Re: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?

2015-04-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 2 00:55, Robert Miles wrote: > On 4/1/2015 3:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 1 03:26, Robert Miles wrote: > >>The C: drive on one of my 64-bit Windows 7 computers is approaching > >>90% full, but there are two other drives that are nearly empty. > >> > >>Can I move the entire Cygw

Re: X server does not display output from X client

2015-04-02 Thread MrRon
Thanks much. I have tried both but the results are the same. No display. On 4/1/2015 9:45 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 01/04/2015 13:32, MrRon wrote: I am running XWin Server on my Windows 7 machine. This starts up xinit, xterm & XWin. In the xterm window I enter $ xhost +eis103l and on eis103l I e

multitail segfaults

2015-04-02 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hi, I'm experiencing a problem with multitail. It always gives a segmentation fault. $ multitail --version --*- multitail 6.3 (C) 2003-2014 by folk...@vanheusden.com -*-- The following problem occured: - Segmentation fault (core dumped) I see this behavior on all my

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: R-3.1.3-1

2015-04-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
Versions 3.1.3-1 of R libRmath libRmath-devel for cygwin 32bit and 64 bit are now available: CHANGES New upstream release https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2015/000582.html DESCRIPTION R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R pr

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openblas-0.2.14-1

2015-04-02 Thread Marco Atzeri
New releases of openblas (source) libopenblas (dinamic library) are available in the Cygwin distribution, 32 and 64 bit : CHANGES New upstream release https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/releases/tag/v0.2.14 Added STEAMROLLER 64 bit support DESCRIPTION OpenBLAS is an optimized BLA

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
I'll try to reproduce the issue on a standard NTFS volume -- although I would image Cygwin is just decoding the same DACL that ICACLS is returning. The other oddity is why it's not recognizing *me* as having any permissions. In the particular case of SSH, is there any way to make SSH ignore these

RE: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?

2015-04-02 Thread cyg Simple
> From: Corinna Vinschen > > That doesn't make sense either. The symlinks created by setup or Cygwin tools > are using POSIX paths, not Windows paths. Since you're moving the Cygwin > installation as a whole, the reference point for the POSIX root dir moves as > well. > From the Windows (i.e. r

Re: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ?

2015-04-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 2 09:28, cyg Simple wrote: > > From: Corinna Vinschen > > > > That doesn't make sense either. The symlinks created by setup or Cygwin > > tools > > are using POSIX paths, not Windows paths. Since you're moving the Cygwin > > installation as a whole, the reference point for the POSIX roo

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! > I'll try to reproduce the issue on a standard NTFS volume -- although > I would image Cygwin is just decoding the same DACL that ICACLS is > returning. The other oddity is why it's not recognizing *me* as > having any permissions. getfacl may shed additional light. > I

Robocopy

2015-04-02 Thread Houder
Hi Corinna, Reference: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg8.html - Re: Can I move Cygwin and Cygwin64 to a drive other than C: ? Amazing that you had so much luck with robocopy ... It did not surprise me, that it failed on me ... Below 2 test cases: one using tar (success), th

Should cygwin's setup*.exe be signed using Sign Tool?

2015-04-02 Thread David A. Wheeler
Running setup*.exe produces "Publisher: Unknown publisher", and it's doubtful that many people check the signature of the .exe file before running. Even if they did, there's the problem that the signature comes from the same place. Has Cygwin considered signing the installer using Sign Tool? Mo

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
Andrey, >> In the particular case of SSH, is there any way to make SSH ignore >> these permissions? > Thanks, I laughed. Thanks for the less-than-helpful response. A "no" would have sufficed if that is indeed the case. >> and obviously >> causing us pain given the permission weirdness. Removi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libfakesu 1.1.0

2015-04-02 Thread Daniel
This library simulates the Unix root user. It is meant to make porting Unix programs to Cygwin easier. Many Unix daemon programs, such as Apache, Sendmail and Procmail, start up as root but change to an unprivileged user ID. By including this library, any Cygwin super-user (member of the 'Administ

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Achim Gratz
Bryan Berns writes: > In the real world in large corporations with focus on security, > "Administrators" is typically a tiered or least privilege arrangement. He's talking about "Administrators" the SID (group). In any case, I'd start with a throwaway share (or save the permissions with subinacl

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
> He's talking about "Administrators" the SID (group). Interesting. Given the built-in Administrators group doesn't often [directly] play into permissions on remote systems or cross-system permission models, I'm not sure where he was going with that. Regardless, I'll consider it water under the b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libpst-0.6.64-1

2015-04-02 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: * libpst4-0.6.64-1 * libpst-devel-0.6.64-1 * python-libpst-0.6.64-1 * readpst-0.6.64-1 This package contains a library and utilities for reading and converting MS Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) files. This is an update to the

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Bryan Berns! >> He's talking about "Administrators" the SID (group). > Interesting. Given the built-in Administrators group doesn't often > [directly] play into permissions on remote systems or cross-system > permission models, I'm not sure where he was going with that. > Regardless,

Re: Should cygwin's setup*.exe be signed using Sign Tool?

2015-04-02 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, David A. Wheeler! > Running setup*.exe produces "Publisher: Unknown publisher", and it's > doubtful that many people check the signature of the .exe file before > running. Even if they did, there's the problem that the signature comes from > the same place. > Has Cygwin considered si

Re: Should cygwin's setup*.exe be signed using Sign Tool?

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
> Has Cygwin considered signing the installer using Sign Tool? More info: > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa387764%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > > http://blog.didierstevens.com/2008/12/31/howto-add-a-digital-signature-to-executables/ > > I believe signing it this way would

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
Replying to myself on this topic in case anyone else is interested. > 2) how can I get SSH to believe the two "admin" groups on my > files are acceptable. I'm not optimistic I'm going to get SSH to > change it's behavior so I may need to recompile it to avoid the > check which is obviously no

Re: Should cygwin's setup*.exe be signed using Sign Tool?

2015-04-02 Thread David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler inquired: > > Has Cygwin considered signing the installer using Sign Tool? More info: On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 01:22:15 +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: > Did Microsoft made it available separately? Or is there a description of the > structure of such a signature and/or a free tool that can

Re: Should cygwin's setup*.exe be signed using Sign Tool?

2015-04-02 Thread David A. Wheeler
On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 21:23:16 -0400, Bryan Berns wrote: > Since the setup executable is responsible for running a whole bunch of > community contributed post-install executables as part of the > installation process, I'm not sure whether it'd be advisable to stamp > a particular individual's name or

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-04-02 Thread Takashi Yano
On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 13:59:01 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > One small thing to be improved is here: > > > > + if (echo_cnt > 0 > > + && ReadFile (echo_r, outbuf, MIN (rlen, echo_cnt), &n, NULL)) > > > > echo_cnt returned by ::bytes_available() is actually > > not a number of bytes av

Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

2015-04-02 Thread Takashi Yano
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 13:07:35 +0900 Takashi Yano wrote: > 2015-04-03 Takashi Yano > > * fhandler_tty.cc (fhandler_pty_slave::read): Change calculation of > "readlen" not to use "bytes_in_pype" value directly. s/pype/pipe/ Sorry. -- Takashi Yano -- Problem reports: http:/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: dos2unix 7.2.1-1

2015-04-02 Thread Erwin Waterlander
CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE: === New upstream release. * Fix: Skip the GB18030 tests when the system does not support the Chinese locale with GB18030 character encoding. * Fix: Small corrections in the manual in section GB18030 and OPTIONS -m. homepage: http