Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:16 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: I believe that it was always Robert's intention to work towards the use of a true package manager someday. That time is now. I can't take it anymore. Ack. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt.

Re: [ITP] ec-fonts-mftraced

2004-12-08 Thread Bertalan Fodor
OK, the postinstall script is cleaned up, no fonts are deleted, because I think it is not necessary. I think the packages are ready to upload now: http://www.inf.bme.hu/~berti/lilypond/release/ec-fonts-mftraced/setup.hint

Updated: diffstat 1.35

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
New upstream release, no change to setup.hint (1.34 can stay as the previous version). Please upload: http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.35-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.35-1-src.tar.bz2 -- Someday, I might put a cute statement here. Eric Blake

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-08 Thread Reini Urban
BTW: There is new Conectiva packager, which should be the best, and builds out of the box. http://zorked.net/smart/FAQ.html Requires python. Works with .rpm, .deb and pkgtool files and up2date- and Conectiva-style mirror description formats. I don't like python that much, but I try how to

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:52:30PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: BTW: There is new Conectiva packager, which should be the best, and builds out of the box. http://zorked.net/smart/FAQ.html Requires python. Works with .rpm, .deb and pkgtool files and up2date- and Conectiva-style mirror description

Re: Updated: diffstat 1.35

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:28:28AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: New upstream release, no change to setup.hint (1.34 can stay as the previous version). Please upload: http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.35-1.tar.bz2 http://home.comcast.net/~ericblake/diffstat-1.35-1-src.tar.bz2 Uploaded.

Re: setup.exe sucks

2004-12-08 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:52:30PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: BTW: There is new Conectiva packager, which should be the best, and builds out of the box. http://zorked.net/smart/FAQ.html Requires python. Works with .rpm, .deb and pkgtool files and up2date- and

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:24:14PM -, John Morrison wrote: I'm *fairly* sure that all the variables that need to be escaped have been. The only ones that haven't should be PATH, MANPATH and INFOPATH as per a thread a few weeks ago. ? Can you point to a URL for this discussion? I can't

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread John Morrison
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 06:24:14PM -, John Morrison wrote: I'm *fairly* sure that all the variables that need to be escaped have been. The only ones that haven't should be PATH, MANPATH and INFOPATH as per a thread a few weeks ago. ? Can you point to a URL for this discussion? I can't

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
John Morrison, would you mind doing this, please? cgf Sheesh. You can't trust anything THAT guy says. He can't even remember conversations from a month or two ago. Sorry. Nevemind. You don't want me to upload this to sourceware.org, right? cgf

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread John Morrison
John Morrison, would you mind doing this, please? cgf Sheesh. You can't trust anything THAT guy says. lol He can't even remember conversations from a month or two ago. Sorry. Never mind. You don't want me to upload this to sourceware.org, right? If you wouldn't mind casting your eyes

Re: [Package Update] HTML Tidy 041206-1

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:22:06PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: File are, as usual, there: I've grabbed these two packages. I guess this counts as an upload, as the file are on the mirror? =) I suspect that you can check mirrors every bit as easily as I can. cgf

Re: [test] base-files 3.2

2004-12-08 Thread John Morrison
Given my track record so far, Bah, given the amount of threads you participate in I think you are being too hard on yourself! I think it would be best if someone else ok'ed these. :-) As you wish :) J.

Re: [Patch] Starting X on different monitors

2004-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: This is my first patch, so I've created it for the two files updated (winprocarg.c and InitOutput.c). I've tried to keep the format the same as already there, I'm using emacs in C mode, so if the spacing is weird, blame that :) It works fine here on

RE: [Patch] Starting X on different monitors

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Fisher
Thanks! Glad I could help. Thanks for putting me right on the style and fixing the bugs. Anything else need doing? Is there a bug list / wish list I could see if I could tackle? Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald

starting cygwinx

2004-12-08 Thread Brock Denson
sorry about the newbie question. i can feel the flames coming... anyway, i have downloaded and installed cygwin and the xfree libraries via setup as per the users guide on the website. i can not find the startwin.bat or .sh files nor is the /etc/X11/xinit file present. can someone tell me

RE: starting cygwinx

2004-12-08 Thread Morche Matthias
Try startx ... but it needs xinit; all of them in /usr/X11R6/bin... matthias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... someone tell me where i can find these files and how to get an xterm window started. ...

openbox-3.2

2004-12-08 Thread Kevin Van Workum
Has anyone out there compiled openbox-3.2 on cygwin? It worked until the final step. Below is the command that it failed on and a couple of the error messages. It looks like it's not finding the right libraries, but I don't know for sure since I'm not an expert on X11. --make output-- ...

RE: starting cygwinx

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Fisher
hey, don't sweat it! i've just been getting up to speed on this after playing with x for a few years but not using it properly. here's how I do things (so I'm open to flames too!) I used to use the startx... scripts, but don't bother, it's actually really easy to do it without. 1. dead easy

Re: starting cygwinx

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:36:05PM -, Mark Fisher wrote: hey, don't sweat it! i've just been getting up to speed on this after playing with x for a few years but not using it properly. here's how I do things (so I'm open to flames too!) I used to use the startx... scripts, but don't bother,

RE: [Patch] Starting X on different monitors

2004-12-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Mark Fisher wrote: Thanks! Glad I could help. Thanks for putting me right on the style and fixing the bugs. Anything else need doing? Is there a bug list / wish list I could see if I could tackle? There is a todo list on the website.

Re: openbox-3.2

2004-12-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Kevin Van Workum wrote: Has anyone out there compiled openbox-3.2 on cygwin? It worked until the final step. Below is the command that it failed on and a couple of the error messages. It looks like it's not finding the right libraries, but I don't know for sure since I'm not an expert on X11.

Re: [Patch] Starting X on different monitors

2004-12-08 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
Also a bug list at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ zakki

Re: XWin -multiwindow and XEmacs/gnuclient -- cannot get autoraise

2004-12-08 Thread Harold Bamford
Alexander Gottwald Alexander.Gottwald at s1999.tu-chemnitz.de writes: Harold Bamford wrote: I tried this using XWin without the builtin window manager (using twm or mwm as the window manager) and then autoraise seems to work. But this is not a good environment for me as I need

Re: XWin -multiwindow and XEmacs/gnuclient -- cannot get autoraise

2004-12-08 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
X program can't change window order in multiwindow mode. winRestackWindowMultiWindow in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/winmultiwindowwindow.c /* * Calling winReorderWindowsMultiWindow here means our window manager * (i.e. Windows Explorer) has initiative to determine Z order. */

Re: Duplicate invocation problem with xwin.exe

2004-12-08 Thread Martin Gill
Ok, managed to find out what the problem was. Seems it's Zone Alarm. I had to completely uninstall it to solve the problems. Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else ever has the same problems. I've sent a note to ZA support... if they offer a solution i'll post it here. Regards Martin Gill

scroll bar (-sb)

2004-12-08 Thread Steven R. Sharp
I start the xwin server with the startxwin.bat file that comes with the package. I have made no modifications to it. I also start xterm windows with the following command: C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin xterm -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 -ls -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red -fg

Re: scroll bar (-sb)

2004-12-08 Thread Igor Furlan
Which mouse button did you try to use ? (left, middle or the right one) --- Steven R. Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I start the xwin server with the startxwin.bat file that comes with the package. I have made no modifications to it. I also start xterm windows with the following

Re: Duplicate invocation problem with xwin.exe

2004-12-08 Thread Arturus Magi
Martin Gill wrote: Ok, managed to find out what the problem was. Seems it's Zone Alarm. I had to completely uninstall it to solve the problems. Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else ever has the same problems. I've sent a note to ZA support... if they offer a solution i'll post it here.

XWin

2004-12-08 Thread Felix85
For some reason when i try to start xwindows it will say that it is already open but i havent even opened it. Here is the log file. XWin.log Description: Binary data

ls taking too long

2004-12-08 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
If a directory contains a large number of files (I have 4) where most of them are named such that the first character is a 1 and you do an ls x* where only one of the files begin with x, the ls takes an inordinate amount of time, but going to a plain dos window and dir e* is really fast. I'm

Re: uw-imap Cygwin secrets revealed, at least a bit!

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Schmidt
Christian Weinberger wrote: The initial problem was: - uw-imap on cygwin ran well with Outlook Express - but hung upon connection when using Outlook 2003 In the end I made it to get it work with the following workaround: In inetd.conf, I dont start the daemon directly, but use the following

RE: ls taking too long

2004-12-08 Thread Chris January
If a directory contains a large number of files (I have 4) where most of them are named such that the first character is a 1 and you do an ls x* where only one of the files begin with x, the ls takes an inordinate amount of time, but going to a plain dos window and dir e* is really

Re: Norton 2005 blocks? Worm trojan horses in wget and rsync

2004-12-08 Thread bob sandefur
Actually I did read the FAQ and was not concerned about the norton complaint about wget. However, the rsync complaint occurred when I was syncing 2 local machines. I will try the same rsync with a crossover cable (no internet) and see what norton sez this weekend. Bob Thread follows At 06:59

Aborting cat or tail -f on output file kills process writing to the file

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel Lamberger
Hi, In bash, I'm doing: some_process output Then, repeatedly doing: tail -f output And aborting the operation eventually crashes some_process. The problem seems to be general; it happens when using other processes, e.g. the bash script: while ((1)); do date; sleep 0.5; done And cat-ing

Re: 1.5.12: problems without registry keys

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Pendell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Korn wrote: |-Original Message- |From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Andrew Que |Sent: 07 December 2004 17:13 | | | I have a custom app. (linux or windows) I've been |compiling with cygwin for about 6 months. It use to |run fine on any

RE: 1.5.12: problems without registry keys

2004-12-08 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gary R. Van Sickle Sent: 08 December 2004 05:14 I have a custom app. (linux or windows) I've been compiling with cygwin for about 6 months. It use to run fine on any computer as long as there was a copy of

Re: 1.5.12: problems without registry keys

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:08:28PM -, Dave Korn wrote: I'm running with a fairly recent CVS build of cygwin. Maybe there was a problem at some point that is now fixed, in which case a snapshot should fix it. I'm not aware of any problems in this regard. The registry code in CVS is more

Re: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Bobby McNulty wrote: I'll try and keep myself under control from now on. Ticks me off that spam gets through the filter, and someone responds to it. How the Cygwin mailing list got that original message is strange to me. I think I know. He'll never come back. My youngest brother is officially

Re: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:21:58AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Bobby McNulty wrote: I'll try and keep myself under control from now on. Ticks me off that spam gets through the filter, and someone responds to it. How the Cygwin mailing list got that original message is strange to me. I think I

Re: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: And you think that sending his personal email to the list is the way to effect change? Not only is it bad netiquette, it doesn't portray you in a particularly positive light. I already told him not to email me. At this point it harrassment in my book. Bobby has been

FOLLOWUP: 1.5.12: problems without registry keys

2004-12-08 Thread Andrew Que
I apologise ahead of time, I could not for the life of me figure out how to send a reply to a thread. The original thread is 101373: 1.5.12: problems without registry keys In my original post, I noted not all apps crashed without the registry key. So, I tried to narrow it down. It looks

Re: sshd service wont accept password

2004-12-08 Thread Bernhard Ege
Bernhard Ege wrote: Well, I am at a loss. My sshd service will not accept my password. However, starting sshd like this: /usr/sbin/sshd and then quitting the bash shell (optional) makes sshd work just fine, accepting my password as it should. Invalid user bme from 127.0.0.1. Ok, I thought of

Re: w32api usr/include/sqlext.h bad macros

2004-12-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 08:40:59PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:02PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote: The following was rejected on cygwin-patches. I'm intentionally posting to the wrong list now because I shouldn't have to subscribe to a mailing list just to report

Suggestion to avoid cywin and X/xorg related installation problems like setup eating up all memory at ~93% progress and crashing with runtime errors like the application requested to be terminated in an unusual way

2004-12-08 Thread Emmanuel E
Hi, On a freshly installed windows xp pro sp2 machine the latest cygwin setup crashes while installing the X packages during a full install (more precisely it fails while running the xorg-devel sh script) After painfully combing through the mailing list I found the recommended solution was to

problems with cron

2004-12-08 Thread Jeff Yemin
I'm running cron as a service using cygrunsrv commands, and it seems to start ok. But it doesn't seem to be running the jobs. I put the date job in my crontab as a test, and I never see anything written to /tmp/cron.test. Here's my crontab: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and

1.5.12: ssh hangs with Windows XP SP2

2004-12-08 Thread Waiss, Garrett
Cygwin version: 1.5.12 OS: Windows XP SP2 Before applying the SP2, ssh was working fine. Now ssh will hang with this specfic case. This works: sh -c ssh -i c:/keys/id_foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'ls -l /opt/' However, putting this into a java class for instance will cause this to hang: code

Re: problems with cron

2004-12-08 Thread Robert Schmidt
Jeff Yemin wrote: I'm running cron as a service using cygrunsrv commands, and it seems to start ok. But it doesn't seem to be running the jobs. I put the date job in my crontab as a test, and I never see anything written to /tmp/cron.test. Here's my crontab: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tidy-041206-1

2004-12-08 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tidy-041206-1 is now installable from setup.exe HTML Tidy is a program to clean up and correct messy HTML pages. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. This release

Postgresql error pg_ctl stop is invoked after a postmaster -i invocation

2004-12-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, I invoked: postmaster -i -D /var/postgresql/data and was able to start and connect to my database. Since the process was made to run on the background, I wanted a way to stop it without doing a kill -9. Thus, on another instance of my shell, I invoked : pg_ctl stop -D

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.35-1

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
diffstat has been updated to version 1.35 NEWS This new upstream release fixes some memory problems detected by valgrind, and has better support for unified diffs. DESCRIPTION === diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and

RE: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] Can we now stop this off-topic clash of the titans and get back to cygwin, please? Not until somebody tells me where I can download this Army Mozilla 1.0. And don't evey try lying to me - I can read souls. ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Sorry about the rants

2004-12-08 Thread Bobby McNulty
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] Can we now stop this off-topic clash of the titans and get back to cygwin, please? Not until somebody tells me where I can download this Army Mozilla 1.0. And don't evey try lying to me - I can read souls. ;-) www.mozilla.org They have both firefox 1.0

ioctls.h not found

2004-12-08 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
When I am compiling ZSNES in cygwin. asm/ioctls.h: No such file or directory Error. Please Help Me -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Updated: tidy-041206-1

2004-12-08 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tidy-041206-1 is now installable from setup.exe HTML Tidy is a program to clean up and correct messy HTML pages. Tidy is able to fix up a wide range of problems and to bring to your attention things that you need to work on yourself. This release

Updated: diffstat-1.35-1

2004-12-08 Thread Eric Blake
diffstat has been updated to version 1.35 NEWS This new upstream release fixes some memory problems detected by valgrind, and has better support for unified diffs. DESCRIPTION === diffstat reads the output of diff and displays a histogram of the insertions, deletions, and