Re: Re: setup.exe hijacked?

2009-09-10 Thread Michael PARKER
Greg, Dave, A repeat of my activities earlier (file download via IE8 *and* wget) shows the problem to have now gone away. I've still got a copy of the "bad" file - same file size as the "good" setup.exe but with a earlier timestamp: -rwx--+ 1 585728 Aug 5 2008 setup.exe_bad* -rwx--+

setup.exe hijacked?

2009-09-10 Thread Michael PARKER
I've just tried downloading setup.exe from www.cygwin.com, only to find that it crashes when run on my WinXP x64 desktop. Verifying against the setup.exe.sig signature I see the following: > gpg --verify setup.exe.sig setup.exe gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnu

Cygwin handling of space-separated usernames

2005-06-16 Thread Michael PARKER
Our domain logins have usernames of the form "firstname lastname". Cygwin assigns the USER env. variable to the "firstname lastname" string, but many utilities (such as rsh, passwd)that rely upon seeing a non-space-separated username, encounter problems when processing logins, reporting user pas

RE: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Michael PARKER
Moving '/bin/cygwin1.dll.new' to '/bin/cygwin1.dll' did the trick, however. Mike > -Original Message- > From: Mike Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 27 May 2005 11:38 > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: cygcheck/strace results in Program Error > post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

cygcheck/strace results in Program Error post-cygwin-1.5.17-1 installation

2005-05-27 Thread Michael PARKER
Hi, Following the installation of cygwin-1.5.17-1, all my attempts at running 'cygcheck' or 'strace' result in a Windows Program Error: cygcheck.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. etc.etc Cygwin's running on a Win2K machine. Cheers,