Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
Al wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of a common patch repository to bring the

distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-16 Thread Paul McFerrin
Hello: I'm trying to upgrade my apache from version 1.3.22 to version Server version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) that I just downloaded using setup.exe. At present, it can not kill of the children nor start them without getting the error Bad system call. I've yet to get anywhere. Version 2 is

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-16 Thread Paul McFerrin
Sorry for double posting, went to wrong mailing list!! - Hello: I guess I should have attached my httpd.conf file since I had to make changes in my configuration to avoid more changes.. For the record, both access_log and error_log were empty.

Creating a file within Cygwin with setting SYSTEM attribute

2010-08-28 Thread Paul McFerrin
I have access to cpio sources that I would like to add support for copying/creating Cygwin's symbolic links. At present, any files I create would be as regular files. Any hints as how I would set this attribute so I could create these symbolic links. Does setting _IFLNK in the mode

symlinks in 1.5 not readable in 1.7

2010-08-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
I've been working for months on this problem since 1.7 went official.. I'm runningWin XP Pro sp3 on an all NTFS filesystems. I was a beta tester for several months before 1.7 went official. In all of my testing as beta, my 1.5 symlinks worked in both 1.5 and 1.7. After (or during) the 1.7

1.5 symlinks not readable in 1.7

2010-08-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
Sorry for re-submission. Forgot the attachment. I've been working for months on this problem since 1.7 went official.. I'm runningWin XP Pro sp3 on an all NTFS filesystems. I was a beta tester for several months before 1.7 went official. In all of my testing as beta, my 1.5 symlinks worked

Why did cal disappear in disrto??

2010-08-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
Could I get some from authority to address this issue? I noticed that when download the latest Cygwin distro the other day into a new PC, the cal package was nolonger included in any packages. However during the entire Beta test of Cygwin, it was there. Why was there a package removal a f t

missing dependency in setup.ini

2010-06-15 Thread Paul McFerrin
I did a total install of 1.7 and founf a missing dependency. for he man command. It failed to download the gunzip command. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Re: missing dependency in setup.ini

2010-06-15 Thread Paul McFerrin
-0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: I did a total install of 1.7 and founf a missing dependency. for he man command. It failed to download the gunzip command. gzip is a dependency of man and it is part of Base so it really should be there. gunzip is a shell script so maybe you're trying to run

can't find online mainling list

2010-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
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Can't find mailist archives

2010-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
I can't find the mailing lists archive. Did they get moved but just didn't update the links?? I can't seem to Navigate around to find the pages entitled Mailing List Archive s. When ever I click upon it's link (discussion) , it taked me to the top of it's current page which is at:

can't find documentation on cron command

2010-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
I've delayed many months for installing the /usr/sbin/cron.exe command. Mainly due to lack of documentation. Bam, at my weakest moment, . I found the documentation embeeded in the cron command itself. Just by adding a -? or --help I got two pages of very helpfull output. Just about when I

Program cgystart does not recognize .pl file type; gets mime type incorrect

2010-03-08 Thread Paul McFerrin
I ran into my first real problem with cygstart. When I execute cygstart with the argument: sendemail.pl The browser window has the source-code being displayed. If I copy from browser window back to an rxvt window, I get my source code back. I received no error messages from cygwin.

Error about syntax on fstab when cygwin1.dll gets loaded

2010-03-03 Thread Paul McFerrin
Every time my cygwin system comes back up, I aways get these 2 messages: 3 [main] ksh 2964 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'type' 160 [main] ksh 2964 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'type' I looked into /etc/fstab and did not find the text 'type'. However in /etc/fstab.d/Paul,

pipes are still buggy in 1.7

2010-03-02 Thread Paul McFerrin
Hi folks: I've been tryinh to get the following code to work. What I trying to do is to run a ps command 2 times (with 3 secs separation) and have the awk program capture the output kill all processes for a shutdown script. Something is hanging. It does not run and control-C controol-\

tail command does not work as advertised

2010-03-02 Thread Paul McFerrin
The tail +4 commands does not work as advertised. When given such command (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file. With the command tail +5 -, it produces the desired output with some junk on standard output. See examples: $ ps -a | tail +5 - tail: cannot open `+5'

Feature Request: Allow cron to terminate with SIGHUP

2010-03-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
With every Cygwin session I have two windows opened: One CONSOLE and the other a miscelanious windon running rxvt. When I want to shut down Cygwin and it's web servers, I just exit the console window. When I exit the console window, every process gets terminated with SIGHUP. No exceptions

changes in symbolic links

2010-02-28 Thread Paul McFerrin
Sometime within the past 1-2 years, the format of symbolic links must have changed. I keep finding broken links in my web pages. The directory bit is still set but the System attribute is not set anymore. If it is true that symbolic links did change, I would like to know which cygwin1.dll

I have a weird problem - double your files overnight with Perfect Disk - A Bug!!

2010-02-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
This is a weird problem. Caused by interaction of cygwin 1.7 and Perfect Disk 7.0 (defragmeter). A couple of days ago, I was defragmenting my drive C: when I discovered a copy of every cygwin's file with a naming convention of: AY63D92E~orig.file.name~. The leading chars were 8

Question: about /proc/mounts

2010-02-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
I discovered a read-only filesystem called /proc/mounts which is symbolically linked from /etc/mtab. My question is: who populates this data?? I got a cyclic-loop caused by drive C being mounted twice. as /c and /cygdrive/c I would like to get rid of the cygdrive one but it is special

Downloading cygwin 1.5.*

2010-02-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
Should I always receive the warning dialog about 1.7 even though I *think* I'm about to download 1.5. That's a scary thought! Well this dialog is preventing me from continuing. I would feel much better if either: 1) dialog box suppressed or 2) some other feedback that I'm downloading a 1.5

test for hard links always fail with pdksh

2010-02-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
A new wrinkle with hard links. If you are testing for them in pdksh, they will always fail. I.E.: if test -L links/$filename.$inumb then : else ln $filename $filename.$inumb fi The above test will always fail and thus will always attempt to re-create the hard link. --

Re: Question about SIGEMT under Cygwin

2010-02-23 Thread Paul McFerrin
This is a FYI on subject: Problem appears with httpd V2.0.63 as well as V2.2.2. I have compiled both versions and they both act the same. Sounds like a generic problem with cygwin, an educated guess. There is some code in connection.c which comments the fact that you should define

Question about SIGEMT under Cygwin

2010-02-22 Thread Paul McFerrin
This question is for Larry Hall. Does signal SIGEMT mean anything under Cygwin? I have a Webserver process (httpd) that is terminating with a signal SIGEMT? When I looked at the code, I saw no use for SIGEMT. I'm assuming the signal is generated external to the process. - Paul --

Re: Best way to backup 1.5 to go to 1.7

2010-01-22 Thread Paul McFerrin
If you have both 1.5 1.7, they can sorta co-exist. Leave your 1.5 system alone. Now crate download 1.7 into a new node. (e.g./cygwinII). Just make sure everything is separate, include your update nodes and create a new start icon for 1.7 only. You might want to enforce separate

Re: slowdown in mv operation

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
. Paul McFerrin wrote: I have over 12,000 music files I frequently move around using the mv command with both source destination on the same FS. Under Cygwin 1.5, this script would act amazedly fast that it would be impossible to read your screen.. I do have trace turned on. Now

Can't find any info on eventvwr or syslog-ng or eventlog

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
I discovered that cygwin has both packages for eventlog and syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in man, info, and the command itself. I have them both installed, (says setup.exe) but I can only find the command itself for syslog-ng. With both packages installed, I can find

Re: Can't find any info on eventvwr or syslog-ng or eventlog

2010-01-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
Subject should read: Can't find any info on eventlog and syslog-ng Paul McFerrin wrote: I discovered that cygwin has both packages for eventlog and syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in man, info

Can't ujnmount my /pc filesystem

2010-01-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
Folks: I have an unwanted filesystem (NFS) mounted as /pc that I need to get it unmounted ASAP. Here is the mount output: a: /a some_fs binary 0 0 /bin /bin some_fs binary 0 0 C: /c some_fs binary 0 0 D: /d some_fs binary 0 0 E: /e some_fs binary 0 0 /etc /etc some_fs binary 0 0 F: /f some_fs

slowdown in mv operation

2010-01-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
I have over 12,000 music files I frequently move around using the mv command with both source destination on the same FS. Under Cygwin 1.5, this script would act amazedly fast that it would be impossible to read your screen.. I do have trace turned on. Now under Cygwin 1.7, my trace output

Lesson on internals; what associates /

2010-01-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
It's time for a lesson in cygwin internals. What associates the root of a filesystem?? I'm getting an invalid value for /. i.e. When I do a cd /, it will fail. I will get the error message: cd: / - No such file or directory. Obviously there is something in the environment it doesn't

I'm confussed: / vs. fstab

2010-01-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
My PC has two instances of cygwin. My production is 1,7,1-1 while I'm trying to get my 1.5 working again. For my 1.5, I have populated the /c/_cygwinCD/etc/fstab with the following contents: /c/_cygwinCD/etc.$ cat fstab C:/_cygwinCD/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/_cygwinCD/lib on

RE: Lesson on internals; what associates / with root

2010-01-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
Never mind. It's one thing to read something that is written but something else when I make a connection. I have connected. The answer is: fstab. Paul McFerrin wrote: It's time for a lesson in cygwin internals. What associates the root of a filesystem?? I'm getting an invalid value

can't umount my /pc filesystem

2010-01-16 Thread Paul McFerrin
Folks: I have an unwanted filesystem (NFS) mounted as /pc that I need to get it unmounted ASAP. Here is the mount output: a: /a some_fs binary 0 0 /bin /bin some_fs binary 0 0 C: /c some_fs binary 0 0 D: /d some_fs binary 0 0 E: /e some_fs binary 0 0 /etc /etc some_fs binary 0 0 F: /f some_fs

minor error from /etc/fstab

2010-01-14 Thread Paul McFerrin
I always get the following error when cygwin1.dll gets loaded for the first time: 1 [main] ksh 3000 read_flags: invalid fstab option - '0' Anyone know why I see such a message. On the flip side, every things else seems normal. Here is my mount tab: $ mount C:/cygwinV/bin on /usr/bin type

Re: Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-14 Thread Paul McFerrin
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 scripting. I'm a happy camper!! As far as trying

Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-10 Thread Paul McFerrin
Folks: I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other documentation. I'm having terriable problems is getting my .bat/.sh script working and I'm thinking changing shells. I normally use the same routine for all .bat scripts. =backup_e.bat== echo off set ENV=/dev/null

What happens to disappearing programs when ones I used disappear from 1.7.1-1

2010-01-05 Thread Paul McFerrin
Fellows: I from time to time miss some of my programs AND they are not listed in the http://cygwin.com/packages/ page. One in particular which is a heavey hitter for me is col.exe. I frequenly use the col commad as: man pdksh | col -b pdksh.man It safely removes spaces / backspaces

Need more instructions in setup.exe

2010-01-05 Thread Paul McFerrin
FOLKS: How does one get to the util-linux package. I can't find that category using the standard setup.exe? I keep seeing this category in setup.ini but know where else. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

2009-12-30 Thread Paul McFerrin
Now that's been cleared up, I've reinstalled the default package and the C compiler now works. Should have noticed the ps.exe missing is a clue. I'm off to getting PHP installed now. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Dave Korn wrote: File crt0.o is missing. Is it supposed

Re: MyC Compiled can't compile {}

2009-12-28 Thread Paul McFerrin
with reconfigure scripts used to reconfigure a makefile. If someone can advised me of which packages to uninstall, I'll be happy to re-install then, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:08:52PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: My C compiler is at: $ ls -l /bin/cc.exe lrwxrwxrwx 1

Re: MyC Compiled can't compile {}

2009-12-28 Thread Paul McFerrin
agree, could someome tell me which packages to uninstall? Your installation may be working, but mine isn't. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: I discover my C compiler is broken while performing a configure. The compiler is fine. $ echo {} test.c Your testcase

Re: C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

2009-12-28 Thread Paul McFerrin
, but my compiler is still broken!!! I'm admitting to my memory error. Let's move forward. Reid Thompson wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: My C compiler appears to be broken: .$ cc -v -O test.c what are the contents of test.c -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

MyC Compiled can't compile {}

2009-12-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
I discover my C compiler is broken while performing a configure. $ echo {} test.c $ cc -O test.c -o test test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token /usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -V test.c -o test cc: couldn't run 'i686-pc-cygwin-gcc-test.c': No such file or

Re: Where did /bin/ps.exe go?

2009-12-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
What I was asking is WHERE IT WAS. I could not find it. So I created another instance of Cygwin and copied the missing items (~12). Just trying to resolve the problem. Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/27/2009 12:18 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: Paul that happens sometimes if the user simply

C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1

2009-12-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
My C compiler appears to be broken: .$ cc -v -O test.c Using built-in specs. Target: i686-pc-cygwin Configured with: /gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4/configure --srcdir=/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4 --prefix=/usr

Re: MyC Compiled can't compile {}

2009-12-27 Thread Paul McFerrin
, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. configure:4896: $? = 0 configure:4903: gcc -v 5 Using built-in specs. Does this help you??? Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: I

Where did /bin/ps.exe go?

2009-12-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
My .profile was setup to perform some intelligent switching between procps() and ps() when I discovered there was no ps.exe. Did it really disappear?? Can't find it in setup2.ini. Paul McFerrin wrote: Doing my bi-weekly update of my 1.7 installation, I noticed that it download my whole

Re: Where did /bin/ps.exe go?

2009-12-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
Ok. What package do I have to reinstall to get my ps.exe back? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 09:57:49PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: My .profile was setup to perform some intelligent switching between procps() and ps() when I discovered there was no ps.exe. Did

Re: A question about setup.exe

2009-12-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
to to a full install of 1.7 AND add back/test all of my local stuff. Basically what I have: A full installation of 1.7.0-65 with current time as MTIME. (useless) A full installation of Cygwin 1.7 download into local directory. No way to make #1 #2 to meet!! Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/24 Paul

Re: A question about setup.exe

2009-12-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
. On your running cygwin system, delete all but 1st line in file /etc/setup/installed.db. 4. Shutdown your running cygwin sysrem 5. Click the NEXT button in setup and your re-installation will begin. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:05:57PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: Does

Borken link on cygwin.com home page

2009-12-23 Thread Paul McFerrin
On the home page for cygwin.com, these is a broken link at: Latest Cygwin DLL release version is 1.7.1-1 (broken link) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-12/msg000XX.html I'm cleaning up my 1.5 distro. Boy I didn't tkink that day would come! Good work to all you

A question about setup.exe

2009-12-23 Thread Paul McFerrin
I did the upgrade to 1.7.1-1 without any problems. During the remainder of the day, I accidentally blew away my installation of 1.7.1-1. I restored my installation from a backup several days old (1.7.0-65). Now I'm trying to upgrade again. Now the questions I have are: When I run setup

Did I missing the official announcement that 1.7 went official?

2009-12-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
Doing my bi-weekly update of my 1.7 installation, I noticed that it download my whole installation again and took at least an hour to perform at RR speeds. I was in the hospital for a while so I was out of it for a while when I deleted a bunch of old mail messageg but I looked first. My

Re: Can't build PHP 5.3.1 under Cygwin 1.7.0-68

2009-12-10 Thread Paul McFerrin
wondering what I would be missing if I use --disable_libxml2 and forget about libxml2 all together.?? About setup.exe, is there a way to clear/uncheck everything when dealing with cygports? I don't like wasting time bandwidth for throw-aways. Paul McFerrin wrote: I have the 5.3.1 distro and also

Re: [REQ] Please package SendMail for Cygwin

2009-12-09 Thread Paul McFerrin
On another side note... There is a product from sourceforge.net called msmtp which can be configured either as a smtp client or as a replacement for sendmail. I myself downloaded the sources and sucessfully compiled it all under cygwin 1.7-67. I've been using msmtp as a smtp client without

Can't build PHP 5.3.1 under Cygwin 1.7.0-68

2009-12-09 Thread Paul McFerrin
I have the 5.3.1 distro and also have libxml2 (2.7.4-1). There is one major obstacle in the configure script. Since the xml2 distro does NOT have a file named libxml2-configure, it gives up. Where can I find a copy of this file??? I tried using --with-libxml-dir /bin without any sucess.

Re: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible

2009-11-26 Thread Paul McFerrin
A defunct process is not necesarily the real problem. All defunct process are processes that their parent has NOT done a wait(2) yet. Since these defunct processes have called exit(2), they must hang around until a wait(2) is completed so that the exit status can be returned to the parent.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

2009-11-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from mirror.nyi.net (http). What is wrong? .$ uname -v 2009-11-19 10:07 Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update? Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66. If

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66

2009-11-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
I understand completely now that I know the mirrors operate in pull mode. Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/25/2009 04:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:42:45PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Paul McFerrin
Don't you mean, Stand in line? :) Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote: I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror I selected only gives about

Re: cygcheck -cd : No setup information

2009-10-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
is not a very helpful clue. The same error as my fresh install on cygwin onto my USB Flash drive. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: What setup information is chgcheck looking for? File /etc/setup/installed.db is present. That's where it ought to be looking. Does it contain

Re: cygcheck -cd : No setup information

2009-10-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
-cache -rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None17 Oct 25 17:02 last-action So just by downloading something, the problem went away (Humm). I can't explain this or reproduce it anymore Paul McFerrin wrote: Here is my ENTIRE chgcheck -c output: $ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information No setup information found

Re: cygcheck -cd : No setup information

2009-10-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
What gives. I see thru-out the source code reference to fopen(a, ..., rt) but when I look at the various manual paes for fopen, I find nothing about the t. What is t? Any GURU want to answer? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: cygcheck -cd : No setup information

2009-10-25 Thread Paul McFerrin
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/25/2009 09:47 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: What gives. I see thru-out the source code reference to fopen(a, ..., rt) but when I look at the various manual paes for fopen, I find nothing about the t. What is t? Any GURU want to answer? The opposite of rb. b

cygcheck -cd : No setup information

2009-10-24 Thread Paul McFerrin
I just got gone setting up a cygwin 1.7 installation on my USB flash drive. Everything look good except for one thing. When I do the following: $ cygcheck -cd cygwin|sed -e 1,2d -re s/cygwin[ \t]+// $ cygcheck -cd cygwin Cygwin Package Information No setup information found The

Re: gawk Has Problem With CRLF in Mixed Binary/Text Files

2009-10-22 Thread Paul McFerrin
I don't have an answer to your specific problem. But as a side issue, I see that your PATH is very long. You might consider using a lot of hard links say in a directory /lbin with a buch of hard links to the real executables in other directories. You can then shorten PATH and remove those

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
a more current copy. My old version is at least 10 years old. Before B20 of Cygwin. Is Linux open-source?? Is is legal/possible to use these applicable pages? Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/18 Paul McFerrin: Yes, it is an emulation of a Kernel No, there is no _syscall interface

Re: Version error from set-1.7.exe

2009-10-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: What exactly is: local package directory. It's the directory where setup.exe keeps local copies of all the packages it installs, which you select on the fourth screen of setup.exe. My directory (/updates) is void of any *.ini files

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
. They were downloaded from: http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2 which were PRE pre-formatted .html files converted back to man files; including B I processing for dumb rxvt windows. Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin: I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a man2 sub

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

2009-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
I agree with Dave with trying to deny access to a particular user under cygwin. The support is not there. I will touch on an actual feature that provides this capability. Under Amdahl UTS Unix, e.g. SVR3 like, there was feature that relied on the proper implementation of the chroot(2) system

Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a man2 sub-directory but it is empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual. I've been relying on the BSD distribution of the man pages and I get the

Version error from set-1.7.exe

2009-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
I need a little help is getting rid of a pop-box from setup-1.7.exe: stating: The current .ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe ... I looked high low for a setup.ini on my system and can not find one. Where is it locating one? I've re-download setu-1.7.exe from the web site.and

Re: Version error from set-1.7.exe

2009-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
%2fmirror.internode.on.net%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f) Dave Korn wrote: (Sorry, accidentally hit Ctrl+enter when I was trying to press Ctrl+v followed by enter and ended up sending an empty reply.) Paul McFerrin wrote: I need a little help is getting rid of a pop-box from setup-1.7.exe: stating

Re: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty

2009-10-17 Thread Paul McFerrin
: 2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin: I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a man2 sub-directory but it is empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual. Section 2 is system calls, which don't exist

HELP- Can't umount wife pc as /pc

2009-10-09 Thread Paul McFerrin
The other week I mounted my wife's PC as /pc and when I was finished I completely forgot about it. I was wonder why /pc was filled with a lot of stuff and didn't realized it was still mounted. Now that I relized it, using umount V 1.10, I can NOT umount it without getting the error:

Re: [Bug-wget] Timeouts too long?

2009-10-03 Thread Paul McFerrin
I've written a small nifty program that will terminate a command line after N seconds. It was written nearly 18 years ago and has served me very well. I'm not saying that you always live with bad program design, but having a solution is quite nice. The usage is: tcmd [-s {sig#}] [-t

Wrong permission on C:\, how to change it, possible OT

2009-10-03 Thread Paul McFerrin
I have a PC that is running Cygwin 1.5.25-15 on top of Windows XP Pro, SP2. My problem is that it will not do a disk boot. If I use the Windows XP Startup disk floppy, the hard-drive comes up fully with XP Pro, but only with the floppy. I've tried using the Recovery Console BOOTCFG cmd but

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-03 Thread Paul McFerrin
What does all of these means for users converting from cygwin 1.5? Do we have to change anything we are doing today? I live in the good-ole US, speak/understanding english. Did my ancesters get on the wrong boat? Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test

typeset sem-failures in PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2

2009-09-19 Thread Paul McFerrin
Hello: The following simple script fails to produce a leading 0 on variable nextnum. Am I doing something wrong or did I discover a bug? PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 /home/paul.$ cat /lbin/testit2 #!/bin/pdksh n=06 typeset -L2 nextnum nextnum=`expr $n + 01` echo $nextnum /home/paul.$

[Fwd: Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows]

2009-08-29 Thread Paul McFerrin
---BeginMessage--- Well there is more than one way to kill this cat. Let me add my cocktail. I have a need to automatically run scripts, totally written in cygwin using ksh as my shell. For example I have a number of .bat files performing necessary startup functions: echo off

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-59

2009-08-18 Thread Paul McFerrin
I'm not making a feature request but rather some future discussion ideas. We all seem to remember sub-version numbers like: 1.7.0.-44 There is some benefits in using a consistant numbering scheme. When I use the uname command, I don't care what date my dll was created. I would like for

creating persistance mounts

2009-08-14 Thread Paul McFerrin
When I first generated my 1.7 cygwin system, it created the System mount points for me. In looking the documentations for mount, I can not find the necessary info to create a persistance system mount. Anything I mount get taged as a user mount. What's the secret. I use the -s options, it

Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe

2009-08-04 Thread Paul McFerrin
Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does work properly: $ cd

Re: Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe

2009-08-04 Thread Paul McFerrin
Paul McFerrin wrote: Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does work properly

Re: Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe

2009-08-04 Thread Paul McFerrin
. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does

Re: Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe

2009-08-04 Thread Paul McFerrin
I believe this is a non-problem. The cause: human error. Doing a cd /c/Doc*/pa*/App*is not the same as cd /c/Doc*/Pa*/App* Wildcard lookups are always case sensitive. I must not have been consistant when switching between Windows. Paul McFerrin wrote: Dave: Let's put this prob

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56

2009-08-02 Thread Paul McFerrin
Folks. Try again with updating 1.7-56. When it is downloaded from mirror: mirror.nyi.net, my 1.7 instance of cygwin will nolonger come up!! Using my 1.5 instance, and the strings command, I check the 1.7.0-56 version of cygwin1.dll and it comes up with:

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-56

2009-08-02 Thread Paul McFerrin
I forced a REINSTALL of cygwin1.dll and this time it downloaded the correct version. Everything is fine now. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 05:15:33PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: Folks. Try again with updating 1.7-56. When it is downloaded from mirror: mirror.nyi.net

Mismatch cygwin1.dll

2009-08-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
After downloading the latest updates arount 7PM tonight, I ended up with strange version numbers: For dll 1.5 $ cd /c/cygwin/bin $ ls -lc cygwin1.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul Paul 1872884 Mar 4 04:01 cygwin1.dll $ strings /bin/cygwin1.dll | grep

Re: Mismatch cygwin1.dll

2009-08-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
the cygwin's download that went haywired on me earlier. - Pauo Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:50:13PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: After downloading the latest updates arount 7PM tonight, I ended up with strange version numbers: For dll 1.5 $ cd /c/cygwin/bin $ ls -lc

Protection mode: an inquiry

2009-07-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
Just one question... Is there a good reason why http://cygwin.com/1.7/ and below have their permission set to no access? My memory is not so good these days and I find directory searches are much easier than remembering their full names. Makes me wonder What are you hiding. -- Problem

Re: Protection mode: an inquiry

2009-07-01 Thread Paul McFerrin
Thanks. I always wanted to know about bomb construction details. :+() Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 1 14:16, Paul McFerrin wrote: Just one question... Is there a good reason why http://cygwin.com/1.7/ and below have their permission set to no access? My memory is not so good

Re: Selling management on Cygwin

2009-05-14 Thread Paul McFerrin
If you are looking for technical reason to make cygwin the default, then give it up. Of a person has spent years on a MS system, they will be reluctant to change. Contrary to a person using a *Unix system will be very glad to use tools that they know. You'll trying to force everyone to use

How can I get the lynx command to display normal instead of reverse video

2009-04-19 Thread Paul McFerrin
To reduce the total amount to light in my eyes, I use reverse video for everything (fg:white). When I view the cygwin's security html document using lynx, everything is reversed (fb:black). This happens on both my mintty and rxvt windows. Thus I am unable to use the man command to view html

man does not recognise html files

2009-03-29 Thread Paul McFerrin
I think it is great for someone to add html file support to the man command. As indicated in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00300.html , the man command in 1.7 apparently does not work for html files. If this was answered, please excuse me being hospitalized for more than a week

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
What package contains cls. Can't seem to find it. Dave Korn wrote: Thomas Wiedmann wrote: cmd /c cls doesn't work. It gives the output: ♀ In a DOS console? In the usual console of Windows XP (ok - DOS console) called with cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Cygwin\bin bash --login -i

Re: Clearing the Cygwin console

2009-03-21 Thread Paul McFerrin
Oh, cls is one of those built-in commands. Any hints as to where clear went? Sorry 'bout not following the threads but after receiving over 400+ post after a hospital stay, I have no choice to delete about all of them. I'm a little s-l-o-w in returning, -Paul Christopher Faylor wrote:

Re: minTTY will not interrupt 'locked' process

2009-03-10 Thread Paul McFerrin
I'll watch for it to occur again. Is there anything I can collect for you in this besides a ps(1) showing the process is inactive or should I just forget it for now. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:32:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: Several times recently, I have

Can't get man to find local html pages

2009-03-09 Thread Paul McFerrin
When I create directories containing html pages, man can;t find them. I have added to /usr/share/misc/man.conf, the following entry: MANPATH /usr/man/lman/htmlman1 and I placed the html file at: /usr/man/lman/htmlman1/ntsec.html. I followed the following instructions per man man: HTML

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