[RFC] cygport: cross-compiling to embedded systems

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
Previous discussions (and my examples) on cross-compiling were focused on other operating systems: MinGW, Linux, and Solaris. But there is another use of cross-compiling: bare metal embedded systems. Yesterday I built my first example of such: the AVR toolchain, a sample build of which is now

bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? One problem that I see immediately is that if we publicly adopt a bug tracker EVERY maintainer will have to use it. We can't expect a normal user to understand that they send email to the mailing list for

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Can I get a show of hands?  How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? 1+ Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer, the package maintainer and the user. And I believe it will

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) We're still going to have to monitor the mailing list, so this just adds burden AFAICT. Does

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? 1+ Yes, it's a lot more work for all parties, the server maintainer,

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if it's implemented.) We're still going to have to

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:24:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/8/20 Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com: Can I get a show of hands? ?How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? 1+

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 14:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:22:46AM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:01 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? -0 (Not in favor, but I'll monitor it if

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:01 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: Can I get a show of hands? How many package maintainers would like to have a bug tracker? Depends on how we use it. Don't get me wrong -- I like working with Bugzilla, and we do use it *internally* for Cygwin/X, but the list is

Re: bug tracker discussion

2010-08-20 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:51 -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: OTOH, I do sometimes miss things on the main list due to the signal-to-noise ratio, which I imaging would be even greater for a maintainer with only a small number of packages. So using Bugzilla internally would be helpful. IOW:

X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Jay Goldman
I have the following menu items in my .XWinrc:    Black EXEC  /bin/urxvtc-X -fg green -bg black   -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -I    dodger EXEC  urxvtc-X -fg white -bg dodgerblue   -cr blue -g 80x42 -e /bin/bash -l -I Which have been working for months . Today I upgraded my

Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/20/2010 10:48 AM, Jay Goldman wrote: I have the following menu items in my .XWinrc: Black EXEC /bin/urxvtc-X -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -I dodger EXEC urxvtc-X -fg white -bg dodgerblue -cr blue -g 80x42 -e /bin/bash -l -I Which have

RE: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Jay Goldman
Chuck - thanks for the reply. This is what I had concluded but it's nice to get some confirmation. For the next few days I can live with 'manually' starting urxvtc-X via individual batch files. Thanks, Jay -Original Message- From: cygwin-xfree-ow...@cygwin.com

Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 10:54, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/20/2010 10:48 AM, Jay Goldman wrote: I have the following menu items in my .XWinrc: Black EXEC /bin/urxvtc-X -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -I dodger EXEC urxvtc-X -fg white -bg dodgerblue -cr

RE: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Jay Goldman
Another data point, when I try: black EXEC /bin/rxvt -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -i rxvt successfully starts up but displays: /bin/find: failed to restore initial working directory: No such file or directory Before .bash_profile is invoked

Re: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Please dont top-post. On Aug 20 14:14, Jay Goldman wrote: Another data point, when I try: black EXEC /bin/rxvt -fg green -bg black -cr dodgerblue -g 80x40 -e /bin/bash -l -i rxvt successfully starts up but displays: /bin/find: failed to restore initial working directory: No

RE: X Server no longer launches urxvtc-X

2010-08-20 Thread Jay Goldman
When I just replace the cygwin1.dll bash, \bin\bash.exe -login -i From cmd window results in: The procedure entry point CreateProcessAsUserW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll I have no idea where find is being invoked when I execute rxvt, since it is

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file ...

2010-08-20 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-08-20 08:52:25 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc syscalls.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (fhandler_disk_file::fstatvfs): Revert usage of

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file ...

2010-08-20 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-08-20 11:18:58 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_disk_file.cc path.cc Log message: * fhandler_disk_file.cc (readdir_check_reparse_point): Rename from

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog include/endian.h

2010-08-20 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-08-20 12:18:47 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog winsup/cygwin/include: endian.h Log message: * endian.h (htobe16, htobe32, htobe64, be16toh, be32toh, be64toh,

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog path.cc

2010-08-20 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: cori...@sourceware.org 2010-08-20 14:29:56 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog path.cc Log message: * path.cc (path_conv::check): Close handle in conv_handle if we're following a symlink. Patches:

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygthread.cc

2010-08-20 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2010-08-20 15:28:28 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog cygthread.cc Log message: * cygthread.cc: Update copyright. Patches:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 15:17, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the first three patchsets. Cygwin Vim builds from the vanilla sources.

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: df shows wrong (different?) drive information

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 23:14, Rolf Campbell wrote: When I run df -h dir where dir is part of a native-NTFS-mounted-drive, then df prints details about the root drive (not the mounted drive). That should be fixed in CVS now. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please,

Re: rlwrap is ancient -- maintained?

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 17:11, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/19/2010 5:02 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: The version of rlwrap in Cygwin is very old; the manpage dates it to 2005. Is the package still maintained? If not, does it need a new maintainer? :) The listed maintainer is Mauricio Antune but my

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-20 Thread Oleksandr Gavenko
On 19.08.2010 23:11, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/19/2010 01:59 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Of course the quality of the defect tracker is directly related to the effort the maintainers put in to keep it relatively pruned and organized. Maybe that is too much to expect for most maintainers at this time.

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word should be changed to etex, or (2) it should be arranged for etex in invoke pdfetex instead of

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:24:33 +0200) On Aug 19 15:17, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. This is an update to the new upstream version 7.3, including the first three

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex pdfetex language.def-translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word should be changed to etex, or (2) it should be

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 18:11, Rolf Campbell wrote: On 2010-08-19 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: For further testing purposes I have uploaded a new cygwin1.dll which a) adds debug output in readdir() which prints DOS attributes as well as evaluated d_type value for each readdir entry to strace, and

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etexpdfetex language.def -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini Either (1) the second word

Re: diff /usr/include/endian.orig.h /usr/include/endian.h endian.h.diff

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 19 19:31, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: ChangeLog entry: 2010-08-19 Pedro Izecksohn pedro.izecks...@... * endian.h [_BSD_SOURCE || ! _POSIX_SOURCE] (htobe16, htobe32) (htobe64, be16toh, be32toh, be64toh, htole16, htole32, htole64) (le16toh, le32toh, le64toh): Macros

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 13:53, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:24:33 +0200) On Aug 19 15:17, David Rothenberger wrote: On 8/19/2010 11:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.3.003-1. This is an update to the new

Re: cron fails to start as a service in Win2k3R2 64bit

2010-08-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Blaine Miller To: cygwin Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 17:47 | The only way I've been able to get cron running is manually by starting | the crond via execution of cron.exe. | | Attached are my cygcheck.txt and crontab. | | I get the following error

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/20/2010 06:00 AM, Steve Holden wrote: My intention was to highlight the fact that issues will (eventually) be re-raised thanks to the phenomenal group memory of this list. But of course the issue might have had attention (or at least been resolved as wontfix with appropriate

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:37:08 +0200) I just created a FAT32 partition on W7 and did a base install including vim. Then I started setup again and reinstalled just the vim package. That worked fine as well. So it has nothing to do with the FS, nor with the OS. I reinstalled vim

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 9:38 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:37:08 +0200) I just created a FAT32 partition on W7 and did a base install including vim. Then I started setup again and reinstalled just the vim package. That worked fine as well. So it has nothing to do with

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 9:22 AM, Eric Blake wrote: On 08/20/2010 06:00 AM, Steve Holden wrote: My intention was to highlight the fact that issues will (eventually) be re-raised thanks to the phenomenal group memory of this list. But of course the issue might have had attention (or at least been resolved

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:26 +0200) I reinstalled vim and got the exact same message again (Unable to extract /usr/bin/vi -- the file is use.). A simultaneous process monitor log shows that CreateFile operations result in DELETE PENDING (Desired Access: Read Control,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 16:21, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:26 +0200) I reinstalled vim and got the exact same message again (Unable to extract /usr/bin/vi -- the file is use.). A simultaneous process monitor log shows that CreateFile operations result in DELETE

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:33:17 +0200) On Aug 20 16:21, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:26 +0200) I reinstalled vim and got the exact same message again (Unable to extract /usr/bin/vi -- the file is use.). A simultaneous process monitor

Re: cron fails to start as a service in Win2k3R2 64bit

2010-08-20 Thread Blaine Miller
Pierre, I'm trying it now. No, I didn't know this was the preferred method of installing cron as a service. I've been installing/reinstalling everything from the cygwin *setup.exe*. I've looked at the log files and they seem pretty unremarkable. I'll run cronbug after I try the cron-config

Cygwin 1.7 problems on Windows XP SP2

2010-08-20 Thread Baldur Gislason
Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using previous (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even after reinstalling my machine I still have the same problem. My machine runs Windows XP SP2. My install.log.full has a lot of errors like this one:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.003-1

2010-08-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 20 17:09, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:33:17 +0200) On Aug 20 16:21, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:38:26 +0200) I reinstalled vim and got the exact same message again (Unable to extract /usr/bin/vi -- the file is

Re: cron fails to start as a service in Win2k3R2 64bit

2010-08-20 Thread Blaine Miller
Pierre, I tried using cron-config and it failed. Please find attached my cronbug.txt... Thanks again for your continued time and assistance. Blaine Pierre A. Humblet wrote: - Original Message - From: Blaine Miller To: cygwin Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 17:47 | The only way

Re: Cygwin 1.7 problems on Windows XP SP2

2010-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/20/2010 11:28 AM, Baldur Gislason wrote: Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using previous (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even after reinstalling my machine I still have the same problem. My machine runs Windows XP SP2. My

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:00:14AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex pdfetex language.def

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:14:29AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: I'd like to take this opportunity to say how much I personally appreciate the availability of Cygwin - I use it daily, and it makes the computing experience on Windows far more bearable and productive than it otherwise would be. I'll

Re: cron fails to start as a service in Win2k3R2 64bit

2010-08-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Blaine Miller To: cygwin Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 11:33 | Pierre, | | I tried using cron-config and it failed. Please find attached my | cronbug.txt... OK, I see that you are running cron as yourself (Administrator). The problem is that you have

Re: Bash login slow after upgrade to cygwin 1.7

2010-08-20 Thread Nahor
On 2010-08-20 7:50, Jeremy Ramer wrote: After upgrading from cygwin 1.5 to cygwin 1.7 starting a bash shell is much slower. It usually takes around 4 seconds before I get a prompt. On cygwin 1.5 it was only around 1 second. I captured some logs from the startup using this process: - Open

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/19 Andrew Schulman: The question is if the maintainers really want that, and cgf and I are just 2 out of ~60 maintainers, maintaining over 1400 packages.  From these ~60 maintainers we have quite a few who either don't reply to any mail about their package, or who only reply after some

Re: Bug tracker

2010-08-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 07:47:33PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/8/19 Andrew Schulman: The question is if the maintainers really want that, and cgf and I are just 2 out of ~60 maintainers, maintaining over 1400 packages. ?From these ~60 maintainers we have quite a few who either don't reply to

Re: ImageMagick: More insufficient package dependencies

2010-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/18 Andy Koppe: On 18 August 2010 21:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 18 21:32, William Blunn wrote: On 18/08/2010 19:26, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 06:40:17PM +0100, William Blunn wrote: My apologies to all the folks NOT involved in maintaining the ImageMagick

Re: Emacs and DBUS

2010-08-20 Thread Reini Urban
2010/8/14 Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu: On 8/12/2010 10:36 PM, nyc4...@aol.com wrote: Can the Cygwin Emacs maintainer compile an Emacs binary (emacs-X11, emacs-nox, etc) with D-BUS? It appears that the cygdbus-1-3.dll should be able to be available for Cygwin Emacs support. Yes, I've just

Re: Bash login slow after upgrade to cygwin 1.7

2010-08-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On 20 August 2010 18:20, Nahor wrote:  On 2010-08-20 7:50, Jeremy Ramer wrote: After upgrading from cygwin 1.5 to cygwin 1.7 starting a bash shell is much slower.  It usually takes around 4 seconds before I get a prompt.  On cygwin 1.5 it was only around 1 second.  I captured some logs from

Re: Emacs and DBUS

2010-08-20 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/20/2010 2:14 PM, Reini Urban wrote: 2010/8/14 Ken Brownkbr...@cornell.edu: On 8/12/2010 10:36 PM, nyc4...@aol.com wrote: Can the Cygwin Emacs maintainer compile an Emacs binary (emacs-X11, emacs-nox, etc) with D-BUS? It appears that the cygdbus-1-3.dll should be able to be available for

Re: Postinstall script errors

2010-08-20 Thread Tilman Hausherr
Hello, It works now, I was able to install gcc 4.3.4. Thanks! Tilman On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:48:04 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 19:50, Tilman Hausherr wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:59:30 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's probably a fault in the postinstall scripts. It

Re: Cygwin 1.7 problems on Windows XP SP2

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 11:34 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:28 AM, Baldur Gislason wrote: Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using previous (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even after reinstalling my machine I still have the

Re: Cygwin: texi2dvi stumbles over texinfo.tex

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 11:43 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:00:14AM -0400, Steve Holden wrote: On 8/20/2010 7:53 AM, Steve Holden wrote: On 8/20/2010 5:29 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Thu 25 May 2006, Karl Berry wrote: This line in fmtutil.cnf indicates the problem: etex

Re: Bash login slow after upgrade to cygwin 1.7

2010-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/20/2010 12:24 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 20 August 2010 18:20, Nahor wrote: On 2010-08-20 7:50, Jeremy Ramer wrote: After upgrading from cygwin 1.5 to cygwin 1.7 starting a bash shell is much slower. It usually takes around 4 seconds before I get a prompt. On cygwin 1.5 it was only

Re: Cygwin 1.7 problems on Windows XP SP2

2010-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/20/2010 3:31 PM, Steve Holden wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:34 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/20/2010 11:28 AM, Baldur Gislason wrote: Hi, I recently installed the latest version of cygwin after using previous (1.5) versions without problems. Almost nothing works on 1.7 and even after

Re: cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points

2010-08-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
On 2010-08-20 07:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Thanks for the new strace. After some more experimenting I was finally able to reproduce the issue. The other problem you reported, about df(*), lead me onto the right track. I've checked my changes in to CVS. For testing I provided another test

Using ssmtp called in a script called by a crontab entry...

2010-08-20 Thread Blaine Miller
Hello, I have a need for ssmtp to send out a *job completed* email from within a script that is called as an entry in a cron table. I've read all I can from the *Installing and configuring ssmtp* man pages as well as the Knowledgebase and FAQ's on the cygwin site. From what I gather it should

Re: Using ssmtp called in a script called by a crontab entry...

2010-08-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Blaine Miller To: cygwin Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 17:51 | Hello, | | I have a need for ssmtp to send out a *job completed* email from within | a script that is called as an entry in a cron table. I've read all I can | from the *Installing and

Re: Using ssmtp called in a script called by a crontab entry...

2010-08-20 Thread Blaine Miller
Pierre, First of all, let me thank you for your very quick response. I believe we're getting closer. when I execute: */usr/sbin/ssmtp blaine.mil...@smithmicro.com* I get this for a response... ssmtp: Cannot open exchange.smsi.com:25 I would guess that either I've got the wrong mailhub

Re: Using ssmtp called in a script called by a crontab entry...

2010-08-20 Thread René Berber
Blaine Miller wrote: [snip] I've run ssmtp-config and accepted the defaults where indicated. However, when I type *mail* at the command prompt I get *command could not be found*. There is no mail on the package ssmtp. Try first 'man ssmtp' and see if the description is enough to do what you

Re: Cygwin 1.7 problems on Windows XP SP2

2010-08-20 Thread Steve Holden
On 8/20/2010 4:04 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/20/2010 3:31 PM, Steve Holden wrote: [...] If rebaseall is failing, then that makes me think that some kind of BLODA is your real issue. Hmm, I didn't check hard enough - it was Spybot. Thanks. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: {libtirpc/libtirpc1/libtirpc-devel}-0.2.1-1

2010-08-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 08/19/2010 11:13 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: libtirpc is an updated version of the Sun RPC library. As such, it replaces part of the (orphaned) sunrpc package -- just as on linux, it replaces the built-in RPC routines in glibc: http://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/tirpc_rpcbind.php You

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.7.6-1

2010-08-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: - Improve performance of stat and a few other functions. ls(1) should be up to 30% faster I have a directory (500MB, 30 files) which contains mainly 'exe' (setups for TB, FF, OO etc.). If I try 'ls -l' in this directory, the first time it take about 30 seconds to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NEW: {libtirpc/libtirpc1/libtirpc-devel}-0.2.1-1

2010-08-20 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/20/2010 8:35 PM, Eric Blake wrote: (Hmm - libvirt hasn't yet learned how to use tirpc on Linux, since rpc/rpc.h is directly in /usr/include on Fedora as part of glibc-headers; so I had to run 'make CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/tirpc LDFLAGS=-ltirpc', but that's an issue for the libvirt mailing