Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?

2011-10-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Sep 12 10:24, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > When a user with administrative privileges logs in to sshd, it seems that > > > the user is only granted > > > standard user privileges for that session. Is there a way around that? > > > How can I get the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: nosleep 0.1.4-1

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new package, nosleep, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. nosleep runs a command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until the command finishes executing. By default nosleep just prevents the computer from going to sleep during idle periods. More aggressive optio

setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
I run setup unattended as e.g. setup.exe --quiet-mode --packages aria2,atool,autoconf,... This works great, except for one thing: There are some packages for which the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want to keep the "prev" or some other already-installed version of the pack

Re: setup.exe: force installation of specific package versions?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >There are some packages for which > >the "current" versions are broken, at least for me, so I want to keep the > >"prev" or some other already-installed version of the package. Is there a > >way to specify in the setup invocation that I want a particular version of > >a particular package? > >

Re: openssh authentification

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey > debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/cevans/.ssh/id_rsa > debug3: send_pubkey_test > debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply > debug1: Authentications that can continue: > publickey,password,keyboard-interactive > debug1: Offering DSA

Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Does Windows 7 Home Premium come with a native whoami? Yes, it does. So here's what I've found. I have two users, who get different results. (1) User admin is a member of the Administrators group. He gets the expected results: whether he logs in by password or pubkey authentication, he can

Re: openssh authentification

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > > debug1: Next authentication method: publickey > > > debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/cevans/.ssh/id_rsa > > > debug3: send_pubkey_test > > > debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply > > > debug1: Authentications that can continue: > > > publickey,password,keyboard-interactive

Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?

2011-10-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Oct 14 21:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Oct 14 20:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Oct 14 11:18, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > So the difference AFAICT is the membership in the Administrators group. > > > > Notice also in the two listi

Re: Gold star please? Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2

2011-10-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:20:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on > >systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert > >from/to Unicode. > > Can we get a gold star for Chuck here? Supporting libiconv h

Re: admin privileges when logging in by ssh?

2011-10-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I applied a patch to CVS which should solve this problem in a generic > way. I observed how Windows handles the privileges when creating a > token and your scenario should be nicely covered now. Confirmed: with with 2011-10-15 snapshot, all of my privileges are enabled now when I log in with p

Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Also I worry about modification in other config files in /etc > (like /etc/apache2/httpd.conf). Are they overwritten on package update? This is up to each package maintainer. Current best practice - at least, as of a year or two ago when I asked about it on cygwin-apps I think - is to include:

Re: A quick question regarding a recent commit

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> You recently applied a patch to the Cygwin tree regarding Windows > permissions when logging in via SSH with PubKey authentication (see > the link below). Another user in the thread confirmed it worked in > the latest snapshot. I download the latest cygwin-inst tar ball and > replaced the existin

Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> How about templates? > > For example if package like Mercurial provide > WEB templates which I like to customize (fix time format to ISO-8601). > Templates lies in /lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/templates/*. It seems that that's something you'll have to work out with the Mercurial packa

Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > To complete the set, package maintainers have to separately include a > > simple preremove script, e.g. > > Actually, cygport handles (2) as well. No further intervention should > be necessary once make_etc_defaults is called. I was hoping you'd say that. New feature in the last year or two

libintl8 0.18.1.1-2: entry point not found - cygcheck-svr.out (0/1)

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
Cygwin 1.7.9, libintl8 0.18.1.1-2, wget 1.13.4-1. wget aborts: $ wget -h Aborted $ echo $? 134 When I run $ strace wget -h I get a popup dialog titled "wget - Entry Point Not Found". The message in it says, "The procedure entry point libintl_setlocale could not be located in the dynamic link

Re: libintl8 0.18.1.1-2: entry point not found - cygcheck-svr.out (0/1)

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> All I can figure is that your cygintl-8.dll is corrupt -- maybe you > manually copied the 0.17 version into place, during the period where > everyone was complaining about the $LANG behavior of 0.18? :) No, I didn't. I didn't even notice that... > Try reinstalling libintl8. OK, I reinstalled

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [security] Updated: socat 1.7.1.3-1 and 2.0.0b4-1

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
Two new versions of socat, 1.7.1.3-1 and 2.0.0b4-1, are now available in the Cygwin distribution. These releases both include a security fix for a stack overflow vulnerability. Please see the upstream advisory at http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/contrib/socat-secadv2.html for details. All soca

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-4.3.3-1

2011-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.3.3-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, including bug fixes and new features. Please see http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the full changelog. The previous Cygwin release was 4.2.3-1. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer progra

Re: problem with GNU screen solved

2011-11-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I just wanted to pass this along... I was having problems with screen > a couple months ago. I would get an error saying "chown tty: No such > file or directory" and then it would fail (see > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00222.html). > > Paul Hebble was kind enough to write me off-li

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nosleep-0.1.5-1

2011-11-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of nosleep, 0.1.5-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, that fixes a possible crash. All nosleep users should upgrade. nosleep runs a command while inhibiting the computer from sleeping or hibernating until the command finishes executing.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 4.49-1

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 4.49-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor updates and bug fixes since the previous Cygwin release, 4.44-1. You can read the upstream changelog at http://www.stunnel.org/news/. stunnel is a program that allows yo

Re: injob version 1.3

2011-12-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> /** > * injob: runs a program (Win32 or Cygwin) in a job object, imbuing it > * and all its sub-processes with Cygwin job control support. Maybe you'd consider offering it as a package, with a man page? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://c

Re: injob version 1.3

2011-12-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> gcc -lntdll -o injob injob-1.3.c Put -lntdll at the end: gcc -o injob injob-1.3.c -lntdll -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: Cygwin slow on x64 systems?

2011-12-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > The first long time is likely to program loading and > > Antivirus time delay > > For me, it's consistently 1.9 seconds for that trivial pipe, even if I > run it several times in quick succession. I'm asking the support team > about reinstalling Symantec (I have seen a glitch with it), and ma

Re: Machine very sluggish while compiling

2011-12-06 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Lately I've noticed that running make -j4 on my quad-core win7-x64 > machine causes it to become sluggish or even unresponsive. For example, > compiling a large package makes the mouse jumpy, delays keystrokes, adds > stutter to my music, and makes task switching painfully slow (though, > odd

Re: Documentation patches (gold star)

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:57:10PM -0500, Ken Brown wrote: > >The attached patches address some of the documentation problems mentioned in > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00277.html . > > > >I think the other problems have already been fixed in CVS. > > Patch applied along with

Re: Another gold star request?

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew, > Sorry to bother you again but could I get another gold star for the gold > star gatekeeper? His unflagging responsiveness is appreciated. It may > be recursive but I think it's well deserved. Hm... I resist awarding awards to myself... but your wish is my command. http://cygwin.co

Re: Suggestion to integrate Mercurial with ca-certificates package.

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
> To fix issue I create: > > cygwin# mkdir /etc/mercurial > cygwin# cat [web] > cacerts = /usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt > EOF > > Note that if cacerts point to non-existing file you get error from Mercurial: > > cygwin# hg identify https://bitbucket.org/django/d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: socat 1.7.2.0-1

2011-12-27 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of socat, 1.7.2.0-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor updates and bug fixes. You can read the upstream changelog at http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/CHANGES. socat is a relay for bidirectional data transfer between two

Re: socat-1.7.3.0-2 fork process sometimes lingers

2015-06-28 Thread Andrew Schulman
> socat-1.7.3.0-2 > Cygwin 2.0.4(0.287/5/3) > Windows 7 x64 SP1 > > Since upgrading socat today I've noticed that when I CTRL+C to terminate > it sometimes the spawned process won't terminate. For example open two > Cygwin terminals and: > > In one: > socat tcp-listen:8080,reuseaddr,fork - > >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: xwin-xdg-menu-20150706-1 [GOLDSTAR]

2015-07-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 22:16 +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: > > The following packages have been added to the Cygwin distribution: > > > > * xwin-xdg-menu > > > > xwin-xdg-menu is an XDG Desktop Menu Specification [1] menu for the X > > Window System running in the Cygwin environment. > > > > xwin-x

Re: [GOLDSTAR] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Release: mintty 2.0.1

2015-07-09 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Jul 3 23:18, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > After closing half of the open issues, I thought it’s a good time to release > > mintty. > > I’ve bumped the major version number to 2 to reflect the change of > > repository and maintainer and somehow catch up with cygwin... > > This certainly deserves a

Re: stow-2.2.0-1 modules installs to [...]/site_perl/5.10 in 2.0.4 x86

2015-07-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew, > > please re-build the package and split out the Perl part into perl-Stow, > which should install into vendor_perl. Alternatively, it may be > possible to build without those and make a separate perl-Stow package > that references CPAN. OK, done. I'll upload a new package build short

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stow-2.2.0-2, New: perl-Stow-2.2.0-2

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stow, 2.2.0-2, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a Cygwin-only release, that fixes a packaging problem where the perl Stow module was in the wrong location. The Stow module has also been separated out into the new perl-Stow package, which stow now depends on. stow

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp 4.6.3a-1

2015-07-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.6.3a-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor upstream release. See http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the list of changes. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client. It supports multiple network protocols. It uses the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.20-1

2015-07-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.20-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a minor upstream release. See http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html for the list of changes since the previous release, version 5.09. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.1.1-8

2015-08-18 Thread Andrew Schulman
The fish package has been updated in the Cygwin distribution. This is a Cygwin-only bugfix release: * Work around more cases of the parentheses-in-PATH expansion bug (https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/952#issuecomment-27499216). (R), (TM), and (tm) are now handled, as well as (x86)

Re: [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Aug 18 23:43, Mark Geisert wrote: > > Buchbinder, Barry writes: > > > Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM > > > >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote: > > > >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent > > > >implementation, which ret

Re: [SILVERY GOLDSTAR] Re: getent services enumeration glitch

2015-08-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> s/fixing/finding/ ? Right, thanks. Fixed. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.2.0-1 (test release)

2015-08-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new release of fish is available in the Cygwin distribution. fish 2.2.0-1 is available as a test release. Please test it, and report successes or failures to the cygwin list. fish 2.2 has significant changes since fish 2.1; please see http://fishshell.com/release_notes.html for the full list.

Re: Updated: fish-2.2.0-1 (test release)

2015-08-22 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Schulman > wrote: > > > > > > 1. You may see errors when fish starts, saying that "Old versions of fish > > appear > > to be running." This is because of architectural changes (removal of fishd) > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.2.0-2 (test release)

2015-08-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new release of fish is available in the Cygwin distribution. fish 2.2.0-2 is available as a test release. Please test it, and report successes or problems to the cygwin list. fish 2.2 has significant changes since fish 2.1; please see http://fishshell.com/release_notes.html for the full list.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.2.0-3

2015-08-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new release of fish is available in the Cygwin distribution. fish 2.2.0-3 is the first current release of fish 2.2 for Cygwin. Version 2.2.0-1 and -2 were available as test releases. fish 2.2 has significant changes since fish 2.1; please see http://fishshell.com/release_notes.html for the ful

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: fish-2.2.0-3

2015-09-01 Thread Andrew Schulman
> It seems that fish still has problems with my home directory that is on the > network (roaming profile in Windows). It takes ages to start up (does it > try to enumerate all users perhaps?). I've removed the ACL that seemed to > trip it up, but no change with the startup time. I've never used

why no gpg-agent for Cygwin?

2015-09-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
As long as I've been using Cygwin, there's been no gpg-agent packaged with gnupg. I've always assumed this is for some good reason, like the insecure memory warning I get when I enter a passphrase. But I don't exactly know, and I can't find any information about it. So, why isn't there a gpg-age

Re: why no gpg-agent for Cygwin?

2015-09-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 03:20:45PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > So, why isn't there a gpg-agent for Cygwin? Any hope of having one some > > day? > > I suspect simply because nobody has packaged one, and somebody has to do > the work to make it available. I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel 5.23-1

2015-09-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.23-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release that adds SOCKS support in the client, among other new features and bug fixes. See http://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html for the list of changes since the previous release, version 5.20.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.3.1-1

2015-09-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of screen, 4.3.1-1, is available in Cygwin x86. This is a new upstream release, with new features and bug fixes since the previous release, 4.2.1. See https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?group=screen for the list of changes. screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a phys

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: subversion-1.9.1-1

2015-09-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
The release requires a bunch of -devel packages: libapr1-devel libaprutil1-devel libdb-devel libexpat-devel libgnome-keyring-devel libintl-devel libsasl2-devel libserf1-devel libsqlite3-devel zlib-devel and these bring others along with them, such as opendlap-devel. I didn't have these installe

Re: bogus subversion prerequisites

2015-09-11 Thread Andrew Schulman
> A bunch of *-devel packages are listed in the "requires" field of the > subversion > setup hint. Please see https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-09/msg00130.html. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http:/

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: luajit-2.0.4-1 [GOLDSTAR]

2015-09-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Sun, 2015-09-20 at 14:31 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 9/19/2015 8:34 AM, Ken Brown wrote: > > > On 9/18/2015 6:08 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > > >> On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 15:15 -0400, Ken Brown wrote: > > >>> Thanks for this! I can use your 64-bit patch to build luajittex on > > >>> 64-bit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: par2

2015-09-26 Thread Andrew Schulman
par2 is now available in the Cygwin distribution. par2 is a file verification and repair tool. It creates and uses PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary. It can be used with any kind of file. Homepage: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline Andrew E. Schulman

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> To reproduce: > 1) Update screen package to current (4.03) version; > 2) Run screen inside mintty; > 3) Generate enough text to fill the screen and start scrolling > 4) Click in the scrollbar, or use the mousewheel > Desired effect > Scrolling > Observed effect > Nothing, wrt scrollba

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> >> Otherwise someone will need to do some bisection to find the commit > >> that introduced it. > > Remind me what repo to look in for screen? See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=screen. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

gcc-core requires libvtv0?

2015-10-13 Thread Andrew Schulman
For the last month or so every time I update in setup, in the Resolving Dependencies pane I see libvtv0() Required by: gcc-core Note the empty version number and description. I accept it, but the next time I update, it's back. Has anyone else seen this? Andrew

Re: gcc-core requires libvtv0?

2015-10-14 Thread Andrew Schulman
> For the last month or so every time I update in setup, in the Resolving > Dependencies pane I see > > libvtv0() > > Required by: gcc-core > > Note the empty version number and description. I accept it, but the next > time I > update, it's back. Fixed now, tha

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> This is at least _suggestive_ that your compilation environment and mine > are in some way different. > > Does > > #define TERMINFO 1 > > occur in your build/config.h ? Henry, thanks for working to track this down. I went back and looked and I did find one problem: because of an error in

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> So I just uploaded a new test release, 4.3.1-2, that includes the patch. BTW that patch and the test release are for x86_64 only. IIRC the bug didn't occur in i686, but I'd have to look back at it to be sure. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: htt

Re: Regression with gnu screen: Scrollbar gone between 4.02 and 4.03

2015-10-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> ht writes: > > > Andrew Schulman writes: > > > >> So I just uploaded a new test release, 4.3.1-2, that includes the patch. > >> With > >> the patch applied, yes I do have > >> > >> #define TERMINFO 1 > >> > &g

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.3.1-2 (x86_64 only)

2015-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of screen, 4.3.1-2, is available in Cygwin, for x86_64 only. This update reapplies a patch for x86_64 that was accidently left out of the previous release. The patch fixes a screen corruption bug in mintty [1,2]. screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical te

Re: Unison 2.43.3 fails to synchronize execute permission bit

2015-11-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> There was a bug with the umask in the test script. I have fixed it > and attached it. Thanks for reporting this. I haven't had time to look at it yet, but I will when I can. My guess is that the only thing I'll be able to do is report it upstream, to the unison-users list. Feel free to do th

does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?

2015-11-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
Lately I find myself feeling quite unmotivated about writing a mostly boilerplate announcement every time I upload a minor version bump of a package I maintain. "stow has been updated from version 2.2.0 to 2.2.2. You can read the upstream changelog to see what changed. stow is blah blah blah" D

Re: ssh ControlMaster re-broken

2015-11-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Nov 17 12:46, Zhu, Binbin (Nokia - CN/Hangzhou) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It worked month ago, but it failed after reinstall. > > Are you really sure it ever worked? To the best of my knowledge the > control master stuff always required descriptor passing via AF_LOCAL > sockets, which is not a

Re: ssh ControlMaster re-broken

2015-11-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Nov 19 11:45, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > On Nov 17 12:46, Zhu, Binbin (Nokia - CN/Hangzhou) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > It worked month ago, but it failed after reinstall. > > > > > > Are you really sure it ever w

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sng 1.1.0-1

2016-01-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of sng, 1.1.0-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is an upstream bugfix release. sng also now uses the latest libpng, libpng16. SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics) is a minilanguage designed to represent the entire contents of a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file in an

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: socat 1.7.3.1-1, 2.0.0-b9-1

2016-02-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
Two new versions of socat are available in the Cygwin distribution: 1.7.3.1-1 (current), and 2.0.0-b9-1 (test). These releases fix two security advisories, so you are urged to upgrade. See http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ for the full list of changes. socat is a relay for bidirectional data tr

Re: gmane?

2016-02-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Thufir Hawat writes: > > is the gmane NNTP gateway working for this list? It seems empty... > > I'm reading via NNTP, so it seems to work. Ditto. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel-5.31-1

2016-03-08 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 5.31-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor updates and bug fixes. You can read the upstream changelog at https://www.stunnel.org/sdf_ChangeLog.html. stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP con

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-1

2016-03-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Note that this release also includes an upstream change in default > behavior in 'ls' when dealing with non-portable filenames: such files > are now quoted unambiguously on the terminal (no change when sent to a > file or pipeline). There have already been a lot of complaints upstream > about th

Re: Change PS1 when run as administrator

2016-03-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I just came up with this recipe to change the default PS1 value to use red > for the user@host part of the prompt and to change the $ character to a #: > > if id | grep -qi 'member of administrators group' > then > export PS1=$(echo "$PS1" | sed -e 's_32_31_' -e 's_\\\$_#_') >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-8.25-1

2016-03-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman writes: > > Could you please tell me what environment variable that is? I've looked in > > the ls man page and info file, and they don't say. > > info coreutils > m ls > m Formatting the[TAB] > > QUOTING_STYLE Thanks. Andrew

Re: strange behaviour of 'ls'

2016-04-07 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have just noticed that the program 'ls' has started to put quotes around > some entries in the listing when I use it > That are not really present around the actual files / directories. The default quoting style in ls recently changed upstream, and then made its way into Cygwin. See https://

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-4.4.0-1

2012-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.4.0-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with new features including better bittorrent support. The full changelog is at http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/bittorrent client.

Re: Using nosleep with wrappers

2012-10-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > In my .bashrc I have something like this: > > > > xf() > > { > > LANG=''\ > > /usr/bin/xfig -specialtext -latexfonts -startlatexFont default \ > > "$@" 2>/dev/null > > } > > > > but, trying > > > > $ nosleep xf > > nosl

cygport dep output includes -devel packages

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
The output of "cygport dep" now includes -devel packages, which it didn't used to do: $ cygport stunnel-4.54-1 dep | grep devel libwrap-devel-7.6-21 zlib-devel-1.2.7-1 The stunnel package doesn't depend on the -devel packages. Only the stunnel-debuginfo package does. Would it be possible

Re: cygport dep output includes -devel packages

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 13:52 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > The output of "cygport dep" now includes -devel packages, which it didn't > > used > > to do: > > > > $ cygport stunnel-4.54-1 dep | grep devel > > libwrap-devel-7.6-21 > &g

[ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: unison2.27, unison2.32, unison2.40; new package: unison2.45

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
The Unison packages for Cygwin have been updated: unison2.27, unison2.32, unison2.40 - minor updates. unison2.45 - new version package. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or on differ

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: stunnel-4.54-1

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 4.54-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor updates and bug fixes since the previous Cygwin release, 4.53-1. You can read the upstream changelog at http://www.stunnel.org/news/. stunnel is a program that allows you

[bind] host can't find /usr/lib/engines/libgost.so - cygcheck.out (0/1)

2012-11-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
The "host" command in bind-9.9.2-1 fails: $ host www.example.com 29-Nov-2012 10:42:22.749 ENGINE_by_id failed 29-Nov-2012 10:42:22.749 error:25066067:DSO support routines:DLFCN_LOAD:could not load the shared library:dso_dlfcn.c:187:filename(/usr/lib/engines/libgost.so): No such file or directory 2

Re: [bind] host can't find /usr/lib/engines/libgost.so - cygcheck.out (0/1)

2012-12-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 10:52 -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > It seems that host expects to find /usr/lib/engines/libgost.so. There's no > > directory /usr/lib/engines in my installation, but there is > > /usr/lib/openssl-1.0.1/engines/libgost.so. > > This is th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] updated: unison2.40, unison2.45

2012-12-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
The Unison packages for Cygwin have been updated: unison2.40, unison2.45 - new upstream minor updates. Unison is a file synchronizer for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or on different disks on the same host), modi

Re: screen and mintty window size

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hello, > > When 'screen' is running in a mintty window and I resize it, screen > understandably uses the old window geometry. Is there a way to tell > screen to update its geometry? I've searched for this many times but > 'screen' is too generic to narrow down the result set (I get a lot of > mo

Re: Request for update: lftp

2013-03-02 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Hi Andrew, > > Would it be possible to have a refresh of lftp? Version 4.4.4 adds > support for UDP trackers, which would be nice. UDP trackers... Sure! Whatever that is. I'll get an update out in the next few days. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Request for update: lftp

2013-03-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman writes: > > I'll get an update out in the next few > > days. > > The debuginfo package should have category "Debug", not "Misc". OK. That wasn't anything that I did - apparently just an upload error that put lftp-debu

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-4.4.4-1

2013-03-04 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.4.4-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with new features including the highly sought after UDP tracker support. The full changelog is at http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http/b

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: upx-3.09-1 / ucl-1.03-2

2013-03-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
Since this update, every time I run setup, upx-debuginfo always wants to be installed. And, it's in category Misc, not Debug. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe inf

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: upx-3.09-1 / ucl-1.03-2

2013-03-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> The upx-debuginfo/setup.hint file was missing. I think this is an easy mistake for us package maintainers to make. It's not obvious at first that we need to create separate setup.hint files for our debuginfo packages. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: lftp update

2013-05-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Would it be possible to have lftp updated to the latest version 4.4.6? > There's some SFTP related bugfixes in this version. Sure, I'll upload a new release, assuming there are no problems building it. Andrew -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: ht

Re: [GOLDSTAR] Re: STC for fork SEGV after dlclose

2013-05-29 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew, I'd like to have a goldstar for David for providing short, simple, > easy to reproduce testcases in plain C. Thanks! Awarded: http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#DR -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> See here for additional information and reproducible steps in the mintty > support ticket: > https://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=390 > > I can reproduce this using cygwin 1.7.20, 1.7.19, 1.7.18, 1.7.15, and 1.7.7. > > Screen does NOT hang when is is created by calling the first c

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-10 Thread Andrew Schulman
> $ screen -S name -d -m > $ screen -S name -x > Remove dead screens with 'screen -wipe'. > $ Sorry, typed by hand, corrected above. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscr

Re: [GOLDSTAR] Re: [PATCH] Check for existence of the path before processing '..'

2013-06-12 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Cgf and I talked privately about this patch and we're both happy you > found such a simple solution to fix a long-standing problem. Sometimes, > when you're working long enough on some code, you just miss to see the > wood for the trees. > > Andrew, can you please polish one of the goldstar's i

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> > Do we have any idea whether the problem is with mintty or with screen? > > I observed the same behaviour as the OP, but also reproduced it in > rxvt and xterm, so not a mintty issue. Since it works in a console, > the Cygwin pty layer has to be the main suspect, unless screen has > specfic cod

Re: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:08:27AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > Do we have any idea whether the problem is with mintty or with screen? > >> > >> I observed the same behaviour as the OP, but also reproduced it in > >> rxvt and xterm, so not a

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen 4.1.0-20130513-1

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new test version of screen, 4.1.0-20130513-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution, both 32 and 64 bits. This is a test release. To get it in setup.exe or setup64.exe, you'll have to click on the "Exp" radio button at top right of the "Select Packages" window. This is the first update of sc

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-20 Thread Andrew Schulman
> If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distros. > In Linux distros, the maintainer provides only the spec file and > the source archive. The actual build for all supported platforms > could be done on

Re: cygport limitations (was: Adding MSYS functionality to Cygwin)

2013-06-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:49:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jun 20 22:38, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> > If every maintainer would use cygport, it would allow us to change > >> > the build method to one along the lines of most Linux distro

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: socat 1.7.2.2-1, 2.0.0-b6-1

2013-06-25 Thread Andrew Schulman
Two new versions of socat are available in the Cygwin distribution: 1.7.2.2-1 - current 2.0.0-b6-1 - test These are new upstream releases, that address a security vulnerability in previous versions. You can read the upstream changelog at http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/doc/CHANGES. Becau

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen-4.1.0-20130513-1

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of screen, 4.1.0-20130513-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution, both 32 and 64 bits. This is the same version that was released two weeks ago, but it's now been promoted to current, so you won't have to specifically choose it in setup.exe/setup64.exe any more. I've been using

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [SECURITY] Updated: stunnel-4.56-1

2013-06-30 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of stunnel, 4.56-1, is available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with assorted minor updates and bug fixes, and one security fix: * Buffer overflow vulnerability fixed in the NTLM authentication of the CONNECT protocol negotiation. See https://www.stunne

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