Re: permission problems (and more)

2004-05-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:51 PM 5/5/2004, you wrote: --- Larry Hall wrote: OK, first check the output of /var/log/cron.log. If that doesn't clarify the situation for you, send it and the output of 'ls -Rl /var' to the list. $ ls -Ral /var /var: total 0 drwxr-x---+ 3 user Users 0 Thu Mar 25

Re: Re: after setup, all file with no permissions

2004-04-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Glad to hear it helped. I'd say this is a corner case for setup. It would be good if setup could handle it (more) transparently. But I'm not sure it really qualifies as a bug. As to when setup will address this issue, that depends on when someone submits a patch to fix it. ;-) Larry At

Re: rxvt line wrapping

2004-04-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:04 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote: Greetings, I'm having two related problems with how rxvt wraps long command lines. Consider the small awk program (the first part is my prompt): ~/research/multilogit/data/eip-symptom[557] awk '{for(i=1; i=3; ++i) printf(%s , $i)}' longfilename.txt (1)

Re: Make problem since 1.5.7

2004-03-29 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:19 AM 3/29/2004, you wrote: Larry Hall wrote: snip Got a SIGCHLD; 1 unreaped children. Reaping winning child 0x108b3a20 PID 1288 Removing child 0x108b3a20 PID 1288 from chain. Successfully remade target file `some_path/GUI_Module.lib_ar'. Finished prerequisites of target file

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

2004-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Unless you set your reply-to, generally you'll see two copies of every reply, since you'll get one copy to you and one from the list. Chris's first two posts were in response to my replies and I set my reply-to to the list. If you're not subscribed to the list, you wouldn't see these

Re: rsh as NONE SYSTEM user = permission denied

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:19 AM 1/22/2004, Steven Hartland you wrote: Thanks for a not very helpful response there Larry. Some of us do search the archives before asking questions you know. Oh, forgive me. I wasn't using my mind-reading abilities when I read your post. As you'll notice from the rest of the

Re: cron + network share(w/ full access?)

2004-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Yes, this works fine. I just ran some tests here and I have no problem accessing shares from cron if the shares are accessible without the need to authenticate (under Windows). I don't know why you and Tim had problems getting this to work with his option 1 (which is all I need - actually

RE: Question about cygwin sshd and StrictModes

2003-12-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Clearly, you have not read the document I pointed to, or not read it carefully, since the procedure you describe below does not use ssh-user-config. While your procedure may do everything that is covered in the README (implicitly or explicitly), it would be wise for you to review your procedure

Re: gcc problem in my installation of cygwin

2003-11-24 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:26 PM 11/23/2003, Nikhil Bhargava you wrote: hello Ms. Larry, That would be more properly phrased as 'Mr. Hall' but I don't require such formalism. 'Larry' is fine. I am thankful for the help. I didnot tried google as i thought i wouldnot be able to find this problem. I wil be

Re: merging mingw and cygwin

2003-10-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:01 PM 10/11/2003, Edward Peschko you wrote: What would be the point? lack of end-user confusion... elimination of duplicate development effort... elimination of duplicate maintenance effort... the ability to compile all unix tools 'native' win32 for those who desire it. It's too bad

Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test ca se

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Sorry, I'm no configure expert. I don't know why yours is going this route in configure. I don't see this myself. You can try adding the '-C' flag after './configure' to see if this helps. You may also want to attach the output of cygcheck -srv. This is basic info but perhaps there's something

Re: Matlab and cygwin dll files

2003-06-30 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Anders Johansson wrote: Hi, I have a problem, I have used cygwin to port a Matlab mex file for reading XML files from Linux to Windows XP. A mex file is a renamed dll file in Windows. Presumably what you're saying here is that the mex files are Windows DLLs when built on Windows. If you're

Re: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's jarcommand)

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Shankar Unni wrote: Larry Hall wrote: David M. Karr wrote: It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I can't use Cygwin setup to uninstall it. Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with. Is there any way we can persuade cgf to build the gcc

Re: Distributed Cygwin DLL's (fwd)

2003-06-10 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Does his zip file contain written notice that he will provide the source if requested for a period of at least 3 years? Either way, I think this guy is setting himself up for a fall if he's not archiving versions of the source. You can't get a copy of 3 year old Cygwin source for an arbitrary (or

Re: Question about rexec

2003-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:45:48PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: (Wonder why this isn't on by default like ntsec...?) For the obvious reason... Because I refuse to eat my peas? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Chuck Hamilton wrote: It already the permissions set to 777. -rwxrwxrwx1 Administ mkgroup_32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron* Ahem. Here's the problem. Your /etc/group file is not current. Rerun mkgroup with the appropriate flags. You may want to do this for

Re: Cygwin + Oracle (Pro*C)

2003-03-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
günter strubinsky wrote: Well, it's not as trivial. The windows installation of Oracle preconfigures for Visual C and creates all the micro$oft junk. There is no makefile as example. The documentation is virtually not existent, adapting to Microsoft's way: 'The user is too stupid to understand;

Re: Installing cygwin NOT from web

2003-03-13 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Ross Smith wrote: From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 07:59, Ross Smith wrote: From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 06:17, Charles D. Russell wrote: But as I understand it, setup.exe ignores the cache and looks only at what has

Re: Cygwin + Oracle (Pro*C)

2003-03-13 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
gnter strubinsky wrote: Does anybody have any experience running Oracle 9i (win2k) + cygwin with the pro*C preprocessor? Howto? Sorry, I have no clue about Oracle but... I dont have a glue how to get proc to work under cygwin. When I install on win2k I dont think I can run the proC tool over

Re: problems with cygwin after setup

2003-03-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 you (whoever you are) wrote: After I installed more program under cygwin I have the following problems 1.) can't get manual pages man man says no entry 2.) w3m crashes with Can't find termcap entry cygwin 3.) after starting cygwin I get

Re: Can someone explain the 'obvious' to me...or is it a Grimm'sBro. tale...?

2003-03-09 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
linda w (cyg) wrote: I really _think_ (maybe I don't know what I want), but I think I want to setup my cygroot - c:\. Now I know this isn't recommended, but why/whynot? The only reason I heard, which sounded a bit weak, was, Well what if some new program comes in and creates a /usr, /var,

Re: Is this OK with the GPL?

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John Morrison wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:48:02PM -, John Morrison wrote: http://www.microcross.com/Products/Upgrade/upgrade.html quote New Windows Installers * Safely install Cygwin with its environment automatically configured for

Re: Malloc array size limit (3)

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Fabrizio Impagnatiello wrote: Thanks again, but even with heap_chunk the very simple code does not run. I would to emphatise that the same EXE (gcc 3.2) correctly allocates memory if run-time linked to cygwin1.dll v1.3.12 but run fails if I use DLL versions between 1.3.17 and 1.3.20. uname -a:

Re: 1.3.20: bug: UID over 65536: I have no name!

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Keith Hopkins wrote: Hi! 1.3.20-1 on Win2k, downloaded 20030306. I saw this when a friend of mine, and myself were trying to install 1.3.20 yesterday (dl, then install from dl). The install would go fine, but when you started the shell, $UID would have dropped the high bits from the

Re: 1.3.20: bug: UID over 65536: I have no name!

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Even after changing my UID in /etc/passwd from 65558 to 22, I still get the following permission errors when I open a shell: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R: Permission denied /usr/share/texmf/aliases: Permission denied Also, my .bashrc file in my home directory

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS?

2003-03-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Geoffrey Hausheer wrote: One more thing, I forgot to ask... On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 18:46:09 -0800, Geoffrey Hausheer said: Thank you, this indeed is the issue, as can be seen from the very next line after the wsock call: 5495150 5519336 [main] bash 1940 cygwin_gethostname: name Holly I don't

Re: cc1.exe linking to missing export cygwin1.dll:_ctype_

2003-02-27 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
xiao chen wrote: hi, can someone help me? i m using cygwin newest version to compile an old project. while i type make, the error msg is cc1.exe linking to the missing export cygwin1.dll:_ctype_..i guess the cygwin1.dll in my old project doesnt match the new version in cygwin package i hv juz

Re: Please add imm.h in cygwin/MinGW distribution.

2003-02-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:28:32PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: In open-source projects, you always have the power. Submit a patch and it will be thoughtfully considered. Hey. Patches thoughtfully considered. I like that. Time for a new catchphrase

Re: Please add imm.h in Cygwin/MinGW distribution.

2003-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Xiangjiang Ma wrote: Hey, I have been trying to use make/gcc provided by cygwin to make a win32 executable. But, I am blocked by missing imm.h header, as Dan Sharp pointed out: The latest version (through patch 6.1.332) is actually pretty close. The only difference is that you can't build

Re: updating packages?

2003-02-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Elfyn McBratney wrote: hi there, i know it may be a newbie question, but how can i update easily packages in cygwin. i tried the setup-tool, but it downloads everytime the whole bunch of packages and seems to install the whole stuff again, either i had already installed cygwin completly. i just

Re: DLL calling a DLL: undefined reference when linking.

2003-02-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Wil Hunt wrote: Hello again, I think I'm making marvelous progress. Unfortunately, I'm getting an error that doesn't make sense: $g++ -shared -mno-cygwin -o dllhello.dll dllhello.o other.dll -Wl,--out-implib,libdllhello.a -Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup Creating library file: libdllhello.a

Re: Missing (?) function mallinfo

2003-02-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Steve Baldwin wrote: I'm having problems porting some Unix code to cygwin. Here's a small sample, and the error I'm seeing. Any help appreciated. Steve [cdev]$ cat a.c #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include malloc.h int main (int argc, char **argv) { struct mallinfo mi ;

Re: CGI Problem - only part of file written to HTML page

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John McAllister wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my CGI program in the Cygwin environment. I am using C as the cgi-programming language. I am developing an application on a UNIX platform, and I use Apache as the server. My cgi works fine in the UNIX environment at work, but I wanted to be

Re: FW: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Dieter Meinert wrote: |= -Original Message- |= From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |= Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:01 PM |= To: Dieter Meinert; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |= Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? |= |= |= Dieter Meinert wrote: |= I was

Re: OK - more details for the CGI/cygwin problem (doesn't print allmy HTML Javascript to screen)

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John McAllister wrote: Hello again, I guess my earlier message was either ignored or people didn't know what I was talking about. I didn't want to post all my code, because I don't think the problem lies within the code (the exact same cgi program works on the Red Hat UNIX client/server

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Stephen Ford wrote: I posted an item on 17/02/03 (The Cygwin mailing lists are rather archaic and cumbersome aren't they...?), which looks as though it has been taken as a criticism of people supporting this mailing list. It was not the intention so I apologise for any offence given. The phrase

Re: how to freeze a version of cygwin

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Charles D. Russell wrote: In order to ensure that I could reinstall a working cygwin version if necessary, I have in the past used the download from internet option in setup, then burned the installation files to a CD. However, it looks like the same files are downloaded and retained if one

Re: g++ and undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Reimann, Peter wrote: Hallo, I use cygwin (cygwin1.dll - 1.3.20) with win2000professionell, gettext and libintl2 0.11.5-1, g++ (GCC) 3.2 20020927 (prerelease). If I try to compile a little program (below class DCError is a part of it) that use localizations I get errors for all dgettext,

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Stephen Ford wrote: .. This has all been hashed out in the email archives more than once. I refer you to the archives if you're interested in hearing all sides of the previous discussions on this topic... What is the best way of searching for the relevant titles? There doesn't seem to be a

Re: how to freeze a version of cygwin

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Charles D. Russell wrote: In order to ensure that I could reinstall a working cygwin version if necessary, I have in the past used the download from internet option in setup, then burned the installation files to a CD. However, it looks like the same files are downloaded and retained if one

Re: AW: g++ and undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Reimann, Peter wrote: Sorry. Here is the command line: g++ -static -mno-cygwin -o docucalc.exe DCMessage.o DCMessageItemList.o DCInputMessage.o DCOutputMessage.o DCModel.o DCCalculator.o DCPa rameterRules.o docucalc.o DCError.o DCErrorMessage.o DCCLIInterface.o DCModelTool.o DCCPModel.o

Re: An apology...

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Stephen Ford wrote: I tried a search and it found 24,000+ results because it modified mailing lists to-; Search results for '(mailing or mail or mailed or mailings or mailer or mails or mailers) and (lists or list or listed or listing or listings or listen or lister or listens or listers) and

Re: Newbie problems

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Daniel Elenius wrote: I just installed cygwin, and everything seemed to work fine during installation. I installed quite a lot of packages, including binutils (and almost all other devel packages) and all the base packages. I seem to missing some important stuff though. For example, I don't

Re: Duplicate CygWin

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Max Bowsher wrote: Ben Clewett wrote: For my working, I would need a fully detached CygWin. It's own memory, it's own DLL, and not a dependence on an existing installation. This is because I will be using Install Sheild to load and run an entire application, which is compiled under CygWin,

Re: smbclient

2003-02-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Henning, Brian wrote: Right now i am tunneling a samba share to my windows machine. I have turned off sharing on my windows box so there will be no conficts with the forwarded share. on the windows machine i am using smbclient to log into the share. it works just fine with cygwin's smbclient

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John Williams wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Ok. This version just changes the name of the DLL from cygwin1.dll to xygwin1.dll. What surprises me though is that if I duplicate xygwin1.dll to cygwin1.dll, it doesn't work??? What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the

Re: Obtaining a pervious version

2003-02-17 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
John Williams wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: What doesn't work? The Cygwin provided utilities or the Xygwin1 versions? Neither. I can't run either Cygwin utilities under Xygwin, nor the Xygwin utilities under Cygwin. Full error messages were posted earlier in the thread

Re: cron and network drives

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a possibility to reach the network drives with cron. My scripts work fine and can reach the network drives when I execute them from command line. With cron there is no effect. Is there a possibility to copy some file from cygwin to a network (windows) drive,

Re: Bash shell

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Tom Dager wrote: Hello everyone! I am VERY new to Cygwin, though not to Linux. I use the bash shell a LOT and was wondering how do I get it so that I can copy and paste something from a windows window (such as an IP address) into the bash shell window. For example I want to use the whois

Re: cron and network drives

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a possibility to reach the network drives with cron. My scripts work fine and can reach the network drives when I execute them from command line. With cron

Re: Bash shell

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Randall R Schulz wrote: Hello, Fellow Curmudgeons, I think we're really getting the tag-team meanness down to a fine art, aren't we? Or is it good cop / bad cop? It has recently come to my attention that some people think the Cygwin list is exceptionally unfriendly to the uninitiated. Of

Re: Bash shell

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Elfyn McBratney wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Hello, Fellow Curmudgeons, I think we're really getting the tag-team meanness down to a fine art, aren't we? Or is it good cop / bad cop? It has recently come to my attention that some people think the Cygwin list is exceptionally unfriendly to

Re: bash shell

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/14/2003 03:14:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Fred Smith/Computrition) Subject: cygwin Digest 14 Feb 2003 20:14:39 - Issue 2563 It has recently come to my attention that some people think the Cygwin list is exceptionally

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
andrew clarke wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:50:48AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's described as a work-in-progress and seemingly a bit of a moving target. Actually, just out of interest, will new Setup programs always

Re: cygwin:groupadd useradd

2003-02-13 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
lu fang wrote: Hi, I want to use groupadd and useradd these two commands under cygwin, but I don't know which packages to download so that I can get these two commands. Can anyone help me? thanks a lot! http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ -- Larry Hall [EMAIL

Re: Help with xargs and output redirection.

2003-02-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:23 PM 2/8/2003, Rajagopalan, Raghu (CCL) wrote: Hi, I've been working on a problem and havent found a way out yet. The problem is as follows: I have a list of files in a folder. I want to run a perl script on each of them and redirect the output to the filename with a suffix (ie if

Re: I can't exit emacs

2003-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:51 AM 2/7/2003, Stephen Ford wrote: PC + Win 98se + 160Mb Ram + 20Mb free HDD I have just installed Cygwin including the emacs editor (v21.2.1) and discovered that it will not exit. If I press C-x, then C-x- appears at the bottom of the screen. Pressing C-c results in a beep. C-h does

Re: assimilation cmd towards cygwin/bash

2003-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:44 PM 2/7/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shankar Unni wrote: As long as you don't mind hitting CR after the ^D, this seems to work: c:\ doskey ^D=exit Now, if you hit ^Dcr (the cr is unfortunately required), CMD.EXE will exit. Yes, this seems to work... and there should

Re: one solution for sshd/cygrunsrv win32 error 1062

2003-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:47 PM 2/7/2003, Evers Ding wrote: Hello, As with many others on this list, I've encountered the following seemingly inexplicable message cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. ...when trying to start sshd

Re: bash lockup

2003-02-01 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:41 AM 2/1/2003, Sean McBride wrote: I thank all of you who comented on my last post. I have another small problem. I installed the package with the installer and then later, added pine to my installation. I don't think installing pine has anything to do with my problem, but I only noticed

Re: SFU

2003-01-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:07 AM 1/26/2003, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 03:22:03PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: I have both installed and have no problems with any of them so far, but I'm not using SFU much, just to be able to be able to access NFS shares and sharing Win2k dirs by NFS.

Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 02:04 AM 1/26/2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: I would still prefer that Cygwin Bash work correctly from a clean install. It does for some :-) Elfyn, I think you're being too kind in this case. David's comment here seems to completely miss the point made earlier. The problem is clearly

RE: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:20 PM 1/26/2003, Rolf Campbell wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:03 PM To: Elfyn McBratney; cygwin; David Christensen Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash

Re: Fw: Cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Larry Hall wrote January 26, 2003 1:44 PM: there's an implication in all this that setting HOME breaks bash or Cygwin. I infer from the above that the default Windows setting for HOME is no setting at all? e.g. the variable

Re: Fw: cygwin 1.3.19 Windows 2000 Professional SP3 bash $home /usr/bin/%USERPROFILE%

2003-01-26 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:23 PM 1/26/2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 05:55 PM 1/26/2003, David Christensen wrote: However, I still say there is a Bash/Cygwin bug -- if Bash/Cygwin reads the Windows HOME environment variable and gets

Re: [ITP] rebase

2003-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:02 PM 1/25/2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Robert Collins wrote: I second this. In fact, IMO this vote should really be a formality - this is core infrastructure after all. pro from me. Actually, rebase probably should be in the 'Base' category, IMO. What

Re: Cygwin-1.3.19 fixed vim bug! Thankyou!

2003-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:24 PM 1/24/2003, Max Bowsher wrote: First, I'd like to say thanks for fixing a long-standing bug in vim: Using the arrow keys in insert mode cancelled it. Hm, a quick check here with cygwin 1.3.17 and vim 6.1 doesn't show this problem. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're doing? Larry

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:03 PM 1/24/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: Rob, Well, the RXVT-ers keep copping an 'tude with us lowly console users, so... Exactly! ;-) I really don't know what's different on my system that makes this nifty feature work for me. I'm inclined to think it's not a BASH setting or anything

RE: cygpath question

2003-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:33 PM 1/25/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 15:04 2003-01-25, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 07:03 PM 1/24/2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: Rob, ... I really don't know what's different on my system that makes this nifty feature work for me. I'm inclined to think it's

Re: Cygwin-1.3.19 fixed vim bug! Thankyou!

2003-01-25 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:39 PM 1/25/2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 07:24 PM 1/24/2003, Max Bowsher wrote: First, I'd like to say thanks for fixing a long-standing bug in vim: Using the arrow keys in insert mode cancelled it. Hm, a quick check here with cygwin 1.3.17

Fwd: Re: silly question

2003-01-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Here is the dump from cygcheck Thanks for your help, Yves. From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Yves Petinot [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: silly question Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:00:01 -0500 At 09:54 PM 1/22/2003, Yves Petinot wrote: Hi, I

Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files

2003-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Actually the tests I ran in response to this thread used the most current vim (6.1-2) and fileutils (4.1-1) with cygwin 1.3.17-1, 1.3.18-1, and the latest snapshot. The versions you're using are out-of-date. But I expect the main difference is in vim and some change there. But perhaps you

Re: Bug in rm -r with locked files

2003-01-21 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:39 PM 1/21/2003, Shankar Unni wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: It's not a completely intractable problem. I think that someone (Chris January?) provided a workaround at one point. cygserver could also provide a possible solution someday. Right. I went back and re-read those archives.

Re: Losing data with routine cp and mv -- cannot create hard link

2003-01-16 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:55 AM 1/16/2003, Thomas Baker wrote: In the absence of responses to my earlier note (below), and having made a second fruitless search of FAQs and archives, I'd like to make a second and final attempt with a simpler question: If cp and mv are not reliably copying all of the contents

Re: using text files unix-windows- macintosh tip

2003-01-16 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:47 PM 1/16/2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:43:50AM -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote: The GWD editor (http://www.gwdsoft.com) is another good choice. It features language specific hilighting and a bunch of other

Re: Using gcc to build a DLL discovered and linked at runtime

2003-01-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:26 PM 1/15/2003, Jim Kleckner wrote: I'm using a program called TradeStation that allows specifying a path name to a DLL, specifying the signature of a function to call, and then loading/calling that function. The documentation is very sparse for how to do this and probably built in some

Re: Emacs Problem

2003-01-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:39 PM 1/15/2003, Scott Purcell wrote: Hello, I got ambitious during lunch and installed emacs. At the cmd line I type in emacs and all works great. I got one problem though, it will not quit. Yeah, so? What's the problem? Emacs is the end-all of software, right? It's supposed to do

Re: telnet % ssh

2003-01-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
This information is and always has been available to you at http://cygwin.com/packages/. Type in the name of the utility you're looking for and it will tell you the package that has it. Actually, this works for any phrase entered so you could get more than 1 'hit' if your request is not

Re: bin tempfile executable not found by xapps

2003-01-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:04 PM 1/15/2003, - wrote: where's the tempfile executable? some Xapps are looking for it...and i'm having a problem finding a safe source on the net for cygwin...an alternative does anyone have one they can forward me...i'd greatly appreciate it... See:

Re: Setting up cvs on Windows 2000

2003-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:18 PM 1/12/2003, Melonie Brown wrote: Environment: Windows 2000, sp3 I downloaded and installed cygwin. I followed the steps outlined in http://www.adamswann.com/library/2001/Cygwin-Inetd.html That's fine if that's what you want to do but you should realize the following: 1. The

Re: BSOD on cygwin

2003-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Perhaps someone else running Win98 will be able to confirm or deny the problems you're seeing. I'm guessing that others will only be able to 'deny'. As mentioned, BSOD is an O/S issue/bug, which means it's at least difficult to resolve in application software and is certainly much better

Re: Hindsite, moving forward, concepts...?

2003-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:07 PM 1/11/2003, linda w \(cyg\) wrote: snip However the good news is that with the emphasis on applications maintaining POSIX compatibility -- no one should be *relying* on // having a special meaning. If you mean programmatically, I'd say that's probably true. Some may

Re: 1.18 mysql+perl+dbi+dbd::mysql

2003-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Check out the User's Guide for this type of information. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html#DLL-LINK The User's Guide is a worthwhile read in general for any newbie. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838

RE: Repost, different list...File::Spec, cygwin, Syntactic vs. Semantic path analysis

2003-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
I've found that it's always easy to look back at a previously made design decision and question it, especially when one wasn't involved in the design discussion that weighed the current needs with the benefits and detriments of possible implementations. Rethinking a design decision isn't bad of

Re: dig and nslookup for cygwin

2003-01-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:59 PM 1/8/2003, Mirza Muharemagic wrote: Hi, are tools like dig and nslookup included in cygwin? See the FAQ entry: What packages should I download? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC13 This will direct you to: http://cygwin.com/packages/ which can be used to answer the generic

Re: Bash appears to have changed...

2003-01-08 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:40 PM 1/8/2003, Andrew Mayer wrote: Hi Folks, I'm not a daily user, but all of this worked a few months ago. I haven't made any changes to any of my dotfiles in that time. However, I just updated all of Cygwin this weekend and now things aren't so smooth. I enclose an brief annotated rxvt

Re: Problem with gcc

2003-01-03 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 05:40 PM 1/3/2003, Macias Abraham wrote: I´m new in gygwin and gcc program gives me an extrange error when I execute it. First appear an error window which says Error initialicing the program, The file CC1.EXE is vinculated to one CYGWIN1.DLL:putc_unlocked of exportacion that not exist. And

Re: gpg on cygwin error

2002-12-30 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:09 AM 12/30/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have installed the cygwin gpg package, and have tried to import the KEYS from Apache as follows: $ gpg --import KEYS gpg: fatal: //.gnupg: cant't create dircetory: No such file or directory secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of

Re: system cpu 99% when doing ls -CFs on W2K laptop

2002-12-29 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:20 PM 12/29/2002, Xiangjiang Ma wrote: Hi, It is stange that 'ls -CFs' takes forever on my laptop. I have to kill on tcsh window most of the time. The process which takes most of CPU is System. I am using latest version of cygwin.dll. Following is my cygcheck output. Thanks. %cygcheck

Re: Problems running makewhatis

2002-12-24 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:15 AM 12/24/2002, Huw Dixon wrote: I can run /bin/awk(gawk) from the bash prompt to verify it exists: $ /bin/awk Usage: awk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ... Usage: awk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ... POSIX options: GNU long options:

Re: Bugs in Cygnus Tools bash

2002-12-24 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 07:37 AM 12/24/2002, Chris Game wrote: In a recent post, Cliff Hones wrote: A word of advice - don't report things as bugs unless you are sure they are bugs and not cockpit error - it can make you look foolish if you or your configuration are to blame. That seems a bit harsh. How else

RE: Running cygwin built programs in Windows XP

2002-12-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
Anyone who decides they want to do this is free to but it will invalidate their installation and make it unstable. Future problems they may run into as a result will not be seriously entertained by this list (assuming said persons post to this list for help in those cases) until cygwin1.dll is

Re: sshd and launching e.g. word.exe - no GUI screen shows up

2002-12-22 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:56 PM 12/21/2002, Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Hi, I log in fine, and get my prompt and everyting. sshd rocks! I'm trying to do e.g.: me@othermachine : ssh winmachine word.sh some.doc And have the word GUI appear on the machine it is actually running. I'm aware, of course that X-forwarding

Fwd: Re: Install of predefined packages

2002-12-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
My first post of this bounced for some, annoying reason. ;-) I believe the thread I pointed you to has the solution for how to get your local mirror packages (whatever they might be) installed by default with setup (i.e. add them to the base package). If you're looking to restrict user

Re: /etc/inetd.conf: No such file or directory

2002-12-18 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
It happened because you chose to install for Just Me instead of All Users. Now you know what that means. Just Me is really not a good option in general. It should only be used by those that don't have permission to write into the HKLM registry subtree. Larry At 09:25 PM 12/18/2002, Mikhail

Re: LFTP: Cygwin and setupterm

2002-12-16 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:03 PM 12/16/2002, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: Anybody know what's wrong ? I tried to compile LFTP 2.6.3 with ncurses 5.2-8 and got the following: /cygdrive/g/Linux/lftp/src/lftp_tinfo.cc: In function `void init_terminfo()': /cygdrive/g/Linux/lftp/src/lftp_tinfo.cc:50: implicit declaration

Re: LFTP: Cygwin and setupterm

2002-12-16 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 11:46 PM 12/16/2002, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: At 11:03 PM 12/16/2002, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: Anybody know what's wrong ? I tried to compile LFTP 2.6.3 with ncurses 5.2-8 and got the following: /cygdrive/g/Linux

Re: Gcc 3.2 -mno-cygwin

2002-12-15 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 06:27 PM 12/15/2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 11:15:42AM -0800, Jim wrote: Someone broke GCC somewhere echo 'int main( void ) { return 1; }' test.c gcc -mno-cygwin -c test.c results: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory

Re: query

2002-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 01:29 AM 12/14/2002, mohit batra wrote: hi i am new to cygwin enviornment i just downloaded it yesterday . i have an application written in linux downloaded from internet .it is a tar file . i want to run it on windows 2000 can i do it using cygwin . No but if you have the source you

Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:09 AM 12/15/2002, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Lastly you said you installed in the root of a windows drive. This is discouraged, although im not quite sure why, but it can be a pain if you need to un-install. See the FAQ for the reasoning behind this recommendation: Why not install in C:\?

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