Re: [Review - Very minor issues] tcm

2003-11-28 Thread Daniel Boesswetter
Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Minor issues 1) In tcm.README, XFree86-base is listed as a runtime requirement. I have started listed XFree86-bin as a requirement instead. Same goes for setup.hint. Not critical. Changed in both locations. 2) In tcm.README, XFree86-devel is

Re: New package: tzcode-2003d-1

2003-11-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package 'tzcode' is now available with the Cygwin distribution. o http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm (Homepage) o ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ (Download location) I know the train has already left the station, but I do have a few nitpicks

Automatic ITP checks (Was Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26)

2003-11-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: There, now we don't have a single package on the PPL with something to review that has not at least resulted in a chastising from a grumpy programmer that knows very little about packaging :) Lets get those packages fixed, reviewed, and posted!

Re: [Review - Very minor issues] tcm

2003-11-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Daniel, Daniel Boesswetter wrote: Hi Harold, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Minor issues 1) In tcm.README, XFree86-base is listed as a runtime requirement. I have started listed XFree86-bin as a requirement instead. Same goes for setup.hint. Not critical. Changed in both locations.

Re: Automatic ITP checks (Was Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26)

2003-11-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Thank you for your work on the verification of the ITPs. No problem. I was bored. I'm sure we all appreciate the effort, and you're welcome to keep doing this if you're having fun at it, but it occurred to me that some of the steps in your verification could have been

Re: Automatic ITP checks (Was Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-26)

2003-11-28 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-28T20:16-0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: ) BTW, if the checks are quick enough, there's no reason why they can't ) be done on the package updates as well, before they're uploaded. This ) way, no errors will creep in on package updates. Actually, anything I upload goes through a set of

Re: [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root

2003-11-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 4) I get an Error in addUserRights (LsaAddAccountRights returned 0xc060=STATUS_NO_SUCH_PRIVILEGE)! on a w2k box (I have full, local, admin rights. Is this OK? (or have I lost the plot again :| Details? Which user right

Re: [distcc] Patch for --with-docdir in configure.ac and Makefile.in

2003-11-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: [snip] Great. Once these changes are released we can have an empty platform-specific patch :) Harold Harold, We still need to add CYGWIN-PATCHES/setup.hint and CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README... They are platform-specific... Igor --

Re: [distcc] Patch for --with-docdir in configure.ac and Makefile.in

2003-11-28 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: [snip] Great. Once these changes are released we can have an empty platform-specific patch :) Harold Harold, We still need to add CYGWIN-PATCHES/setup.hint and CYGWIN-PATCHES/package.README... They are

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-28 20:10:07 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Log message: * speclib: Use correct EOF marker. Ensure that directory is actually deleted when running under Windows.

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog Makefile.in config ...

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-28 20:55:59 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Makefile.in configure configure.in cygwin.din dcrt0.cc debug.h devices.cc devices.h

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog tlsoffsets.h inclu ...

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-28 21:01:09 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Added files: winsup/cygwin : tlsoffsets.h winsup/cygwin/include/cygwin: signal.h Log message: *

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog gendevices

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-28 21:20:15 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog gendevices Log message: * gendevices: Issue error when shilka is missing. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin cygwin.din ChangeLog

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-28 21:39:08 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : cygwin.din ChangeLog Log message: * cygwin.din: Re-add inexplicably missing semaphore/msg functions. Patches:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog Makefile.in except ...

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-28 22:13:58 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog Makefile.in exceptions.cc fhandler_termios.cc how-signals-work.txt pinfo.h signal.cc

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygtls.h exception ...

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-29 00:26:40 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog cygtls.h exceptions.cc how-signals-work.txt pinfo.h sigproc.cc Log message: * pinfo.h

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog pinfo.h sigproc.cc

2003-11-28 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-11-29 00:31:37 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog pinfo.h sigproc.cc Log message: * sigproc.cc (no_signals_available): Fix so that non-zero exit state is a true condition

Re: [PATCH]: Add flock syscall emulation

2003-11-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
cgf wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:51:10PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: And, the employee was...? Your reasoning may be correct but it isn't possible to know for sure without details. Chris, Ooops, sorry about that! I meant to fill it in after I finished and had a chance to look up his

Re: [PATCH]: Add flock syscall emulation

2003-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:12:27AM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: cgf wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:51:10PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote: And, the employee was...? Your reasoning may be correct but it isn't possible to know for sure without details. Chris, Ooops, sorry about that! I meant

RE: Question on features built into Cygwin Vim binary (for Corinna)

2003-11-28 Thread Frank P. Hart
I had an idle thought to try :help feature after I got my final version of Vim built, and of course the answers are right there. So, in the immortal words of Roseanne Rosannadana (alter-ego of Gilda Radnor in Saturday Night Live circa the 1970s): Never mind. Unless, of course, there is

Re: sftp aborted... win32 error 8 ??? thread handle not set

2003-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:33:07PM -0300, Leonardo Lagos wrote: Hi, I have tried 4 times to transfer a 114M file, but all attempts died with one of the following error messages: Fetching /root/netcool/OMNIbus_3.6_b22_linux2x86.tar.gz to OMNIbus_3.6_b22_linux 2x86.tar.gz

Re: ssmtp -t alters To: header of outgoing mail

2003-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:13:51PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: Running ssmtp -t with input like --- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:57:42 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: test test --- will result in the following being sent to *both*

setup (v.2.416) needs focus or freezes on wixppro sp1

2003-11-28 Thread Urs Rau
When trying to install or upgrade, I am running v. 2.416 of setup.exe on a win xp pro sp1 machine and everytime that I switch focus away from the setup process the setup process appears to hang on the same percentage and does not seem to proceed even if I later make it the main window again.

Re: setreuid

2003-11-28 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, hope you still remember this thread :) (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00914.html). On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Start a service under system account as inetd and let it handle the user context switch. Thanks for the tip, I'll do so.

please do help me out

2003-11-28 Thread schumii srinivasan
hi everybody, i am a new user to this group and hope there are lots to help me out here. i am doing my theses in MANETs and for that i am using the ns-2 simulator. this ns-2 needs cygwin with X-free 86 in it. i think iam able to install cygwin without any problem but when i check for this

Re: please do help me out

2003-11-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Here are some pointers as to where you might want to look for detailed help: * http://cygwin.com/xfree/ the site dedicated to XFree on Cygwin * http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/ the archives of the list dedicated to XFree on Cygwin (where this question would be on-topic) *

irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Tomasz Rojek
Hello group, I would like to inform irc (actually irssi) package maintainer that since upgrade Perl to version 5.8.2-1 it stopped working at all. strace shows: $ strace irc strace.exe: error creating process irc, (error 2) Also: irc binaries are quite old, can you compile them under cygwin

Re: setreuid

2003-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:06:29PM +0200, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: After some thinking I decided to keep the setup as simple as possible, and not to use inetd. So, I have the following options: 1. Patch the server not to use setreuid, install it as a service and run it as SYSTEM. That's

Re: Running a script from Bash

2003-11-28 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
You run a script by running its interpreter (at least if its outside the wonderful world of Cygwin). What you need in your environment variables depends on what you need to run the script and what its interpreter expects of its environment. Read the documentation of the interpreter and the script

Re: irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:56:12PM +0100, Tomasz Rojek wrote: Hello group, I would like to inform irc (actually irssi) package maintainer that since upgrade Perl to version 5.8.2-1 it stopped working at all. strace shows: $ strace irc strace.exe: error creating process irc, (error 2)

RE: Code generation bug for operator new[] when -fcheck-new in GCC 3.3.1

2003-11-28 Thread Tom Scott
This bug is more properly a bug with GCC and not with cygwin - it shows up in GCC 3.2.2 (i386-redhat-linux) as well. So I've submitted the problem to GCC Bugzilla. It's Bug 13215. - Tom -Original Message- From: Tom Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 4:17

slogin: Connection reset by peer since last cygwin update

2003-11-28 Thread Conlef Ruine
Hi. I've been using cygwin on Windows 2000 for a while now and try to keep it up-to-date by running setup and accepting any updates. Since the last update (November 27) which I think only updated the X server I keep getting disconnected from my linux box after logging in with 'slogin -C -l

Re: Code generation bug for operator new[] when -fcheck-new in GCC 3.3.1

2003-11-28 Thread Fabrice Marchal
This looks similar to the problem I have with gcc 3.31 and mysql: my code crashes after a constructor() as well. But it works on Linux (with gcc 3.3.1), so is it a cygwin or gcc-on-cygwin problem? Tom Scott wrote: This bug is more properly a bug with GCC and not with cygwin - it shows up in GCC

Re: setreuid

2003-11-28 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, Corinna. On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: 3. Install the server as a service to be run as nobody or as a special user just for this service (say, tftp). Best solution. If there's a chance to run stuff under a non-priv'd account, just do it.

Re: irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I guess he's talking about irssi, which isn't part of Cygwin. ircII doesn't include Perl support. But I'm not sure since he used 'irc'. There are 2 binaries I know of, one I built and doesn't have Perl support - http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/ The other, which is older, has and is at

problem with cp -pdRvu

2003-11-28 Thread Hubert Rehrauer
Hi, I used to update directories using cp -pdRvu which worked fine. But since the last update I made the -p option causes troubles. Some files are copied even if they are definitely not newer than the destination file. Example: $ cp -pdRvu backups.txt test.txt `backups.txt' - `test.txt' $ cp

1.3.22: problem adding inetd service

2003-11-28 Thread Patrick Rotsaert
Hi, I am failing to run my own service from inetd. inetd.exe is installed as a service and works fine for standard services like telnet and ftp. I added following line to /etc/services (is linked to C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\services) bwloy 3/tcp I added following line

1.5.5: Console Application Exception Exits Shell

2003-11-28 Thread cygwin
[REPOST: The first post was lacking information and as such folks might have glossed over it. This one has much more detail.] I'm running Cygwin 1.5.5 under Windows XP Profession SP1 w/ all of the latest patches. The 'cygcheck' output can be viewed below. I'm developing a console application

stty erase

2003-11-28 Thread Andrey V. Lukyanov
I have just installed Cygwin on Windows XP. Immediately I noticed the wrong behavior of the backspace key. As it proved, it was caused by the fact that terminfo for cygwin defined kbs=^H whereas /etc/profile had the line stty erase '^?' I think it would be better to put this

Re: irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Tomasz Rojek
I guess he's talking about irssi, which isn't part of Cygwin. ircII doesn't include Perl support. But I'm not sure since he used 'irc'. Yes, I am. Actually I mixed ircII client with bash alias pointing to irssi with some options that I created months ago - my mistake. Sorry for confusion.

Re: Bash wait indefinitely

2003-11-28 Thread Nicholas Wourms
news.gmane.org wrote: I'm running in concurrences 5 complex bash batch, and sometimes (2 times on 3) one or more (very rarely) batch stop to do something. I've put a lot of trace to see where is the problem, but seems rarely arrived at the same line of code. I've also tried to use strace tool,

Re: can't install or upgrade from local anymore (setup v. 2.416)

2003-11-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Urs Rau wrote: I have been using setup.exe for months (years?) to download from internet the files to a local network location and have always been able to then install from local directory to other workstations installing from local root directory. But recently it has stopped functioning. I

Re: lftp 2.6.8 does not support dos file format

2003-11-28 Thread Mark Blackburn
Hi Didrik, Could you send me (or the list) a script file as an attachment so I can test with it. I'm not too familiar with lftp scripts. Thanks. Mark Blackburn (lftp cygwin port maintainer) Didrik Pinte wrote: Hi everybody, I've just tried to use lftp under Cygwin and encounter the following

Re: ssmtp -t alters To: header of outgoing mail

2003-11-28 Thread Robert R Schneck
Patches gratefully accepted. Anybody here wanting to take over ssmtp maintainership? A patch is below, I should have included this with my first message. It occurs to me that this is a bug in ssmtp itself, not just the Cygwin port. Who to contact about that, or are you, Corinna, also the

Re: ssmtp -t alters To: header of outgoing mail

2003-11-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:37:34PM +, Robert R Schneck wrote: Patches gratefully accepted. Anybody here wanting to take over ssmtp maintainership? A patch is below, I should have included this with my first message. I can't comment on the validity of the patch itself but it seems like

Re: irc client (irssi) problem

2003-11-28 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Tomasz Rojek wrote: There are 2 binaries I know of, one I built and doesn't have. Perl support - http://www.pervalidus.net/cygwin/irssi/ I will try that one. Irssi is much more attractive and user friendly than ircII or naim, that's why I prefer it. I took the time to

Re: Info and Document Path

2003-11-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, David A. Cobb wrote: I googled about looking for an answer, all I see is a very short thread between Chuck and Chris on http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-07/msg00570.html. Is the policy that documentation and info is moving into /usr/share/...? If yes, is there

Re: can't install or upgrade from local anymore (setup v. 2.416)

2003-11-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Urs Rau wrote: I have been using setup.exe for months (years?) to download from internet the files to a local network location and have always been able to then install from local directory to other workstations installing from local root

Missing October 2003 mbox archive (Was Re: setreuid)

2003-11-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: [snip] BTW, I couldn't find the cygwin-2003-10.bz2 mbox archive under ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/mail-archives. There are some problems/delays, or these archives will not be available any more? The file seems to have been misplaced. The

Re: building cross compiler from cygwin windows to linux: crti.o no such file or directory

2003-11-28 Thread Jim Wilson
mohanlal jangir wrote: I am trying to build cross compiler from cygwin window to linux. Building a cross to linux is an involved process. You need to build gcc and glibc in parallel, or supply a pre-compiled glibc before building gcc. I suggest looking at the info available at

Re: rsync from cygwin still a problem.

2003-11-28 Thread Larry Hall
It's generally considered bad form to quote people's addresses when replying. It's just fodder for spam harvesters. I don't see an obvious problem in your cygcheck (though I find it strange that the errors you get from rsync claim that it's 2.5.5 rather than 2.5.6). I also can't reproduce

RE: rsync from cygwin still a problem.

2003-11-28 Thread Gene Livshits
Larry, It is still definitely a problem and I have noticed that In the past a lot of people also had problems with this. I am Not sure why your system is producing the right result. All I care I would like to get it too but I cannot. That's why I called for help. -Gene.

A required .dll file, cygintl-1.dll was not found

2003-11-28 Thread dhananjay naniwadekar
You might have received request for feedback on this error-message many times. But I could not find any remedy through google search. When I try to install cygwin on my Winodws-98 desktop, I receive the message : A required .dll file, cygintl-1.dll was not found A required .dll file,