Re: [ITA] transfig... Problems?

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Angelo Graziosi writes: > I have installed transfig-3.2.5-1+xfig-3.2.4-7* (all candidate) > Then > $ xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default & > creating a simple figure (demo.fig) > saved, then File | export Combined PS/Latex (both part) > and XFig

Re: [ITA] transfig... Problems?

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Angelo Graziosi writes: > I have installed transfig-3.2.5-1+xfig-3.2.4-7* (all candidate) > Then > $ xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default & > creating a simple figure (demo.fig) > saved, then File | export Combined PS/Latex (both part) > and XFig

Permission Problem with crontab

2008-04-10 Thread Adi B Treiner (abt Account)
Hi, Maybe you are determining something within my cygwin configuration which causes the issue. The issue is, when I'm starting jobs from crontab which should transfer backup archives from a local depot to a network depot, I'm determining always no write access to the net share and therefore the

Re: Restoring text mode on a mount. How?

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrey Tarasevich wrote: > So the question that I'm trying to ask is why doesn't it work without re- > installation of Cygwin? Why does it interpret scripts from re-mounted textmode > mount as binary files? Is there a way to get back to the original freshly- > installed Cygwin textmode behavior wi

Restoring text mode on a mount. How?

2008-04-10 Thread Andrey Tarasevich
Hello I'm having a strange problem with my Cygwin installation and would appreciate any help. It was originally installed to use DOS text mode by default ('\r\n' line endings). A 'mount' command after the installation shows /cygwin/c as mounted in text mode c: on /cygwin/c type user (textmod

Re: Updated chere-1.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Peter Lowe
On 23-09-2007 Sun 14:31, Dave wrote: > PROBLEMS: > > If you encounter a problem with chere, please report it to the cygwin mailing > list. In addition to the usual reporting guidelines at > please include the output of chere -r What about suggestions f

Re: [ITA] transfig... Problems?

2008-04-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have installed transfig-3.2.5-1+xfig-3.2.4-7* (all candidate) Then $ xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default & creating a simple figure (demo.fig) saved, then File | export Combined PS/Latex (both part) and XFig Error message: Error during EXPORT:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: atool-0.34.0-1

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of the atool package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Changes in this release: * New upstream release: adds lzma support. About atool: atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar, tar+gzip, zip, bzip2, rar, 7zip, ...). atool is called under sever

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool (patch)

2008-04-10 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: Did you try sending the patch upstream ? No. I do not know where one should send. If you know, you can. Volker Thanks, Angelo. --- Facesti come quei che va di notte, che porta il lume dietro e se' non giova, ma dopo se' fa le persone dotte. -

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool (patch)

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Angelo Graziosi writes: > Angelo Graziosi ha scritto: >> Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: Angelo Graziosi writes: >>> > But why still 3.2.4 version? A new release 3.2.5 with several bug > fixes has been released [1]. >>> >>> The problem is it doe

Re: [ITA] xfig/xfig-lib: An interactive drawing tool

2008-04-10 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Dr. Volker Zell ha scritto: I would like to adopt and maintain the 'xfig/xfig-lib' packages from Harold Hunt. The procedure of installing 3.2.4-7 removes the previous 3.2.4-6, so the link app-defaults -> /etc/X11/app-defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ is lost and the ne

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > It's nice that people have found other uses for cygwin1.dll and the packages > which go into the distribution found at http://cygwin.com/ but I think > it is unrealistic to expect that people here will be ch

RE: Perl script vs. "Program Files"

2008-04-10 Thread Gerald.Williams
Andreas wrote: > I'm using cvsnt via cygwin command line. When I'm trying to reformat log > output with cvs2cl.pl (http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl), I get the following > error message: > > Can't open perl script "/cygdrive/c/Program": No such file or directory The script is wrong. Edit the file

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:59:06AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 10 09:48, Christoph Herdeg wrote: >> - Is it possible that Cygwin's mapping of >> "c:\Users\ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp" to >> "/cygdrive/c/Users/ADMINI~1/AppData/Local/Temp" doesn't yet exist at the >> time the error occurs?

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Gmane User wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege that

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 10 04:19, Gmane User wrote: I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can "less" the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: Gmane User wrote: CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrat

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 12:50, Christoph Herdeg wrote: > Adding the following lines to /etc/profile to delet the variables didn't > help anything: > > TMP= > TEMP= > TMPDIR= man bash The above doesn't remove the variables. Use unset. > The same error occured a the same place, so it's neither a solution no

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Adding the following lines to /etc/profile to delet the variables didn't help anything: TMP= TEMP= TMPDIR= The same error occured a the same place, so it's neither a solution nor even a workaround for our problem. Christoph

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello List, Corinna, thank you for your answer so far. Regarding your hints: - The cygwin installer runs normally and creates registry entries as well runs the postinstall scripts - As you can see in the subject line, we currently use version -11 aka 1.5.25-11 - I will try to workaround our proble

Re: cron and Windows 2000

2008-04-10 Thread noreply
- Original Message - From: "Vince LaMonica" <> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:08 PM Subject: cron and Windows 2000 | Hi all, | | I recently updated cygwin on a Windows 2000 server box and I am now | getting errors when running cron. It is the famous, "can't switch user | cont

Perl script vs. "Program Files"

2008-04-10 Thread spambouncer
Hi everyone! I'm using cvsnt via cygwin command line. When I'm trying to reformat log output with cvs2cl.pl (http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl), I get the following error message: Can't open perl script "/cygdrive/c/Program": No such file or directory Apparently the script is looked for in "/cygd

Re: -11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 09:48, Christoph Herdeg wrote: > Hello List, > > We have made up an unattended installer package for cygwin using Nullsoft > Installer. This package works on all x32 and x64 versions of Windows 2000, > XP and Server 2003. Testing with Windows Server 2008 we discovered a > problem: At the

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 04:19, Gmane User wrote: > I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator > account can "less" the contents from a bash command line. This is > both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in > (loopback) from the power user log-in session. The admi

Re: Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Gmane User wrote: > CACLS shows an extensive set of permissions for the power user owner, > but only READ_CONTROL, FILE_READ_EA, & FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES for > LaptopName\None and Everyone. I've come across nothing on the web > (yet) about a special privilege that allows administrators the level >

Yaakov? (was Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.3-1)

2008-04-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 10 00:55, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> And that was really very nice. I'm not trying to critizise the general >> approach. I just think we (that is: I) should get rid of the entire >> message and the setfacl in ssh-user-config. > > Well, that will certainly simplify t

Admin can read user file from bash, despite permissions

2008-04-10 Thread Gmane User
I have a power user file that has go-rwx. However, the administrator account can "less" the contents from a bash command line. This is both logging onto Windows 2000 as admin, as well as ssh'ing in (loopback) from the power user log-in session. The administrator can also "mv" the file to a diff

-11: Problem at 1st start when "cygwin.bat" is run by Nullsoft-Installer

2008-04-10 Thread Christoph Herdeg
Hello List, We have made up an unattended installer package for cygwin using Nullsoft Installer. This package works on all x32 and x64 versions of Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. Testing with Windows Server 2008 we discovered a problem: At the end of the installation, cygwin.bat is executed by