Re: Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:25:13PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a >> later local Cygwin install? [...] > No magic download munging, no. 'wget' wil

Re: SFTP doesn't work with ChrootDirectory option set

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to TheO on 11/17/2008 2:24 PM: > Hi, > > I have Cygwin with OpenSSH version 5.1p1-9 installed. > > I managed to make ssh with chroot to work by using ChrootDirectory in > sshd_config and copying /bin/bash to the chroot directory. chroot o

Re: Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode)

- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:20 AM Subject: Re: Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode) > Andreas Eibach wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? > > > >

Re: Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a later local Cygwin install? Note: the recommended method of using Cygwin itself is not available to me, since I only have a GNU/Linux computer on the Net (lucky me ;-) Wgetting all of

Re: Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode)

Andreas Eibach wrote: Hi there, can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm *quite* sure that with previous versions, it was possible to select Experimental mode instead of 'Current' and be able to install ALL packages. By this do you mean all packages regardless of whether the p

Issue with setup.exe 2.573.2.3? (experimental mode)

Hi there, can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I'm *quite* sure that with previous versions, it was possible to select Experimental mode instead of 'Current' and be able to install ALL packages. Actually I do _not_ want all, but since somehow it does not work to select "Install" i

1.7 preallocate issue?

On Nov 14 10:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > It shouldn't be hard to replicate if you modify the rsync statement to > rsync only one such file. The strace would be interesting in the first > place. You should get an error code from a function called > fhandler_disk_file::ftruncate. I can't replica

Re: 1.7 - noacl for cygdrive

On 11/15/2008, Richard Ivarson wrote: > Corinna, thanks to your post I did that now, but unfortunately RSYNC > still resets my NT permissions. > Like Rob I use cygdrive paths. > > Rob, how did you manage to keep the NT permissions with your RSYNC? > > For me it always sets own permissions, which th

SFTP doesn't work with ChrootDirectory option set

Hi, I have Cygwin with OpenSSH version 5.1p1-9 installed. I managed to make ssh with chroot to work by using ChrootDirectory in sshd_config and copying /bin/bash to the chroot directory. But I can't make it work for SFTP even when I tried to set: ChrootDirectory / which I expect should be t

Back, for a while

I havent a cygwin install around anymore (i've moved to real operating systems) But i'll be around to help now. -- Morgan Gangwere -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: gnuplot on ggi failure

> Marco Atzeri writes: > I was trying to use gnuplot with ggi terminal > but gnuplot close with this unclear output: > Terminal type set to 'ggi' gnuplot> plot [-1:1] sin(x) > LibGGI: No explicit target specified. > LibGGI: Try to use display-directx... > Init Back

Small documention addenda

I need to reference in my thesis the fact that setup.ini isn't (by default) updated automatically via crontab, but you need to manually run setup.exe to update the package list. I tried googling a bit for variations of "setup.ini cygwin update" (and running similar searches on the mailing list a

Re: Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:34:49AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: David Halstead wrote: Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. "root" doesn't mean anything on Windows

Re: Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:34:49AM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > David Halstead wrote: >> Hi, >> I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have >> failed abysmally. >> Could you please help me resolve this. > > "root" doesn't mean anything on Windows natively. "Ad

Re: Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

David Halstead wrote: Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. "root" doesn't mean anything on Windows natively. "Administrator" is a close (but still quite different) substitute. In any case, tr

Root Permissions - Vista Home Edition

Hi, I have spent a week trying to find how to 'su' or login as root, and have failed abysmally. Could you please help me resolve this. It appears that there is no way to grant the permissions stated in Corinnas Document, but there has to be some way round the problem. rgds david halstead --

Downloading (parts of) Cygwin for later local install?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there an easy way of pre-downloading whatever is necessary to do a later local Cygwin install? Note: the recommended method of using Cygwin itself is not available to me, since I only have a GNU/Linux computer on the Net (lucky me ;-) Wgettin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-20050409-9

--- Charles Wilson ha scritto: > Marco Atzeri wrote: > > > W11/wrap/wrap.c has still a reference to > > /usr/X11R6/bin/ > > Yes, because it looks for the libX11-*.dll in a > number of different > places, when trying to dlopen it for X-mode > operation. You didn't want > me to BREAK rxvt for th