Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-25 Thread David Christensen
On 5/25/22 08:04, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 11:36:21PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I went back to the desktop computer that I have been using for Cygwin Perl testing: [...] 'make test' produced the following result: 99 wallclock secs ( 1.76 usr 0.41

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-25 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I went back to the desktop computer that I have been using for Cygwin Perl testing: motherboard:Intel DQ67SW processor: Intel Core i7-2600S memory: Corsair CMV8GX3M2A1333C9 2 @ 4 GB disk: Intel SSD 520 Series 180 GB OS Name:Microsoft Windows 7

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-24 Thread David Christensen
On 5/24/22 08:59, Sam Edge wrote: On 24/05/2022 16:03, David Christensen wrote: On 5/24/22 01:47, Sam Edge wrote: On 24/05/2022 09:25, Csaba Raduly wrote:  > On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 20:47, Lee  wrote:  >>  >> On 5/22/22, David Christensen wrote:  >>> On 5/21/22 10:

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-24 Thread David Christensen
On 5/24/22 01:47, Sam Edge wrote: On 24/05/2022 09:25, Csaba Raduly wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2022 at 20:47, Lee  wrote: >> >> On 5/22/22, David Christensen wrote: >>> On 5/21/22 10:55, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: >>>> Am 18.05.2022 um 03:53 schrieb Da

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-23 Thread David Christensen
On 5/23/22 11:47, Lee wrote: On 5/22/22, David Christensen wrote: On 5/21/22 10:55, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 18.05.2022 um 03:53 schrieb David Christensen: > I am working on a Perl module that runs on various Unix-like platforms. > When I 'make test' on similar com

Re: Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-22 Thread David Christensen
On 5/21/22 10:55, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote: Am 18.05.2022 um 03:53 schrieb David Christensen: > I am working on a Perl module that runs on various Unix-like platforms. > When I 'make test' on similar computers: > > FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE 28 wallclock secs > Debian

Cygwin Perl has slowed in recent months

2022-05-17 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I have a computer: 2022-05-17 18:46:12 dpchrist@dht4s3r1 ~/src/perl/Dpchrist-Perl $ systeminfo | egrep '^OS (Name|Version)' ; uname -a ; cygcheck -c cygwin OS Name: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OS Version:6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

Re: Issue with 'cpan' program

2016-11-17 Thread David Christensen
On 11/17/2016 11:53 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > David Christensen writes: >> Today, I did a fresh install of Cygwin 64-bit on a recently built (and >> fully updated) Windows 7 Professional 64-bit computer. ... >> When I run the command: >> >> cpan loca

Issue with 'cpan' program

2016-10-08 Thread David Christensen
' COMMONPROGRAMFILES = 'C:\Program Files\Common Files' GIT_AUTHOR_NAME = 'David Christensen' USERNAME = 'admin' PAGER = '/usr/bin/less' PROCESSOR_LEVEL = '6' FTP_PASSIVE = '1' ProgramFiles(x86) = 'C:\Program Files (x86)' PSModulePath = 'C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules

Re: WinXP Pro Cygwin Digest-MD4-1.9 /bin/sh: gcc-4: command not found

2015-01-06 Thread David Christensen
On 01/05/2015 08:13 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: gcc-4 is an old moniker for the current gcc, back when Cygwin had both 3 and 4 versions of gcc. This is no longer true and hasn't been for quite some time. Your options at this point are: 1. Create a link to gcc and call it gcc-4. 2.

WinXP Pro Cygwin Digest-MD4-1.9 /bin/sh: gcc-4: command not found

2015-01-05 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I am having trouble installing the Perl Digest::MD4 module via the 'cpan' command line program on Cygwin on Windows XP Professional. I have filed a bug report via bug-digest-...@rt.cpan.org: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101332 The maintainer observed:

Perl - cpan Math::Random::ISAAC::XS - Error: no compiler detected to compile 'src/rand.c'. Aborting

2013-10-27 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I'm attempting to install Perl XS modules that require a C compiler using 'cpan'. I've installed the Cygwin gcc package (and several others), but it still doesn't work: $ cpan Math::Random::ISAAC::XS Error: no compiler detected to compile 'src/rand.c'. Aborting

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-11 Thread David Christensen
* Kevin Bond (Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:10:08 -0500) Hello, I am trying to use rsync in cygwin but it seems to be hanging. Right after it asks me for password of my host the 'building file list...' message displays then hangs. I can ssh into the host fine. Any ideas? I was having rsync issues under

RE: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-19 Thread David Christensen
Debian Users, Cygwin, Rsync: I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. I posted to the Debian User and Cygwin mailing lists [1] and thought I was done two days ago, but I wasn't -- after several hours of use of the Windows machine,

RE: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-19 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: I received three copies of my message from each of three lists. If everyone else receives three copies, I apologize for the extraneous copies. :-( Does anybody know why, and how to prevent such? TIA, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-17 Thread David Christensen
Debian Users Cygwin: It must have been an owner/ group/ permission issue on the receiving end (?) -- I moved the destination directory aside, created a new top-level destination directory, and now the script runs fine. :-) HTH, David -- Problem reports:

rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-15 Thread David Christensen
Debian Users Cygwin: I have a Perl/ rsync backup script that pulls files from a Windows XP Professional SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25 machine. The script worked fine on one Debian box (5.0.1 upgraded to 5.0.3), but consistently hangs 1,000+ files into a large transfer after I moved it to a fresh Debian

pipelines with paths containing spaces

2009-08-30 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I am having trouble using pipelines with paths containing spaces: 2009-08-31 01:16:32 administra...@p43400e ~ $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/ 2009-08-31 01:16:50 administra...@p43400e ~ $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\

RE: pipelines with paths containing spaces

2009-08-30 Thread David Christensen
Marco Atzeri wrote: not really cygwin specific find /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ -print0 |xargs --null ls see man xargs That explains it. Here's a work-around: 2009-08-31 04:04:36 dpchr...@p43400e ~ $ ls -d /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/ | perl -ne 's/\n/\00/;

RE: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows

2009-08-28 Thread David Christensen
jprice wrote: I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. I was hoping there would be some way to ... feed it a string of commands to execute upon opening I wrote a Bash/ Perl backup/ archive/ shutdown solution for my Windows/

RE: Unable to use cpan

2009-08-20 Thread David Christensen
Andrew DeFaria wrote: $ cpan Algorithm::Diff ... Error while trying to rename '/home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz.tmp3996' to '/home/p6258c/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz': No such file or directory My guess is that it is a file system ownership/ permission

RE: Compiling problem

2009-08-15 Thread David Christensen
Bob Cowdery wrote: My end game was to install Cython and compile up some Python stuff which was written on Linux but needs to run on Windows. There are lots of shell scripts involved and the complete system does not lend itself to running native, hence the short-term need to run under

RE: Virus on sed.exe

2009-07-08 Thread David Christensen
Ed Brady wrote: I just ran a virus scan, and got a hit for sed.exe. Win32/AMalum.ZZQIA. Anyone else seen anything similar to this? Dave Korn wrote: ~ $ cygcheck -c sed Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus sed 4.1.5-2OK ~ $

RE: Cygwin OpenSSH and Windows 7 RC

2009-06-28 Thread David Christensen
Matthias Meyer wrote: If I rebase within Windows7 I can not use this programs and librarys within other versions of Windows, right? Are you trying to share one Cygwin installation between multiple operation system installations (e.g. over a network, dual boot, flash drive, etc.)? I tried that

RE: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Chap Harrison wrote: It finally turned out to be that /etc/hosts.deny was too restrictive: ALL:ALL EXCEPT localhost:DENY Oops. ;-) I ran ssh-host-config, but did not run ssh-user-config. Must have overlooked that step. Perhaps that would have taken care of it? I doubt it. I believe

RE: Cygwin OpenSSH and Windows 7 RC

2009-06-27 Thread David Christensen
Matthias Meyer wrote: Most of the time ssh can not connect to the sshd in Windows7. In my logfile (in Windows7) I found: 7300 [main] sshd 3772 child_copy: linked dll data write copy failed, 0x2C5000..0x2C52E0, done 0, windows pid 3512, Win32 error 487 Have you done a rebaseall?

RE: net start sshd problem

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
Gordon Fogus wrote: gsfo...@gsfogus ~ $ net start sshd System error 2 has occurred. The system cannot find the file specified. Are there any clues in /var/log/sshd.log? HTH, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Help with using Bash / GCC installed but command not found

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
MattyTheG wrote: Hello, I have been using Cygwin for about a year now, with no problems. Until one day I loaded it up and instead of the usual interface I had, it just said bash-3.2$, no username, or directory or anything, and none of the unix commands work. My guess is that your Windows HOME

RE: Grief: installing OpenSSH on Cygwin / WindowsServer2003

2009-06-26 Thread David Christensen
Chap Harrison wrote: Trying to connect with PuTTY gives a server unexpectedly closed connectin error. Have you run ssh-host-config? ssh-user-config? Have you opened up port 22 in your firewall? Have you tried telnet to port 22 from localhost and from another host? HTH, David --

HOWTO-Windows-Vista-Ultimate-32-bit-Cygwin-OpenSSH

2009-06-22 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: FYI -- I built another Vista machine and created a HOWTO for installing Cygwin and OpenSSH based on a prior thread: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00454.html HTH, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

FW: HOWTO-Windows-Vista-Ultimate-32-bit-Cygwin-OpenSSH

2009-06-22 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: FYI -- I built another Vista machine and created a HOWTO for installing Cygwin and OpenSSH based on a prior thread: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-06/msg00454.html D'oh! Here's the HOWTO: http://www.holgerdanske.com/node/463 David -- Problem reports:

RE: FW: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-06-12 Thread David Christensen
Paul August wrote: David, thanks for the further information. I will try to follow your steps exactly (except for a fresh installation of Windows part) and see what happens. YW. :-) Please feel free to expand, clarify, edit, and/or otherwise improve upon the procedure and repost. For

FW: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-06-11 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I installed a fresh copy of Cygwin and a fresh copy of the Cygwin OpenSSH service on a fresh installation of Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32-bit yesterday: 1. Download Cygwin Setup to C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe. 2. Run Cygwin Setup: a. Install from Internet (default). b.

RE: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-06-09 Thread David Christensen
Paul August wrote: This what I did: 1. Log on as Administrator. 2. Remove my existing Cygwin directory 3. Download Cygwin Setup to C:\Downloads I download Cygwin Setup to C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe and packages under C:\cygwin\setup. It probably doesn't matter, but I recall that when I tried

RE: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-06-07 Thread David Christensen
Paul August wrote: David, Please address your messages to the list. If you wish to hire me, I prefer silver and gold U.S. coins. :-) I am still having trouble to set up OpenSSH server. Following the suggestions below, Which suggestions? Please copy/ paste/ indent/ reformat the text you

RE: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-05-26 Thread David Christensen
Paul August wrote: Thank you David for your response. You're welcome. :-) I followed your steps to enable the administrator account via MMC console window, Then I start cygwin bash shell either as an administrator or after I logon the administrator account. When I run ssh-host-config -y

RE: OpenSSH server installation error on Windows Vista Business/Ultimate

2009-05-25 Thread David Christensen
Paul August wrote: *** Warning: The file /etc/passwd is not readable by all. *** Warning: Please run 'chmod +r /etc/passwd'. *** Warning: The file /etc/group is not readable by all. *** Warning: Please run 'chmod +r /etc/group'. *** ERROR: Problem with LocalSystem or Adminstrator IDs Does

RE: Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

2009-05-02 Thread David Christensen
Reini Urban wrote: make manifypods install Yup, that's it! :-) Is the above documented anywhere? I tried to RTFM and STFW, but didn't find it: 2009-05-02 17:19:29 administra...@p43400e ~/Dpchrist-File-Newest $ grep -r manifypods * Makefile:# --- MakeMaker manifypods section:

RE: Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

2009-05-01 Thread David Christensen
Reini Urban wrote: Just a hint: Please do *NOT* use lowercase package names for non- pragmas. See http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html#namespace newest is certainly a very very bad name, if it does not relate to something like use blead; Thank you for your help. :-) Yes; bad laziness.

RE: What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box?

2009-05-01 Thread David Christensen
Wes S wrote: What is the most painless way to move Cygwin to another box? I've developed the habit of taking copies of the C:\cygwin\setup folder from time to time (usually before an update) and putting them into a date/time stamped folder (e.g. holgerdanske-cygwin-20090412). I also download

Perl ExtUtils::MakeMaker 'make install' not generating manual page for script

2009-04-30 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: I've packaged a Perl script into a module distribution using ExtUtils::MakeMaker: http://www.holgerdanske.com/system/files/newest-1.012.tar.gz When I build the module on a Linux machine, a manual page is created. But when I build the script on Cygwin (console session follows), a

RE: debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso: FAILED

2009-04-12 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I wrote on debian-live (http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2009/04/msg00068.html): I've downloaded several files from: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/iso-cd/ When I attempt to verify the checksums related to the rescue disk, the ISO image appears

RE: debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso: FAILED

2009-04-12 Thread David Christensen
Greg Chicares wrote: The asterisk is okay; it should be ignored with '--check'. Thanks for the help. :-) Try testing that file directly: echo b02c3606a3f35f160a591fe1154aa362 debian-live-500-i386-rescue.is o \ | md5sum --check --warn 2009-04-12 21:20:57 dpchr...@p43400e

RE: trouble running Apache 1.3.33-2 as a service

2008-11-25 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: $ mkpasswd -l | grep www /etc/passwd René Berber wrote: This is usually done with mkpasswd -l -u www /etc/passwd and making sure you don't already have a line for that user. Thank you for your help. :-) I checked before doing the incantation. The result was the same in my simple

RE: trouble running Apache 1.3.33-2 as a service

2008-11-25 Thread David Christensen
René Berber wrote: You didn't read the part about cygrunsrv -u www -y tcpip ..., i.e. install the service to run as user www. I read it, but thought I'd exhaust RTFM first. I'll keep your approach in mind for future reference. BTW if you run Apache manually (as your tests show) and you are

trouble running Apache 1.3.33-2 as a service

2008-11-24 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I have a fresh install of Cygwin on Windows XP Professional SP3, including Apache. I have created a Windows account www and updated /etc/passwd: $ mkpasswd -l | grep www /etc/passwd I have edited /etc/apache/httpd.conf: $ cvs diff -r 1.1 httpd.conf Index: httpd.conf

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-15: cwrsync 2.1.3 hangs when 80 mb of 100 gb data network folder is to be transmitted

2008-11-10 Thread David Christensen
Evgeniy wrote: At main office we have a data storage server I use rsync to move files between and within Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD machines. All are running sshd. I create a dpchrist account on each machine, create ssh DSA keys for each account, and copy the public keys to the

RE: SSHD Problems (Continued)

2008-06-09 Thread David Christensen
liminal wrote: I still am unable to connect to my external IP address using ssh, but can connect fine to localhost. Perhaps a firewall on your machine is blocking ssh traffic. I run XP Pro SP3, and added the following exception to Windows Firewall: Name: ssh

building perl-5.8.8-4 from source perl-5.8.8-ext-Win32CORE.tar.bz2 not found

2008-05-24 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I am attempting to build Perl from source (I'm curious about Perl's regression test), but it appears that the current Cygwin source distribution is incomplete: 20080524-083532 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/mydocuments/build/perl-5.8.8-4 $ ./build.sh + unset LIB + unset INCLUDE + export

RE: rsync

2008-03-10 Thread David Christensen
Sisyphus wrote: Is there an rsync package for Cygwin ? Yes. When you're in setup and looking at the package list, click the button near the top-right to change views to an alphabetized list of all packages, and you should be able to find it. Steven Hartland wrote: Its very unreliable over

cpan DBD::SQLite failing tests

2008-02-17 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I am attempting to install Perl DBD::SQL via CPAN on a fresh installation of Cygwin, but it fails the tests (see attached cpan.out). Per http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html, cygcheck.out is attached. Any suggestions? TIA, David cygcheck.out Description: Binary data cpan.out

sshd.log /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.

2008-02-17 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I was attempting to update/upgrade my Cygwin installation: 1. Rename C:\cygwin to C:\cygwin-old 2. Create new folders C:\cygwin and C:\cygwin\setup . 3. Download latest Cygwin Setup and save as C:\cygwin\setup\setup.exe . 4. Run Cygwin Setup and download/ install base system

RE: Running perl script in cron in cygwin under Windows

2008-01-14 Thread David Christensen
Macalalad, Jun wrote: Thanks David. Thanks again for the help You're welcome. :-) Please help someone else if/when you have the chance. Please keep this thread on the Cygwin list so other people can find it (e.g. hit Reply to All). Cron works on other scripts but not with a perl script.

RE: Running perl script in cron in cygwin under Windows

2008-01-13 Thread David Christensen
Macalalad, Jun wrote: I've been trying to run a perl script from cron in cygwin -- not good. It runs when in a cygwin command prompt. Any idea where I've done wrong please? Help? Do you have cron working? Verify it with a simple command, such as 'touch'. If that works, try a Perl

RE: sshd problem on Windows 2003

2007-12-16 Thread David Christensen
Len Jacobs wrote: ... sshd ... The services have been working, but now they are not ... /var/empty directory ... I moved my C:\cygwin directory aside today and did a fresh install of Cygwin on Windows XP Professional SP2. I also found that sshd would not start. There was a clue regarding

RE: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-06 Thread David Christensen
Michael Kairys wrote: I see that quite a discussion has evolved since last I checked this thread. Likewise. I've gone round and round on the issues of command.exe, Windows Explorer, Cygwin, and Perl. Perl libraries and the various maintenance tools add yet another dimension of complexity.

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-31 Thread David Christensen
Andrew DeFaria wrote: ... Additionally, if say run from cron, Thanks for the reminder -- cron was another issue/ test case that drove me towards the solution I posted. Since you were obviously having difficulties there is still something wrong with *your* environment ... and as such I know

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-30 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: $ cat ssh-backup-all.bat C:\cygwin\bin\bash ./ssh-backup-all Steve Holden wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to omit the first two executable lines and have the batch script read c:\cygwin\bin\bash -l ./ssh-backup-all I posted a sample shell session. The $ cat

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-30 Thread David Christensen
Andrew DeFaria wrote: I think he was saying that this: $ cat ssh-backup-all.bat C:\cygwin\bin\bash ./ssh-backup-all $ cat ssh-backup-all #! /bin/sh . /etc/profile . /home/dpchrist/.bash_profile # do backup stuff could be reduced to this: $ cat

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-30 Thread David Christensen
Steve Holden wrote: I posted alternative content for the batch script that would save you from putting two unnecessary lines in the shell script. Or so I thought. The -l (or --login) option has bash read its usual startup files, thereby avoiding the need four the course (.) commands at the

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-30 Thread David Christensen
Steve Holden wrote: Well there's no need to be so defensive. A simple that doesn't work, preferably with a following because ... would have been quite adequate. Now I have seen your reply to Andrew DeFaria I am somewhat better informed. If my tone put you off, I apologize. Understand that

RE: How do I make scripts my PC executable

2007-08-29 Thread David Christensen
zip184 wrote: I have some scripts I'd like to run without starting cygwin and typing in their paths. Is there a way to make windows recognize that a file is a bash/python script and run them like as if I ran them in cygwin? I'd like to just be able to doubleclick them in windows explorer.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Win32-GUI-1.04-1

2007-05-13 Thread David Christensen
Reini Urban wrote: I'll try to upload a fixed 1.05. Okay. Thank you. :-) David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-Win32-GUI-1.04-1

2007-05-11 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: Is Win32::GUI supposed to work? I installed 1.04-1 a few months ago, but didn't get around to playing with it until last night. When I tried to start the demo application, it core dumped. I checked the Win32::GUI project site, and the current version is 1.05. I updated Cygwin -- no

RE: Perl Device::SerialPort problem

2006-11-24 Thread David Christensen
aliko wrote: Now the installation process of Device: SerialPort advances further but hangs at the testing steps... Is Win32::SerialPort still viable? http://search.cpan.org/~bbirth/Win32-SerialPort-0.19/lib/Win32/SerialPor t.pm STFW, I didn't find any SerialPort in Cygwin packages:

RE: Terminal background color

2006-11-24 Thread David Christensen
Deluigi Marcus wrote: ... which window is logged on on which machine. I include the hostname in my Bash prompt: 2006-11-24 08:06:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep PS1 .bash_profile export PS1='\D{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} [EMAIL PROTECTED] \w\n\$ ' HTH, David -- Unsubscribe

RE: Perl Device::SerialPort problem

2006-11-23 Thread David Christensen
aliko is having troubles with Cygwin, HOME, Perl, and/or CPAN. When you start a Cygwin Bash shell for the first time, there are at least two possibilities: 1. Your HOME environment is not set, Cygwin creates the directory C:\cygwin\home\USERNAME, and copies in .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc..

RE: Help running bash scripts

2006-11-21 Thread David Christensen
Thierry wrote: running a simple sh script(test.sh): #!/bin/sh # test $ ./test.sh : command not found Get this book: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bash3/index.html test is a Bash built-in command (man bash; see CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS). Avoid using that keyword in Bash scripts and

RE: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2006-10-26 Thread David Christensen
Marek: Thank you. :-) David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 2:15 PM To: David Christensen Cc: 'Reini Urban'; pod-people@perl.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'cygwin' Subject: RE: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose

RE: sshd ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host until restarted

2006-10-04 Thread David Christensen
Pritchard, Douglas wrote: We tried your solution and did it a few times just to make sure and the machines having this problem still have it. I did find a reference that suggested it might be a timing or dependency problem with another service. Sshd already is tied to TCP/IP as a

RE: Exim / cron question

2006-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: I want cron to deliver an e-mail throught exim to an Exchange server, running on the same machine. I used to run a Windows 2003 Small Business Server with Exchange, and was having a tough time with Exchange, Cygwin Exim, and Cygwin email. I seem to recall my

RE: sshd ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host until restarted

2006-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Pritchard, Douglas wrote: You posted a problem with sshd no connecting after XP restarts but works after a manual restart of sshd. Did you ever get this resolved? I am having the same issue. Yes. You need to install rebase, shutdown any running services and any open Cygwin shells,

RE: How to run rxvt

2006-09-20 Thread David Christensen
Panos Katergiathis wrote: I have rxvt installed but there is no shortcut in order to run it, I wrote a batch file and made a shortcut to run it: C:\Documents and Settings\dpchrist\My Documents\hometype rxvt.bat @echo off rem $Id: rxvt.bat,v 1.1 2005/10/18 04:17:23 dpchrist Exp $

RE: Cygwin as SSH Client Problem

2006-09-18 Thread David Christensen
Panos Katergiathis wrote: I am using cygwin as ssh client in order to administrate a linux machine. All is ok, except when running (on the remote machine) programs like Midnight Commander, whereas the lines (ncurses?) appear as garbage. I've run into similar problems with top when ssh'ing

RE: cygrunsrv, sshd, services and not starting after boot

2006-09-03 Thread David Christensen
Ron Dozier wrote I noted that a lot of people are having trouble getting the sshd service to start automatically. I've run into the same issue with exim, sshd, and/or cron. I haven't tried to dig for the root cause. Running rebaseall fixes the issue (whatever it is), and that's good enough

RE: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash

2006-08-07 Thread David Christensen
Shane: Thank you for the tip. Actually I am using Visual Source Safe as the Source Management tool. I was considering the use of CVS, but decided against at the last moment because most of the fellow developers including me, had been using VSS for a considerable amount of time, and felt that

RE: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash

2006-08-06 Thread David Christensen
Shane wrote: I am writing a automated build script for my project that will be run under cygwin. I will copy my updated source files to the build directory and if there are updated files, the executables will be built. To copy the source files, I had to use XCOPY since the directory structure

RE: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2006-07-10 Thread David Christensen
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'm building an updated perl package, and will include this patch and try to get it included upstream. Thank you. :-) David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: In scripts suddenly must use perl.exe rather than perl

2006-07-09 Thread David Christensen
zzapper wrote: c:/usr/local/bin/perl sdbk.pl $* (hard path to activestate perl) It was my experience that mixing Cygwin and ActiveState Perl was a recipe for frustration. Why can't you just use Cygwin Perl? David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: FW: Cygwin Perl bug -- pod2usage(-verbose = 0) pod2usage(-verbose = 1)

2006-07-09 Thread David Christensen
in the positive, when will we see the correction in Cygwin? David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reini Urban Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:03 AM To: pod-people@perl.org Cc: David Christensen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cygwin Subject: Re: FW: Cygwin

FW: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device

2006-06-03 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: Turning off Windows 2003 SBS quotas on the hard drive fixes the problem. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device

2006-05-30 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: I put the 200 GB drive into an XP box and ran Cygwin df -- same result. Cygwin utilities, including df, work fine a 250 GB drive in the same XP box. I must assume that the 200 GB disk is corrupted, or is failing. David -- Unsubscribe info:

200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device

2006-05-29 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: I have a 200 GB drive (E:) that I store ntbackup images on. After making a backup image, I use Cygwin to gzip the image and md5sum the tarball. A few days ago, gzip started complaining No space left on device: CVSENV2006-05-29 12:13:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /backup/bin/p42800 e $

RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device

2006-05-29 Thread David Christensen
Dave Korn wrote: Are you absolutely sure your BIOS can handle disks bigger than the 125GB limit? The drive is connected to a Promise Ultra133TX2 adapter, which seems to work fine with both 200 GB and 250 GB drives. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

FW: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device

2006-05-29 Thread David Christensen
Replies to mailing list mail should go to the mailing list, not the poster... -Original Message- From: David Christensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:05 PM To: 'Dave Korn' Subject: RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device Dave Korn

RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates No space left on device

2006-05-29 Thread David Christensen
Dave Korn wrote: It's still odd that cygcheck (which is an all-win32-native program) would report false results like that. I updated Cygwin just now. The problem still exists. Attached please find the output of: 2006-05-29 16:44:48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /backup/p42800e $ cygcheck -s -v

RE: Reading Term::ReadKey support for ActiveState Perl and Cygwin

2006-05-22 Thread David Christensen
Paul Dorman wrote: I've been racking my brains trying to read keystrokes in a Cygwin shell with ActiveState Perl. I've tried using ActiveState Perl with Cygwin more than once in the past (to experiment with Perl/Tk scripts?). It was difficult. I seem to recall that invoking ActiveState from

RE: /usr/bin/email causes error sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory

2006-05-22 Thread David Christensen
PROTECTED] ~ $ less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/exim-4.62-1.README Make several attempts at email-config and exim-config. Here are the final runs: CVSENV2006-05-21 23:25:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ email-config Please enter your From: name (e.g., John Doe) [David Christensen]: Please enter your From

RE: Installing Perl modules with

2006-05-22 Thread David Christensen
Luffe wrote: Short solution: install cygwin-provided wget and change CPAN setting to use /usr/bin/wget, not Windows native wget.exe. The only wget on my PATH is Cygwin's: 2006-05-22 18:39:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ find `perl -e 'print map {$_, \n} split /:/, $ENV{PATH}'` -name 'wget*'

Please don't discuss other, competing products here

2006-05-22 Thread David Christensen
Christopher Faylor wrote: Please don't discuss other, competing products here. Looking at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html I see the paragraph: Finally, make sure when you send a message to a Cygwin list that it actually has something to do with Cygwin. ... I agree with a policy

/usr/bin/email causes error sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory

2006-05-21 Thread David Christensen
cygwin: I would like to send e-mail messages from Cygwin Bash scripts. I have installed the email and exim packages. When I attempt to send a test message form the command line, it fails: 2006-05-21 15:13:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat foo test message. line 2 bye.

RE: serial ports

2006-04-22 Thread David Christensen
Dave Korn wrote: Well then, that's a really good argument for just using the builtin access that cygwin provides through /dev/ttySx instead, isn't it? The way Oliver's original post reads suggests that he was just thrown off by not seeing any devices under the virtual /dev dir, but that

RE: serial ports

2006-04-21 Thread David Christensen
Oliver Vecernik wrote I'd like to use the serial port from perl on my notebook. Try the Win32::SerialPort Perl module: http://members.aol.com/Bbirthisel/SerialPort.html I used it in the past and it worked great, but I had to use ActiveState Perl rather than Cygwin Perl. HTH, David --

RE: Calling shell script from DOS

2006-01-26 Thread David Christensen
Pinaki Mukherjee wrote: I have installed Cygwin. I want to invoke a shell script from the DOS/Windows command prompt (instead of opening Cygwin Window first and calling it from there). How can I do this? Thanks for any help. This is a batch file that I use to launch a Bash script that backs

RE: Making and selling a Cygwin distribution

2006-01-21 Thread David Christensen
Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, if you are going to be creating your own distro don't forget to set up a forum to support it. We don't support other releases here. Yes, that and more -- Cygwin mirror, development box/VM, test boxes/VM's, e-commerce store, payment processing, and other

RE: Making and selling a Cygwin distribution

2006-01-20 Thread David Christensen
Corinna Vinschen wrote: You may make and sell a distro. You have to make the source available the same way you make the binaries available (CD/DVD/ISO). The GPL FAQ is very enlightening to read: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Thanks! :-) David -- Unsubscribe info:

Making and selling a Cygwin distribution

2006-01-19 Thread David Christensen
I wrote: I'm curious -- why would you want to install Cygwin on GNU/Linux when most GNU/Linux distributions already include GNU tools? William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I don't :-). I want to install it on my GTW WIN2K box from the Linux box, since the WIN2K box has no internet access, thus

RE: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

2006-01-18 Thread David Christensen
William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I searched the main cygwin archives found a thread on installing Cygwin using Linux. ... I'm curious -- why would you want to install Cygwin on GNU/Linux when most GNU/Linux distributions already include GNU tools? David -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: sshd must be restarted

2006-01-06 Thread David Christensen
Ken Senior wrote: Does anyone know why after a Windows XP reboot one must restart the SSH daemon in order to allow incoming ssh? rebaseall was the cure for me: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00465.html One interesting oddity about my installation is that I have two

RE: Disaster recover with Cygwin?

2006-01-02 Thread David Christensen
Siegfried Heintze wrote: I'm told I can network boot windows across the public internet ... It's much easier to use Norton Ghost with the image boot option. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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