Temporary change to pine's setup.hint

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, According to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01402.html, pine currently needs the tcsh package to function properly. Please update the setup.hint on sourceware. The new setup.hint is inline below: - setup.hint - sdesc: A text based

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working on my office account, even

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts trying to get X working

Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Iain Campbell wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: I'm new to the list. Hi! I have two accounts on my laptop, one for use on my home network and the other for use at my place of work. I'm going nuts

Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Iain Campbell
Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Rather than delete the file, I've set permissions to 0777 and it fixes my problem. I am, however, if this was the

Re: Problem solved, sort of (was Re: Cygwin/X under XP fails to start only on 2nd User Account)

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Iain Campbell wrote: Tried starting X using 'startx' from the problem account and discovered a vital clue. There was an error message suggesting that the process couldn't write to /tmp/XWin.log Ah, good, that was my next question... :-) I'm glad you found the problem.

How to have more than one X display?

2005-08-31 Thread Soong, SylokeJ
How to indecisively start more than one X display on my XP system? Currently I have a startxwin.bat: SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0 .. run XWin -screen 0 1750 1350 -whateverelse run wmaker as well as startxwin1.bat: = SET

Mouse scroll wheel acts as left arrow/right arrow.

2005-08-31 Thread Brian Keener
I have a microsoft mouse with a scroll wheel that scrolls both up and down, and left/right. The up/down scrolling action seems to act as left/right arrows. In firefox, using the scroll wheel goes back/forwards a page, for an example. Any idea what to do to fix this? Brian K --

cygrunsrv.exe -- start the service automatically on failure??

2005-08-31 Thread Pradip Jadav
Hello all, As with cygrunsrv.exe we can install-start-stop a service, is it possible to restart the service automatically on failure?? We can see from properties of a service, a Recovery tab is available where there are options like First failure, second failures, subsequent failures to take an

Re: Can't switch to another user.

2005-08-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Based on the document I read, I got the impression that I cannot use su but login will work. I really do not need to login as different user. I don't know which document you're referring to, but the first paragraph of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README says

Re: aclocal and setalternatives

2005-08-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Stephen Linda Smith wrote: I am getting the following error message when running aclocal development $ aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBSMI run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Antony Baxter
Brian Dessent wrote: Antony Baxter wrote: anything to work. At the moment I've set url-viewers = /home/ant/bin/viewUrl in my .pinerc where viewUrl is a 1-line script as follows: echo $1 /tmp/viewUrl.log When run from the command line this (obviously) works fine. However,

RE: cygrunsrv.exe -- start the service automatically on failure??

2005-08-31 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Pradip Jadav Sent: 31 August 2005 07:14 Hello all, As with cygrunsrv.exe we can install-start-stop a service, is it possible to restart the service automatically on failure?? We can see from properties of a service, a Recovery tab is available where there are

Re: Problem mounting volumen with CygWin 1.5.18

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Raúl Lorenzo Boullosa on 8/30/2005 11:42 AM: Hi, I downloaded CygWin and installed, with base and X11 packages. If i use the startxwin.bat and get error below. So I went to FAQ and DOCs to solve the problem about opening

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Antony Baxter on 8/31/2005 2:02 AM: % echo $SHELL returns /bin/bash, but stdlib's getenv(SHELL) returns null. Pine uses getenv(SHELL) to figure out how to execute external apps. Explicitly setting SHELL to /bin/bash allows Pine

Re: Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.

2005-08-31 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Based on the document I read, I got the impression that I cannot use su but login will work. I really do not need to login as different user. I don't know which document you're referring to, but the first paragraph of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README says

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Antony Baxter
According to Antony Baxter on 8/31/2005 2:02 AM: % echo $SHELL returns /bin/bash, but stdlib's getenv(SHELL) returns null. Pine uses getenv(SHELL) to figure out how to execute external apps. Explicitly setting SHELL to /bin/bash allows Pine to work. Sounds like a bug should be

RE: Cygwin on CD?

2005-08-31 Thread Stuart McGraw
Hello Larry, Thanks for that info. BTW, I see you work in Holliston MA. My family is from, and I grew up in, Hopkinton. Small world! -- Stu -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 2:08 PM To: Stuart McGraw; cygwin@cygwin.com

Re: Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.

2005-08-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Thank you for raising the important point of services. I am not much of an expert in windows and thus did not even know about services package or its need. I also do not know much about SYSTEM/ntsec and how win xp works. Thus I expected setup.exe to install

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: According to Antony Baxter on 8/31/2005 2:02 AM: % echo $SHELL returns /bin/bash, but stdlib's getenv(SHELL) returns null. Pine uses getenv(SHELL) to figure out how to execute external apps. Explicitly setting SHELL to /bin/bash allows Pine

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Antony Baxter
Igor, I haven't had a chance to debug this properly, but from the first glance at the code, it's actually weirder than that. The U in the debug output means that pine tries to use the user's preferred shell. If SHELL is undefined, pine tries to use /bin/csh (yes, csh -- don't ask me why). In

how to run a program from the bash console

2005-08-31 Thread William Creel
I am attempting to run a Windows program from the Bash console. I have attempted modifying my path in the .bash_profile file in my home directory with the following line: PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'program folder'/program executable:$PATH export PATH This does not appear to work.

Re: how to run a program from the bash console

2005-08-31 Thread Weiqi Gao
On 8/31/05, William Creel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attempting to run a Windows program from the Bash console. I have attempted modifying my path in the .bash_profile file in my home directory with the following line: PATH=/cygdrive/c/'Program Files'/'program folder'/program

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Antony Baxter wrote: Igor, I haven't had a chance to debug this properly, but from the first glance at the code, it's actually weirder than that. The U in the debug output means that pine tries to use the user's preferred shell. If SHELL is undefined, pine tries to

Re: how to run a program from the bash console

2005-08-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Weiqi Gao wrote: On 8/31/05, William Creel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. I am attempting to run a Windows program from the Bash console. I have attempted modifying my path in the .bash_profile file in my home directory

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
Out of interest, is it correct behaviour for Bash to return a value for SHELL even though it hasn't been explicitly set? See `man bash', under Shell Variables. Bash documents that if SHELL is not set in the environment, then bash populates it as an unexported variable with the full pathname

Re: Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.

2005-08-31 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Thank you for raising the important point of services. I am not much of an expert in windows and thus did not even know about services package or its need. I also do not know much about SYSTEM/ntsec and how win xp works. Thus I expected setup.exe to install

Re: Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.

2005-08-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: cygrunsrv --install worked but --start did not work. I get connection refused messages. You need to look in the windows event log for messages to find out why it's not starting. I noticed that I did not do the CYGWIN=server stuff. I tried removing the service

Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread lavmart
How do I go about installing Cygwin on a Win2K development computer that has no Internet connection? TIA, Oliver J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Will there be a new cygwin.dll release sometime soon?

2005-08-31 Thread William Deegan
Greetings, From reading the mailing list it sounds like quite a number of hangs have been checked in and available in snapshots. I was wondering if there was any plan to release sometime soon? Thanks, Bill -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Will there be a new cygwin.dll release sometime soon?

2005-08-31 Thread Brian Dessent
William Deegan wrote: I was wondering if there was any plan to release sometime soon? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01001.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread Robb, Sam
How do I go about installing Cygwin on a Win2K development computer that has no Internet connection? TIA, Oliver J. One option is that you buy a cygwin CD from a 3PP: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01333.html Or, if you have a another machine with an internet connection, you can

RE: Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:48 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: One option is that you buy a cygwin CD from a 3PP: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01333.html My only wish is that I would make no spelling errors in messages of mine that get referenced on the list. ;-) -- Larry Hall

Re: Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall wrote: At 02:48 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: One option is that you buy a cygwin CD from a 3PP: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01333.html My only wish is that I would make no spelling errors in messages of mine that get referenced on the list. ;-) While not 100%

Re: Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:34 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: At 02:48 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: One option is that you buy a cygwin CD from a 3PP: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01333.html My only wish is that I would make no spelling errors in messages of mine that get referenced on the list.

Re: xmkmf resuling in bad search path for std includes?

2005-08-31 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:35 PM 8/30/2005, you wrote: According to Larry Hall on 8/30/2005: According to Thomas Chadwick on 8/30/2005: snip As I see it, either xmkmf is setting up the wrong search path, or something is wrong with my gcc installation (since make depend is looking in 3.3.3/include but the files

Re: Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall wrote: Well, this spelling error wouldn't have been caught by a spell-checker because the misspelling was (and still is! ;-) ) a valid word. So the problem here is really between my seat and the keyboard. ;-) Agreed. When somebody catches me making such a mistake I usually point

Re: Cygwin on stand-alone computer?

2005-08-31 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:31 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Well, this spelling error wouldn't have been caught by a spell-checker because the misspelling was (and still is! ;-) ) a valid word. So the problem here is really between my seat and the keyboard. ;-) Agreed. When somebody catches me making

irssi freeze in cygwin

2005-08-31 Thread Nemui Ailin
Dear Cygwin list, First of all sorry about the subject, a better subject was denied and the mail bounced. I want to use Irssi (IRC client) on Cygwin, but I'm failing horibly. I am following the instructions in http://ai.onetrix.net/*/*Code/*Irssi/README.cygwin and other people claim to have