hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots

2008-01-19 Thread Herb Maeder
I'm seeing a error when creating hard links under Vista using the cygwin1.dll snapshots starting at cygwin1-20070802.dll (through at least cygwin1-20080112.dll). To reproduce: * stop/exit all cygwin processes * replace bin/cygwin1.dll with one of the snapshot dlls above * fire up bash and

Re: hard link error on Vista with recent snapshots

2008-01-21 Thread Herb Maeder
On Jan 21 16:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 21 15:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 19 07:30, Herb Maeder wrote: > > > I'm seeing a error when creating hard links under Vista using the > > > cygwin1.dll snapshots starting at cygwin1-20070802.dll

Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-19 Thread Herb Maeder
On 13 Nov 2008 11:35:43 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Looking ahead, I suspect that this combo (sshd + 1.7 + vista + domain user) > > will be pretty common. Is there a plan for steering users in the right > > direction during the setup of sshd, or maybe giving a more descriptive > > error me

Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-19 Thread Herb Maeder
On 14 Nov 2008 10:53:12 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Actually this isn't a ssh-host-config problem, but a generic problem > for all admin tasks. Installing any service requires elevation, or > running in a Admin shell. I'm not really convinced that we need it. > Admins running admin tasks sho

Re: rsync 3.0.4 over ssh hanging on cygwin 1.7

2008-11-19 Thread Herb Maeder
On 19 Nov 2008 09:54:41 EST, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:24:33AM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: > >I spent considerable time on this and reported were the problem is > >occurring to no avail, don't waste your time. In a nutshell the issue > >is with Cygwin's bi-directional p

Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-20 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Nov 2008 11:37:23 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Note, I'm not requesting any changes. I'm just trying to understand if we > > could/should establish guidelines for admin tasks requiring elevation. > > All nice points but I don't think that you have to convince anybody that > better doc

cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files

2008-10-01 Thread Herb Maeder
With a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla Vista system, I see that the 'mv' command appends a .exe extension to the destination file for any source files that have a .bat or .com extensions. To reproduce: % mkdir foobar % touch foo.bat % mv foo.bat foobar % ls foobar foo.

Re: cygwin-1.7: mv appends .exe extension to .bat and .com files

2008-10-02 Thread Herb Maeder
On Oct 1 21:02, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Herb Maeder (Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:27:25 -0700) > > With a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 on a vanilla Vista system, I see that > > the 'mv' command appends a .exe extension to the destination file for any > > source files that

cygcheck output sometimes gets truncated when piped (cygwin-1.7)

2008-10-05 Thread Herb Maeder
On a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 (1.7.0-30) on Vista, the output of "cygcheck -s" sometimes gets truncated. This seems to be more reproducible when the output is piped to another command. I find that this sequence is shows problem quite regularly (typically more than half of the cycheck commands

Re: cygcheck output sometimes gets truncated when piped (cygwin-1.7)

2008-10-05 Thread Herb Maeder
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 12:51:59 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On a fresh install of cygwin-1.7 (1.7.0-30) on Vista, the output of > >"cygcheck -s" sometimes gets truncated. This seems to be more > >reproducible when the output is piped to another command. > > This has been reported before

release-2/libtool/setup.hint lists missing 'curr' file

2008-10-07 Thread Herb Maeder
The current setup.hint for release-2/libtool specifies the following current version: curr: 1.5.27a-1 But the corresponding libtool-1.5.27a-1.tar.bz2 file does not exist on the mirrors. Only libtool-2.2.2-2.tar.bz2 exists (listed in the "test:" field). I believe that if a package that requir

invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-07 Thread Herb Maeder
The "Special values of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#ntsec-ids) states: Also, since Cygwin release 1.3.20, if the current user is present in /etc/passwd, but that user's login group is not present in /etc/group, the grou

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-09 Thread Herb Maeder
On 09 Oct 2008 13:05:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 7 11:22, Herb Maeder wrote: > > The "Special values of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's > > Guide (http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#ntsec-ids) states: > > > >

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-11 Thread Herb Maeder
On 10 Oct 2008 11:35:08 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But I think that means that some of the information in the "Special values > > of user and group ids" section of the Cygwin User's Guide is out of date. > > > > Would it be appropriate to include some of the information from your > > descr

"mkpasswd -c" from a cmd shell outputs wrong gid (cygwin-1.7)

2008-10-11 Thread Herb Maeder
The "mkpasswd -c" command produces the wrong gid for the current user under the following set of circumstances: * it is invoked from a cmd.exe shell * there are no running cygwin bash shells * output is redirected to cygwin's /etc/passwd file (with the permissions that setup.exe sets

Re: "mkpasswd -c" from a cmd shell outputs wrong gid (cygwin-1.7)

2008-10-11 Thread Herb Maeder
On 11 Oct 2008 07:29:12 PDT, Herb Maeder wrote: > The "mkpasswd -c" command produces the wrong gid for the current user > under the following set of circumstances: > >* it is invoked from a cmd.exe shell >* there are no running cygwin bash shells >* outp

Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-14 Thread Herb Maeder
On 13 Oct 2008 17:54:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But if it ends up sticking around, then it probably makes sense to account > > for the additional special case that was just introduced: > > > > passwd/group_GID_clash* ) > > echo "Your group is currently \"passwd/group_GID_clash\".

Re: Rsync on two WinXP Machines: how?

2008-10-15 Thread Herb Maeder
On 14 Oct 2008 12:57:43 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: > try with > starting sshd service and connect with > > rsync --rsh=ssh ... Though it should be noted that with cygwin-1.5, rsync to a cygwin machine running sshd will hang on transferring large directories. For example, (from some directory no

cygwin-1.7 sshd/ssh-host-config install issues on Vista

2008-10-17 Thread Herb Maeder
On a fresh install of the cygwin-1.7 base package + openssh, I believe we should expect the following to work for installing and testing sshd: ssh-host-config -y cygrunsrv --start sshd ssh localhost pwd If sshd had been previously installed on the system, the following cleanup sho

Re: cygwin-1.7 sshd/ssh-host-config install issues on Vista

2008-10-17 Thread Herb Maeder
On 17 Oct 2008 20:06:35 EDT, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:50:48PM -0700, Herb Maeder wrote: > >2. (Vista/XP) The tcp_wrappers dependency is missing in openssh/setup.hint > > > >Sincd sshd.exe depends on cygwrap-0.dll, the tcp_wrappers package must be

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Apologies for multiple messages (Please Help!)

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
Apologies to the list for getting the same message sent over and over to the list from my account. I can't yet explain what is happening, but I can assure you that I only sent the message once (and in no way differently than my other posts to the list). I've been on the phone with my ISP for the

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: [Fwd: Apologies for multiple messages (Please Help!)]

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
by 127.0.0.1 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Oct 2008 20:43:31 - To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Herb Maeder In-reply-to: "Manning, Sid" 's message of Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT. Subject: Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware ses

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: [Fwd: Apologies for multiple messages (Please Help!)]

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 24 Oct 2008 18:28:24 BST, Dave Korn wrote: > > (I've got a hunch that the root cause may be some miscommunication between > > the servers due to timeouts or something, but I have no way to verify > > that). > > You don't have access to the maeder.org server? I have access to maeder.org, whic

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-24 Thread Herb Maeder
On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: > Of course I needed an excuse to ask the question, surprised or curious > either would have sufficed. So the implementation of a GNU/Posix stack > over windows is expensive and that is understandable (I suffer from cross > platform headaches all

Re: Apologies for multiple messages (Please Help!)

2008-10-28 Thread Herb Maeder
On 28 Oct 2008 10:38:21 EDT, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Please correct me if I am wrong, but this type of thing has happened to > >>the list before, right? I seem to remember it happening to someone > >>else a while back, but I cannot find it in the archives at the moment. > > > >Sure. Not all

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.1p1-6 (-7)

2008-11-07 Thread Herb Maeder
On 07 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 5.1p1-6. > > This is a bugfix release which fixes a bug in the ssh-host-config script > which stumbles over user names with a substring of "ssh" in them and > thinks that ssh processes are still ru

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.1p1-6 (-7)

2008-11-07 Thread Herb Maeder
On 07 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This is a bugfix release which fixes a bug in the ssh-host-config script > which stumbles over user names with a substring of "ssh" in them and > thinks that ssh processes are still running. >

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.1p1-6 (-7)

2008-11-07 Thread Herb Maeder
On 07 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > This is a bugfix release which fixes a bug in the ssh-host-config script > which stumbles over user names with a substring of "ssh" in them and > thinks that ssh processes are still running. Is the intent now to catch only processes named

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-5.1p1-6 (-7)

2008-11-08 Thread Herb Maeder
On 07 Nov 2008 17:10:02 EST, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:37:44PM -0800, Herb Maeder wrote: > >On 07 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> This is a bugfix release which fixes a bug in the ssh-host-config script > >> which st

sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-08 Thread Herb Maeder
Running sshd (openssh 5.1p1-d57 or 5.1p1-7) on cygwin-1.7 and vista results in the following error: % ssh localhost pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: initgroups: Permission denied I think this should be easily reproducible with a fresh installation of just cygwin 1.7 base

Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-12 Thread Herb Maeder
On 10 Nov 2008 15:48:15 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 8 07:44, Herb Maeder wrote: > > Running sshd (openssh 5.1p1-d57 or 5.1p1-7) on cygwin-1.7 and vista > > results in the following error: > > > > % ssh localhost pwd > >

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-15: cwrsync 2.1.3 "hangs" when 80 mb of 100 gb data network folder is to be transmitted

2008-11-12 Thread Herb Maeder
On 11 Nov 2008 12:22:42 EST, Linus Hicks wrote: > > So the question is what is wrong? I can't beleive that rsync can't handle > > with such a big volume of data when it is necessary to transmit only a > > small part of it. > > > > Any ideas and suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > Thi

Re: sshd on vista error "initgroups: Permission denied" (cygwin-1.7)

2008-11-13 Thread Herb Maeder
On 13 Nov 2008 14:57:20 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 13 11:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Nov 12 16:57, Herb Maeder wrote: > > > Bum deal. But thanks for the explanation. That clarifies what I was > > > seeing. > > > > Actually there is