Re: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

--On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 16:54:37 -0500 Alejandro López-Valencia wrote: At 07:56 a.m. 28/04/2004, Frank Slootweg wrote: Is there a place where all these (I assume ANSI) escape sequences for colors are listed? When I have that information, I can probably untic an existing terminfo entry,

Re: mkpasswd group

ated tens of thousands of entries and taken rather a long time so the use of -u was rather important. I also had to specify the domain explicitly, the one that is used if I just use -d is not the domain that contains my account. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe

Re: Can not Contact Domain Controller

/passwd to make things work for the user you are logged in as. One final point. In the extract quoted above you used '> /etc/passwd' for the second call of mkpasswd but this will replace the previous contents of /etc/passwd deleting all the local account data. You should use &#x

Re: cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2 download

ght, but that is the heading where it appears.) -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- 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/

Re: useradd & user ids

see any mention of 1 there but 'mkpasswd -l -c' offers me an entry with a uid that is my 6-digit RID plus 10000. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: useradd & user ids

t RID for my domain account I can see that the uid generation does straightforward arithmetic and not some sort of string processing. (Is it really 19106 this year? Some people wrote code that thinks so.) -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: find missing parameter

(specifically findutils) is reasonable recent, you can use find . -name "db*" -mtime +2 -type f -exec /bin/rm {} + to do more or less the same as with xargs. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

RE: bad installation ?

re there is a non-trivial domain structure. You might also think that 'mkpasswd -l -c' would give you an entry for the current domain user that has the same group id as you get by using the invocation shown above, but this is not necessarily so. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratorie

Re: cygwin/x symantec antivirus conflict (fixed in snapshot?)

ith emacs/X locally and X forwarded over SSH, and with no problems observed so far. The severe performance problems appeared some time in August IIRC, and my first impression is that the performance is now better than before the problems. Regards, Owen Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hewlett Pac

Re: cygwin forgets CTRL key press

involved) but it is harder to judge the delay there. I suspect it may be the keyboard or perhaps the KVM switch, but at least for me it is not Cygwin specific. It also happens for SHIFT, and probably other modifiers too, but I have not tested that. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

opying/pasting the way X does without requiring that X be running). -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- 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/

Re: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

's "Windows Console" (as it appears in headings of various MSDN articles), the thing you get running bash if you start up a shell window in a conventional Cygwin installation. As for rxvt, it's available as a cygwin package if you want to know more about it.

Re: String concatenation and if-fi constructs in bash fail

: unexpected end of file This is not Cygwin specific. You get the same results on Linux provided that you copy the scripts across in binary mode preserving the \r characters at the ends of the lines. See the archives for much discussion of bash and \r. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories

Re: Spurious [ANNOUNCEMENT]s

Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. If you follow that link the message does not have the [ANNOUNCEMENT] in the subject when displayed there. -- Owen Rees Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8

languages that use fixed size number representations. It can be fatal - for example see <http://www.ima.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html>. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Regi

Re: More questions about mkgroup and mkpasswd

account are in different domains but since I am not in that situation any more, I can't provide and details based on current experience. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered

Re: Finding either boot time or login time

not have a way to report last boot time accurately then there is not really anything cygwin can do to get around that. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registe

RE: Finding either boot time or login time

ly). A little web searching suggests that not counting sleep time is probably consistent with recent Linux behaviour. I also noticed that the Windows Vista 'systeminfo' command gives the same wrong answer for "System Boot Time". -- Owen Rees; speaking

Re: side effects after installing gcc-3.4.4.999

mmand processor issues its prompt before the gcc child process writes its message. -- Owen Rees; speaking personally, and not on behalf of HP. Hewlett-Packard Limited. Registered No: 690597 England Registered Office: Cain Road, Bracknell,