From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28915 invoked by alias); 5 Apr 2009 09:30:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 27200 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Apr 2009 01:11:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Charles Wilson Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:30:00 -0000 Subject: Updated: inetutils-1.5-6 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Message-Id: <20090405011124.2C17B30308@heartbeat2.messagingengine.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-04/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 Inetutils provides common networking clients and servers, including the inetd super-server, telnetd and telnet, ftpd and ftp, rshd and rsh, rlogind and rlogin, talkd and talk, tftpd and tftp, rexecd (but no rexec), uucpd (but no uucp client), rcp, and syslogd. This is a bugfix release. This release is for both cygwin-1.5 and for cygwin-1.7. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] CHANGES (since 1.5-4) ======================== * iu-config uses new facilities provided by csih-0.1.9-2 to enable so-called "unattended" installation. See below. * Fixes a problem with ftpd in active mode, as reported by Curt Gran: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00299.html KNOWN ISSUES ======================= * postinstall script may fail when run automatically by setup.exe for cygwin-1.5. This is not an issue for cygwin-1.7's setup. If installing on a legacy system, run the postinstall script manually from an Administrator account: Administrator$ /etc/postinstall/inetutils.sh.done See announcement for csih-0.1.9-2 for more information. * talkd (possibly just firewall issues) -- see README * anonymous ftp has not been tested * rexec does not honor ~/.netrc. This is a possible issue in cygwin's rcmd() implementation. rexec does honor $REXEC_USER and $REXEC_PASS. * uucpd has not been tested * If rlogind is running under xinetd, then 'rsh user@host command' and 'rcp ...' fail. They work as expected when rlogind is running under inetd. (Reported by Dr. Volker Zell) * Some issues using (cygwin) telnet client in a DOS box with TERM= cygwin, when communicating with a (cygwin) telnetd. Reported http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-inetutils@gnu.org/msg01170.html by Achuth Sankar A. These issues have to do with extra spaces between characters, backspace not working, etc. Minimal investigation shows the problem seems to be in (cygwin) telnetd and not cygwin's telnet client. Both work fine if the telnet client is running in an rxvt, xterm, or MinTTY terminal. UNATTENDED INSTALLATION ======================= People seem to want this, so it's supported -- but I think it's a bad idea to type your privileged user's passwd on the command line where it gets saved in /proc/ and ~/.bash_history, but...here's how to do an "unattended" setup of inetd: As Administrator, do iu-config -y -w passwd_of_cygserver_account or iu-config -y --service-account some_account -w passwd_of_some_account That gets inetd installed and ready to run; you shouldn't need to answer any additional questions during the configuration process. On next boot inetd will start automatically (or you can manually start it with 'cygrunsrv -S inetd'). However..."unattended" only goes so far. You still have to edit /etc/inetd.conf to activate the services you want: As administrator, do chown Administrator /etc/inetd.conf chown cyg_server /etc/inetd.conf AND you need to modify /etc/hosts.allow to allow telnetd connections, AND you need to modify your Windows Firewall (or ZA, or whatever) to allow inbound connections on the appropriate port for whatever services you're turning on... For more information, see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils*.README. -- Charles Wilson volunteer inetutils maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain.com@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL.