Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 7:27 AM Subject: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help) On Jul 14 17:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 14 07:21, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'd argue it's also becoming time for a replacement for the Local System

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:12:10AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: To: cygwin-appsXX Ahem.

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:38:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 10:12, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: cron-config already has a pretty much self contained function to create such a privileged usr, it would be easy to extend it (if needed). It['s adapted from Corinna's ssh stuff, and it

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 10:40, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:38:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 10:12, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: cron-config already has a pretty much self contained function to create such a privileged usr, it would be easy to extend it (if needed).

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 10:40, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are there bad reasons for not just calling this account root? A while back I thought this is a good idea, but not anymore. The account is a service-starter account only. Nothing else should be done with

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 10:40, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are there bad reasons for not just calling this account root? A while back I thought this is a good idea, but not anymore. The account is a

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:43:17AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 10:40, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are there bad reasons for not just calling this account root? A while back I thought this is a

Re: Cygwin service account (Re: inetd help)

2006-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 14:05, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:43:17AM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 16:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 17 10:40, Christopher Faylor wrote: Are there bad reasons for not just calling this

X server version 6.8.99.901

2006-07-17 Thread David Picton
I've updated the X software to 6.8.99.901 and noticed two problems with the new X server: 1. CNTL-ALT-BKSP doesn't terminate the server cleanly. There's no confirmation dialogue and /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 is not deleted. However, the new server does terminate properly if I right-click the X icon

ImageMagick 6.0.4 no longer executes with package xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-17 Thread Andy Rushton
Hi all, I have found a problem with ImageMagick 6.0.4 running with xorg-x11-bin-dlls 6.8.99.901-1 - and I've found a temporary fix. Problem: After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, which updated the X11 packages amongst many other things, the 'convert' program stopped working. It

fatal error with X Server 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-17 Thread Kenneth Nellis
Since upgrading X Server from 6.8.2.0-4 to 6.8.99.901-1, I get a Windows alert box after opening a second xterm window using the startxwin.bat script, which apparently used to be able to detect whether X Server was already running or not so as not to attempt to start multiple instances. This

RE: fatal error with X Server 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-17 Thread Kenneth Nellis
Apologies for the long lines in my previous message. Haven't figured out yet how to control Outlook. (Suggestions welcome.) --Ken Nellis -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: fatal error with X Server 6.8.99.901-1

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:20:09AM -0400, Kenneth Nellis wrote: Apologies for the long lines in my previous message. Haven't figured out yet how to control Outlook. (Suggestions welcome.) But suggestions do not go here. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Problem with starting X server

2006-07-17 Thread Stephen A.Goulet
Jim, It this is the root of your problem: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress This is what finally worked for me. Start cygwin and do a df, if this show the mount points, /usr, /usr/bin/, and /usr/lib.

Re: Problem with starting X server

2006-07-17 Thread Andy Rushton
Stephen A.Goulet wrote: This is what finally worked for me. Start cygwin and do a df, if this show the mount points, /usr, /usr/bin/, and /usr/lib. Then umount /usr and close the cygwin window. Now do the reinstall of the fonts as documented in the FAQ. I agree, but wanted to add to

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygheap.h exceptions.c ...

2006-07-17 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-17 19:30:30 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygheap.h exceptions.cc fhandler.h fhandler_fifo.cc fhandler_floppy.cc

winsup/testsuite ChangeLog Makefile.in

2006-07-17 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-18 03:24:08 Modified files: testsuite : ChangeLog Makefile.in Log message: * Makefile.in: Simplify a little. Patches:

allow read into untouched noreserve mappings

2006-07-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The idea is to have features working for most cases and then to get it working gradually better. Well, in that spirit then, the attached patch allows read and varients to use untouched noreserve mappings as buffers. If this is accepted, I'll

Re: allow read into untouched noreserve mappings

2006-07-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 17 12:25, Brian Ford wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The idea is to have features working for most cases and then to get it working gradually better. Well, in that spirit then, the attached patch allows read and varients to use untouched noreserve mappings as

Re: allow read into untouched noreserve mappings

2006-07-17 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sorry but... ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER? When I debugged this I got ERROR_NOACCESS. You are correct. The case fall through combined with the earlier EISDIR error confused me. That, and the fact that the patch actually worked ;-). I would rather

cadaver does nothing

2006-07-17 Thread Raye Raskin
Hi. I just downloaded cadaver to my cygwin setup. The man page is there, but cadaver itself does nothing. I won't give me help if I use -h or --help. It won't tell me its version number if I use -V or --version. And it won't connect to a site that I know is operational and reachable. The

Re: cadaver does nothing

2006-07-17 Thread Demmer, Thomas
Looks like the problem with objdump: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-07/msg00337.html Try a snapshot, worked for me. Ciao Tom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Dave
Stephen Grant Brown wrote: snip The output of the program (which is dselect) I am having trouble with is in the attached file. How do I find out which file has read-only access? I am making the assumption that if a program is in the cygwin distribution, the cygwin community would like to

Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

2006-07-17 Thread Andy Rushton
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:37PM +1200, Mark Hadfield wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:01:27AM +0100, Andy Rushton wrote: Hi all, I have found a problem with ImageMagick and a temporary fix. After a recent update to my

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.43-1

2006-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.43-1, is available, replacing 1.42-2 as current (1.40-1 remains prev, so that you can still backrev cygwin and use an older diffstat). NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the changes since

Re: Failure to run image magic in the latest release

2006-07-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Andy Rushton wrote: Posting this report here with a work-around that fixes it gives those who use ImageMagick an insight into the problem as the response from Mark shows. If the post was useful, it was relevant. Thanks a lots Andy for the work-around. I posted (to the x-cygwin list) the

Compilation with cygwin

2006-07-17 Thread Guenther Sohler
Hallo, is there a possibility to compile GTK Applications in CYGWIN in such a way, that you can start them from the Windows Desktop, instead just from the CYGWIN Bash ? How could such a program automatically find all required dll's ? Is there a DEFINE Available for

Re: Updated [experimental]: tar-1.15.90-1

2006-07-17 Thread Angelo Graziosi
According to Eric Blake : In other words, to use this, you MUST install a recent cygwin snapshot (20060329 or later), or wait for cygwin-1.5.20 to be released. Cygwin 1.5.20 is out but tar-1.15.90-1 is yet in test section. Are there special reasons for this to happen? Cheers,

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will be removed from the distribution in a few days. cgf --

Re: Updated [experimental]: tar-1.15.90-1

2006-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
Angelo Graziosi Angelo.Graziosi at roma1.infn.it writes: According to Eric Blake : [Quit commandeering threads. Because you changed the subject line of an unrelated thread, rather than replying to the correct email or starting a new thread, I had a hard time finding the thread containing

RE: scp timeout on dual-core processor

2006-07-17 Thread Kurt T Stam
I have the same exact problem as Steve: I have a (what appears to be) similar problem also with a dual core (Centrino Duo) machine. My problem manifests when I attempt to paste in an X window (i.e. click the middle mouse button). I immediately (100% reproducible) get Disconnecting: Timeout,

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi Dave and all the other people on this list, - Original Message - From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Grant Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Stephen. First off, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks.

Re: Updated [experimental]: tar-1.15.90-1

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:21:09PM +, Eric Blake wrote: If I may be permitted to make a hint - the cygwin donations page can be a great motivator. If someone were to be willing to shift my focus via a donation, I would be willing to make their highest priority issue become my highest

RE: cadaver does nothing

2006-07-17 Thread Raye Raskin
Actually, it turned out to be a missing cygexpat-0.dll -- part of the expat package. Apparently the proper dependency is not in the Cygwin installer config file for cadaver. Score one point for Microsoft. I would not have fixed this problem if I hadn't tried to run the program in a dos

Re: Compilation with cygwin

2006-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Guenther Sohler wrote: Hallo, is there a possibility to compile GTK Applications in CYGWIN in such a way, that you can start them from the Windows Desktop, instead just from the CYGWIN Bash ? Any program compiled with Cygwin can be invoked directly outside of bash. Some may give better

Re: scp timeout on dual-core processor

2006-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Kurt T Stam wrote: I have the same exact problem as Steve: I have a (what appears to be) similar problem also with a dual core (Centrino Duo) machine. My problem manifests when I attempt to paste in an X window (i.e. click the middle mouse button). I immediately (100% reproducible) get

RE: scp timeout on dual-core processor

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Baldwin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 4:54 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp timeout on dual-core processor Kurt T Stam wrote: I have the same exact problem as Steve: I have a

Re: scp timeout on dual-core processor

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:06:07AM +1000, Steve Baldwin wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 4:54 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp timeout on dual-core processor Kurt T

RE: scp timeout on dual-core processor

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Baldwin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2006 5:33 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scp timeout on dual-core processor On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 05:06:07AM +1000, Steve Baldwin wrote:

XEmacs under Cygwin prevents other applications from starting up.

2006-07-17 Thread Raj
Hello, XEmacs under Cygwin seems to interfere with Acrobat reader startup and occasionally with Firefox as well. With XEmacs running, clicking on a link which opens a pdf document, prevents Acrobat reader from starting up. The Acrobat reader splash screen shows up but the document window

RE: scp timeout on dual-core processor

2006-07-17 Thread Harig, Mark
-Original Message- I have the same exact problem as Steve: I have a (what appears to be) similar problem also with a dual core (Centrino Duo) machine. My problem manifests when I attempt to paste in an X window (i.e. click the middle mouse button). I immediately (100%

Possible bug in pgrep (procps)

2006-07-17 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
pgrep from procps-3.2.6-1 when asking for an exact match with arguments seems to demand an extra space after the argument. See the following sequence. No space after the f on the commandline $ emacs f [1] 2072 without extra space $ pgrep -x -f emacs f with extra space after f $ pgrep -x -f

Re: Possible bug in pgrep (procps)

2006-07-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bengt-Arne Fjellner, le Tue 18 Jul 2006 00:00:46 +0200, a écrit : pgrep from procps-3.2.6-1 when asking for an exact match with arguments seems to demand an extra space after the argument. See the following sequence. No space after the f on the commandline $ emacs f [1] 2072 without

Re: Possible bug in pgrep (procps)

2006-07-17 Thread mwoehlke
Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: pgrep from procps-3.2.6-1 when asking for an exact match with arguments seems to demand an extra space after the argument. See the following sequence. No space after the f on the commandline $ emacs f [1] 2072 without extra space $ pgrep -x -f emacs f with extra

RE: Possible bug in pgrep (procps)

2006-07-17 Thread Matthew Woehlke
(http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE) mwoehlke skrev: Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: pgrep from procps-3.2.6-1 when asking for an exact match with arguments seems to demand an extra space after the argument. See the following sequence. No space after the f on the commandline $ emacs f [1] 2072

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it will be removed from the distribution

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. Ok. Unless someone steps forward who is willing to

Re: dselect - formally Re: Running as root

2006-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian distribution. Ok. Unless someone

Bad Link in Cygwin Mirrors Page

2006-07-17 Thread L Anderson
On the Cygwin mirrors page http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html;, under North America: Palo Alto, the link locations are as follows: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: gvim-7.0.035-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** gvim-7.0.035-1 gvim provides a GTK2 GUI interface to the vim text editor. It requires vim-7.0.x for the common runtime files. Yaakov *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ***

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pcre-6.6-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libpcre0-6.6-1 *** pcre-6.6-1 *** pcre-devel-6.6-1 *** pcre-doc-6.6-1 The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: netpbm-10.33-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** netpbm-10.33-1 Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 separate tools in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygport-0.2.2-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** cygport-0.2.2-1 cygport is a new way to create Cygwin packages. More information is contained in the README, and a tutorial at the URL below.

Re: cygwin1.dll conflict

2006-07-17 Thread Dale King
On 7/17/06, Dale King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 07 July 2006 01:32, Dale King wrote: I'm supposedly having a problem with an old version of cygwin1.dll, but I find no old version. And when I run cygwin setup it tell me that I have an old version of cygwin1.dll in

Updated: diffstat-1.43-1

2006-07-17 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.43-1, is available, replacing 1.42-2 as current (1.40-1 remains prev, so that you can still backrev cygwin and use an older diffstat). NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the changes since

New Package: gvim-7.0.035-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** gvim-7.0.035-1 gvim provides a GTK2 GUI interface to the vim text editor. It requires vim-7.0.x for the common runtime files. Yaakov *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO ***

Updated: netpbm-10.33-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** netpbm-10.33-1 Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 separate tools in

Updated: pcre-6.6-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: *** libpcre0-6.6-1 *** pcre-6.6-1 *** pcre-devel-6.6-1 *** pcre-doc-6.6-1 The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same

Updated: cygport-0.2.2-1

2006-07-17 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following package has been updated in the Cygwin net release: *** cygport-0.2.2-1 cygport is a new way to create Cygwin packages. More information is contained in the README, and a tutorial at the URL below.