Re: I'm Completely Down after Upgrading to the Latest Cygwin

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Taylor
Fergus wrote: The Cygwin-X list would be the proper place to follow-up on any of these X issues if you need further help. I thought the Cygwin-X list was being subsumed into this one. Has that idea (a jolly good one) been spiked? Fergus Haven't seen anything saying the idea has been

Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Taylor
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jeenu V wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: The Cygwin paths are added in '/etc/profile'. Obviously, you can remove them though that will make your configuration non-standard and unsupported.

Re: FW: How to display Russian Cyrillic and Chinese in Cygwin Bash Console?

2008-09-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Siegfried Heintze wrote: Is the third time a charm! I hope so. I forgot to turn off HTML again! I apologize if this query appears again. Since I saw no replies (and not even my own posting) after checking my spam filters, I assume it never got to the list (Maybe I forgot to turn of HML the

Re: Error when attempting to start inetd

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Taylor
Michael Grand wrote: René Berber wrote: Probably your firewall is blocking any communication. I have tried this with the firewall turned off, and I still cannot connect. The port is in the allow list, so it should work anyways. Would AVG or SpySweeper block the pop3 and imap ports? Exim

Re: Install hangs

2006-09-26 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: On 26 September 2006 05:22, Artie Ziff wrote: I recently experienced a similar scenario, posted a general description of the user experience (with some questions) in an attempt to elicit general comments. I rcv'd the same response as those before me... as is evidenced in the

Re: New windows from cygwin in ssh

2006-09-26 Thread Chris Taylor
Pavel Ivanoff wrote: Can anybody help me with this problem? There is some guess that this happens due to some Local Security Policy on Windows XP (I know that in last versions of cygwin sshd requires several settings in Local Security Policy to work correctly). But I can't understand what policy

Re: change in behavior of make from 3.80 to 3.81

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Taylor
William A. Hoffman wrote: At 02:57 PM 8/21/2006, Dave Korn wrote: On 21 August 2006 18:58, William A. Hoffman wrote: of, make is changing beware, it may have been noticed. Let's face make is not a project you expect to see a bunch of change happening on, especially a change that breaks

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Taylor
Paul D. Smith wrote: %% John W. Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jwe On 28-Jul-2006, Paul D. Smith wrote: | Regardless, I still wonder whether my idea of building make for a POSIX | environment with Cygwin, but setting HAVE_DOS_PATHS explicitly, would | work. jwe If this could cause

Re: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

2006-07-25 Thread Chris Taylor
Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I guess that means there is nothing more to discuss. Agreed, except for the following. On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:53:19PM -0700, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Well, you *could* expect a fix if you provided

Re: Accessing network drive with ssh

2006-07-11 Thread Chris Taylor
David Greene wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Searching the mailing list archives or looking into the FAQ would have been of some help. Rather than let this extremely unhelpful reply be the last word, I'll relate my experience. I'm sorry, but it's nearly impossible to do web searches on this

Re: postinstall scripts: .sh and .sh.done

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Taylor
James McLaughlin wrote: Hi, While fixing a problem I'd posted to the group about (incidentally, thanks to Brian Dessent for identifying a Cygwin DLL version mismatch as the source of the other problem), I ran the post-texmf.sh script. I don't know if this was meant to give me any diagnostic

Re: regular user, bash cannot find /tmp

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Claude Marinier wrote: Hi, I installed cygwin on MS Windows XP from files I downloaded earlier this week (13 or 14 Feb 2006). Picked the default option to make cygwin available for all users. I installed from the Administrator account. Usually, the first time I start cygwin, it recommends

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: Dave Korn writes: Unfortunately for me, (e) is impractical. It's not clear whether it is my source code or CygWin's that I need to fix, Have you actually *tried* this application of yours under Cygwin and discovered that it indeed *is* one of the rare ones that

Re: G++ Missing libraries in cygwin

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Franklin Williams wrote: Hey Guys, I'm hoping that you can help me with a problem that I'm having. I am trying to install g++ 3.4.4.1 from cygwin's setup. I choose both binary and source. However, when I check the /usr/lib folder it is completely empty. Because of this, I cannot compile

Re: Bash Window Geometry

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Bubba Jones wrote: ... Alternatively, you could do: rxvt -e /bin/bash --login --rcfile /cygdrive/h/.bashrc -i Thus combining your current configuration with the way you want it to be... Ahhh, most cool. That command with switches works from the cygwin bash prompt, but not from the DOS

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
JefV wrote: Yes, I just double checked by renaming it in c:\cygwin\bin and got an error. Note, I can run both make and rm from the command line and they work fine. It seems though that when make processes the makefile it cannot access rm. Could you perhaps try following: Problem reports:

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:07:46PM -, Dave Korn wrote: On 10 February 2006 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:45:44AM -0800, JefV wrote: I re-installed cygwin and it seems to be working now. Strange. So, for those who keep track of

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:25:47PM +, Chris Taylor wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:07:46PM -, Dave Korn wrote: On 10 February 2006 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:45:44AM -0800, JefV wrote: I

Re: gnu make causes reboot

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
cc979.uk wrote: i've just re-installed windows and installed cygwin tried to compile gcc-4.0.2, its configures ok but as soon as i run make - it reboots i've got msi nforce2 ultra with a athlon 2400xp - 512mb dual, with a geforce4 ti4200 using nod32 antivirus and outpost 3.5 firewall here's

Re: rxvt -e bash From Batch File

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Taylor
Eric Blake wrote: [You have a really weird mailer - every other line was blank!] On 8 Feb 2006 17:54:59 - Bubba Jones I think I found the problem. My $HOME variable is set to another location than I want. Before using rxvt I explicitly set HOME in my .bashrc... When I set

Re: rxvt -e bash From Batch File

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Taylor
Bubba Jones wrote: When I envoke rxvt -e bash from a command line I get rxvt with bash and bash sourced my .bashrc file. However, when I put rxvt -e bash in a batch file, launch the batch file, I get rxvt with bash, but my .bashrc file is not sourced... Does anyone know why my batch file

Re: Corrupt xorg-x11-f100?

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Taylor
David Arnstein wrote: I use the usual setup.exe to keep my Cygwin packages up to date. Recently, this executable has been giving me Dr. Watson crashes left and right. I think I isolated the problem. There is a cygwin package xorg-x11-f11. I attempted to re-install it from setup.exe.

Re: Possible bug with mmap on XP?

2006-02-03 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Bodenstab wrote: On Thu Feb 2 22:55:08 2006 Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the way things are supposed to work on XP? This is a constraint of the underlying OS, yes. The old implementation of mmap used up to 1.5.18 didn't support PROT_EXEC at all, it was just fake.

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Manel Rodero wrote: Because your are bound by the laws of ntfs access control entrys. Having rights to write to a file doesn't mean you are allowed to change its owner. You need permissions to change the directory the files are in. And getting this right is easier in windows than in cygwin.

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: You want to try with the domain administrator account, not the local administrator. If you're logging on as administrator, and log on to is set to the domain, then you are already doing so and something most unusual is occuring - suggestive of an admin

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into this problem, as the OP has done

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Adrian Maier wrote: On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the key word there is does not yet *support*. Run setup --help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its command line options into setup.log.full. Play with running it using them on a

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-15 Thread Chris Taylor
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] I just wanted to make it clear that we aren't going to be making any special concessions to a product like a virus scanner which cause perfectly acceptable code to misbehave. If that is the case then it is a situation for the virus scanner to work

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:35:17PM -0500, Brett Serkez wrote: I'm still researching, I was going to respond this is posting at a later time with more insight, but before things get out-of-hand, I wanted to jump in. I suppose I'm still hopeful that we can zero in on what

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Adrian Maier wrote: Hello, I am looking for a quick and easy way to install cygwin on other computers so that it contains exactly the packages that i need, other customisations and other programs built manually. In order to do that, I have simply zipped the entire c:\cygwin directory , put

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: My question is: what are the settings required by cygwin to operate normally? ( i guess it needs some environment variables and/or registry settings ). Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against

Re: How to read man pages on nfs-server?

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Siegfried Heintze wrote: Hmmm... well I tried a few more mirrors and still cannot find nfs-server 2.3-4 -- I'll wait some more. In the mean time, I did a /usr/bin/find /usr/share | xargs grep -n nfs-server and found the README contains a list of files below. Now how do I, from looking at the

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] Is it just the mount points that are the issue? The path? The desktop icon? It is possible to run setup against such an 'installation' to update it? It's primarily just the mount points. See Corinna's message in this thread for recreating them. The desktop

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: [snip] Not particularly, assuming you use the same local package cache on each machine, especially if you use the trick for pulling in all the packages you want automatically. Right. I don't know about chere, chere must have settings in the registry, as it adds a

Re: sshd must be restarted

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
Ken Senior wrote: Does anyone know why after a Windows XP reboot one must restart the SSH daemon in order to allow incoming ssh? The process is automatically running after a reboot but all incoming SSH from remote clients are terminated with the following message being displayed on the remote

Re: sshd must be restarted

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
Top-posting reformatted. Ken Senior wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2006, Chris Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Ken Senior wrote: Does anyone know why after a Windows XP reboot one must restart the SSH daemon in order to allow incoming ssh? The process

Re: sshd must be restarted

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
Brian Dessent wrote: Ken Senior wrote: Does anyone know why after a Windows XP reboot one must restart the SSH daemon in order to allow incoming ssh? The process is automatically running after a reboot but all incoming SSH from remote clients are terminated with the following message being

Re: Have anyone compiled splitvt ?

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
steven woody wrote: splitvt is tool which can split terminal screen into two part and let you run commands independently in each of parts. it is so handy when you want to do something on a program and see response of another program. i compiled splitvt with no error. but when i run it, it did

Re: Cygwin and getsubopt

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:04:01PM +0530, Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: Hi, I could see getsubopt declaration in the unistd.h but in unix/linux its defined in stdlib.h i have also noticed that cygwin1.dll does not have that function implemented. as strings cygwin1.dll as

Re: ssh problem on Server 2003

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
Mark Haney wrote: I have the Cygwin sshd server running just fine on Server 2003, but now I'm stuck. I am trying to ssh with key authentication using this format: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/folder and everytime I try this I get ssh:server.domain.com:/cygdrive/d/: Name or service not known I

Re: sshd must be restarted

2006-01-06 Thread Chris Taylor
Brett Serkez wrote: I wonder if it would be worth having ssh-host-config set tcpip as a dependancy for sshd on all systems? While this doesn't seem to have cropped up much, specifically, it couldn't hurt.. This has been discussed before, see http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00089.html.

Re: tar with switches leads to stack dump

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Taylor
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Dec 21 08:28, fergus wrote: I'm trying to append several new files to an existing zipped .tar.gz and maintain the zipped format. I find that tar -vrzf exist.tar.gz *.new leads to an Aborted (core dumped) message. More than likely my syntax is faulty, but maybe

Re: Found case with Download incomplete / try again

2005-12-21 Thread Chris Taylor
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote: Who supports Cygwin Setup? I guess this list is the best to report problems with setup.exe. It's acceptable but not preferred. See: http://cygwin.com/lists.html I don't think this is a setup issue either. It sounds like the

Re: Listening sockets not always closing?

2005-12-20 Thread Chris Taylor
Craig Davison wrote: Hello, I'm running cygwin 1.5.18 on a number of versions of Windows, and I may have found a problem closing sockets. I'm seeing this problem on Windows 2000 (no SP) and Windows 2000 SP1, but not on Windows 2000 SP2, SP3 or SP4, and Windows XP and XP SP2 are also unaffected.

Re: handle_threadlist_exception called with threadlist_ix -1

2005-12-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Pavel Tsekov wrote: On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:10:31PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: i'm using cygwin release version is 1.5.18-1 and my program compiles and work perfectly on linux. It compiles also on cygwin but after 15-20 sec it segfault. I

Re: RES: Before Firewall

2005-12-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Removed top-posting antics. Alexandre Pereira - Tracker Solutions wrote: Larry Hall wrote : You'd be better off stating the problem that you're having directly than hinting at it. I can say that if you've set up a proxy on Windows for the likes of IE, then you will likely want to use the IE

Re: gnuplot dependency in octave

2005-12-12 Thread Chris Taylor
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: How about having a gnuplot-nox package like debian, which satisfies the dependancy, and having gnuplot-x-drivers available separately? It could be referenced in the README easily enough, and wouldn't be too hard to find.. Currently not only

Re: Hang with 20051205 snapshot while building OOo

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Taylor
Volker Quetschke wrote: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'm convinced that the hang is coming from timeGetTime. That's a Windows routine and there's not much I can do if a windows routine decides to take a long time to return. So, in other words, I'm admitting defeat in this case, especially

Re: gnuplot dependency in octave

2005-12-08 Thread Chris Taylor
James R. Phillips wrote: I am starting a new thread on this issue. Quoting from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-12/msg00319.html : I often use octave and do no plotting at all. Octave starts and runs fine if gnuplot isn't installed. (It complains about not being able to find gnuplot

Re: octave-forge dependency?

2005-12-07 Thread Chris Taylor
James R. Phillips wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: But apparently I can't use octave. Hm, actually we wouldn't want to lose such a knowledgeable user. We need users like you in order to improve octave. Would this work for you? Prior to putting miktex at the front of your path, say in your

Re: octave-forge dependency?

2005-12-07 Thread Chris Taylor
James R. Phillips wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: This doesn't solve the core problem that configure will pick up the presence of cygwin's tetex and expect it - the cygwin tetex install would need to be masked entirely in order to use miktex and not have configure expect tetex.. OK, it seems

Re: RPC headers anyone?

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Taylor
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to compile an app that uses the header files rpc/types.h and rpc/xdr.h, but I can't find the package that supplies these headers. Is there a Cygwin package that supplies this header? TIA, Erik In fact there are two with these headers - the

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Taylor
Oliver Vecernik wrote: Hi, I'd like to use Courier New as font for Cygwin, but the only choices I've got are Lucida Console and Rasterschriftart. One solution is to use PuTTY to connect via ssh to localhost, but I think this is a bit of overkill. Is there another posiibility? Yes. Don't use

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Taylor
René Berber wrote: surendar jeyadev wrote: [snip] I have to try one more thing -- turn of Norton and unplug the cable. But there is something very fishy going one. When I tried to launch Cygwin a few minutes ago, Norton popped up a message saying 'hostname.exe is trying to contact DNS

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Taylor
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 3:13 AM: I should point out that hostname is called in /etc/profile for bash as well ( HOSTNAME=`hostname` -- should this be being changed to HOSTNAME=$(hostname) at some point soon

Re: Norton Internet Security and Cygwin: What settings for NIS?

2005-11-28 Thread Chris Taylor
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Taylor on 11/28/2005 6:30 AM: The reason I mentioned it is that I'm told that the `` syntax is deprecated (and has been for some time), at least in scripts, ergo it makes sense to be moving to the newer one

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -, Dave Korn wrote: Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. strace might be

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-25 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Christopher McIntosh wrote: Consequently, I am back to the issue which I was first reporting/investigating: Why does init report open(/dev/console) : permission denied. I don't know about the cygcheck

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher McIntosh wrote: Hello cygwinites! In my /var/log/messages file (from syslogd), I find the following message: init : open(/dev/console): Permission denied this message appears whenever init is started or stopped. I've searched and searched but find no mention of it in the

Re: /dev/console : permission denied

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher McIntosh wrote: Chris: Thanks for your prompt response! Sorry for the lack of details... I've been running cygwin for about 5 years now and love it! However, I only recently began using syslogd (and therefore had not noticed the issue before). Running on WinXP Pro/SP2.

Re: mksh (shell)

2005-11-01 Thread Chris Taylor
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Thorsten Glaser wrote: Gerrit P. Haase dixit: Yes. Fritz Box Fon. These block 445/tcp/ipv4 totally, non-disablable and undocumentedly, just to protect some Windows® systems. I cannot believe it. Are there other ports blocked which I should be aware of? I

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Taylor
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100) Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100) On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) Quoting Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100) Problem with that is that if the sysadmin knows what he's doing, it only takes about 4 seconds to block off almost all possible ways of actually editing the registry... Definitely not. Oh yes it does

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Taylor
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Korn (2005-10-26 19:45 +0100) Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100) Problem with that is that if the sysadmin knows what he's doing, it only takes about 4 seconds to block off almost all possible ways of actually editing the registry

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-27 Thread Chris Taylor
Brian Dessent wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: When I say editing the registry, I'm talking about the ability to directly manipulate it with .reg files, regedit, or other registry editing tools. You can block access to certain known tools like regedit. This does *nothing* to block access

Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries

2005-10-26 Thread Chris Taylor
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (2005-10-26 15:37 +0100) On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:26:36AM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-10-26 00:45 +0100) Quoting Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See man mount. Please, please, please don't manipulate the

Re: 1.5.12 ssh hangs on some machines when stdout has content

2005-10-25 Thread Chris Taylor
David Corbin wrote: I will give it a try, but we do have a rather large set (~1 systems in over 500 locations) that would need to be upgraded. Is there any direct/easy way to upgrade cygwin without user-interaction? The only way I know is to run the GUI install program, and that's going

Re: Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Kevin Autrey wrote: I tried the lastest snapshot cygwin.dll - no changes - find still failed. So, I bit the bullet and re-installed my Cygwin installation. Same problem: I can't do a 'find' from a top-level /cygdrive/X directory (and it seems to affect ONLY 'find' when searching from the

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
zzapper wrote: On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:26:50 -0700, wrote: zzapper wrote: Sometimes it can be hard, especially when you are dealing with both Cygwin and non-Cygwin programs, because the quoting rules differ. But it is always possible, and I can't believe that there exists a situation

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
zzapper wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:09:41 +0100, wrote: One question.. When you were trying with spaces.. Did you try escaping the \ ? (as in Program\\ Files) I've found this to be necessary at times, though I can't remember an instance at the moment. Does the command run from the

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
zzapper wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:28:37 -0700, wrote: Whatever I try I get /usr/local/sbin/jraynersqlzip: line 14: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/SQLyog\ Enterprise/sja.exe: No such file or directory But a ls is just dandy ls -l /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/SQLyog\ Enterprise/sja.exe

Re: When are Windows Short Path Names required

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
zzapper wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:02:31 +0100, wrote: zzapper wrote: On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:28:37 -0700, wrote: Whatever I try I get /usr/local/sbin/jraynersqlzip: line 14: /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/SQLyog\ Enterprise/sja.exe: No such file or directory But a ls is just dandy ls

Re: Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Kevin Autrey wrote: Hi Chris - I always put . in the front of my path so that as I'm developing an app, I always pick up the devel version in my current working directory instead of /usr/local/bin. I know it's not the most secure thing in the world, but I'm on a stand-alone, single-user

Re: zsh as login shell

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Taylor
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 24 14:49, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: What about editing /etc/passwd? Pesonally, I use customized cygwin.bat. How exactly would this work? After all, we are talking about Windows Batch skripts, don't we? And they are not aware of /etc/passwd. But

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-23 Thread Chris Taylor
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:15:14PM +0100, Chris Taylor wrote: Herb Martin wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Herb Martin wrote: So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated. Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you

Re: Timestamp not preserved by Cygwin sshd

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Taylor
Alex Luso wrote: Perhaps you are right and it doesn't have to do with cygwin. I found this to happen when I tried to scp to cygwin with two different clients from 2 different machines (both non-OpenSSH, I believe). On the other hand, when I scp in between these 2 clients, there was no error.

Re: sshd refuses ssh connections

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Taylor
Marc Jourdeuil wrote: I am trying to setup sshd on cygwin, so ssh works. i followed all instructions from: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html the important ones being to set variable name is CYGWIN variable value is ntsec tty as an env variable in windows, and to append

Re: sshd refuses ssh connections

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Taylor
Top-posting reformatted. Marc Jourdeuil wrote: I am trying to setup sshd on cygwin, so ssh works. i followed all instructions from: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html the important ones being to set variable name is CYGWIN variable value is ntsec tty as an env variable

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Taylor
Herb Martin wrote: Eric Blake wrote: Herb Martin wrote: So what is the method to teach Setup that the file has been updated. Have you tried simply uninstalling the Cygwin package? If you installed the new one into another location, you presumably don't need or want the other one. For

Re: SETUP: In-use files have been replaced

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Taylor
Herb Martin wrote: Chris Taylor All I wish to do is make Setup aware of this if it is possible. For now, I must (carefully) ensure that setup doesn't overwrite my good version with the default. If you reinstalled all of exim, you don't really need the cygwin version.. So you want to edit

Re: sshd refuses ssh connections

2005-10-19 Thread Chris Taylor
Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: No, it's a red herring. The host keys should be readable only by the process that runs sshd. This must be SYSTEM in order for impersonation to work. Thus they should be readable only by SYSTEM, and that is how ssh-host-config sets things up,

Re: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Taylor
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I think what David is saying here is that if there weren't a bug in Debian 3.1 terminal settings, this would work either way, just as it did in 3.0. Regardless of the workarounds for the bug, there is still a bug and it's worthwhile getting it fixed, if for no other

Re: rxvt as Bash login console

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Taylor
David Christensen wrote: Interesting. But, I ran across some issues: 1. The font looks like a scalable font; I prefer the 7x12 bit-mapped font so that I can put six consoles on my desktop (1280x1024) and the stroke width makes the characters legible. man rxvt and playing around

Re: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor wrote: True, but he also seems to be under the impression that cygwin bash is only cygwin bash when you start it from an unaltered cygwin.bat - ie using cmd.exe, which is most assuredly not the case. In the meantime.. *tests with debian sid and etch* Works perfectly with both

Re: audit logs in windows 2000 with cygwin

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Taylor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have cygwin installed in a sever. The cygwin1.dll's version is 1.5.14. We have activated the audits in windows 2000. We receive in the logs many error about account NO USER. I have read that the problem is due to cygwin. Can help my anybody? Thanks you in

Re: Cygwin, ssh, and top

2005-10-16 Thread Chris Taylor
David Christensen wrote: Invoking rxvt from a Cygwin Bash shell and then ssh'ing into Debian and customized Slackware gives me the same results as Putty -- e.g. everything works on Debian 3.0 and 3.1, and the customized Slackware is messed up. My preference is still that Cygwin bash ssh work

Re: Setup fails!

2005-10-14 Thread Chris Taylor
Kern wrote: in my opition you should copy the cygwin1.dll to the winnt/system32 directory.Ignore whatever the installer say there is an old dll in XXX path Errr.. NO! If you want to use the cygwin1.dll that's a part of cygwin, add cygwin\bin to your path (drive letter omitted here). Then you

Re: SSH failing to make connection

2005-10-13 Thread Chris Taylor
Daryl Spartz wrote: I'm trying to ssh from cygwin to another system running AIX. The connection fails. They seem to be at different levels, but are they not backward compatible? They ought to be - but you should also really only use version 2 - much, much more secure. cygwin: $ ssh -V

Re: How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Taylor
Matt England wrote: snipped - details of attempt to install svn Well, the standard answer you're going to get back is 'use setup'. I've just tested it (with setup) and it installed fine. More useful would be your email on the problems you have with setup, in detail, and the output of cygcheck

Re: Why is setup.exe so difficult? Am I missing something?

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Taylor
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Re: How to install Subversion 1.2.3-1?

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Taylor
Matt England wrote: At 10/12/2005 09:03 AM, Chris Taylor wrote: Matt England wrote: snipped - details of attempt to install svn Well, the standard answer you're going to get back is 'use setup'. I've just tested it (with setup) and it installed fine. More useful would be your email

Re: Setup fails!

2005-10-12 Thread Chris Taylor
Roland Bengtsson wrote: I tried to download the latest release of cygwin as I want to use lxr for Linux. I run setup. choose a mirror and select to install the Devel category. The downloading seems to go fine but after a while a dialog is shown: The procedure entry point getline could not be

Re: Best place to put new envvars?

2005-10-07 Thread Chris Taylor
Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sharing a Cygwin installation in a NetWare drive among a number of developers. I want to put export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/repository in one profile that is run by everyone AND I don't want it overwritten if I update Cygwin. Where's the

Re: rsync + xp sp2 failing

2004-09-10 Thread Chris Taylor
On Fri, September 10, 2004 9:46 am, Corinna Vinschen said: On Sep 10 01:19, Brian Dessent wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: All WSADuplicateSocket calls fail with 10045, operation is not supported for the type of object referenced, even thought the above created socket handles are

Re: RXVT man pages

2004-08-16 Thread Chris Taylor
On Mon, August 16, 2004 9:52 pm, Paul Galbraith said: Larry Hall wrote: C'est la vie...I tried google groups (but not google), and well as the archive list, neither of which turned up that little gem (within the first few pages of results, at least). Cheers, Paul There's also this

Re: How to run debugger?

2004-07-11 Thread Chris Taylor
On Sun, July 11, 2004 6:36 pm, Richard Heintze said: Ah hah! Write a short program called test.c and gcc -g test.c -o test.exe and ddd test.exe and then I see Error: can't open display: This one's easy. It's almost certainly looking for a running X server, of which there almost certainly

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies.

2004-07-11 Thread Chris Taylor
On Sun, July 11, 2004 10:22 pm, LDR said: --- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *PCYMTNQREAIYR* -- Please Configure Your Mailer To Not Quote Raw E-mail Addresses In Your Replies. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. - What mailers (mail clients?) do support this

Re: Where is libxml2.dll?

2004-07-10 Thread Chris Taylor
On Sat, July 10, 2004 10:34 pm, Richard Heintze said: See below: --- Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siegfried, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. I'm not sure how to do that so I did it by hand. Good point. Assuming you're using Outlook express

RE: ls -l | less shows 'escape' chars

2004-07-01 Thread Chris Taylor
On Thu, July 1, 2004 6:08 pm, Hannu E K Nevalainen said: For man rxvt: Use google on YODLTAGSTART and you'll eventually find a sed script and how to use it. It was posted very recently to this list. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E --76-- ** on a mailing

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