Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

2009-06-22 Thread Hortenstine, John
The post install .sh scripts fail to run on Server 2008 with Terminal Services because bash crashes. Crash can be fixed using peflags and setting the Terminal Services aware bit on (solution found on the mailing list). Is there a recommended way to get the Terminal Services aware bit on before the

RE: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

2009-06-22 Thread Hortenstine, John
> Quite inconvenient, but working: > > For the time being, until we have a gcc which sets the > TS-aware flag by > default and most of the executables have been rebuilt with it, switch > DEP to "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only" > and reboot the machine. Then install

RE: Cygwin 1.7 Installation on Server 2008 with Terminal Services

2009-06-23 Thread Hortenstine, John
> This sounds like a good idea. Since you already did it, maybe you'd > like to help by writing such a FAQ entry? > Eric Blake mentioned that he was working on the real solution (adding the Terminal Services bit to bash.exe). If you believe it would still be worth while to document this workar