About the 'su' command

2003-06-16 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
3 (current version of the package) - The 'su' command doesnt work on my WinXP workstation, even if passwd succeeded to change my user password. Is there some fix known at this moment ? Looking trough the archives didnt help me. ===== Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot sourc

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
. > > > Does this not answer your question and provide suitable options for > you? The second says the command wont work unless I have appropriate privileges. Do you know "someone" on an XP station that has more powers than the Administrator or an Administrators member ? ==

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-17 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
f course, you can do > so if you prefer. > = Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot sourceforge dot net) ICQ #170597259 "What if tomorrow the War could be over ?" Morpheus, in "Reloaded". For the Law of Oil and Fire, Im an European that lives in France. F

Installing inetd as service

2002-10-23 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi list, I want to install inetd as a service. Inetutils docs says we can install it with inetd --install-as-service. It runs, but at boot time the service doesn't launch. Trying to run it by hand gives : Service didn't answer fast enough to start or control request. Any clues to debug it ? I se

Re: [MPlayer-cygwin] That pesky config.mak:SDL_LIB/SDL_INC thing

2002-11-06 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
--- Sycotic Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hello, > > Well, I went back to the 2.95.3-5 gcc instead of using the > newer/buggier 3.2 on my cygwin install, and it seems to help with > things immensely. I also have a suggestion for the docs for fixing > that '-mwindows -mno-cygwin etc' thin

How to run SDL native with Cygwin

2002-11-13 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
>From http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cygwin/ : Steps to build SDL natively with the Cygwin environment available at: http://www.cygwin.com/ These steps assume that you are comfortable with the UNIX environment. Step 1. Run the Cygwin setup program, install the default packages and

Fwd: Searching in the lists - problem with "-"

2002-11-26 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Is someone answering to the mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? I sent this some days ago and got no answer. Thanks for any anwser. ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com --

New version of setup.exe broken when running with WINE

2002-03-21 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi, When run with WINE, setup.exe 2.194.2.15 displays stranges characters in the window title (non-blocking problem), but stops function after choosing the mirror. (the only one that appears is the last used when running the previous version). A subwindow is apparently tried to be open. I have

Re: New version of setup.exe broken when running with WINE

2002-03-25 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
I resent this due to a small problem with the spam filters. Thanks for your support. --- Sylvain Petreolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:43:19 +0100 (CET) --- Hi all, Thanks for the analogy with the t

Re: New version of setup.exe broken when running with WINE

2002-03-25 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> Sorry, but it is not. When an emulation environment > does not properly > emulate Windows and causes a problem with a program, > then it is > not the program's fault. I agree with you, but in that case, setup.exe wouldn't have function by the past ... > I really don't understand this line of t

Setup.exe bugreport

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi, while looking for the new Xfree86 packages in my local package directory (in my case D:\cyg-install), I see that packages are saved in a curious directory since March 22th. Its name is : D:\cyg-install\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fmirrors%2fsources.redhat.com%2fcygwin No package appears t

Xfree86 install makes wininit not working

2002-04-19 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi, I wanted to update my existing Xfree86-4.2.0-1 installation. So i choose a "default" Xfree86 installation. All files downloaded correct, and i was told that everything was ok. But at reboot, a 65497 bytes wininit.ini wants to rename/rewrite 627 files, and no one is replaced (wininit.ini isn'

mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi all, I got a problem when running mv : i have the directory abc and want to rename it as Abc (or something that changes the capitalisation only). I get the following result : $ mv abc Abc mv: cannot create directory `Abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/ab

Re: mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> Hm, I don't see that here: > > #mv abc Abc > mv: cannot move `abc' to a subdirectory of itself, > `Abc/abc' > > What version of Cygwin and mv are you using? What > does the directory > structure of "abc" look like? > > As you can see, you cannot rename file differing > only by case. This i

Unable to compile MySQL under cygwin

2001-12-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi all, Trying to compile last MySQL version gives me an error while running autoconf (version 2.52) : /usr/bin/autoconf: ((: 12dnl: value too great for base (error token is "12dnl") How could I solve this problem ? ___ Do You Yahoo!? --

Re: Unable to compile MySQL under cygwin

2001-12-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hello Gerrit, I was using the last cvs version of MySQL. (cvs source download started at 2001-12-02, 14:00 :) ). There was no configure in the directory when i downloaded it. Seemed to be the 4.0 alpha version. Did compile OK with the 3.13 sources, so don't care. --- "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAI

Re: bunzip2 - Where to locate utility?

2001-12-04 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Gary, using the setup.exe program, you must download and install the package bzip2. --- Gary Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > To whom it may concern, > > I have downloaded Cygwin/XFree86 and the > xc-4-binaries. However, I can't > find the bunzip2 utility to uncompress the extract > uti

BASH: kill: (388067) - Not owner

2002-01-25 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi, I installed a few days ago mysql server 3.23.25 for Windows (i'm running latest cygwin with Windows ME). I want to let mysqld server be running by cygwin. I wrote a script and forgot the "&" to put the task in background. /etc/profile.d/S01mysqld.sh: if [ "`ps | grep -i mysqld-opt`" = '' ]