Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wote: Well, the first thing to do is check whether libintl3 is there in the downloaded packages directory. It should be in //release/gettext/libintl3, and the md5sum of it should match what's listed in the related setup.ini in /. If that's the case, no need to redownload;

Re: Doc change request

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:03:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Could I ask someone to do a search and replace on the docs and >change all occurrences of /usr/man and /usr/doc to /usr/share/man >and /usr/share/doc? > >Brian, do you have time to do this? I think you touched the >documentation

Doc change request

Could I ask someone to do a search and replace on the docs and change all occurrences of /usr/man and /usr/doc to /usr/share/man and /usr/share/doc? Brian, do you have time to do this? I think you touched the documentation list so you're "it". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: hacked package on server

Carlo Florendo wrote: The switch from: "do you want to format your drive?: +-+ +-+ + yes + + no + +-+ +-+ to: "do you want to format your drive?: ++ +-+ + format + + cancel + ++ +-+ ... Makes it much easier to understand what the soft

Re: hacked package on server

Pedro Alves wrote: The switch from: "do you want to format your drive?: +-+ +-+ + yes + + no + +-+ +-+ to: "do you want to format your drive?: ++ +-+ + format + + cancel + ++ +-+ ... Makes it much easier to understand what the software

Re: hacked package on server

Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Pedro Alves wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: "do you want to format your drive?: ++ +-+ + format + + cancel + ++ +-+ ... Makes it much easier to understand what the software's up to. when I start a disk formating program, I und

Re: hacked package on server

Hi, Pedro Alves wrote: Erich Dollansky wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: > "Do you want to skip the package?" and has a yes and no button. > I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it" ^^ So you see

Re: hacked package on server

Pedro Alves wrote: Perhaps the screen should flash, and a loud beep should sound every time a MessageBox not related to "install to package" wants to show up. Then wait 3 seconds, show a "warning, going out of install mode" MessageBox, sleep a bit more, and only then show the skip message box.

Re: hacked package on server

Erich Dollansky wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: > "Do you want to skip the package?" and has a yes and no button. > I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it" ^^ So you see, it's a problem of thoug

Re: hacked package on server

Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: > "Do you want to skip the package?" and has a yes and no button. > I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it" ^^ So you see, it's a problem of t

Re: hacked package on server

Hi, Carlo Florendo wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: The OP said: > "Do you want to skip the package?" and has a yes and no button. > I read it quickly and pressed no before thinking about it" ^^ So you see, it's a problem of thought. The UI message

Re: hacked package on server

Louis Kruger wrote: > As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it > might have been some kind of trojan. Are you able to actually describe "strange behaviour" It crashed the setup program, which seemed to indicate it was installing strangely named files. It also

Re: hacked package on server

Brian Mathis wrote: In this case, a user running an installer is in the frame of mind of *installing* things, not *skipping* things. Perhaps this is in your case, certainly not everyone in this mailing list. So when they are asked a question, they should be asked questions about *installing

RE: hacked package on server

> From: Brian Mathis [snip] > > Yes, everyone now has been quite hilarious on this part of > the matter, but I think it's time to get past the arrogance > and, god forbid, consider that a user's reported problem, oh > my god, might actually be a problem! > Heheheh! He thinks he's on th

Re: hacked package on server

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Pedro Alves wrote: > Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > > > Well in my opinion It could even be better to have an unchecked checkbox > > like: > > > > Wrong MD5 sum detected. > > This package look broken. Try another mirror. > > ( ) Yes I Really want to install this even if it looks

Re: hacked package on server

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:20:19AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote: >The second best, and quickest, would be for a patch to show up >implementing Thorsten's suggestion that cfg pointed out. Until someone >steps up to do the work, this discussion is just going to fade out and >die. Urp. How could I have

Re: hacked package on server

Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: Well in my opinion It could even be better to have an unchecked checkbox like: Wrong MD5 sum detected. This package look broken. Try another mirror. ( ) Yes I Really want to install this even if it looks broken. OK Or something like that. Then its two clicks or seve

Re: hacked package on server

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:47:50AM +0200, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: >Or something like that. Then its two clicks or several keystrokes before >one can continue. If you want to help, then dig up multiple googled cases of previous confusion. Then we can quibble about wording. cgf -- Unsubscribe

RE: hacked package on server

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:44:51PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: >> Yes, everyone now has been quite hilarious on this part of the >> matter, but I think it's time to get past the arrogance and, god >> forbid, consider that a user's reported problem, oh my god, might >> act

Re: hacked package on server

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:44:51PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: >Yes, everyone now has been quite hilarious on this part of the matter, >but I think it's time to get past the arrogance and, god forbid, >consider that a user's reported problem, oh my god, might actually be a >problem! You did receive

Re: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:12:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jul 9 07:52, Karl M wrote: >> Hi All... >> >> >From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo >> >handling >> >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:55:47 -0400 >> > >> >I've checked in a fairly major change to cygwin

Re: cygwin on XP home edition (Please help i cant get further with this)

On Jul 15 14:11, Hennie wrote: > Is nobody using XP home edition in combination with cygwin? Not voluntarily, no. > Then throw it out of the group users. > > you can do this in a windows cmd box with. > > net localgroup users USERNAME /DEL > > And after that do a mkpassword and mkgroup in cyg

Re: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo handling

On Jul 9 07:52, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > >From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Latest snapshot revamps pipe/fifo > >handling > >Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:55:47 -0400 > > > >I've checked in a fairly major change to cygwin today. > >[...] > I tried out the July 8, 2007 snapshot cygwin1.dll and ha

Re: hacked package on server

On 7/16/07, Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Brian Kelly wrote: > -Original Message- > >From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:52 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When is next cygwin going to be released

Robert Mithund wrote: Hi, I'm new to cygwin, and I have tried the current cygwin, 1.5.24. It's good and everything, but I saw that there was work on the next version of cygwin. Do you know when this will be done? There is nothing firm. Watch the list. Also will that one support vista?

Re: hacked package on server

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Louis Kruger wrote: > > > As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried > > > it might have been some kind of trojan. > > > > Are you able to actually describe "strange behaviour" > > It crashed the setup program, which seemed to indicate it was installi

Re: hacked package on server

> As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it > might have been some kind of trojan. Are you able to actually describe "strange behaviour" It crashed the setup program, which seemed to indicate it was installing strangely named files. It also corrupted the cygwin

Re: hacked package on server

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Brian Kelly wrote: > -Original Message- > >From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:52 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks. > >Subject: Re: hacked package on

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.91-1. This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin since 0.90-1) as default. Reini, thank you for your efforts.

Re: hacked package on server

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:38:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:59:12AM -0400, Brian Kelly wrote: >>This would be "more" helpful: >> >>Do you want to not skip the package (No/Yes/Maybe)? >> >>The "Maybe" can then consult a random number routine to decide whether >>or

Re: hacked package on server

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:59:12AM -0400, Brian Kelly wrote: >This would be "more" helpful: > >Do you want to not skip the package (No/Yes/Maybe)? > >The "Maybe" can then consult a random number routine to decide whether or not >to do the operation. Good point. I obviously stick at this UI stuff

When is next cygwin going to be released

Hi, I'm new to cygwin, and I have tried the current cygwin, 1.5.24. It's good and everything, but I saw that there was work on the next version of cygwin. Do you know when this will be done? Also will that one support vista? We have a lot of vista machines and it would be nice to use cygwin o

RE: hacked package on server

DANGER: Extreme sarcasm ahead. May also be withering. No warranty, no refunds. On 16 July 2007 16:31, Chicken Licken ^W^W Louis Kruger wrote: > As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it > might have been some kind of trojan. Are you able to actually describe "s

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Re: hacked package on server

I do think that instead of simply aborting the install with a message that the server was compromised (was it? or is something else going on?), that a more useful option would be to allow the user to select a different mirror and continue the process. Sure. I just wanted to make the p

Re: hacked package on server

I remember an extensive discussion about the purpose MD5 sums serve for the cygwin installer[1] some time ago. My understanding (synopsis) of the thread (before I gave up reading it in disgust somewhere around Christopher Faylor's suggestion that the subject be dropped :} ) was that md5sum is o

Re: hacked package on server

* Louis Kruger (Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:17:43 -0500) > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Louis Kruger wrote: > > > I also have a complaint: the dialog that notifies the user of the failed > > > MD5 is not well designed. The dialog asks "Do you want to skip the > > > package?" and has a ye

Re: hacked package on server

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Louis Kruger wrote: > I also have a complaint: the dialog that notifies the user of the failed > MD5 is not well designed. The dialog asks "Do you want to skip the > package?" and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no > before th

Re: hacked package on server

This would be "more" helpful: Do you want to not skip the package (No/Yes/Maybe)? The "Maybe" can then consult a random number routine to decide whether or not to do the operation. -Original Message- >From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jul 16, 2007 11:52 AM >To: cygwin@

Re: hacked package on server

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Louis Kruger wrote: > I also have a complaint: the dialog that notifies the user of the failed > MD5 is not well designed. The dialog asks "Do you want to skip the > package?" and has a yes and no button. I read it quickly and pressed no > before thin

Re: grep -f problem

Thanks for all replies. Now I have installed cygwin in unix mode and converted all my script files by running dos2unix *.sh. Everything works much better, thanks for all the help. I got the grep -f problem when running it in dos mode. I actually tried installing in unix mode but got lots of ":

hacked package on server

I performed a cygwin update today, and was confronted with an MD5 failure on one of the packages. The package was vim-7.1-1.tar.bz2 downloaded from mirrors.dotsrc.org As the package installed, I saw some strange behavior, I'm worried it might have been some kind of trojan. I saved the hacked

Re: grep -f problem

If you set up CygWin to use DOS mode line ending, the \n should be \r\n. -- 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: grep -f problem

On CygWin: $ echo -e "calvin\nhobbes">a $ echo -e "calvin chased\nblah blah\nhobbes">b $ grep -f a b calvin chased hobbes #!sh echo -e "calvin\nhobbes" > expressions.txt echo -e "calvin chases\nhis favourite imaginary friend\nhobbes" > text.txt grep -f expressions.txt text.txt $ ./a.sh calv

RE: grep -f problem

On 16 July 2007 15:12, Mårten Gustafsson wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem with grep -f. Here is my example script: > > #!sh > echo -e "calvin\nhobbes" > expressions.txt > echo -e "calvin chases\nhis favourite imaginary friend\nhobbes" > text.txt > grep -f expressions.txt text.txt > > The output

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

On 16 July 2007 15:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote: >> Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email >> addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested >> by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for >

grep -f problem

Hi I have a problem with grep -f. Here is my example script: #!sh echo -e "calvin\nhobbes" > expressions.txt echo -e "calvin chases\nhis favourite imaginary friend\nhobbes" > text.txt grep -f expressions.txt text.txt The output is: $ grepbug.sh hobbes The expected output: C:\UnxUtils\usr\loca

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

On 7/16/07, Dave Korn wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR for justification). Dave, thanks for the hint. I'll try to

RE: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

On 16 July 2007 14:53, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > On 7/15/07, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bernd, please abide by the list etiquette of not quoting people's email addresses in the raw, as they end up on the web archive and get harvested by spammers. (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQ

Re: Problem after fresh Cygwin installation

On 7/15/07, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 13 July 2007 19:12, Bernd Bartmann wrote: > Now comes the weird part. I created a new file hello.c in my home dir > with vim. ls -al shows that the file exists, but "more hello.c" gives > no output at all. I just get a new shell prompt. The sa

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has > been updated to 0.91-1. > This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin > since 0.90-1) as default. Reini, thank you for your efforts. I downloaded and it

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.91-1

The cygwin clamav packages (Clam AntiVirus - GPL anti-virus toolkit) has been updated to 0.91-1. This adds the previous experimental Phishing code (enabled in cygwin since 0.90-1) as default. About == Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is t

Re: Emacs takes 100% CPU

Nicolas Saunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using emacs under cygwin on Windows XP home and pro. After some > time (from a few seconds / minutes to hours and days), on the two > machines, emacs starts taking 100% of the CPU, and becomes > non-responsive (I have to kill it with the task mana