RE: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Bug in setup.exe 2.194.2.24 > > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:31:02AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > > > > >> -Original Mess

Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

2002-04-20 Thread Doug Wyatt
The following excerpt is from Brian Livingston's 'Windows Manager' column, 18Mar2002: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/03/18/020318oplivingston.xml I'm wondering if, in addition to possibly forbidding the use of VNC, this might also forbid installing Cygwin on WinXP and then using a r

Re: The Server Daemon

2002-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:46:38PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >>Yes, I could write the individuals mentioned in the source, but Corinna >>dictated that we should keep our dialogues here. In deference to her, >>I'm posting here... > >I appreciate this too. And, see also: http://cygwin.com/bugs.

RE: The Server Daemon

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Richard Troy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: The Server Daemon > > > > Hi All, > > So, I'm trying to get started with implementing the honoring > of the suid bit by cygwin. I've downlo

RE: Compiling cygwin

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
Theres a bug in the cinstall directory which I will be resolving shortly. For now, you can ignore that directories failure. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Compiling cygwin

2002-04-20 Thread Dave Trollope
Hi, I'm tryong to compile cygwin for the first time and am getting the following errors on my system. I was hoping someone could explain the conflict here and why my system is failing when every other one in the world works. make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/cygwin/obj/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/b

Re: Compliance with the GPL (cygwin)

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
The source code I put here: http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/vcd-src/ to help you guys get compliant with the GPL is going away in 48 hours. I can't keep that much stuff up there indefinitely... --Chuck Charles Wilson wrote: > >cygwin-1.1.8 >cygwin-1.3.6 >zl

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Cliff Hones
Christopher Faylor wrote on Saturday, April 20, 2002 11:38 PM: > ... You might also want to invest in > something like Norton Systemworks which has diagnostic tools that may > help narrow down what's wrong with your system. Hmm. Recently we had an NT system which was frequently BSOD'ing (not Cy

Home Biz Op

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Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
George, What I see is that both pages instruct the user to do a "cvs login" and that's to be expected, since that part of CVS. You don't need to use the Cygwin port of CVS to retrieve file from the cygwin.com CVS server. You can use a Windows native CVS command line or something like WinCVS o

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:40:52AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 4:14 AM > >> (*) has anybody ported GnuPG to cygwin? Would you mind supporting it >> and adding it to the cygwin dist?

RE: I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 4:14 AM > (*) has anybody ported GnuPG to cygwin? Would you mind supporting it > and adding it to the cygwin dist? If someone has ported it to mingw, that would be even better

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:51:36PM -0400, George Hester wrote: >Sort of. Maybe it does work for 99% of the people out there. I know >nothing of that. And yes, my toes are sensitive to things such as this. If >I lose my op sys it takes me months to get it back to the condition I had >before its

RE: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-04-20 Thread Ma, Xiangjiang
Charles, I found your message on cygwin ( http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ ) but could not reply there. I followed your advisor and made my enscript worked!!! I added one line on my cshrc.csh setenv PRINTER RW-PRT-02\\HP5SI-2 and use the default /etc/enscript.cfg The only trouble I have is th

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:39:15 -0400 Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ROTFLMAO > > George Hester was the one who wanted all this stuff -- and I just got > four (count 'em, FOUR) "Message not delivered, virus/sensitive content > found" bounce messages from HIS account. Apparently,

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: > ROTFLMAO > > George Hester was the one who wanted all this stuff -- and I just got > four (count 'em, FOUR) "Message not delivered, virus/sensitive content > found" bounce messages from HIS account. Apparently, George's email > account is paranoid about ".README"

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2002-04-20 Thread System Attendant
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TechMail found a potentially dangerous file attachment

2002-04-20 Thread ANTIGEN_CENTAUR
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Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
ROTFLMAO George Hester was the one who wanted all this stuff -- and I just got four (count 'em, FOUR) "Message not delivered, virus/sensitive content found" bounce messages from HIS account. Apparently, George's email account is paranoid about ".README" files .zip files, in addition to p

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Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
George Hester wrote: > The information I have garnered here has helped to maybe stick my toes in > the fire again. I will wait a while and see if there is any good soul that > can explain the procedures for a manual setup. And if that is pie in the sky > then at that point I will decide if walk

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-20 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:42 PM 4/20/2002, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > > this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > > qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE this > > sort of insistent,

Re: Linker issues

2002-04-20 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:23 AM 4/20/2002, Bryan Siever wrote: >Greetings, > I had posted earlier about some undefined references to InitCommonControls. >I seem to be having a problem trying to link with the comctl32 library, I >link to it but it still can't find it. I realize that this isn't directly >relate

Re: Setup.exe bugreport

2002-04-20 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:35 PM 4/19/2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >Hi, > >while looking for the new Xfree86 packages in my >local package directory (in my case D:\cyg-install), > >I see that packages are saved in a curious directory >since March 22th. > >Its name is : >D:\cyg-install\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fm

Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-20 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:02 PM 4/20/2002, George Hester wrote: >Thanks Robert. I went there. But it looks as though I have to have Cygwin >installed to do this. Let me give you an example: > >On this page: > >http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm > >you will see an example how to get files using CVS. That

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:51 PM 4/20/2002, George Hester wrote: >Sort of. Maybe it does work for 99% of the people out there. I know >nothing of that. And yes, my toes are sensitive to things such as this. If >I lose my op sys it takes me months to get it back to the condition I had >before its destruction. You

Re: I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Charles Wilson
Michael A Chase wrote: > I'm having trouble understanding how setup.exe became the source of all > evil in the universe. You had one BSOD months ago which may or may not > have been caused by setup.exe and as a result you are unwilling to try > another version of it ever again. > > A client le

Re: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-20 Thread George Hester
Thanks Robert. I went there. But it looks as though I have to have Cygwin installed to do this. Let me give you an example: On this page: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm you will see an example how to get files using CVS. That worked just fine for me. But on this page: http://

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread George Hester
Sort of. Maybe it does work for 99% of the people out there. I know nothing of that. And yes, my toes are sensitive to things such as this. If I lose my op sys it takes me months to get it back to the condition I had before its destruction. You may not believe me but I assure you that is the

Re: Why did you guys break EVERYTHING...

2002-04-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
> BTW, did it occur to anyone that the rapid and multiple responses to > this email -- which, given its tone and lack of specific content > qualifies as a troll by any objective measure -- serve to ENCOURAGE this > sort of insistent, badgering, and rude behavior? > > I mean, geez -- it worked,

The Server Daemon

2002-04-20 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, So, I'm trying to get started with implementing the honoring of the suid bit by cygwin. I've downloaded the source and performed a build (which failed - the tail of make.log is below). So, I jumped into the source directory and looked at what was there. I started with the cygserver* file

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread David Means
IMHO, cygwin setup works like a champ. I've install cygwin on 4 machiness in the past year, nary a BSOD. Stick your toes back in. The water was never that bad in the first place. ;-) David On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 12:35, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:19:40AM -0400, Ge

RE: cygwin mentors? Was: bash and the suid bit

2002-04-20 Thread Richard Troy
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Heribert Dahms wrote: > Hi Richard, > > if it's that important for your company's project > (that you work like me 50% of each 25h day 8-) > why don't you pay Red Hat per hour or day, > so Corinna or Chris work for you in their prime time? Hi Heribert, Yes, that's a re

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 03:19:40AM -0400, George Hester wrote: >Do you have all your toes? Sure. My toes are not so sensitive that they become burned off if I encounter a problem with my system. I'm also the kind of guy who thinks that if something is working for 99% of the people out there and

Re: I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Michael A Chase
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 02:51:45 -0400 George Hester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that at one time setup.exe might not have been all that it was > thought to be. And that now it may be better. But once burned many > people > do not jump back in the flames. Well I decided I would stick my

Copy-on-write fork

2002-04-20 Thread Chris January
> > I assume that one possible reason is that the copy-on-write fork may be > > somehow bypassing normal in-memory sharing of text segments but I never > > knew for sure. > > > > Have either of you tried this comparison on XP, to see if it's any different > there? I'm running XP here, if Chris J.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: Pine]

2002-04-20 Thread Steven O'Brien
Eduado wrote: > I am running the bash shell, and somehow, even though the SHELL variable is > set, Oine does not pick it up. Although bash sets the SHELL variable, it does not export it. This has been discussed on this list before. The correct solution is to explicitly export it yourself from /e

RE: Offer for killall-script

2002-04-20 Thread Ralf Habacker
> > In the cygwin-apps I have seen some messages > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2002-01/msg00340.html about a > killall > > util, which was going to be part of the cygutils packages but was waiting > > because of licensing problems. > > > > For killall I'm using a good working script

RE: Where is the manual to manually install cygwin in Windiows 2000

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
http://cygwin.com/cvs.html Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: I am not going to let cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread George Hester
Do you have all your toes? -- George Hester _ "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 02:51:45AM -0400, George Hester wrote: > >Suggestion. Let's consider a Manual Install Dir

RE: I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server

2002-04-20 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: George Hester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 4:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: I am not going to let Cygwin BSOD my Windows 2000 Server Consider this: A BSOD is equivalent to a unix kernel panic - usermode software shou