RE: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:50 AM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Default mounts : one redundant? > > > This is off-topic, it belongs on [EMAIL PROTECTED] A

RE: Default mounts : one redundant?

2002-05-15 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
nt -f -s -b "c:/Cygwin/lib" "/usr/lib" > >mount -f -s -b "c:/Cygwin" "/" > >mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" > >~> > > > >If c:/Cygwin is mounted under /, is it necessary to have > >c:/Cygwin/usr/X

RE: /cygdrive/c ==> //c

2002-05-14 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
hat way from then on. Good; data doesn't > belong on c: on my system. why not just try "mount 'd:\data\cyghomes' /home" (or mount -s if you're administrator of your PC so that /home is mounted not only for you but for all users) ??? Bernard ---

RE: Time sharing and fork

2002-03-25 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
number of As *and* some number of Bs and do not give *any* constraint regarding th eorder in which you want the As and Bs to get out. If you *need* some constraints then you have to use synchronization primitives... HTH Bernard Bernard Dau

RE: login account is "Administrator" not "username"

2002-03-18 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
ble USER and all my files get checked in from user > "Administrator" > as opposed to "jdoe". I could of course hack around this, but > maybe there is > a simpler solution? > > Thanks for any help, You're welcome Bernard Bernard Dautr

RE: Installing from local directory -- trying to avoid massive duplication of effort

2002-03-18 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
er; the only entries in the registry are the mount points. Isn't there also entries in /etc/setup that may be needed to be able to update later on? (of course in case we would like to avoid full scripted re-install in case of upgrade or if someone need one more package). Bernard -

RE: FW: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: Suggestion for setup > > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 09:28:53AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: &g

RE: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2002-03-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
; you can't do it. Rsh is insecure, but it at least verify that ONLY anotheruser is able to write to its own "~/.rhosts" :-) And if you'r e fool enough to do this, you may as well do that: $ echo "my password" > ~/THIS_IS_MY_PASSWORD $ chm

RE: FW: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 9:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:32:24PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
_TO_FILE, fname); > > if (uexists ("/etc/passwd") && uexists ("/etc/group")) > return; > . . . So /etc/passwd AND /etc/group are re-created if /etc/passwd OR /etc/group does not exist ;-( Would be better to condition creation of /etc/passwd to it not

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
) wrote: > >At 12:02 PM 3/6/2002, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:43:47AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote: > >> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard >

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:31:04PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >

FW: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
Sorry, click on the wrong button and send a private mail to Corinna... :-) -Original Message- From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 6:15 PM To: 'Corinna Vinschen' Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > -Original Messag

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:22 PM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; 'Robert Collins'; Stephano Mariani; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > > > > --- Bern

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
r 06, 2002 at 04:32:24PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > >> As this is quite a simple patch, I proceed and here it > is, for mkgroup.c and > > >> mkpasswd.c: > > > > > &g

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:32 PM > To: 'Corinna Vinschen' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Suggestion for setup > > > > -Original Message- &

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:01:22AM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: > > O

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:53 AM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux; Stephano Mariani; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Suggestion for setup > > > > > Sorry for not providing a

RE: Suggestion for setup

2002-03-06 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
asking the user) the cygwin-setup generated files by calling mk{passwd,group} with "-d". Sorry for not providing a patch, but it should be fairly straightforward for anybody used to working on setup.exe sources :-) Bernard Bernard Da

RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Axelle Apvrille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:35 PM > To: Bernard Dautrevaux > Subject: RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file... > > > Hi, > Here's some clarification. > I'

RE: Can't obtain write permissions on my file...

2002-02-18 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
it may be samba that refuse the access (although in this case you should not be able to create new files on the share also). Please could you be more explicit on the exact setting of your system, as here there is several piece of software that are interacting and any one can be the cause of the prob

RE: proper version of dll

2002-02-05 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
the cygwin.dll required for my application. I'm afraid you can't, if you don't save cygwin-B17 together with the compiled APP. ;-( HTH Bernard Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingenierie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel:+33 (0) 1

RE: How do i upgrade to gcc 3.X on cygwin?

2002-01-31 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
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RE: Install *everything* option for 'setup.exe'..

2002-01-22 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
mething of the sort in the next release however. > > Now what, exactly, do you mean by this Robert? > > Are you saying NO to the question of easily installing everything? > Or, are you saying NO to, hmm... > > I guess this is pretty definitive, now that I think of it. I'm

RE: cygwin/win2k "fullscreen" size - (15 points)

2002-01-17 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> I think this is a limitation of the console mode; on my NT4-SP6a box, I get a 80x50 console when typing Alt/Enter, be it under Cygwin or directly under cmd.exe ;-( Too bad, but I think it's even a "hardware" limitation (running th eVGA board in TEXT mode, instead of graphi

RE: problem - system api on winnt

2002-01-17 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
. > > Not only cp command, it is returning same error code > for all other > > commands. > > > > What could be the problem. i need to copy any other > cygwin dlls to > > my application? "cp" is a cygwin command, so no surprise if you can'

RE: Error while using pro*c in cygwin

2002-01-17 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
line or you may have to either add it to your source file or even edit one of proc standard header files (probably in C:\oracle8i\precomp\public). HTH Bernard PS: probably oracle could explain this to you :-)... It's a bit OT for this list Bernard D

RE: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-11 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
;that and tell us if it works. > > Why do I keep thinking about "hen's teeth"? Perhaps because after nearly 100 million years, Kollar, E. J. and Fisher were able in 1980 to grw some? see http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/prox1.html for description and even of photography of it...

RE: [Q]Windows PATH is not working..

2002-01-10 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
2.0.16-1 tiff3.5.6beta-2 time1.7-1 unzip 5.41-1 vim 6.0.93-1 w32api 1.2-1 wget1.7-1 which 1.5-1 xpm 4.0.0-2 xpm-nox 4.1.0-1 zip 2.3-1 zlib

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-10 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
t; cygwin versions? > > > > Yes, simply symlink will do. So the simlink is not needed at all: if autotools don't find, say "i386-pc-mingw32-ar", they'll look for plain "ar" and use it. So no need to mind with these symlinks. Just creating the script/exe

RE: w32api header problems

2002-01-09 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
min(a, b) ((a) < (b) ? (a) : (b))" and the like for max, instead of th ecustomary MIN and MAX names... :-) HTH Bernard Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingenierie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANC

RE: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
t; CygWin installer, > the change needs to happen there. There is another change that's needed: rxvt should be placed in the "Base" category so that it is installed by default. But altogether this should be quite a good move. Thanks again for all the good work, Bernard

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
rgument and $host is the canonicalised host name (result of config.sub $host_alias). HTH Bernard Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingenierie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel:+33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax:+33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

RE: why doesn't setup.exe install everything?

2001-12-21 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
y > installed will be updated by default from now on. OK but its VERY simple to miss a "Skip" in a bunch of "Keep"s ;-( > > > could someone please update the FAQ? and/or fix setup.exe? > > I'll do the former, but the latter is already underway. If

RE: Distribution

2001-12-21 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
If you want to be 100% sure of that fact, then you should contact a > lawyer. Note that if you put full sources with the binaries, you provide your user with everything that RedHat provides with the binary; so either you are compliant or RedHat is not :-) Just my .02euro Bernard -

RE: install question

2001-12-07 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
internet. Maybe it's due to the way you ask setup to access the net: you seem to have clicked to "Direct connection". Try to click rather on "Use IE5 Settings"; obviously you were able to download setup.exe so you have an access to the net that works, so if possible use