RE: Re: help for compiling problem!

2003-01-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
my 1.24 pence (approx 2 cents) vince > -Original Message- > From: Dave Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 January 2003 16:19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: help for compiling problem! > > > >>>error: main.c: undefined reference to &

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package rxvt-2.7.9-3

2003-01-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:21:39AM +, Rui Carmo wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > just add the line: > > > > rxvt*scrollstyle: next > > > > to your ~/.Xresources file. > > > > (You might want to run "rxvt --help" or check the man page > for other > > valid resources you can set this way,

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
Well surely EVERYONE knows not to take your word, you're just mean after all. ;) > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 10 January 2003 19:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, > Syntactic vs. >

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. S emantic path analysis

2003-01-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
pher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 10 January 2003 19:35 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, > Syntactic vs. > S emantic path analysis > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 07:26:34PM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: > >We

RE: BSOD on cygwin

2003-01-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
the mount tables are in the registry. if your going to change them then do it using the mount command. (man mount and mount --help shoudl give plenty of usage info) > -Original Message- > From: Bhiksha Raj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 January 2003 14:19 > To: Elfyn McBratney > Sub

RE: sshd does not run

2003-01-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
have you read the README at /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.5p1-2.README ? have you run ssh-host-config ? (doesnt sound like it.) > -Original Message- > From: Ahmad Khayyat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 13 January 2003 15:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sshd does not run > > > De

RE: Command-line email?

2003-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
nail is good ( i use it myself) but it has a file called aux.c/.h which cannot be created on win32 cause windows is irritating like that (needed to extract and rename it on a linux machine.) just renamed aux to aux1 and then did a grep in the source and changed any references found. > -Origina

RE: Command-line email?

2003-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:40:26AM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > nail is good ( i use it myself) but it has a file called > aux.c/.h which > > cannot be created on win32 cause windows is irritating like > that (needed to > > extract and rename it on a linux machine.) just

RE: Command-line email?

2003-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
no mailing list that i know of I'm afraid. > -Original Message- > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 January 2003 15:02 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Command-line email? > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 11:40

RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)

2003-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
While i can understand your views, i'm sorry that you feel that way. thanks for the responce. Vince > -Original Message- > From: Gunnar Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 January 2003 16:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Using nail on win32 (c

RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)

2003-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
sorry should have retitled this and maybe explained it a little more but had too much wine at lunch :) > -Original Message- > From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 January 2003 16:21 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' &g

RE: Using nail on win32 (cygwin)

2003-01-17 Thread Vince Hoffman
nnar Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 January 2003 16:49 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Using nail on win32 (cygwin) > > > Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > While i can understand your views, i'm sorry that

RE: accessing network shares through rlogin

2003-01-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
Pierre Humblet suugested a possible work around, i havent tried this though. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg01178.html > -Original Message- > From: Rob Siklos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 January 2003 15:21 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: accessing network share

RE: telnet

2003-01-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
Umm if you read the inetutils-1.3.2.README in /usr/doc/Cygwin it recomends installing as a service with the command inetd --install-as-service rather than using cygrunsrv. also are your mounts system wide rather than user ? > -Original Message- > From: H.Merijn Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Problem with OpenSSH (daemon), mapped drives, and pubkey auth

2003-02-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Its a know problem, when you log in via pub key the tokens needed for network authentication are not created (a simplification but I cant remember all the details) the same goes for any passwordless login (rsh etc with .rhost files etc). Since your automating I'd assume you have blank pass phrases

RE: cygwin Compile of NetBSD 1.6

2003-02-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
If you're realy serious i found this rather old bunch of mails with a quick google which could possibly help http://netbsd.kpsws.com/cross-comp/maillist > -Original Message- > From: Christos Dritsas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 03 February 2003 17:07 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subj

RE: SSHD/

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Can you check the contents of /var/log/sshd.log that sometimes holds the answer. I also tend to have /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config as -rw-rw-r- (although i'm not sure that would stop the sshd starting, i forget.) Maybe check your mounts are system mounts (type mount and if you get somethi

RE: Strange new behavior...

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
sounds like something funny in /etc/passwd try regenerating it with mv /etc/passwd /etc/passwd.old mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd and if you are in a domain mkpasswd -d -u "your username" >> /etc/passwd > -Original Message- > From: Brian J. Ackermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 Febr

RE: Ultra slow disk access and xterm memory failure

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Just so you know re: finding out your cygwin version, its both in the output of cygcheck -s and available as uname -r However if you're not able to update to the latest versions (I assume from your email you have no access to the mirrors by ftp,http or rsync) then there may not be much you can do.

RE: where is the cygjpeg6b.dll

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi, if you have a look at http://www.cygwin.com/packages you will find that its in the package jpeg which is in the catagory libs. its probably worth reinstalling this if you already have it installed or just installing it if you do not. hope this helps. Vince > > > Dear Si

RE: where is the cygjpeg6b.dll

2003-02-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
78 0245 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.fsi.lsu.edu ~~ > Please keep on list (you'll get wiser heads than mine helping that way ;) what you need to do is re-run cygwin setup, then from the catagory libs select jpeg (click on the circle with arrows untill it says either insta

Re: cygwin:groupadd & useradd

2003-02-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
On any of the NT based windows versions (2000 or XP) all user management is handled by windows, so you can use the net command to add groups or users from the command line, and you can then use mkpasswd and mkgroup to update the cygwin passwd and group files. wouldnt be too hard to knock up a shell

Re: NT wrappers

2003-02-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
Use the source ;) oops you can't. umm well if using /? or -? or /h or /help or any variation doesnt work then have a search on the net. There is no magic way to find out otherwise. ( To be honest you'd do much better asking on an MS related newsgroup/maillist) - Original Message - From: "Ro

RE: Exim quick start guide/cookbook for cygwin?

2003-02-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
Personaly I just did as suggested in /usr/doc/Cygwin/exim-4.12-3.README which is working fine for me and has been for a while now. All windows users get mail fine, sending mail works fine etc etc. > -Original Message- > From: Chuck Ocheret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 February 20

RE: Trouble installing Perl module under cygwin

2003-02-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
looks like a rebase issue, try a google on "cygwin rebase perl" and you should get some hints. > -Original Message- > From: Steve Kelem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 February 2003 05:48 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Trouble installing Perl module under cygwin > > > > > I u

RE: Long File Names and 8.3

2003-02-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
try a "which ls" rather than whereis. also try "type -a ls" > -Original Message- > From: Dave Whiteley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 14 February 2003 10:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Long File Names and 8.3 > > > Hello, > > I have a wierd problem. > > I have just install

Re: how to set a passwd for a user

2003-02-18 Thread Vince Hoffman
It shouldnt make any difference at all. (the "unused_by_nt/2000/xp" bit should give you a clue that on windows 2k/xp/NT windows handles the password.) - Original Message - From: "Malghan, Ravi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: R

ncftp problem ?

2003-02-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
said a while back i might maintain a release of nail, a BSD mail clone. would anyone be interested as it seems pretty simple to do. ------- Vince Hoffman NT Administrator Euro RSCG Circle (London) P: 020 7959 7576 M: 0777 5822213

RE: Postgresql

2003-02-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
follow the instuctions in /usr/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-7.3.2.README especialy the bit about installing cygipc > -Original Message- > From: Maurício [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 February 2003 11:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Postgresql > > >Hi, > >After installing

RE: sshd, ftpd telnetd starts, but says incorrect passwd

2003-02-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
Also check that your mounts are all system mounts. > -Original Message- > From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 February 2003 17:06 > To: Malghan, Ravi; Nandini; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: sshd, ftpd telnetd starts, but says incorrect passwd > > > 1. Confirm t

RE: toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends

2003-02-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
(the following is conjecture as I always install unix mode) I think this is handled by mount. ie you have things mounted in text mode not binmode if you remount your mounts as binmode you should be ok. (best to do a "mount > mounts-backup.txt" to have a record of what they were before fiddling wit

RE: English speller to spell plain files

2003-02-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
not sure if there is an official package but do a google for ispell and cygwin and you should find something. > -Original Message- > From: Alex Vinokur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 February 2003 05:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: English speller to spell plain files > > > I

RE: Creating an ssh key with ssh-keygen

2003-03-04 Thread Vince Hoffman
man ssh-keygen -t is explained on the first page. > -Original Message- > From: Joshua S. Abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 March 2003 01:42 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fw: Creating an ssh key with ssh-keygen > Importance: High > > > Anyone know how to use the -t switch

RE: ssh-keygen Please help!!!

2003-03-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
try ssh-user-config (as mentioned in the README) > -Original Message- > From: Joshua S. Abbott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2003 02:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ssh-keygen Please help!!! > > > hello i have cygwin and need to create and install ssh keysI am in >

RE: setup.exe: something besides C++?

2003-03-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
I think here the answer is the traditional open source one, if you need/want it that much then go for it and code away, and if other people want like it then they'll join you. All the info to code something like this is available if you feel the need :) > -Original Message- > From: Steve

Re: unique ssh user environments

2003-03-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
why not run sshd as local system and have each person log on using password authentication, that way each user will be using their own environment (the downside being that you have to use a password as passwordless logins (pubkey etc) cannot get network access using the cd //server/path method, how

typo in /etc/profile ?

2003-03-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
developers --- Vince Hoffman Systems Administrator Euro RSCG Circle (London) P: 020 7959 7576 M: 0777 5822213 Icq: 50905590 PGP ID: 0xC859C861 "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that n

RE: init.d

2003-03-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
speaking as a novice in this area, would running it from init (with init running as a service) work ? or would this suffer from the same problems ? > -Original Message- > From: Guillaume Devoyon > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 March 2003 17:05 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE

RE: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-13 Thread Vince Hoffman
Well this is only partly true, as you may have noticed there is also a download option, this allows you to just download without installing, allowing you to later install from the files you have downloaded, just saves you HAVING to install cygwin to get hold of a copy in an installable directory st

RE: INETD problem

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
far too few detail, do you have a working tcp connection between you and your friends machines ? (can you ping each other ?) are you firewalled from each other ? hmm not realy likely to be a cygwin problem either way if you can telnet in yourself. > -Original Message- > From: Zeke Gomez [

RE: SSHD on Win2K: sshd.log is just empty

2003-03-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
That file only realy hold errors such as reasons the service cannot start. All the rest of the logging goes straight to the event logs. (have a look in the application log) > -Original Message- > From: Tino Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 March 2003 14:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
if you want to just make a local mirror, connect to one of the mirror sites and download it. (via ftp,rsync, http as you prefer) i keep a local mirror for personal use with rsync on a cronjob. Be aware you MUST keep the directory structure though for setup to be happy with it. thats why using setu

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
man ftpd specificly the bit on authentication > -Original Message- > From: Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 March 2003 12:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: inetd anonymous ftp access > > > how to configure inetd to allow anonymous ftp access under windows > nt/2000/xp ? > >

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
age- > From: Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 March 2003 13:55 > To: Vince Hoffman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: inetd anonymous ftp access > > > i have tried all, but still having problems with anonymous access > created an ftp user under winXP > added it to

Re: rsync to between workgroups

2003-10-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
[snip lots of relevant info] > > I've tried using CYGWIN=ntsec and CYGWIN=nontsec. Doesn't seem to make > a difference. > When you say you have tried CYGWIN=ntsec and CYGWIN=nontsec do you mean as a system or user variable ? also have you tried setting it to CYGWIN=nontsec using the -e switch to

Setup snapshot location?

2003-11-03 Thread Vince Rice
setup snapshots are located. In fact, I can't even find setup's home page, although I know there is one because I've been there before. Which is how I know I'm missing something blindingly obvious; my apologies in advance. Thanks, Vince __ Do you

RE: cygwin on windows.net, what?

2003-11-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00266.html CGF has a copy so i'd say cygwin will run on it. > -Original Message- > From: George Carrette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 November 2003 15:23 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: cygwin on windows.net, what? > > > The question

RE: cygwin on windows.net, what?

2003-11-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:27:24PM -, Vince Hoffman wrote: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg00266.html CGF > has a copy so > >i'd say cygwin will run on it. > > I have Windows 2003 (where Cygwin works fine). That's not > what is

wtfindex produces corrupt files on DOS mounts

2003-11-05 Thread Vince Rice
needed, but if you think otherwise just let me know. Thanks, Vince P.S. -- I'm one of the tens of thousands who have never had a problem, so I seldom have any reason to post. So to offset the problem report, let me say that Cygwin is the best thing sinced sliced bread. I've used it off

Re: wtfindex produces corrupt files on DOS mounts

2003-11-05 Thread Vince Rice
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vince, > > Thanks for the report. It would have been great if you also > specified the version of wtf that you used. However, I've just > reproduced this with wtf-0.0.4-4. Expect a new release soon. My apologies

Re: a try at killall

2003-11-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
> Not complete, but usually works for me 0=) > > $ cat /usr/local/bin/killall > #!/bin/sh > ps -s | sed -re "/$1$/s/^ +([0-9]+).*$/\1/;t fine;d;:fine" | xargs kill > $2 $3 $4 > Any reason not to just use pkill ? (from procps package) (I found it after writing a similar script for solaris. )

Re: MOHAA:BT and CYGWIN

2003-11-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
> I am having trouble running a windows executable from cygwin, in > particular the game Medal of Honor:Breakthrough. Whenever I try to > execute the windows compiled game application in dedicated mode it just > hangs. The program shows up as a process in the windows list and under > cygwin but

RE: MOHAA:BT and CYGWIN

2003-11-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > > > You hit the nail on the head. What is weird is some apps it > can run but > not others. Why would the "interact with desktop" work > sometimes and not > others? Also I take care of that in task manager I assume? > > Thanks, > GDN Admin > > You give that right in the services

Re: nmake for cygwin?

2003-11-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
>> Howdy All! >> >> Is there an nmake for cygwin? I looked it up in setup.exe under the >> development category but could not find one. >No, and since nmake is MS's make tool, it will not happen, since MS does not offer the source. Just to muddy the waters somewhat Lucent (or AT&T as it used to m

wtfindex and dos line endings

2003-11-25 Thread Vince Rice
r you choose. :) @SRS8100:/home/vrice\> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 SRS8100 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin @SRS8100:/home/vrice\> cygcheck -c wtf Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus wtf 0.0.4-5OK Tha

Re: cygcheck and mount -X

2003-11-25 Thread Vince Rice
(binmode,noumount) @SRS8100:/home/vrice\> which -a cygcheck /usr/bin/cygcheck Thanks, Vince __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: wtfindex and dos line endings

2003-11-25 Thread Vince Rice
> Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Vince Rice wrote: >> >> I reported a couple of weeks ago that wtfindex choked on text mounts, >> and Igor promptly fixed it (thanks, Igor!). I just discovered that >> wtfindex can't

Re: cygcheck and mount -X

2003-11-25 Thread Vince Rice
anything to you? Ummm, I can't read? :) Sorry, Chris, don't know how I missed that. I looked at it three times before I sent it, just saw what I expected to see, I guess. I apologize for the noise. Vince __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get i

Re: wtfindex and dos line endings

2003-11-25 Thread Vince Rice
o I didn't know they did that. Vince __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Installation from locally stored packages

2003-11-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
Actualy at least 1/2 of the mirror sites allow downloading via FTP. (and some via rsync too) if you know what you are doing and keep the directory structure its entirely possible. have a google on site:cygwin.com cygwin install from cd or similar to find previous discussions. - Original Messag

Re: Problems with Indirect Interpretation (#!/bin/csh, #!/bin/tcsh, #!/bin/perl, etc...)

2004-05-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Rocket Boy wrote: > I have recently installed cygwin on my PC at home > (Win-XP) and at work (Win-NT). I can't seem to get > indirect interpretation (e.g. #!/bin/csh -f, > #!/bin/tcsh -f, etc...) to work in either location. I > have tried it in different shells: bash, tcsh,

GPL violation ?

2004-05-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
be in others (havent checked.) Vince -- 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: GPL violation ?

2004-05-05 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Chris Herborth wrote: > Vince Hoffman wrote: > > > Checkpoint appear to be distributing cygwin1.dll (as well as gzip and > > gtar) without any obvious sources available. if fact of the 3 GPL utils > > its the only that doesnt have its own copying

Re: Problem with home installation (fwd)

2004-05-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
hmm blocked by the spam bot so here it is again. On Sat, 22 May 2004, John Williams wrote: > > I have been using cygwin at work for almost > a year now and haven't had a single problem > with it. Now, I want to work from home on > occasion, so I am trying to duplicate my work > environment at ho

RE: Problem with home installation (fwd)

2004-05-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
4.2-4 for ls and most other standard commands you need fileutil, which is normaily installed by default. I'd just rerun setup if i was you. (I've re-attached your cygcheck just in case i've missed something) On Sun, 23 May 2004, John Williams wrote: > > Vince- >

Re: sshd: Allow service to interact with desktop

2004-05-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Mike Kenny - BCX - Mngd Services wrote: > 123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789-123456789- > I noticed a reference to this checkbox in a previous e-mail and it sparked my > curiousity. I am not sure if it is relevant to what I am trying to achieve, but

Re: cron dying in Windows but not in Cygwin

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
emons; just > Windows services.) > Umm hate to throw this in but you can start sshd (and presumably cron although i've never tried,) as daemons rather than services if you install and use the sysv init package and install it as a service and setup your /etc/init.d scripts correc

RE: rm hangs on illegal filename nul

2004-05-27 Thread Vince Hoffman
WDDTT. > umm is that another way of saying, try cmd /c dir /x find 8.3 format name of file and them rm that. i have a bash script to recurse and remove directories with names of lpt, nul,aux etc somewhere, as a client had left anonymous ftp on and some warez group had created a direct

Re: rxvt + screen

2004-06-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Alain SABBAN wrote: > Thanks for your help ! > > 1/ The mentioned Web page is 6 months old at it is mentioning cygwin 1.5.7/8. I > thought there might be a fix available. > 2/ I sent a mail to this guy 2 weeks ago. He told me he thought this is a cygwin > problem. > > Anyh

(OT) RE: Request:

2002-09-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
I know this is off topic now but... Ive used the disk from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ a few times on NT and 2K, not certain on XP although its meant to be the same as 2K. If you have idiots with local admin access its damm handy. -Original Message- From: Nenad Antic (EAB)

RE: Help me : "ssh localhost" fail

2002-09-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
did you actualy start the service ? (try 'cygrunsrv -S sshd' or if you prefer 'net start sshd' ) although it seems that you removed the service then readded it, so first re-remove it ('cygrunsrv -R sshd'), then re-run the host config script ('ssh-host-config -y' and answer as appropriate,) just so

RE: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-26 Thread Vince Hoffman
Assuming this one will get past the spam filter.. have a look at www.gmane.org they already provide the list as a newsgroup. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? ( or 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
Glad you got it going :) Funny but i didnt get an xinetd installed in /rtc/rc.d/init.d/ or i wouldnt have done copied and edited sshd. I didnt need to run iu-config.sh as it got run as postinstall by inetutils for me. vince > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? (or 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
had time to try this today, works fine. steps were, 1) clean install included inetutils, xinetd, sysvinit ,chkconfig and initscripts (and vim but whatever editor you like ;) 2) run /usr/bin/init-config, NOT overwriting any config files, just to install init as a service. 3) copy /etc/rc.d/init.d/

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*?? ( or 2003)

2003-08-14 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > 5) net stop init net then net start init 5) net stop init , then net start init uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.0 GENBRIDEVINT1 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cywin running Win2k server SP3 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: HLDS and Cygwin

2003-08-19 Thread Vince Hoffman
ctorys and add the results output of "cygpath -w /bin" at a cygwin prompt to your windows path so they arent trying to use 2 instances of the cygwin dll. Vince > -Original Message- > From: GDN_Cygwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 August 2003 02:12 > To: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.

2003-08-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
try "mkgroup -ld > /etc/group" > -Original Message- > From: Matt Raible [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 20 August 2003 19:59 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly. > > > Executing "mkgroup -ld" nor "mkgroup -l" did not help > anyth

RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.

2003-08-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > Well, it executed w/o errors, but now I get: > > Error (2): The system cannot find the file specified. > > bash: [: too many arguments > > ... on startup. > > Matt > > -Original Message- > From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent

RE: init and xinetd woes

2003-08-21 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > > hello all, > > I've been messing around with xinetd and init and I can't > seem to get them > to play nicely together. > > I've checked the archives and have reinstalled xinetd, sysvinit, > initscripts, etc., run the appropriate config files > (overwriting existing ^

RE: auto tab complete

2003-08-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
To the best of my knowledge the sftp executable doesnt support tab completion. > -Original Message- > From: jwaterbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 August 2003 17:01 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: auto tab complete > > > Since no one has replied yet, it seems that some

RE: auto tab complete

2003-08-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
isnt one that does either.) > -Original Message- > From: jwaterbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 August 2003 17:11 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: auto tab complete > > > does the ssh executable support it? It won't even work for it. > &

RE: Terminate batch job at logout?

2003-08-28 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi - > > > > I've been using cygwin for a day now, and every time I plan > to exit out of > > the shell, I get asked, "Terminate batch job (Y/N)?" > > > > I'm not sure what this is referring to. > > Any ideas? its refering to the batch file

RE: md5sum of a CD

2003-09-01 Thread Vince Hoffman
The /dev directory is a "virtual" directory, much like the /proc directory. if you do a ls /dev/scd0 you should get a result. Also see http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html > -Original Message- > From: Hughes, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 September 2003

RE: Rexecd as win service

2003-09-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
rexecd runs from inetd. install inetutils and read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README for details in inetd as a service. > -Original Message- > From: Stefano Colombo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Rexecd a

RE: searching the cygwin archive

2003-09-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
A lot of people use the site: feature of google to search the archives if that would help ? (eg. use "site:cygwin.com man page" as your search string.) > -Original Message- > From: Kevin Van Workum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 September 2003 12:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: #! not a recognized internal or external command

2003-10-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
remove the space between #! and /bin/tcsh > -Original Message- > From: Neil Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 8:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: #! not a recognized internal or external command > > > I have just installed the latest version of c

RE: Sound support in Cygwin?

2003-10-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
yes, try cat wavfile.wav > /dev/dsp (obviously replace wavfile.wav with a real wavfile) dont try an mp3 though ;) dont know any details beyound that though. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 October 2003 15:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: pwd option to return windows path

2003-10-22 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > P.S. Speaking of special treatment, how come Cygwin is the only free > software project whose maintainers say "PTC" instead of "PGA"? How > naive all those other maintainers must be! I remember it used to be PGA until the day CFG coined PTC on a particualy mean day. (I could hear the yelp

RE: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?

2003-10-30 Thread Vince Hoffman
Although it doesnt seem to agree fully with Gerrits description, there is a good description of what that /3Gb switch does at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml It is related to memory not disk partitions, but read for yorself rather than have me paraphrase it. > -Original Me

Windows 2000 cron errors

2006-02-13 Thread Vince LaMonica
hecked /var/log/cron.log and it just reports when cron has started/stopped [i reinstalled it as per the cron_diagnose.sh script]. I have attached my cygcheck.txt file to this e.mail. If there is something else I can provide, please let me know. Thanks for any help you can provide. /vjl/ -- Vince J

Re: problem with finding case-sensitive filenames when running DOS batch command with bash shell

2004-10-06 Thread Vince Hoffman
make the directory search for filename to be case-insensitive? have a read of the options at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html specificly check_case and maybe glob as well. it says its relaxed by default but it may be worth setting it explicitly as well. Vince David -- Unsubscribe i

Re: Cygwin & openssh(d) & login without password

2004-10-09 Thread Vince Rice
I sit with my wife at a computer for more than five minutes). And the steps lex ein laid are extremely accurate. For a new user. Vince ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe i

RE: Can I launch a graphical windows app from within a cygwin ssh session

2004-11-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:12 PM, Mark Stuhr wrote [--cut some stuff--] launch a windows app that should run on that remote (or host, can never keep that syntax straight) box. (In other words a server runs an app most of the time, but not as a se

Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-08 Thread Vince Mounts
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > The latest cygwin snapshot at: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > should fix the startup problems that some people were seeing. I'd > appreciate feedback on that fact so that we can get a new release > out quickly. > > Please try the snapshot. > >

Re: CygUtils website going dark

2004-06-08 Thread Vince Hoffman
also happy to provide webspace but in my current job it would have to be on my home server (only 256/512 ADSL with a static IP but I'll provide a subdomain if wanted.) Email me off list if this is of any interest and i'll provide you with ftp/ssh details. Vince > -- > Peter A. Ca

RE: Cygwin and xinetd

2004-06-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote: > I found that I needed the chkconfig package too. Thanks > > Anyways, now I am unable to enable xinetd. Here's what I did. > > cygrunsrv -I xinetd -d 'Cygwin xinetd' -p > /usr/sbin/xinetd -a -d -e CYGWIN=ntsec >

Re: home directory.

2004-06-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Chris W wrote: > It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it > to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't > already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that? > Have a look at your windows environment variables. (typ

Re: rsync and file ownership

2004-07-24 Thread Vince Hoffman
r ssh non-interactively?). It can, pretty easily. assuming pubkey withought passphrase (otherwise maybe have a read on expect) ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] chmod - /path/to/files (anything after the [EMAIL PROTECTED] part is treated as a command to be executed non interactively on the remote host as

Mounted text mode but acting binary

2004-08-09 Thread Vince Rice
ed my cygcheck output if the above doesn't provide any hints. Thanks, Vince __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.out -- Unsubscribe in

Re: Mounted text mode but acting binary

2004-08-09 Thread Vince Rice
saw it originally; I only dl'd 1.5.10 to eliminate 1.5.9 as the problem). Jacek, thanks very much. I would reply to your message directly, but I'm not subscribed to the list and I don't know how to do that (I only was able to reply to Larry because he cc'd me). Vince

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