Re: Setting $HOME for Windows

2004-12-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
George wrote: I remember reading some time ago a vague admonition against manually setting $HOME as a Windows environment variable. I can't seem to find the message, so if someone can elaborate on why this is A Bad Thing, I'd appreciate it. This is for those of us pursuing the Holy Grail of

Re: ls -F // doesn't work

2004-12-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mark Paulus wrote: When I do an ls -F, I get expected results: $ ls -F / bin/ cygwin.bat* home/ run.groff tmp1/ xfer/ cron_diagnose.sh* cygwin.ico* lib/ sbin/ usr/ cygdeb/ etc/ mountem* tmp/ var/ However, when I do ls -F //, then I get bad results: $ ls -F // ls: //bin: No such file or directory

Re: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
kicked off the internet. He's been hacking and cracking with my account since 1997. Bobby This guy is sick. Jus t listen to the silly rant he sent to my inbox. I hope he gets better professional help and that he'll go away. Andrew DeFaria wrote: Bobby McNulty wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Bobby McNulty

Re: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: And you think that sending his personal email to the list is the way to effect change? Not only is it bad netiquette, it doesn't portray you in a particularly positive light. I already told him not to email me. At this point it harrassment in my book. Bobby has been

Re: My details

2004-12-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Crowley Barrett Karaba wrote: AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CROWLEY, BARRETT KARABA An e-mail you have just sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being held until you complete a simple one-time-only registration. To verify you are a real person, just click on the link below:

Re: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:07:41PM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: why isn't /dev a more usual directory? cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while cat /dev/clipboard works. No one has

Re: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: Sorry. I should have read further. Apparently the OP just wants *something* in /dev even if it is not what should be there. The question of should is subjective I would think. I worry sometimes, since /dev is special and a pseudo directory that what I'm doing my break

Re: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: * Andrew DeFaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-02 22:07:41 -0800]: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: why isn't /dev a more usual directory? cd /dev, ls /dev

Re: ls /dev/*

2004-11-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: why isn't /dev a more usual directory? cd /dev, ls /dev all fail, while cat /dev/clipboard works. No one has implemented the special handling required for /dev which would enable things like opendir/readdir

Re: startup problem // no longer works // profile not called

2004-10-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Alex Vinokur wrote: David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] All of these posters are complaining about the same thing. Not at all a bad idea to read the bash man page, the helps, everything. bash-2.05b$ man bash Warning: cannot open configuration file

Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?

2004-10-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Xavier Nodet wrote: Hi all, I tried to look into the problem that cron does not gracefully wake up from hibernation[1]. Minor nit but you cannot awake from hibernation! Once hibernated the PC turns off! One must physically press the power button! I suspect you mean standby not hibernation. --

Re: Top 10 Reasons Republicans Support Kerry

2004-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Republican Bill Shireman's Top 10 Reasons Republicans Support John Kerry I'm a lifelong Republican, though I vote for the best candidate - or the least objectionable one. Four years ago, I hoped George Bush would be a moderate, fiscally conservative leader, firm but

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: chere-0.3-1 (gold star)

2004-10-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: 12 October 2004 15:12 On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 04:51:30AM -0500, Dave wrote: chere is a new Cygwin package to manage the infamous Shell Here

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

2004-10-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: How many people have heard The Two Rules of Customer Service? 1. The customer is always right. The customer is indeed *NOT* always right but the trick is usually to make them *think* there always right. 2. When the customer is wrong, refer to rule #1. Everybody. How

Re: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:51:01PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to run an idea past the list. I want to write a shell script to test if Cygwin has been installed on the machine running the shell script. I do this by running a shell (from a network

Re: SSH Environment

2004-09-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
David E. Meier wrote: Hi, I try the running ssh client with only the required dll's from a .net application and without a full cygwin installation. Basically that works fine. However, I have a problem regarding the known_hosts file: It does not get written anywhere and therefore asks to add

Re: Excessive CPU load (cygrunsrv.exe, tail.exe, etc)

2004-09-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Steve B wrote: When I am playing the freely available standalone version of Return to Castle Wolfenstein called Enemy Territory and I have various cygwin programs such as apache's httpd, tail.exe, cygrunsrv.exe, bash.exe, or whatnot running, ET will lock up and when I bring

Re: bash, filename completion and spaces in path components [was RE: SSH Environment]

2004-09-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: I use the same trick myself because a lot of apps can't handle a filename with a space in it, not even if it gets correctly escaped and passed through to argv, but I've never known bash filename completion to have a problem: it escapes all the spaces and other metachars

Re: File permission problem

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 24 02:36, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 24 01:43, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it is an NTFS on a network drive. Is it related? Yes. You probably lack the SeRestorePrivilege right on your login token, or for some strange

Re: File permission problem

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:42:05AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm trying to understand why one would want ntsec on by default and smbntsec off by default? smbntsec doesn't work reliably given the variability of smb servers. Still seems strange to me. If off it doesn't

Re: File permission problem

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 24 07:51, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:42:05AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm trying to understand why one would want ntsec on by default and smbntsec off by default? smbntsec doesn't work reliably given

Re: [OT] PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: Calm down, calm down, there's no need to panic, cgf isn't stalled! If you consider that a pause is a kind of break, well, you don't need to close a br tag, do you? So you don't need to close a pause either I guess the only way to be sure is to pass cgf through the proper

Re: [OT] PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:14:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: _Now_ is it on-topic? :-) I have to point out that I'm getting spam to some new accounts which have only been used to send email to mailing lists which munge addresses with the me at cgf dot cx method, so this

Re: [OT] PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Generally speaking, no measure is completely spam-proof, except complete erasure of e-mail addresses (which will conflict with any other legitimate use of @ on the list). Spamming is more or less an industry now, and one can imagine an industrious spammer (or spam

Re: Same code, same script, different results

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mikael Åsberg wrote: Lol, you're right, Igor, that test case was far from minimal. Should've cut it down, of course. On the other hand, I often see people cutting away what they think is unrelated code or whatnot, when, in fact, they are cutting away the cause of their problems when posting

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Two new mailing lists

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: There are two new Cygwin mailing lists available: cygwin-licensing - a moderated list for discussion about Cygwin's licensing. Cool!!! cygwin-talk - an unmoderated, almost-anything-goes, almost-nothing-is-offtopic list for

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Richard, Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 um 18:12 schriebst du: To filter out spam at the client side is not possible, I would need another PC just to filter my emails... I disagree. SpamBayes is working very well for me (as an Outlook plugin; SpamBayes also

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Two new mailing lists

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andrew Schulman wrote: As somebody who uses gmane instead of email lists, I cannot find these new lists on gmane. Any idea if they will be automagically included or does somebody need to notify the gmane site? Someone needs to ask the gmane admins to add the lists. Oh. OK. I thought about it but

Re: Cygwin processes getting stuck on max CPU usage; XP SP2 problem?

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Simon Barnes wrote: Some of my colleagues and I are seeing this without using Process Explorer. No doubt some other automated process is triggering it, but we don't know which. Is there anything I can do to help work towards a fix? It's moderately inconvenient having to restart rxvt or bash

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR, it really works.

2004-09-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hello Andrew, You can filter about hundred mails a day, maybe 250, but since I'm getting 1000 mails a day and more my machine is quite busy with filtering. Hell I'm filtering 1000 - 1500 per day and putting them into an SQL database as well as bouncing most of them on my

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Bobby McNulty wrote: What? Did I miss something? Apparently lots! Chris, this guy has no clue as to what he's talking about. I beg to differ. I don't know much about ptys - BFD - sue me. That does not mean, however, that I don't know anything. He's worse than me when I first started. Then you

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Bobby McNulty wrote: I am learning more and more about Cygwin as I work with it. I learn from my mistakes. Does he? He needs an attitude adjustment. You should talk about attitude adjustments! All I'm asking for is a work around for a problem when dealing with certain Windows apps under Cygwin.

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: 21 September 2004 02:55 rxvt is only a dessert topping. It is not a floor wax. No amount of buffing is going to give you the shine on your floor that you are hoping for. cgf Well my mom always used

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: How about Cygwin - where it DOES eventually hurt to ask if you start a conversation saying 'I know nothing about X but couldn't you just...' and then keep asking that question in various simple ways even when it is politely implied that it is not possible. How about

Re: Beginner question: Cygwin bash vs. cygwin/bin directory in DOS

2004-09-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Nathan Green wrote: I am a newbie using Cygwin. I noticed that Linux commands can be executed by running commands in the Windows Command Prompt in the cygwin/bin directory. What is the purpose of the bash shell provided by clicking on the Cygwin icon? Do you Google?

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: overbored wrote: There are some cmd shell programs that don't run well in rxvt. Most noticeably, they don't always immediately write out their output. They seem to work fine in the default cmd window though (doesn't matter if it's in cmd or in bash). Does anybody know what

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:15:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Is there a CYGWIN setting to tell rxvt not to use ptys? How could a program like rxvt possibly work without ptys? I have no idea. I don't know how nor why they are required. Perhaps you could enlighten us

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: What you're seeing is caused by the output of the program going through a tty (or pty as the case may be.) When you run it from a straight cmd.exe it's not using tty code (unless you have CYGWIN=tty set.) From my meagre knowledge of the subject it has

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:24:44AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 07:15:46AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Is there a CYGWIN setting to tell rxvt not to use ptys? How could a program like rxvt possibly work without ptys? I

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:46:32AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Would it be possible to implement a command then that says exec this with tty's instead of ptys? Cygwin ttys and ptys are the same thing. OK how about a command that says start this Windows console mode

Re: Running cmd programs in cygwin / rxvt

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:57:09AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:46:32AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Would it be possible to implement a command then that says exec this with tty's instead of ptys? Cygwin ttys and ptys

Re: can't start inetd as service

2004-09-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Steve Roth wrote: Greetings, I'm having difficulty using inetd under cygwin. After installing it as a service (apparently successfully), net start inetd shows this error: The service is not responding to the control function. I have tried all of the suggestions I could find in the README and

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: The part that causes it to become GPL'd is the linking to cygwin1.dll, not the fact that Cygwin's gcc is used. If you use Cygwin's gcc in mingw mode then your program does not need cygwin1.dll and the program may be released under any license you choose, assuming there are

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: I also have to wonder how, as a long time reader of this list, you could *possibly* have missed the tedious discussion on this point that crops up on an almost weekly basis. I have to wonder why you think just because you may or may not talk about it ever so often that

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Bobby McNulty wrote: Personally, I'm bored with the free verses copyrighted material. Then why are you here (I mean in this thread)? GPL means you should include your source code with your binary code. Simple. Redhat does it, Mandrake does it, Cygnus does it. Cygwin's sources are included in the

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, you must also make the source code available when you make binaries available. If I develop an app and do not wish to have a requirement to install Cygwin I would use MingW, right? In that case is my

Re: What is this

2004-09-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Phil Betts wrote: Suppose that test was an acronym for Trash Entire System Thoroughly, and suppose that it ignored the command line. Oops! There goes your C: drive! I thought that was WINDOWS' job! :-) -- If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? --

Re: change opening path

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Tom Plane wrote: I would love to try this but I don't know how to add the cd command to the end of /etc/profile. Can you explain the steps to me? echo cd c: /etc/profile ? :-) -- Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever

Re: Running Windows scripts PATHEXT

2004-08-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the hide the extension business is ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used. Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk... :-) Having said that, is there any reason why $ ln -s myscript.pl myscript chmod a+x

Re: Running Windows scripts PATHEXT

2004-08-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 04:29:37PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ugh. I fully agree with CGF - the hide the extension business is ugly, counterproductive, and should not be used. Well Cygwin's already doing it WRT things like .exe and .lnk

Crypting

2004-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
How exactly can you use crypt to encrypt a file? I have no man page for crypt and crypt --help takes --help as the key or the string to encrypt! I search the web briefly and found http://www.rahul.net/cgi-bin/userbin/man?topic=cryptsection=1 and tried $ crypt mypass /etc/services

Re: Crypting

2004-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Max Bowsher wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: How exactly can you use crypt to encrypt a file? You can't. /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/crypt.README Sorry, didn't think there was a readme for just little 'ole crypt. I should have looked. Anyways, this is strange because I recall using crypt in this fashion

Re: Crypting

2004-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 24 09:11, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: You can't. /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/crypt.README Sorry, didn't think there was a readme for just little 'ole crypt. I should have looked. Anyways, this is strange because I recall using crypt in this fashion before

Re: Crypting

2004-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 August 2004 19:13 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Crypting -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: 24 August 2004 19:12 Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 24 09

Re: Crypting

2004-08-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Nope. Add either -e or -d. enc stays the same. Ok, Ok. So how did you figure that out?!? man 1 enc (It is referenced in the SEE ALSO section of 'man openssl'.) Indeed it was! Along with a bunch of others which seemed to me to deal more with encryption

Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall wrote: This doesn't explain why it worked at my last company and why I could have sworn it used to work here up until about a week ago. Well, if you can check the access permissions on the share in question, you should be able to determine whether this is an issue or not. At this

Re: getting exim and imapd to talk

2004-08-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mike Skallas wrote: Hi, I've installed exim and imapd, but when connecting to the imap service with thunderbird I don't see any of the mail. What do I have to change so that all mail that comes to exim gets put in a place where imapd can process it? Thanks. I had this working when exim was

Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall wrote: At 09:39 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote: I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp! So like a good little boy I decided to read the readme for cron again before

Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 09:39 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote: I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp! [snip

Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall wrote: At 10:44 PM 8/18/2004, you wrote: So is P or /home off limits when it comes to cron? Why did this work at my last company? I think it's probably due to the public share point versus non-public share point (which I never totally understood before) and I'm fearing that I will

Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp! So like a good little boy I decided to read the readme for cron again before asking here. Trouble is I have no cron readme! I

Re: Problem starting sshd as a service

2004-08-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Have a look into the script, right at the end. chown is only called if sshd has been installed as service. Otherwise the script assumes that sshd is going to be run from some user account in a console window. In that case, chown'ing to system wouldn't make much sense.

Re: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

2004-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: How dare you? I dare a lot of things. It's fun! This is unacceptable. Bummer. As you know, the Cygwin project is basically a front for a super-secret government shadow organization. Expect a visit from a Cygwin Reeducation Team (CRT) soon. I heard of CRTs but I thought

Re: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

2004-08-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:19:55AM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 11:09 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Aug 3 04:57, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote: How to check what Cygwin packages are installed on the system ? cygcheck -c You can also have a look in

Re: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

2004-08-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:19:41AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: To answer the question: Which package brought in this file? as in: $ cd /etc/setup $ str=gcc.exe $ for pkg in *.gz; do zcat $pkg | grep -q $str if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo $str appears in $pkg fi done

Re: rm fails on netware drive using win2k

2004-07-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 28 09:15, Holger Schmidt wrote: We got two machines (WinNT 4.0 and Win2K) which uses a specified directory on a netware drive. On both machines runs the same cygwin (1.5.10-3). I touch a file from the NT-machine to the netware-drive (test1). When I try to remove it

Re: problem typing the letter a

2004-07-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: PS - I apologize in advance for the legal disclaimer at the bottom of my email message. This is tacked on by our SMTP gateway and I have no control over it. Run your own email server. Cygwin supports Exim and it's pretty easy to set up. -- The trouble with doing

Re: [cygwin tipstricks] Shortcut to vim in Send to folder

2004-07-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: While I also prefer ~/.Xdefaults, there are other reasons why he might have those settings in the shortcut. Perhaps a different color scheme or font for the Send to... invocation (which I find very cool, by the way, I had forgotten about that trick). But that's

Re: [cygwin tipstricks] Shortcut to vim in Send to folder

2004-07-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Tomasz Rojek wrote: Hi all, I would like to share with this tip with any cygwin newbie (all the cygwin developers know it for sure :) I use a few text editors in my daily work, today I finally ;) came to idea to have a shortcut pointing to vim in my Send to right click submenu. I use this

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Eduardo Chappa wrote: I happened to look at this message in Lynx and did not see anything bad about it, then it ocurred to me that you were referring to a GUI browser. This is the case when you are complaining about how it looks in your browser (probably most people browser), but it's not a

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: My main problem with it is that it breaks quoting. When I reply to a message with no line breaks, my mail program has to either A) pick an arbitrary margin and reflow the entire message to that margin, adding to the first column of each line, or B) Insert a at the

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: There's another phrase that goes: If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not tamper with, edit, reformat, or otherwise alter them. Never heard that one. Got a reference? -- Jack Kevorkian for

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Fact is, I dislike when people don't give a damn for existing common rules which have turned out to work fine for all other people. You are ascribing malintent where either ignorance or disagreement may be present. You are assuming they don't give a damn instead of the

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: William Blunn wrote: I only wish that I could go back in time and show the inventor of PRE the havoc they have wreaked by making it turn off wrapping by default. I'm pretty sure you were joking here but if not... That's the whole point of PRE, that it *doesn't* wrap. It's

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew DeFaria Sent: 09 July 2004 16:03 Dave Korn wrote: There's another phrase that goes: If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim

Re: Extending long threads

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: As a person who regularly uses HTML style email and posting (much to many peoples chargrin and complaints) I rarely fester them with all sorts of colors and fonts. Other HTML emails and posts I receive are also rarely festered with all sorts of colors and fonts. Why?

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for I'm having basic problems with find. Why?)

2004-07-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: Nobody's trying to force you to read. You shouldn't try to force them to write in a particular style. In the end communication, at least civil communication and I'd say any communication that is, in the long term, successsful, always requires *compromise* on both parties.

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
phil wrote: can whoever maintains this list ensure that virus definitions are up to date. I have had 3 and as I write 5 instances of the above. be on guard How about switching to something other than the virus propagating MS software (i.e. Outlook and Outlook Express)? -- There cannot be a

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chris Taylor wrote: On Wed, June 30, 2004 7:47 pm, Andrew DeFaria said: phil wrote: can whoever maintains this list ensure that virus definitions are up to date. I have had 3 and as I write 5 instances of the above. be on guard How about switching to something other than the virus propagating MS

Re: Netsky worm

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Robert Pendell wrote: Yes. That is true. Microsoft is showing some changes though for the future. For example. Even in Windows XP, LAN connections are firewalled by default. SP2 will enable the firewall by default and include a security center. The firewall is more robust giving the user a bit

Re: problem with ssh-user-config on Win XP

2004-05-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * vdu (2004-05-28 11:59 +0100) This is a mailinglist and no newsgroup. I am using outook express to read what you call a mailinglist, and in OE they call it newsgroup! In OE they call mailing lists mailing lists and newsgroups newsgroups. OE is able to read both: mail and

Re: Looking for new apache maintainer

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: I hadn't planned to package 2.x because its native win32 version would be significantly faster with a thread MPM than a Cygwin port. But I suppose a Cygwin version would be useful if you wanted to test or develop things that are destined for a 2.x/Unix machine. I also don't

Re: Looking for new apache maintainer

2004-05-27 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: My understanding is that the Cygwin port of Apache 1.x is also significantly slower than the native Apache 1.x but this didn't stop people from wanting a Cygwin version of 1.x. Or is there something in 2.x (this thread MPM thing) that would make

Re: Cygwin 1.5.9: Where is mod_php?

2004-05-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gerry Reno wrote: I downloaded the new version of Cygwin but I can't find mod_php. That's cause it ain't there. Well there was one but the maintainer has not been able to update it and get all the bugs out so for now it's MIA. :-( -- If you drink, don't park. Accidents cause people. --

Re: Cygwin 1.5.9: Where is mod_php?

2004-05-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Reini Urban wrote: Andrew DeFaria schrieb: Gerry Reno wrote: I downloaded the new version of Cygwin but I can't find mod_php. That's cause it ain't there. Well there was one but the maintainer has not been able to update it and get all the bugs out so for now it's MIA. In fact the mod_php

Re: where is at at?

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: Yes, there's also a Posix AT command: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/at.html It interacts with the cron daemon. So in principle there's no reason why there shouldn't be a cygwin at command to interact with the cygwin crond entirely independently of the

Re: Backup failure for Cron.pid

2004-05-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
bella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Install cygwin 1.3.10 in windows 2000 advanced server SP3. I used Veritas Netbackup for backup system. Recently, I got error ERR = failure reading file: D:\cygwin\var\run\cron.pid (The process cannot access the file

Re: cygwin upgrade: where did XWin go?

2004-05-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Allen H. Nugent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 03:14 PM 12/05/04, Peng Yu wrote: You can run startxwin. Umm, no, I can't: it gives BASH: startxwin: command not found. To reiterate, I was able to use startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh to run Xwin, until I upgraded

Re: Data loss in Cygwin's creator?

2004-05-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
GARY VANSICKLE wrote: I got this *System Error* message in my e-mail: *plonk* Ahh... cgf I'm concerned that creator might be dropping some critical data. However someone more knowledgeable in these matters will have debug this. I also don't have a 64 sheet test roll installed in my bathroom.

Re: mailx mail replacement - solution in shell script

2004-05-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
jerzy szczudowski wrote: Since mailx package is not ported to Cygwin, and from time to time someone miss it, I wrote short shell script that enables straight compatibility with some programs which by default depend on mail command (i.e. smartmontools). Since this is really simple script, it is

Re: Scripts for calling Internet Explorer,Explorer,Word,Access,Excel from Cygwin

2004-05-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 8 May 2004, zzapper wrote: Hi With help from this NG have created the following scripts, I think they are very useful especially wexp. (Paths to various apps on your PC may vary of course). Excepting wexp all require a filename as parameter eg wmdb test.mdb wexp

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d Cygwin cron -e [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e CYGWIN=ntsec ^^ As an aside, hasn't 'ntsec' been enabled by default for a long time7 now? Or am I just remembering incorrectly

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d Cygwin cron -e [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e CYGWIN=ntsec ^^ As an aside, hasn't 'ntsec' been enabled by default for a long time now

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d Cygwin cron -e [EMAIL PROTECTED] -e CYGWIN=ntsec

ncftp: Who are you?

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
When I use ncftp I get the following: Who are you? You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it. Problem is my uid is 78843: $ id uid=78843(TPAD3741) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=75769(CCADMIN),77432(CC-PMO),10513(Domain Users),11457(Internet Access2),12069(IS

Re: ncftp: Who are you?

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 7 11:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote: When I use ncftp I get the following: Who are you? You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it. Problem is my uid is 78843: 78843-13307=65536 That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Hank Statscewich wrote: Great suggestion. In /var/log/cron.log there were 17 lines of: /usr/sbin/cron: can't open or create /var/run/cron.pid: Permission denied So I just changed permission of the file to 777 and cron started up just fine. I rebooted and lo and behold cron

Re: how to build php in cygwin?

2004-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2004 14:37:29 +0800, kalmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not familiar with compilation under cygwin , but i need the php for testing most of the LAMP application in cygwin , before deploy into the linux box , therefore i need to try to build the php

Re: Line breaks in bash

2004-04-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrew DeFaria Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 1:18 PM To: cygwinatcygwindotcom Subject: Re: Line breaks in bash When I type a long line in the bash shell it seems to get

Re: php under apache

2004-04-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall wrote: Have you seen http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-01/msg00383.html and http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01352.html ? I am very interested in getting PHP and Apache to work. When is the maintainer thinking [s]he'll be able to get mod_php4 available again? -- You

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