Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread Morgan Gangwere
/!\ WOOGA WOOGA /!\ Possible Stupid human Error! /!\ OOOPS OOOPS /!\ if the copy of xp is new enough, its got a funky little tool called the Windows Malware Detection And removal Tool (a freind of mine who is an MS MVP has had the same problem as you just under a different circumstance.) I took

Re: syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 12 18:22, Tony Benham wrote: > I've decided to run syslog-ng on my cygwin installation. I updated to latest > version 2.0.5.1. When I run syslog-ng-config I get four errors > setfacl : illegal acl entries > > Is this to be expected ? All four setfacl calls try to add the SYSTEM user to fi

syslog-ng-config errors

2007-11-12 Thread Tony Benham
I've decided to run syslog-ng on my cygwin installation. I updated to latest version 2.0.5.1. When I run syslog-ng-config I get four errors setfacl : illegal acl entries Is this to be expected ? I then modified syslog-ng.conf to change root group to Administrators as I don't have a root group in

RE: xargs: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2007-11-12 Thread Jose Correia
Damn formatting, the greps are each on a separate line. I did some more research and via Google I found that the recently installed Logitech Webcam software might be clashing with it, I disabled it and so far ok, will let u know. The mailing list search did not return anything when I searched

xargs: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2007-11-12 Thread Jose Correia
Hi all Im using cygin install when the cygwin install version 2.457.2.2 on Windows XP professional SP2, on an IBM ThinkPad Dual Processor T60. I run a unix script from a bigger ant script, which used to work fine on a single processor laptop. Now it works intermittently The Unix script is th

Re: Starting Excel from crontab

2007-11-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I like to use only one scheduler under window. And I like to use crontab for that. The problem is that if I start excel from the crontab no window of excel is shown. Excel is running. I can see it in the process list. The process is running under my name. Di

Starting Excel from crontab

2007-11-12 Thread cygwin . 20 . maillinglist
Hi folks, I like to use only one scheduler under window. And I like to use crontab for that. The problem is that if I start excel from the crontab no window of excel is shown. Excel is running. I can see it in the process list. The process is running under my name. Thank for any help Franz IM

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread René Berber
Thomas Baker wrote: [snip] > However, the other problem (see below) has occurred -- > sporadically -- on three different machines, all running > German or English-language versions of XP, two with SATA > disks and one with an ATA disk, all with freshly downloaded > installations of cygwin.[snip]

Re: Reliable old script loses data on new Cygwin installation

2007-11-12 Thread Thomas Baker
René Berber wrote: > [snip] > > I have searched FAQs and mailing lists for problems with > > "timeout" and the like but find nothing obviously relevant. > [snip] > > I have seen that problem and it has nothing to do with Cygwin. The > problem is with SATA drives and Window's asynchronous unbuffer