Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

2023-10-12 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Am Mi., 11.Okt..2023 um 18:37:29 schrieb Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin: Hello all, As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which EOL about 18 months ago?

Re: Virus Total scan

2023-08-22 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
It is the address of one of the distribution servers. Since this is not "one server", but a cluster of servers, your "suspicious" server shows only one thing: those "suspicious" flags are suspicious by themselves: this particular server ist down since some time and only reports back a broken

installing/updating silently

2023-04-20 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! Trying to install or upgrade cygwin silently. Calling a newly downloaded setup-x86_64.exe (Power Shell-snipplets): $URL = "https://www.cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe; $dlp = "C:\INSTALL\Apps\c\cygwin" $nsf = "$dlp\setup-x86_64.new" $isf = "$dlp\setup-x86_64.exe" $isl =

Re: Changing user home to overlap Windows user home possible? Or a bad idea?

2023-04-11 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! Am Sa., 08.Apr..2023 um 10:30:47 schrieb Andrey Repin: Greetings, Thomas Schweikle! Is it possible to have the same home for Windows and cygwin? See /etc/nsswitch.conf and https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch Using "C:\Users\" for Cygwin home setting

Changing user home to overlap Windows user home possible? Or a bad idea?

2023-04-07 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! Is it possible to have the same home for Windows and cygwin? Using "C:\Users\" for Cygwin home setting mount points for users? Or is this a bad idea? Or is it something which has some drawbacks you've to decide to live with? At the moment the most ugly drawback is duplication of various

Howto fix C:\cygwin acl after backup/restore?

2023-04-07 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! How can C:\cygwin ACL be fixed after a backup/restore (file by file, not image). The program seems to force canonical ACL while restoring. How do i get back ACL as they are right after installing cygwin? Docs did not help here. They discussed Windows-ACL to POSIX-ACL or simple rwxrwxrwx

Re: Cygwin starts take long since march. Three minutes to prompt.

2023-04-03 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Am Mo., 03.Apr..2023 um 17:48:03 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-04-03 08:59, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: Am Mo., 03.Apr..2023 um 16:47:42 schrieb Eliot Moss: On 4/3/2023 10:38 AM, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: Cygwin shell takes about three minutes until the prompt

Re: Cygwin starts take long since march. Three minutes to prompt.

2023-04-03 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! Am Mo., 03.Apr..2023 um 16:47:42 schrieb Eliot Moss: On 4/3/2023 10:38 AM, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: Hi! Cygwin shell takes about three minutes until the prompt is shown. Any idea how to find out the cause? I think the most common thing in the past had to do with probing

Cygwin starts take long since march. Three minutes to prompt.

2023-04-03 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! Cygwin shell takes about three minutes until the prompt is shown. Any idea how to find out the cause? -- Thomas OpenPGP_0x27AE2304B4974851.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Problem reports:

Re: cygwin does not run quietly if --quiet-mode given on commandline

2023-03-30 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Am Do., 30.März.2023 um 18:24:20 schrieb Brian Inglis via Cygwin: On 2023-03-30 08:23, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: starting cygwin setup-x86_64.exe with parameters: setup-x86_64.exe ^    --verbose ^    --delete-orphans ^    --local-package-dir "C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\4r\instal

cygwin does not run quietly if --quiet-mode given on commandline

2023-03-30 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! starting cygwin setup-x86_64.exe with parameters: setup-x86_64.exe ^ --verbose ^ --delete-orphans ^ --local-package-dir "C:\WINDOWS\ccmcache\4r\installdata" ^ --no-desktop ^ --proxy "" ^ --root "C:\cygwin" ^ --upgrade-also ^ --quiet-mode ^ --wait It does not matter if

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

2020-09-30 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
. Sep 09:12 .startxwinrc And XLaunch is started with: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /bin/xlaunch -p /usr/bin -run /home/sct-muc/.config/XLaunch/config.xlaunch config.xlaunch holds: On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 2:30 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 9/29/2020 6:26 AM, Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin wrote: >

Re: Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
The documentation given at https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html isn't really clear about what packages shall be selected. It only states one awaiting all others pulled in as dependencies. Since this isn't true it might be better to give a list which ones to select. Now the next problem: xinit:

Cygwin/X11 on Windows 10

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schweikle via Cygwin
Hi! I've managed to install cygwin/X on Windows 10. Now I'm looking for command "startxwin" -- does not seen to exist. If following instructions from https://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/setup.html it should be installed? Or is an extra package selected needed beyond what is given in upper mentioned