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Subject: Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?
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If I remember right (It's been a while - I don't update often) I have to 
disable NIS firewall to run (cygwin) setup.
After setup I am able to run cygwin with firewall enabled.

Dennis J. Darland
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surendar jeyadev wrote:

>--- Brett <blb-2 AT adelphia DOT net> wrote:
>
>
>  
>
>>I am having a similar problem and so far have no
>>solution.
>>But my circumstances are slightly different and
>>might
>>suggest, if the underlying problem is the same, that
>>the
>>problem resides in another direction.
>>
>>I am running Windows 2000 Professional and Norton
>>AntiVirus
>>2003 Professional.  I am connected to the internet
>>and was
>>running a Cygwin upgrade directly from the Cygwin
>>site last
>>night.  The install keeps freezing and the log
>>indicates a
>>problem with "McShield".  Specifically, "Could not
>>open
>>service McShield for query, start and stop. McAfee
>>may not
>>be installed, or we don't have access.".  I do not
>>believe
>>McAfee has every been on this box.  I tried
>>    
>>
>
>Apparently, this is not a problem. Larry Hall replied
>to
>one of my earlier problems -- not being able to
>install
>Cygwin at all, which seems to be your case -- saying
>this
>was normal. I quote him below:
>
>   These messages are no problem.  Setup checks for
>McAfee
>   because it is known to cause setup problems.  As
>the
>   message notes, "McAfee may not be installed,...",
>which
>   is true in your case.
>
>  
>
>>dissabling both
>>"Auto-Protect" and "Script Blocking" in Norton
>>without luck.
>>
>>If our problems are the same, this is not a network
>>issues.
>>I should note that I did a complete from-scratch
>>install of
>>Cygwin on my brother's Windows XP box last night
>>without any
>>problem.  I am not certain of his anti-virus
>>protection and
>>he is back on the road headed home this morning so I
>>can't
>>ask.
>>
>>Hope this is helpful and that someone has an idea.
>>    
>>
>
>I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and
>unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy
>going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes
>ago, Norton popped up a message saying 
>'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS server'. 
>
>Would anyone have an idea why a DNS sever is being 
>contacted? It *appears* that my set up is behaving
>not only as a network set up, but the the 
>modem/Norton combination is coming into play. I do
>not know what the modem is -- it was installed by
>Roadrunner and has no name on it!
>
>As my machine is very much an "out of the box,
>plain XP" from Dell, I would guess that this should
>not be an unusual case. But, maybe it is not .... :-)
>
>thanks
>sj
>
>
>
>
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