Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied!

2005-05-19 Thread John Morrison
On Thu, May 19, 2005 12:01 am, Angelo Graziosi said: With this new release there is a Permission denied when a NOT-ADMIN user starts the X system (startxwin.bat) He has not access to remove .X11-unix (see startxwin.bat) when /tmp has the t

Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv. (atn: Corinna)

2005-05-16 Thread John Morrison
On Sun, May 15, 2005 9:38 pm, Angelo Graziosi said: When loging as user without admn. priv. (e.g.: owner= Graziosi, group= Users) the standard bash shell (cygwin.bat) says: chmod: changing permissions of `/tmp': Permission denied This is caused by if [ -d /tmp ]; then chmod

Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv. (atn: Corinna)

2005-05-16 Thread John Morrison
On Sun, May 15, 2005 9:38 pm, Angelo Graziosi said: When loging as user without admn. priv. (e.g.: owner= Graziosi, group= Users) the standard bash shell (cygwin.bat) says: chmod: changing permissions of `/tmp': Permission denied This is caused by if [ -d /tmp ]; then chmod

RE: bad installation ?

2005-03-10 Thread John Morrison (Cygwin)
Hi Matthew, Although the message is from base-files the reason is due to installation. In my experience this only occurs when installing for a domain user although others have reported other reasons for it. For me, the message occurs because the base-passwd (which I also maintain) doesn't and

Re: New mouse...

2005-01-24 Thread John Morrison
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, John Morrison wrote: The mouse is a Microsoft (I know, but I won it!) Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0 It's the one with the side-ways scrolling functionality which I think is what is messing up the paste. xev outputs... Click the scroll: Is two button 1's I guess

RE: About box

2004-03-26 Thread John Morrison
From: Harold L Hunt II By all means, please just commit code that does blue links in the dialog box. I was aiming to do that and didn't see a way to do it the first time through. Hi Harold, Try these :) http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/controls/controls/hyperlinkcontrols/article.php /c2185

RE: Debatable: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature

2002-09-27 Thread John Morrison
I'm sure Harold would appreciate any patch contributions you make towards this... Seriously, very week (or so) somebody asks for this, but nobody puts code forwards. *shrug*, I think Harold is doing a fantastic job, and when he eventually gets around to scratching that itch I'll thank him

RE: Java in Windows on X

2002-08-09 Thread John Morrison
Ooh, if you need anyone to help test! I will! I've been wanting somebody to do this since I started cygwin and Java development! From: Nicholas Wourms Well, I can't make any promises, but I've been kicking around the notion of porting the Sun Community Sources version of java to