Re: ITP: makeself -- Utility to generate self-extractable archives

2012-10-07 Thread Steven Monai
On 07/10/12 11:26 AM, Jari Aalto wrote: wget --recursive --no-host-directories --cut-dirs=3 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://cante.net/~jaalto/tmp/cygwin/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2 \

A cygport build script for openssh

2012-03-22 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, I recently downloaded the latest 'openssh' source package (5.9p1-1) via setup.exe, and was disappointed to discover that it did not come with an automated build script. Isn't every package supposed to have one? (The Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide seems to imply this.) Anyway, as a

[RFU] md5deep-4.1-1

2012-03-21 Thread Steven Monai
Please upload wget http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/md5deep/md5deep-4.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/md5deep/md5deep-4.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/md5deep/setup.hint and leave md5deep-3.6-1 as the previous version. I have included the setup.hint file in the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: md5deep-4.1-1

2012-03-21 Thread Steven Monai
Version 4.1-1 of 'md5deep' has been uploaded to the Cygwin archive, and should soon appear at a Cygwin mirror near you. This version supercedes 3.6-1, which remains available as the previous version. md5deep is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests

Updated: md5deep-4.1-1

2012-03-21 Thread Steven Monai
Version 4.1-1 of 'md5deep' has been uploaded to the Cygwin archive, and should soon appear at a Cygwin mirror near you. This version supercedes 3.6-1, which remains available as the previous version. md5deep is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool message digests

[RFU] maradns-2.0.06-1

2012-03-20 Thread Steven Monai
Please upload wget http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/maradns/maradns-2.0.06-1.tar.bz2 \ http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/maradns/maradns-2.0.06-1-src.tar.bz2 and leave maradns-1.4.04-1 available as the previous version. Thanks, -SM --

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: maradns-2.0.06-1

2012-03-20 Thread Steven Monai
Version 2.0.06-1 of 'maradns' has been uploaded to the Cygwin archive, and should soon appear at a Cygwin mirror near you. This version supercedes 1.4.04-1, which remains available as the previous version. MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service (DNS), an essential internet

Updated: maradns-2.0.06-1

2012-03-20 Thread Steven Monai
Version 2.0.06-1 of 'maradns' has been uploaded to the Cygwin archive, and should soon appear at a Cygwin mirror near you. This version supercedes 1.4.04-1, which remains available as the previous version. MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service (DNS), an essential internet

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: maradns-1.4.04-1

2010-09-14 Thread Steven Monai
Version 1.4.04-1 of 'maradns' has been uploaded to the Cygwin archive, superceding 1.4.03-2, which remains available as the previous version. MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service (DNS), an essential internet service. For full details, see the project website:

Updated: maradns-1.4.04-1

2010-09-14 Thread Steven Monai
Version 1.4.04-1 of 'maradns' has been uploaded to the Cygwin archive, superceding 1.4.03-2, which remains available as the previous version. MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service (DNS), an essential internet service. For full details, see the project website:

[RFU] maradns-1.4.04-1

2010-09-13 Thread Steven Monai
Please upload wget http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/maradns/maradns-1.4.04-1.tar.bz2 \ http://dev.monai.ca/cygwin/maradns/maradns-1.4.04-1-src.tar.bz2 and leave maradns-1.4.03-2 available as the previous version. Thanks, -SM --

Re: cygwin - rsync question

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/09/04 9:30 AM, Dan Miller wrote: I'm running windows XP Cygwin with latest updates I have a bash script that sets up a directory structure for rsync to perform incremental backups. It all works fine locally. I'd like to use the same approach to backup my local files to a windows

Re: How do I kill ssmtp?

2010-08-26 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/26 9:51 AM, Blaine Miller wrote: I'm getting an inordinate amount of mail in the deadletter files, some 400 meg since this server started. I've grepped for the PID to kill the process, I've looked in the Services table in Windows and I've looked in the Programs, uninstall and can't

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/07 8:30 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Hi Chuck, Thank you for your thorough review of the packaging and the associated patches. I've decided for ligsigc++ and libtorrent to make the base packages the license packages as opposed to having '-lic' packages. I've made all the changes

Re: ITP: rtorret, libtorrent, libsigc++

2010-08-08 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/08 11:48 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/8/2010 12:59 PM, Steven Monai wrote: Some notes about the packaging: The setup.hints of the libtorrent subpackages are missing 'libtorrent' from their 'requires:' lines. Well, yes, they are missing that requirement. But that's because

Re: The dirent struct

2010-08-07 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/06 8:21 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 6 August 2010 20:31, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/08/06 11:48 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I've decided to take a different approach and decided to implement it as follows: #ifdef __CYGWIN__ itr-d_fileno = entry-d_ino; itr-d_reclen

Re: The dirent struct

2010-08-06 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/08/06 11:48 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I've decided to take a different approach and decided to implement it as follows: #ifdef __CYGWIN__ itr-d_fileno = entry-d_ino; itr-d_reclen = strlen(entry-d_name); #else itr-d_fileno = entry-d_fileno; itr-d_reclen =

Re: Moving Cygwin directory safe?

2010-06-27 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/06/27 6:37 AM, Michael Ludwig wrote: The root directory in setup.exe is displayed correctly. Seems to depend on the registry setting. The Local Package Directory path, however, which I copied from G:\CygVar to T:\CygVar, needs fixing. Maybe another registry setting someplace else.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: maradns-1.4.03-2

2010-05-04 Thread Steven Monai
Version 1.4.03-2 of 'maradns' has been uploaded. This version is the initial release of the maradns package for Cygwin. The following was excerpted from the Introduction section of the MaraDNS project website, http://www.maradns.org/ : MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service

New package: maradns-1.4.03-2

2010-05-04 Thread Steven Monai
Version 1.4.03-2 of 'maradns' has been uploaded. This version is the initial release of the maradns package for Cygwin. The following was excerpted from the Introduction section of the MaraDNS project website, http://www.maradns.org/ : MaraDNS is a package that implements the Domain Name Service

Re: [ITP] maradns-1.4.03-1

2010-05-03 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/05/03 3:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Packaging looks good to me. I'm just wondering about the postinstall. Is it really correct to create an empty mararc file? Don't you need to set some defaults by copying an /etc/defaults/etc/mararc file? Yes, I think you're right. Installing an

[ITP] maradns-1.4.03-1

2010-05-02 Thread Steven Monai
Hello folks, I have packaged MaraDNS for Cygwin and am submitting it for review. The upstream website is: http://www.maradns.org/ MaraDNS is already packaged for Debian, i.e: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/maradns Here is my proposed setup.hint: category: Net requires: libgcc1 sdesc:

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-18 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/17 1:24 AM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 05:47:58PM -0700, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/04/14 1:43 PM, d.sastre.medina wrote: New packages are available at: http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/setup.hint http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release

Re: [ITP] gaffitter-0.6.0

2010-04-18 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/17 2:45 AM, Kostya Altukhov wrote: Included in debian stable http://packages.debian.org/gaffitter category: Utils requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6 sdesc:Genetic Algorithm File Fitter. ldesc:Command-line software that extracts subsets of an input list of

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-16 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/14 1:43 PM, d.sastre.medina wrote: New packages are available at: http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/setup.hint http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2 http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1-src.tar.bz2 I can't

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-13 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/13 2:14 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2010-04-13 14:51, d.sastre.medina-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: [snip] I have been trying to figure out the right way to rebuild this package from the upstream sources, but I come across this particularities: -the

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/10 8:58 AM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: Packages are be available from: http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1-src.tar.bz2 http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2 http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/setup.hint

Re: downloading individual packages

2010-04-02 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/04/02 1:18 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ...if you're asking if there's any other tool out there that understands the dependencies listed in setup.ini, besides 'setup.exe', the answer is no. Well, actually... FWIW, the following (seemingly unrelated) projects at Google Code aim to

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: md5deep-3.6-1

2010-03-28 Thread Steven Monai
Version 3.6-1 of 'md5deep' has been uploaded. This version is the initial release of md5deep for Cygwin. The following was excerpted from the Introduction section of the md5deep project homepage, at http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ 'md5deep' is a set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256,

[ITP] md5deep 3.6-1

2010-03-27 Thread Steven Monai
Hello folks, I have packaged md5deep and wish to submit it to the Cygwin package archive. The project website is: http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/ md5deep is already packaged for Debian; here is the URL for sid: http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/md5deep The following is my proposed

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/17 10:28 PM, Dave Korn wrote: On 18/03/2010 00:58, Steven Monai wrote: As an alternative to setting up SSL on cygwin.com, what about the idea of crypto-signing (e.g. with gnupg) every release of setup.exe, and then posting the signature alongside the binary? I know I would breathe

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-18 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/18 8:38 AM, Warren Young wrote: Your proposed solutions don't really work. I disagree. Granted, they are not 100% effective, but since when is perfection the standard by which all solutions are judged? They're crutches which may help in some cases, but they don't absolutely and

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-17 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/17 8:06 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Since I haven't seen any guarantees that adding https would fix this problem I'm not convinced that this justifies the amount of work involved. So, until the mailing list is flooded with people who can't download setup.exe because we don't have

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-17 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/17 6:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Oh. Are we still talking about this? I drifted off. Somebody please wake me when all of this tempest in a bikeshed is over. I don't understand the reason for the dismissive attitude. Pretty much every other distro posts cryptographic hashes

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-15 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/14 12:02 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: We are not going to be installing an https server in the hopes that it will defeat misguided setup.exe blocking for the same reason that we won't be adopting a new versioning scheme - neither is a guarantee. I don't mind trying to figure out

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

2010-03-14 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/14 10:05 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: Here is the proposal: Name setup.exe as cygwin-setup-v.vv.vv.exe or similar meaning and continue to provide setup.exe as the most current cygwin-setup-v.vv.vv.exe (by symlink or redirect) An additional idea: Serve setup.exe via HTTPS. That would

Re: Feature Request: Allow cron to terminate with SIGHUP

2010-03-01 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/03/01 7:51 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: [...] Is there a reason [for cron] to catch SIGHUP? cron, like many UNIX daemon programs, interprets SIGHUP as a signal to close and reopen its log file. This is typically used to facilitate log file rotation. It is quite unlikely that cron's

Re: [ITA] ocaml

2010-02-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/11 1:36 PM, Ed Keith wrote: I would like to put the the source package out so people can find any errors I may have made, but I do not have anywhere where I can park such a large file. Does anyone have any suggestions? There are a number sites out there that will host an open-source

Re: poll() on fifo read descriptor with non-zero timeout == segfault

2010-02-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/09 8:34 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Relevant threads: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/threads.html#00685 http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00067.html Bottom line: The crash is fixed but cygwin still doesn't work right. Doh! (face-palm) It looks like Enrico Forestieri

Re: 1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ?

2010-02-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/09 9:17 PM, William Deegan wrote: When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I get the following error: ssh: Could not resolve hostname myhost.xyz.com: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution I see you have the 'bind' package installed, so you should have

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-07 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/07 8:18 AM, Dave Korn wrote: These both work: http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy! http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy! Nice. But of course, you would only try this if you suspect you're getting a stale 'setup.exe' from a web cache. On the server side (at

Re: poll() on fifo read descriptor with non-zero timeout == segfault

2010-02-07 Thread Steven Monai
Hi again, More information on this issue: My test case runs correctly and crash-free in Linux. This leads me to believe this is a bug in Cygwin's poll(). Even worse, after having adapted the test case to use select() instead of poll(), it appears that select() has the same bug. I've been trying

poll() on fifo read descriptor with non-zero timeout == segfault

2010-02-06 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, Here is a short test case I've named fifo-read.c: #include fcntl.h #include poll.h #include stdio.h #include sys/stat.h #include sys/types.h #include unistd.h struct pollfd pfd[1]; int main() { int fifo; int poll_result; int timeout; /* Open myfifo for reading, non-blocking.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ucspi-tcp-0.88-2

2010-02-03 Thread Steven Monai
Version 0.88-2 of 'ucspi-tcp' has been uploaded. This version is the initial release of ucspi-tcp for Cygwin. Q.: What is UCSPI? A.: UCSPI stands for UNIX Client-Server Programming Interface, which its author describes as a command-line interface to client-server communications tools. It is

Re: 1.7 Public Key Authentication problem

2010-02-03 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/03 10:07 PM, shane fenton wrote: Hi, First time poster - so hopefully will get it right :) Cygwin 1.7 installed on approx 10 machines - XP /2008 domain cyg_server user created Added above user to Quotas/create token/replace token log on as service local admins on pc's added

New package: ucspi-tcp-0.88-2

2010-02-03 Thread Steven Monai
Version 0.88-2 of 'ucspi-tcp' has been uploaded. This version is the initial release of ucspi-tcp for Cygwin. Q.: What is UCSPI? A.: UCSPI stands for UNIX Client-Server Programming Interface, which its author describes as a command-line interface to client-server communications tools. It is

Re: [ITP] ucspi-tcp

2010-02-02 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/02 3:54 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Packaging looks good. Just a question, though. Does the package not come with man pages? No, the original author did not provide man pages, only HTML docs on his website. FWIW, I did a 'wget' of his pages and included them in my package, under

Re: [ITP] ucspi-tcp

2010-02-01 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/01 1:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: There's certainly interest. You just missed out on http://cygwin.com/setup.html#submitting, point 5. Please send the URLs to your binary and source packages, otherwise it's a bit tricky to review them. Sorry, I was a bit confused about when to

[ITP] ucspi-tcp

2010-01-31 Thread Steven Monai
Hello folks, I have created a cygport script to package D. J. Bernstein's 'ucspi-tcp' software. I propose to submit the package for inclusion in the Cygwin package archive, with myself as its maintainer. ucspi-tcp is an implementation of the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface (UCSPI, ooks-pie)

Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, Consider this command line transcript: -- $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 hostname 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin $ cygcheck -c cygport Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus cygport 0.9.80-1

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-01-26 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/26 8:42 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 26/01/2010 20:09, Steven Monai wrote: $ pwd /home/steve/My Documents/bglibs This is not a bug in cygport per se. Spaces in paths is just a bad idea when you're dealing with shell scripts and you will find all sorts of breakage as a result

Re: Blitz++ Package

2010-01-24 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/24 7:07 PM, hughgs wrote: I'm interested in using blitz++ in a project that I'm working on. I'm using cygwin as my platform and couldn't find the blitz++ package on cygwin. So, a couple of questions. First, am I a complete idiot and miss the package and if so can someone point

g++: -ansi flag makes snprintf() unavailable?

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Monai
Hi folks, Here is a very simple C++ test program that uses snprintf() and then prints the result. #include iostream #include stdio.h using namespace std; int main() { char buf[10]; char c = 10; snprintf( buf, sizeof(buf), #x%02X;, (unsigned) ( c 0xff ) ); cout buf '\n'; // printf(

Re: g++: -ansi flag makes snprintf() unavailable?

2010-01-19 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/19 8:06 PM, Eric Blake wrote: Using -ansi generally says that you want the headers to expose ONLY the interfaces mentioned in the C89 standard. But C89 did not describe snprintf, hence your compilation failure. Actually, it looks like -ansi means something slightly different when

Re: Update problems

2010-01-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 6:45 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: So your argument is based on the desire to have *another* package manager application, besides 'setup.exe', that could be used from within Cygwin applications to update Cygwin applications? Something like that, yes. The idea that one should be

Re: scrotwm on cygwin

2010-01-11 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/11 3:22 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: I ported scrotwm to cygwin. Nice package. -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/09 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 8 17:28, Steven Monai wrote: Not to beat a dead hippo here, but if Cygwin allows in-use files to be replaced, then what is 'setup.exe' needed for? (Aside from the initial bootstrap of Cygwin, of course.) Shouldn't it be possible to have

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM: No one thinks its a good idea. And here's one reason why. Newer versions of cygwin1.dll introduce new entry points. But suppose you are updating cygwin1.dll and bash at the same time. If the

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 3:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:28:34PM -0800, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM: No one thinks its a good idea. And here's one reason why. Newer versions of cygwin1

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/09 7:10 AM, Kevin Bond wrote: Hello, I am trying to use rsync in cygwin but it seems to be hanging. Right after it asks me for password of my host the 'building file list...' message displays then hangs. I can ssh into the host fine. Any ideas? One idea:

Re: question with cygwin.bat and Windows Scheduler

2010-01-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/09 5:36 PM, aviate wrote: Hi...tried for a long, long time trying to make this work to no avail...and did not find help online. Using Windows XP, I am running a bash script via the windows task scheduler, which is calling Cygwin.bat ...The command being tasked is:

Re: question with cygwin.bat and Windows Scheduler

2010-01-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/09 7:02 PM, aviate wrote: I was avoiding cron...but it might be most useful here. Is there any way to hide the window popping up by Windows Scheduler?? Yes there is. Install the Cygwin 'run' package (if not installed already). Use the Windows Task Scheduler interface to schedule

Re: question with cygwin.bat and Windows Scheduler

2010-01-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/09 8:42 PM, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/01/09 7:02 PM, aviate wrote: I was avoiding cron...but it might be most useful here. Is there any way to hide the window popping up by Windows Scheduler?? Yes there is. Duh, just replying to myself to let you know that there's an even

Re: Update problems

2010-01-08 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/08 2:38 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/08/2010 03:41 PM, Christian Franke wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 01/07/2010 09:39 PM, David Gast wrote: There are two problems with updating cygwin. 1. If you run setup.exe from bash, bash cannot be updated because the file is

Re: rsync no longer preserves extended ASCII characters after 1.7 upgrade

2009-12-28 Thread Steven Monai
On 2009/12/27 11:12 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: But I think the --iconv option is the better way. Assuming you want to stick with ISO-8859-1 on the Linux side, '--iconv utf8,iso88591' should do the job. Regarding using the '--iconv' option in rsync transfers from Cygwin (charset UTF-8) to Linux

Re: rsync no longer preserves extended ASCII characters after 1.7 upgrade

2009-12-27 Thread Steven Monai
On 2009/12/27 7:56 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote, on 12/27/2009 10:41 PM: I'm running cygwin on a WinXP system with an NTFS-formatted drive. I have a script that regularly backs up using rsync onto a Linux system (Debian) with an ext3 drive. Before the recent major

Re: Change to current directory to %appdata% folder.

2009-12-12 Thread Steven Monai
On 2009/12/12 6:29 PM, Hongyi Zhao wrote: Hi all, I want to change to current directory to %appdata% folder by using some command within cygwin. Is this possible? This command: cd $APPDATA works for me. HTH, -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

1.7.0-64: cygserver linked against cygstdc++-6.dll (libstdc++6)

2009-11-15 Thread Steven Monai
In 1.7.0-64, /usr/sbin/cygserver is linked against cygstdc++-6.dll. cygserver will not run (exit status 128) unless the 'libstdc++6' package is installed. -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-08 Thread Steven Monai
Eliot Moss wrote: There does not seem to be anything like this reported in the rsync list, so I think it's particular to cygwin, and probably to 1.7.x. I really think you should report what you're seeing to the rsync mailing list. It is entirely possible that no one who has run your

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-07 Thread Steven Monai
Eliot Moss wrote: I am getting this output when trying to rsync to any of several systems. I have RSYNC_RSH set to use ssh, and the ssh commands work just fine. This smells like some kind of non-matching library issue to me ... rsync: Failed to dup/close: Bad file descriptor (9) rsync

Re: Problem with rsync 3.0.6-1 under 1.7.0-62 and 63

2009-11-07 Thread Steven Monai
Eliot Moss wrote: Eliot Moss wrote: I am getting this output when trying to rsync to any of several systems. I have RSYNC_RSH set to use ssh, and the ssh commands work just fine. This smells like some kind of non-matching library issue to me ... rsync: Failed to dup/close: Bad file

Re: Why do 'find' and 'ls' act differently on ACLs

2009-11-07 Thread Steven Monai
aputerguy wrote: Why do 'ls and 'find' seem to treat the ACL restrictions differently. They definitely should not. If they do, then there's a bug to be squashed. Specifically, 'ls /c/Documents and Settings/Administrators' works while 'find /c/Documents and Settings/Administrators' returns:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-63

2009-11-05 Thread Steven Monai
Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... Bugfixes: = ... - Improve the roundtrip capability when converting singlebyte chars to the UNICODE prvate use area U+F0xx and vice versa. Fantastic! I just upgraded from 1.7.0-62 to -63, and my daily rsync backup script can now see that handful of files

Re: Removed 1.5.25 and installed 1.7.0, but still cannot access filenames containing Unicode

2009-10-29 Thread Steven Monai
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can I send you a link to another Cygwin DLL in private email, which I tweaked to get better debug output? Yes, of course. I greatly appreciate your interest in trying to resolve this problem. -SM -- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Removed 1.5.25 and installed 1.7.0, but still cannot access filenames containing Unicode

2009-10-28 Thread Steven Monai
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm seriously puzzled. Could you please run $ strace -o ls.trace ls -l weird/ and send the ls.trace file as attachment? Maybe there's some hint in it. Done. -SM -- 3 3 [main] ls 288 open_shared: name shared.5, n 5, shared 0x60FC (wanted

Re: Rsync link-dest not working for a host with the most recent rsync/cygwin 1.7

2009-10-28 Thread Steven Monai
Chris Francy wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:08 PM, Steven Monai smona...@yahoo.ca wrote: Could you re-run your Cygwin-1.7 test case with --itemize-changes added to the rsync command-line? That should provide a hint at what Debian's rsync thinks is different between its existing file copy

email package dependency (openssl) not automatically installed

2009-10-26 Thread Steven Monai
Hello folks, I installed a fresh Cygwin 1.7 beta, and added the 'email' package. Then, I ran the following to send myself a test message: $ echo Test message | email --subject=Test \ --smtp-server=smtp.at.my.isp --from-name=Steven Monai \ --from-addr=steve+cyg...@monai.ca steve+cyg...@monai.ca

Removed 1.5.25 and installed 1.7.0, but still cannot access filenames containing Unicode

2009-10-26 Thread Steven Monai
Hello folks, I recently removed Cygwin 1.5.25 from a WindowsXP box (as per FAQ # 2.17), and then installed the Cygwin 1.7.0 beta in its place. The install seemed to go flawlessly. I was looking forward to having more robust handling of filenames with Unicode chars, but unfortunately, I'm not

Re: Rsync link-dest not working for a host with the most recent rsync/cygwin 1.7

2009-10-22 Thread Steven Monai
Chris Francy wrote: First things first, I have narrowed it down and learned something that resolves the issue for what I am trying to do. For versions of rsync before 2.5.6 you could not use the link-dest reliably unless you copy the permissions/ownership information. With newer versions

RE: Rsync link-dest not working for a host with the most recent rsync/cygwin 1.7

2009-10-20 Thread Steven Monai
Chris Francy wrote: It appears something about the about rsync or the 1.7 version of cygwin is preventing the --link-destination function of rsync from working. Files that have not been changed at all should be linked together. On the hosts still running a cygwin 1.5 version of rsync the