base-files : versions in setup.ini 1329084611

2012-02-12 Thread Fergus
The current setup.ini timestamp 1329084611 mentions both base-files-4.0-9.tar.bz2 (current) base-files-4.0-8.tar.bz2 (prev) but mirrors now have only 0-5, 0-6, 0-9. Please could setup.ini be revised (or mirrors resourced) so that all of [prev] are available? Thank you. Fergus -- Problem report

Where to report security bugs in cygwin1.dll ?

2012-02-12 Thread Gynvael Coldwind
Hey, I've found a security problem with cygwin1.dll, but I can't find any security contact on Cygwin page, and I feel kinda reluctant to post the bug report here or on another public mailing list. Could you advise on the security contact where should I send the bug report OR confirm that it's the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Uploaded base-files-4.0-9

2012-02-12 Thread David Sastre Medina
Version 4.0-8 of base-files has been uploaded. Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. 4.0-9 * Bug fix release. In profile.d/* scripts, calls to "locale" and "tzset" must use absolute paths - Reported by Harry G. McGavran, Jr. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cy

Re: PROGRAMFILES variable is not set during openssh session

2012-02-12 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 12/02/2012 17:33, ArcFi a écrit : PROGRAMFILES variable is not set during openssh session. This is very important for remote administrative tasks. admin@srv06 ~ $ echo $COMPUTERNAME,$PROGRAMFILES,$USERPROFILE,$SYSTEMDRIVE SRV06,C:\Program Files,C:\Documents and Settings\admin,C: admin@srv06

Re: Updated base-files-4.0-8

2012-02-12 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 11:00:07AM -0700, Harry G McGavran Jr wrote: > The calls to locale and tzset in profile.d still are not fully > qualified. I always thought fully qualified paths were appropriate > for system wide scripts since one cannot depend on PATH being > set up correctly. In any case

mintty crashed with stackdump

2012-02-12 Thread jojelino
mintty became unresponsible and it was unusual. so i quit it and got stackdump. as i don't have debug symbol for cygwin 1.7.10(0.259/5/3) 2012-02-05 12:36, following stacktrace is attached without any consideration whether is relevant to cygwin1.dll or not. Stack trace: Frame Function Ar

Re: Updated base-files-4.0-8

2012-02-12 Thread Harry G McGavran Jr
The calls to locale and tzset in profile.d still are not fully qualified. I always thought fully qualified paths were appropriate for system wide scripts since one cannot depend on PATH being set up correctly. In any case, both with the previous release of base-files and this one, if you does som

PROGRAMFILES variable is not set during openssh session

2012-02-12 Thread ArcFi
PROGRAMFILES variable is not set during openssh session. This is very important for remote administrative tasks. admin@srv06 ~ $ echo $COMPUTERNAME,$PROGRAMFILES,$USERPROFILE,$SYSTEMDRIVE SRV06,C:\Program Files,C:\Documents and Settings\admin,C: admin@srv06 ~ $ ssh localhost 'echo $COMPUTERNAME,$

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated base-files-4.0-8

2012-02-12 Thread David Sastre Medina
Version 4.0-8 of base-files has been uploaded. Base-files is a set of system configuration and setup files. Change Log -- 4.0-8 * Bug fix release. Error in commad substitution in .bash_profile and .profile. Reported by Mike Kaganski and Tom Schutter. See cygwin.com/m

Re: Updated: base-files-4.0-7

2012-02-12 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:08:25AM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: > 2/10/2012 2:09 PM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > > * Environment variable SHELL is now exported from /etc/profile. > > Improved profile_d() function in /etc/profile - Cyrille Lefevre > > cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-1

Re: bad substitution for LANG in .profile

2012-02-12 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 09:56:58AM -0700, Tom Schutter wrote: > With a fresh install of cygwin, this is what I get when I start mintty: > -bash: LANG=${locale -uU}: bad substitution > > The bad parameter substitution has been introduced into: > etc/defaults/etc/skel/.profile > etc/defaults/e

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files-4.0-7

2012-02-12 Thread David Sastre Medina
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:11:21PM +1100, Mike Kaganski wrote: > new .bash_profile, line 27: > > export LANG=${locale -uU} > looks like it should be > export LANG=$(locale -uU) Thanks for reporting, and sorry for the inconvenience. Fixed in base-files-4.0-8. -- Huella de clave primaria: AD8F BD