Cygwin distribution versioning

When discussing cygwin issues, how does one identify the version of his/her cygwin distribution? The "setup.log" file created by the cygwin installer gives the version of the installer itself, as well as the version of each installed package, but what about an overall version for the distributi

Re: Cygwin distribution versioning

I've answered my own question. There is no concept of versioning for the entire cygwin distribution (source: the cygwin FAQ). Tim Largy wrote: When discussing cygwin issues, how does one identify the version of his/her cygwin distribution? The "setup.log" file created by the cy

Home directories and spaces

Hi, I installed the cygwin distribution (February 14) on Windows XP and am having trouble with spaces my home directory "/cygwin/c/Documents and Settings/largy". For example, when I run the command "startx" at the bash prompt I get: [: and: unknown operand [: and: unknown operand export: Setti

Cygwin as non-adminstrator

After installing and running Cygwin (on Windows XP Professional) as an administrator, I tried to run it as an ordinary user (no administrative rights) and ran into permission problems. When I installed Cygwin, I made sure to select the option to make Cygwin available to all users, however as an or

What happens the first time BASH is run?

When running BASH for the first time after installing Cygwin, the user's home directory is created, and .bashrc and other dotfiles are copied into it. Where is this behavior controlled? Is it compiled into BASH? If that is the case, what other scripts does BASH call upon to set up the user's home

Re: What happens the first time BASH is run?

On 10/13/06, Tim Largy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When running BASH for the first time after installing Cygwin, the user's home directory is created, and .bashrc and other dotfiles are copied into it. Where is this behavior controlled? Is it compiled into BASH? If that is the case,

Re: "bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied" with a certain user

Matthew Woehlke wrote: When you checked /etc/group, did you also check /etc/passwd? Yes. I'm attaching my /etc/passwd and /etc/group (after editing to protect the privacy of users). See anything unusual? The account that can't run Cygwin is called team-member. Tim passwd Description: Binary

sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: initgroups: myid: Invalid argument.

On a Windows XP machine I am able to run sshd but can't log on to my local machine (I haven't tried a remote log on): $ ssh -1 -i .ssh/my_private_key [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connection closed by 127.0.0.1 In order to view sshd debugging information, I've been running the daemon from the command line vi

Re: sshd: PID xxxx: fatal: initgroups: myid: Invalid argument.

Larry Hall wrote: > You may want to try this again by running a system-owned shell (take a > look in the email archives for a recipe of how to make one of these). > You can then run 'sshd' with debugging flags right at the command > line and see all the debug output there. Running "net start sshd"