Re: Setup Documentation

Arthur I Schwarz wrote: > A quick check of the index seems to not show what I'm looking for. I saw > (and must have downloaded) a document which describes what files setup > uses, how to construct the files and like matters. setup-net.html seems to > be a user's manual (by-the-by, it's located in

dead links

All the links in the directory below except the Parent come up as not found. Or am I just clueless? http://www.cygwin.com/packages/gcc-g++/ If this message should go to a different address, let me know and I will send it there. thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Cygwin Job - Installing Courier/Exim/MySQL under Cygwin

Hello, We have a client that requires to run Courier-IMAP with the libmysql authentication, and Exim 4.X with mySQL support to setup a mail-server under Windows with maildir support. I'm looking to outsource the project to an expert with Cygwin, who can tweak the Makefiles for Courier/Exim/m

Re: Chrooted OpenSSH for Windows (rssh sftp cygwin)

Thanks, Christian! I actually got the chrooted sftp session to *work* (! shell commands still work). I made these changes: -- chroot /cygdrive/c/StudentsShare /usr/sbin/sftp-server -- Basically, I removed the 'exec' from the chroot call. I thought maybe there were insufficient dll's in the chr

Re: PATH and SystemRoot oddity

On 26 Nov, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Luke Kendall wrote: > > > I see that by default PATH includes some entries like > > %SystemRoot%/System32 > > > > I also note that $SystemRoot is undefined, yet $SYSTEMROOT contains the > > expected C:\WINDOWS value. > > > > This of co

Re: Setup Documentation

A quick check of the index seems to not show what I'm looking for. I saw (and must have downloaded) a document which describes what files setup uses, how to construct the files and like matters. setup-net.html seems to be a user's manual (by-the-by, it's located in /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc-1.3

Re: Setup Documentation

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: > Sometime in the last several months there was a posting telling where the > Setup documentation can be found. I can't find the posting (sigh). Can > anyone tell me if there is and where there is some Setup documentation. > Something that says what, wh

Re: Setup Documentation

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:39:49 -0800, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: > Sometime in the last several months there was a posting telling where the > Setup documentation can be found. I can't find the posting (sigh). > Can anyone tell me if there is and whe

Setup Documentation

Sometime in the last several months there was a posting telling where the Setup documentation can be found. I can't find the posting (sigh). Can anyone tell me if there is and where there is some Setup documentation. Something that says what, where, when, and how often? I am bedeviled with (my

Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:33:02PM -, John Morrison wrote: >> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my >> "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However, >> the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message >> about

Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:26:21PM -0500, Harig, Mark wrote: >> > 4. This problem could be reported to Bugzilla, with >> >a patch file attachment. Please see >> > >> >http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin >> > >> >and select 'Cygwin Applications' as the Componen

Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

Harig, Mark schrieb: 4. This problem could be reported to Bugzilla, with a patch file attachment. Please see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin and select 'Cygwin Applications' as the Component. After you have entered the Summary and Description, revisit the Bugz

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> -Original Message- > From: Harig, Mark > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 2:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space > > > > > > > > > 4. This problem could be reported to Bugzilla, with > > >a patch file attachment. Pl

Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my > "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However, > the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message > about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a HOME environmen

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 at 05:50:29PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > Well, I suppose so, but subtle and borderline hardware failures can have > ever such bizarre, transient, and unpredictable consequences (cf. memory > timing issues and Sig11 failures at times of heavy stress Sure... but I don't think ru

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:32:09PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Cygwin initialization code isn't particularly hard to debug. You just > set breakpoints and debug it like any other part of cygwin. It's > actually easier to debug than most other pieces because there aren't > multiple threads

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> > > > 4. This problem could be reported to Bugzilla, with > >a patch file attachment. Please see > > > >http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin > > > >and select 'Cygwin Applications' as the Component. > > > >After you have entered the Summary and Descrip

Re: FW: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:47:32AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:47:09PM -, John Macallister wrote: >>I've done some more tests and here's what I did. >> >>I saved cygcheck from a previous failed installation which created a bin >>directory with some contents but

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 11:14:51PM -0800, David Hinds wrote: >A couple days ago, I tried to update a quite old cygwin installation >on a Windows XP SP2 box to the latest (1.5.12-1). After the update, >all Cygwin programs exit immediately and silently. I've tried >scrubbing the Windows registry of

RE: diga

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Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

Harig, Mark schrieb: 1. Thank you for the patch file. 2. More fundamentally, this is a problem in /etc/defaults/etc/profile, instead of with /etc/profile. 3. This file belongs to the 'base-files' package: $ /usr/bin/cygcheck -f /etc/defaults/etc/profile base-files-3.1-4 4. This problem c

Re: increasing filesystems size

At 06:57 AM 11/30/2004, you wrote: >There is a way, it's only to change the keys located under >"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v >. I did that, however I couldn't get success. >Here, the free space is changed in accordance with the system user. I >need to use all the fre

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> > 4. This problem could be reported to Bugzilla, with >a patch file attachment. Please see > >http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin > >and select 'Cygwin Applications' as the Component. > >After you have entered the Summary and Description, revisit >

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

1. Thank you for the patch file. 2. More fundamentally, this is a problem in /etc/defaults/etc/profile, instead of with /etc/profile. 3. This file belongs to the 'base-files' package: $ /usr/bin/cygcheck -f /etc/defaults/etc/profile base-files-3.1-4 4. This problem could be reported t

RE: A vexing installation problem

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Hinds > Sent: 30 November 2004 17:08 > On Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 at 01:38:39PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > > > > I reckon you most likely have faulty hardware in there somewhere > > Err, it seems exceedingly unlikely that this heavily

Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However, the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a HOME environment variab

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Tue, 30 Nov, 2004 at 01:38:39PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > > I reckon you most likely have faulty hardware in there somewhere Err, it seems exceedingly unlikely that this heavily used system which has worked perfectly for several years, would have faulty hardware that specifically dislikes cygwi

Re: FW: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:47:32AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:47:09PM -, John Macallister wrote: >>I've done some more tests and here's what I did. >> >>I saved cygcheck from a previous failed installation which created a bin >>directory with some contents but

Re: FW: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 07:47:09PM -, John Macallister wrote: >I've done some more tests and here's what I did. > >I saved cygcheck from a previous failed installation which created a bin >directory with some contents but didn't complete. > >I removed virtually everything from the system apart

Re: Suggesting an application

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:10:42PM -, John Macallister wrote: >I too would find having tcpdump available a great asset. I use windump >but it has some failing which irritate me. For example I haven't been >able to get it to display hex and ascii output at the same time as >tcpdump can and which

Re: increasing filesystems size

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 09:57:46AM -0200, Maikon Bueno wrote: >There is a way, it's only to change the keys located under >"HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v >. I did that, however I couldn't get success. >Here, the free space is changed in accordance with the system user.

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:50:03PM -, Matt Ross wrote: >What was the last version of Cygwin before signal handling was enabled? ? Cygwin has always had signal handling and that particular message has existed unchanged since 02-Aug-00. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:54:54PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Fergus Daly >> Sent: 30 November 2004 14:19 > >> > Probably a false alarm. >> > Is '.' in your $PATH? >> No. >> Fergus > > >Nevermindallthatnow, why have you suddenly changed

Re: A vexing installation problem

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:14:08PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >With so many planet-sized intellects working away at this I am a bit nervous >about making yet another contribution of the style "how's this for weird?". I don't see what's particularly weird about this or what this email has to d

RE: A vexing installation problem

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Fergus Daly > Sent: 30 November 2004 14:19 > > Probably a false alarm. > > Is '.' in your $PATH? > No. > Fergus Nevermindallthatnow, why have you suddenly changed your surname? :-O Nonetheless I can confirm that it's a false

Re: A vexing installation problem

> Probably a false alarm. > Is '.' in your $PATH? No. Fergus -- 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/

Re: Chrooted OpenSSH for Windows (rssh sftp cygwin)

John M. L. recaffeinated.com> writes: > I've been trying to implement an sftp server using OpenSSH for Windows > (http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net). I haven't found much recent discussion > on th topic of running OpenSSH in a chrooted jail on cygwin, but the > following messages from a year ago

Re: A vexing installation problem

I too have been experiencing this whole problem on a hp DL360G3 server that up until recently was happily running Cygwin and SSH. When I did a Cygwin update about a fortnight ago I didn't notice anything was wrong until I rebooted the server. Then SSH would not start. As it turns out, nearly all th

RE: A vexing installation problem

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of David Hinds > Sent: 30 November 2004 01:14 > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:22:35PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: > > > > Yeah, I understand. This is certainly not your everyday > issue, as you've > > noticed. I suppose it's worthwhile to l

RE: A vexing installation problem

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 30 November 2004 13:14 > On my system I have so contrived things that I have exactly > one (yes promise > and hope to die horribly) exactly one cygwin1.dll and there > ain't nothing > else at all, anywhere.

Re: sshd broken on reboot

- Original Message - Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 3:00 PM Subject: Re: sshd broken on reboot At 11:57 AM 11/28/2004, you wrote: Cygwin: My O/S is WinXP Pro SP2 and my Cygwin is current as of last night. I would like to start using sshd. I located and read: http://pigtail.net/LRP/

Re: A vexing installation problem

With so many planet-sized intellects working away at this I am a bit nervous about making yet another contribution of the style "how's this for weird?". But On my system I have so contrived things that I have exactly one (yes promise and hope to die horribly) exactly one cygwin1.dll and there ain'

Re: sshd broken on reboot

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:28:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: > > Ah, so this is the classic rebase problem. ... > > [install] the 'rebase' package ... run 'rebaseall'... > > That fixed it! Thank you very much. :-) This is the first time I've heard that sshd requires re

RE: Suggesting an application

I too would find having tcpdump available a great asset. I use windump but it has some failing which irritate me. For example I haven't been able to get it to display hex and ascii output at the same time as tcpdump can and which is very useful. Cheers, John Name: John B. Macallister E-mail:

RE: A vexing installation problem

>If that doesn't work, entirely wipe out c:\local\cygwin, run regedit, and remove the "HKLM/Cygnus Solutions" and the HKCU/Cygnus Solutions keys entirely. >Then reboot and try reinstalling just a minimal installation. If you run cygcheck to check that your system is clear of cygwin note that it a

Re: increasing filesystems size

There is a way, it's only to change the keys located under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cygnus Solutions/Cygwin/mounts v . I did that, however I couldn't get success. Here, the free space is changed in accordance with the system user. I need to use all the free space on the disk independent of the u