QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within CygWin?

2002-05-09 Thread Jose Luis Otermin
Hello people! I have downloaded and successfully installed CygWin, which would let me start up a PostgreSQL Server. Maybe I'm missing some step or misunderstood the install instructions, but after issuing the initdb command the CygWin hangs after the successful creation of Postgres folders. The

Re: QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within cygwin?

2002-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Wrong mailing list. Redirected. cgf On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:49:04PM -0300, Jose Luis Otermin wrote: Hello people! I have downloaded and successfully installed CygWin, which would let me start up a PostgreSQL Server. Maybe I'm missing some step or misunderstood the install instructions, but

RE: MIT shared memory extension

2002-05-09 Thread Ralf Habacker
Robert Collins wrote: In short, I don't like the idea of making key_t 32 bits. I have taken deeper into ftok and have some questions: 1. Why do you use st_dev explicity. Isn't ftok() only for files ? From the ftok documentation: The ftok() function returns a key based on path and id that is

FW: MIT shared memory extension

2002-05-09 Thread Ralf Habacker
Ups, there were some wrong usages of path/buf in the last code example. Sorry. key_t ftok(const char *path, int id) { struct stat statbuf; // call stat() only as file existing check if (stat(path, statbuf)) { /* stat set the appropriate errno for us */ return

Re: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
I haven't seen an answer to this one yet. Is that because no one knows? I'm in the same boat. -matt wilkie Randall R Schulz wrote: Hi, I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the semi-manual procedure that predates the release of Setup.exe packages. I want to know how I should handle

RE: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Harold Hunt
No one knows. You can install with setup.exe over top of your last installation, but you need to install *at leat* the same packages that you installed manually, else you won't get updates for all XFree86 packages, and you won't be able to uninstall all packages with setup.exe. Other than that,

Re: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Matt, Well, after waiting a while for some feedback, I took the plunge. I don't think there's a problem but... When (or after) I run XFree86/Cygwin, my system develops serious stability problems. The last time it happened, I first noticed that my dual-CPU system was showing only one CPU in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Cygwin setup.exe package 'fvwm' available

2002-05-09 Thread Harold Hunt
The package should appear on mirrors within 24 hours. To get any functionality you'll want to change the 'run twm', 'start twm', or 'start /B twm' in startxwin.bat to the following (adjust the 'run' part to 'start' or 'start /B', according to whatever your existing line says: run fvwm2 -f

RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?

2002-05-09 Thread Harold Hunt
Gerald, Hmm... the problem I'm running into with fvwm95 is that I can't do a build from a directory other than the source root, e.g.: cd fvwm95-2.0.43c/ mkdir build cd build ../configure make [tons 'o errors] I'm not an expert on autoconf etc. yet, but I just bought the GNU Autoconf,

RE: Unable to get french keyboard with XDMCP connexion on AIX

2002-05-09 Thread Harold Hunt
Frederic, Well, after about a week of discussion on this topic I'd just like to summarize the project's standpoint on this issue: 1) We would love to have great internationalization support in Cygwin/XFree86. 2) No one currently on the project seems to have both the time and knowledge to

RE: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Robert Collins
Randall, theres nothing in X or Cygwin that could cause a CPU to disappear on you. Rob

RE: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Robert, No, I really didn't think so, but I was hoping that if someone saw the symptoms and the specific graphics hardware I was using they might have a specific recommendation or some diagnostic information for me. And I assume that the _apparent_ loss of a CPU was not actually that, but

Re: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Randall R Schulz wrote: More problem symptoms followed. When the boot process completed the hardware scan and got to the point where the Welcome to Windows 2000 low-resolution splash screen would be taken down and the monitor resolution switched, I instead got a long period of disk

RE: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:09 PM Actaully, I think the long delay was the copy-on-reboot stage of the cygwin upgrade. I vaguely remember something about XFree needing to update a LOT of in use files, so

RE: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Robert Collins
-Original Message- From: Randall R Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 2:41 PM To: Charles Wilson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages Charles, Wouldn't that copy-on-reboot

Re: Legacy Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-09 Thread Matt Wilkie
Okay, thanks Harold (and the others who've chimed in in other messages). I'll let you know what happens. It will take awhile though, I have to go find someone with bandwidth and cdburner. :) cheers, -matt Harold Hunt wrote: No one knows. You can install with setup.exe over top of your

Re: enscript postinstall script error

2002-05-09 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Weiqi, Just want to point out a typo in the postinstall script for the enscript package. The lines if [ ! -e /etc/enscript.cfg ] ; then cp /etc/enscript.cfg.default /etc/enscript/cfg fi should be if [ ! -e /etc/enscript.cfg ] ; then cp /etc/enscript.cfg.default

F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.

2002-05-09 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Thursday 9 May 02, Brad Morgan writes: I have a Cygwin (setup.exe version 2.194.2.15) full install on my Windows 2000 (SP2) desktop and on my (W2000) laptop computers. My anti-virus software is F-Secure Anti-virus 5.22. On both machines, if I run a Scan all Hard Disks I get a blue

RE: F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.

2002-05-09 Thread Brad Morgan
I have a Cygwin (setup.exe version 2.194.2.15) full install on my Windows 2000 (SP2) desktop and on my (W2000) laptop computers. My anti-virus software is F-Secure Anti-virus 5.22. On both machines, if I run a Scan all Hard Disks I get a blue screen or a spontaneous reboot while scanning

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

2002-05-09 Thread Sam Edge
Stipe Tolj wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Thu, 09 May 2002 12:48:12 +0200: Well, that didn't help. The postinstall script ran without showing any errors but the problem is still ocurring when I try to use PHP. I still can't see anything wrong with the set-up. Ok, have

Most current install fails to install cygpng2.dll

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Appler
The program ps2pdf requires cygpng2.dll. However, even with each version of libpngX installed, this DLL was not installed. Renaming cygpng10.dll to cygpng2.dll solved the problem (for ps2pdf to operate correctly for me) but I am assuming there is likely differences between version 1 and 2 of

RE: F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.

2002-05-09 Thread Scott Prive
Brad, a workaround: Configure your antivirus program to exclude scanning the Cygwin directory. This is a very common question.. might be in FAQ?, I'm not sure. Outdated AV software will accuse Cygwin of being a virus... I'm not so sure I would want (or trust) antivirus software that

Fwd: write(2) return codes

2002-05-09 Thread david f
Now maybe this will get some attention on the second attempt. I posted this last week with no response. The read and write system calls return the incorrect error code in some cases. Details for write are below. I have attached a patch that should address this problem, but since the build of

Processes forking on their own?

2002-05-09 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
Some of my shell scripts on Windows 2000 Server (NTFS partition) seem to be forking their commands. This has the effect of everything in a script trying to run at once, which royally screws up dependencies. This seems to only happen sometimes. All in all, general system behavior is bad.

Re: QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within cygwin?

2002-05-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
Wrong mailing list. Redirected. cgf On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:49:04PM -0300, Jose Luis Otermin wrote: Hello people! I have downloaded and successfully installed CygWin, which would let me start up a PostgreSQL Server. Maybe I'm missing some step or misunderstood the install instructions, but

Re: Question

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Labhard
You need to have cygipc running before you start PostgreSQL. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

2002-05-09 Thread Sukhwinder Singh
neither of both has been used while building php4. I don't know about cygwin but I think that it is not cygwin specific error because I faced same problems after compiling php 4.2 and apache 2.0 on Linux. Problems were with java and swf extensions. I think person who has compiled this php

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

2002-05-09 Thread Sukhwinder Singh
neither of both has been used while building php4. I think that it is not cygwin specific error because I faced same problems after compiling php 4.2 and apache 2.0 on Linux. Problems were with java and swf extensions. I think person who has compiled this php module will be in a better position

Re: Processes forking on their own?

2002-05-09 Thread Roland Glenn McIntosh
Sorry, I should have clarified - for some reason controlling windows close themselves without me touching them. I have a script which called a batch file. This batch file has: bash --login -c /usr/local/bin/db.sh start and db.sh has something like: pg_ctl %1 But everything

Python and PIL and rebase, oh my!

2002-05-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Don't try this unless you really know what you're doing... I was able to get PIL compiled on cygwin, using the EXISTING, official cygwin tk/tcl port -- not Mumit Khan's version. Here's what I did (but it led to some discussion points, below): #1) grabbed the various include files from the

Re: apache PHP segmentation fault

2002-05-09 Thread Sam Edge
I wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Thu, 09 May 2002 19:29:59 +0100: Ah ha! I've copied the php.ini-recommended file from a download of 4.2.0 for Windows native to /usr/local/lib/php.ini and the problem has gone away. No more segmentation faults. I spoke too soon. I've made

Setup.exe freezing

2002-05-09 Thread Roland Thalmann
I have downloaded the latest (2.194.2.26) version of setup.exe, and no matter what I do, it locks up after the screen where I choose an installation option (install from internet, download, etc...). It displays a window that says This page intentionally left blank, and then just sits there

Re: QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within cygwin?

2002-05-09 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:49:04PM -0300, Jose Luis Otermin wrote: At the last message shown on screen (creating template1...) the CygWin hangs and doesn't respond unless do Ctrl-Alt-Del and kill the process. Any help or clue will be very wellcome :-) Read the documentation and start

More experiences with snapshot setup-md5-20020504-compressed.exe

2002-05-09 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: Well I have a couple of more data points for the snapshot. Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 1, 130kb of RAM from http://mirrors.rcn.net I was unable to get/parse setup.ini. I got a parse error popup that read: setup.ini line 2178 parser stack overflow setup.ini line 2178 parse

Re: QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within cygwin?

2002-05-09 Thread Jose Luis Otermin
Hello, It seems cygipc is not part of the full package and it deserves to be downloaded. Remember I'm working under W*ndows and the docs are not precise. There isn't any mention to such program in the official docs. The closest info about such program is :

Re: QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within cygwin?

2002-05-09 Thread Carey R. Dayrit
I've installed PostgreSQL on Win98, properly. I just followed the tips on FAQ_MSWIN. Before starting initdb or postmaster or psql, ipc-daemon must be started first. It will not work without ipc-daemon. You need to ftp, download the tar cygipc on some mirror sites. Have you read the

Re: QUESTION: How to start up PostgreSQL within cygwin?

2002-05-09 Thread Jose Luis Otermin
Hello Carey, Thanks for the tip. I have downloaded the http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/cygipc/cygipc-1.11-1.tar. bz2 file and that's what happen when I try to follow the instructions: $ tar -C / -xjf cygipc-1.11-1.tar.bz2 tar (child): cygipc-1.11-1.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No

cygwin tcsh-related regression bug

2002-05-09 Thread C. J.
Cygwin 1.3.10 seems to generate a problem with filename completion in tcsh that did not exist on cygwin 1.3.5-3. If I have a file 'File.cpp' in a directory, typing 'cp F[TAB]' at the prompt (where [TAB] represents the TAB key) causes completion to 'cp File.cpp', but if I type 'cp X.cpp

Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

2002-05-09 Thread Sam Edge
Further to my problems with the Apache PHP module package I've given up for the moment. Instead I've downloaded the latest 4.2.0 Win32 native PHP ZIP file and unzipped this into its own directory. I've then made sure php-cli.exe, sapi\php.exe and php4ts.dll are in my Windows PATH and copied

Cygwin compile check fails

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Labhard
All: Using the methods and script described by Peter Buckley http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg01501.html I compiled a cvs checkout downloaded today of cygwin. The build went through without an error. But the check failed with the following (truncated) error. Any suggestions for

RE: Cygwin compile check fails

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Labhard
Oops. The build has the same error. How do I build it? -- Michael - Original Message - From: Michael Labhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:18 PM Subject: Cygwin compile check fails All: Using the methods and script described by Peter

Re: Cygwin/Apache with PHP CGI

2002-05-09 Thread Graeme Merrall
Sam, your mail keeps bouncing. It makes it hard to want to help you when you cannot be emailed. Sam Edge wrote: Instead I've downloaded the latest 4.2.0 Win32 native PHP ZIP file and unzipped this into its own directory. I have a patched version of PHP-4.2.0 (actually RC4) for Cygwin you