default high priority for mintty

2024-02-29 Thread Charles Russell via Cygwin
What is the easiest way to open mintty with high priority by default? Adding /High to the shortcut command string no longer seems to work in Windows 11. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-20 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/20/2020 12:51 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Charles Russell! SOLVED On 12/17/2020 3:24 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: >> in some cases I could not find any real >> issue, but deleting and recreating the rules fixed the issue. That did the trick: sim

Re: Is there an alternative to gmane for managing this mailing list?

2020-12-20 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/19/2020 4:10 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2020-12-19 00:40, Achim Gratz wrote: Charles Russell writes: My ISP (AT) currently seems to be blocking mail to news.gmane.io. Is there some other way to maintain thread coherence without subscribing to the mailing list, which would inundate my

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-18 Thread Charles Russell
SOLVED On 12/17/2020 3:24 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote: > in some cases I could not find any real > issue, but deleting and recreating the rules fixed the issue. That did the trick: simply deleting and reinstating the firewall settings for sshd solved the problem on both computers. I had

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/17/2020 3:09 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: Have you checked your new router to see what default rules are enabled there? The router firewall is disabled. (I have a another router serving as a firewall between it and the modem.) Besides, all hosts are on the local side of the new router,

Is there an alternative to gmane for managing this mailing list?

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
My ISP (AT) currently seems to be blocking mail to news.gmane.io. Is there some other way to maintain thread coherence without subscribing to the mailing list, which would inundate my inbox? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/17/2020 11:49 AM, Bill Stewart wrote: > Make sure to look carefully through all of the firewall rules and > check whether there is a rule blocking that executable or port. > Selecting "Advanced Settings" and then "incoming rules", I see one rule for sshd private: enabled, allowed and one

Re: Cygwin sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

2020-12-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/16/2020 9:37 AM, wors...@bellsouth.net wrote: > While installing a new router, I changed my local network from > 192.168.4.* to 192.168.50.*. This seems to have broken Cygwin sshd on > both of my remote computers, but only for Cygwin; sshd works fine if I > boot the remote computer from a

Re: gfortran 9.3 write format error

2020-04-18 Thread Charles Russell
Problem solved (probably). When setting out to downgrade gfortran, I found that there was a slight upgrade available - 9.3.0.1 to 9.3.0.2. I upgraded, ran "make clean" and "make test". This time it ran to completion with no error message. Seems unlikely this minor upgrade fixed a major

Re: gfortran 9.3 write format error

2020-04-18 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/18/2020 11:23 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: what compiler version are you using on Debian $ gfortran --version GNU Fortran (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0 When support ended for g77 I feared for my collection of old fortran code, but it all worked fine under gfortran after a few trivial changes that I

Re: cygwin gfortran segfaulting on valid write statements

2020-04-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/17/2020 2:46 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: Try running under strace: $ strace -o prog.strace prog -options... args... or gdb: $ gdb prog (gdb) run -options... args... SEGV diagnostics (gdb) bt (gdb) q and attach or paste all output. The

Re: cygwin gfortran segfaulting on valid write statements

2020-04-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/17/2020 2:39 PM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: in what type of statement have you the segfault ? I recently tried building and running some old fortran code using what I think is the current version of cygwin gfortran (--version reports 9.3.0) and was surprised to get a run-time

Re: sshd privsep user still required?

2019-01-17 Thread Charles Russell
On 1/17/2019 8:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 16 15:31, Bill Stewart wrote: I installed the OpenSSH server as a service using ssh-host-config, and all is working. I'm running Windows 10 (1803). I renamed the sshd privilege separation (privsep) account to something else and restarted

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-09 Thread Charles Russell
On 5/4/2017 3:31 PM, Fran Litterio wrote: You can try opening the Services Control Panel app (run "start services.msc" in a Command Prompt) and changing the startup type of service "Cygwin sshd" to "Automatic (Delayed Start)". Yes! I was looking in the alphabetized list of services for

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-06 Thread Charles Russell
On 5/4/2017 3:31 PM, Fran Litterio wrote: > On 4/28/2017 11:48 AM, Charles Russell wrote: >> Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working >> properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling >> with --type manual. >> >> (cygrunsr

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-06 Thread Charles Russell
On 5/4/2017 3:31 PM, Fran Litterio wrote: On 4/28/2017 11:48 AM, Charles Russell wrote: Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling with --type manual. (cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe

Re: Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-05-06 Thread Charles Russell
On 4/28/2017 10:48 AM, Charles Russell wrote: Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling with --type manual. (cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --type manual) After rebooting I cannot start

Installing sshd with option --type manual

2017-04-28 Thread Charles Russell
Starting from a default installation of sshd that was working properly, I tried uninstalling sshd with cygrunsrv and reinstalling with --type manual. (cygrunsrv --install sshd --path /usr/sbin/sshd.exe --type manual) After rebooting I cannot start sshd with cygrunsrv. Instead, I get message

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: pal 0.4.3-1 -- A cal-like calendar with day highlight and support for events

2016-06-12 Thread Charles Russell
What is this "update"? The cited homepage shows no updates since 2008 ("browse all files"). The green button shows last update 2013, but the version number is identical to that of 2008. The last entry in the cited changelog is 2008. I find pal useful, and if someone is actively maintaining

Re: Compiling for native Windows

2015-12-14 Thread Charles Russell
On 12/14/2015 8:16 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 14/12/2015 15:06, sisyph...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, Last time I built gmp on Cygwin for Windows it was using gcc-3.4.5 - and was, I think, done as a cross-compilation involving the -mno-cygwin option. Am I right in thinking that the days of

How to read thumb drive volume label

2011-03-14 Thread Charles Russell
Is there some way to read the volume label on a USB flash drive? Something like blkid in linux? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

dd to thumb drive, W7 permission problem

2011-03-14 Thread Charles Russell
The following works on Windows XP, but fails on Windows 7, apparently because of some permission setting (even in Administrator mode). # dd if=binary.img of=/dev/sdb dd: writing to `/dev/sdb': Permission denied 3+0 records in 2+0 records out 1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.081 s, 12.6 kB/s I

ccrypt package upgrade requested

2011-03-05 Thread Charles Russell
ccrypt version 1.9 builds out-of-the box on Cygwin, so if anyone maintains this package the upgrade should be trivial. There are some useful new features. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

recursive scp and directory permissions

2010-11-29 Thread Charles Russell
When I use scp -r for recursive copy from Win7 to a remote XP machine, the properties for the new directory show the message The permissions on ... are incorrectly ordered ... This is for a simple test case. For an attempted network backup, the process hung up, and I could get access to the

Re: Accessing remote PC (ssh?)

2007-03-15 Thread Charles Russell
* From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) Charles D. Russell wrote: snip What I am getting, with a formerly working installation, is: $ ssh sony06 ssh: sony06: no address associated with name snip This is likely a DNS/DHCP problem (i.e. not a Cygwin problem). What do you get when you

RE: Accessing remote PC (ssh?)

2007-03-15 Thread Charles Russell
* From: Dave Korn On 15 March 2007 18:05, Charles D. Russell wrote: Dave Korn wrote: **as an attachment please** __ I tried, really. Before sending, I looked through the Thunderbird