shared files and fork()

2002-12-06 Thread Paul G.
Hi folks, Just a couple of quick questions: The cvs release of Python-2.2.1 (python.org) indicates that there was a problem with implementing shared files (.dlls I assume, could also be .dlls.a files) with fork(). The workaround suggested changed the Python build to gen

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
The cron works now!, the output its ok (date.txt). but with my script the things are different, here are the files I use.. I tested the script from the command line and work flawlesly, but when i add it to my crontab it does not work has expected! the files are atached to the mail, and the output

Re: Latest setup.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Joseph I. Davida
I tried the beta version Max suggested and it also exhibits the same behaviour on my win2k laptop; i.e. sucks up huge mem (depletes VM), and yet after more than 1 hour of running, it still says 1% of base-files 1.1-1 is installed. The "total" progress meter shows only about a sliver of "progress" :

Re: ssh/telnet

2002-12-06 Thread Abraham Backus
After checking things out a little more, it looks like "last logged in" type of data is in your wtmp database, which on my system is /var/log/wtmp. This appears to be a log/history of past logins. To view the data in here, try the following command: $ who /var/log/wtmp Otherwise, I'm at a loss a

RE: Cron Won't Run Jobs

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Please try running the attached file (a bash shell script). It attempts to diagnose problems in your directories and crontab files. It does *not* change any files, but tells the user of any problems that it finds. If it proves to be useful, it could be donated to the Cygwin 'cron' distribution.

Re: ssh/telnet

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Abraham Backus wrote: I believe that this information is stored in the utmp database, which appears to be in /var/run/utmp (a binary file) on my installation. If you type the "who am i" command, it gives the information from utmp. There are probably some tools for displaying what's in this f

Re: Latest setup.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Please keep replies on list! Joseph I. Davida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears that this setup.exe is depleting the VM pool. > There is either a bad memory leak problem, or there > is a boundless recursion in the calls. I suspect the > it is a memory leak problem. > The machine has 512M sd

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> >5. Check your crontab: crontab -l > > Done it shows: > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and > reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.1036 installed on Fri Dec 6 13:04:23 > 2002) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 > 17:09:55 corinna Exp $) > * * * * * /usr/sbin/date >> /

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
--- "Harig, Mark A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It appears as though everything is set correctly. > > Try: > >1. Shut down your cron service. Done. >2. Run Cygwin's setup.exe to uninstall 'cron'. Done. >3. Run setup.exe a second time to > download/install > a new copy of

[patch] Symbolic value for PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT

2002-12-06 Thread Christophe Galerne
Hi, As discussed with Robert Collins, I propose this patch to make the 'default' mutex type more explicit. 2002-12-05 Christophe Galerne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * pthread.h (PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT): reorder PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT and PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE so that PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT can be defi

Re: ssh/telnet

2002-12-06 Thread Abraham Backus
I believe that this information is stored in the utmp database, which appears to be in /var/run/utmp (a binary file) on my installation. If you type the "who am i" command, it gives the information from utmp. There are probably some tools for displaying what's in this file in a textual/readable f

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
It appears as though everything is set correctly. Try: 1. Shut down your cron service. 2. Run Cygwin's setup.exe to uninstall 'cron'. 3. Run setup.exe a second time to download/install a new copy of 'cron'. 4. Reboot your computer. 5. Check your crontab: crontab -l 6. Inst

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Ok, I have made the changes, now the directories show: total 4 drwxrwxrwx6 Administ Ninguno 0 Apr 12 2002 . drwxrwxrwx 10 Administ Ninguno 4096 Dec 5 19:38 .. drwxrwxrwt3 asuncion Ninguno 0 Apr 12 2002 cron drwxrwxrwx2 Administ Ninguno 0 Dec 5 18:46

Re: UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory [and side comment on lists]

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
linda w (cyg) wrote: I found creating a shortcut to bash (and calling it 'cygwin') seems to shortcut the need for using cmd.exe. When I use the provided 'cygwin.bat', I end up with a process tree: EXPLORER: CMD.EXE BASH.EXE --- makes sense, shell cmd calls bash.exe -- but I noticed this annoyi

Re: UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Adrian C. Brown wrote: Why would I get this error when trying to start cygwin from the shortcut placed on the desktop? CMD.EXE was started with '\\coruscant\users\adrianb\Desktop' as the current directory path. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. I am using Windows

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Also, once you have done this, shut down your cron service and restart it. > -Original Message- > From: Harig, Mark A. > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 4:20 PM > To: Eric De La Cruz Lugo; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional > > > > > > drwxrwxrwx 3 a

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > drwxrwxrwx 3 asuncion Ninguno 0 Apr > 12 2002 /var/cron > > drwxrwxrwx 2 asuncion Ninguno 0 Dec 6 > 13:04 /var/cron/tabs > For some reason, your 'sticky bit' settings didn't get set for /var/cron/ and /var/cron/tabs/. Instead of 'drwxrwxrwx', your permis

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd?

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
(Send to the list and the sender)... Bruce P. Osler wrote: For starters - I'd like to contribute to the Cygwin love-fest going on. I think Cygwin is an awesome environment with huge benefits for folks working under windows. Today I'm interested in finding out wether I can use networked passwor

Re: ssh/telnet

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Abraham Backus wrote: Andrew, I tried with sshd running as its own NT service, and again with it running under inetd and my "last logged in" gets updated appropriately. Cygwin DLL verion 1.3.17 openssh version 3.5p1-2 Windows 2000 SP2 Try updating your cygwin packages by running cygwin setup.ex

FW: Help, cygwin logs me on using my winnt domain user rather than Administrator

2002-12-06 Thread Cary Lewis
-Original Message- From: Cary Lewis Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:58 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Help, cygwin logs me on using my winnt domain user rather than Administrator Prior to today, when I started by bash shell, my id would be Administrator, id=500. Today,

RE: UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory [and side comment on lists]

2002-12-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think you made several "overstatements" in your observations below. If you recheck the email archives or even the Cygwin web site, I think you'll find clear explanations of the expectations for list inquiries. Simply put, if any poster cannot make a minimal effort to ensure that the issue

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
--- "Harig, Mark A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the ownership/permissions for '/var'? That > is, > >ls -ld /var > drwxrwxrwx 6 Administ Ninguno 0 Apr 12 2002 /var drwxrwxrwx 3 asuncion Ninguno 0 Apr 12 2002 /var/cron drwxrwxrwx 2 asunci

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
What are the ownership/permissions for '/var'? That is, ls -ld /var > -Original Message- > From: Eric De La Cruz Lugo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional > > > >1. Have you read

control-c problem...known bug?

2002-12-06 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
Somehow, something I've done in my environment seems to cause a problem with control-c handling. A control-c gets sent to any sub-shells and right through 'ssh' -- very annoying: I tried the cygwin X server, but at the time it wanted to own the whole desktop and didn't behave in a civilized mann

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
>1. Have you read /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README? Yes. >2. Have you tried using a simple crontab entry? > What have you tried? yes i am using now the following example: crontab -e * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt "as you suggested to Buck Turgidson" but there is nothing yet in /tmp/ (6

Re: Glib2

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: > Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Libtool bug (incorrect handling of def files in archive_expsym_cmds). >> Still present in CVS. I'll see if I can patch it. > > Details, please? .def files are passed as -Wl,-retain-symbols-file deffile, not, as is correct, the first 'object' file. M

RE: UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory [and side comment on lists]

2002-12-06 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
Hi, pretty new to the list though have been using cygwin for several months now, first under win98, and now under XP. This may have been covered elsewhere -- sorry, but I doubt I will have enough time to read all the archives of all the lists despite what the warnings say a

RE: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
1. Have you read /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README? 2. Have you tried using a simple crontab entry? What have you tried? For future reference, please include your 'cygcheck.txt' file as an attachment only. > > Just for the record, i have done the following: > > cygrunsrv -E cron > cygrunsrv -R cr

Fwd: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Information about passwd and group files Just for the record (again) passwd file: SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18:: Administradores:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544:: Administrador:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:U-SRVCORDEMEX\Administrador,S-1-5-21-854245398-1202660629-1343024091-500:/home/Administrador:/bin/bas

Re: Glib2

2002-12-06 Thread Charles Wilson
Max Bowsher wrote: Libtool bug (incorrect handling of def files in archive_expsym_cmds). Still present in CVS. I'll see if I can patch it. Details, please? --Chuck cygwin libtool maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://c

RE: Cron Won't Run Jobs

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
> > I am not sure how to interpret this, but if you can tell me > what I need to > change, I'd appreciate it. This is getting me pretty frustrated... > > -rw-r-1 400 18211 Dec 5 08:39 > /var/cron/tabs/buck > > The '18' in your output is the group ownership number.

Fwd: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Just for the record, i have done the following: cygrunsrv -E cron cygrunsrv -R cron cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -e "CYGWIN=tty ntsec" cygrunsrv -S cron Here is my new output too. after doing: $CYGWIN='tty ntsec' $EXPORT CYGWIN Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current Sy

Re: 1.3.15 on W2K: return codes, bash, cmd.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:19:30AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Stephen Powell wrote: > >>Try it without the /b, just "exit 1". > >Notice that she said she tried it, it works, but is not an option for >her because they need to be invoked from DOS command shells as well, and >she doesn't want the b

Re: 1.3.15 on W2K: return codes, bash, cmd.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Shankar Unni
Stephen Powell wrote: Try it without the /b, just "exit 1". Notice that she said she tried it, it works, but is not an option for her because they need to be invoked from DOS command shells as well, and she doesn't want the bat files to cause those shells to exit. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Cron Won't Run Jobs

2002-12-06 Thread Buck Turgidson
I am not sure how to interpret this, but if you can tell me what I need to change, I'd appreciate it. This is getting me pretty frustrated... -rw-r-1 400 18211 Dec 5 08:39 /var/cron/tabs/buck - Original Message - From: "Harig, Mark A." <> To: "Buck Turgid

Re: Glib2

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Gen Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After re-libtoolize-ing the sources (to allow it to produce shared > libs) the compilation is fine through glib and will produce > libglib-2.0.la, but will complain about undefined references to > things like '_g_free' and '_g_log' (which I presume is in > li

RE: Error: symbol `_D' is already defined

2002-12-06 Thread Tim Beuman
Thanks. Works. Tim -Original Message- From: Danny Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 04:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error: symbol `_D' is already defined From: "Tim Beuman" To: "Cygwin at Cygwin dot Com" Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:39:30 -0800

Re: suitable cygwin subset question

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> So this all is a prelude to the question: What's the minimum subset >>> of stuff I need to move, and is it necessary to actually run a >>> cygwin installer (for registry setups, maybe???) or will simply >>> putting files in the "right place" work? >

Re: pine can't find .pinerc

2002-12-06 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Richardson, Tony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) I've recently started having trouble with pine. I don't use it that :) often and only noticed the problem when I recently started it up and it :) asked if I wanted to move the old sent mail to a backup directory. :) Regardless of whether I

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:05:24 -0500 (EST) Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, there's also apparently a cygwin port of 'script': > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01371.html It's also easy to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to a file. I found myself doing it often enough that I

Re: suitable cygwin subset question

2002-12-06 Thread Fred_Smith
>> So this all is a prelude to the question: What's the minimum subset of >> stuff I need to move, and is it necessary to actually run a cygwin >> installer (for registry setups, maybe???) or will simply putting >> files in the "right place" work? > >Without registry entries, Cygwin won't know wher

Setup unable to download list of mirror sites -- One possible solution

2002-12-06 Thread Naveen Kansara
I had the same problem with cygwin setup - it used to fail in getting the mirrors.1st file from http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst . I also found setup.log.full contained line getUrlToStream failed!. I have found that the error maybe caused due to Kazaa Lite - if you use Kazaa lite and

Re: cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:49:06AM -0800, Eric De La Cruz Lugo wrote: >Hi!, i just installed cygwin in my PC in order to run >a shell script, this script run just fine form the >command line, now i need to run this script every >minute ("cron" and "crontab" issue). > >I have read all the mail list

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Michael A Chase wrote: > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:08:07 +0200 Ryan Budge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ive attached a screen cap of the window. Sorry... I don't have script > > like I do in BSD to give the output in text. Or am I being silly... > > The latter. You can cut an

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sh-utils-2.0-3

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:51:34AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I've made a new version of the sh-utils available for download. The >> only change is to recompile everything with newer versions of gcc >> and other libraries. This seems to hav

pine can't find .pinerc

2002-12-06 Thread Richardson, Tony
I've recently started having trouble with pine. I don't use it that often and only noticed the problem when I recently started it up and it asked if I wanted to move the old sent mail to a backup directory. Regardless of whether I say yes or no I get the following error message: Error saving con

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce P. Osler
Thnx, the pieces fit now. - Bruce At 04:42 PM 12/6/2002 +, Max Bowsher wrote: Bruce P. Osler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg > S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. No, that's the Windows SID. The password field is the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sh-utils-2.0-3

2002-12-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've made a new version of the sh-utils available for download. The > only change is to recompile everything with newer versions of gcc > and other libraries. This seems to have magically caused the 'date' > command to start showing a timezone. > [

[ANNOUNCEMENT] GNU emacs 21.2-9

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Buehler
GNU emacs 21.2-9 is available. Changes: - applied UNIX patch reported to help recent hang-related problems - switch to built-in malloc (requested by emacs maintainers, supposedly will reduce memory usage) - numerous patches to LISP source for various features in common with Windows emacs - com

cron problem in W2K Proffesional

2002-12-06 Thread Eric De La Cruz Lugo
Hi!, i just installed cygwin in my PC in order to run a shell script, this script run just fine form the command line, now i need to run this script every minute ("cron" and "crontab" issue). I have read all the mail list and FAQ and README files and applied every posible hint and advise, but my s

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Bruce P. Osler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg > S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. No, that's the Windows SID. The password field is the one with "unused_by_nt/2000/xp". Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: .dll.a, .dll files and other questions

2002-12-06 Thread Hans Horn
Chris, thanks a lot! http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html seems to be indeed up-to-date! However, I strongly recommend to wipe or update related sections on http://cygwin.com/docs.html, just to avoid future confusions! Now that we straightened that one out, we can get to more interesting que

shared libstdc++?

2002-12-06 Thread Lapo Luchini
Maybe its a silly question, maybe no. 20' of searching Google and cygwin ML's search seems enough to me 0=) As part of my learning of autotools&friends I'm trying to create a shared library for a university project. But, similiarly to message http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg01815

RE: ProbLEms With cygipc & compile

2002-12-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Well Are you sure your including the files correctly? Where did you install cygipc? Are the lib and include dir (normally /usr/local) in the -L and -I paths? Im also pretty sure the -lcygipc should be at the end. By default these paths are not added by gcc and ld. eg: $ gcc -ggdb -Wall -I/usr

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:08:07 +0200 Ryan Budge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ive attached a screen cap of the window. Sorry... I don't have script > like I do in BSD to give the output in text. Or am I being silly... The latter. You can cut and paste text from a console window in by pressing Alt-

RE: Cron Won't Run Jobs

2002-12-06 Thread Harig, Mark A.
What is the output of 'ls -ln /var/cron/tab/buck'? 'buck' needs to have its 'group' ownership set to SYSTEM, and SYSTEM needs to have its value set to 18. > -Original Message- > From: Buck Turgidson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Trouble compiling a trivial C++ program involving cout

2002-12-06 Thread Gareth Pearce
Hi all, I have a C++ program (resource.cpp): #include "iostream" ... cout << value; ... On compiling with "g++ resource.cpp", I get: resource.cpp:18: `cout' undeclared (first use this function) I've tried: g++ -I /usr/include/c++/3.2/ resource.cpp in which case I get the following: cc1p

Re: .dll.a, .dll files and other questions

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:26:42AM -0500, Scott A. Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:19:27PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >>>those links on (http://cygwin.com/docs.html) describing how to build dlls >>>seem to be utterly outdated. >cgf wrote: >> Nope. Recently updated. > >After reading the abo

1999 C++ bug reappears after upgrade to 1.3.17

2002-12-06 Thread Boris Schaeling
I upgraded Cygwin 1.3.12-2 to 1.3.17-1 and now can't run one of my C++ programs any more: A simple call of a virtual member function crashs Windows 98 (no problems under Linux). I found a bug report dated 03/1999 that reminds me of my C++ program and has a testcase attached that causes a Blue Scree

Trouble compiling a trivial C++ program involving cout

2002-12-06 Thread Vineet Ahuja
Hi all, I have a C++ program (resource.cpp): #include "iostream" ... cout << value; ... On compiling with "g++ resource.cpp", I get: resource.cpp:18: `cout' undeclared (first use this function) I've tried: g++ -I /usr/include/c++/3.2/ resource.cpp in which case I get the following: cc1plus

Re: lprng

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:06:34PM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> "Marco" == Marco Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Marco> Hi all, >Marco> I've been trying to find a free lpd for windows, and noticed that lprng >was ported to cygwin. But in cygwin setup I can't find the lprng pac

ProbLEms With cygipc & compile

2002-12-06 Thread jezek
Hi All ... I have a big probLem. I haVe instALLed cygwin-1.3.17-1 anD i have DownLoaded and installed a PacKAge called cygipc-1.13-2 to make soMe programs for my sTudy uSe ... I need To comPiLe a sOurce uSing sys/(shm.h, sem.h, msg.h) but when i trYed to CompiLE a teSt souRce the Only Thing iT

Re: problem with apache

2002-12-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
Wrong mailing list. Redirected. On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:39:13PM +0500, Dmitry Suhodoev wrote: >hi, cygwin-apps > >i have the apache-1.3.24-5 under cygwin-1.3.12-3 and one big trouble with it. >if i try download big static file from my web server (bigger than 32768 >bytes), then data in downloa

Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Gareth Pearce
(doesnt point out anything about which list setup discussions is supposed to be on...) I accidently deleted the email i was going to reply to - so no context sorry... But I thought I would point out another lovely feature of the continuing to install after after incomplete downloads - as well

Re: lprng

2002-12-06 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> "Marco" == Marco Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Marco> Hi all, Marco> I've been trying to find a free lpd for windows, and noticed that lprng was ported to cygwin. But in cygwin setup I can't find the lprng package. I found a link in cygwin site to download the port, but every

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce P. Osler
Hmmm, I had thought the long ugly string (eg S-1-5-21-1677152479-820197058- 1843927889-1002) was the password. Sounds like I made the wrong assumption. So ... if this is the case, it sounds like it's workable. Especially so given that the employee roles haven't changed in nearly two years :-/ -

Re: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Bruce P. Osler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I was looking for something a bit more dynamic. IIRC - If you do what was suggested, you should only need to rerun mkpasswd when users are added or removed, not when they change their password. Not wonderful, but distinctly better that what you

Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought > all the messages about "Can't open (null) for reading: No such file" > were gone now. Perhaps I'm wrong. I'm afraid so. I've seen this message occasionally (unfortunately, since I don't do much downloading with setup, I have

RE: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd ?

2002-12-06 Thread Bruce P. Osler
I guess I was looking for something a bit more dynamic. I understand that I can create entries on my local machine which contain the domain users password. The issue for me is one of centralization. Is there a way I can bypass the local /etc/passwd file in order that cygwin directly queries the

RE: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Ryan Budge
Hi Tim. > Your config.log appears to say that the test gcc command wants to link > gainst libuser32, and it doesn't find that library. Does gcc -v work for > you from the command line? Do you have such a library? > -- > Tim Prince gcc -v does work from the command line. Ive attached a scree

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:54 AM 12/6/2002, Tim Prince wrote: >On Thursday 05 December 2002 23:28, Ryan Budge wrote: > > > > In my cvs directory I run :- > > > > %autoconf > > %./configure > > > > And I get : - > > > > Configure : error : installation or configuration problem : c compiler > > cannot create executables.

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:57 AM 12/6/2002, Kris Thielemans wrote: >Thanks Larry, > > > > > Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you still need to > > download and how big it is. > > > > > >ok. I'll try to clean up more. >A funny error message though. > >Here's another funny error message: >After ans

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Tim Prince
On Thursday 05 December 2002 23:28, Ryan Budge wrote: > > In my cvs directory I run :- > > %autoconf > %./configure > > And I get : - > > Configure : error : installation or configuration problem : c compiler > cannot create executables. > > Im attaching the output of cygcheck -c and config.log. >

Re: GCC compiler cannot create executables.

2002-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:28 AM 12/6/2002, Ryan Budge wrote: >Hello list. > >Im having some trouble getting gcc working. I am trying to compile the >CVS for coldsync but it doesn't work. I have done the same procedures >on my BSD 4.7 box and all works fine. > >I have :- > >Windows XP Pro. >Cygwin 1.3.15-2 >G

Re: rebase-0.4 patch

2002-12-06 Thread Jason Tishler
Chris, On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:02:46PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:57:41PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >I suggest an independent module in cygwin-apps CVS repository. > > You have write permission in the cygwin-apps repository, Jason, if > you want to creat

RE: .dll.a, .dll files and other questions

2002-12-06 Thread Scott A. Smith
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:19:27PM -0800, Hans Horn wrote: >>those links on (http://cygwin.com/docs.html) describing how to build dlls >>seem to be utterly outdated. cgf wrote: > Nope. Recently updated. After reading the above, I had a look hoping to find more (updated) information on this DLL

Cannot dlsym() some symbols from a DLL built with Cygwin

2002-12-06 Thread fabrizio_ge-wolit
I am having a strange problem with a DLL built with Cygwin (gcc 3.2 200290927 and ld 2.13.90 20021118). I downloaded a package from the Net and built it as a DLL. Then, I wrote to programs, one which linked implicitly with the DLL, and one which linked explicitly (dlopen()ed the DLL, and then dlsy

Re: UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.

2002-12-06 Thread troy . holly
Adrian C. Brown wrote: >Why would I get this error when trying to start cygwin from the >shortcut placed on the desktop? > >CMD.EXE was started with '\\coruscant\users\adrianb\Desktop' as the >current dire ctory path. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to >Windows directory. NT-Shells only

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Kris Thielemans
> > In the list of mirrors, did you ctrl-click to select the 3, or did you > single click, thus choosing a single, different mirror. > > Setup only prevents duplicates when it knows all the mirrors you are > using. > ah. sorry. didn't know that. I single click another mirror whenever I have troubl

RE: Is it possible to use centralized passwords with cygwin inetd?

2002-12-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
Cygwin fully supports domain users. just run `mkpasswd -d >> /etc/passwd` on each box. (setup may run this automaticly these days i'm not sure so check if you already have a list of domain users in your passwd file.) > -Original Message- > From: Bruce P. Osler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 20:57, Kris Thielemans wrote: > well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 > mirrors. In the list of mirrors, did you ctrl-click to select the 3, or did you single click, thus choosing a single, different mirror. Setup only prevents duplicates wh

Re: 1.3.15 on W2K: return codes, bash, cmd.exe

2002-12-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > The .bat scripts do some minimal error checking and exit with > "exit /b 1" on error. Try it without the /b, just "exit 1". With /b: $ cat a.bat exit /b 2 $ cmd /c a.bat ; echo rc=$? C:\winnt\temp>exit /b 2 rc=0 Without /b: $ cat b.bat e

Re: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Max Bowsher
Kris Thielemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, I did have multiple copies of the same file. I've been using 3 > mirrors. I don't think I've been doing something special, but who > knows (is aborting an installation special? It might be). I can't > give you any details, as this happened over t

RE: setup troubles: Download incomplete

2002-12-06 Thread Kris Thielemans
Thanks Larry, > > Disk space could still be the problem. Depends on what you still need to > download and how big it is. > > ok. I'll try to clean up more. A funny error message though. Here's another funny error message: After answering the question "Download incomplete: do you want to try aga

OT: W32 programming with Cygwin

2002-12-06 Thread Rashid Winter
Hi all I've got Cygwin installed on my W2k system and would like to start programming GUI applications using GNU C/C++. I'm well experience in the language, it's just the Windows part of it I know nothing about. I'm pretty skint so ?30 for a book on programming is not possible at the moment. Has a