To ITP or not to ITP, that is the question...

2005-05-02 Thread Peter A. Castro
(With apologies... :) I have a quandry. In the process of updating some packages I maintain for Cygwin (zsh suite3270), I've found that I now require some other software to build them. One is 'ICU' (International Components for Unicode) and the other is 'yodl' (Yet oneOther Document Language).

Re: ITP: cramfs-1.1, mtd-20050419

2005-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 25 16:18, Robb, Sam wrote: cramfs: Hint : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/cramfs/setup.hint Binary : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/cramfs/cramfs-1.1-1.tar.bz2 Source : http://www.oneparticularharbor.net/cygwin/cramfs/cramfs-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 mtd:

RE: ITP: cramfs-1.1, mtd-20050419

2005-05-02 Thread Robb, Sam
I've uploaded both packages. Packaging looks ok to me and both are part of some Linux distro. Thank you, Corinna. I'll send out the announcements. -Samrobb

Re: [patch] setup dependency fix, was Re: setup.exe problem with selecting curr radio button

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: It may take me a while to comprehend the dependency code, but bugzilla-ed for now. Here is, I believe, a fix to the problem. Each packagemeta object has a Ping...

Cannot access Sun server via VNC

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello X users, I have just installed XFree, and I can access a Sun server using: XWin.exe -query host When I try to access another Sun server using Cisco VPN, only X window is shown, but I do not get any login window from the server. Is it possible to access a Sun server using VPN ? Regards,

Re: Cannot access Sun server via VNC

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Hello X users, I have just installed XFree, and I can access a Sun server using: XWin.exe -query host When I try to access another Sun server using Cisco VPN, only X window is shown, but I do not get any login window from the server. Is it possible to

Re: Cannot access Sun server via VNC

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello Alexander, Thank you very much for your quick reply. I will try your hint tonight. Regards, Marek Alexander Gottwald skrev: On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Hello X users, I have just installed XFree, and I can access a Sun server using: XWin.exe -query host When I try to access another Sun

Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello X users, I access a Sun server using: XWin.exe -query sun-host I login, and start an application in the Sun server correctly. When I start xterm using startxwin.bat, and then I start xterm to a Sun server using: xterm -e /bin/telnet sun-host I get a new xterm window from the Sun server,

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Hello X users, I access a Sun server using: XWin.exe -query sun-host I login, and start an application in the Sun server correctly. When I start xterm using startxwin.bat, and then I start xterm to a Sun server using: xterm -e /bin/telnet sun-host I

mrxvt and hotkeys

2005-05-02 Thread Markus Jung
Hi List! Thank you Scott for opening the discussion that brought up that great termial mrxvt. It supports and it's working with transparent backround without that refresh problem I had with other terms!!! YEAH!!! But theres one thing I can't get to work. The hotkeys to change tabs or

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello Alexander, Thank you very much for your reply. Following your hints, I entered in the xterm window in the PC: xterm -e ssh -Y sun-host Then a SSH window appeared in the PC: The authenticity of host 'borsen1 (a.b.c.d)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is x:y:z:... . Are you sure you

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Password: Whatever I entered as the password, the password question reappeared, and eventually the ssh window was closed. When I installed Cygwin ssh, I did not use any password. Any hints ? You are connecting to the sun server and must provide the

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello again, Following your reply below, I created an userid in the Sun server, and entered: xterm -e ssh -Y sun-host In order to test the graphical aplication in the Sun server, I closed both X windows, entered startxwin.bat in a DOS window, and entered in the first X window: xterm -e ssh -Y

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Hello again, Following your reply below, I created an userid in the Sun server, and entered: xterm -e ssh -Y sun-host In order to test the graphical aplication in the Sun server, I closed both X windows, entered startxwin.bat in a DOS window, and

RE: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Henry Camacho
I've done the following using our Sun hosts with success... ssh -Y -l root sunhost HFC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:14 AM To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cannot connect to a

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Alexander Gottwald wrote: $ ssh userid@sun-host -Y sun-host Shouldn't this be just ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ssh -Y -l userid host ? If he does the above, it will treat the second sun-host as the command to run, which is probably why the window closes. Brian

RE: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Henry Camacho wrote: I've done the following using our Sun hosts with success... ssh -Y -l root sunhost Right. But using root for doing non-administrative tasks is a high security risk. xterm -e ssh -Y userid@sun-host sun-host What does this mean: - start xterm

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: $ ssh userid@sun-host -Y sun-host Shouldn't this be just ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] or ssh -Y -l userid host ? If he does the above, it will treat the second sun-host as the command to run, which is probably why the

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hi, When I enter in the PC window: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a request for password, and I am logged into the Sun host. Then I start the graphical application in the Sun host, and I get the following error message: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. X connection to

Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Hi, When I enter in the PC window: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a request for password, and I am logged into the Sun host. Then I start the graphical application in the Sun host, and I get the following error message: X11 connection rejected because of

RE: ssh -Y not an option

2005-05-02 Thread ab2540
I will read man Xsecurity but just to re-iterate; the ssh command does not take the option -Y. I get this statement ssh: illegal option -- Y Usage: ssh [options] host [command] Sorry for the confusion I cut and pasted the wrong bit but I did repost the letter Regards Anna

Re: ssh -Y not an option

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will read man Xsecurity but just to re-iterate; the ssh command does not take the option -Y. I get this statement ssh: illegal option -- Y Usage: ssh [options] host [command] Sorry for the confusion I cut and pasted the wrong bit but I did repost the letter

RE: ssh -Y not an option

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will read man Xsecurity but just to re-iterate; the ssh command does not take the option -Y. I get this statement ssh: illegal option -- Y Usage: ssh [options] host [command] This option was introduced with OpenSSH 3.8 and is equivalent to

Re: Cannot access Sun server via VNC

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello again, I have just tried your hint using: Win.exe -query sun-host -from localip where localip is the IP address received from Cisco VPN client. Sun host IP address is a.b.c.d, and localip is a.e.f.g XWin errors off, and the contents of /tmp/XWin.log are: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor:

Re: Cannot access Sun server via VNC

2005-05-02 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 2 May 2005, a12 wrote: Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session failed Session 2 failed for display 192.168.0.3:0: Cannot open display winDeinitMultiWindowWM - Noting shutdown in progress Any hints ? It seems you're out of luck. XDMCP is a strange protocol and esp. network

Re: Cannot access Sun server via VNC

2005-05-02 Thread a12
Hello again, Following your reply below, I entered: DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then entered the password for userid. Then I received the following messages: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. tput: unknown terminal cygwin tput:

Linux @ home - Cygwin X server @ home won't work

2005-05-02 Thread seya
Hello all, I encountered a XWindow problem which I never experienced before. I'm trapped with this problem for the last four days; I need your help ( BTW I've been using XWindow with Cygwin on WinXP for few years ). [ Problem ] When I use Cygwin X server on my notebook PC at

Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

2005-05-02 Thread Lev S Bishop
cgf wrote: I thought that maybe something like: cat FIFO 42FIFO might work since that would cause cat to keep FIFO open for input and output but that just hangs on both cygwin and linux. Probably the right thing to do is: in one shell: $ cat fifo in the other shell: $ exec 6fff $ echo

RE: Can cygwin create a ramdisk which is a cygwin filesystem?

2005-05-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Deegan Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 9:11 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Can cygwin create a ramdisk which is a cygwin filesystem? Greetings, As I understand it cygwin access to NTFS is

Re: old wtf? [Was: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken]

2005-05-02 Thread zzapper
On Sun, 01 May 2005 15:23:13 +0200, wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Faylor wrote: However, that said, the above WJFFM. It *is* in the oloca but not found in command line wtf, is this expected? (e.g. a new version if waiting for some critical level of new

Help me to unsubcribe

2005-05-02 Thread giuseppe noce
Sorry I wish to ubsubscribe but I do not Know how it is possible, who help me ? thanks Giuseppe Controllato da McAfee Appliance (150) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

'Setup' selection question

2005-05-02 Thread Mills, John M.
All - I want to select packages for cygwin 'Setup' to install, and want to ensure that all dependencies for my selected packages will also be installed. It appears that, if I am in a submenu and de-select a package, it may deselect components that are required by another selected package, thus:

Re: Help me to unsubcribe

2005-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 15:05, giuseppe noce wrote: Sorry I wish to ubsubscribe but I do not Know how it is possible, who help me ? The signature of each posting to this list. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: unknown windows error 64

2005-05-02 Thread Shaffer, Kenneth
Was this a copy to a network share? That error is ERROR_NETNAME_DELETED. Yes, it was a copy from a local disk to an archive established on a share. Is there a right way to copy to a share? I've done either of the following: cp file //machine/share/directory or cd //machine/share

Re: 1.5.16-1: chmod problem

2005-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 2 07:41, Pach Roman (GS-EC/ESA4) * wrote: Hello, I have tried now using strace. The file strace.14 has been generated for cygwin-1.5.14-1, and strace.15 for cygwin-1.5.15-1. The command used was: strace chmod +w /u/tmp/yahoo /tmp/strace.15 21 The concerned part from

Re: old wtf? [Was: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken]

2005-05-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Lapo Luchini wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: However, that said, the above WJFFM. It *is* in the oloca but not found in command line wtf, is this expected? (e.g. a new version if waiting for some critical level of new acronyms?) Umm, yes, thanks for the reminder -- a

Re: Shutdown 1.7-1 problem when w2k screen is locked

2005-05-02 Thread Wheeler, Frederick W \(Research\)
On Apr 29 09:27, Wheeler, Frederick W (Research) wrote: I have found that when I Lock Computer in Windows 2000 just after running shutdown --exitex 10 then the computer does not shut down. Nothing happens. The command just exits. When the computer is not locked, shutdown

problem of __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END

2005-05-02 Thread sjtu
hi, I test a simple hello.c #include stdio.h main() {printf(Hello);} $ gcc -o hello hello.c hello.c:6:2: warning: no newline at end of file /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../libcygwin.a(pseudo-reloc. o)(.text+0x52): undefined reference to

Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

2005-05-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:52:28PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote: Jerry D. Hedden wrote: [snip] However, that said, the above WJFFM. In fact, it works more like linux in 1.5.16 than it does on 1.5.15, i.e., the cat command exits after printing

Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

2005-05-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: However, that said, the above WJFFM. In fact, it works more like linux in 1.5.16 than it does on 1.5.15, i.e., the cat command exits after printing YOUR TEXT HERE whereas it continues to block in 1.5.15. I tried the 4/30 snapshot of

Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:36:12AM -0400, Lev S Bishop wrote: On linux, both keep waiting for someone to write to the fifo. On cygwin, when the second cat tries to listen on the fifo, they both exit. I don't know how fifos are supposed to work, but I'm guessing cygwin gets it wrong here. Yes,

Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:30:40AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sun, 1 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: If you want to more-or-less duplicate the behavior of 1.5.15 you can do something like this: (echo 9; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) /tmp/FIFO This is pretty obvious from the context

Re: problem of __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:27:20PM +0800, sjtu wrote: I test a simple hello.c #include stdio.h main() { printf(Hello);} $ gcc -o hello hello.c hello.c:6:2: warning: no newline at end of file /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../libcygwin.a(pseudo-reloc. o)(.text+0x52): undefined

Newbie help compiling ATLAS

2005-05-02 Thread Studious Apprentice
Hello to all! I would like to compile ATLAS on windows thanks to the cygwin environment however I get some weird answers from the make programs... I have installed cygwin with the GCC package on Windows XP service pack 2. I am running the following commands: export BUILD_DIR=~/builds export

Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

2005-05-02 Thread Eric Blake
Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:36:12AM -0400, Lev S Bishop wrote: On linux, both keep waiting for someone to write to the fifo. On cygwin, when the second cat tries to listen on the fifo, they both exit. I don't know how

CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: When I try to run: net start sshd I get this message: The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started. The event viewer has this event: The description for Event ID (0) in Source (sshd) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message

Re: Newbie help compiling ATLAS

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Studious Apprentice wrote: I would like to compile ATLAS on windows thanks to the cygwin environment however I get some weird answers from the make programs... Seems like the manual gives you information on how to do this: http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/errata.html#WinBuild. Have you read

Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Neil Aggarwal wrote: For Install For, select Just Me This is your problem. You cannot install user mounts and then run system services, otherwise it will not see the mounts. It seems like you might have copied and pasted those steps from some website somewhere. That's precisely the

Re: problem of __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
sjtu wrote: I test a simple hello.c #include stdio.h main() {printf(Hello);} $ gcc -o hello hello.c hello.c:6:2: warning: no newline at end of file /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../libcygwin.a(pseudo-reloc. o)(.text+0x52): undefined reference to

Re: problem of __RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST_END

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:19:03PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: sjtu wrote: I test a simple hello.c #include stdio.h main() {printf(Hello);} $ gcc -o hello hello.c hello.c:6:2: warning: no newline at end of file

RE: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Brian: So, how do I change it to All Users? Just rerun the setup.exe and select the All users option? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (972)612-6056, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce operating costs by 17% or more in 6 months or

Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Sean McMahon
I for one appreciate the clarification as I sent a detailed bug-report to this person assuming they were the maintainer. My question as I've asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility of setup.exe for those of us who have to use windows via a screenreader and keyboard.

Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread jds
Sorry, my question is very basic, but I have to ask it. Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? Long Version: Basically, my problem is that when I install cygwin it gets stuck on this screen:

Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Neil Aggarwal wrote: So, how do I change it to All Users? Just rerun the setup.exe and select the All users option? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#TOC33 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Hi Sean, I'm redirecting this to the cygwin list so that we may all benefit: Is there any effort towards making setup.exe accessible? Not to my knowledge, no, which FWIW I find very unfortunate. Those of us who use a screen reading program and/or keyboard access find it impossible to use

RE: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread Reid Thompson
jds wrote: Sorry, my question is very basic, but I have to ask it. Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? Long Version: Basically, my problem is that when I install cygwin it gets stuck on this screen: are you sure it's

Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: (It would probably be a good addition for ssh-host-config to check for user mounts and bail or offer to remount them... this seems to come up a lot.) Here is a patch against ssh-host-config that checks for this. Brian--- ssh-host-config.orig2005-05-02

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean McMahon Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:57 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent I for one appreciate the

setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:57:18PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote: I for one appreciate the clarification as I sent a detailed bug-report to this person assuming they were the maintainer. My question as I've asked before is, can or is someone working on improving accessibility of setup.exe for those

Re: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 01:25:10PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: (It would probably be a good addition for ssh-host-config to check for user mounts and bail or offer to remount them... this seems to come up a lot.) Here is a patch against ssh-host-config that checks for

RE: CYGWIN sshd service could not be started

2005-05-02 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Brian: Thanks for the help. I appreciate it. Thanks Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (972)612-6056, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce operating costs by 17% or more in 6 months or less! http://newsletter.JAMMConsulting.com

RE: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread jds
Thanks for your help Reid, but... are you sure it's 'stuck' --- this might take a while: Well, I let it sit for 20 minutes and nothing happened... Try running it by hand letting it finish, then run setup again w/o selecting any more packages. Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't

Re: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
jds wrote: Maybe I don't understand you, or your don't understand me, or I'm just clueless, but what I really want to know is how to run cygwin now that it's installed, given that I don't have an icon on my desktop. I dunno, isn't the icon just a shortcut to some .exe, or is it something

Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: - I am glad that Chris' comments clarified that. Let us all hope that he applies this helpful service across the board, and not just for those who call him on his often bizarre behavior here. Well, except for the false

Re: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread jds
Ok, I guess something else must've gone wrong because I don't have a cygwin.bat file. Thanks for your help, I'll try completely deleting everything and then re-installing it. -Original Message- Date: Mon May 02 13:57:35 PDT 2005 From: Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)

2005-05-02 Thread James Renton
What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:39 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of

side effects of Cygwin's maximum memory test

2005-05-02 Thread Utku Ozcan
I *think* that the test below, which tests memory allocation limit of Cygwin *might* produce problems in Windows XP: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html In this page, I have compiled the C code, and after having run the compiled executable, Windows XP gave suddenly a

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, 20:58:44 -0500 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: As one of the many people responsible for setup... On Mon, 2 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: - I am responsible for a good portion of setup's UI. It used to be a series of dialog boxes. It is now a Wizard-style UI. I did

Re: Problem with cygwin setup

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Keener
Jds wrote: Short Version: Could someone tell me the target for the cygwin shortcut that should get installed? From what I recall it was dependent on your OS - for old Win9x OS's it was placed in Desktop and for Win2k or WinNT and the like it was placed in Documents and setting and

Re: read bug in Cygwin 1.5.16?

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Farley
Thanks Chris. I will try to test the snapshot soon, but I may have some RL events interrupting me before I can do so. I'll report back after testing. Peter --- Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:56:13PM -0700, Peter Farley wrote: Hi all, I tried to

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
-Original Message- From: Brian Ford Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:45 PM To: Gary R. Van Sickle Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, 20:58:44 -0500 Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: As one

Re: read bug in Cygwin 1.5.16?

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Farley
Thanks Brian, but I don't think support on earlier versions of cygwin is going to be an issue. There's only one other person who tried and found this same bug, so we're somewhat rara avis (rare birds). If the snapshot fix works, I can wait for the release to come out. It isn't that urgent,

RE: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Chris, Chris, Chris. I can imagine how anxious you must be, having to wait up to several full hours for my responses to your avoid-the-issue posts, but really you only have yourself to blame. We could both go on to much more productive things if you'd simply admit that you were out of line and

postgresql and sockets

2005-05-02 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Hi I am using Cygwin postgresql as my db engine for high load jboss/Hibernate web app. It works fine, but after some 10k transactions socket seems broken and I get this message: $ psql psql: could not connect to server: Bad file descriptor Is the server running locally and accepting

Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Cliff Hones
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: ... [Yet more boring vitriolic rubbish.] ... I've been on this list for a good four years now, and never ever considered setting up a filter. I came close during the fortune flamewars and I'm getting even more close now. Please, Gary and CGF, can you take your

execvp error:cygwin+make+busybox

2005-05-02 Thread John Williams
Hello, Attempting to cross-compile Busybox 1.00 under Cygwin (1.5.16-1) I am hitting an error similar to one previously reported on the Cygwin list (Jan 05): http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00657.html No resolution was posted to the list at that time. The busybox Makefile attempts to

Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:57:03AM +0100, Cliff Hones wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: ... [Yet more boring vitriolic rubbish.] ... I've been on this list for a good four years now, and never ever considered setting up a filter. I came close during the fortune flamewars and I'm getting even

mkdir -p and network drives

2005-05-02 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
According to the Cygwin Faq, * Why doesn't `mkdir -p' work on a network share? Unfortunately, you cannot do something like this: bash$ mkdir -p //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir mkdir: cannot create directory `//MACHINE': No such file or directory This is because mkdir checks for the

Re: execvp error:cygwin+make+busybox

2005-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:39:13AM +1000, John Williams wrote: Attempting to cross-compile Busybox 1.00 under Cygwin (1.5.16-1) I am hitting an error similar to one previously reported on the Cygwin list (Jan 05): http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-01/msg00657.html No resolution was posted

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

2005-05-02 Thread Moghe, Jayant
Corinna: I have been facing problems in downloading Cygwin 1.5.16. Can you please suggest a mirror site where this is available? Thank you for your help. Best regards, Jayant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent:

New Package: mtd-20050419-1

2005-05-02 Thread Robb, Sam
The mtd-20050419-1 package is now available via cygwin setup.exe. The mtd package contains utilities for dealing with flash memory technology devices (mtd). These tools can be used to create jffs2 filesystem images for embedded Linux systems. The initial source for this package was taken from

New package: cramfs-1.1-1

2005-05-02 Thread Robb, Sam
The cramfs-1.1-1 package is now available via cygwin setup.exe. The cramfs package contains utilities that can be used to create and verify Linux cramfs filesystem images. These tools cam be used to create cramfs filesystem images for embedded Linux systems. This port of cramfs is based on the