Why does cl -l returns Administrators as owner?

2015-04-03 Thread Mirko Vukovic
This is not an only Cygwin question (I see it also in the output of the Windows version of Emacs's dired). For some files in my directories, the output of ls -l gives the Administrators as owner. This is puzzling to me because: - There is no Administrators user listed in the Windows accounts -

mintty startup message: /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory

2015-03-20 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, after upgrading cygwin64 on my company laptop, mintty gives the following message *when connected to the network from home*: /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory Pressing enter closes the window. I can start bash from Windows' command window. From there, I see that there is no

Re: who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Mar 17 10:10, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and password handling, I figured that to be easiest

Re: who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic mirko.vuko...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com wrote: On Mar 17 10:10, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I reinstalled

who is root? (or /usr/bin/sshd fails to start because of /var/log ownership)

2015-03-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, A few weeks ago, sshd stopped working after a cygwin64 update. I reinstalled cygwin64 (because of the new user and password handling, I figured that to be easiest). I still cannot get sshd to run. I get an error message: /usr/sbin/sshd.exe -d debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_6.7, OpenSSL

Re: Cannot change permission of /var/empty

2015-02-25 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Andrey, your command, setfacl -b, helped me fix the file permission issue described below: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Andrey Repin anrdae...@yandex.ru wrote: Greetings, Mirko Vukovic! (Cygwin64, Windows 7, cygcheck attached - with some site details omitted) I updated cygwin64

Cannot change permission of /var/empty

2015-02-24 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hi, (Cygwin64, Windows 7, cygcheck attached - with some site details omitted) I updated cygwin64 yesterday, and sshd stopped working. I reinstalled cygwin64, configured sshd, but it is still failing. The message in /var/log/sshd.log is: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or

Re: Can't resolve Your group is currently mkpasswd'

2012-08-01 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:35 PM, ... wrote: I just tried to set up cygwin on my new corporate pc (I have admin privileges on the machine but not on the overall corporate network). I keep getting the infamous 'Your group is currently mkpasswd' every time I open a new terminal. Since this

rebaseall invocation error

2012-07-20 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, I am running rebaseall manually to enable X11: I found a post suggesting to rebase to 0x7700 I am following instructions on http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/Rebaseall I restarted Windows 7 (64bit) in safe mode (no networking) and opened a command prompt where I executed: cd \cygwin\bin

Re: rebaseall invocation error

2012-07-20 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Problem fixed ... see below On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Christopher Faylor email deleted wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:00:45PM -0400, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, I am running rebaseall manually to enable X11: I found a post suggesting to rebase to 0x7700 I am following

Re: rebaseall invocation error

2012-07-20 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:36:07PM -0400, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Problem fixed ... see below On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Christopher Faylor email deleted wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:00:45PM -0400, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello

ssh connection to localhost closed by remote host after recent updates

2012-07-20 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, This morning I updated cygwin. At the same time, my Windows 7 (64bit) was also updated. Now I cannot ssh to my system. I re-ran ssh-host-config and ssh-user-config. I re-ran rebaseall with default parameters (no -b 0x7...). I can ssh to other systems. But I cannot ssh to localhost

xkcomp fails after xorg-server update - how to reinstall old version of xorg-server-1.11.3-1?

2012-02-25 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, I updated today to the latest xorg-server, 1.11.4-5, and the server cannot start due to the xkcomp problem: (EE) XKB: Could not invoke xkbcomp rebasing did not help. I would like to install my prior active xorg-server version 1.11.3-1. I have the tar.bz2 file (setup does not see it).

Re: changing home directory

2011-04-01 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 31 17:55, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hi, I want to change my /home directory. My windows HOME variable points to d: which is my user directory on the PC. Currently, /home points to my home directory.  But because of some issues

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-09 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  7 14:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  7 08:18, Mirko Vukovic wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  2 15:06, Mirko Vukovic wrote: So, to summarize, - from work, I can access github

Re: ssh 5.8p1 vs 5.5 on VPN (5.5 works, 5.6, 5.8 don't)

2011-03-09 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: I had a problem with ssh 5.6 or 5.8 connecting across a VPN.  I solved it by going back to ssh 5.5. But I don't understand the reason why 5.8 or 5.6 do not work.  Here's the story: Actors:  - laptop with cygwin 1.7 and openssh 5.8p1

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-07 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  2 15:06, Mirko Vukovic wrote: So, to summarize, - from work, I can access github using ssh 4.3, but not ssh 5.8 (I get  `connection reset by peer', or` remote end hang up unxepectedly'), - from home, ssh 5.8 gives me the PTY

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-07 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  2 15:06, Mirko Vukovic wrote: So, to summarize, - from work, I can access github using ssh 4.3, but not ssh 5.8 (I get  `connection reset by peer', or` remote end hang up

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-03-07 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  7 14:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  7 08:18, Mirko Vukovic wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar  2 15:06, Mirko Vukovic wrote: So, to summarize, - from work, I can access github

ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-02-28 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 I tried ssh -vv ..., but did not see anything meaningful. googling I found references to devices ptmx and pts. There is a /dev/ptmx. I can see it if I do ls /dev/ptmx but not if I do

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-02-28 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 I tried ssh -vv ..., but did not see anything meaningful. googling I found references to devices ptmx and pts

Re: ssh ... PTY allocation request failed on channel 0

2011-02-28 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Rafael Kitover ... wrote: On 2/28/2011 8:51 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello, I am trying to ssh to g...@github.com, and I get the error PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 ... That message

Re: failed to activate core devices errors

2011-02-23 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, vometia wrote: katrin schmid wrote: i am trying to start XWin.exe in any of the ways described here: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using.html and with just XWin.exe and ends in Sementation fault

Spurious Connection reset by peer problems anybody?

2011-02-22 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi listies, over the weekend I came across a description of a Windows socket problem which might affect some of us.  Fortunately I also came across the potential solution. My question is, does anybody have a scenario in which he or

Re: How to evaluate cygwin state after interrupted update - and how to recover/resume?

2010-10-03 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 10/2/2010 6:03 PM, Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hello I was installing a new package (aspell) and the latest updates.  After the file download, the obsolete packages were removed.  Then the installation

How to evaluate cygwin state after interrupted update - and how to recover/resume?

2010-10-02 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello I was installing a new package (aspell) and the latest updates. After the file download, the obsolete packages were removed. Then the installation step started. During iirc aspell's installation, I got an error prompt from rapapp.exe (c++ error), after which the installation procedure

does the `notexec' mount option influence file access performance on a server?

2010-09-30 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, I have the following /etc/fstab entry //server/mirko/ /z dont_care binary,posix=0,user,noacl,notexec 0 0 for a server directory where I store my backups. I will not be using any of those files as executables. I have cygwin running on my desktop. The manual states that the `exec'

copying from desktop to server changes group and permissions

2010-08-13 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, when I copy a file from my desktop to the location on our server, it changes permissions and group from root to Domain Users ls -l tree.eps -rw--- 1 977315 root 69488 2010-06-06 21:02 tree.eps /home/The-Works/invention-disclosures+patents/1590--networked-shh-channels ls -l

tar permission errors when copying directories to a server

2010-08-11 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, I use tar to backup my files to a server using a command tar cf - . --exclude-from=./.backup-exclude | (cd $dest_dir; tar xvf -) $log_file After finally upgrading to 1.7, I started getting the following errors: tar: ./dir-name1: Cannot change mode to rwx-w--w-: Permission denied

where to find libjpeg62-6b-21?

2010-07-13 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, this is a follow-up on the topic of gs and missing libraries: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00104.html I have the same problem, and I tried to solve it by installing libjpeg6b. In the original post, the problem was solved by installing libjpeg-62-6b-21 from the `obsolete

Re: where to find libjpeg62-6b-21?

2010-07-13 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Marco Atzeri marco_atz...@yahoo.it wrote: --- Mar 13/7/10, Mirko Vukovic ha scritto: Hello, this is a follow-up on the topic of gs and missing libraries: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00104.html I have the same problem, and I tried to solve

Re: Unable to initiate X server

2009-09-23 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:17 PM, cs liew chiasi...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I installed Cygwin and I tried to initiate X server but an error message showed up which says A fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/X will now exit. Please open /var/log/XWin.0.log for more information. So what

setup.exe crashes when removing xorg-server

2009-03-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server. I am running on windows XP I have updated to the latest setup.exe (2.573.2.3), and rebooted. I do not see any x-processes in either task manager or windows

setup.exe crashes when removing xorg-server

2009-03-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hello, After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server. I am running on windows XP I have updated to the latest setup.exe (2.573.2.3), and rebooted. I do not see any x-processes in either task manager or windows

Re: setup.exe crashes when removing xorg-server

2009-03-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, t...@panix.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Mirko Vukovic barely.remembered-in.t...@to.munge.this wrote: After (actually during) my last cygwin update, the installation procedure crashes when setup tries to uninstall xorg-server.  I am running on windows XP

Re: Rsync on two Windows machines: way one clear

2008-10-27 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Richard Ivarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote: [..] Do I have to configure modules on the remote PC? I hoped not because it means the local PC's rsync scripts are not flexible anymore, but testwise I did so: Remote PC's rsyncd.conf reads for example:

Re: How to backup Cygwin packages list?

2008-05-09 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Fergus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to backup the packages list of my current Cygwin installation, ie the config files which list which packages Cygwin got installed. So that I could take this configuration file(s) to another PC with fresh Cygwin

Re: How to backup Cygwin packages list?

2008-05-07 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Richard Ivarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to backup the packages list of my current Cygwin installation, ie the config files which list which packages Cygwin got installed. So that I could take this configuration file(s) to another PC with fresh

Re: Rsync

2008-05-06 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Ronald Finnegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please tell me how I can get rsync running on my cygwin install? Thanks Ronald W. Finnegan Bioinformaticist, NIMH Laboratory of Neurotoxicology 10 Center Drive Room 3D42 Bethesda, MD 20892-1262 301 594

Re: How to set default startup directory for cygwin

2008-02-18 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Glen Mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I looked in the FAQ and could not find the answer to this question, so am asking here. Whenever I start cygwin, I need to cd several levels down to the only directory that I care about when using cygwin. How

Re: How to set default startup directory for cygwin

2008-02-18 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Glen Mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 9:45 AM, Mirko Vukovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Glen Mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I looked in the FAQ and could not find the answer to this question

Re: how to build gsl dll

2008-02-18 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mirko 2008/2/17, Mirko Vukovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to build a dll for gsl. I want to link it to clisp. I would suggest not to use a static clisp module, just use the FFI. This is much simplier

Re: [cffi-devel] Re: how to build gsl dll

2008-02-18 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirko Vukovic schrieb: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Reini Urban wrote: 2008/2/17, Mirko Vukovic: I am trying to build a dll for gsl. I want to link it to clisp. I would suggest not to use a static clisp

Re: [cffi-devel] Re: how to build gsl dll

2008-02-18 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Luís Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/02/2008, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luís, cannot this be a bit simplified for :cygwin? I've always have to do this. libsndfile.so.1 can be automatically translated to cygsndfile-1.dll.

how to build gsl dll

2008-02-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Hi, I am trying to build a dll for gsl. I want to link it to clisp. However, when after downloading the gsl source (and I saw it being downloaded), I cannot find it (/usr/src is completely empty, and find did not return much other than many *.h files, dll's etc). On the other hand the gsl

Re: how to build gsl dll

2008-02-17 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirko Vukovic wrote: I am trying to build a dll for gsl. I want to link it to clisp. Why? The Cygwin gsl packages already contains everything you need, including both shared and static versions. Install the 'gsl

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clisp-2.43-2, new: clisp-gtk2, clisp-gdi, clisp-clx

2008-01-07 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Jan 5, 2008 7:36 PM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've released a new release clisp-2.43-2 for cygwin. ./configure --fsstnd=redhat --with-dynamic-ffi \ --with-module=rawsock --with-module=dirkey \ --with-module=bindings/win32 --with-module=berkeley-db \

Re: Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

2007-12-14 Thread Mirko Vukovic
On Dec 13, 2007 6:25 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin X) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirko Vukovic wrote: Hi, I have cygwin installed as a server on my desktop. I can log into it from my linux box using ssh, but I cannot open displays on the linux box. By that I mean that if I login in using

Re: scripting and cygwin

2007-06-01 Thread Mirko Vukovic
Phil Betts wrote: John wrote on Friday, June 01, 2007 3:05 AM:: I finished the script I have been working on. Unfortunately, this Pee Cee version won't even finish the full data run as it crashes with Zone Alarm. Since I have a long term good relationship with Zone Alarm, I have to write