Re: Still confused about cyg_server vs. user id when logging in via ssh

2013-11-06 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
hentication and security processes). Regards, Anthony Geoghegan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Root/Administrator privileges from cygwin terminal

2013-10-24 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
ng like: case $(groups) in *Administrators*) echo Member of Administrators group;; *) echo Not a member of Administrators group;; esac This approach has worked well enough for me in the past but I don't do anything too unusual other than stopping / starting Windows services. Re

Re: ps weirdness...

2013-10-24 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
I was intrigued by Jeff's post so I tried a couple of experiments of my own and was able to duplicate the same behaviour - including the bash process being shown as a Windows process - on my Cygwin installation. The only difference was that I was getting Jan 1 instead of Dec 31 for the STIME. FWIW

Re: database related

2013-03-22 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
On 20/03/13 06:31, Wynfield Henman wrote: The database MariaDB looks good. It does have a windows version available, but I, like others would prefer to learn it on a Posix system like cygwin if at all possible. The only information I could find matching MariaDB and cygwin as at least a couple

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
Yes, that bugs my for quite some time too, is -h for halt or hibernate? Now the -s is the same as the Windows shutdown.exe. The changes are really straight forward. -b could be the new short option for hibernate, doesn't interfere with the main linux shutdown options or the windows shutdown. Leavi

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-21 Thread Anthony Geoghegan
They are in the tarball as well. As said, they are basic man pages, nothing fancy. Please know that English is not my native tongue. Nice work, Frank. I took a quick look at the man pages. The only improvement I'd suggest is that the first sentence of the Description for reboot.8 would read be