Call for a volunteer

2004-08-20 Thread George Gesslein II
I have developed the portable CAS Mathomatic (www.mathomatic.com) and have created a makefile for Cygwin. I am running Linux and do not have Cygwin, and I was wondering if anyone would like to submit this program to the Cygwin package archive. Regards, George

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: It seems incredibly unlikely that people in general will ever decide on the best source control system. Which people in particular do you want to wait for? IMO arch and svn have large pros but also large cons. + arch can do great merging - arch does

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Larry Hall wrote: At 12:28 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote: Why is this bad? setup development doesn't really have any ties to the rest of cygwin development. How would this be a disadvantage? If the two groups of developers are not mutually exclusive, it's a disadvantage. It sets up a barrier to all

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: It seems incredibly unlikely that people in general will ever decide on the best source control system. Which people in particular do you want to wait for? IMO arch and svn have large pros but also large cons. + arch can do great

ITP: mathomatic-11.3d (was Re: Call for a volunteer)

2004-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
George Gesslein II schrieb: I have developed the portable CAS Mathomatic (www.mathomatic.com) and have created a makefile for Cygwin. I am running Linux and do not have Cygwin, and I was wondering if anyone would like to submit this program to the Cygwin package archive. George John Gesslein II

Re: ITP: mathomatic-11.3d (was Re: Call for a volunteer)

2004-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
George, On Aug 20 14:23, Reini Urban wrote: George Gesslein II schrieb: I have developed the portable CAS Mathomatic (www.mathomatic.com) and have created a makefile for Cygwin. I am running Linux and do not have Cygwin, and I was wondering if anyone would like to submit this program to the

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 00:42 +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: [about the possibility of converting setup to subversion] I'm also not keen on this for several reasons: * subversion doesn't address the issues with merging

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:17:11PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 12:28 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote: Why is this bad? setup development doesn't really have any ties to the rest of cygwin development. How would this be a disadvantage? If the two groups of developers are not mutually

Re: ITP: mathomatic-11.3d (was Re: Call for a volunteer)

2004-08-20 Thread George Gesslein II
winam.zip has been deleted. Regards, George George John Gesslein II http://www.mathomatic.com On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: George, On Aug 20 14:23, Reini Urban wrote: George Gesslein II schrieb: I have developed the portable CAS Mathomatic

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Well, since my name's been mentioned... Actually, you did miss a whole category of people -- the anonymous CVS users... But read on. Well, there's always anonymous svn. Restricted to that role, the learning curve from cvs to svn is small indeed. Personally, I don't

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: Can we put this discussion to rest? I believe it is naturally winding down as it becomes clear that subversion on sourceware isn't really feasible at this time. A few closing comments: - I would not support giving you access to the sourceware web server and allowing you

Re: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Well, since my name's been mentioned... Actually, you did miss a whole category of people -- the anonymous CVS users... But read on. Well, there's always anonymous svn. Restricted to that role, the learning curve from cvs

Re: how to get rid of running xterm after a remote x application start ?

2004-08-20 Thread David . A . Barr
Try nohup xclock /dev/null . SSH is probably waiting for all file descriptors associated with the shell to be closed before exiting. Nohup should redirect stdout and stderr to nohup.out, but that leaves stdin still associated with the shell. Nohup may not be necessary. You could also try

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_tape.cc

2004-08-20 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-08-20 13:40:36 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_tape.cc Log message: * fhandler_tape.cc (fhandler_dev_tape::raw_read): Use ?: instead of if/else.

cygwin nfs-server hang on uClinux

2004-08-20 Thread jerry
hi, greeting First, sorry for my poor english. I recently run cygwin nfs-server-2.2.47-2 on WINXP, all linux PC clients work nicely. But when I mount cygwin exported files on my uClinux box(ARM7 processor), some work and the others don't!(I tested nfs-server on many different PC runs WINXP.)

Running native windows mysql in cygwin shell

2004-08-20 Thread Song Ken Vern-E11804
Hi, I have installed mysql native windows version on Windows. I have also compiled and installed mysql for cygwin . (I did this because I wanted install the mysql perl modules) But, running the native version of mysqldump.exe in a cygwin shell seems to hang. If I run the version compiled from

Re: sshd automatically close connection after successful login

2004-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 20:08, Christopher Cobb wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: On Aug 19 05:19, Mike Skallas wrote: I had this same problem when I re-installed cygwin today. Took me a good hour to figure out what the hell was going on. Folks, does anybody of you

Re: sshd automatically close connection after successful login

2004-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 22:07, Christopher Cobb wrote: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes: Yes, but you have to reinstall the sshd service, not just restart sshd, i.e., cygrunsrv -E sshd; cygrunsrv -R sshd; ssh-host-config; cygrunsrv -S sshd I just added resp. removed the -r from the

Re: Re: sshd automatically close connection after successful login

2004-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 15:42, Ling F. Zhang wrote: Well, I do want privilege separation support. So, I did the following: cygrunsrv --remove sshd cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd --args -r --user sshd_server --args '-D -r' See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README Corinna -- Corinna

vile hangup in ssh client

2004-08-20 Thread Thib
Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 vile version 9.3 for win32, built Jun 26 2002 19:44:48 with Visual C++ Cygwin DLL version: 1.5.10 openssh 3.9p1-1 The problem is that I can't use vile in an ssh client (in an xterm, putty or windows terminal), although it

Re: Running native windows mysql in cygwin shell

2004-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
Song Ken Vern-E11804 schrieb: I have installed mysql native windows version on Windows. I have also compiled and installed mysql for cygwin . (I did this because I wanted install the mysql perl modules) you'll only need cygwin libmysqlclient therefore, not the database and not the cygwin

Re: 1.5.10-3 + mt 2.3 scsi tape problems

2004-08-20 Thread Pim Zandbergen
Corinna Vinschen wrote: FWIW, I never saw are heard of a tape device driver which is set to variable blocksize (0) by default.What drive are you using? I'm using this script on three servers, which are now running latest cygwin+mt again hopper, Windows 2000 Server, IBM/Seagate DDS-3 dou, Windows

Re: gtk2-x11: Functions whose name started with '_'

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yaakov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit P. Haase wrote: | Anyway, currently I have a strange problem, I cannot rebuild gtk2 on | the same machine where I compiled it two days before. The only thing | I changed was to update gcc, i.e. getting an error now when

Re: Running native windows mysql in cygwin shell

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Song wrote: Hi, I have installed mysql native windows version on Windows. I have also compiled and installed mysql for cygwin . (I did this because I wanted install the mysql perl modules) But, running the native version of mysqldump.exe in a cygwin shell seems to hang. If I run the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.8.5-3

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Perl has been updated to 5.8.5-3 NEWS - This release fixes a packaging bug, Compress::Zlib wasn't included in previous 5.8.5 packages due to this buildscript bug. - Moved the distributed addon extension under from site_perl to vendor_perl library path. OLDS This is a bugfix

children processes left alive

2004-08-20 Thread D N
Hi, I want to run some common daemons within cygwin rather than using windows services to control them, like proftpd, cron, ssh. I have noticed that when I simply launch them from my cygwin shell window, like: /usr/sbin/sshd /usr/sbin/proftpd /usr/sbin/cron The applications work fine. However,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
I've made a new version of gcc available for download. NEWS In this release the option '-fschedule-insns2' was disabled for '-O2' or greater optimization because there are some problems when compiling with this option as Corinna reported me. I.e. cygserver openssh should build ok now when

Re: 1.5.10-3 + mt 2.3 scsi tape problems

2004-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 14:56, Pim Zandbergen wrote: mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 16384 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/st0 bs=16k count=1 Thanks for the simple testcase :-) Actually we have two problems in one here. The first is that your above `dd' statement should not work! See on Linux: $ mt setblk 16384 $ dd

Re: cygwin nfs-server hang on uClinux

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:48 AM 8/20/2004, you wrote: hi, greeting First, sorry for my poor english. I recently run cygwin nfs-server-2.2.47-2 on WINXP, all linux PC clients work nicely. But when I mount cygwin exported files on my uClinux box(ARM7 processor), some work and the others don't!(I tested nfs-server on

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 20 August 2004 14:40 NEWS In this release the option '-fschedule-insns2' was disabled for '-O2' or greater optimization The change (against 3.3.3-2 sources) for Cygwin builds looks as follows: ---

Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)

2004-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Cobb schrieb: ... --- begin installCygwinPackage.sh --- ... PACKAGES_DIR=/packages # adjust this for your installation INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR ls -1t | head -1)` # most and I prefer this line: INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR ls -1t | egrep

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:52:02PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 20 August 2004 14:40 NEWS In this release the option '-fschedule-insns2' was disabled for '-O2' or greater optimization The change (against

Re: .conf for imapd?

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Mike Skallas wrote: Maybe I'm missing some obvious documentation, but how do I configure imapd? I dont see anything under /usr/doc and man isn't helping. I'd like it to be able to pull mail from /var/spool/mail/username. Actually according to this there's a config

Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Reini Urban wrote: Christopher Cobb schrieb: ... --- begin installCygwinPackage.sh --- ... PACKAGES_DIR=/packages # adjust this for your installation INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/`(cd $PACKAGES_DIR ls -1t | head -1)` # most and I prefer this line:

Re: Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Larry D. Weiner
Gerrit, Would it be possible to include protoize in the gcc distribution? Can I offer to help port that program if you need assistance? Regards, - Larry D. Weiner --- Gerrit P. Haase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made a new version of gcc available for download. NEWS In this

Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?

2004-08-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Avery Bunker wrote: I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Shankar Unni
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot handle binmode (unix) textfiles. Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. Ironically, cvs is one of them: if you have a binmode mount, and run a *native* cvs (e.g. cvsnt) that writes a

Cygwin/Windows GUI Integration Question

2004-08-20 Thread LDR
* How and where to add a node to Windows Registry (XP) - that creates a pull-down (right-click or Tools) menu - from a Windows Explorer folder - that opens a Cygwin shell window to (makes it the working directory), either, - the current Explorer directory and/or, - the highlighted

Re: Cygwin/Windows GUI Integration Question

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, LDR wrote: * How and where to add a node to Windows Registry (XP) - that creates a pull-down (right-click or Tools) menu - from a Windows Explorer folder - that opens a Cygwin shell window to (makes it the working directory), either, - the current Explorer

Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:48 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote: Avery Bunker wrote: I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to be added and which ones did

Compilation errors not shown properly in Cygwin

2004-08-20 Thread Rajagopalan, Karthik
Hi Cygwin_Techies, I have been trying to install working packages of Cygwin for our current project but fails in every attempt with some issues. Currently I find the Cygwin doesn't report the compilation errors from Microsoft Visual Studio C Compiler. Let me explain the problem clearly. I am

Re: Compilation errors not shown properly in Cygwin

2004-08-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Rajagopalan, Karthik wrote: Hi Cygwin_Techies, I have been trying to install working packages of Cygwin for our current project but fails in every attempt with some issues. Currently I find the Cygwin doesn't report the compilation errors from Microsoft Visual Studio C Compiler. Let me explain

Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Cobb
Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes: FWIW, why not INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/$(cd $PACKAGES_DIR \ ls -1td $(cat /etc/setup/last-mirror | \ perl -pe 's/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.!~*()\n])/%.unpack(H2,$1)/eg') | \ head -1) # most recently modified install dir I didn't know

Re: installing packages using setup.exe from the command line (e.g., remotely)

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Christopher Cobb wrote: Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha at cs.nyu.edu writes: FWIW, why not INSTALL_SITE_DIR=$PACKAGES_DIR/$(cd $PACKAGES_DIR \ ls -1td $(cat /etc/setup/last-mirror | \ perl -pe 's/([^A-Za-z0-9\-_.!~*()\n])/%.unpack(H2,$1)/eg') | \ head -1)

Python IDLE - toolbar doesn't show up

2004-08-20 Thread Greg Hersh
Downloaded and installed the latest version of Cygwin with Python 2.3.4. Started IDLE, shell window came up fine, but toolbar on a top doesn't show up. Started IDLE in 'edit' mode, both shell and edit windows came up, again, no toolbar on either window. This certainly decreases the functionality

Re: Compilation errors not shown properly in Cygwin

2004-08-20 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
Rajagopalan, Karthik wrote: [...] I am trying to compile a C program through Makefile from Cygwin. This C program has syntax errors which are supposed to be shown by Cygwin when running C compiler. It just indicates the following lines and stops : make: *** [/cygdrive/h/test.obj] Error 1

Cannot send *.zip attachement to cygwin mailing list

2004-08-20 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
I've tried to send mail with *.zip attachement to cygwin mailing list, but got this error: Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at home.pl. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it

Re: Compilation errors not shown properly in Cygwin

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:22 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote: Rajagopalan, Karthik wrote: [...] I am trying to compile a C program through Makefile from Cygwin. This C program has syntax errors which are supposed to be shown by Cygwin when running C compiler. It just indicates the following lines and stops : make:

Re: Cannot send *.zip attachement to cygwin mailing list

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:35 PM 8/20/2004, you wrote: I've tried to send mail with *.zip attachement to cygwin mailing list, but got this error: Subject: failure notice Hi. This is the qmail-send program at home.pl. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a

Re: .conf for imapd?

2004-08-20 Thread Mike Skallas
Try /usr/share/doc, in particular, Thanks Igor, I thought I checked docs, but I looked under /usr/doc not /usr/share/doc Hmm, why the two /doc directories? Mike Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Mike Skallas wrote: Maybe I'm missing some obvious documentation, but how do I configure

Re: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:54:55AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot handle binmode (unix) textfiles. Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. Ironically, cvs is one of them: if you have a

Re: .conf for imapd?

2004-08-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Mike Skallas wrote: Try /usr/share/doc, in particular, Thanks Igor, I thought I checked docs, but I looked under /usr/doc not /usr/share/doc Hmm, why the two /doc directories? /usr/share/doc is part of the FHS. /usr/doc is the old value, which is slowly getting

Re: Cygwin/Windows GUI Integration Question, Thank You, Offer Residual Question

2004-08-20 Thread LDR
Thanks, Igor, without the key words Cygwin bash here, my searches were fruitless. I decided on the following directions (modified to my environment): I'm running Windows XP professional. (I note my version of regedt32 is 5.1, and Finney's was 5.0.) (*Anybody know why 3., below, didn't quite work

Re: Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Larry, Am Freitag, 20. August 2004 um 18:47 schriebst du: Gerrit, Would it be possible to include protoize in the gcc distribution? Can I offer to help port that program if you need assistance? Go ahead. Send me your patches and all I need to test it. Gerrit -- =^..^= --

Re: Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher writes: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 02:52:02PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase Sent: 20 August 2004 14:40 NEWS In this release the option '-fschedule-insns2' was disabled for '-O2' or greater optimization

Re: Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:24:43AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hallo Larry, Am Freitag, 20. August 2004 um 18:47 schriebst du: Gerrit, Would it be possible to include protoize in the gcc distribution? Can I offer to help port that program if you need assistance? Go ahead. Send me your

RE: perl: cpan module's interactive mode fails

2004-08-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:54:55AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: The only real reason why textmode is needed is that notepad cannot handle binmode (unix) textfiles. Unfortunately, other tools are also thrown by binmode/textmode. Ironically, cvs is one of them: if

Updated: perl-5.8.5-3

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Perl has been updated to 5.8.5-3 NEWS - This release fixes a packaging bug, Compress::Zlib wasn't included in previous 5.8.5 packages due to this buildscript bug. - Moved the distributed addon extension under from site_perl to vendor_perl library path. OLDS This is a bugfix

Updated: gcc-3.3.3-3

2004-08-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
I've made a new version of gcc available for download. NEWS In this release the option '-fschedule-insns2' was disabled for '-O2' or greater optimization because there are some problems when compiling with this option as Corinna reported me. I.e. cygserver openssh should build ok now when