Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:08:58 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: proftpd not run, and is gcc4 for cygwin coming? Message-ID: <20050221160858.GD22377@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <200502191109 DOT j1JB98mI006677 AT mail16 DOT bigmailbox DOT com> <20050219214018 DOT GA3692 AT tishler DOT net> <20050220012643 DOT GC26718 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20050220142342 DOT GB3692 AT tishler DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050220142342.GB3692@tishler.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 09:23:42AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:26:43PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 04:40:18PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: >> >On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 03:09:08AM -0800, shih lin wrote: >> >> I had proftpd 1.2.10, pretty current, but it can not run at all >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> $ /usr/sbin/proftpd.exe >> >> outlawinn - unable to set uid to 18, current uid: 1007 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> >The above is expected. Please read the README: >> > >> > http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/proftpd/proftpd-1.2.10.README >> >> Isn't this the README that comes with the distribution in >> /usr/share/doc/cygwin? > >Yes. > >> If so, it seems like that would be the best place to find >> documentation. > >Yes, but I use URLs like the above when referring people to my READMEs >for convenience. They can just click on a link instead of typing in a >shell. Additionally, the above works even before they install the >package. This may be a temporary convenience as a fish giving exercise but it doesn't do much as a fish teaching exercise. When someone is interested in documentation that you don't provide, you're either going to get a query from them about where to find it, or they're going to have to muck around on their own to find it. You also stand the chance of confusing someone if the documentation on your web site does not match the software on their system. cgf -- 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/