RE: OpenLDAP NT Service

2005-08-15 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Vince, I was trying to do this, however, I can't find the documentation on how to add the sysV init scripts as a service. I think you just add /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit as a service using: # cygrunsrv --install rc.sysinit --path

RE: Can I launch a graphical windows app from within a cygwin ssh session

2004-11-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:12 PM, Mark Stuhr wrote [--cut some stuff--] launch a windows app that should run on that remote (or host, can never keep that syntax straight) box. (In other words a server runs an app most of the time, but not as a

Re: problem with finding case-sensitive filenames when running DOS batch command with bash shell

2004-10-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running cygwin bash shell and have set the parameters ~/.bashrc shopt -s nocaseglob ~/.inputrc set completion-ignore-case on but I'm still having problems with running a DOS batch command that will not be case-sensitive. x.bat dir /s /b

Re: Starting sshd with ipv6 address only (cont.)

2004-09-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
Came intot this thread late so sorry if someone has already said this if you are desperate for IPv6 in cygwin progs, have a look at http://win6.jp/Cygwin/ Its pretty upto date but says its not happy in a non ipv6 environment. On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 20 08:20,

Re: rsync and file ownership

2004-07-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Matthew Dwyer wrote: Bakken, Luke wrote: What I ended up having to do is set CYGWIN=nontsec for my rsync server and client before any transfers. If your directories are set to inherit permissions then the permissions will be set OK based on the parent

Re: home directory.

2004-06-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that? Have a look at your windows environment variables. (type

RE: Cygwin and xinetd

2004-06-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote: I found that I needed the chkconfig package too. Thanks Anyways, now I am unable to enable xinetd. Here's what I did. cygrunsrv -I xinetd -d 'Cygwin xinetd' -p /usr/sbin/xinetd -a -d -e CYGWIN=ntsec

Re: CygUtils website going dark

2004-06-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Peter A. Castro wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Charles Wilson wrote: Hi Charles, If no-one else offers, I offer to host all or part of cygutils (whatever you'd like to be hosted), for free. You've provided the Cygwin community so much that it'd be a shame to see your

Re: rxvt + screen

2004-06-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Alain SABBAN wrote: Thanks for your help ! 1/ The mentioned Web page is 6 months old at it is mentioning cygwin 1.5.7/8. I thought there might be a fix available. 2/ I sent a mail to this guy 2 weeks ago. He told me he thought this is a cygwin problem. Anyhow I

Re: cron dying in Windows but not in Cygwin

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Korn (2004-05-27 11:26 +0100) * Robert Pollard (2004-05-26 18:33 +0100) I have a bit of a problem where when we launch cron from the command line after a few days it dies in Windows but is still visible in Cygwin. Beg your pardon?

RE: rm hangs on illegal filename nul

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Volker Quetschke Sent: 27 May 2004 14:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rm hangs on illegal filename nul Hi, I somehow managed to create a file named nul (further investigation

Re: sshd: Allow service to interact with desktop

2004-05-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Mike Kenny - BCX - Mngd Services wrote: 123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789- I noticed a reference to this checkbox in a previous e-mail and it sparked my curiousity. I am not sure if it is relevant to what I am trying to achieve, but it

RE: Problem with home installation (fwd)

2004-05-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
. Thanks for any help you can offer. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vince Hoffman Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problem with home installation (fwd) hmm blocked by the spam bot so here

Re: Problem with home installation (fwd)

2004-05-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
hmm blocked by the spam bot so here it is again. On Sat, 22 May 2004, John Williams wrote: I have been using cygwin at work for almost a year now and haven't had a single problem with it. Now, I want to work from home on occasion, so I am trying to duplicate my work environment at home.

Re: Problems with Indirect Interpretation (#!/bin/csh, #!/bin/tcsh, #!/bin/perl, etc...)

2004-05-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Rocket Boy wrote: I have recently installed cygwin on my PC at home (Win-XP) and at work (Win-NT). I can't seem to get indirect interpretation (e.g. #!/bin/csh -f, #!/bin/tcsh -f, etc...) to work in either location. I have tried it in different shells: bash, tcsh, and

GPL violation ?

2004-05-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Checkpoint appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll (as well as gzip and gtar) without any obvious sources available. if fact of the 3 GPL utils its the only that doesnt have its own copying notice (they do at least provide a copy of the GPL.) I havent contacted them about this as i could be in error

Re: GPL violation ?

2004-05-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Chris Herborth wrote: Vince Hoffman wrote: Checkpoint appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll (as well as gzip and gtar) without any obvious sources available. if fact of the 3 GPL utils its the only that doesnt have its own copying notice (they do at least provide

Re: nmake for cygwin?

2003-11-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
Howdy All! Is there an nmake for cygwin? I looked it up in setup.exe under the development category but could not find one. No, and since nmake is MS's make tool, it will not happen, since MS does not offer the source. Just to muddy the waters somewhat Lucent (or ATT as it used to me i

RE: MOHAA:BT and CYGWIN

2003-11-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
You hit the nail on the head. What is weird is some apps it can run but not others. Why would the interact with desktop work sometimes and not others? Also I take care of that in task manager I assume? Thanks, GDN Admin You give that right in the services control panel.

Re: MOHAA:BT and CYGWIN

2003-11-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
I am having trouble running a windows executable from cygwin, in particular the game Medal of Honor:Breakthrough. Whenever I try to execute the windows compiled game application in dedicated mode it just hangs. The program shows up as a process in the windows list and under cygwin but the

Re: a try at killall

2003-11-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
Not complete, but usually works for me 0=) $ cat /usr/local/bin/killall #!/bin/sh ps -s | sed -re /$1$/s/^ +([0-9]+).*$/\1/;t fine;d;:fine | xargs kill $2 $3 $4 Any reason not to just use pkill ? (from procps package) (I found it after writing a similar script for solaris. ) --

RE: cygwin on windows.net, what?

2003-11-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00266.html CGF has a copy so i'd say cygwin will run on it. -Original Message- From: George Carrette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2003 15:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cygwin on windows.net, what? The question of

RE: cygwin on windows.net, what?

2003-11-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:27:24PM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00266.html CGF has a copy so i'd say cygwin will run on it. I have Windows 2003 (where Cygwin works fine). That's not what is being mentioned here, AFAICT. cgf Sorry I

Re: rsync to between workgroups

2003-10-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
[snip lots of relevant info] I've tried using CYGWIN=ntsec and CYGWIN=nontsec. Doesn't seem to make a difference. When you say you have tried CYGWIN=ntsec and CYGWIN=nontsec do you mean as a system or user variable ? also have you tried setting it to CYGWIN=nontsec using the -e switch to

RE: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?

2003-10-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Although it doesnt seem to agree fully with Gerrits description, there is a good description of what that /3Gb switch does at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml It is related to memory not disk partitions, but read for yorself rather than have me paraphrase it. -Original

RE: pwd option to return windows path

2003-10-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
P.S. Speaking of special treatment, how come Cygwin is the only free software project whose maintainers say PTC instead of PGA? How naive all those other maintainers must be! I remember it used to be PGA until the day CFG coined PTC on a particualy mean day. (I could hear the yelp of

RE: Sound support in Cygwin?

2003-10-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
yes, try cat wavfile.wav /dev/dsp (obviously replace wavfile.wav with a real wavfile) dont try an mp3 though ;) dont know any details beyound that though. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 October 2003 15:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: searching the cygwin archive

2003-09-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
A lot of people use the site: feature of google to search the archives if that would help ? (eg. use site:cygwin.com man page as your search string.) -Original Message- From: Kevin Van Workum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 September 2003 12:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: Rexecd as win service

2003-09-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
rexecd runs from inetd. install inetutils and read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README for details in inetd as a service. -Original Message- From: Stefano Colombo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rexecd as

RE: [RFU] pcre-4.4-1

2003-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
If anyone knows of a freely accessible FTP server with some space on it, I'd be very happy to know about it. As it is, neither one of my ISPs lets me have FTP access from outside their network, which means my scripts to upload no longer work.. rlc I think i can help here.

RE: md5sum of a CD

2003-09-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
The /dev directory is a virtual directory, much like the /proc directory. if you do a ls /dev/scd0 you should get a result. Also see http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html -Original Message- From: Hughes, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 September 2003

RE: Terminate batch job at logout?

2003-08-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - I've been using cygwin for a day now, and every time I plan to exit out of the shell, I get asked, Terminate batch job (Y/N)? I'm not sure what this is referring to. Any ideas? its refering to the batch file that the shortcut

RE: auto tab complete

2003-08-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
To the best of my knowledge the sftp executable doesnt support tab completion. -Original Message- From: jwaterbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2003 17:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: auto tab complete Since no one has replied yet, it seems that someone has

RE: auto tab complete

2003-08-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
that there isnt one that does either.) -Original Message- From: jwaterbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2003 17:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: auto tab complete does the ssh executable support it? It won't even work for it. Vince Hoffman wrote: To the best of my

RE: init and xinetd woes

2003-08-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
hello all, I've been messing around with xinetd and init and I can't seem to get them to play nicely together. I've checked the archives and have reinstalled xinetd, sysvinit, initscripts, etc., run the appropriate config files (overwriting existing

RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.

2003-08-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
try mkgroup -ld /etc/group -Original Message- From: Matt Raible [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 August 2003 19:59 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly. Executing mkgroup -ld nor mkgroup -l did not help anything. Oh well,

RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.

2003-08-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
I get: Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified. bash: [: too many arguments ... on startup. Matt -Original Message- From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:06 PM To: 'Matt Raible'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Your

RE: HLDS and Cygwin

2003-08-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do here. have you got a version of the Half Life dedicated server compiled for cygwin ? (didnt know the source was available so a link would be interesting since it doesnt seem to be available from valve.) Otherwise your problem is with a windows

RE: michael's openssh for windows

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
Sorry to say that chrooting ssh/sftp doesnt seem too small a task, I had a look at http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/docs/chrootedsftp.html but wasnt too sure how relevent this was to cygwin and decided i would live without it till i had time to play more. I'd be interested if you get it going

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? ( or 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
Password: Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]@cygwin.com on 08/06/2003 11:32:29 AM Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:[EMAIL

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? (or 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
had time to try this today, works fine. steps were, 1) clean install included inetutils, xinetd, sysvinit ,chkconfig and initscripts (and vim but whatever editor you like ;) 2) run /usr/bin/init-config, NOT overwriting any config files, just to install init as a service. 3) copy

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? ( or 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
5) net stop init net then net start init 5) net stop init , then net start init uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 GENBRIDEVINT1 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cywin running Win2k server SP3 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Mail Archives are Your Friend...

2003-08-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
Of Igor Pechtchanski 2) The inurl: modifier is not aware of forward slashes, and accepts partial matches, so a query with inurl:ml inurl:cygwin will search for messages on *all* of the Cygwin lists (i.e., cygwin@, cygwin-apps@, etc). AFAIK, there is no way to restrict

RE: Problem with Cygwin.bat

2003-08-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
try running the .bat file from a command prompt and see if it prints an error. -Original Message- From: philippe guillaume [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2003 13:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with Cygwin.bat I want to launch the tcsh-shell and not

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? ( or 2003)

2003-08-07 Thread Vince Hoffman
(don't hold your breath!). Ah well, some folks just like liv'in in the past! Brian Kelly Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/06/2003 08:41:38 AM To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd

RE: cygwin to backup Windows data

2003-08-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
I'm beginning to think a non-Cygwin solution may be their better fit and may be the one they are leaning towards. rsync compiles fine without cygwin. http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/nt.html Just thought i should correct this. from that link 1. You will need two files, rsync.exe

RE: Question about the cpio-command

2003-07-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
wrong list realy (you want [EMAIL PROTECTED] for non X questions.) however the (scsi) tape dev on cygwin is /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 (no rewind version) the /dev dir is virtual but ls /dev/st0 will show it is there. -Original Message- From: Hinterplattner Wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: apache dies with pppoe

2003-07-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
Since dhcp is handled by windows i cant see how you can avoid having to run a cron job, even if just a script to check if your ip has changed and restart apache if so. somthing like this ---cut foo.sh--- #!/bin/bash #check if we have the old IP recorded if [ -e /tmp/old.ip ]

RE: Error message from gcc: entry point putc_unlocked could not be l ocated ...

2003-07-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
You may have 2 versions of the cygwin dll then, post the contents of cygcheck -s -v -r as an uncompressed attachment to the list. (and try a search on cygwin1.dll and see if you can find it more than once. -Original Message- From: David Guaspari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 July

RE: problem starting cron as a service

2003-07-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
anything in /var/log/cron.log ? and are you mounts system or user ? ie. $ mount |grep / type system should give something like h:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2003 08:25 To: Cygwin Subject:

RE: problem starting cron as a service

2003-07-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
of cygcheck -s -v -r as an uncompressed attachment might help too. -Original Message- From: Bill McCormick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 July 2003 15:18 To: Vince Hoffman Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Thanks Vince, Nothing in cron.log (file created but empty

RE: problem starting cron as a service

2003-07-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vince Hoffman Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:38 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: problem starting cron as a service Hi Bill, Off hand there are a few things to try, but Mark Harig

RE: XDM now working on cygwin to manage remote displays

2003-07-15 Thread Vince Hoffman
Work remains to to fix authFile (change the colon character to something storeable on the NTFS filesystem) and to add ntsec setuid code to permit non-setuid-privilened user authentications. With the new (experimental) 1.5 cygwin dll its now possible to have a cygwin managed mount which

RE: Backing up Cygwin

2003-07-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
just the mount entries to save your mount entries start a windows command prompt (comman.com or cmd.exe depending on your windows version)# cd c:\cygwin\bin run mount -m mounts.bat then backup the mounts.bat file along with the rest. when you have rinstalled and restored cd c:\cygwin\bin and

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
mount manipulates the registry entrys for you. -Original Message- From: Pavel Rozenboim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 July 2003 15:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode -Original Message- From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: anybody has an exim binary with mysql support? Got 'main option mysql_servers unknown' error upon start-up

2003-07-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
Questions: 1) Does anybody have a cygwin exim binary that also has mysql support? 2) also, as per http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=ldd, I don't find a usable ldd - will cygcheck find all relevant libraries in exim-4.20-1.exe? I seem to remember Chris saying cygcheck wasnt

RE: ping Corinna

2003-07-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
its an encryption algorithm, (International Data Encryption Algorithm) (a tiny bit about the idea algorithm.) http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=International%20Data%20Encryption% 20Algorithm -Original Message- From: james lankton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 July 2003

RE: help running tftpd under winXP

2003-07-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
will it run under inetd rather than as a stand alone service ? (since it has a commented entry in inetd.conf) -Original Message- From: Rajesh Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 July 2003 17:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: help running tftpd under winXP There's

RE: Problems with cron - Almost there

2003-07-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
I think the format for every 5 minutes is /5 * * * * touch /tmp/test.file read man 5 crontab rathe than just man crontab. -Original Message- From: Jarrod Hermer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2003 12:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark' Subject:

RE: Problems with cron - Almost there

2003-07-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
Doh sorry thats */5 * * * * command -Original Message- From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2003 12:56 To: 'Jarrod Hermer'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Elfyn McBratney'; 'Harig, Mark' Subject: RE: Problems with cron - Almost there I think the format

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
Is this any help ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php -Original Message- From: Soren A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 June 2003 10:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me Soren A. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs)

2003-06-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi, sshd stores its logs in the windows event log. Vince -Original Message- From: Fred Ma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 June 2003 08:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: top is gone (PLUS sshd logs) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fred, I

RE: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session

2003-06-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
No. Ssh uses port forwarding. That works by accepting X connections locally at the client machine and than forwarding the data packets that arrive on that display to your actual server through an internal SSH tunnel. Your DISPLAY variable on the client should be something

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
Messages in the archive make it sound like ssh/sshd solve this problem but not for me. The CYGWIN environment variable in my ssh session is binmode ntsec tty. I'd love to know where this is coming from, or if I can change it. I tried changing it explicitly with $ export CYGWIN=

Re: Rsync / SSH / Cygwin .. permission problems..

2003-06-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
Cygwin is installed on both systems and works perfectly. OpenSSH is installed and running, and the rsync user we created is able to ssh using password-less keys between the 2 systems. When I run rsync, it correctly pulls the data down that I want. The problem is that there are NO

RE: Default home dir: /cygdrive/c

2003-05-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
do you have HOME set as a windows environment variable ? -Original Message- From: a12 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 May 2003 14:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Default home dir: /cygdrive/c Hi gurus, After installing successfully Cygwin on several NT4/2K hosts, I have

RE: Default home dir: /cygdrive/c

2003-05-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
To: Vince Hoffman Cc: 'a12'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Default home dir: /cygdrive/c Vince Hoffman wrote: do you have HOME set as a windows environment variable ? From his cygcheck output: HOME = `c:\' So I have to say yes, he does. -- Larry Hall

RE: cygwin and windows registry

2003-05-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
if just want the bare essentials (no unixlike environment) and you realy dont want it in the registry then you can refer to everything by /cygpath/${driveletter} (i use rsync on 2 servers this way. i just have them and cygwin1.dll in path. and use absolute paths to run it and specify its conf file

RE: CYGWIN and XFREE

2003-04-04 Thread Vince Hoffman
hmm the cygwin package search at http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ seems to think its in the package X11 pixmap library try installing/reinstalling that. -Original Message- From: Ralph P. Pass III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 April 2003 18:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CYGWIN

RE: Most recent release

2003-04-04 Thread Vince Hoffman
sounds like you have a (minor i hope) problem, less at least should have installed. IIRC vi(m) isnt installed by default, less is and page i dont think we have. If its been a few years then have a look through the packages available though setup these days. You can also see whats available online

Re: setup.exe troubleshooting snapshot

2003-04-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
Well I can t get either setup-2.340.2.3-O0-debug.exe or setup-2.340.2.3-no-set_default_sec.exe to crash :) using drmingw on the crash from setup-2.340.2.3.exe gives the attached file. I am running Windows 2000 Pro SP3 on a duron processor. patched to the latest from windows update. - Original

RE: setup pre-release troubleshooting snapshot

2003-04-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
i'll try when i get home (honestly i will this time. ;) -Original Message- From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2003 06:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: setup pre-release troubleshooting snapshot Ok, in a (possibly futile :]) attempt to fix a bug I

sshd through sysV init

2003-04-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
going but no luck (my shell scriptings pretty bad so no big supprise if i interperated that wrong.) and clues appreciated. --- Vince Hoffman Systems Administrator Euro RSCG Circle (London) P: 020 7959 7576 M: 0777 5822213 Icq

RE: sshd through sysV init

2003-04-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
Okhapkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2003 18:55 To: 'Vince Hoffman'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: sshd through sysV init Make sure /etc/ssh_* files are readable for SYSTEM account. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
I'll try it as soon as i get home, it doesnt crash on my work machine. -Original Message- From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 March 2003 21:26 To: Robert Collins; Vince Hoffman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really

Re: setup crashes - backtrace

2003-03-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
- Original Message - From: Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: Re: setup crashes - backtrace Robert Collins wrote: Max, I suggest making clean, then makeing with 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O0.

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
Ok, well this is 'not good' :}. At what point does it crash? At start before any window appears. Shuttting down cygwin services made no difference. let me know if there is any more i can do to help the problem. Assuming it crashes straight after download screen - can you do a few things

mount manpage discrepancy

2003-03-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
Just a quicky to say that the mount manpage lists text as the default mode, while mount --help lists binary as the default. vince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Corrected: setup.exe beta (testing needed - really!)

2003-03-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
Havent a clean system to try a full install. however on running it to upgrade/add packages the first run crashed . on the second run all was fine and componants were added/updated perfectly. I tried running a few more times to reproduce the crash and on average about one in 5 times (very rough

RE: Problem with PVM on CYGWIN

2003-03-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hmm well ssh will definately allow passwordless logins etc and as far as i know rsh will too. the only limitations being that you wont get windows network access. could you use that instead ? (i dont know what PVM is) -Original Message- From: Onur SOYSAL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
you'd be supprised. -Original Message- From: Daniel Barclay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 March 2003 17:25 To: Vince Hoffman Cc: cygwin cygwin Subject: Re: Installing cygwin NOT from web Vince Hoffman wrote: if you want to just make a local mirror, ... Be aware you MUST keep

RE: CVS and binary/text files.

2003-03-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Umm not sure if a) anyones already answered this or b) it will suit your problem, but if you need to quickly change a directory between text or binary, mount it in the mode you need. eg. mkdir /mnt mount -t h:/documents /mnt for text mode. then to switch it. umount /mnt mount h:/documents /mnt

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
man ftpd specificly the bit on authentication -Original Message- From: Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 March 2003 12:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: inetd anonymous ftp access how to configure inetd to allow anonymous ftp access under windows nt/2000/xp ? Grazie,

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
- From: Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 March 2003 13:55 To: Vince Hoffman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: inetd anonymous ftp access i have tried all, but still having problems with anonymous access created an ftp user under winXP added it to the /etc/passwd file created the home

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
/in.ftpd in.ftpd if none of this helps, check that your mounts are system mounts. umm thats all i can think of. -Original Message- From: Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 March 2003 17:54 To: Vince Hoffman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: inetd anonymous ftp access hi, thanks

RE: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
if you want to just make a local mirror, connect to one of the mirror sites and download it. (via ftp,rsync, http as you prefer) i keep a local mirror for personal use with rsync on a cronjob. Be aware you MUST keep the directory structure though for setup to be happy with it. thats why using

RE: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
The cygwin tools include the gnu sleep command, to save some effort :) (in sh-utils package in base) -Original Message- From: Colin Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 March 2003 20:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Script for use with linux font server and xsetroot

RE: INETD problem

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
far too few detail, do you have a working tcp connection between you and your friends machines ? (can you ping each other ?) are you firewalled from each other ? hmm not realy likely to be a cygwin problem either way if you can telnet in yourself. -Original Message- From: Zeke Gomez

RE: SSHD on Win2K: sshd.log is just empty

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
That file only realy hold errors such as reasons the service cannot start. All the rest of the logging goes straight to the event logs. (have a look in the application log) -Original Message- From: Tino Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2003 14:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

typo in /etc/profile ?

2003-03-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
the developers --- Vince Hoffman Systems Administrator Euro RSCG Circle (London) P: 020 7959 7576 M: 0777 5822213 Icq: 50905590 PGP ID: 0xC859C861 A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature

RE: init.d

2003-03-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
speaking as a novice in this area, would running it from init (with init running as a service) work ? or would this suffer from the same problems ? -Original Message- From: Guillaume Devoyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 March 2003 17:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
Well this is only partly true, as you may have noticed there is also a download option, this allows you to just download without installing, allowing you to later install from the files you have downloaded, just saves you HAVING to install cygwin to get hold of a copy in an installable directory

RE: ssh-keygen Please help!!!

2003-03-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
try ssh-user-config (as mentioned in the README) -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 02:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ssh-keygen Please help!!! hello i have cygwin and need to create and install ssh keysI am in

RE: setup.exe: something besides C++?

2003-03-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
I think here the answer is the traditional open source one, if you need/want it that much then go for it and code away, and if other people want like it then they'll join you. All the info to code something like this is available if you feel the need :) -Original Message- From: Steve

Re: unique ssh user environments

2003-03-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
why not run sshd as local system and have each person log on using password authentication, that way each user will be using their own environment (the downside being that you have to use a password as passwordless logins (pubkey etc) cannot get network access using the cd //server/path method,

RE: Creating an ssh key with ssh-keygen

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoffman
man ssh-keygen -t is explained on the first page. -Original Message- From: Joshua S. Abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2003 01:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Creating an ssh key with ssh-keygen Importance: High Anyone know how to use the -t switch with

RE: English speller to spell plain files

2003-02-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
not sure if there is an official package but do a google for ispell and cygwin and you should find something. -Original Message- From: Alex Vinokur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2003 05:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: English speller to spell plain files Is there

RE: Lesstif update II

2003-02-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
A quick grep in /etc/postinstall gives $ more XFree86-lib.sh.done #!/bin/sh ETCLINKS=app-defaults fs lbxproxy proxymngr rstart twm xdm xinit xsm xserver for f in $ETCLINKS; do ln -sf /etc/X11/$f /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/$f done do I'd guess it to be the Xfree86 libraries package that creates the

RE: toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends

2003-02-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
(the following is conjecture as I always install unix mode) I think this is handled by mount. ie you have things mounted in text mode not binmode if you remount your mounts as binmode you should be ok. (best to do a mount mounts-backup.txt to have a record of what they were before fiddling with

RE: Postgresql

2003-02-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
follow the instuctions in /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.3.2.README especialy the bit about installing cygipc -Original Message- From: Maurício [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 20 February 2003 11:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Postgresql Hi, After installing (using

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