Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Michael Giroux
Is there an alternative to XDCMP that I could try to see if that protocol is causing the problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ:

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Michel, One alternative you could try is ssh-ing to the host you want to run the programs on and invoking the programs directly and comparing the graphics-update performance. In essence this means issuing the following command: ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] program The 'Y' parameter

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Michael Giroux
Thanks for the tip. I was able to use the ssh, but that generated errors on the console (below). Before running the ssh command, I started xwin, but perhaps I need to specify some options? Michael (eclipse:29698): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (eclipse:29698):

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Michael, I am assuming you are invoking the ssh connection from a graphical xterm window, it won't work from a console-mode bash prompt. Other than that, it might mean that X forwarding is not enabled on the host you are connecting to. For the record, I just tried the

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Jean-Claude Gervais schrieb: The IS a drawback though, it doesn't give you the full desktop with the background and everything you might be looking for, but in practice the things you really want are the apps, anyway. That is not true, if you tunnel through ssh you can easily start kde, gnome

Re: Xdmcp too slow with SOME Linux accounts.

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Jean-Claude Gervais schrieb: Michael, I am assuming you are invoking the ssh connection from a graphical xterm window, it won't work from a console-mode bash prompt. It will if you set DISPLAY right before starting ssh. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: xterm changed from german to english

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Sebastian Posch schrieb: I have a german WindowsXP installation with a german keyboard. Since yesterday all of a sudden I get only english input in xterm. y is z, - is / ... I still have german input in bash and DOS prompt, so I tried restarting the X server and reinstalling xterm, but it

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
Keep things on the list please. Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run rsh any_unix_machine, I am now logged into a unix box, now I run rsh terminal_server_name, I am now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work, attached are 2 snapshots. so you have terminal-server

Re: xterm changed from german to english

2007-09-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Holger Krull wrote: Sebastian Posch schrieb: I have a german WindowsXP installation with a german keyboard. Since yesterday all of a sudden I get only english input in xterm. y is z, - is / ... I still have german input in bash and DOS prompt, so I tried restarting the X server and

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-12 Thread xerces8
Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Keep things on the list please. Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run rsh any_unix_machine, I am now logged into a unix box, now I run rsh terminal_server_name, I am now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't work, attached

Re: Windows GUI apps from xterm

2007-09-12 Thread Holger Krull
xerces8 schrieb: Holger Krull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : Keep things on the list please. Now from the same cygwin shell, if I run rsh any_unix_machine, I am now logged into a unix box, now I run rsh terminal_server_name, I am now back on the terminal server. Now if I run calc, it doesn't

Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Ivarson
Gregg Reynolds schrieb: On 9/7/07, Richard Ivarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, until now I've to do these steps: cadaver https://my_webdav.site.com this asks for username and password, then enters cadaver's command mode there I've to enter: * mget the_files * quit If all you're

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Ivarson
Richard Ivarson schrieb: [..] A) *wget* Fetching the files with wget works: wget --user=NAME --password=PASS https://webdavserver.com/folder/fileAA.txt I've seen two handicaps: 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the script [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Holden
Richard Ivarson wrote: Richard Ivarson schrieb: [..] A) *wget* Fetching the files with wget works: wget --user=NAME --password=PASS https://webdavserver.com/folder/fileAA.txt I've seen two handicaps: 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the script [..]

Re: gcc-dw2? or fast sjlj-exceptions EH

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tatsuro MATSUOKA on 9/11/2007 9:58 PM: Dear Eric No need to write me personally - I read the lists. However, I cannot understand the sjlj-exception was adopted in the cygwin gcc and mingw gcc of the current version. To rehash this

Re: gcc-dw2? or fast sjlj-exceptions EH

2007-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 07:23:06AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Tatsuro MATSUOKA on 9/11/2007 9:58 PM: Dear Eric No need to write me personally - I read the lists. However, I cannot understand the sjlj-exception was adopted in the cygwin gcc and mingw gcc of the current version. To

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Richard Ivarson wrote: I've seen two handicaps: 1) I want to use a script so I don't want to store the password in the script file. Ommiting --password doesn't ask for it, however. 'ask for password' is planned in a future release of wget (probably the next-to-next release). -- Matthew

Re: cron

2007-09-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Alexander Polson wrote: cronbug.txt Hi I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync utility, and triggering this process using cron. Over the last 2 years I found more and more machines in my department for which I can not get cron to work anymore, and forcing this

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Richard Ivarson
Steve Holden schrieb: [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD https://webdavserver.com/folder/{fileAA,fileBB,fileCC,fileDD,fileEE,}.txt -O -O -O -O -O ... I forgot to mention: In contrast to A)1) with curl you can ommit the :PASSWORD in the script. The curl then nicely asks for it at runtime. I

cron

2007-09-12 Thread Alexander Polson
cronbug.txt Hi I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync utility, and triggering this process using cron. Over the last 2 years I found more and more machines in my department for which I can not get cron to work anymore, and forcing this backup to be done manually.

sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread John J. Culkin
Hello I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file. The files are owned by the SFTP user. Any Ideas? Thanks, -- John C. -- John J.

RE: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Jeff Hawk
-Original Message- From: On Behalf Of Richard Ivarson Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 9:42 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget Steve Holden schrieb: [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD

RE: Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Richard Ivarson wrote on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:42 AM: Steve Holden schrieb: [..] curl --user NAME:PASSWORD https://webdavserver.com/folder/{fileAA,fileBB,fileCC,fileDD,fileEE, }.txt -O -O -O -O -O ... I forgot to mention: In contrast to A)1) with curl you can omit the

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
John J. Culkin wrote: Hello I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file. The files are owned by the SFTP user. Any Ideas? No ideas but a

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andrew DeFaria (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:58 -0700) John J. Culkin wrote: I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file. The files are

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Richard Ivarson wrote: Just great. How I love these Unix tools - and Cygwin which makes Windows useable. And of course the people helping each other. Btw, I still got two small questions: 1) Is there a simpler way than the five -O's I used? Would a wildcard be possible (didn't find a

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Thorsten Kampe wrote: No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have over say... scp? You can use your favourite FTP client, right?! No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. Brian -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Brian Dessent (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:38:51 -0700) Thorsten Kampe wrote: No ideas but a question. What is sftp good for? I mean what does it have over say... scp? You can use your favourite FTP client, right?! No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp.

Send keystrokes to an XP window

2007-09-12 Thread Rlambert
I found a module (Win32::GUI) on the Internet. It looks like it can be used to send keystrokes to an XP window? Can it be installed on CYGWIN? If so, how do you do it? If not, is there some other module that can be used in CYGWIN to send keystrokes to an XP window? Thanks. -- View this

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Thorsten Kampe wrote: No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. Aah, you mean I'm only dreaming when I connect to my ssh server with my favourite commandline FTP clients like lftp and yafc? Time to stop taking all these heavy hallucinogens... Sigh. No, it

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Brian Dessent (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:50:07 -0700) Thorsten Kampe wrote: No, that's ftps. sftp is a protocol on top of a ssh session like scp. Aah, you mean I'm only dreaming when I connect to my ssh server with my favourite commandline FTP clients like lftp and yafc? Time to stop

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Thorsten Kampe wrote: I didn't imply that - by pure magic - any FTP client is also able to speak SFTP. By the way that's also true for FTPS, right?! You may not have meant to imply that, but you said you can use your favorite FTP client without any further qualification whatsoever. Someone

Re: Win32Core module question

2007-09-12 Thread Reini Urban
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: On Mon, September 10, 2007 12:34 pm, Reini Urban wrote: John Neil schrieb: Thanks. For now I installed the previous version of the Cygwin perl-libwin32 package, but I agree there should be some way to access the non-core Win32 routines that were previously

Re: gcc-dw2? or fast sjlj-exceptions EH

2007-09-12 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dear Christopher Faylor Unless there is something new to be added, can we now give this topic a rest? It seems like we may be starting to loop. Thank you for your suggestion. I agree with you. I appreciate again all who replied on this topic. FinaliyI hope again this problem will be

RE: Re: Webdav cadaver: script possible?

2007-09-12 Thread Stepp, Charles
I'm a unix sysadmin/oracle DBA. For me, Expect is the killer app of Cygwin, even over the X server. Get the O'Reilly Expect book by Don Libes. It is a treasure trove of Unix knowledge as well as Expcect/TCL. Check out the autoexpect script. You may have to find it somewhere to install it into the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: coreutils-6.9-5

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.9-5, previously available as experimental, is now promoted to current, replacing 6.9-4 and leaving 6.7-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It attempts to add some case-insensitivity smarts to mv,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: diffstat-1.45-1

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.45-1, is available, replacing 1.44-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the changes since 1.44 are: 04-Sep-2007 diffstat 1.45 add -b option (Debian #379380,

wxPython build

2007-09-12 Thread Steve Holden
Does anyone have a ready-made recipe for building wxPython (and, if necessary, wxWidgets) under Cygwin? I'd like to use the msw back-end rather than the gtk back-end. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com

Re: Send keystrokes to an XP window

2007-09-12 Thread Morgan Gangwere
is it a c++ library or what? we need more information. if its a native windows library then it should be trivial to move things to cygwin... On 9/12/07, Rlambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found a module (Win32::GUI) on the Internet. It looks like it can be used to send keystrokes to an XP

Re: cron

2007-09-12 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) To: cygwin Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:58 AM Subject: Re: cron | Alexander Polson wrote: | cronbug.txt Hi | | I have been using cygwin on windows to do daily backups with the rsync | utility, and triggering this process

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Andrew DeFaria (Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:48:58 -0700) John J. Culkin wrote: I am seeing an issue with Cygwin's sftp. It seems that after I upload a file that overwrites an existing file, the writable bit is removed. This prevents me from uploading a new version of the file.

Updated: coreutils-6.9-5

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of coreutils, 6.9-5, previously available as experimental, is now promoted to current, replacing 6.9-4 and leaving 6.7-2 as previous. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It attempts to add some case-insensitivity smarts to mv,

Updated: diffstat-1.45-1

2007-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of diffstat, 1.45-1, is available, replacing 1.44-1 as current. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. From the CHANGES file, the changes since 1.44 are: 04-Sep-2007 diffstat 1.45 add -b option (Debian #379380,