How to add users to sshd?

rs account." I tried that and it says: bash-3.00$ /usr/bin/ssh-user-config There is no home directory set for you in /etc/passwd. Setting $HOME is not sufficient! Hmmm I'm confused. Can someone tell me how to use ssh with something other than the Administrator account? Thanks, S

RE: Cron on Cygwin

bit of looking thru change lists for installation procedures. Should I be? Is this typical of the cygwin documentation? I was expecting a header like "INSTALLATION PROCEDURE" followed by steps 1, 2, 3... Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

How to prevent duplicate cron jobs?

(which seems to exist in cygwin :)) for my pid and send a semaphore or a SIGUSR1 to determine if it's not hung. Will this work in cygwin? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

How to understand proc directory?

at did not work. Is there some documetation in c:\cygwin\usr\share? This directory tree seems to be organized around applications, not special directories. I tried "man cygcheck" but again, that seems to deal with applications, not directories. Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: How to understand proc directory?

the default installation directory of c:\cygwin? I searched my c:\cygwin\usr\ (aka "/usr") directory and could find no file called "proc.txt" or directory called "filesystems". Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

How to use cygcheck to find documentation on rsync?

detect that the file is only half copied and copy the other half or is it going to say "that file already exists at the destination so I don't need to copy it"? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

rsync with one or two colons?

I was reading about the different ways to run rsync. It looks like connecting to an rsync deamon is very similar to connecting to an rsync shell like ssh. Are there situations where the deamon is superior to the ssh? Are there situations where ssh is superior to the deamon? Thanks, Siegfried

How to learn about compiling openssh?

am I doing wrong? Thanks, Siegfried (cd openbsd-compat && make) make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/openssh-4.6p1-1/openbsd-compat' gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wuninitialized -Wsign-compare -I. -I.. -I. -I ./.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c bsd-arc4random.c In file included from ..

RE: How to learn about compiling openssh?

install it separately? Thanks, siegfried -- 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: How to learn about compiling openssh?

.README it says to use cygport. Hmmm... that cygport program is pretty clever. Why did not the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README mention this program? I suppose only some programs use it? thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

FW: Problems compiling grep and friends

-Original Message- From: Siegfried Heintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:15 AM To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: FW: Problems compiling grep and friends I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure

Where are home directories for other users besides my Admin account?

the -local . I got a little further. I get a dialog box that says "A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will not exit. Please open /var/log/XWin.%s.log for more information.." Can someone help me? Thanks, Siegfried OK, here are the contents of /var/log/XWin.0.log: Welcome

RE: FW: How to display Russian Cyrillic and Chinese in Cygwin Bash Console?

print chr() for 0x410 .. 0x430;" > >Hi Siegfried, > >Install rxvt and use that instead. I believe there's a unicode package >of it in Cygwin - it should have no trouble displaying cyrillic or >chinese characters. > So could you expand upon this "Unicode package&q

Bash/wget gets confused by trailing carriage return

> RETR debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-2.iso\r ... No such file `debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-2.iso\r'. Process compilation exited abnormally with code 8 It appears to be appending the carriage return on the end of the file name. Perhaps the C runtime is getting confused. How do I fix this? Thanks

How to reinvent /usr/bin/find in cygwin/gnu/gnat Ada?

ike readdir) or FindFirstFile/FindNextFile from ada because I don't know what to google search for. Can someone point me to some examples? Thanks! Siegfried -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://

Why does robocopy confuse input and output files defined with Cygwin/bash and perl?

t and output files? Thanks siegfried src=$(perl -e '$u = $ENV{"USERNAME"};$s = $_ = $ARGV[0]; $_ = lcfirst;s@[/\\]@@g; s@\s@\\ @g; s/(.):/$1\\:/; print " $_"; '"$(cygpath -w $PWD)") dst=$(perl -e '$u = $ENV{"USERNAME"}; $_ = $

Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

\xalan-j_2_7_0\xalan.jar;c:\dev\xalan\xalan-j_2_7_0\xercesIm pl.jar;c:\dev\xalan\xalan-j_2_7_0\xml-apis.jar;c:\dev\xalan\xalan-j_2_7_0\xs ltc.jar javac -g ApplyXPathDOM.java java ApplyXPathDOM foo.xml /doc/name[1]/@last Woops -- I did not intend it to wrap! Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info

RE: Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

f I get Igor's bash wrappers to work, I'm kinda curious why my attempt did not. Siegfried -- 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: Wanted: Help translating classpath from CMD.EXE to bash

javac -g ApplyXPathDOM.java One has to escape the colons and the semi colons. I don't understand why I have to escape the colons too -- but it works. Thanks for the example for the java/bash wrappers -- I think I understand now. Siegfried -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtch

Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

formats and libraries? Can I use these linux libraries to read debug information in images created with g++ on cygwin? If not, how do I read the debug information in images created with g++ on cygwin? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

dll v so?

I'm confused about dll v. so and cygwin. I've used the documentation to create and load dlls with g++. However, I notice that Apache Httpd uses ".so" files. Is the choice to produce ".dll" or ".so" files purely a matter of who is going to load them?

RE: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

struct. It looks like dwarfdump would, but libdwarf does not compile with cygwin/gcc 3.4 or RedHat8/gcc 3.2. So if I download the source code for GDB, do I compile it on cygwin using g++? I'd just need to modify the "info variables" and "ptype" commands to emit XML inst

RE: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

rs to the examples directory. Where is this examples directory? What is the relationship between stabs and ELF? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

RE: Extracting Debug (meta data) from executable images?

How does ELFDump.exe work? I did a chmod 777 hello.* and still ELFDump hello.o And ELFDump hello.exe Still produce the Can't openinput file "Hello.exe" Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

libxslt v apache

Has anyone used both libxslt and xalan? How might one decide between xalan and libxslt? Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 7:22 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT

cygwin NFS File servers on windows?

seems that this would be a logical piece of software to be included with cygwin. Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Disaster recover with Cygwin?

an open up enough ports on the intervening firewalls. Can I use the cygwin ports of rsync or rdiff-backup initial create a remote repository and later restore a bootable windows partition and then boot locally? Thanks, Siegfried > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:21:38PM -0700, Siegfried Heintze wrote:

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: nfs-server-2.3-4

Where is a mirror I can download this from? I tried a few but they only had 2.3-3. Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robb, Sam Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 1:50 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated

How to read man pages on nfs-server?

ow how to learn more? I tried "info nfs", "info nfs-server", "man nfs" and "man nfs-server". None of them work. >From the README, it looks like there are some man pages. How do I look at them with the "man" or "info" command? Thanks,

How to convert from windows DLL to windows lib file?

technique works for converting so files to LIB files? Thanks, Siegfried -- 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/

davfs for cygwin rsync?

here commercial hosting services that provide ssh access? The man page as a section titled "STARTING AN RSYCN DAEMON TO ACCEPT CONNECTIONS". I'm confused: I thought I needed an ssh deamon. Thanks, siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

RE: OpenSSH for Non Administrators

ith the -X option to open an X session on a windows server? Can cygwin ssh be used with VNC to open a VNC session on a remote server? I have successfully open a session using plain "RealVNC" server on the windows server (from red hat 8) and would like to do it securely with ssh.

How to run X Session from RH8 via ssh -X? How to run vnc via ssh?

Thanks for all the help so far. I hope this will be a 100% cygwin-mailing-list compliant posting. (1) I read the description of TOFU and I still don't understand it. I don't understand what I am doing wrong. If I want to quote a previous posting, should I not put the quoted text first and then my

Is there a cygwin nfs-client?

I looked in the cygwin installation program and I can see the nfs-server. Is there an nfs-client? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ

How to write telnet server like program for serial port?

a single thread? How do I read and write to a serial port? Can anyone point me to some sample code for serial port I/O? I suppose I can look at the source for telnet -- it probably uses the select function. Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Where is the documentation for installing Win2K services for cvs, ftp, rlogin, inetd?

that implement rlogin and ftp? Where are the instructions for starting inetd as a WIN2K service? I looked in c:/cygwin/usr/doc/xinetd-2.3.9/README and could not find the instructions here either. Thanks, Siegfried >On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:48:47PM -0400, roypgsqlcygwin ( at ) xemaps

How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

sees because it finds cvs.exe in /usr/bin instead and this is not the cvsnt client! How do I prepend /cygdrive/c/Program Files/cvsnt/bin to the path? Thanks Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentatio

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

gt; Where do I put this statement? .bashrc? Thanks, Siegfried -- 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: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward L. Fox >Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 12:24 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT? > >Hi, Siegfried: > >

RE: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

I looked in c:\Cygwin\home\Administrator and could not find a .profile file using emacs. There was a .bash_profile file. Should I create a .profile file? Thanks, Siegfried -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: Selectively zipping files together

ork: /usr/bin/find . -type f ! -path \^\.\/bin | less Thanks, Siegfried > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:40 AM >To: Siegfried Heintze >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTE

where is mail command?

ot;. "man mail" says "No manual entry for mail". I tried looking in the 4 documentation directories too -- no luck again. Can someone point me to the documentation on the mail command where I could learn how to configure it for my ISP? Thanks, Siegfried -- Uns

Bad mirros

nutes on another mirror. So far, after 8 tries, I have not found a good mirror. Anyone know of a good mirror? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

How to write minimal program using GD library

nking with C libraries downloaded as part of Cygwin, do I have to do anything special? The documentation says no. I would guess that gcc automatically knows to look in C:\cygwin\lib -- is this correct? Thanks Siegfried /*** * Begin commands to execute this file using g++ with bash * gcc g

RE: How to write minimal program using GD library

oaded from boutell.com. I guess I'll send email to him as the web site suggests unless someone can suggests a forum to post in. Siegfried Cygwin.bat: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -i -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

How to run ddd in XWin?

; option in g77. I also tried ddd convex.pl and still got the same error. Ddd debugs perl too, correct? Thanks, Siegfried On Sun, July 11, 2004 6:36 pm, Richard Heintze said: > Ah hah! Write a short program called test.c and gcc -g > test.c -o test.exe and ddd test.exe and then I s

Apache httpd Accepts local connections but not Remote

fragment from my httpd.conf file. I've been going nuts trying to figure this one out for two months or more! Siegfried # DavLockDB /usr/local/apache2/var/DavLock DavLockDB "C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/conf/DavLock" Alias /cgi-source "C:/Program Files/Apache G

RE: need -mrtd to create Excel DLL?

Lester, It works! Thank you. Assuming these will be archived, maybe this can help someone else. Since I'm wondering if Excel was caching something, I decided to use C# and it works! Thanks, Siegfried Here is the example of calling cygwin C from C#: --begin here -- //

How to update official cygwin documentation for g77 and gcc? (was: RE: need -mrtd to create Excel DLL?)

it). This free version of the compiler seems to be able to compile C++ but does not have the standard C++ header files, only the standard C header files. I assume folks would still prefer g77/gcc to Microsoft's, however. Oopss -- that is off topic. Sorry... Siegfried -Original Messa

Regular Expressions from Bash Shell

I want to use grep on all the FORTRAN source code files in the current directory whose file names do not contain a "_" character. How do I do this? I'm using the extension of ".f" to designate FORTRAN. Thank you, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Selectively zipping files together

tar cvf ../archive.zip The problem is the same: all the files are included. I also, for all of the above, tried using the -print on the find command but that did not help. Oh - and one last question: is there any document that compares bzip with bzip2 and gnuzip and winzip? Thanks,

RE: Selectively zipping files together

> >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:55 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Selectively zipping files together > >>I'm trying to use sun's jar utility (from Sun's java development kit

RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found

e the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: /usr/sbin/cron : PID 1836 : (Siegfried) CMD (/c/Perl/bin/perl /c/WinOOP/Perl/bots/yahoo/finance/crawl-hot-jobs.pl /GUI=NONE /sleep=60 /threads=8 >`date +"). Any s

RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found

] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siegfried Heintze Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:10 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: cron issue: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( /usr/sbin/cron ) cannot be found I'm having similar troubles. I have read the cron.README file. I inst

Documentation on functions

. Where is the documentation on these functions? Thanks, Siegfried/ -- 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: Documentation on functions

act the copious comments there and just reformat them into man pages? Siegfried -- 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/

System V IPC Message Queues and Shared Memory?

uot;. Should these functions work? And what about shared memory using shmget, shmat, shmdt, shmctl? The sample code compiles with these functions too but gives a " 2764 Bad system call " and " 4480 Bad system call" when I run them. Should these work? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsu

Where is documentation on bash "wait"?

I tried info and man and could not find any information on wait. I want to (using bash) (1) How do I wait for multiple children and wake up when the first one dies? (2) Examine the status code of the dead child and possibly spawn a new one? Where is the documentation on wait? Thanks, Siegfried

Where is documentation on keyring?

manager/ ? This does not tell me much more than I already know. I'm stuck. Can someone please point me to the documentation? Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

FW: Problems compiling grep and friends

I’m running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with “make”. It looks like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? Thanks, Siegfried make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

> >On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> I'm running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. >> ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with "make". It looks >> like it cannot find the usr directory.

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

Siegfried wrote: OK, I tried that. See below for the results. Looks like we have the same problem. Thanks, Siegfried Brian wrote: So as a workaround, try "make install DESTDIR=/" which would result in "///foo/bar" which is the POSIX-sanctioned way of dealing with filesystems

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

Dave, I'm not sure what to do. I see you attached a diffs file. Is there a utility such as patch that I can use to apply those diffs? What would be the command? Thanks, Siegfried > >On 04 October 2007 22:13, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> Siegfried wrote: >> OK, I tri

FW: How to display Russian Cyrillic and Chinese in Cygwin Bash Console?

ygwin bash console (is there a better name for this since it could be running some other shell?) Thanks, Siegfried -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

FW: How to manipulate access control lists (ACL)?

n ACL to a file. Can I do this from cygwin bash? Thanks! Siegfried -- 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/