On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Joe Brown wrote: > Hi, > > Don't know how long this has been an issue, it's been over a month. > > I cannot reach port:80 cygwin.com. I can ping cygwin.com and I can ftp > to it, but I cannot access the web. I have no filters in place to stop > me from reaching there. Currently hoping for a responce from my ISP in > regard to the issue. I also pestered [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can you telnet to port 80? Do you have an /etc/hosts with cygwin.com's address (which may be stale)? > I'm guessing I've downloaded cygwin too may times in the past and my > priveleges have been revoked :o Who did I annoy??? How??? AFAIK, this doesn't happen, unless you mean someone at your local site. > As may be aware, this means I cannot install cygwin. After installing > the latest Clamwin, I've run into versions issues... Now I'm jonesing > for a working cygwin. > > I trying to skirt this issue of no cygwin.com:80 by downloading a > mirrored copy of cygwin packages. That's what you're supposed to do. > This however is met with the setup GPFing on various packages: > > _obsolete/fileutils > mhash > _obsolete/sh-utils > _obsolete/textutils > > Unchecking these packages seems to help, but there's an awful lot of > stuff in misc packages and takes a while to install up to the next > package that gpf's. :/ Are you using an ancient version of setup? What does the first page report? > Any thoughts of wisdom for me? Can you access cygwin.com via one of its aliases, <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/> or <http://sourceware.org/cygwin/>? Some mirrors also have copies of setup.exe -- see if getting a more recent version fixes your problem. The one on cygwin.com is from January 2005, version 2.457.2.2. Try also getting a snapshot (<http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-05/msg00250.html>). HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
