cygwin and windows registry

2003-05-09 Thread John
Quick query: is there a method to make cygwin portable? In other words, to make it so that it doesn't write to the registry? thanks -- John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see webpage -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin and windows registry

2003-05-09 Thread John
r the tip. What i wanted to do was to run procmail and mutt. The reason I'd like it not to interfere with the registry is that i'm not the Admin and the alternative is to use Outlook -- John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger [EMAIL PROTEC

OpenSSH + Public Key Auth + ntsec

2003-07-08 Thread John
l possible. Any advice is greatly appreciated. I can reply with more information if needed. Thank you, John -- 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: OpenSSH + Public Key Auth + ntsec

2003-07-08 Thread John
000 perms. We have reformatted these machines and done fresh installs and yet the corruption happens all over again on every machine using cygwin & ssh. If there were a way to not use ntsec and use inherited permissions via nontsec, that would be stellar. Thanks again, John On Tue, 8 Jul 2003,

The updatedb script is not included when binary package is installed

2002-05-01 Thread john
I hope the title explains the problem in full. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

problem starting inetd as NT service

2002-05-07 Thread john
If you look at the FAQ and documentation for inetd you'll see that you don't use cygrunsrv to install inetd. You run it with a special argument and it installs itself (something like inetd --install-as-service) if I remember right. If you've got the Cygwin files installed, look at /usr/doc/Cy

Re: problem starting inetd as NT service

2002-05-07 Thread john
Make sure the cygwin1.ddl is in a directory that is specified in the PATH environment variable that is used when the service is started. (I assume you read the README file I mentioned earlier). Also if you're using the NTFS file system, you may also need to set the CYGWIN environment variable

Re: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

2002-05-07 Thread john
Hi, You're question shows a basic misunderstanding of cygwin. You can run DOS and Windows programs using cygwin. The Cygwin DLL allows you to **compile** many unix/linux programs without change into windows programs that will then run on DOS or windows. It is **not** an emulator like vmw

Fwd: Re: Mount point not visible in ls

2002-05-07 Thread john
Forwarded message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 7 May 2002 13:41:58 - Subject: Re: Mount point not visible in ls Hi, I noticed the same problem exactly, and acording to cygwin, the directory could not be created because it already existed. I then dr

Re: Perl page fault - old news ??

2003-10-22 Thread John
;Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Perl page fault - old news ?? > Hallo John, > > Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 um 22:13 schriebst du: > >

multiple cygwin1.dll message

2007-05-25 Thread John
.exe hides c:\g77\bin\gcc.exe are they of any concern? I am about to install the current version again, but doubt this will help. What can I do? I am new to cygwin, but not to UNIX. Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

Re: multiple cygwin1.dll message

2007-05-25 Thread John
Thanks for the reply, responses in the text below. For some conciseness, I'll cut out parts of my original message. Thorsten Kampe wrote: * John (Fri, 25 May 2007 13:07:23 -0400) I just upgraded cygwin after leaving it dormant for about 2 years. It was working properly before, but now t

Re: multiple cygwin1.dll message

2007-05-25 Thread John
' HOMEPATH = '\Documents and Settings\johny' MANPATH = '/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/man::/usr/ssl/man' APPDATA = 'C:\Documents and Settings\johny\Application Data' HOSTNAME = 'John' TERM = 'cygwin' PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = 'x86 Family 6

Re: multiple cygwin1.dll message

2007-05-25 Thread John
John wrote: 602k 2005/06/26 C:\WINDOWS\system32\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/5/25 19:38 I just noticed this line in the output. However, a Windows search and a cygwin find does not find this file!!! I swear! But it is consisten

Re: multiple cygwin1.dll message

2007-05-26 Thread John
hidden" in Windows. Thanks to all who helped! I upgraded to the latest cygwin versions too. And rebooted. I see I can now make C and Fortran programs again. However, my Bourne shell script has broken. Sigh. If I can't figure that out I'll post a new query. Thanks, John Kai Rapha

echo with no line feed

2007-05-26 Thread John
I can't get: #! /bin/sh echo "Type file name: \c" read FNAME echo $FNAME # to work without the line feed (using " or ' quotes in the echo). Any tips? Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

scripting and cygwin

2007-05-31 Thread John
X: Foo.txt: Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 3 seconds] My Expenses: Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 9 seconds] Y2007.txt: Elapsed Time: [0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 36 seconds] I am afraid I just have to move all this to my MacBook and forget about Windoze/cygwin. John -- Unsubs

Re: scripting and cygwin

2007-05-31 Thread John
You are playing the Windoze guy in one of those Mac PC commercials, yes? Very funny! Andrew DeFaria wrote: John wrote: Hi, I finished the script I have been working on. Unfortunately, this Pee Cee version won't even finish the full data run as it crashes with Zone Alarm. Since I have a

Re: scripting and cygwin

2007-05-31 Thread John
umm... looking at the timings... I fell asleep waiting for cygwin go complete. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:15:55PM -0400, John wrote: You are playing the Windoze guy in one of those Mac PC commercials, yes? Very funny! I'll tell you what's funny: your in

Re: scripting and cygwin

2007-05-31 Thread John
oh and you are the guy in the PC commercials, yes? Very funny! Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:15:55PM -0400, John wrote: You are playing the Windoze guy in one of those Mac PC commercials, yes? Very funny! I'll tell you what's funny: your inability to sp

Re: scripting and cygwin

2007-05-31 Thread John
I have no problem. It behaves beautifully on Mac OS. What problem do you refer to? Andrew DeFaria wrote: John wrote: umm... looking at the timings... I fell asleep waiting for cygwin go complete. I fell asleep listening to your sorry assed incomplete explanation. Let's not forget who ha

telnet to newsgroup

2012-04-05 Thread John
Hello. I read on another list about how one (presumably) Linux user connects to newsgroups using one of two different methods on the command line. If I am not mistaken, both use telnet. The two different commands he used to illustrate them are these: You can use STARTTLS on the nntp port (119):

Re: telnet to newsgroup

2012-04-05 Thread John
"Andrew DeFaria" wrote in message news:jlklph$5tk$1...@dough.gmane.org... > On 4/5/2012 10:14 AM, John wrote: >> Hello. I read on another list about how one (presumably) Linux user >> connects >> to newsgroups using one of two different methods on the command li

Re: telnet to newsgroup

2012-04-05 Thread John
"Andrew DeFaria" wrote in message news:jllkeo$sjk$1...@dough.gmane.org... > On 4/5/2012 4:40 PM, John wrote: >> Okay, I substituted 563 for nntps in the command like this: >> >> gnutls-cli --insecure -p 563 news.gmane.org | grep 200 >> >> And it now

1.3.22: child real uid gets parent's effective uid

2003-06-06 Thread Snively, John P (John)
f the child are set to the effective uid of the parent -- ouch: before changing euid: child: euid: 25313 ruid: 25313 parent: euid: 25313 ruid: 25313 setting euid to 500 child: euid: 500 ruid: 500 parent: euid: 500 ruid: 25313 Any way around this? John Snively Lucent / Bell Labs cygcheck

RE: 1.3.22: child real uid gets parent's effective uid

2003-06-08 Thread Snively, John P (John)
les are created with the right ownership, etc. John -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 5:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: 1.3.22: child real uid gets parent's effective uid On Fri, Jun 06, 20

Re: RXVT Problem with buffering of application output.

2003-03-21 Thread John Vincent
ms as appropriate. This is just an idea ... I'm not offering to do it, I'm afraid. /John Vincent. On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:18:31PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: FYI, you could try writing a Cygwin wrapper program that would capture the output of a Windows process and print it o

RE: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

2003-03-26 Thread John Morrison
> FYI, once /etc/passwd and /etc/group exist, they will not be automatically > recreated by setup. Igor et al wrt post install scripts... :) Would it be unreasonable to have some scripts which are _never_ renamed to .done? Doing that to the /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh script would have ca

RE: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

2003-03-26 Thread John Morrison
> From: John Morrison > > > > > FYI, once /etc/passwd and /etc/group exist, they will not be > automatically > > recreated by setup. > > > > Igor et al wrt post install scripts... :) > > Would it be unreasonable to have some scripts which >

RE: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

2003-03-26 Thread John Morrison
> Any particular reason why this > is any better than already having mkpasswd and mkgroup there? Na, just ignore me - brains turning to mush! Must get away from computers... must have a holiday...!!! J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: ht

Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread John Dallaway
would have to look under both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for both the "/bin" and "/" mount points. Is there a more robust method? John Dallaway -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bug

RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread John Morrison
You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for a script... cygpath -w -p / works for me :) J. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of John Dallaway > Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm > To: [EMAIL

Re: Determining the location of a cygwin installation

2003-03-26 Thread John Dallaway
On Wednesday 26 Mar 2003 18:56, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I need to determine the location of an existing Cygwin net > >> installation programatically. > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 06:45:42PM -, John Morrison wrote: > >cygpath -w -p / > > That&#x

gcc/Cygwin awareness

2003-03-30 Thread John Williams
d to build uClibc for this cross-platform project I'm doing. Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: gcc/Cygwin awareness

2003-03-30 Thread John Williams
Elfyn McBratney wrote: You could use this #if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__CYGWIN__) So __CYGWIN__ is defined in the preprocessor environment when compiling under Cygwin? That's precisely what I'm after, thanks. John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: gcc/Cygwin awareness

2003-03-31 Thread John Williams
Hi Max, Max Bowsher wrote: John Williams wrote: Elfyn McBratney wrote: You could use this #if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__CYGWIN__) So __CYGWIN__ is defined in the preprocessor environment when compiling under Cygwin? That's precisely what I'm after, thanks. General a

RE: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread John Morrison
> From: Peter Davis > > What should it be? I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows, > for the benefit of emacs, etc. I've done this for years, so it seems > to be unrelated to the current problem. In fact, I just checked, and > the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000

RE: Aliases no longer defined?

2003-04-01 Thread John Morrison
> From: John Morrison > > From: Peter Davis > > > > What should it be? I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows, > > for the benefit of emacs, etc. I've done this for years, so it seems > > to be unrelated to the current problem. In fact, I just

Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
s under Cygwin/bash? I created a workaround by doing dep-files: rm -f .hdepend find | xargs scripts/mkdep -- >> .hdepend But this means I need to patch over the standard linux build distribution before doing anything under Cygwin. Can anyone confirm or deny?! :) Cheers,

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Yes, there's a limitation on the total volume of argument strings. All Unix systems have such a limit and so does Cygwin. The limits vary from system to system, though POSIX dictates a minimum value for this limit. Anybody know the standard Cygwin limit off th

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Randall R Schulz wrote: John, Are you a famous composer? If so, are you _the_ famous composer? No, and nor am I the famous and very talented classical guitarist. I have two guitars, but I can't play either of them :O -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-02 Thread John Williams
Cygwin. Yes, I ran into the bash command line problem/ xargs solution, but never got around to submitting a patch - my apologies, John, for not saving you some small amount of pain by doing so :-/ Ah that's ok, it's all good practice. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: Bug in Cygwin bash?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
friedman_hill ernest j wrote: I think John Williams wrote: It seems not many people build linux kernels under cygwin - I think if they did, this issue I've found would have been reported earlier, because it's the first step in the kernel configuration process. OK, I've gotta as

Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
ng a little tcl script to do it but think there must be a better way? Thanks, John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, John Williams wrote: Hi folks, Is there a binary equivalent to the diff/patch combination? I've written a little shell script to run "cmp -b" over a bunch of files (I'm trying to generate binary patches), but now I'm

Re: Binary patch tool?

2003-04-03 Thread John Williams
whole thing. I guess the goal of a true hacker is to accomplish everything on a single command line. It begs the question, is there anything that *can't* be done in a single Un*x command line?! :) John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug rep

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

2003-04-05 Thread John Morrison
> From: Thorsten Kampe > > > > Is there a global/system wide postinstall script? > > There is no "cygwin.sh.done" in "/etc/postinstall". Sorry, I *totally* over looked this thread... I just read back on the thread... From: Robert Collins > Setup doesn't set any special permissions. It sets a g

[UPDATE] base-files

2003-04-06 Thread John Morrison
ystem configuration and setup files" ldesc: "A set of important system configuration and setup files" requires: ash fileutils sh-utils textutils findutils sed category: base Packages can be found at: <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-fil

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files

2003-04-06 Thread John Morrison
base-files has been updated to version 1.3-1. This release includes these changes: * Changed base-files-mketc.sh as per request. * Added some information wrt setting path * Added some information wrt how $HOME is deduced (thanks Pierre A. Humblet) * Fixed /etc/skel copy routine (thanks Vince Hof

query regarding use of Xwin -multiwindow

2003-06-03 Thread John Vincent
uname -a gives "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 JPV 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin" I expect I just need to configure something, but I'm at a loss as to where to start with this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, /John Vincent.

RE: boat launch?

2003-06-04 Thread John Keklak
What is this '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address? -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:29 PM To: John Keklak Subject: Re: boat launch? John Keklak wrote: > I can explain... :-) > You don't have to explain to me. Y

RE: boat launch?

2003-06-04 Thread John Keklak
7;d like to buy the Brooklyn Bridge, of which I recently came into possession... :-) -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 11:29 PM To: John Keklak Subject: Re: boat launch? John Keklak wrote: > I can explain... :-) > You don&#x

multicast support

2003-06-10 Thread John Ostrom
setting the socket options. And I am aware that winsock constants might be different. Yet, that did not appear to solve the issue either. Any suggestions? Thanks again, John Ostrom -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: one byte reads in bash

2003-06-12 Thread John Berthels
Just so that the list thread gets the info, I had a private reply from Dan Vasaru, who referred me to his patch to bash here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00446.html I applied his patch to the current cygwin bash source (plus the three wide-character compilation fixes for bash

RE: win32 dia and HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% fix

2003-06-23 Thread John Morrison
Cygwin installation is necessary). Also, I > may want some other, non-Cygwin software to be able to use a HOME > dir that Cygwin knows about too. Agreed, although I still keep my home directory as /home/john and mount it outside of my Cygwin installation. Keeps everyone happy :) J. -

RE: Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

2003-06-23 Thread John Morrison
> From: Alan Miles > > All, > > I have a file called /etc/skel/a/b/c/d.txt, /etc/skel/e/f.txt > > Under Linux (and I certainly believe the same is true for UNIX), anything, > directory(s), file(s) etc put in /etc/skel > gets put into the user's home directory when the sys admin creates the > accoun

RE: CRLF to LF Issue

2003-06-26 Thread John Vincent
If you just want a quick fix, try using the dos2unix and unix2dos utilities _ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

RE: Help on Scripts

2003-06-27 Thread John Morrison
> From: Amer Baig > > This is first time I am using this mailing list, so please direct me to > right list if I am putting it on wrong place. I am IT professional > working in a telecom sector. > > I have installed Cygwin on Windows Xp. I have file in a folder with > names like PPD.20030116.0298,

Running Cygwin from a CD-ROM

2002-10-06 Thread John Purser
om getting that "Command not found" error every time I type in "ls". I know I'm skirting the limits of the law here but honestly would you like to explain why you need Cygwin to a "system administrator" who doesn't know what FTP means? Thanks for

RE: Running Cygwin from a CD-ROM

2002-10-06 Thread John Purser
better phrase to search on? John -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 16:46 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Running Cygwin from a CD-ROM At 12:08 PM 10/6/2002, John Purser wrote: >Apolog

RE: Running Cygwin from a CD-ROM

2002-10-06 Thread John Purser
given the tech restrictions I'm under. Thanks for getting back to me. John Purser -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 17:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Running

Re: problem with "more" under cygwin-1.3.13-1

2002-10-15 Thread John Vincent
p;write). The logic was that this saved a variable in the init process that started the login on the ttys. Memory was expensive back then ... Just a little history lesson for the interested /John VIncent. >From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTEC

no dice yet on .net server?

2002-10-23 Thread John Franco
s of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE.' Does that mean cygwin deliberately checks the OS version and bails out if it's not among those expected, or simply that you haven't yet tested it on this OS and I've hit an incompatibility? I have cygwin runni

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-18 Thread John Vincent
shell variable (which is currently empty) so the echo prints a blank (it's empty argument) and ignores the in it's environment. This syntax is useful for setting environment variables for one command invocation only. They are not saved. I hope this fully explains what is goin

Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2

2002-10-22 Thread John Marrett
Yesterday I installed the most recent version of cygwin. When I attempt to uncompress bz2 files I get a Invalid Parameter / I/O Error. Tar works with the j option however. I re-installed the bunzip2 packages from the server but it didn't resolve the problem. Here are a few commands demonstrating

RE: Invalid arugment and IO Error with bunzip2

2002-10-22 Thread John Marrett
Christopher, This was a clean install on a freshly installed Windows XP machine. It is a domain client and not a standalone machine. -JohnF -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cygwin-owner@;cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: October 22, 2002 11:56 AM To: [EM

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-24 Thread John Vincent
ministrator@JPV ~ $ AAA=bbb Administrator@JPV ~ $ AAA=aaa echo $AAA bbb Administrator@JPV ~ $ In the above example the echo command is run with an environment variable AAA with a value of "aaa" but the shell variable AAA is passed with a value of "bbb" set on the previous line.

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-24 Thread John Vincent
functions in the cygwin1.dll) /John Vincent. From: Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cygwin Here power toy Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 15:44:47 +0200 REGEDIT4 [...] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Director

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-25 Thread John Vincent
h the values it inherits from it's environment, people often forget that these two sets of variables are really quite independent, even though the shell deliberately tries to blur the destinction. I hope we're all clear now. /John Vincent. From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About ENV?

2002-10-25 Thread John Vincent
Hi Igor, I see from your latest email that you now completely agree with what I've been saying. I'm pleased. Also, you're right, this is off-topic to this list (although maybe it's been of interest anyway, I hope). Re

RE: ssh patches to fix installation issues

2002-10-24 Thread Morrison, John
The default umask has been changed, but the new /etc/profile won't have overwrote your old one. J. > From: Ross Smith II [mailto:ross@;smithii.com] > > Attached are three small patches to the following files: > > /bin/ssh-host-config > /bin/ssh-user-config > /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.4p1-5.READ

Re: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int tow2k as kolesnia?

2002-10-31 Thread John Morrison
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote: > >Does anybody know why cygwin shows my name as "Administrator" however i am > >logged in w2k as user kolesnia? This user has administrator rights in w2k. > >Alexey. > > I'm going to poi

RE: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia?

2002-10-31 Thread John Morrison
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: John Morrison [mailto:john@;morrison.mine.nu] > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote: > > > >Doe

RE: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?

2002-11-01 Thread John Morrison
I've had this - a while ago I think. Try calling cvs with it's full path... $ /bin/cvs ... J. > -Original Message- > From: Matt Armstrong > > I'm seeing some very odd behavior from cvs and I wonder if others are > seeing it too. > > No matter what args I pass it, cvs tells me it is an

RE: Cygwin causes 0x00000024 Stop Error (BLUE SCREEN)

2002-11-25 Thread John Vincent
Hi, I don't want to be accused of advertising, but we use SOPHOS in my office, and it doesn't interfere with the download/install processes or setup.exe at all. I've used it on NT, 2000, and XP. Just for info

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread John Morrison
Congratulations to all :) I've tried it and a couple of collegues (I ran the net installation they ran local). Nobody found anything wrong. There was, however, one suggestion; they liked the progress for MD5 but they wanted an overall progress in addition to one for each package (and they wanted

Re: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread John Morrison
On 26 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:26, John Morrison wrote: > > Congratulations to all :) > > > > I've tried it and a couple of collegues (I > > ran the net installation they ran local). Nobody > > found anything wrong. There

RE: New setup.exe beta.

2002-11-26 Thread John Morrison
> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 01:33, John Morrison wrote: > > Can't you get the number of files from setup.ini? > > Not if there isn't one, which is still (grudglingly) supported. > Also, for *any* sort of accuracy, how

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.0.6-1

2002-11-30 Thread John Morrison
> From: Peter A. Castro > > Some additions for Cygwin: > - Added a default /etc/zprofile. If you already have a custom > /etc/zprofile, please save yours some place before installing. I think it would have been better for you to have a /etc/zprofile.default and a /etc/postinstall/zprofile.sh

defaults

2002-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
Hi all. This has been at the back of my mind for awhile now since having to do something for /etc/profile.default. What I'm thinking of is a directory structure containing default files and a script which, if the original of the default file doesn't exist, copies it. I'm specifically thinking of

RE: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

2002-12-04 Thread John Morrison
> From: Joseph Marcel > > I've run into this problem as well on Windows 2000 after my > upgrade yesterday. Upgrade or clean install? > I'm getting around it by unsetting HOME in /etc/profile (as the first > line), so /etc/profile will do what it has been doing in the past > (important for 1st

RE: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

2002-12-04 Thread John Morrison
> From: Chris Game > > In an earlier post, John Morrison wrote: > > [...] > > The way this is set has changed and *should* work ootb with a clean > > installation. > > > > The easiest way (I believe) atm is to... > > > > $ cp /etc/group

3.4p1-5 SSH with RSYNC 2.5.5-1 O/S = W2k does not return control to RSYNC

2002-12-04 Thread Dimontova, John
When using RSYNC with the -e ssh option in W2K ssh does not close out of its shell making it appear that RSYNC is hung. Example: --- $ rsync -vv -r -t -e ssh --rsync-path=/opt/local/bin/rsync --blocking-io /abcd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:upload/ Using the -vv option you can see rsync is comple

RE: defaults

2002-12-04 Thread John Morrison
> From: Christopher Faylor > >The other would be to get people to use it ;) > > > >Well, that's my mental thoughts on paper(?!). Any comments? > >would it be worth doing? > > Here's how _update-info-dir does it: Thanks :) So - do you... 1) Think it's worth it 2) Think the _way_ I'm proposing is

RE: defaults

2002-12-08 Thread John Morrison
> From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:56:03PM -, Morrison, John wrote: > > You'd probably want something like: setup.hint: sdesc: "Conditionally move default files to proper location" category: _PostInstallLast requires: ash findutils fileutil

RE: Cygwin Reinstall Failiure

2002-12-10 Thread John Morrison
> From: Arthur I Schwarz > [1] How do I know what I should have and should not have listed in the > setup.exe package list? Is there any documentation on the required > packages? You shouldn't (I believe) have any choice with base, it should aways be installed. As for what else you have selected,

FREE Support & Resistance Training: Breakthrough Technique

2002-12-10 Thread John Slauson
* How you can get the PowerStrike SR software plug-in for MetaStock FREE > > > A WORD FROM STEVE NISON < < < "I've known John Slauson for almost 4 years and have worked closely with him on a joint project for over a year now. His unique understanding of the markets a

RE: Info - cygwin articel in german linux magazine

2002-12-14 Thread John Morrison
> From: Christopher Faylor > >See > http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2002/12/cygwin/cygwin.html for > >further informations. > I *believe* (not reading German ;) that the same article is also in the English edition. J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

RE: Request for bashhere.inf

2002-12-18 Thread John Morrison
> From: Bruce Eckel Hi, nice to see you somewhere other than the Apache FOP list ;) > I use the "bash prompt here" tool all the time, but I've had to > rely on some rather transient versions, and sometimes self-hacked > approaches. It's not something I usually use, but... > I was hoping that yo

Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-21 Thread John Seeliger
How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Windows? When I try to run them, it says it can't find cygwin1.dll. -- John Seeliger Limited but increasing content [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.freewebz.com/hudathunkett/> [EMAI

Re: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread John Seeliger
"Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, John Seeliger wrote: > > > How do I run a program that I built with gcc under Cygwin in Windows? When > > I try to run them, it say

Re: Updated Java-JNI/Cygwin resources available

2002-12-26 Thread John Seeliger
#x27;ve updated our Java/Cygwin page. > ... > The page is: > > http://www.inonit.com/cygwin/ > Thank you. John Seeliger Limited but increasing content [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.freewebz.com/hudathunkett/> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscrib

RE: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

2002-12-30 Thread John Morrison
> From: Max Bowsher > Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > >>> However > >>> this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff > >>> to CDs. > >> > >> Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just > >> about every package? > > > > Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such

Curses library and Python

2002-12-30 Thread John Purser
d terminal screens to collect input data to feed to a web server to enhance our company's core business application. I have some experience with Python but none with ncurses. Any resources for me out there? Thanks, John Purser -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

RE: Start up tcsh window?

2003-01-04 Thread John Morrison
Edit your cygwin.bat file? @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin tcsh start tcsh for me. Doesn't log me in, but... I don't use tcsh. J. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Peter Davis > Sent: Saturday, 4 January 2003 1:10 pm > To: [EMAIL

FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-04 Thread John Morrison
> From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:56:03PM -, Morrison, John wrote: > > You'd probably want something like: setup.hint: sdesc: "Conditionally move default files to proper location" category: _PostInstallLast requires: ash findutils fileutil

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

2003-01-05 Thread John Morrison
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > John, > > At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote: > >... > > > >Please find for you perusal and review... (long links, will wrap!) > > Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets instead

Windres problem while building Insight under Cygwin

2003-01-05 Thread John Black
$ windres --version GNU windres 2.13.90 20021118 Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. I'm trying to build TK - as part of Insight (branch

gnu make under cygwin

2003-01-23 Thread John McLean
Hi, I'm having some problems with GNU make under cygwin. Everything works fine under linux, but it breaks under cygwin. Below is the relevant snippit from my Makefile. # # # gcc1: uncompress and patch # ##

Re: gnu make under cygwin

2003-01-23 Thread John McLean
Thanks Igor: Solved my problem. J. Igor Pechtchanski wrote: John, There are different reasons for the two problems that you describe, but neither is a bug in GNU make. The answers to both of your questions are contained in <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg01104.html>, tho

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