Re: base-files 3.4-2: Permission denied!
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 permission. Every user (or only Administrator?) should remove manually .X11-unix before the disconnetion from the machine. In this case there is not permission denied for the simple user. angelo. Sorry, I don't use startxwin.bat, I can't help with that. 3.4-2 simply 2/dev/null's the error, perhaps startxwin.bat should too? J. PS, *please* don't reply to everyone just the list :)
Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv. (atn: Corinna)
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 1777 /tmp fi in /etc/profile. It assign the permission t to /tmp but this was already a problem with xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-1 and org-x11-xwin-gl-6.8.2.0-1. The next, 6.8.2.0-2, was released exactly to fix that problem. The solution was to not assign the t permission to /tmp and to whatever it contans! See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00076.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00054.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00053.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00050.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00049.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00048.html angelo. Corinna, this was a change you asked for... what would you like me to do? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00206.html J.
Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv. (atn: Corinna)
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 1777 /tmp fi in /etc/profile. It assign the permission t to /tmp but this was already a problem with xorg-x11-xwin-6.8.2.0-1 and org-x11-xwin-gl-6.8.2.0-1. The next, 6.8.2.0-2, was released exactly to fix that problem. The solution was to not assign the t permission to /tmp and to whatever it contans! See: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00076.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00054.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00053.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00050.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00049.html http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-04/msg00048.html angelo. Corinna, this was a change you asked for... what would you like me to do? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00206.html J.
RE: bad installation ?
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 (for a number of reasons, see archives) can't add domain users. The outcome is, for this user, is that you get added to a special group. In an effort to stop or at least slow ;) the number of emails to the list when stuff didn't work because their user/group wasn't setup correctly some detection code was added to base-files along with some instruction as to what to do. Basically adding your user (using the domain flag if appropriate) to the passwd and group files which is what the message attempts to help the user to do. It appears (judging from the number of times this question isn't now appearing on the lists) to have worked for most people, but I'm always looking for perfection ;) Hope this helps explain things, J. On Thu, March 10, 2005 7:22 pm, Matthew Johnson said: Hi, John- Since I myself have no idea why it is outputting that message, no I cannot suggest a better message. And I notice that when I did a fresh installation of cygwin and cygwin/x on a brand new system yesterday, now I am getting that message too. Do _you_ have any idea why fresh installations did not used to output this message, but now they do? Is it a new message, or did something change in cygwin or cygwin/x, such that the group now gets initialized to 'mkpasswd' (and did not get so initialized before)? --- Morrison, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As maintainer of the package which outputs that message I'm always glad to hear of ways to improve it. Can you suggest a better message? J. -Original Message- From: Matthew Johnson Well, Phil, I read what she posted, and I do NOT think it tells all Banibrata needs to know. The big unanswered question that is probably still bothering Banibrata is, how on earth did the group get to be 'mkpasswd' in the first place? I very much doubt that Banibrata set it to that. And now I can add, I _know_ I did not set it to that, yet now I get the message too, when starting up the bash shell. [snip] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
Re: New mouse...
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 this is a driver problem. Most likely it is configured to produce a double click instead of a middle button press. see http://hardware.mcse.ms/message127168.html Oh joy! I knew it was configured to 'double-click' but, for the life of me couldn't figure out what to change it to! BTW: I've cc'ed the mailing list so it will end up in the public archives. np :) Thanks ago! J.
RE: About box
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 http://www.codeproject.com/miscctrl/hyperlink.asp http://www.codeproject.com/editctrl/hyperedit.asp?target=dialog%7Curl All the best, J.
RE: Debatable: Rootless Mode is an Important and Needed Feature
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 again. However, I am not in a position to aid the xfree development; so I don't feel I can insist on something that would take so much effort... J.
RE: Java in Windows on X
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 Cygwin/XFree. Currently, my first hurdle is to get OpenMOTIF fully ported, as the jdk won't compile with lesstif. There are some licensing issues regarding that, but I really don't give a damn what the Open Group says. So, once that's done, then comes the hard part. We'll see how far along cygwin's threading capabilities are, as that is probably the most worrisome aspect. Currently, there has been much work done in progressing sysV IPC, so when the time comes it should be ready to roll. Hopefully I can get a useful vm out of it, but it's really just for fun. Anyhow, swing and awt support is just plain dreadful, if not non-existent, in the various gpl'd vms. So, I don't need to be reminded about them, because they are frankly useless. Since I'm not about to write the X11 interface from the ground up, I figure this would be the best bet. Besides, who knows, if this is successful I might submit my build to Sun and see if they'll allow redistribution. Cheers, Nicholas
