Re: Windows XP, inetd, and procmail, fetchmail, and mutt

2002-01-19 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Kent" == Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> On 1/18/2002 5:56 PM, Kent Perrier wrote: >> To the best of my ability, I have. It looks to me that the MUA >> has to call ssmtp to send an email. It cannot run as a daemon, >> on port 25, to accept connections from

Re: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: OFF-TOPIC, but... > I thought I might as well be the first person to post this: > > http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14759-1.html > > This

RE: libtool-devel and kde2 - problem with AC_PROG_CXX

2002-01-19 Thread Ralf Habacker
>Ralf, of more use would be an interdiff between the (rc5-cvs of same >date) and (your updated code - cvs it's based against), that would me >and Chuck how close the two versions are, with respect to the rc5 >changes. I have appended the patched libtool.m4 one time against the cvs HEADbranch rele

Re: no output from net.exe

2002-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:34:19AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > >You could write a script. That's even more fun than setting > >all user/group/permission info by hand. Treat it as challenge. > > > >Corinna > > Actually, this almost sounds fun... :) Correct me if I'm wrong here, but > if Perl

Re: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:28:26PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > >=== >- Original Message - >From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:06 PM >Subject: OFF-TOPIC, but... > >>I thought I might as well be the first person to p

Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion

2002-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:46:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > The real problem is that following setuid(), the ACL (not default > ACL) of the impersonation token (which is inherited from the > default ACL of the process token) makes the impersonation > token non-accessible by its user > (n

Re: 1.3.6: bug in fork(): kill(pid,0) does not always find child

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:04:42PM +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: >There is a problem in fork(), in combination with kill(pid, 0) >to check if the child is alive: > >When a fork() returned the pid to the parent, and the parent >does a kill(pid, 0) to check if the child is alive, the kill >som

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.7-1

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run s

RE: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-19 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
N! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD N! Wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TA HELL! In light of this tragic news, I want to go on record

Transmitting PATH-like variables to DOS programs

2002-01-19 Thread Ihab A.B. Awad
Hi there, I'm using tcsh on my Win2k box, and I do a lot of development in Java. As a result, I use CLASSPATH a lot. Now, with PATH, Cygwin automatically converts the value it inherits from the Windows environment to Unix format, and also converts it back to Windows format when invoking a Win

problem with sigaction and SA_NOCLDSTOP

2002-01-19 Thread Chris January
sigaction has a flag, SA_NOCLDSTOP, which according to the POSIX spec does this: SA_NOCLDSTOP Do not generate SIGCHLD when children stop. Now Cygwin presently does not generate a SIGCHLD signal when a child process terminates if this flag is set in the signal handler. According to the POSIX spec

Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion

2002-01-19 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 05:06 PM 1/19/02 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:46:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> 3) Why is it necessary to set the PrimaryGroup in the >> process token in setegid()? > >No, the primary group is used also to create object DACLs. >When setting the PrimaryG

RE: OFF-TOPIC, but...

2002-01-19 Thread Michael Schaap
At 21:37 19-1-2002, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >AOL... why did it have to be AOL...? Me too! - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected.

Re: Transmitting PATH-like variables to DOS programs

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:53:07PM -0800, Ihab A.B. Awad wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm using tcsh on my Win2k box, and I do a lot of development in Java. >As a result, I use CLASSPATH a lot. > >Now, with PATH, Cygwin automatically converts the value it inherits from >the Windows environment to Unix f

Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion

2002-01-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:52:18PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > At 05:06 PM 1/19/02 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:46:03PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > > > >> 3) Why is it necessary to set the PrimaryGroup in the > >> process token in setegid()? > > > >No,

Re: problem with sigaction and SA_NOCLDSTOP

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:19PM -, Chris January wrote: >sigaction has a flag, SA_NOCLDSTOP, which according to the POSIX spec does >this: > >SA_NOCLDSTOP >Do not generate SIGCHLD when children stop. > >Now Cygwin presently does not generate a SIGCHLD signal when a child process >terminates

Re: security.cc: bug report, question and suggestion

2002-01-19 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 12:33 AM 1/20/02 +0100, you wrote: >On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:52:18PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >The problem is that in contrast to POSIX the PrimaryGroup is >restricted to the Groups already listed in the access token >of the process. So it will fail if the primary group is set >only

bored signed on still bored?? ws2t4

2002-01-19 Thread
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bored signed on still bored?? ma1s8

2002-01-19 Thread
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INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES

2002-01-19 Thread Mark Bradshaw
Corinna, On the 14th you made lots of changes to use INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES, but I don't think the definition made it into a header anywhere in the latest cygwin release. At least, not that I can find. Might wanna check it. Mark -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:38:20PM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wrote: >Corinna, > On the 14th you made lots of changes to use INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES, but I >don't think the definition made it into a header anywhere in the latest >cygwin release. At least, not that I can find. Might wanna check it. T

RE: INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES

2002-01-19 Thread Mark Bradshaw
K. I'll pull it from cvs then. Thanks. > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 8:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:38:20PM -0500, Mark Bradshaw wr

Cygwin Source Tree Download

2002-01-19 Thread Laurence F. Wood
How does one download the entire CVS Cygwin source tree? I would like to be prepared for when/if AOL buys Redhat ( see http://www.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8533612-0.html?tag=rl h ) . Are there contingency plans in place if this were to happen? -- Unsubscribe info: http

cvs question

2002-01-19 Thread S.Yoshida
cvs 1.11.0-1 cygwin 1.3.6-6 gdbm 1.8.0.-3 failed cvs import and download source of cvs with setup.exe 2.215.2.10 patch cygwin configure make make install then, failed cvs (update, checkout, diff, import, everything) OK, Where can I get real cvs. WinCVS is not good, (WinCVS can't read CVS/Entr

Re: Cygwin Source Tree Download

2002-01-19 Thread Robert Collins
I'd use CVSup. Rob === - Original Message - From: "Laurence F. Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cygwin@Cygwin. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Cygwin Source Tree Download > How does one download the entire CVS Cygwin source tree? I would like to b

Re: cygwin Source Tree Download

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:02:45PM -0500, Laurence F. Wood wrote: >How does one download the entire CVS Cygwin source tree? One would probably start looking on the cygwin web site under "CVS". >I would like to be prepared for when/if AOL buys Redhat ( see >http://www.cnet.com/investor/news/newsi

bug in 'mv'

2002-01-19 Thread Chris Ruffin
mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure that we aren't doing something stupid like: $ mv A a where A is a directory. This causes mv to go into infinite recursion trying to move A to a, because windows is case-insensitive. Chris Ruffin -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: bug in 'mv'

2002-01-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:34:31AM -, Chris Ruffin wrote: >mv from fileutils 4.1 doesn't use a case-insensitive test to make sure >that we aren't doing something stupid like: > >$ mv A a > >where A is a directory. This causes mv to go into infinite recursion >trying to move A to a, because wi

-lsupc++ in cygwin-1.3.7-1

2002-01-19 Thread Kei OHSHIRO
Hi, I have a question about winsup/cygwin/Makefile.in. When I compile latest cygwin-1.3.7-1, ld failed with "-lsupc++". So, I've removed it and could compile normally. Do you need libsupc++ in winsup/cygwin/Makefile.in? Regards, Kei Kei OHSHIRO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a patch not to us

Re: cvs question

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
cygcheck -s -v -r Sorry it doesn't work for you. It works for many other people. I use it daily. Works best if your disks are mounted in binary (unix) mode. S.Yoshida wrote: > cvs 1.11.0-1 > cygwin 1.3.6-6 > gdbm 1.8.0.-3 > > failed cvs import What is CVSROOT? Did you 'cvs init' first? (th

CygwinPerl Q - interact with symlinked dir?

2002-01-19 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello, I recently had move some files around due to space constraints on my local disks. What got moved was my $HOME directory subtree (where ~/* points to in Cygwin). LONG time ago, when setting up Cygwin Perl, I choose to place the .cpan directory under my user home directory "~/". Now my "

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-19 Thread Soren Andersen
This is going to be my one and only engagement this week in conversing with individuals who have been trained in how they think by TV shows. On 18 Jan 2002 at 13:39, twidlar wrote: > Trying to get them to reverse their decision by trying to make them feel > guilty or suggesting they need thera

Re: -lsupc++ in cygwin-1.3.7-1

2002-01-19 Thread Michael A Chase
CGF already took care of it. Update from CVS again to get the corrected version. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. - Original Message - From

Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?

2002-01-19 Thread Charles Wilson
Soren Andersen wrote: > This is going to be my one and only engagement this week in conversing with >individuals who have > been trained in how they think by TV shows. No need to read further. ^ indicates that this post is a troll. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu