[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: grub 1.96-1 -- GRand Unified Bootloader 2 [experimental]

2008-04-03 Thread Christian Franke
GRUB2 is now part of the cygwin distribution. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-2.en.html GRUB2 is a portable powerful bootloader. This new version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors. The package contains an experimental version of GRUB2. It is based on a recent snap

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: csih-0.1.3-1

2008-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 2 23:46, Charles Wilson wrote: > Attached is an updated implementation of ssh-host-config that uses csih. It > seems to work pretty well for the various tests I've put it through, > although it REQUIRES csih-0.1.3. Wow, thanks for doing my job. I still have this on my TODO list :} It wo

Re: How do I run sshd as a particular user?

2008-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 2 13:55, Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> - Does the domain user have an entry in the local /etc/passwd? sshd >> needs that when checking file ownership. And it allows to specify the >> user to cygrunsrv without the "domain\win_username" sy

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sysvinit-2.86-3: A System-V Init Clone

2008-04-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'sysvinit' has been uploaded to a server near you. Cygwin NEWS: o Removed csih_enable_color from init-config (as suggested by Charles) o Fixed a bug in init-config DESCRIPTION: Init is the parent of all processes. Its primary role is to create

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-03 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
James Abley schrieb: (...) I've just tried the current snapshot and most (all?) of my problems with long path names have gone away, whereas the main release was failing at the start of the month. Previously: 2008/03/07 20:47:05 [13024] rsync: readlink "/AppData/Local/Application Data/Applicat

Re: A small suggestion to setup.exe of cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Kairys
I've wondered about this too... So if I have changed my Cygwin setup on one machine and I want to duplicate those changes on another machine, all I have to do is copy installed.db to the other machine and run setup.exe there? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.0p1-1

2008-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 5.0p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. It fixes a security related issue found right after the release of 4.9p1. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 5.0p1: ==

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-03 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb: James Abley schrieb: (...) I've just tried the current snapshot and most (all?) of my problems with long path names have gone away, whereas the main release was failing at the start of the month. Previously: 2008/03/07 20:47:05 [13024] rsync: readlink "/AppData/Lo

portmap service won't start

2008-04-03 Thread EnergizeMe
I have a Windows 2003 std server that I have installs cygwin on. I ran the nfs-server-config script and installed the nfsd, portmap, and mountd services. I have installed them with a local admin account and as a domain admin account, but the portmap service will not start. I get this error from th

Re: lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap....

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
S A wrote: > I'm using Winpcap 4.0.2 in a cygwin application for > local packet capture. > > My application registers a SIG_TERM signal handler. Unless you built winpcap as a Cygwin application, I don't think you should expect this to work. The winpcap as downloaded from their site is a native

Re: drag and drop folder from Explorer to cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Richard Trevor wrote: > I'd like to drag a folder from Windows Explorer (XP) and drop it on the > cygwin desktop shortcut, > causing a cygwin (bash) shell to open in the folder directory. I don't think there's any magic to it, when you drop something onto a shortcut it just sets the arguments to

Re: Embedded packaging of cygwin without installation

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
[ It's considered mildly rude to resend duplicate copies of a message to a mailing list when no one replies. Please don't do that, it was received fine the first time. ] Hans Kaiser wrote: > - no changes on existing preinstalled cygwin installation > > The first step was successful with http://

Re: Compiling Cygwin on Linux

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Robert Eckhoff wrote: > ~/build_cygwin$ export CC=i686-pc-cygwin-gcc Don't set this. Leave CC set to the host, not target, compiler. > ~/build_cygwin$ ~/cygwin-1.5.25-11/configure > --prefix=/home/rpeckhoff/boot_system/ --host=i686-pc-cygwin > --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -v

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to > backup all Windows files... :) Set CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 to enable UTF-8 support. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: No history when closing window

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Anders Larsson wrote: > The bash history of my session is not saved when I am closing the > cmd.exe window. > The shell history is saved between sessions if I am closing session with > exit. > Is it possible to save shell history when closing window and not issuing > the exit command? You might t

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-03 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> Unfortunately, I can't easily uninstall those drivers, since they are > needed and used by other users of the machine. Is there a way to get > the paths to those drivers? I can probably get away with renaming the > files and rebooting long enough to tell if that fixes the problem. Never mind,

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-03 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> SERVICE_NAME: Sentinel > DISPLAY_NAME: Sentinel > SERVICE_NAME: SNTNLUSB > DISPLAY_NAME: Rainbow USB SuperPro > Security/rights management/license control thingy of some sort. It > could > easily have been coded under the mistaken assumption that hooking process > creation is a reasonable me

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 3 13:10, Brian Dessent wrote: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to > > backup all Windows files... :) > > Set CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 to enable UTF-8 support. ...and set LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8, otherwise multibyte/wide char aware ap

Re: A small suggestion to setup.exe of cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread 想 李
Thanks Larry, good to know "cygcheck" command and install.db. Sorry that I should have take a look at FAQ more carefully since all of above have been talked there. But what I suggested on the other hand is the same as Michael's idea. I would like to see if cygwin's setup.exe could somehow "import

Re: A small suggestion to setup.exe of cygwin

2008-04-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
想 李 wrote: Michael wrote: I've wondered about this too... So if I have changed my Cygwin setup on one machine and I want to duplicate those changes on another machine, all I have to do is copy installed.db to the other machine and run setup.exe there? > Thanks Larry, good to know "cygcheck"

AGAIN - cp: skipping file ... as it was replaced while being copied

2008-04-03 Thread Ivan Dobrianov
Hi and sorry for the clutter, but I can't figure it out! I have this familiar situation when trying to copy from the network: cp //walnetapp01/SRD/LegacyBugs/148000-148999/148708/some_file.txt ./ cp: skipping file `//walnetapp01/SRD/LegacyBugs/148000-148999/148708/some_file.txt', as it was rep

UTF-8 Support's extent?

2008-04-03 Thread Paul-Kenji Cahier
>?On Apr 3 13:10, Brian Dessent wrote: >>?Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>?> So once Cygwin learns how to speak UTF-8, I will finally be able to >>?> backup all Windows files... :) >>?Set CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 to enable UTF-8 support. >?...and set LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8, otherwise multibyte/wide char awar

Re: UTF-8 Support's extent?

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Paul-Kenji Cahier wrote: > Sorry to be possibly intruding here... But with 1.5.25-11 and > both LC_CTYPE=C-UTF-8 CYGWIN=codepage:utf8 a simple command > like ls only seems to be displaying in the locale codepage... > Am I doing something wrong or is the support still limited? The part you're miss

Re: Can't configure sshd

2008-04-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM, JR <> wrote: > Thanks! I changed mirrors and setup downloaded a new version of openssh... The > script ran fine after. > > Is there any known conflict between RealVNC server with encryption on and > Cygwin/Openssh? > After I got the sshd installed my RealVNC cli