Is db_home: windows exactly equivalent to db_home: /%H?

2015-02-18 Thread Warren Young
I was just scanning through the ntsec page, and saw that the “windows” scheme does the same thing as /%H. I tried it, and it seems to be true. Is there some minor difference? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: steghide 0.5.1-3 -- A steganography hiding tool

2015-02-18 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://steghide.sourceforge.net License : GPL-2+ A steganography program which hides bits of a data file in some of the least significant bits of another file in such a way that the existence of the data file is not visible and cannot be proven.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mscgen-0.20-2

2015-02-18 Thread David Stacey
The following package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * mscgen-0.20-2 Mscgen is a small programme that parses Message Sequence Chart descriptions and produces PNG, SVG, EPS or server side image maps (ismaps) as the output. This release has been built with libgd3 and three patches f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: netpbm-10.66.02-3

2015-02-18 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * netpbm-10.66.02-3 * libnetpbm10-10.66.02-3 * libnetpbm-devel-10.66.02-3 Netpbm is a toolkit for manipulation of graphic images, including conversion of images between a variety of different formats. There are over 220 separat

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 2/18/2015 11:01 PM, Roger Orr wrote: Incidentally how can you tell the patch level of cygwin1.dll -- the DLL versions all seem to be 1007.35.0.0 ? uname -a -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fcgi-2.4.0-3

2015-02-18 Thread Ken Brown
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * fcgi-2.4.0-3 * libfcgi0-2.4.0-3 * libfcgi-devel-2.4.0-3 FastCGI is a fast, open, and secure Web server interface that solves the performance problems inherent in CGI, without introducing the overhead and complexity of propr

RE: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-18 Thread Roger Orr
> > and also it no longer opens 14 > > TCP/IP sessions to various ldap servers around the planet (!) > > Uh, that might be the result of the other changes which don't open an > LDAP connection to fetch group info. 14 connections probably means, > you're in 14 groups in other domains than your logi

Clearing O_NONBLOCK from a pipe may lose data

2015-02-18 Thread Lasse Collin
(Please Cc me when replying, I'm not subscribed to the list.) Hi! I suspect that there is a bug in Cygwin: 1. Create a pipe with both ends in blocking mode (O_NONBLOCK is not set). 2. The writer sets its end to non-blocking mode. 3. The writer writes to the pipe. 4. The writer restores its en

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.870)

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 21:19, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > A new version of Setup, release 2.870, has been uploaded to > > > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) > > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) > > > Changes compared to 2.867: > > >

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated package: pdftk-2.02-1

2015-02-18 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
There is no 64 bit pdftk package. Is that an oversight? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > Achim, can you please remove the 001001 version? The new mechanism > requires a much stricter adherence to ascending version numbers. Done. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Pol

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.870)

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > A new version of Setup, release 2.870, has been uploaded to > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) > Changes compared to 2.867: > - Fixing the problem described in > https://cygwin.com/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.870)

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi folks, A new version of Setup, release 2.870, has been uploaded to https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) Changes compared to 2.867: - Fixing the problem described in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00563.html

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Because 001001 is a bigger version number than 5.14.whatever. Ah, now I remember! I did read it but for some reason I lost it... Sorry for the noise... Ciao, Angelo. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 16:01, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Achim Gratz wrote: > >Sort of, now that you say itâ the test version of perl does require > >perl_base as a dependency, but that requirement also carries to all > >other versions unfortunately. I'll upload an empty package for current. > > > >As for perl_a

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Achim Gratz wrote: Sort of, now that you say itâ the test version of perl does require perl_base as a dependency, but that requirement also carries to all other versions unfortunately. I'll upload an empty package for current. As for perl_autorebase, it does not matter which version you install

[ATTN Maintainer] netpbm-10.66.02-2

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
I can't find the announcement for this package update, plus there seems to be a packaging bug since pnmtops is missing from both architectures. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for Waldorf Q V3.00R3 and Q+ V3.54R2: http://Sy

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Feb 18 16:35, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> > It's a bit confusing to talk about the Cygwin version when this is >> >> > only about openssh and the csih package. I'm really busy with other >> >> > stuff right now. I quickly scanned th

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 15:14, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2015-02-18 15:00 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > > The openssh is the 64-bit version, as in the stackexchange user's case. > > > The issue is interesting, though. When I first installed the openssh, it > > > offered me "prev" version of the package, even thou

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Frank Fesevur
2015-02-18 15:00 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > The openssh is the 64-bit version, as in the stackexchange user's case. > > The issue is interesting, though. When I first installed the openssh, it > > offered me "prev" version of the package, even though I was installing from > > the net. Re-runni

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 16:35, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> > It's a bit confusing to talk about the Cygwin version when this is > >> > only about openssh and the csih package. I'm really busy with other > >> > stuff right now. I quickly scanned the ssh-*-config scripts again > >> >

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Thanks for your assistance Andrey... I/we use this tool every day and we really take for granted how much effort people put into making it work. I'm checking the mirror every little while to see when .0.3 pops up. Cheers Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@y

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)! Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of my previous suggestion? 1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by your choice.) 2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and an

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> >> It seems that the ssh-host-config script isn’t using Corinna’s new >> >> >> getent package yet. >> >> >> >> > Both scripts are using geten or mkpasswd/mkgroup. >> >> >> >> I was sure I looked into my local copies before answering that >> >> question. Maybe

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 14:15, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> + csih_old_cygwin ; use_file=$? > >>if [ ${use_file} -ne 0 -a -f /etc/nsswitch.conf ] > >>then > >> -grep -Eq "^${file}:[^#]*\" /etc/nsswitch.conf || use_file=0 > >> +grep -Eq "^${file}:" /etc/nsswitch.conf && > >>

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > The old test wrote to /etc/{passwd,group} when use_file!=1, …make that -^!=0 Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synt

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: >> + csih_old_cygwin ; use_file=$? >>if [ ${use_file} -ne 0 -a -f /etc/nsswitch.conf ] >>then >> -grep -Eq "^${file}:[^#]*\" /etc/nsswitch.conf || use_file=0 >> +grep -Eq "^${file}:" /etc/nsswitch.conf && >> + grep -Eq "^${file}:[^#]*\" /etc/nsswitch.c

Re: Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Angelo Graziosi writes: > Today I run setup to update Cygwin and it wanted to install perl_base > as dependency (I don't remember which version). OK. > > Then I saw that there was a new test release of Cygwin (1.7.35-03) and > since I was using 1.7.35-2, I re-run setup to install it. And after > ch

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: file-5.22-1 [SECURITY]

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the Cygwin version of file to 5.22-1. This is an update to the latest official upstream version. This release fixes various CVE bugs: CVE-2014-9653: malformed elf file causes access to uninitialized memory CVE-2014-9621: limit string printing to 100 chars CVE-2014-9620: limit

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 15:05, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > > > On Feb 17 16:22, Warren Young wrote: > >> > On Feb 17, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> > On Feb 17 15:51, Warren Young wrote: > >> >> It seems that the ssh-host-config script isn’t using Corin

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 13:00, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > It's a bit confusing to talk about the Cygwin version when this is > > only about openssh and the csih package. I'm really busy with other > > stuff right now. I quickly scanned the ssh-*-config scripts again > > and they never wr

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 18 11:56, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > > You didn't reply to my suggestions. But, anyway. Due to the nice > >report in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00511.html I now > >came up with a new Cygwin test release 1.7.35-0.3, see > >https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-a

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Roger, On Feb 18 11:26, Roger Orr wrote: > Hello Corinna, > > I've just been trying out both the 2015-02-18 10:30:19/44 UTC and > 2015-02-17 21:27:23/48 UTC patches. > > Both are now down to the same timings as with a 'files' entry in > /etc/nsswitch.cfg, (and there's no detectable speed diff

Setup and perl

2015-02-18 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Today I run setup to update Cygwin and it wanted to install perl_base as dependency (I don't remember which version). OK. Then I saw that there was a new test release of Cygwin (1.7.35-03) and since I was using 1.7.35-2, I re-run setup to install it. And after choosing only 1.7.35-03 in Exp/Pe

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > On Feb 17 16:22, Warren Young wrote: >> > On Feb 17, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen >> > wrote: >> > >> > On Feb 17 15:51, Warren Young wrote: >> >> It seems that the ssh-host-config script isn’t using Corinna’s new >> >> getent package yet. >> >> > Both scri

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > + if csih_old_cygwin Missing a "then" here of course… > +if [ "$(/usr/bin/id -un)" = "mkpasswd" ] Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Wavetables for the Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#Blof

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Achim Gratz
Corinna Vinschen writes: > It's a bit confusing to talk about the Cygwin version when this is > only about openssh and the csih package. I'm really busy with other > stuff right now. I quickly scanned the ssh-*-config scripts again > and they never write a passwd entry so, if anything, it's a pro

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, > You didn't reply to my suggestions. But, anyway. Due to the nice >report in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00511.html I now >came up with a new Cygwin test release 1.7.35-0.3, see >https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2015-02/msg00133.html Sorry, maybe I got a bit confus

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
Hi Corinna, >> I ran your commands to recreate /etc/passwd and /etc/group > >Ideally passwd and group are set to "db" only for this, just to be sure. > >> (they now contain 1 line and 3 lines respectively - before it had >> about 10 & 21 lines in each) > >Hang on. getent group $(id -G) only retu

RE: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-18 Thread Roger Orr
Hello Corinna, I've just been trying out both the 2015-02-18 10:30:19/44 UTC and 2015-02-17 21:27:23/48 UTC patches. Both are now down to the same timings as with a 'files' entry in /etc/nsswitch.cfg, (and there's no detectable speed difference between them.) The scope restriction in the secon

RE: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)
>>>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of >>>my previous suggestion? >>>1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by >>>your choice.) >>>2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and any other Cygwin-related programs. >>>3. Start the

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Roger, On Feb 17 22:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 17 19:13, Roger Orr wrote: > > According to nltest /dclist: > > Our environment has 6 London based DCs > > > > According to ldp.exe Live Enterprise Tree we have a tree structure for LDAP. > > > > 6 leaf nodes at the top matching ther 6

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Dennis, On Feb 17 10:23, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart) wrote: > >> Thanks Achim - I've recreated my passwd and group files to be sure. > >> I checked some domain lookups and they take a second or two for each entry > >> - quite slow. > > >> So, I'll leave nsswitch where it is for now and I've sta

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.3

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released another very early TEST version of the next upcoming Cygwin release. The version number is 1.7.35-0.3. This release introduces a revision of the LDAP calls done to fetch information from the DC. By limiting the search scope, the calls should now be faste

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-18 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Dennis Hagarty (dehagart)! >>Could you please do me a favor and repeat the test with a little deviation of >>my previous suggestion? >>1. Remove /etc/{nsswitch.conf,passwd,group} files. (Rename, move away - by >>your choice.) >>2. Stop cygserver, if it is running, and any other Cygwin-

Re: ssh-host-config script sends /etc/passwd thru awk

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 16:22, Warren Young wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Corinna Vinschen > > wrote: > > > > On Feb 17 15:51, Warren Young wrote: > >> It seems that the ssh-host-config script isn’t using Corinna’s new > >> getent package yet. > > > Both scripts are using geten or mkpasswd/mkgroup.

Re: Texlive Package Problem

2015-02-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 17 18:47, Ken Brown wrote: > On 2/17/2015 5:47 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 17 17:16, Ken Brown wrote: > >>On 2/17/2015 4:39 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>>On Feb 17 15:02, Ken Brown wrote: > Index: dump_setup.cc > ==