Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
Ping. Thanks, Andrew. # 1.5 B=http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/1.5/screen/ wget \ ${B}/setup.hint \ ${B}/screen-4.0.3-3.tar.bz2 \ ${B}/screen-4.0.3-3-src.tar.bz2 # 1.7 B=http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/screen/ wget \ ${B}/setup.hint \ ${B}/screen-4.0.3-4.tar.bz2

Re: [RFU] [1.7] lftp

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
Ping. Thanks, Andrew. I have a new upstream release of lftp, with several bug fixes. Please upload, leaving 3.7.14-1 as the previous release and removing 3.7.6-4. Thanks, Andrew. wget \ http://home.comcast.net/~andrex2/cygwin/lftp/lftp-3.7.15-1.tar.bz2 \

Re: [RFU] [1.7] lftp

2009-08-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 25/08/2009 11:07, Andrew Schulman wrote: I have a new upstream release of lftp, with several bug fixes. Please upload, leaving 3.7.14-1 as the previous release and removing 3.7.6-4. Thanks for the update. Done and done; please announce. Yaakov

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 25/08/2009 15:29, Andrew Schulman wrote: I have a new release of screen, that supports 256-color terminals. The 256 color support hasn't been well tested yet, so I'm providing this as a test release in order to get reports from users. So, the setup.hint file will need to be updated. Your

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
Your setup.hint's list libncurses8 as a dependency. Should that be libncurses9 instead? 1.7: Yes, thanks. I've corrected and reuploaded all of the files. Please reupload. 1.5: I'm not really sure since I no longer have a working 1.5 installation, and have no intention of recreating one.

Re: [RFU] screen

2009-08-31 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 31/08/2009 14:02, Andrew Schulman wrote: 1.7: Yes, thanks. I've corrected and reuploaded all of the files. Please reupload. Done. 1.5: I'm not really sure since I no longer have a working 1.5 installation, and have no intention of recreating one. I did warn on the cygwin list that

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-08-31 Thread Karl M
From: thorsten Subject: RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:40:12 +0200 * Karl M (Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:14:59 -0700) On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07:29PM -0700, Karl M wrote: I just verified, this does no happen with Cygwin 1.5. I'll bet B20 was even better. It

Re: 1.7: setup fails to complete download; all later attempts fail

2009-08-31 Thread Lee D. Rothstein
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 08/30/2009 11:15 PM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Setup failed to complete the download on an attempt to update. Yet, the install continued until that failed as well. What do you mean by this? Define failed. Clarify how setup failed... yet, the install

Re: Cannot initialize bash shell after Cygwin 1.5.24 install

2009-08-31 Thread Dave Korn
Doug Ruff wrote: I installed using my domain user account (dougruff), and when the installation completed, I was able to launch a bash shell in my login session without any problems. But as soon as another user logs into this system and starts Cygwin bash, they are greeted with an

Re: 1.7: setup fails to complete download; all later attempts fail

2009-08-31 Thread Dave Korn
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Setup failed to complete the download on an attempt to update. Now, the same thing happens every try. It doesn't fail at the same point each time. It doesn't fail at the same point using the same source server. Sometimes it will get 98% through and then fail. Some

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
Cygwin (1.7 -- 1.5 is useless due to non-existent locale/UTF-8 support, although 1.7 doesn't shine in that either) was up to just a few weeks ago in a completely unusable state, because fg was broken, in addition to the X server, which has been unreliable for a couple of months now,

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Andrew Schulman schulman.and...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: Cygwin (1.7 -- 1.5 is useless due to non-existent locale/UTF-8 support, although 1.7 doesn't shine in that either) was up to just a few weeks ago in a completely unusable state, because fg was broken, in addition to the X

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
I don't know how to reproduce it. It just sometimes happens. What terminal are you using? Not DOS by any chance? /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin warns that if you're using a DOS terminal, you must set CYGWIN=tty before starting your terminal, or you'll have problems resuming screen

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Charles Wilson
Tuomo Valkonen wrote: There. (No attachments: using slrn.) Great! Now, every time someone searches the cygwin archives for 'xrdb', they'll find your message. I'm sure that will be quite helpful. If you can't send attachments using slrn, and this list specifically requests that cygcheck results

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Charles Wilson cyg...@cwilson.fastmail.fm wrote: If you can't send attachments using slrn, and this list specifically requests that cygcheck results be sent as attachments, you had two choices: 1) deliberately send inline, ignoring list policy 2) use a different email

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/31/2009 12:14 PM, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: Potential app conflicts: ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Have you ruled out BLODA? See http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: Have you ruled out BLODA? See All I can say is that things used to work fine until a cygwin update less than a week ago, which did install new cygwin dlls. After that I have had screen hang a couple of times. -- Tuomo -- Problem reports:

RE: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size

2009-08-31 Thread Karl M
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:08:57 -0400 From: cgf Subject: Re: FW: Cygwin 1.7 ssh and window size On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 09:07:29PM -0700, Karl M wrote: Hi All... I just verified, this does no happen with Cygwin 1.5. I'll bet B20 was even better. It also still happens with the

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Andrew Schulman schulman.and...@epamail.epa.gov wrote: I don't know how to reproduce it. It just sometimes happens. What terminal are you using? Puttycyg, as I've already mentioned. -- Stop Gnomes and other pests! Purchase Windows today!

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Tuomo Valkonen tuo...@iki.fi wrote: On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: Have you ruled out BLODA? See All I can say is that things used to work fine until a cygwin update less than a week ago, which did install new cygwin dlls. After that I have had screen

News on rsync/ssh hang up?

2009-08-31 Thread Javier Sedano
Hi, I'm having a problem with rsync over ssh: it randomly hangs. I had been using it for many years with a couple of scripts to backup my laptops, but currently it randomly hangs (1). I've been searching the mailing list, and seems that some other people is also suffering, and some

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: lftp

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 3.7.15-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with several bug fixes. Please see /usr/share/doc/lftp/README.Cygwin and http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the full changelog. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/31/2009 2:28 PM, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown x...@xxx.xxx wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Have you ruled out BLODA? See All I can say is that things used to work fine until That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see if your problems are caused by BLODA? Is it too much trouble to disable or uninstall ZoneAlarm to see if that helps? Don't have such a thing installed. Another

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown kbr...@cornell.edu wrote: That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see if your problems are caused by BLODA? Is it too much trouble to disable or uninstall ZoneAlarm to see if that helps? Don't have such a thing installed. Another

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of the screen package (4.0.3-3 for Cygwin 1.5, 4.0.3-4 for Cygwin 1.7) is now available in the Cygwin distribution. screen is a terminal multiplexer and window manager that runs several separate 'screens' on a single physical character-based terminal. Each virtual terminal emulates

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:09:25PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-08-31, Ken Brown x...@xxx.xxx wrote: That's an interesting response. Aren't you interested in trying to see if your problems are caused by BLODA? Is it too much trouble to disable or uninstall ZoneAlarm to see if that

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Tuomo Valkonen
On 2009-08-31, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com wrote: It is very rude to ignore a request not to quote an email address. Please do not do this again. It's very rude to make such lame requests. What is it for? Spam? The address is glaring there bright in

Re: GNU screen hangs

2009-08-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:22:43PM +, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: On 2009-08-31, Christopher Faylor wrote: It is very rude to ignore a request not to quote an email address. Please do not do this again. It's very rude to make such lame requests. What is it for? Spam? The address is glaring there

Re: News on rsync/ssh hang up?

2009-08-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 08/31/2009 02:58 PM, Javier Sedano wrote: Is there any (good) news that my search could not found? Any plan for 1.7? It's been a while since we've been through this so I have to admit I don't recall whether the spot causing the trouble has been touched in 1.7. However, if you'd like to take

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: screen, now with 256-color support!

2009-08-31 Thread Andy Koppe
Andrew Schulman: Instructions for starting screen with 256 color support are in /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin.  In brief, you have to invoke screen as TERM=screen-256color screen I don't think that's quite right. Screen needs to be told what terminal it is itself running in. This means

[1.7] Updated: lftp

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 3.7.15-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This is a new upstream release, with several bug fixes. Please see /usr/share/doc/lftp/README.Cygwin and http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the full changelog. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http