Quick question. Do I always have to do 'xmodmap /etc/xmodmap/xmodmap.uk' to set my keys on XFree, or is it possible to do this from an Xwin command flag? I found the flags -xkbdb, -keyboard and -xkbdb but they don't seem to be connected to the keycode map. Thanks, JS.

overlapping windows [was Re: Some undesirable behaviour in Test77]

2003-02-05 Thread Peter W. Colovas
I am running Xwin 4.2.0-25, and I am seeing the overlapping window problem. I am running the freeware window manager multiDesk. I like the multiwindow mode, and the integrated clipboard is very nice also. -- Peter W. Colovas RNC Traffic Processing Department cPSB Development Lucent Technologies

Pre-Installation Questions.

2003-02-05 Thread Magus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, How do I know I've got all of the correct versions of the requirements: bzip2, jpeg, libpng2, libxml2, libxslt, openssl, pcre, and zlib? I installed all of Cygwin and my startx -v says it's XFree86 4.2.0(165). I'm running on

Re: Pre-Installation Questions.

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:20:46PM -0600, Magus wrote: How do I know I've got all of the correct versions of the requirements: bzip2, jpeg, libpng2, libxml2, libxslt, openssl, pcre, and zlib? I installed all of Cygwin and my startx -v says it's XFree86 4.2.0(165). I'm running on Windows 98 SE.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog sec_helper.cc secu ...

2003-02-05 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-05 13:47:47 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog sec_helper.cc security.cc Log message: * sec_helper.cc (get_sids_info): New function. * security.cc (extract_nt_dom_user):

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog include/sys/cygwin.h

2003-02-05 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-05 14:14:26 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog winsup/cygwin/include/sys: cygwin.h Log message: * include/sys/cygwin.h: Use C-style comments. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog sec_acl.cc security.cc

2003-02-05 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-05 16:15:23 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog sec_acl.cc security.cc Log message: * sec_acl.cc (setacl): Move all permission settings to beginning of loop. Set default

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog path.cc

2003-02-05 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-05 21:12:58 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog path.cc Log message: * path.cc: Change 'to_posix_p' to 'to_posix' throughout. (conv_path_list_buf_size): Accommodate

src/winsup/doc setup-net.sgml setup2.sgml

2003-02-05 Thread joshuadfranklin
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-06 02:52:14 Modified files: winsup/doc : setup-net.sgml setup2.sgml Log message: * setup-net.sgml: Add setup-maxmem section Patches:

Re: security.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Pierre, On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:38:16AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: This patch defines a new function get_sids_info that greatly reduces the number of passwd/group lookups, compared to the current approach. this new get_sids_info() function does reimplement the functionality of

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:15:05AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: is_grp_member is now unused and will disappear in the next installment. You did it ;-) Three remarks: 1) I changed a STANDARD_RIGHTS_ALL to STANDARD_RIGHTS_WRITE in setacl. Is that what you meant? I don't know what you

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:22:39AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Well, that's more generous than alloc_sd. In particular Everyone gets the right to change the modes or take ownership, whenever it gets the right to write. Oh, I see what you mean. Well... ... I've checked your patch in

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:16 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... I've checked your patch in together with a patch from me. It should now be most similar to alloc_sd(). At least I hope so... Yes, that's fine. However one question remains (in setacl and alloc_sd): what good does it do to remove DELETE

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: what good does it do to remove DELETE if unlink() does a chmod(777) anyway, which puts it back? $ touch foo $ rm foo $ touch foo $ chmod u-w foo $ rm foo rm: remove write-protected file `foo'? y $ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:37:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: what good does it do to remove DELETE if unlink() does a chmod(777) anyway, which puts it back? $ touch foo $ rm foo $ touch foo $ chmod u-w foo $ rm foo

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
Pierre or Corinna, Have either of you considered adding code to cygcheck to check for more common ntsec problems? At the very least, something along the lines of your username isn't in /etc/passwd seems like it would be worthwhile. I really would be thrilled if someone was interested in adding

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:45 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: But still, it's more correct, isn't it. That's opinion, not fact! It's also relatively convoluted code that does little, or perhaps even nothing! Surprise, surprise. I've just tried to delete a file in Explorer with the DELETE bit unset and

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:02:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:45 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: But still, it's more correct, isn't it. That's opinion, not fact! It's also relatively convoluted code that does little, or perhaps even nothing! No problem, then it's my

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 11:48 AM 2/5/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Pierre or Corinna, Have either of you considered adding code to cygcheck to check for more common ntsec problems? At the very least, something along the lines of your username isn't in /etc/passwd seems like it would be worthwhile. Chris, I

Re: sec_acl.cc

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 06:13 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: When DELETE_CHILD is off on the parent dir, a file with DELETE can be removed, a file w/o DELETE can't. OK, that's what I see with Explorer. However rm will delete it. That's why I don't think ~DELETE is such a good idea, it only affects

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:52 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Actually I would prefer that over this extra check, changing the group name to use mkpasswd. I had some hesitations too. For a while I considered changing the user name itself, but that would cause side effects. Changing the group name doesn't

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: The question of Why is my HOME C:\ could also be handled in /etc/profile. I was thinking of putting something like this in it: echo Hello this is /etc/profile echo You are a new user and I will verify your configuration. echo Delete these lines

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 12:31 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Pierre, IMHO, No entry is a better name for such a situation ([ug]id==-1). It could then be documented in the FAQ. Just my 2¢... Igor, That's something else. ls -l print 65535 when the sid cannot be mapped to a uid/gid, which is NEVER the

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:34:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:52 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Actually I would prefer that over this extra check, changing the group name to use mkpasswd. I had some hesitations too. For a while I considered changing the user name itself,

Re: ntsec odds and ends (cygcheck augmentation?)

2003-02-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 01:30 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I think that initial feedback is a *great* idea but if cygcheck can provide some kind of information that would allow diagnosing a problem, that would be useful, too. Maybe it could just dump selected fields from /etc/passwd and /etc/group. I

Implementation of sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems.

2003-02-05 Thread Vaclav Haisman
Hi, this patch implements sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems. The patch consists of two parts. The first part is detection of NT server systems, NT servers have different time quanta than workstations. Unfortunately the server detection is not perfect because GetVersionEx call with

Re: Implementation of sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems.

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:46:12PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Vaclav, On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Vaclav Haisman wrote: Hi, this patch implements sched_rr_get_interval for NT systems. The patch consists of two parts. The first part is detection of NT server systems, NT servers have different

heap_chunk_in_mb patch

2003-02-05 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I committed this patch to document heap_chunk_in_mb. 2003-02-05 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setup-net.sgml: Add setup-maxmem section * setup2.sgml: New section setup-maxmem to document heap_chunk_in_mb Index: setup-net.sgml

Re: heap_chunk_in_mb patch

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:55:22PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I committed this patch to document heap_chunk_in_mb. 2003-02-05 Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * setup-net.sgml: Add setup-maxmem section * setup2.sgml: New section setup-maxmem to document

RE: [avail for test] libtool-devel-20030121-1

2003-02-05 Thread Ralf Habacker
Yes, Ralf, I know. This is like the sixth iteration trying to solve this problem. The very first attempt did what you suggest (only it is much much more complicated than you imply; you're overlooking a lot). However, that fix was unacceptable to the automake and libtool people. Hence,

Re: How to distribuite an application built under cygwin ! HELP !

2003-02-05 Thread Elfyn McBratney
You might get a better response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] . cygwin-apps is generally for issues relating to setup.exe and cygwin packages. I've forwarded this there too ::-) Appolagies. It seems Max had already replied to this one and as per usual did a much better job of it than moi ;-)

How to distribuite an application built under Cygwin ! HELP !

2003-02-05 Thread Stefano Gallina
Hi, I built an application under Cygwin and i want to install it on another pc; so i tryed to copy the files on this pc and i tryed to use the command mount trying to mount the directory where i decided to put the files but when i launch a executable file of this built application i got the error

Re: How to distribuite an application built under Cygwin ! HELP !

2003-02-05 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi, I built an application under Cygwin and i want to install it on another pc; so i tryed to copy the files on this pc and i tryed to use the command mount trying to mount the directory where i decided to put the files but when i launch a executable file of this built application i got

Re: How to distribuite an application built under cygwin ! HELP !

2003-02-05 Thread Elfyn McBratney
You might get a better response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] . cygwin-apps is generally for issues relating to setup.exe and cygwin packages. I've forwarded this there too ::-) Regards, Elfyn McBratney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.exposure.org.uk

SSHD/

2003-02-05 Thread Marco . Rottigni
Hi all. I'm a great user/fan of this fantastic CygWin allowing the freedom of *nix on Win (in a world without fences, who needs Gates?), but I recently tried to use sshd and got some problems. Since I haven't been able to solve them by reading the tons of messages and howto I found on the

RE: SSHD/

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Can you check the contents of /var/log/sshd.log that sometimes holds the answer. I also tend to have /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config as -rw-rw-r- (although i'm not sure that would stop the sshd starting, i forget.) Maybe check your mounts are system mounts (type mount and if you get

Re: SSHD/

2003-02-05 Thread Olaf Foellinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:46:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'm a great user/fan of this fantastic CygWin allowing the freedom of *nix on Win (in a world without fences, who needs Gates?), but I recently tried to use sshd and

/usr/local/lib on library path

2003-02-05 Thread Isaque Galdino
Hi guys, I've installed the last cygwin version and it doesn't have the /usr/local/lib directory in my default search library path, as you can see in gcc -v: $ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.2-3/configure --enable-

Re: /usr/local/lib on library path

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
From the gcc info (`info gcc`), chapter Environment variables: `LIBRARY_PATH' The value of `LIBRARY_PATH' is a colon-separated list of directories, much like `PATH'. When configured as a native compiler, GCC tries the directories thus specified when searching for special

Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, Firstofall, I'm completely ignorant of anything windoze related, but currently put into a completely *IX ignorant environment, so cygwin is my only hope. I use cygwin (version of about April 2002, BTW how can I get the Cygwin version number ?) and

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith
However, just in case you need to hear it, it is true that you have to provide the sources for the cygwin DLL if you want to distribute it. There is always the MingW option via -mno-cygwin. (Perhaps stating the obvious, but just in case...) http://www.mingw.org/ Regards, Nigel Stewart

Re: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Tim Prince
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:31, Dieter Meinert wrote: but about a month ago something changed: When closing an xterm I get the following windoze error message: The instruction at 0x6106f3be referenced memory at 0x0058. The memory could not be read. Surely, this is in every

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1100, Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith wrote: However, just in case you need to hear it, it is true that you have to provide the sources for the cygwin DLL if you want to distribute it. There is always the MingW option via -mno-cygwin. (Perhaps stating the obvious,

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Jay Maynard
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:12:02AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1100, Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith wrote: However, just in case you need to hear it, it is true that you have to provide the sources for the cygwin DLL if you want to distribute it. There is

Re: gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem

2003-02-05 Thread Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith
As a follow-up to this still-unresolved issue, some traffic on the MingW list reveals the same issue using MingW, which I have also (unsuccessfully) been experimenting with: http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=9057201list=6013 http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg41422.php

Re: gcc 3.2 stringwchar_t link problem

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:23:08AM +1100, Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith wrote: Has anyone else had progress with wchar with either cygwin on mingw? I'm not aware of any activity in the cygwin arena. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam

Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Brian J. Ackermann
Hello all, I've been running cygwin now for nearly three years, and I've very recently run into a very strange little problem. When starting cygwin now, I have a new username 't-ow' (this is not what I login to win2000 as which is 'BrianA'), and my 'home' directory appears to be 'C\:' I've

RE: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old mkpasswd -l /etc/passwd and if you are in a domain mkpasswd -d -u your username /etc/passwd -Original Message- From: Brian J. Ackermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 05 February

Cygwin.bat can't open /etc

2003-02-05 Thread Stefan . Karrmann
Everytime I start cygwin.bat I get the following message: ---cut- 9 [main] bash 400 init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win32 error 1 km@HOST ~ $

RE: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Dieter Meinert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I also tried defragmentation, but both did not help :-( Regards Dieter Meinert |= -Original Message- |= From: Tim Prince [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |= Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:01

RE: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Just so you know re: finding out your cygwin version, its both in the output of cygcheck -s and available as uname -r However if you're not able to update to the latest versions (I assume from your email you have no access to the mirrors by ftp,http or rsync) then there may not be much you can

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Nick Miller
Okay... I believe that I understand the stages of compiling better than was shown in the e-mail I had previously sent. Also, I included the full list of commands I have been using in the initial e-mail that I sent to the Cygwin list. Here they are below... gcc -c fun.c gcc -c main.c The above

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, my first suggestion is to tackle this problem the same way you would on Linux. How do you find the library or object file which contains a symbol that you want when you're on Linux? I'll give you a hint. You need to use 'nm'. 'grep' can also be handy. I get the impression that you think

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Nick, Well, this certainly is better than what you had before. Although it still doesn't provide the exact error messages, it provides enough information to make a guess as to why your link doesn't work. It's possible that you're referring to some symbols in a library that's missing from your

Re: Re: Problems with find

2003-02-05 Thread fj_br_
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 31.01.03 16:47:10: For the archives: No. This is not going to do what the OP wants at all. In fact, if there's more than one file named 1000.*, it won't even work (find will produce a find: paths must precede expression error). For details, info find and info

where is the cygjpeg6b.dll

2003-02-05 Thread Jannette Frandsen
Dear Sir, I am trying to run the drawing packing XFIG on XP via CYGWIN. I have done this for many years now but not on XP. XFIG complains when I try to save/export a drawing. I am prompted that cygjpeg6b.dll is missing. I have been unable to find this file on the internet. Do you know where I

Bug in path.cc (conv_path_list_buf_size)

2003-02-05 Thread Daniel Steinmann
The above mentioned function returns sometimes a too small buffer size. This problem was found when using 'cygpath --path --windows' Here is a test scenario to reproduce the problem (on my machine): $ mount C:\programs\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\programs\cygwin\lib on

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Nick Miller wrote: Then, I already have... io_functions.o Where does this come from? Then, I am using this command below to do the linking... gcc -o main fun.o io_functions.o main.o When I do this in Cygwin, I am getting errors along the lines of reference to undefined *thing*... I

Re: where is the cygjpeg6b.dll

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Jannette Frandsen wrote: Dear Sir, I am trying to run the drawing packing XFIG on XP via CYGWIN. I have done this for many years now but not on XP. XFIG complains when I try to save/export a drawing. I am prompted that cygjpeg6b.dll is missing. I have been unable to find this file on the

Re: Re: Problems with find

2003-02-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
Carlo, At 08:35 2003-02-05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 31.01.03 16:47:10: For the archives: No. This is not going to do what the OP wants at all. In fact, if there's more than one file named 1000.*, it won't even work (find will produce a find: paths must precede

RE: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Brian J. Ackermann
Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution) Thanks a bunch... I am still wondering why this didn't 'go away' after a complete uninstall, and consequent reinstall? Brian Vince says: sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with mv /etc/passwd

Re: SSHD/

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ssh-host-config -y chmod: changing permissions of `/var/empty': Permission denied Worth investigating this. Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3. However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'. Does such an account exist?

RE: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Because even a complete uninstall won't remove user-created files (such as /etc/passwd), and a reinstall won't recreate them if they are already present. Igor On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote: Yep, that did the trick (the mkpasswd -d -u solution) Thanks a bunch... I am

Re: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Brian J. Ackermann
Understandable, but in my desperation I removed the entire C:\cygwin root directory, no to mention a number of regustry entries... So, one might think I was thourough... Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Because even a complete uninstall won't remove user-created files (such as /etc/passwd), and a

Re: socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) failing: errno 112, Address already in use

2003-02-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Max, any new insights here? Corinna On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:16:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 05:00:04PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:15:52PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: I'm seeing rsync failiures due to socketpair(AF_UNIX,

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Jay Maynard
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:32:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:48:03PM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:31:43PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Remember that linking against some version of libcygwin.a doesn't mean you have to keep to the

Re: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Oops, sorry, should have read your message more carefully... /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh simply does not create domain users. I'm sure this fact is documented somewhere, but I can't find it at the moment. Igor On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Brian J. Ackermann wrote: Understandable, but in my

Re: socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fd) failing: errno 112, Address already in use

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Max, any new insights here? Still waiting for some that elusive quantity free time :-) I've been reproducing the failiure inside the rsync testsuite, and its turned out to be less than trivial to graft strace into it. I might try extracting one of the tests from the

Re: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Brian J. Ackermann
Good to know, Although I still find it curious that it had been working until last week sometime, when I updated... Thanks much!! Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Oops, sorry, should have read your message more carefully... /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh simply does not create domain users. I'm sure

Re: where is the cygjpeg6b.dll

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Please keep replies on the mailing list. Jannette Frandsen wrote: -Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] http://cygwin.com/packages/ Many thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately when I go the jpeg category there is no file to download. I only see

RE: where is the cygjpeg6b.dll

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi, if you have a look at http://www.cygwin.com/packages you will find that its in the package jpeg which is in the catagory libs. First thanks for your quick reply. The problem is when I click on jpeg. There is no file to download. I only see a list? Regards, -Jannette

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith
I would suggest that, if it is desired to promote the development of applications on the Cygwin platform, serious consideration be made to making it as simple as possible to install only those portions of Cygwin that the application requires. This means just the necessary DLLs, without all of

Re: SSHD/

2003-02-05 Thread Marco . Rottigni
From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05/02/2003 18.04.07 Subject: Re: SSHD/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ssh-host-config -y chmod: changing permissions of `/var/empty': Permission denied Worth investigating this. $ ls -l /var total 0 drwxr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Feb 4 17:02

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith wrote: I would suggest that, if it is desired to promote the development of applications on the Cygwin platform, serious consideration be made to making it as simple as possible to install only those portions of Cygwin that the application requires. This means just

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 04:31:15AM +1100, Nigel Stewart Fiona Smith wrote: I would suggest that, if it is desired to promote the development of applications on the Cygwin platform, serious consideration be made to making it as simple as possible to install only those portions of Cygwin that the

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Jay Maynard
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 12:55:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:18:22AM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: It may be intended to be upward compatible, but that's not our experience. Ok. I'm not going to start scouring random other mailing lists for cygwin bug reports so

RE: cygrunsrv documentation

2003-02-05 Thread Val Schmidt
Max you're coming to my rescue all over the place. Thanks again. -Val -Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:55 PM To: Val Schmidt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygrunsrv documentation Val Schmidt wrote: I have

Re: /usr/local/lib on library path

2003-02-05 Thread Isaque Galdino
From the gcc info (`info gcc`), chapter Environment variabl es: `LIBRARY_PATH' The value of `LIBRARY_PATH' is a colon- separated list of That's ok, but shouldn't it be already been configured by cygwin environment? Isaque Galdino Free as a penguim - maybe The Beatles were trying to say

Re: sshd can't do publickey auth with .ssh linked to /cygdrive/c/rest/of/path

2003-02-05 Thread Marc Bejarano
i'm still not subscribed to this list so i would be grateful if i could be left on the cc: line of this thread. igor: thanks for you help. i appreciate you working through this with me :) At 12:03 PM 2/4/2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Marc Bejarano wrote: At 04:26 PM

Re: sshd can't do publickey auth with .ssh linked to /cygdrive/c/rest/of/path

2003-02-05 Thread Max Bowsher
Marc Bejarano wrote: i'm still not subscribed to this list so i would be grateful if i could be left on the cc: line of this thread. new error: Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory / perms: drwxrwxr-x+ 10 Administ Administ0 Feb 4 13:58 // ok.

Bug found - 'cygpath' v1.25/Build Date Jan 23, 2003...

2003-02-05 Thread Brian McColgan
Hope I am doing this 'bug submission' correclty, I noticed many other issues relating to 'cygpath' so this _may_ be an overlap. Running the following cygpath command (for the aforementioned build) gives me a 'core dump': 'cygpath --path --windows

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
Cutting through the noise: 1) In an open source, volunteer project there are no guarantees that anything will be fixed. We do the best we can given our interests and time. However, you should be reporting cygwin bugs to the cygwin mailing list if you want the possibility of getting

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Franz Wolfhagen
One of the things that your users have been bitten of with the newer cygwin1.dll is that they impose a stronger authentication mechanism (ntsec is on per default). This is often brought up here by users that are have upgraded their version. Please (re)consider supporting a cygwin package via the

Re: Bug in path.cc (conv_path_list_buf_size)

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:40:21PM +0100, Daniel Steinmann wrote: The above mentioned function returns sometimes a too small buffer size. This problem was found when using 'cygpath --path --windows' I see following solutions: a) Increase the slop. b) Make the size estimation more precise by

Re: $CDPATH bug in zsh

2003-02-05 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: zsh doesn't evaluate the root directory ('/') if it is in $CDPATH. I tested this under SuSE 8.1 and it works as supposed, so this seems to be a Cygwin-zsh bug. Have a look at the example[1] ('**' is my prompt). Ok, I considder this a bug in zsh

[PATCH] TERM=cygwin missing in the output of dircolors from fileutils-4.1-1

2003-02-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, This is primarily addressed to Chris Faylor (as the fileutils maintainer). I've submitted a patch that includes TERM=cygwin in the dircolors output back in October 2002 (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00918.html). This seems to have been slipped through the cracks. I'm aware that we

Re: Bug in path.cc (conv_path_list_buf_size)

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:02:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 05:40:21PM +0100, Daniel Steinmann wrote: The above mentioned function returns sometimes a too small buffer size. This problem was found when using 'cygpath --path --windows' I see following solutions: a)

Re: Packaging software built with cygwin

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 05:55, Jay Maynard wrote: A setup.ini with just the cygwin DLL in it seems pretty simple. True. OTOH, when setup.exe changes, the format of that file is subject to change (see Igor's warning in the message where he first suggested that). I can insulate myself from

Re: [PATCH] TERM=cygwin missing in the output of dircolors from fileutils-4.1-1

2003-02-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 04:38:26PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: This is primarily addressed to Chris Faylor (as the fileutils maintainer). I've submitted a patch that includes TERM=cygwin in the dircolors output back in October 2002 (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00918.html). This

Re: 1.3.20

2003-02-05 Thread Jonathan Larmour
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:07:37AM +, Jonathan Larmour wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Give me a friggin' break. /path/to/source/configure; make. That's how it works. If it doesn't build for some reason, that's a bug. Given that I'm producing snapshots from the source base on a regular

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Nick Miller
Okay everyone... thank you for your help and for your feedback. Allow me to attempt to clarify a little bit more... 1) I am new to GCC. I am new to C. I had worked until Java until recently. 2) I used the SAME io_functions.o file in both Cygwin and Linux. This file was generated by a CS

username problem

2003-02-05 Thread Ali . Naddaf
Hello everyone. Before I describe the problem, I wanted to ask to include my email address in the CC field if possible since I am not on the list. I have some problems which might be related. I just installed the latest cygwin on my Win2K machine. When I open a shell, my prompt is

RE: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Chris January
Okay everyone... thank you for your help and for your feedback. Allow me to attempt to clarify a little bit more... 1) I am new to GCC. I am new to C. I had worked until Java until recently. 2) I used the SAME io_functions.o file in both Cygwin and Linux. This file was generated by a

Re: Why won't my files link?

2003-02-05 Thread Elfyn McBratney
io_functions.o(.text+0x13): In function 'read_array': : undefined reference to 'fopen' io_functions.o(.text+0x4f): In function 'read_array': :undefined reference to 'printf' O.K. Was this file, io_functions.o , compiled on Linux by any chance? Do you have the source (io_functions.c) lying

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