Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-25 Thread Wes S
On 25 Oct 2005 at 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings > I would like to be able to have a portable version of cygwin in my Flash > Drive. I have been able to do it but it requires that I enter some > registry entries such as: > [snip] I'd like to add a 'me too' to this request. I have

netcat nc ???

2005-12-30 Thread Wes S
tility. So, is netcat in the cygwin dist? If you were trying to copy a hard drive image from a remote pc over the lan to your pc running cygwin what would the commands be at both ends? Thanks, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

sshd_conf and local groups

2005-12-31 Thread Wes S
pdated after I ran into these problems at 14:30 Eastern today. Thanks in advance, Wes S -- 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: sshd_conf and local groups

2005-12-31 Thread Wes S
On 31 Dec 2005 at 18:05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Wes S wrote: > > I'm trying to lock down ssh access. I use exim for a mail server so > > I have a bunch of accounts on my w2k box. I don't want most to be > > able to use ssh. [snip] > I'm confused

Re: sshd_conf and local groups

2006-01-01 Thread Wes S
On 1 Jan 2006 at 2:07, René Berber wrote: > Wes S wrote: > [snip] > > Just for grins, I added wess to the group ssh_allow and tried logging > > in before / after uncommenting AllowGroups. Can not log in when > > AllowGroups is uncommented. > > When you say "

trouble automating ftp with cron

2006-01-23 Thread Wes S
ed running this as both Administrator and power user wess. I updated cywin to whatever was current this morning and tried again before posting this. Thanks, Wes S crontab -- start 33 15 * * * /home/wess/csplog/myscript.sh crontab -- stop email from cron -- start Connected to cadillacspo

Re: trouble automating ftp with cron

2006-01-23 Thread Wes S
t; Thank you. That was the problem. Wes S -- 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: help needed for portable exes

2006-03-21 Thread Wes S
> the place to discuss it). > [snip] What list is appropiate for discussing mingw? Sorry for jumping in, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

e-list request

2005-04-28 Thread Wes S
Could the mailing list software be set to either? A. Strip out the "urgent flag" B. Bounce it. Thank you, Wes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: e-list request

2005-04-28 Thread Wes S
On 28 Apr 2005 at 12:10, Christopher Faylor wrote: > cgf > > (FWIW, I did force the mailing list software to strip out the Priority > field. Maybe that's what this is all about.) Yes it was. I stand chastised for not specifying the proper nomenclature for the flag. Thank you very much. We

Re: Unable to install and run Apache httpd as Windows service

2005-04-30 Thread Wes S
On 30 Apr 2005 at 2:50, Matthew M wrote: > I know this has been asked half a dozen times > recently, but I haven't found a solution that works > for me. > [snip] > I ran many variations on these commands: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ cygrunsrv -I httpd -p /usr/sbin/httpd -a "-f > /etc/apache/httpd.

Re: print.exe

2005-06-01 Thread Wes S
print.exe sounds like an old dos print spooler. Wes On 1 Jun 2005 at 20:07, Evert Coetzee wrote: > Which cygwin package contain print.exe? > > I have an application that calls this : > newpath=`print -r $PATH | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]" | tr '\' '/' | sed -e "s+/+#+g" > -e "s+;\.;+;+g"` > > but that

exim setup

2005-07-08 Thread Wes S
Does anyone have an idea of how long the exim install script runs? It has been going for 30 minutes on a w2k 1.2ghz box. I really didn't mean to run it, I typed exim and figured it would tell me something and not launch the config script. As far as versioning and such, I told setup.exe to ins

Re: exim setup

2005-07-08 Thread Wes S
On 8 Jul 2005 at 16:37, Wes S wrote: > Does anyone have an idea of how long the exim install script runs? Nevermind, I read comment at top of program output. Sorry for bothering everyone. Wes -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: h

exim and imap3d

2005-07-09 Thread Wes S
I've spent most of saturday trying to get exim and imap3d to work. By inserting a bunch of echo "some thing" statements in the exim-conf file, I figured out where the config script was bombing on me. So exim seems to be working a-ok. At least it sends and I can get pine to read my /var/spool

Re: exim and imap3d

2005-07-10 Thread Wes S
On 10 Jul 2005 at 2:17, René Berber wrote: > > So in exim.conf I changed this: > > > > local_delivery: > > driver = appendfile > > file = /var/mail/$local_part > > > > Now I get 2005-07-09 21:27:41 IJDXRD-0001D4-AT == [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > R=localuser T=local_delivery defer (13): Permission de

getting sshd to log to /var/log/sshd.log

2005-07-22 Thread Wes S
7;-d' -u joey made me realize that I needed single quotes after the -a . So Trying, cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "CYGWIN sshd" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D -e' made my day. My thanks to Corinna and Brian. Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: getting sshd to log to /var/log/sshd.log

2005-07-22 Thread Wes S
On 22 Jul 2005 at 11:16, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Wes S wrote (snipped): > > > Then I found: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2001/msg00058.html > > which helped me a bunch with figuring out how to use cygrunsrv. > > You do

RE: What's in it for Redhat?

2005-07-26 Thread Wes S
On 26 Jul 2005 at 12:49, Dave Korn wrote: > It's all part of a conspiracy. Cygwin developers, please keep conspiring! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Timestamps

2005-08-26 Thread Wes S
I'm using exim and sshd which is working wonderfully on my w2k box. My cygwin programs are recent as of the last 7 days if that matters. What I can't figure out is how to get time/date stamps on the log files such as sshd.log and exim_main.log. I got entries but when they were made, who know

Re: Timestamps

2005-08-26 Thread Wes S
r/sbin/sshd -a '-D' Now I'm happier. Wes On 26 Aug 2005 at 10:05, Wes S wrote: > I'm using exim and sshd which is working wonderfully on my w2k box. > > My cygwin programs are recent as of the last 7 days if that matters. > > What I can't figure

Re: Cygwin filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Wes S
On 18 Sep 2006 at 15:44, Francis Rossi wrote: > for practical reasons. > The problem with the folder Cygwin is installed to is that when you're > looking for some files on your hard disk, that directory takes a lot of > time in the search because of dozens of thousands files, especially in > /usr.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] EOL for Windows 95/86/Me

2007-02-15 Thread Wes S
Will this have any impact on having a version of screen that works? Thanks, Wes -- 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/

Re: Cygwin1.DLL soon to be Windows Vista only

2007-04-01 Thread Wes S
On 1 Apr 2007 at 0:53, Christopher Faylor wrote: > After some intense discussion with Corinna, we've decided that we will > soon be removing all support for any version of Windows other than > Windows Vista 64. How much did Bill pay ya? If you didn't score $100M each you got helically rotated.

Leafnode now that W95,98,ME is going away

2007-04-30 Thread Wes S
With the impending non support of pre-ntfs windows is it possible that leafnode would be added to the supported packages? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2004-04/msg00022.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00276.html I'm using the package that A. Alper kindly made available and

tin, leafnode and gecos field

2007-05-06 Thread Wes S
I was working on getting tin to post using leafnode and kept getting an invalid sender header message when I tried to post. U-BAREFOOT\News kept coming up I didn't have that anywhere in tin configuration. After poking around I saw that U-BAREFOOT\news is in the passwd gecos field. I changed i

Permisson problems backing up cygwin

2007-06-03 Thread Wes S
Could someone give me a clue here. I am trying to back up my cygwin installation running as the administrator and am denied rights to read various files in the /home/nameofuser directory structure. I guess I could ssh in as various users and make a tarball but it seems this should be easier.

RE: setup keeps ending with setup.exe generated errors and will be close By Windows

2007-09-22 Thread Wes S
On 22 Sep 2007 at 22:13, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > Wes S wrote: > > I was upgrading my install on w2k when noticed that setup was stuck. > > So I canceled setup. As the window closed, I saw that there was a > > dialog box behind the main setup.exe dialog box asking somet

RE: setup keeps ending with setup.exe generated errors and will be close By Windows

2007-09-22 Thread Wes S
On 22 Sep 2007 at 18:01, Wes S wrote: > On 22 Sep 2007 at 22:13, Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > > > Wes S wrote: > I just tried that and I still get setup.exe generated errors when > uninstalling bash. I have all services shut down and no shells > running. Okay probl

IRC server for Cygwin

2007-12-28 Thread Wes S
nks to all that work on this project. It is so cool to have ssh and a smtp server on my w2k box without having to pay for electricity to run a *nix or *bsd box. Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

2009-12-23 Thread Wes S
60% Cygwin Setup Installing libncurses8-5.5-10 /MZ| Stops here. I picked another mirror, downloaded everything again and installed. Stopped at same place. W2K SP4 Wes -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: 1.7 hangs installing libncurses8-5.5-10

2009-12-24 Thread Wes S
On 23 Dec 2009 at 22:44, Charles Wilson wrote: > Wes S wrote: > > 60% Cygwin Setup > > Installing libncurses8-5.5-10 > > /MZ| > > > > Stops here. > > > > I picked another mirror, downloaded everything again and installed. > > Stopped at s

putty isn't displaying correctly with 1.7

2009-12-25 Thread Wes S
Below is excerpt from man file on touch. Highlighted text is showing strange characters when I use putty to ssh in. It was working fine before the 1.7 upgrade. How do I fix this? Thanks, Wes âd, ââdate=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time âf

What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box?

2009-05-01 Thread Wes S
Maybe I'm not getting things but this seems to be a problem I can not get my head around. I have two w2k boxes on a home network. No domain controllers, just a home network. The box that has the install that works fine for me needs to have cygwin moved over to another box while I reinstall wi

best way to get sshd to re-read its configuration

2009-08-01 Thread Wes S
I have a few boxes at home I'd like to get to using vnc, ssh and tunneling. Not a lot of open ports from where I'd like to do this from so my thought was to ssh into whatever box I have listening to on 22, ssh into whatever box I want to talk to from the first box and change the port sshd list

Find cron failed script

2009-08-25 Thread Wes S
Drove myself nuts trying to figure out why my script ran fine from a console and died under cron. Find is part of w2k, cron doesn't seem to have a path unless I tell it to. I got the following: FIND: Invalid switch FIND: Parameter format not correct I should have directly specified path to f

nice program for network usage?

2009-09-19 Thread Wes S
Is buried in the Cygwin project, a program like nice which keeps the system responsive when heavy cpu jobs are running except this is to use as much of bandwidth as possible unless other processes want bandwidth. I dags but came up empty, too many false positives. Thanks, Wes -- Problem repo

Re: Just upgraded last night pop3 now giving errors

2008-04-26 Thread Wes S
do I make uw-ipop3d look in /var/mail where it was looking up to a couple days ago? I guess I need another clue. Thanks, Wes S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

2010-06-26 Thread Wes S
On 25 Jun 2010 at 19:27, Dan Platt wrote: > xoxy.net> writes: > > > > > I might suggest someone checking if their hard drive happens to be > > full or nearly so. > > > > > > I'm having the same problem since Tuesday - plenty of disk space for > it. It is Saturday, first upgrade in months,

Pine?

2010-09-14 Thread Wes S
Just setting up a new XP pro box, can't find Pine. So what MUA is supported atm? Thanks, Wes -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u