Re: Two versions of uptime, one in procps-010801-2 and one in sh-utils-2.0-3

2003-01-04 Thread Volker Zell
Hi Chris o This package has now a conflict between kill.exe from cygwin-1.3.18-1 o Additionally nohup is missing also the man page is there and the info page still mentions the utility as core o There is now also a conflict between the uptime man page from procps-010801-2 o

Re: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe

2003-01-04 Thread Earnie Boyd
No, I was using cached profile. There is no Domain Controller available. John Morrison wrote: Sorry for going back to this, Earnie, are you logg'ed into a domain to give the information below? Thanks, J. From: Earnie Boyd Question: have you a known situation where $USERDOMAIN != hostname

RE: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe

2003-01-04 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:37 PM 1/4/2003 -, John Morrison wrote: Pierre A. Humblet has modified mkpasswd to support the -c flag we were discussing... he's going to post it here later Here it this, it compiles with gcc mkpasswd.c :) The question is whether the switches -l -c will produce correct info about the

Re: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 04:04:23PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: At 05:37 PM 1/4/2003 -, John Morrison wrote: Pierre A. Humblet has modified mkpasswd to support the -c flag we were discussing... he's going to post it here later Here it this, it compiles with gcc mkpasswd.c :) Is there

Re: Building /etc/passwd from setup.exe

2003-01-04 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 04:11 PM 1/4/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: Is there some reason why this isn't just being posted as a patch over in cygwin-patches? What is it doing in cygwin-apps? The only use of -c is for the setup postinstall scripts. It's also the continuation of a thread started here. I will

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:36:12PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: You don't need my permission. Just post to cygwin-apps and see what others think. Or, since you're the package maintainer and, I'm sure that you've tested this, feel free to just refresh your packages. Actually, I do have one

Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread M. Evans
The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory Toolkit and 2xExplorer. The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some similarly innocuous character instead of percent signs. Regards. Mark

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:09, M. Evans wrote: The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory Toolkit and 2xExplorer. The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some similarly innocuous

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:09, M. Evans wrote: The percent (%) character in the setup.exe download file paths is a problem for many Windows file managers. These include Directory Toolkit and 2xExplorer. The proposal is to change setup.exe to use underscores or some

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 10:48, M. Evans wrote: Yep. Why not contact the authors of the programs you mention and get them to fix their bugs. Already done that. I agree with you that it's legal but also think what is legal is not always what is ethical. It would be better for Cygwin to

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread M. Evans
I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses the % sign. There are many obscure features of Windows that are best avoided. And even if you guys were right (which you are not) you should be more polite. Regards. Mark

Re: Setup Prop: Change percent to underscore

2003-01-04 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote: I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses the % sign. Thats a hasty generalization http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html. And even if you guys were right (which you are not) You haven't