Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

[surendar jeyadev]

I am changing the Suject line as this could be a new
thread. The 'old problem', I think, has been solved.

--- "Larry Hall (Cygwin)"
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:

> To me, this really sounds like a firewall problem
> but you
> might need to actually debug 'setup.exe' to verify
> that.

Well, in some way it is. As I mentioned earlier, I use
Norton Internet Security. And, as I also mentioned
before,
I tried the installation after logging off from
Norton.
Apparently, that is not enough. So, I stopped NIS
explicitly,
and, lo and behold, the installation went through -- I
think :-)

I now have a icon on the desktop saying "Cygwin", but,
once
again, nothing works unless I kill NIS. With it on,
the
shell hangs. If I open it with NIS off, it appears to
work.
I can do a 'ls -a' and see the files I expect:
.bash_profile,
.bashrc and .inputrc.

Commands like 'man', 'wc', etc. work. But, I need to
be
completely exposed. Even if I turn on NIS after the
shell
initialises, it freezes and does not unfreeze.

So, my questions:

1. What are the recommended settings for Norton?
2. Why is a connection to the Internet needed at all? 
   Should I not be able to work as a stand alone
machine?
   It appears that Cygwin is attempting to contact a
   server.
3. Are there shell/environmental variables that I have
to
   set to make it work as a stand alone installation?

Lastly, I apologise for the abbreviation 'NIS'. I know
it means something else, but it was just convenient
for
this thread!

Special note of thanks to Larry for all the advice.

thanks
sj






		
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