Can Not Get The Login Screen

2005-11-28 Thread Abbas Kayvan
Hi, I am trying to connect to my Linux machine from home. I can start the X window, then I do X -query myipaddress, but all I get is a grey screen with a "X" shaped cursor, I am VPNing to work, and runnig on XP. I have looked for a solution all over the net to no avail, in fact the info provided

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Tropiano
Larry - On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:30:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Understood. From what you described, there wasn't anything obviously > wrong with the install process used. There's a chance that the installation > media itself is bad somehow, though I do think it's pretty remote th

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Debbie Tropiano wrote: Larry - On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many of th

Re: Cygwin connection closing running on Server 2003

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 16:17, Jack Romano wrote: > Thank you both for your suggestions. I tried running user-ssh-config but > the SSH1 RSA creation fails with the message "chmod: changing > permissions of '/home/jromano': Permission denied". I continue through You need to change ownership as Administrator f

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-28 Thread lin q
Thanks, I now use -c blowfish and -C in the command, I can see that some files are transfered over 500KB and some even over 900KB/s. A dumb question, could I somehow remove the encryption at all? This is an internal network, so security is not my concern. I did a google, can not find any clue

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2005-11-28 Thread Thomas Berger
Woah Gerrit, WDYDWMLF (what did you do with my line feeds)? o.k. since the libxml maintainer choose to forward my struggles to the list, here comes the readable form: I'm using xsltproc from .bat-Files under cmd/command and so far had no problems with Backslashes for paths on the command line (at

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygrunsrv-1.12-1

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated cygrunsrv to version 1.12-1. This version adds a new functionality, curtesy Christian Franke: -x, --pidfile Optional path for .pid file written by application after fork(). Default is that the application must not fork(). With this option, it is possible to run daemons not

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 (and 3 subpackages)

2005-11-28 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have recently been added to the Cygwin net release: +++ gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-4 +++ gdk-pixbuf-devel-0.22.0-4 +++ gdk-pixbuf-doc-0.22.0-4 +++ libgnomecanvaspixbuf-0.22.0-4 gdk-pixbuf is an image loader library for gtk+-1.2 and, wit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GNOME 2.10 libraries (total 10 packages)

2005-11-28 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have recently been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** GConf2-2.10.1-1 *** gnome-vfs2-2.10.1-1 +++ libart-lgpl2-2.3.17-1 (Renamed) *** libbonobo2-2.10.1-1 - --- libbonobo20-2.10.1-1 (Obsoleted) *** libbonobo2-devel-2.10.1-1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: gnome-libs-1.4.2-3 (and 9 subpackages)

2005-11-28 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have recently been added to the Cygwin net release: +++ gnome-libs-1.4.2-3 +++ gnome-libs-devel-1.4.2-3 +++ gnome-libs-doc-1.4.2-3 +++ libart_lgpl-1.4.2-3 +++ libgnome-1.4.2-3 +++ libgnomesupport-1.4.2-3 +++ libgnomeui-1.4.2-3 +

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Tropiano
Larry - On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:15:38PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: > >It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then > >install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many > >of the critical file f

Re: Cygwin connection closing running on Server 2003

2005-11-28 Thread Jack Romano
Thank you both for your suggestions. I tried running user-ssh-config but the SSH1 RSA creation fails with the message "chmod: changing permissions of '/home/jromano': Permission denied". I continue through the steps and there are no other error messages, but i am still experiencing the same pro

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-28 Thread Jim Drash
File transfers in scp are encrypted and encryption is CPU intensive. Either your local workstation or your server might not be able to encrypt file transfer stream at the same speed, your connection is able to transfer it. You may try to choose different encryption algorithm on Login dialog. Blowfi

Re: How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-28 Thread René Berber
lin q wrote: > Hi, > I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp > to copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed is never over > 180KB/s. The 2 machines are on the same giga bit sub network. > > I wonder if I can do something to improve the speed? Perhaps e

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread René Berber
Debbie Tropiano wrote: [snip] > It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and > then install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator > on many of the critical file folders. We did not receive an uninstall > executable to undo the damage, so all we can do i

enscript-1.6.4-1

2005-11-28 Thread Charles Wilson
...has a packaging error. While the postinstall script does this: if [ ! -e /etc/enscript.cfg ] ; then cp /etc/enscript.cfg.default /etc/enscript.cfg fi the package actually contains /etc/enscript.cfg and does NOT contain /etc/enscript.cfg.default Thus, it unconditionally overwri

Re: Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/28/2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: It was reported to me that "If you install Windows XP svc pack 2 and then install Cygwin, it will lock out permissions to the Administrator on many of the critical file folders. We did not receive an uninstall executable to undo the damage, so all we can do

How to improve scp speed?

2005-11-28 Thread lin q
Hi, I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp to copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed is never over 180KB/s. The 2 machines are on the same giga bit sub network. I wonder if I can do something to improve the speed? Thanks. _

Cygwin install changing permissions

2005-11-28 Thread Debbie Tropiano
Hello - We have Cygwin installed on several XP systems which we've done via a CD built from the download (the installed systems are on a private network and thus cannot be loaded from the internet). However on the latest install we noted a problem. It was reported to me that "If you install Windo

Re: Suggest cygrunsrv extension: --pidfile option (patch included)

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 23 22:34, Christian Franke wrote: > http://franke.dvrdns.org/cygwin/cygrunsrv-pidfile-patch-1.txt I finally applied your patch to the repository with just minor changes to the formatting. I've also uploaded a new cygrunsrv version 1.12-1 which contains your patch. Thanks, Corinna -- Co

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-28 Thread René Berber
Corinna Vinschen wrote: [snip] > No wonder, it's still based on crappy tests. The attached configure > script is a good example of making bold assumptions which match a couple > of systems but the programmer didn't bother to verify the correctness of > the code. > > Note: If the code works on mos

Re: /usr/bin/install problem or what is the coreutils deal?

2005-11-28 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Eric schrieb: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > According to Gerrit P. Haase on 11/25/2005 12:34 PM: >> Hello, >> >> recently upgraded another box to the latest greates of all the stuff: >> >> $ cygcheck -c coreutils >> Cygwin Package Information >> Package Versio

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 09:55, Sam Steingold wrote: > > * Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-28 12:51:09 +0100]: > > > > Many mmap tests make such invalid assumptions about the memory. > > This is not just "tests" and the assumptions are not necessarily > "invalid". The appended test fails on cygwin

Re: faked inode numbers on network drives

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 15:53, Martin Koeppe wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >>And I ask why such an assumption is necessary at all. > >>In the Windows API there is a function GetVolumeInformation > >>which is supported from Win95 on and reports FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS > >>when ino

xsltproc from libxstl-1.1.15-1

2005-11-28 Thread Thomas Berger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1Hi Gerrit,I'm using xsltproc from .bat-Files under cmd/command and so far had no problems with Backslashes for paths on the command line (at least when the last component is divided by a proper slash from the actual file name).>>> Usi

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hi, Sam Steingold, le Mon 28 Nov 2005 09:55:52 -0500, a écrit : > | #define my_shift 24 > | #define my_low 1 > | #ifdef FOR_SUN4_29 > | #define my_high 31 > | #define my_size 32768 /* hope that 32768 is a multiple of the page size */ > | /* i*32 KB for i=1..31 gives a total of 15.5 MB, which i

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-28 Thread Sam Steingold
> * Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-28 12:51:09 +0100]: > > Many mmap tests make such invalid assumptions about the memory. This is not just "tests" and the assumptions are not necessarily "invalid". The appended test fails on cygwin but passes on just about every unix (linux, *bsd

Re: faked inode numbers on network drives

2005-11-28 Thread Martin Koeppe
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: And I ask why such an assumption is necessary at all. In the Windows API there is a function GetVolumeInformation which is supported from Win95 on and reports FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS when inode numbers are valid. Nope. Object IDs are not inode nu

RE: INSTALLATION HANGING **SOLVED**

2005-11-28 Thread Silvio Bandeira
> Ok, that's interesting. What does it show at the end of /var/log/setup.log? >And what happens if you run a shell and execute "bash -x >/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh"? > >[ Note that in order for that test to work, you first need to edit >/etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh, and remove th

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Taylor
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 6:30 AM: The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. Yo

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: curl-7.15.0-4, curl-devel-7.15.0-4, libcurl3-7.15.0-4

2005-11-28 Thread Brian Dessent
I've updated the curl cURL packages to 7.15.0-4. This package contains a small workaround to prevent hangs at the end of the transfer. Prior to 2005-11-13, the Cygwin DLL returned POLLHUP for poll() on closed connection, which caused curl to go into an endless loop. cURL is a command line tool

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 6:30 AM: > > The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is > deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it > makes sense to be moving to the newer one.. You're right th

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Taylor
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM: I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` <-- should this be being changed to HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon?) Th

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM: > > I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as > well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` <-- should this be being changed to > HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon?) There is no diffe

Re: /usr/bin/install problem or what is the coreutils deal?

2005-11-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gerrit P. Haase on 11/25/2005 12:34 PM: > Hello, > > recently upgraded another box to the latest greates of all the stuff: > > $ cygcheck -c coreutils > Cygwin Package Information > Package VersionStatus > coreutils

Re: Query: issue with cygwin-curl 7.15.0 - cannot close some connections

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 04:04, Brian Dessent wrote: > The reason that it apparently did not realize that the connection had > been terminated was that the Cygwin poll() was returning 1 with the > POLLHUP bit set in 'revents'. But curl was not aware of this bit and > only looked for POLLIN, so it got confused,

Re: Query: issue with cygwin-curl 7.15.0 - cannot close some connections

2005-11-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Soh Kam Yung wrote: > Brian, Please send all questions about using the Cygwin curl packages to the cygwin (at) cygwin.com mailing list, which I follow. Please do not email me personally. > I have been using curl under cygwin and noticed an issue with closing > of connections with some websites

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 28 12:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 27 16:47, Ren? Berber wrote: > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > > [snip] > > > Memmapping to malloced memory could very well be forbidden. Why would > > > one want to do this? > > > > As I said before, the test is one that comes with gcc-4.0.2, it fails

Re: mmap() on 64K aligned address fails

2005-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 16:47, Ren? Berber wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: > [snip] > > Memmapping to malloced memory could very well be forbidden. Why would > > one want to do this? > > As I said before, the test is one that comes with gcc-4.0.2, it fails only on > Windows as far as I know. To answer your que

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Taylor
René Berber wrote: surendar jeyadev wrote: [snip] I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes ago, Norton popped up a message saying 'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS server'.