Phew, after taking three weeks to learn how to install and set up cygwin the first time round I managed it in under an hour today - suspect I forgot something important. But have tested it internally and it works, just waiting for firewall guys to adjust port forwarding and then hey presto watch the world arrive on my NT4 laptop.

Suspicions are that SSH is eating NT4 memory and I cant afford to reboot the current ssh hosting machine every day as it also runs our teletext inserter equipment/software. So hopefully Ive got it running on a different machine which I can boot at will (insert boot + window comment)

Sue

Message: 2 Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:41:26 +0100 From: Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [ALUG] Re: hello

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:31:14AM +0100, Sue Green wrote:

Brett/Chris

Thanks for the warm welcome and introductions.. Ive just been using Cygwin for a week or so. Took me about three weeks and the added patience of a saint in respect of help from an IT guy who does our web

site stuff for us.

In itself it proves to be pretty stable but the NT machine it is running on is in the process of a nervous breakdown.

Ahhh! It's not just our NT server that's having a nervous breakdown then! (Well, ours is having a little more of a strop than it really should be... it *CAN'T* see the outside world *except* through a local proxy, but there's no reason that it shouldn't be able to that we can see... It randomly decides to put all web sites in the stop state when ever it feels like it, *and* it won't install a critical update :/)

Very very glad that my side of work is mostly on our nux boxen, much *much* easier to cope with :)

Cheers, -- Brett Parker