Re: windows-to-windows openssh buffering issue

2011-06-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/19/2011 4:36 AM, Nathan Ridge wrote: What I meant was, is it possible to write a different SSH server implementation for windows - perhaps a native one - that doesn't suffer from this problem? (And if so, do you know of one?)

Re: Pining Cygwin in Windows 7?

2011-02-27 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Try installing mintty, then launching   C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe - (e.g. with the argument '-') as your pin. (I don't know much about W7, but at least you'd be starting an executable instead of a batch file). -- Chuck You don't need

Re: Network drives ssh access

2010-08-24 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:49 PM -0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I've yet to get net use to work for me via cygwin. net use Z: \\W.X.Y.Z\Share password Use forward slash or escape the back-slashes. So, you'd try net use Z:

Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7

2010-08-12 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Stern wrote: I had uninstalled the total cygwin package by deleting all the directories made for this software, because cygwin did not show in the list of installed programs in the Control Panel utility Programs Features in Windows 7 OS. After the

Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7

2010-08-12 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
The directory D:\Cplus I created during setup. the \dev\ directory was created by the installation along with the file named nul. Is it possible that setup misnamed this file nul when it should have reflected the POSIX \dev\null WIN32 substitute? Also, in my last email I listed some errors

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion

2010-08-05 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin)  wrote:  ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR  Thanks. Without concrete advice that

Re: Resizing problem

2010-07-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: I'd say offer tutorials and guides that include known issues. This is very common in other OS projects. Do some hand-holding on-line. Don't patronize people. And no, man pages are not suited for newbies as guides or tutorials. They're for

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

2010-07-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Monte Cabet wrote: I always hear some applications thrown out there that you should have to build software from source like gcc and vim, but is there a more complete list of what is required? I built up somewhat of a list for myself to track what I've

Re: runas, su, sudo

2010-07-15 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lukas Haase wrote: Hi, Is there any (working) way to change privileges in cygwin? Regards, Luke Try this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su It tells you to use s...@localhost but has a link to some mailing list archives that explain

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

2010-07-15 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ernest Mueller wrote: Michael, did you ever find a fix for this?  I had to give up on cygwin on the Amazon 64-bit and instead cobbled together freesshd and random freewares. Larry or others - what's the right way to report this as a bug?  I think working on

Re: Mirrors

2010-07-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tekerman Romanov wrote: Hi, I'm not able to find e-mail where I could ask Sourcemaster is also the place to send requests to be added to this list. Who is this sourcemaster? Thank you. Hello Tekerman, The mirror page on the site cygwin.com asks you to send a

Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5

2010-07-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, philippe wrote: Jeremy Bopp a écrit : [...] However, if rxvt used to work for you under Cygwin 1.5, you might be able to make it happy again by changing your LANG setting to LANG=C. No, i don't know where to modify this option LANG :-) I highly recommend

Re: Using cron with network share

2010-06-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now warns about using W32-style paths.

Re: Fortune and the fortune startrek command

2010-06-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Alexander T wrote: Lets all say it together One more time Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it Close enough. Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would say so. I don't mind jokes and hints, but I must

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

2010-06-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ken wrote: I was of the understanding that junctions were not supported over a CIFS share (my ultimate target; as with 1.5x).  Perhaps you have information to the contrary? Since I have to manage the Win XP side for the foreseeable future, it appears that I

Re: 'cp' utility bug when dest-name.exe file exist.

2010-06-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, risin...@nationwide.com wrote: I disagree.  This seems to me to be adopting the Microsoft policy of doing the user's thinking for them:  I don't care what they want - we know what's best for them.  If a person wants to have foo and foo.exe in the same

Re: command not found-For All Commands

2010-06-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I am very suspicious of anything that Windows 7 might suggest with respect to Cygwin. On what basis does Win 7 claim that Cygwin was not installed correctly, and how on earth can Win 7 hope to correct this for you? I would suggest un-installing Cygwin, then from Cygwin setup once again

Re: can't find documentation on cron command

2010-03-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: I've delayed many months for installing the /usr/sbin/cron.exe command.  Mainly due to lack of documentation. Are you saying that 'man cron' and 'man crontab' don't do anything for you? Install cron and you get man 1 cron man 5 crontab

Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter

2010-03-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Francis Litterio wrote: I notice that setfacl does not change the ACLs of a file when given a pathname starting with a drive letter (e.g., c:/temp/zzz), but it will work when given a UNIX-style pathname (e.g., /cygdrive/c/temp/zzz).  Example below.  Is this a

Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter

2010-03-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
But it used to work.  I noticed this after updating to the latest release. If the drive-letter form of the pathname is not acceptable to the tool, it should complain, but (like most Cygwin utilities) it probably doesn't care about the syntax of the pathname, as long as open(2) accepts it.

Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups

2010-03-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Wes Barris wrote: mkpasswd -d would return all of the domain users (we have thousands). However, I know that these files are not owned by anyone else. The files in question are coming from a samba share (mapped network drive) served from a Linux system. Isn't

Re: Setup.exe does not work.

2010-02-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Stafford wrote: All, I downloaded and ran setup.exe. I have Windows Vista x64. I get to the part that wants to pick a download site. None are listed, it should automatically find the sites for me. Anyways, I go back to your site, find a mirror then

Re: Is it possible to use any of the cygwin programs without changing registry?

2010-02-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM, breako wrote: Hi, so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on your file system and would also I presume update your registry. I'd like to do be able to run some simple cygwin programs such as grep and ls without having to

Re: Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: Folks: I'm still having problems getting these .bat files to work under MS scheduler.  Okay, I have swore off .bat files and have installed cron.  No more interactions between MS-DOS and Cygwin scripting.  These scripts are totally cygwin

Re: Questions regarding windows 7 installation

2010-01-11 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Jerry Lowry wrote: I have installed Cygwin 1.7 twice on my windows 7 laptop.  Each time it installs fine but when I try to run the X server it leaves three different X windows open as well as an Xterm itself.  Is this the default behavior on 1.7?  I really

Re: Vista and CYGWIN telnet

2010-01-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
2010/1/8 Gareth Payne gpa...@progress.com: Hi,  SYSTEM    3304    1572   ?  20:04:40 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng ^ syslog-ng is running. Does anything show up in /var/log/messages? Also Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html What documentation did you follow to get sshd and inetd

Re: The need for cygwin

2010-01-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages

Updating the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin

2009-12-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Does anyone on the list keep an eye on the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin? It is where you would expect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin for the English Wikipedia. It has the current version as 1.5.25-15 / 14 June 2008. Someone with a better understanding of the fundamental changes may want to

Re: Front end suggestions for Cygwin?

2009-12-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Rogelio wrote: Does anyone have any good front end suggestions for Cygwin? (I'm really spoiled by apps like PuTTY which automatically put whatever you select on the clipboard.  Ideally, however, the app would have a few more features than something like

Re: Executing ready compiled C program using bash shell

2009-12-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jasmit Kaur wrote: I have recently downloaded cygwin. I am trying to run a ready compiled C binary program using bash shell...I get the following error...cannot execute binary file - any suggestions? Thanks Jasmit -- First, welcome to Cygwin. Second,

Re: 1.7 - what's the right way to start X?

2009-12-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) writes: On 12/03/2009 04:07 PM, Fredrik Staxeng wrote: What is the recommended/preferred way to start X in 1.7? In 1.5 I used a modified version of startxwin.bat. And where do I put my .xinitrc/.xsession script?

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add,

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

2009-12-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygw 0/tty2W0(2)$ echo $PATH /home/lmaschm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/c/WINDOWS

Re: psexec does not work under cygwin-X

2009-11-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Hemal Pandya wrote: Hello, It seems psexec (from sysinternals) does not work correctly under cygwin-X. If I run it at the bash prompt in a command window it completes normally but from a rxvt or xterm window it stops after the first line of output from the

Re: [1.7] su

2009-11-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, wrote: Is su supposed to work?  When I try from an unprivileged account I get: I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ and user guide. Here you are told that it doesn't work. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su

Re: 'ls' not finding owner/group of some files created by other user

2009-11-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM, aputerguy wrote: This is a weird one. If I use a non-cygwin program such as 'edit' or 'ntemacs' to create a file under userA, say 'test', then when I list under user A, I get as expected: -rwxr--r--+ 1 userA None 0 2009-11-14 19:00 test* However, when I

Re: Cygrunsrv behaviour triggers Anti-Virus Program

2009-11-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/13 Jacob Jacobson: Output of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 11/13/2009 1:03:09 PM   C:\WIN\CYGWIN\BIN\CYGRUNSRV.EXE Process is trying to inject into another process. This behavior is typical of some malicious programs

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-64

2009-11-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, Bugfixes: = - Fix a regression in cygserver which made it non-functional. Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer                                

Re: Finding junction points in cygwin

2009-11-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:46 PM, aputerguy wrote: More generally, could someone point me to a single source that can accurately compare and contrast the following notions of links in cygwin/windoze: 1. Hard links (ln) 2. Soft links (ln -s)    - Old style    - New style 3. Windows

Re: Bash - IF Statement

2009-10-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:10 PM, briglass111 wrote: What is wrong with you people? What is the desire to continue posting in this thread? I am a relatively inexperienced cygwin/unix user who had an honest question and you people got so chafed up by it. If you are so insulted or annoyed by my

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. I tried it with: $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test # file:

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

2009-10-13 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. I tried it with: $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test # file:

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

2009-09-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Combs wrote: I just now installed 1.7. Where *is* everything? bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. So, just how beta is 1.7.  Alpha? Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more for me to install by hand? Oh, someone

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

2008-10-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Herb Maeder wrote: On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, Manning, Sid wrote: -= lots and lots of things snipped =- Has anyone else gotten Herb's message 5 times (so far)? Or is it just me? -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: install assumes.exe extension?

2008-10-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part about install as distributed with Cygwin. I'm building Lua, an MIT licensed scripting language. Part of the lua make install process calls install as follows: cd src install -p -m

Re: dd, physical devices, Compact flash, Permission denied

2008-09-25 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Krisitian Ivanov wrote: Hi, I have a problem restoring a image back to a new CF card. I am using the last Cygwin on Windows XP. I mounted the CF card : mount -s -b //./I: /dev/cflash See if this helps:

Re: End of support for 9x

2008-08-27 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Terry Dabbs wrote: It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that were written for those

Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

2008-06-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Wiedmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin? unzip Unfortunately the unzip command is not available in my Cygwin environment. If I try to call

Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ronald Fischer wrote: I can't fetch anything from the web using wget (Connection timed out). My guess is that it has to do with the proxy settings, but: - my environment variable HTTP_PROXY is set, and - from a Windows command line (i.e. outside of Cygwin),

Re: Can't configure sshd

2008-04-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM, JR wrote: Thanks! I changed mirrors and setup downloaded a new version of openssh... The script ran fine after. Is there any known conflict between RealVNC server with encryption on and Cygwin/Openssh? After I got the sshd installed my RealVNC client

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

2008-03-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere wrote: Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the

Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt

2008-03-15 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Suan wrote: DePriest, Jason R. jrdepriest at gmail.com writes: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan wrote: Jerry D. Hedden jdhedden at cpan.org writes: my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button. Pressing the left and right

Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt

2008-03-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan wrote: Jerry D. Hedden jdhedden at cpan.org writes: my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button. Pressing the left and right mouse buttons at the same time has the same effect. I read that somewhere earlier and tried itdoesn't work

Re: Unable to get Setup to work...

2008-02-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Feb 8, 2008 11:29 PM, Mel Rosso-Llopart wrote: Every attempt to get setup to work has failed. Either I get an empty directory tree for cygwin on my C: drive or setup aborts with the tradition XP failure window to send a message to Microsoft. Some interesting symptoms: 1) Dr. Watson also

Re: setup.exe link down

2008-02-05 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Feb 5, 2008 1:20 PM, Christopher Stack wrote: hi all, the setup.exe (install or update now!) link is currently not working and hasn't been since at least 10a yesterday (01/04/08). i consistently get a peer reset page instead. i've tried this from multiple locations, so i don't think

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Jan 30, 2008 6:57 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: paul.hermeneutic wrote: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd I appreciate the links, but I already know how to set up an SSH server. I was actually interested in finding out

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

2008-01-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things. Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right question... I am talking about how to

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

2008-01-17 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Jan 17, 2008 9:38 PM, wrote: The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this correct? Cygwin has both ps and procps available. The ps in

Re: accessibility issues with setup.exe for cygwin

2007-12-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Dec 15, 2007 10:26 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, I am trying to install everything in the cygwin distrobution accept the X packages. I however use a screen reader as I am totally blind. The setup program is not the best accessible with any screen readers. I have also heard reports from

Re: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave

2007-12-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: I am trying to compile a package called meep by means of cygwin. While running the configure command I get an error as: ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI program) to unpack

Re: su: user root does not exist

2007-12-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 12/3/07, asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: Hi all, I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I couldnt understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. Would somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming from and how can I solve it?! Regards,

Re: end of file characters

2007-12-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Dec 1, 2007 3:07 PM, Erik Weibust wrote: I went with the defaults when installing cygwin. Which means I used the recommended unix/binary line feed setting. It sounded like that means I get no line-ending translation done by cygwin, which is fine. So I open a .bat file and see a bunch

Re: [GTG] Re: [ITP] lzma 4.43 -- Compression program using high 7z compress algorithm

2007-11-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 11/8/07, Brian Dessent wrote: Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Jari Aalto writes: Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/lzma Builds fine and packaging looks good. GTG There is a problem with the man page of this package. From the README, it is lifted from

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Nov 7, 2007 9:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cost? And how much was Cygwin's again? - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - This is to avoid people

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-11-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 11/6/07, Dave Korn wrote: On 06 November 2007 16:21, Brian Mathis wrote: I must say with respect that if there are problems porting from Activestate to linux/unix, that's a problem with the programmer who wrote the code, not Perl. There's no reason that code that's general in nature

Re: PStree on cygwin

2007-11-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Nov 4, 2007 9:00 PM, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote: Hi all, I tried to find the pstree package in Cygwin setup list but it was not included. Does Cygwin community yet to deploy pstree / no plan to release it? I found it useful when I did demo of forked process for certain PID

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +) Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that fulfill a certain purpose? apropos If using

Re: copying a million tiny files?

2007-11-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Nov 1, 2007 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Erich Dollansky ha scritto: if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any networking stuff on this plattform. It should be there since the first hard disks have been there. Not so old. I think only from MSDOS 5.0 Regards Marco

Re: Problem with Cygwin Include Files

2007-10-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/23/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 22 17:59, Larry Adams wrote: Hello, The problem is that /usr/include/cygwin/icmp.h is blank and needs to be non-blank. - - - - words . . . - - - - It doesn't contain anything for a couple of reasons. - For ICMP you need raw sockets, but

Re: CYGWIN sshd staying in 'Starting' status

2007-10-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/19/07, Sam Snitman wrote: Thanks for your reply Rene, In reading the $CYGWIN/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README file, It mentions that the substitute account should have the following user rights: Create a token object Logon as a service Replace a process level token Increate

Re: is there a urlencode utility somewhere?

2007-10-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/17/07, Mike Marchywka wrote: Hi, I found out that sometime during my reinstall process I lost something called urlencode Any idea where this is, or if it is even part of cygwin? I've been all through setup and google but no luck. This is supposed to read from stdin and output a

Re: is there a urlencode utility somewhere?

2007-10-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
the problem with /usr being a link. I didn't want to do a complete reinstall and setup the links just for one script. Thanks. From: DePriest, Jason R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: is there a urlencode utility somewhere? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:30:35 -0500 On 10/17/07

Re: OpenSSH for windows issue

2007-10-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/17/07, Mick Ken wrote: Friends, I am trying to install SSH on a Windows 2003 server since last 3 days and still no luck. I have tried literally everything and searched 100s of google pages but I am getting this error.I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me resolve this.

Re: cygrunsrv: Error stopping a service: OpenService: Win32 error 1060:

2007-10-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/18/07, Dao, Phuong wrote: Hi, I get this error when trying to start the sshd service, does anyone has a clue of the problem? Thanks a lot C:\cygwin\bincygrunsrv -S sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started.

Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

2007-10-15 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/15/07, jxt wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - Now, as to the original question about shared folders being created by cygwin on vista, it appears that a solution is in hand, though I have not yet tested it in my envrionment. Indeed I had tried some googling, and even searching the archives

stupid question about user/groups shown with ls -l and ls -ln

2007-10-12 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
If I run ls -l from /cygdrive/c it shows pagefile.sys as --1 1595523072 Oct 12 10:43 pagefile.sys I hate seeing the little '?' in my ls output. Normally, I just do ls -ln and look up what user name and group the SSIDs match with. However, with pagefile.sys you

Re: Links and O/S shell

2007-10-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/9/07, Joel Rubin wrote: I ran links from cmd, started to download a file in the background and ran an O/S shell. Later, when I could see that the download was long finished, I exited the O/S shell and, instead of returning to links, the whole console box disappeared, leaving the ghost

Re: Users connected to my computer using Cygwin

2007-10-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/9/07, Daniel Noll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that works, as long as you only care about the users logged on through the SSH server. If I open a clean bash session and type who it doesn't even show myself. Daniel I guess you don't have CYGWIN=TTY in your environment (I can't

Founstone Labs (now part of McAfee) violates GPL or not?

2007-10-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Foundstone Labs has a few free tools they release that are compiled against the cygwin1.dll. The free tools are: pasco (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/pasco.htm) galleta (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/galleta.htm) rifiuti

Re: Home directory

2007-10-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/3/07, Gmane User wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: Brian Dessent writes: Gmane User wrote: it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to mv. Many software systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release

Re: OpenSSH and user environment: Maybe not initialized correctly

2007-09-25 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/25/07, Frank wrote: Hi, I am experiencing some trouble with OpenSSH under Cygwin. Details on my Cygwin installation can be found in the attached outputs of cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out on the machines in the zipped attachment. [I tried to send with attachment, but obviously it did

Re: What Environment Variables should i set up?

2007-09-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/23/07, yaojiaxing wrote: i installed Cygwin,and wanted to compile programs in eclipse , so what Environment Variables should i set up.Where to get information about Environment Variables that i should set up. Thanks a lot! For Cygwin programming questions, see if the FAQ is any help:

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

2007-09-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/20/07, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...which isn't that tricky. In the Disk Management tool (for instance right click My Computer - Manage to get there via the Computer Management admin tool) disks are numbered Disk 0, Disk 1, etc. This order corresponds with /dev/sda,

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

2007-09-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/19/07, Eric Blake wrote: Scalzott, Todd writes: I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the problem. There's no such thing as CORE in the cygwin distribution; you meant coreutils.

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

2007-09-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/19/07, James Adams wrote: - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out 69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 bash: fork: Permission denied - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - cygcheck is a Windows program so you can run

Re: [ITP] flip 1.19 -- Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats

2007-09-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/18/07, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jari Aalto on 9/14/2007 5:57 AM: * Fri 2007-09-14 Carlo Florendo subscribermail-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: 46EA5BF2.1020701 AT gmail.com Jari Aalto wrote: The

Re: 1.5.24-2 question about using echo on remote node.

2007-09-17 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/17/07, Prakash Babu wrote: Hello all, I am trying to run the following command using cygwin on a remote node using ssh. /bin/sh -c 'echo Number=\1234567\ /tmp/file1' The command executes successfully but the file has content Number=1234567(double quotes missing) instead of

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-17 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/17/07, SQueeZe wrote: Hi All I am trying to connect to my home computer from work and I have to use the work HTTP proxy on port 443 in order to do so. I have done this using PuTTY just fine so I know there is nothing wrong with my setup. I have downloaded the windows binary of

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not necessarily against the idea of well go out and get a working copy of these programs but often clients do not give

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an - - - - - cut - - - - - vi /etc/sshd_config uncomment line: Subsystem sftp

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hello, I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as possible) on Cygwin and Linux. A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting output to the null device, or bit-bucket. If I write the following

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex transfers, but if you

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Sam Snitman wrote: Brian, Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. That's definitely not right Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can you please elaborate what mounts are and about how to/risks of

Re: setup.exe not available?

2007-09-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/6/07, Yu Namba wrote: I need to install OpenSSL, but when I click on the link to download/run setup.exe, the file seems unavailable and I get the The page cannot be displayed page. Can you please look into this? -- When I click on the link, it works just fine for me.

Re: openssh not reporting the correct errorlevel

2007-08-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/28/07, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT)) Here are the command sequence I ran on Windows 2003 x86 SP2 servers (delhi is the hostname) C:\ssh delhi net The syntax of this command is: NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP |

Re: Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess

2007-08-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/6/07, jason.stott wrote: Hello, We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user Citrix server environment. One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after running

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/6/07, Joel Rubin wrote: The PDF's in question are part of pump and dump spam via botnets so I see no legal or ethical reason to respect any expressed desire of the author as to how they may be used. I googled that XPDF didn't respect the no copy/no print flags in PDF's but the version

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

2007-08-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/6/07, Steve Holden wrote: Joel Rubin wrote: pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files being spammed just a few lines of text and

Re: Request for running a test application

2007-08-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. Just please don't send information

Re: Request for running a test application

2007-08-02 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. Just please don't send information

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