Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

I have installed a program called Fontforge (An outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I would like to update the editor, but when I try the uninstall commands cygwin does not uninstall the program can some provide help as to how to

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

--- Thorsten Kampe wrote: > It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we > know how to uninstall the program? > > A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you > issue this command and why does it not uninstall the program? > > On the other han

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

So basically take the command that is at the bottom and use that instead because I am on windows xp? --- Dave Korn wrote: > On 14 September 2007 15:14, Dave Korn wrote: > > > On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: > > > >> When I tried to ask the developer of th

Updating Cygwin and packages

When I downloaded and installed cygwin I had installed various packages. I was wondering how do I go about updating those packages and cygwin for that matter if possible. Be a better Heartthrob. Get be

Re: YouCompleteMe build fails: problem with LONG_BIT in pyport.h or ld missing python lib

Whitedwarf tura-home.de> writes: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install (i.e., mainly, build) the vim plugin YouCompleteMe > in cygwin64 on a x86_64 machine and got stuck. > > The first error message was > > [ 11%] Building CXX object > BoostParts/CMakeFiles/BoostParts.dir/libs/python/src/conv

Re: microprobing ........... a grrrrrrreat technique !

At 12:26 7/5/2003, mount me, wrote: >Hello Experts, >What is basically needed to do microprobing in >a controller/processor board ?? How and where to >start with my analysis for solving some >of the hardware problems in my h/w ?? > >karthik bala guru >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Try here: mailto:[EMAIL PRO

`sig_send: wait for sig_complete...' instead of core dump

7; to scan registry a: fd N/A N/A c: hd NTFS 19069Mb 31% CP CS UN PA FC 65_02_31 d: cd N/AN/A C:\cygwin / system binmode C:\cygwin/bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\cygwin/lib /usr/l

tetex (latex) permission problem on NT

Dear All, I could not find any reference to this anywhere, so FYI or maybe for the FAQ: Running Cygwin 1.5.7-1 on XP professional, any attempt to run latex produced an immediate permission error on texmf.cnf ('cannot access', if I recall well). I noticed that some of the files in the texmf subdi

Re: gettext-0.12.1-3 (+gettext-devel+libgettextpo0+libintl2) ques tion

Eric Lassauge said: > I had problems with gettext enabled programs when running > Cygwin with a french locale > (LANG=fr;LC_ALL=fr;LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1), all translated > messages containing special characters (0x160 to 0x255 : > letters with accent, > grave,...) where bad: é (small e acute) wa

dumb question: where is gcc?

I just installed cygwin on Win2KPro, using the standard "setup.exe" off cygwin web site with the "install everything" (or so I thought) option. My trusty GNU C compiler is nowhere in sight. What totally obvious thing am I missing? Thanks. I found no mention of a separate download of gcc in the

Re: cygwin setup freezes

> Jack Tan wrote: >At 09:59 AM 5/7/2002, Sander Timmermans wrote: >>I tried to use the KDE sourceforge ftp with the latest cygwin setup.exe, but >>it messed up my Cygwin install. >>So I must reinstall cygwin but setup.exe freezes everytime. >>I tried with the setup.exe that comes with local packag

Re: cygwin setup freezes

OK, that last message did not come through very well. Here's another try... Jack Tan wrote: >At 09:59 AM 5/7/2002, Sander Timmermans wrote: >>I tried to use the KDE sourceforge ftp with the latest cygwin setup.exe, but >>it messed up my Cygwin install. >>So I must reinstall cygwin but setup.exe

Re: Setup failures over the last few days

Robert Collins wrote: >Short answer: use >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-20020510.exe. [snip] > >Please, try the setup linked above, and if you have any errors let me >know. AFAICT though, it should be ready for widespread use now. This did not perform any differently than 2.194.2.26

RE: Setup failures over the last few days

e setup.ini file. -- Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove the Z-'s to reply--they're what I do when I read spam) > > > -Original Message- > > From: D G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 4:17 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

From: "Harig, Mark A." >I think I see now. I was simply letting 'setup.exe' use its defaults. >It defaults to using 'c:\cygwin' for the Root Install Directory and >'c:\cygwin' for the Local Package Directory. I assumed that setup was >searching in the '/' directory tree, but that was just a co

RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8

From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 08:04:42 +1000 > > -Original Message- > > From: D G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 5:32 AM > > > OK. For those of us who did it the "wrong"

isip_production in cygwin

Dear Sir, I trying to install Production System (r00_n09) in cygwin on win98. But is does not install. Is here anyone successful install Production System in cygwin? Please kindly recommend me Regards, Gangaa __ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Inte

telnet, ftp unknown service

suddenly telnet, ftp, rlogin stopped running last tuesday, I did not change anything, I have a w2k/cygwin : CYGWIN_NT-5.0 nbvdu01 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin I re-install some parts of cygwin package (login, cygwin engine) and strangely telnet only works when used

Re: telnet, ftp unknown service

here is the result of strace on a telnet, if you need specifically on ftp just let me know. "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:48:58AM +0200, V D wrote: > > suddenly telnet, ftp, rlogin stopped ru

lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop

o && link foo bar && ls -il foo bar ls: foo: No such file or directory ls: bar: No such file or directory 2251799813741751 -rw--- 2 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:56 bar 2251799813741751 -rw--- 2 bdodge mkgroup-l-d 0 Jun 24 20:56 foo Works fine, so I try seeing

Re: lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop

> >Any suggestions on how to make link work reliably on this system? I've > >tried using the revs of lockfile(procmail) & cygwin from my old laptop > >and the latest install. > > Any chance the source of this problem is related to this: > > I d

Re: lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop

On Jun-25-06 07:06AM, Lev Bishop wrote (Re: lockfile & link on Core Duo laptop): > On 6/25/06, Benjamin D wrote: > > > >Works fine, so I try seeing what happens with strace: > > > > $ ls -il foo bar; touch foo && strace link foo bar > strace.out 2>&

Is SEM_UNDO problem fixed (in v 1.5.11)?

Hi, I am calling semop to increment or decrement an IPC semaphore with SEM_UNDO. Then I abort the process using Ctrl+C and check the semaphore status. I expect the effect of the semop to be undone at that point, but it is not. It is either a bug or I am doing something wrong. I see that the prob

No _g_config.h on gcc dist?

Hi, I have built a mips cross-compiler environment by installing the default cygwin packages plus gcc and glib and then installing the mips cross compiler under usr/local - this is on a W2K OS. C prog compile and run fine, but C++ apps that use the STL fail to compile as below. I've searched my

Re: ssh expect on Cygwin

Since passwordless authentication is broken on many cygwin systems I use, I end up using the following expect script (more frequently that I would like). Are you sure you cant just fix the passwordless login? I have cyg on 5 different systems - works like a charm! I use keychain to manage the key

mailling list ID tag

I apologize if this has been suggested before... Would it be possible to ask the kind Cygwin people to put a tag on their mailing list? For example, I am subscribed to several other lists that use: [Subject] as their tag. This makes filtering into different folders easy and I can find what I wan

RE: SSH, SFTP, and NTSEC

My problem is simple... I have users that I created that cannot log in via SSH unless I make them >members of the Windows ADMINISTRATORS group on the Windows 2003 server that is running >Cygwin.  I've tried everything I can think of and lots of stuff from other people that I could never >have

tetex problems: postinstall hangs, format not installed, root can run latex

ags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin (default) = `C:\cygwin/bin' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib (default) = `C:\cygwin/lib' flags = 0x000a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\C

cygwin shell as a service

Hi, I am trying to solve a problem that is a bit "out of the box": For my cygwin implementation, I need to do this: -Start the cygwin shell (bash) as a windows service, hidden (no console). Reason being, I cannot have someone closing the console, which would then kill all processes launched FROM

cygserver

Can someone clear up for me what the purpose of cygserver is?? I was reading through the docs, I searched the lists.. I see tons about how to use it with PostGres, but I am not really sure *what-it-is* or if it is used in any other context than PostGres. Thanks!! Dan

children processes left alive

Hi, I want to run some common daemons within cygwin rather than using windows services to control them, like proftpd, cron, ssh. I have noticed that when I simply launch them from my cygwin shell window, like: /usr/sbin/sshd /usr/sbin/proftpd /usr/sbin/cron The applications work fine. However,

cygwin crashes after every ~ 10th command and starts up only every ~ 4th try...

Hi, Since a couple of hours cygwin crashes all the time on my windows nt computer. In order to restart cygwin I have to execute the xserver batch file several times until finally an xterm shows up. The same xterm than crashes after only a couple of commands - for example 10 executions of 'ls'

RE: cygwin crashes after every ~ 10th command and starts up only every ~ 4th try...

Hi Dave, thanks for your long and detailed reply :) > > Since a couple of hours cygwin crashes all the time on my windows nt > > computer. In order to restart cygwin I have to execute the xserver batch > > file several times until finally an xterm shows up. The same xterm than > > crashes after

problem with running tcl/tk scripts

Dear Cygwin I apologize if this issue has been posted but I searched and could not find a solution. I am using a software package called FSL from fmrib.ox.ac.uk. It is made to run within cygwin on windows. It uses tcl/tk for its gui, and a problem occurs with the GUI only with cygwin1.dll 1.5.1

Re: problem with running tcl/tk scripts

Dave: Thank you very much! That worked part way. It now properly runs this command when I call it from the command line. exec sh -c /usr/local/fsl/bin/Fdt_gui & However, it the buttons in the GUI still do not work. For some reason the command in the button is not executed. The button is

Download Cygwin???

Hi, ...I live in Fox, Alaska. High-speed internet is not an option at this point. Trying to install Cygwin via the usual setup.exe method fails because my internet connection likes to have problems far too many times during a huge download... Is there any way that I can d/l Cygwin, with

Re: FW: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ***MEMORY-ERROR***: emacs[5172]: GSlice: failed

But emacs defines its own memalign as well. Shouldn't that one be called? Jan D. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Compiling emacs 22.1 from source

he UNIX format, a new line is represented by only one character, LF. When your .bashrc file is read, bash thinks the extra character is the name of a command, hence the error message. In Cygwin or unix, you can convert a file INFILE in DOS format to a file OUTFILE in Unix format by calling: > tr

Re: Compiling emacs 22.1 from source

> You probably unpacked a tarball with a windows zip utility that > "helpfully" changes the line endings on files. Don't do that. Use cygwin > tools to unzip the tarball (and this topic has been in the list archives > as well). Correct > By the way, any reason you're trying to compile emacs rat

xemacs

Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me why the following has occurred. When I first installed cygwin, I pretty much just installed xemacs (no emacs and a whole bunch of other stuff). Xemacs could be started from the bash script (black background) with the command 'xemacs &'. It would start in a new wind

Cygwin and lz/lza running out of memory?

roblem does not appear to be how much available memory I have but rather q question of why the process can't seem to allocate it. Any advice? Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Re: Cygwin and lz/lza running out of memory?

The link sounded promising but no matter how high I set it (tried up to 8192), I get the same error, even when bringing down the compression ratio a bit. I attempted to increase the cygwin heap on both /usr/lib/p7zip/7z.exe and 7za.exe. Matt D. On 9/22/2013 10:25 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin

Re: Run bash script in cmd with cygwin

Try adding this to your script: cd /cygdrive/d/path/to/dir;`for file.. Matt D. On 9/24/2013 5:43 PM, Ulrich Pogson wrote: Hello I would like to run this script `for file in `find . -name "*.po"` ; do msgfmt -o ${file/.po/.mo} $file ; done` in windows cmd. The script need t

vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

Hi group, I'm a Linux teacher at a school for vocational education in the Netherlands. I use Cyqwin to help my students overcome their fear of the command line by showing them their Windows systems through the eyes of Linux. I had them install Apache and then configure it in Cygwin using vi. A

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

"Brian S. Wilson" wrote: > > > I'm a Linux teacher at a school for vocational education in the > Netherlands. > > I use Cyqwin to help my students overcome their fear of the command line > by showing them their Windows systems through the eyes of Linux. > ... > > After a chgrp and chmod on the ent

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, D. Boland! > > Your main problem is that you are trying to break into native Windows > ACL system with Cygwin tools. And not only that, you also trying to > wrest native ACLs into POSIX permissions, and expect native applications to >

Re: Some first questions.

Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote: > > Hello list. > > I have some first questions for cygwin works on windows 7 by compile sources > I normally just fine compile on my linux systems but not like to compile > well and by cygwin. > The sources I trying to compile is been packed on linux with tar archiwi

Re: SV: Some first questions.

Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote: > > I have compiled lot of sources on linux systems and got now errors here but > on cygwin on my windows 7 32bit things not like to work for me. > What I ever I have done for it, like: > Cd /cygdrive/k/huskysrc/smapi > Or copied it to /src/src/huskysrc > Cd /usr/src/h

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

iginal version of "vi" that came with the standard distro of Cygwin. When I noticed the problem, I installed "vim" and went on, testing with that. I really, really would like to persue this issue some more in the direction Larry points to. Cincerely, Daniel "D. Boland&qu

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

Achim Gratz wrote: > > D. Boland writes: > > I think I have new information on the stealing of ownership. Below test has > > been > > performed on the Apache folder, placed in the Windows Program Files folder > > by the > > Apache msi installer: > > &

Re: SV: Some first questions.

Mr. Anderson, Sorry, I couldn't resist. I saw the Matrix movie recently ;-) Thanks for the extended output you sent me privately, but maybe it's better to keep this public, because others want to know of your progress, too. I wanted to try to compile the Husky software myself. So I went to the

Re: SV: SV: Some first questions.

Dear Gert, I'm sorry, but this is too much for me. I don't have that much time. I suspect that the build script for Cygwin contains a bug, because of the "undefined reference to `WinMain@16'" error. Impossible to solve without changing it. What about contacting the author of the build scripts?

Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership

Again, thanks for the input. I's now about three weeks later. I made all of my students re-install Apache in: /cygdrive/c/Apache2 and made them symlink this location on: /usr/local/apache For me, Achim Gratz's comment on the "Program Files" folder made perfect sense: >If you are operating as a

Cygrunsrv crashes when setting STDERR to /dev/null

Hi group, I have Apache running via cygrunsrv on a WinXP system. It works fine. Apache can even do a setuid on startup, so a 'ps -ef' looks like this: UID PIDPPID TTYSTIME COMMAND httpd16041308 ?14:26:47 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd SYSTEM13081400

Minires truncates host names

Hi Group, I finally got Sendmail ported to Cygwin. But when looking up valid hostnames from sender addresses, Minires fails. Here's the output, testing one of Sendmails' rules. $ echo "check_mail dan...@cygwin.com" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -d8.20 -bt readcf: option TrustedUser may cause problems on

Re: Minires truncates host names

"Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > To me it looks like the string was already truncated when it was passed to > the function. > > You can test e.g. by using exim -d+resolver -bt dan...@cygwin.com > > It's wonderful that you got sendmail to work. > > Pierre &g

Re: rebaseall breaks some packages(?)

Hi Katsumi, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: > However, those reinstallations cause some other programs to not > work. For those other programs, rebaseall does help. Though it > breaks bzr, emacs-w3m, etc. again. It's annoying. > > Thanks in advance for your help. > Regards, I agree. It's annoying. Se

Re: Minires truncates host names

Hi Pierre, "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > > You are right, there is a bug in res_querydomain, > Line 737 *(ptr++ - 1) = '.'; should be > *ptr++ = '.'; > > I would also add a debug printf at the top of the function: > DPRINTF(statp->opti

Re: using make without cygwin terminal

7;t need it. Your shell environment will need to be setup for both the compiler (cl.exe) and the linker (link.exe). See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa236630(v=vs.60).aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa270757(v=vs.60).aspx Matt D. On 7/10/2014 6:14 PM, Robert Pe

Re: Minires truncates host names

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I've checked that in. I also changed the debug output to print > "Resolv" instead of "Minires" to make sure that people don't think > they are stil using the external Minres lib. > How can I test the new code? I've tried updating with the Cygwin install

Re: Minires truncates host names

Hi Pierre, "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > > You are right, there is a bug in res_querydomain, > Line 737 *(ptr++ - 1) = '.'; should be > *ptr++ = '.'; > > I would also add a debug printf at the top of the function: > DPRINTF(statp->opti

Re: Minires truncates host names

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 17 20:14, D. Boland wrote: > > Hi Pierre, > > > > "Pierre A. Humblet" wrote: > > > > > > You are right, there is a bug in res_querydomain, > > > Line 737 *(ptr++ - 1) = '.'; sh

Re: Minires truncates host names

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > On Jul 17 22:29, D. Boland wrote: > > Hi Corinna, > > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 17 20:14, D. Boland wrote: > > > > Just letting you know how it went with the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.31-1

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > [Now with correct subject, sorry] > > Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > I just released Cygwin 1.7.31-1. This is mostely a bugfix release. > $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 dimension 1.7.31s(0.272/5/3) 20140716 11:15:29 i686 Cygwin With the snapshot in place,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.31-1

Hi Warren, Warren Young wrote: > > On 7/21/2014 06:19, D. Boland wrote: > > > > With the snapshot in place, the ftp client hangs indefinitely after > > entering the > > password. Switching back to my old Cygwin DLL, it works again. > > Which FTP client i

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.31-1

Cannot replicate on Windows XP SP3 with latest Cygwin DLL by launching Cygwin's ftp from Windows command prompt or from a bash prompt. Everything connects fine. Matt D. On 7/21/2014 10:52 AM, D. Boland wrote: Hi Warren, Warren Young wrote: On 7/21/2014 06:19, D. Boland wrote: Wit

Re: Minires truncates host names

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > It works. As you can see, this is done on a WinXP machine. I could also > > test on a > > Win7 machine. I don't have Win8 or Win8.1. > > That's fine. Thanks a lot for confirming again that Pierre's patch > works and the latest Cygwin DLL is doing the r

Caveats for removing /cygdrive prefix?

I've always used Cygwin's fstab /cygdrive default but I'm growing tired of always typing it out; msys's simple "/a" "/c" "/d" prefix for drive letters always seemed closer to home while on a Windows machine. The only problem I've encou

The eternal uid issue

Hi Cygwin lovers, After some weeks of serious compiling, researching, understanding, fixing, testing and compiling again, I managed to get the Sendmail source code compiled and working. But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid issue. * sendmail, procmail, mail.loc

Re: The eternal uid issue

Linda Walsh wrote: > > D. Boland wrote: > > But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid > > issue. > > > > * sendmail, procmail, mail.local assume that the id of the privileged user > > is '0'. > > > >

Re: The eternal uid issue

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Isn't it about time to make this our First Directive also? > > Not in relation to the uid. In contrast to Linux we don't have the one > single root user. We have potentially endless numbers of them, and one > of them, not necessarily SYSTEM, is used to

Re: The eternal uid issue

Hi Corinna, Thanks for the reply. Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 23 13:35, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Not in relation to the uid. In contrast to Linux we don't have the one > > > single root user. We have potentially endless num

Re: The eternal uid issue

Hi Christopher, Thanks for your reply. Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 08:08:07PM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: > >Greetings, D. Boland! > >> Cygwin security will be done for in the long run. Why not make the leap and > >> show MS admins/de

Re: The eternal uid issue

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But this only introduces a new function which she has to put into multiple > > locations > > of the original code. So again, why not just modify the 'getuid' function in > > cygwin1.dll to return '0' if the current user is actually SYSTEM or one of > > the

Re: The eternal uid issue

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Oh, hang on. Is this using the default setuid method 1 and is your > home dir on a remote share, by any chance? No. All file locations are local (C:\). I'll send you the output later on. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

Re: The deprecated uid issue: use caps

Hi Linda, Linda Walsh wrote: > > D. Boland wrote: > > Linda Walsh wrote: > >> D. Boland wrote: > >>> But I had to compromise in some critical areas. One of them is the uid > >>> issue. > >>> > >>> * sendmail, procma

Re: The eternal uid issue

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Still, are you using setuid method 1 or another method? Is your home > dir the default /home/$USER as created from inside the Cygwin > environment? Any chance your home dir has an unusual ACL? > > Did you set up sshd as service? If not, you might consid

Re: The eternal uid issue

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > The permissions of the home folder are set to 01777 by default (S_ISVTX > bit!). Since we can't rely on central administration for Cygwin, this > allows a user to create her own homedir automatically at first start of > a Cygwin shell. > > You might consider to disable t

Re: The eternal uid issue

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 29 15:36, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The permissions of the home folder are set to 01777 by default (S_ISVTX > > > bit!). Since we can't rely on central administration for Cygwin, this > >

Re: Simplify AD integration?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief > answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should > proceed: > > 1. Shall we remove the leading '+' from the builtin account names >or shall we keep it? > > 2. Shall we stick to

Re: Simplify AD integration?

Eric Blake wrote: > > On 07/31/2014 07:26 AM, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> So I'd like to ask a few questions to which I'd like to have some brief > >> answers, kind of like a poll, to get a better idea how we should > >>

Re: Simplify AD integration?

Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, D. Boland! > > > I am not only a man of legacy, but also a very opinionated one. So give me > > some > > slack when I say: the whole thing is insane. This would mean that from now > > on, I > > have to use constructs

syslog function: Bad file descriptor

Hi group, I'm still working on getting Sendmail working for Cygwin. I'm almost done, the devil is in the details... I'm getting the 'Bad file descriptor' system error after building the mail aliases database. The building itself is done successful, but logging the event to the system log fails

Re: syslog function: Bad file descriptor

"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > > On 08/05/2014 12:28 PM, D. Boland wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > I'm still working on getting Sendmail working for Cygwin. I'm almost done, > > the devil > > is in the details... > > > > I'

Re: syslog function: Bad file descriptor

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Can you produce another strace for the overwriting case (non-R/O aliases) > for comparison? Also, can you do the same strace with no syslogd running? > > It might be necessary to create a few test versions of Cygwin with more > debug output, but let's please see these

Re: syslog function: Bad file descriptor

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 5 22:35, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > Can you produce another strace for the overwriting case (non-R/O aliases) > > > for comparison? Also, can you do the same strace with no s

Impending ITP of Sendmail

Hi group, I have the Sendmail port ready. I will anounce my intent to package it soon. There is one thing, though. Sendmail relies heavily on the procmail program. The problem is that the procmail package as it is now, is not "multiple root" aware. It also is not able to do suid at the moment.

Re: Impending ITP of Sendmail

Jason Tishler wrote: > > Daniel, > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:46:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 9 22:41, D. Boland wrote: > > > [snip] > > > To accomplished this, procmail would have to be modified slightly. > > > From the Cygwin w

Posting ITA/ITP

Hi group, I'm trying to post to gmane.os.cygwin.applications, but I get an NNTP error: 'gmane.os.cygwin.applications is unidirectional' Should I post to another newsgroup? Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

cygport: keepdir directive doesn't work

Hi group, When creating a package, I need some empty directories in the release, but cygport install removes them. I tried both 'keepdir' and 'keepdirs', but to no avail. I'm using version 0.16.0-1. Cheers, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: HEADSUP: OpenSSH 6.7 drops tcpwrapper support

Hi Corinna, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Just a HEADSUP to all of you actively using the tcp_wrappers/libwrap > functionality in sshd: > > Starting with the next OpenSSH version 6.7, which will be released soon, > upstream removed support for tcp_wrappers/libwrap from the sources.

Re: cygport: keepdir directive doesn't work

Hi Achim, Achim Gratz wrote: > > D. Boland writes: > > When creating a package, I need some empty directories in the release, but > > cygport > > install removes them. > > > > I tried both 'keepdir' and 'keepdirs', but to no avail. I

The status of cygwin 1.7

Hello, Is cygwin 1.7 stable and mature enough to use it instead of 1.5? Is there a release schedule for cygwin 1.7? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

OpenSSH_5.1p1 - Connection failed - xmalloc: zero size

Hi, I recently upgraded my ssh ( to OpenSSH_5.1p1 )and I can no more connect to some Solaris servers (SunOS 5.9). The message I get is: xmalloc: zero size and the connection is closed. I switched back to the previous version of Openssh (OpenSSH_5.0p1 ) and the problem disappeared. In both cases

Re: command line smtp client / command line email?

Hi Marilo, Marilo wrote: > > what are my options for a command line smtp client in cygwin? > > I'd want to specify smtp server and from address. I'd like TLS/SSL to be > supported by the command > > sendmail , doesn't look like it exists on cygwin and I know on *nix it shuts > down any postfi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Procmail 3.22-15

I updated the Procmail 3.22-14 package. The difference with the previous version: * Split the postinstall.sh script into two parts. The second part is now contained in the /usr/bin/procmail-config script. * The new /usr/bin/procmail-config script contains installation steps for automatically cr

error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

Howdy, Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab. If yes, can someone give me some tips for what to do to mount a share named \\server\~foo ? Here’s what I already tried: - ls //server/~foo works – prints out th

Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

> Thorsten Kampe thorstenkampe.de> writes: > > > > > * Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700) > > > > > > Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors > > > while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab. > &

c++ header file for in which cygwin package?

Hi, Is anybody here knowing where exactly this c++ header file exists in Cygwin package? Because I have downloaded all the packages under development branch of cygwin. I can see other standard header files like stdio.h, stdlib.h, etc. but this exception.h is not there. Thanks. -- View this me

Re: c++ header file for in which cygwin package?

Csaba Raduly-2 wrote: > > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM, ankur d wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Is anybody here knowing where exactly this c++ header file >> exists in Cygwin package? Because I have downloaded all the packages >> under >> develo

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