Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010910235917.05096e80@imap.local.mscha.com> X-Sender: ml@imap.local.mscha.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:00:34 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Michael Schaap Subject: Re: Virus Found In-Reply-To: <20010910234957.D937@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <20010910173701.A17576@redhat.com> <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010910144037.02f7f148@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010910173701.A17576@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: at mscha.org by amavisd-milter snapshot-20010714 (http://amavis.org/) At 23:49 10-9-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >Yeah! Instead of the usual advertising lies about the downsides >of the software you're just installing (e.g. "The new activation >feature helps you to avoid copyright infringements"), Cygwin's >setup would give some useful hints to the user: > > "NEVER move your Cygwin DLL into your Windows directory!" > > "Wanna use ssh? Check out /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README > and start ssh-user-config!" > > "On NT, Cygwin uses the Windows password, on 9x, use `crypt' > to generate passwords to put into /etc/passwd." > > etc... Or how about a "tip of the day" feature in cygwin1.dll that shows one of these in a message box every time the dll is loaded? :-) Instructions on how to turn that off will NOT be given in the mailing list, but can only be found in the documentation and in the FAQ. - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- 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/