On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 16:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
What do you think? Do we still need the words at
http://cygwin.com/download.html to exist as a separate entity? If so,
I'll probably add another documentation link to the main web page for
people who are first downloading cygwin. I
(anyone sick of the gold star stuff yet?)
I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the
cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is
really wonderful. It is just what we needed.
It is so good that I would like to suggest that maybe it should
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the
cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is
really wonderful. It is just what we needed.
Thanks! I don't really know why I never
(anyone sick of the gold star stuff yet?)
No! ;-)
I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the
cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is
really wonderful. It is just what we needed.
Indeed. Nice Work!
It is so good that I would like to
Sounds fine to me. I do think we should at least leave a link to the
installer for veteran users. (Or do we all type in
'cygwin.com/setup.exe'?)
I know I do :-)
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
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www.exposure.org.uk
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:23:43PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the
cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is
really
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:36:38AM -, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
(anyone sick of the gold star stuff yet?)
No! ;-)
I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the
cygwin documentation. His latest setup documentation installment is
really wonderful. It is just what we
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From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I'm not saying that if one wants /etc/passwd updated one sure run
Cygwin's setup.exe. What I'm saying is that Cygwin's setup.exe should
not break the /etc/passwd in place already. My experiences says that
-Original Message-
From: Michael A Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:46 PM
To: Andrew DeFaria; cygwin
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
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From: Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:28:53AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
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From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:32:24PM +0100
Hello!
Looking at the Xfree mailinglist it seems like many people have
problems due to have installed with dos-mode. My thought is if it is
their unsurability about unix/dos, and toggling that due to that..
Is it possible to hide it a little.. or similar, so it is not so easy
to toggle.. Or
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:28:53AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:49:29PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
PS: something I don't fully understand, but I think it's related to the
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:43:43PM -0500, Paul Dilip K NPRI wrote:
Hi Corinna,
Looks like you are the developer for cygwin. I need to use some windows graphics
library with my g77 compiled program in cygwin. I posted it previosly and did not get
any response.
I'm not *the* developer but just
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From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: New suggestion for setup, binary/dos-mode
Hello!
Looking at the Xfree mailinglist it seems like many people
have problems due to have
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From: Bernard Dautrevaux [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On the same ground, it would be nice if, when creating /etc/passwd and
/etc/group, setup.exe pass the -d flag to mkpasswd/mkgroup;
otherwise,
ntsec is almost unusable for the (vast majority of) NT/2k/XP users
that
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From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:53 AM
To: Bernard Dautrevaux; Stephano Mariani; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
Sorry for not providing a patch, but it should be fairly
straightforward
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
mkpasswd.c:
I have two problems with this patch:
- No ChangeLog entry.
- Do we have a signed copyright assignment from you?
Corinna
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
mkpasswd.c:
I have two problems with this patch:
- No ChangeLog entry.
- Do we
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it is, for mkgroup.c and
mkpasswd.c:
I
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and
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From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:22 PM
To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Robert Collins'; Stephano Mariani;
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Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running mkpasswd
-d in such a case would be useful.
This is just an issue for first time installations, right? AFAICT,
/etc/passwd should not be produced if there is
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From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:51 PM
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 12:17:02PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK
Partners, Inc) wrote:
At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:06:10AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Oh, I didn't think at that ;-( Obviously a way to avoid running mkpasswd
-d in such a case would be useful.
This is just an issue for
I've never seen setup run mkpasswd or mkgroup when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
exist, so I believe you're right, Chris, in saying that this is just a first
time setup issue. Personally, I just didn't want to see a first time user
around here get stuck with a 30 minute install process because setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:25:30AM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
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From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 09:51
Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:32:24PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
Sorry, click on the wrong button and send a private mail to Corinna... :-)
Unlikely since I'm using the mailing list address in my From:
field. Just reply to my mailings and even Outlook sends
only one message to the list...
Christopher Faylor wrote:
The code in setup.exe seems to indicate that mkpasswd and mkgroup will
not be run if the corresponding files already exist. I was asking if
people were actually seeing this happen after a first-time install.
I see mkpass -l run each and every time Cygwin is
Michael A Chase wrote:
I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm that it
only runs mkpasswd and mkgroup if the corresponding files don't exist.
When did this come about? Because every time I reinstall Cygwin it does
indeed run mkpasswd -l. I wonder, since our
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Rick Rankin wrote:
Depends on how you define harmless. We have a *huge* domain, and
mkpasswd
-d can take a very long time (20 - 30 minutes) to complete, so I
definitely
wouldn't want to
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Michael A Chase wrote:
I recently messed with the function that does that, so I can confirm
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Michael A Chase wrote:
The test has been in the code for quite a while, I tweaked the test so
it wouldn't
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:35:07PM -0800, Michael A Chase wrote:
It wouldn't be very hard to add /etc/passwd.lnk and /etc
Perhaps this is already on the wish list, but it would be useful if
setup could set the CYGWIN variable up with (at least) ntsec on
NT/2K/XP, and set correct file permissions and ownerships under cygwin
for the files it installs
Thanks,
Stephano Mariani
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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 7:29 AM
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Subject: Suggestion for setup
Perhaps this is already on the wish list, but it would be
useful if setup could set the CYGWIN variable up
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