Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Alvyn Liang
Sorry, I just wanna know why I used 'find' several days before and it worked fine (without any error message). After something unclear happened, cygdrive appear to my root. And I don't know if it is related, find any file from the root up always encounter the error of saying find: /cygdrive/c/Doc

Re: ncftp: Who are you?

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 7 11:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote: When I use ncftp I get the following: Who are you? You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it. Problem is my uid is 78843: 78843-13307=65536 That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt

Re: GPL violation ?

2004-05-07 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I am sure you know, mentioning the GPL always starts a Rube > Goldberg reaction of interpretation from would-be lawyers, zealots, > or people who are unsatisfied with following the rules and assume > they should have more rights to the software t

Re: Autarkic fortune/strfile usage possible?

2004-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:17:50AM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >>From: Christopher Faylor >>Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:48 AM > >>On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >>>you never pondered a tiny bit on _why_ I wrote the above, did you? >> >>Bingo. You hit

Re: cvs HEAD: rlogin broken

2004-05-07 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 7 16:28, Brian Ford wrote: > > Just a heads up. Current cvs HEAD cygwin1.dll has broken rlogin. [snip] > > I'll look if I have time later, but I thought Corinna might want to know. > > WFM(tm) Darn, I was hoping it would be as easy to reprodu

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:09 PM 5/7/2004, you wrote: >Maybe I shall rephrase this. >If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will always screw up when it >encounter directories that it doesn't have >access. > >- Original Message - >> If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will

Re: GPL violation ?

2004-05-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:53 PM 5/7/2004, you wrote: >Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As I am sure you know, mentioning the GPL always starts a Rube >> Goldberg reaction of interpretation from would-be lawyers, zealots, >> or people who are unsatisfied with following the rules and assume >> they sh

Re: cvs HEAD: rlogin broken

2004-05-07 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > On Fri, 7 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On May 7 16:28, Brian Ford wrote: > > > Just a heads up. Current cvs HEAD cygwin1.dll has broken rlogin. > [snip] > > > I'll look if I have time later, but I thought Corinna might want to know. > > > > WFM(

Re: ncftp: Who are you?

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 14:59, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >78843-13307=65536 > > > >That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt under > >1.5.x to become 64 bit clean. > > This is interesting. So you are saying, since ncftp is not 64 bit, and > because my userid > 6553

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Alvyn Liang
Maybe I shall rephrase this. If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will always screw up when it encounter directories that it doesn't have access. - Original Message - > If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will always screw up when it > encounter di

RE: How to install info files?

2004-05-07 Thread Clint Bennion
> When try "info gdb", I get an error message "info: dir: No such file or > directory". > GDB is installed on my machine. How I can install the info file? I have also suffered from this issue on a new install. I am not an expert but since no one has responded maybe my solution will help. I mo

Using Setup.exe to uninstall - bogus

2004-05-07 Thread Lex Ein
If there exists a sensible method for trimming the bulk of an existing Cygwin installation on a running disk-limited REMOTE system accessible only via ssh, I'd love to know it. I've completely lost patience. On a remote system, I've been trying to uninstall large chunks of Cygwin (x, db). Using S

RE: Autarkic fortune/strfile usage possible?

2004-05-07 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Christopher Faylor > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:48 AM > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:18:59PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > >you never pondered a tiny bit on _why_ I wrote the above, did you? > > Bingo. You hit the nail on the head. I barely give most of the > things you write more

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Alvyn Liang
After I re-examine my root path I found there is something different in my /. When I type ls I get drwx--+ 4 mcdikcl2 None0 Apr 20 13:50 bin dr-xr-xr-x7 00 0 Jan 1 1970 cygdrive drwx--+ 26 mcdikcl2 None0 Apr 7 13:46 etc -rw-r--r--

Re: cvs HEAD: rlogin broken

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 16:28, Brian Ford wrote: > Just a heads up. Current cvs HEAD cygwin1.dll has broken rlogin. I get > either: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ rlogin fordpc > rlogin: read: No buffer space available >rlogin: connection closed. > > or: > > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: /dev/mem & /dev/kmem CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 22:45, h.h wrote: > I have used cygwin for several years. I vuagly remember that I could do > strings or grep on /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. I think it does not work > anymore under Windows 2000. I'm unsure if this is due to the security > hotfixes from microsoft or some other code change.

cvs HEAD: rlogin broken

2004-05-07 Thread Brian Ford
Just a heads up. Current cvs HEAD cygwin1.dll has broken rlogin. I get either: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ rlogin fordpc rlogin: read: No buffer space available rlogin: connection closed. or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ rlogin fordpc Password: [hang here] when tryin

Re: ncftp: Who are you?

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 7 11:26, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > When I use ncftp I get the following: > > Who are you? > You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it. > > Problem is my uid is 78843: 78843-13307=65536 That's no coincidence. ncftp has apparently never been rebuilt under 1.5.x

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: neon-0.24.5-1

2004-05-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Neon, a WebDAV client library, is now a part of the Cygwin distribution. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. If you have questions or co

/dev/mem & /dev/kmem CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05

2004-05-07 Thread h.h
I have used cygwin for several years. I vuagly remember that I could do strings or grep on /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. I think it does not work anymore under Windows 2000. I'm unsure if this is due to the security hotfixes from microsoft or some other code change. In the process of trying different

CYGWIN Setup: Why is next button grayed

2004-05-07 Thread Jesus Cabral Rdz
I downloaded the file setup.exe then I ran the download from internet option, to avoid delay because of internet connection failure, and when I was sure the setup downloaded all the files, I tried to run setup install from local directory, but the setup never enabled the next key to install, then

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Alvyn Liang wrote: $ find / -name 'inline*' find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator: No such file or directory There's nothing wrong here. It's just that you don't have permission to open the Administrator home directory. On Windows, sometimes you'll see the "no such file or direc

ncftp: Who are you?

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
When I use ncftp I get the following: Who are you? You have a user id number of 13307, but no username associated with it. Problem is my uid is 78843: $ id uid=78843(TPAD3741) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=75769(CCADMIN),77432(CC-PMO),10513(Domain Users),11457(Internet Access2),12069(IS Employ

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" ^^

Email Subject Line or Content not allowed.

2004-05-07 Thread Trinity_Gateway
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Re: echo $HOME returns /cygdrive/c/documents and setting/mrane

2004-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:40:56PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >Sure, mount is the method which is used more often. >And it is faster and easier. >But it is not as transparent to the poor end-user as the symlinks. >He will not see /home when doing "ls /" mkdir /home mount -b "C:/Documents and Se

Re: [Patch] Fix gethwnd race

2004-05-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 05:53:18PM +0200, Jacek Trzmiel wrote: >BTW. Which list is more appropriate for such questions cygwin or >cygwin-patches? The mailing list descriptions are here: http://cygwin.com/lists.html . Unless Brian is showing some signs of not being able to respond to feedback I d

sourceware downtime

2004-05-07 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - Sorry for the short notice, but circumstances apparently conspired to make necessary what will hopefully be a quick outage of the sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin machine. - Forwarded message from Matthew Galgoci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 11:4

Re: gethostname is thread-safe?

2004-05-07 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
> THE ERROR IS: > ERROR gethostbyname() failed, h_errno=-1 > Description: (null) > ERROR socket() failed, Errno= 1 > Description: Operation not permitted http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00191.html Best regards, Jacek. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pro

gethostname is thread-safe?

2004-05-07 Thread electa
i'm using gethostname in a multithreaded code ando sometimes i get error. i think it's not a bug of my code (and i post it) because it does not happed always, but sometimes. maybe gethostname() thread-unsafe? the code: in_addr_t get_my_IP() { char name[255]; //store my hostname (hostname are l

Re: [Patch] Fix gethwnd race

2004-05-07 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
(Redirected from cygwin-patches) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q2/msg00082.html >>> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 07:18:39PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: Although not the complete rewrite you may have been hoping for, the attached patch does appear to fix the: Winmain: Cannot register wi

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > >> Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> > >>> # Install cron service: > >>> cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "[EMAIL > >>> PROTECTED]" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" > >

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" ^^ As an aside, hasn't 'ntsec' been enabled by default for a long time

RE: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Harig, Mark wrote: > > Two places to look for the actual error are /var/log/cron.log and the > > Windows event log. Perhaps Mark can add this to the output of his > > script... > > Igor > > I assume that what you are suggesting is that some > text pointing the user to /v

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: # Install cron service: cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" ^^ As an aside, hasn't 'ntsec' been enabled by default for a long time7 now? Or am I just remembering incorrectly? N

RE: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Harig, Mark
Please delete respondents' email addresses from any replies. Spammers harvest email addresses from mailing lists. > -Original Message- > From: Hank Statscewich > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 7:13 PM > To: Harig, Mark > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: CRON problems > > > Quoting "Ha

Re: Bugs in nfs-server package. Att: package maintainers.

2004-05-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Silver, David (Contractor) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing to report two bugs in the nfs-server package. By my reading > of the Cygwin docs, posting to this list is the correct procedure, so forgive > me if that's not the case. The correct place to report bugs in each Cygwin pac

RE: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Harig, Mark
> > Two places to look for the actual error are /var/log/cron.log and the > Windows event log. Perhaps Mark can add this to the output of his > script... > Igor > -- I assume that what you are suggesting is that some text pointing the user to /var/log/cron.log be added, not actually displ

RE: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Harig, Mark
> > Hmm, seems to me like checking ownership and permissions of cron.pid > would be something the cron_diagnose.sh should do. What happened was > that you ran it initially as your normal user account, and > the pid file > was created. Then when you tried to start it as a service, it was > runni

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > # Install cron service: > > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e "[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" > >

RE: GPL violation ?

2004-05-07 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
Though IANAL, I would suggest that the "exchange of something of value" is the ability to have one's code included in in cygwin as distributed via setup. (Thus, the thing of value is a service, not an object.) One might reasonably suppose that the contributor wants cygwin to have the functionalit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: robots-2.0-4

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of robots to 2.0-4. This is a bug fix release which solves problems in reading/writing the the score files. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: inetutils-1.3.2-28

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the version of inetutils to 1.3.2-28. Changes in 1.3.2-28: - Don't require *any* password for anonymous ftp account. Use Cygwin's ability to switch user context w/o password for anonymous ftp instead. 'ftp' user entry in /etc/passwd and real NT user account behind it still req

Re: how to build php in cygwin?

2004-05-07 Thread Reini Urban
Andrew DeFaria schrieb: Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: Well I went to that URL and downloaded http://apache.dev.wapme.net/support/cygwin-packages/apache-modules/mod_php4/apache-php-4.2.0-2.tar.bz2, bunzip2 and untarred it and ran the postinstall (after first commenting out the last line which is

Re: GPL violation ?

2004-05-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 6 19:02, Dave Korn wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 06 May 2004 18:47 > > > You do get a T-shirt for filing the assignment, which is > > intended to cover > > all of your subsequent contributions. > > Ah, that explai

Bugs in nfs-server package. Att: package maintainers.

2004-05-07 Thread Silver, David (Contractor)
Hi, I'm writing to report two bugs in the nfs-server package. By my reading of the Cygwin docs, posting to this list is the correct procedure, so forgive me if that's not the case. I have checked the mailing list archives and only seen an obtuse reference to problem (1) and a brief mention of pr

Re: CRON problems

2004-05-07 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > # Install cron service: > cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D -d "Cygwin cron" -e > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -e "CYGWIN=ntsec" ^^ As an aside, hasn't 'ntsec' been enabled by default for a long time now? Or am I just remember