Re: AW: non gui setup of cygwin possible?

2005-11-10 Thread Roy Wiseman
One related question ... is there a command in cygwin to report the installed packages ? some command line tool that just lists them all on the current setup or a log file that I can look at ? Thanks, Roy. To answer the second one: setup.exe supports an unattended install mode, where it

Re: Automatic (Silent) Installation with specific packages ?

2005-11-08 Thread Roy Wiseman
Hi, I would also love an answer to this question. Please upgrade setup.exe to allow this ? I would very very much like to be able to do this as having to manually select the packages every time is quite ime consuming when you install on multiple systems. Having a list that setup.exe looks at and

X Copy/Paste ?

2005-11-06 Thread Roy Wiseman
Hi, A quick question, and I have a feeling this is asked regularly, but I couldn't find an answer on searching the forum. How can I copy/paste to/from xterm to another xterm windows and also how can I copy/paste to/from an xterm window and a windows application like say notepad ? Thanks !

RE: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-10 Thread Roy Wiseman
Hi Igor, Also, as your cygcheck output shows, you are in a domain. It's quite possible that the domain controller really is taking more than 30 minutes to return the set of users and groups (for large domains). Yes, as you say, I can see the output from tee and it shows that this will take

passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
it to the sysadmins that would like to use these excellent tools ? Thanks Best Regards, Roy Wiseman. ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

Re: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
errors apply. - is there some way to make the postinstall process kick off again, outside of the setup process ? Best Regards, Roy. --- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Roy Wiseman wrote: Hello, I work in a corporate environment, with very limited internet

Re: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
the problems that I have will be very simply solved completely :) Best Regards, Roy. --- Roy Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Igor, those mount commands don't seem to do much for this situation. same problems. you mention the hard and symbolic links, are created during the postinstall

RE: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
to the system, so it seems very strange that this could have happened). --- Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: Roy Wiseman Sent: 09 June 2005 16:16 I've attached my cygcheck.out file here. You have multiple incompatible copies of cygwin1.dll in the $PATH

RE: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
I agree that Symantec are a bit of satanic corporation, but ... well, Ghost2003 is actually very impressive most of the time (apart from breaking cygwin which is a big problem of course). ok, I've fixed symantec by taking out the 2 in the path and I fixed the cygwin1.dll (it was a copy of

RE: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
i'm sorry, it was completely unintentional. really did not mean to do that, I pressed reply-all by mistake i think, i did go to the acronym page and read it and noted it, so I did not mean to do that. --- Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: Roy Wiseman Sent

RE: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
Thanks for the insults D A V E . K O R N You say you are offended, and that I am not in control of my own actions (obviously highly offensive, patronising and insulting statements). I am in control of my own actions. You of course have answers that I would like, and yet you dangle them at me

RE: passwd group file problems ?

2005-06-09 Thread Roy Wiseman
thanks Igor, and also Dave, I totally appreciate both of your time on this (can't say I liked the insult much Dave, but my mistake was accidental you know. Maybe it's a Scottish thing that we treat people with respect until they disrespect us, I guess we don't think we should have to put up with