Re: How to install a custom permanent postinstall handler?

2016-04-03 Thread Dirk Fassbender
or with a shebang line /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh. Are all of these scripts written to run correctly with a bash and dash invoked ? Regards Dirk Fassbender -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Possible bug: ssh-host-config - getent when computer name is "-" (dash)

2016-03-24 Thread Dirk Fassbender
n.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Hello, the computer name "-" (dash) is illegal in the internet. So many network utilities will have problems with this name. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname for a start about host name definitions. Regards Dirk Fassbender -- Problem reports:

Re: Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?

2014-02-26 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 27.02.2014 01:45, schrieb Jim Burwell: On 2/26/2014 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is

Re: Cannot launch ssh from X11 system tray icon

2012-03-28 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 28.03.2012 12:10, schrieb Craig: I don't suppose anyone has any thoughts on this? It's rendered Cygwin X11 unusable. :-( Can any further diagnostics be enabled? On 23 March 2012 17:56, Craig wrote: I have two machines, a desktop and a laptop. Both are 64bit Windows 7 Enterprise

Re: Portable Cygwin: replacing drivename in a text file

2010-11-25 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 25.11.2010 14:29, schrieb Alexandre Bezroutchko: Hi Fergus, The problem is $HOME contains '/' character used as delimited in regex. You need to escape it first: HOME_ESCAPED=`echo $HOME | sed 's#/#/#g'` echo 123 | sed s/2/$HOME_ESCAPED/g It is not cygwin-specific. Cheers, Alex

Re: find -execdir executes in wrong dir

2010-11-22 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 22.11.2010 12:19, schrieb Corinna Vinschen: On Nov 21 05:02, pdanford wrote: I just upgraded to version 1.7.7-1 and the following find command is broken (which used to work correctly in a recent 1.7x version): C:\cygwin\bin\find . -name file.txt -type f -execdir pwd ';' Apparently, if

Re: awk gsub problem

2010-09-19 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Am 19.09.2010 22:33, schrieb Lee: Thank you - I appreciate the follow-up. Was the reply from the upstream maintainer answered on a mailing list? ( if so, which one?) I'd like to understand the problem they're solving.. I get the idea of [[:lower:]] working regardless of collating order

Re: Cygwin bash regexp matching doesn't treat \b properly

2009-11-24 Thread Dirk Fassbender
aputerguy schrieb: Hugh Myers: This might come across as slightly smart-assed, but if you wrote your script in Perl, you wouldn't have the platform problem, nor the word-boundary problem. True you would have a Perl problem, but that would still be several orders of magnitude easier than

Re: XWin wrong fonts after update

2009-04-01 Thread Dirk Fassbender
catia.lava...@bechtle.com schrieb: Please check the FAQ for informations about the update: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#modular There are some changes in the location of file after the upgrade, so you have to set up old start scripts for the X server to the new structure.

Re: problem under cygwin with sh, bash, ksh

2009-03-07 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Václav Haisman schrieb: Hubert Samm wrote, On 6.3.2009 14:26: Hi All... I've searched and found nothing this script runs just fine on AIX, Solaris, and Linux, but under cygwin, the array VALUE prints only blanks.. has anyone else run into this... I've tried a bunch of different things

Re: -query not working on cygwin/windows

2009-02-26 Thread Dirk Fassbender
km4hr schrieb: Phil, Thanks for hanging in there and trying your best to help identify my problem. If I ever find the solution I will shout it from the mountain top! I'd like to try cygwin-x on another Windows PC with less software installed but my company's network is configured to block

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-10 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Sven Köhler schrieb: I just tried to run pslatex (which is a shell-script) with run.exe. And actually, it won't run. There is a box saying Error: could not start c:\cygwin\bin\pslatex. Well, it's not an exe-file. It's basically a textfile to windows. Hence the error, i guess. Now i wonder, if

Re: 'Fatal Error' from Setup.exe (postgres)

2006-07-30 Thread Dirk Fassbender
Angelo Graziosi schrieb: I want to flag the following problem. With the current setup.ini (20060730 15:00, size 569848) I have the following 'Fatal error' from Setup.exe: Fatal error: Uncaught Exception Thread: Dialogproc Type: 9Exception