On Wednesday, 28 Mar 2018 9:40 PM -0400, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2018-03-28 15:50, Stephen Paul Carrier wrote:
>> msmtp is billed as a light-weight SMTP client and I would like to use
>> it with cron instead of ssmtp.
>> What's not light-weight is its dependency on libgnome-keyring0 which
>> has
Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 07, 2017 7:12 AM Brian Inglis wrote:
>>On 2017-11-06 14:59, Will Parsons wrote:
>>> Will Parsons wrote:
>>>> I asked about what I thought was a shell scripting problem:
>>>>
>>>>
Will Parsons wrote:
> I asked about what I thought was a shell scripting problem:
>
> Will Parsons wrote:
>> Under Unix-type platforms, checking on what the PATH variable is set to is
>> pretty easy - I typically use "env" and the displayed value of PATH is easily
I asked about what I thought was a shell scripting problem:
Will Parsons wrote:
> Under Unix-type platforms, checking on what the PATH variable is set to is
> pretty easy - I typically use "env" and the displayed value of PATH is easily
> parsed by eye. Under Cygwin/Windows,
Lemke, Michael ST/HZA-ZIC2 wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2017 00:15:25 + (UTC)
> Will Parsons wrote:
>
>>Under Unix-type platforms, checking on what the PATH variable is set to is
>>pretty easy - I typically use "env" and the displayed value of PATH is easily
>>
Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Will Parsons!
>
>> I thought it would be nice to write a simple script to make this more
>> comprehensible by breaking the path into separate lines, and so wrote the
>> following trivial script:
>
>>#!/bin/sh
>>echo
Under Unix-type platforms, checking on what the PATH variable is set to is
pretty easy - I typically use "env" and the displayed value of PATH is easily
parsed by eye. Under Cygwin/Windows, one can do the same, but the value of
PATH is more likely to be considerably more complicated and harder
I've been using fossil as my SCM system of choice for some years now, and
have been in the habit of synching my repositories under Cygwin with those on
a remote Unix (FreeBSD) system. Recently, though, I created a new repository
under FreeBSD and found I cannot clone it to Cygwin.
Apparently,
Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-10-14 20:25, Will Parsons wrote:
>> I use Emacs under multiple operating systems, but chiefly nowadays under
>> FreeBSD and Cygwin/Windows.
>>
>> I want to use Chinese tone marks in discussing historical Chinese forms, and
>> by &q
I use Emacs under multiple operating systems, but chiefly nowadays under
FreeBSD and Cygwin/Windows.
I want to use Chinese tone marks in discussing historical Chinese forms, and
by "Chinese tone marks" I *don't* mean the overhead vowel marks that are part
of pinyin, but the marks indicated by
I use Ruby both under Cygwin and MSYS, and have noticed an anomaly under
Cygwin:
Under Cygwin, the "gem env" command gives a somewhat broken report:
% gem env
...
- SHELL PATH:
- /usr/local/bin
- /usr/bin
- /bin
- /usr/sbin
- /c/Windows/system32
- /c/Windows
For quite a while, I've noticed an accumulation of .serverauth.
files on entering a Cygwin environment. Since it's been only a minor
annoyance, I've dealt with it by running a small script to delete all
but the latest instance. Finally, though, I thought I should solve
the root problem of
On Thursday, 11 Aug 2016 2:57 AM -0400, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> --sglnxm7oayejr3gt
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> On Aug 11 08:39, Franz Fehringer wrote:
>> Am 11.08.2016 um 08:33 schrieb Franz Fehringer:
On Tuesday, 9 Jun 2015, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
From: Jim Reisert AD1C
3. I don't have the Cygwin emacs-w32 package installed; my Windows
version is outside the
Cygwin environment.
Don't install GNU Emacs for Windows. Get rid of it. Install the
Cygwin emacs-w32 package instead. You
I get the following error message trying to pull from a remote
repository:
bzr: ERROR: Unsupported protocol for url
sftp://anukis/~/mlc/recepsum/: Unable to import paramiko (required
for sftp support): No module named paramiko
So it looks like bzr should depend on paramiko? Anyway, I
Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 3/19/2015 12:55 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 19:45 -0400, Will Parsons wrote:
I recently installed 64-bit Cygwin along side of my 32-bit Cygwin
installation, and find that all the menus show math symbols rather
than text, making LyX unusable. Note
I've been using Cygwin for some time now, but recently decided to try
a parallel installation of Cygwin 64 on the same machine. I've
noticed a strange discrepancy between how Cygwin 32 64 report file
permissions:
(32-bit)
% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW sothis 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07
I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command:
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \
-c cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen
This was working, but now doesn't, with the following shown in the log
file:
Welcome to the XWin X
Jon TURNEY wrote:
On 24/02/2015 20:59, Will Parsons wrote:
I'm accustomed to start X via a shortcut which runs the command:
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe --quote /usr/bin/bash.exe -l \
-c cd; /usr/bin/startxwin -- -listen
[...]
I can't make sense out of what this is telling me about why X failed
I've recently noticed that xemacs will crash if one attempts to turn on
syntax highlighting via turn-on-font-lock (even started with the -q option),
but only if run under X. (If X is not running, there is no problem.) The
crash causes the following to print:
Lisp backtrace follows:
Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Hal Watson!
Can you include cygcheck output as outlined in the link below?
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
I've got the plain text file cygcheck.out, but it is unclear to me how I can
attach it to a post in this discussion per the
Erik Soderquist wrote:
snip
Shouldn't the startxwin script check for running instances and delete all
lock-files related to non-existent instances? Why must this be a manual
operation?
I generally recommend against automagic cleanup of lock files from
dead sessions being a general default
Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 12/12/2014 7:07 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an
icon on my desktop that is a link to C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe. It
has recently ceased to work because apparently startxwin.exe no longer
exists. Somehow
Larry Hall (Cygwin-X) wrote:
On 12/15/2014 09:49 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
Marco Atzeri wrote:
On 12/12/2014 7:07 PM, Will Parsons wrote:
For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an
icon on my desktop that is a link to C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe. It
has recently
For several years now I have been starting X windows by clicking on an
icon on my desktop that is a link to C:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.exe. It
has recently ceased to work because apparently startxwin.exe no longer
exists. Somehow I missed where this was removed, so what is the
recommended way of
Keith Christian wrote:
I use RCS every work day, it's a small, fast, flexible productivity
tool, sometimes with a timed loop to save rapid editing sessions when
I'm brainstorming.maybe that edit a few hours ago was worth saving
after all, and with RCS I can get it back.
Thank you for
Some time ago (for reasons I cannot remember) I decided to make a
clean reinstallation of Cygwin, so as a safety measure I renamed the
old installation to cygwin.old. After finally deciding I didn't need
cygwin.old any more, I deleted it with:
rm -Rf cygwin.old
The command took much longer to
Paul Mead wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com writes:
Not necessarily.
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids
You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd
prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +, Will Parsons wrote:
Paul Mead wrote:
Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com writes:
Not necessarily.
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids
You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled
Ralph Hempel wrote:
Will Parsons wrote:
Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e?
Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used
crontab -e. What I do:
crontab -l crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst
I always just use the toggle
the gnu compiler collection if possible, but at this point just
getting XWin back would be progress.
thank you
Lee Parsons
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I'm running sshd on a machine running Cygwin 1.5.25 and can ssh to it
from a remote machine, but running the command:
rcsdiff .bashrc
I get:
RCS file: RCS/.bashrc,v
retrieving revision 2.3
/usr/bin/co: /home/SSHD_S~1/AppData/Local/Temp/T0zr4qp8: cannot create
rcsdiff: RCS/.bashrc,v:
I recently upgraded Cygwin on my windows 2000 box, and am no longer able
to type in an xterm. I used to start X by running 'startx' from cygwin,
but I see now I need to use 'startxwin.bat' or 'startxwin.sh'. I have
found the same response regardless of which way I start it, no response
to
Never mind, I found a solution. I found that, just as the FAQ says, the
file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
Does not exist. However, as the file
/usr/share/X11/XKeysymDB
does, I created a symbolic link pointing from the inexistent file to the
one that does now exist, and life is good.
For
Eric Lilja wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no
longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists.
I am strongly in favor of merging the two lists. I was a bit surprised
that some people think the traffic
Christopher Faylor wrote:
The historical reasons for merging the cygwin and cygwin-xfree lists no
longer seems to exist so I am contemplating merging the two lists.
If anyone has a compelling reason why this should not happen please send
it to one of the two lists. If I don't hear a coherent
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
mcbenus wrote:
Thanks! Is that ok to change the Windows Home? what implications it may have
on other software?
For Cygwin, you shouldn't set HOME in the Windows environment unless you
need Cygwin to see the same HOME as some other software (MKS is one
example I
rolf wrote:
And, it seems I can't find a NTEmacs list alive. Is there one?
I don't know if there's one specifically for NTEmacs, but gnu.emacs.help
answers NTEmacs questions.
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if this is important, but I noticed when I ran 'ssh-host-config
-y' as administrator, it never gave a CYGWIN= prompt. I haven't found a
good explanation for this behavior, either.
This is OpenSSH_5.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h May 2008 on cygwin from setup
2.573.2.2.
thank you
Lee Parsons
What does 'cygrunsrv -VQ sshd' show?
$ cygrunsrv -VQ sshd
Service : sshd
Display name: CYGWIN sshd
Current State : Stopped
Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D
stdin path : /dev/null
stdout path : /var/log/sshd.log
stderr path :
I just noticed a typo that was returned on the 'cygrunsrv -VQ sshd' command.
The environment line came back as CYGWIN=htsec tty. I then ran
cygrunsrv -R sshd
followed by
cygrunsrv -I sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a '-D' -d 'CYGWIN sshd' -e
'CYGWIN=ntsec
tty' -y tcpip
and then
cygrunsrv -VQ
and one for how to uninstall a cygwin service:
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-service
Aha, that seems to have solved the problem. I uninstalled it as a service,
and then re-ran ssh-host-config to re-install it as a service. Now things
seem to be working correctly.
I've got myself into a situation that I can't seem to get out of. It
started when I tried to install vfu via setup.exe, but because my
cygwin.dll was not quite up to date and I didn't want to reboot, I changed
the status of cygwin.dll to Keep, and then attempted to install vfu (and
whatever else
Dave Korn wrote:
william.b.parsons wrote on 11 April 2008 16:07:
I've got myself into a situation that I can't seem to get out of.
so I cancelled it and tried to rerun it. This time setup.exe hung trying
to uninstall cygrunsrv.
install the current version of cygwin.dll, but setup doesn't
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Marc Girod on 2/29/2008 4:05 AM:
| Well, I tried now the alternative road, and installed TunderBird.
| I guess I got what I expected: neither nntp nor snntp (563) ports are
| drilled in my company's firewall.
|
| So, this road is blocked too, no?
I've been
Brian Dessent wrote:
Will Parsons wrote:
4) If using the uuencode method for attachments is not (or no longer?)
desired, is there a preferred alternative? (And please don't suggest
using Thunderbird.)
When posting your cygcheck output, you're asking for help from others
Marc Girod wrote:
Thanks Dave,
Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes:
paying close attention to the bit about how to generate, attach and send your
cygcheck output with your question to the list
Argh! How do I attach something via gmane?
How can I reply to your mail otherwise?
$
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Cygwin potentially adds a whole other layer of insecurity on top of
Windows. We do try to keep security in mind but, nevertheless, we don't
recommend using Cygwin in a secure instalation unless there has been quite
a bit of validation.
I'm curious about this. I
Dave Korn wrote:
On 28 August 2007 15:49, Will Parsons wrote:
I had a working syslogd on my computer at work, but now the computer has
been replaced (the IT department copied over the contents from the old
computer)
Please god they didn't use the 'doze Files and Settings transfer wizard
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
From: Rob Walker
d2u may also corrupt text files that need to have CR in
them. This includes bash scripts that need to parse or output CR.
-Rob
Do you have a link to such a script? I don't mean a proof-of-principle; I'm
sure a suitable example can be
This script is used to preprocess the CSV output of Exceed into an ASCII
^^
Of course, I meant Excel.
- Will
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mwoehlke wrote:
[snip]
Actually, I intentionally did not use a shebang... 'mkdir -p $@'
should work on any Bourne-like shell, although in this case '#!/bin/sh'
should suffice.
I'm used to writing portable scripts; anything other than '#!/bin/sh' is
very non-portable, and if the script
Starting up irb (interactive Ruby), I get:
$ irb
/usr/bin/ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)
Did I omit to install something I need here?
- Will
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M[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL
Dave Korn wrote:
On 11 August 2006 14:37, Will Parsons wrote:
Starting up irb (interactive Ruby), I get:
$ irb
/usr/bin/ruby: no such file to load -- ubygems (LoadError)
Did I omit to install something I need here?
Looks lke you omitted to install the leading letter 'R
René Berber wrote:
Yu-Cheng Chou wrote:
I installed sshd as a system service on windows xp,
but I can't connect to this ssh server through ssh.
The firewall has been turned off.
By that you mean an external firewall?
The sshd is listening to port 22.
But when I tried to connect to
René Berber wrote:
Will Parsons wrote:
[snip]
If the answer to my above question is yes, then you have to enable sshd use
of
port 22 on Windows XP's own firewall. Otherwise, I don't know, but
connection
refused means something is listening on that port and refusing connections
so
I
Larry Hall wrote:
At 01:59 PM 6/24/2005, you wrote:
After an abortive attempt a few months back, I am trying once more to get
NFS working (Windows XP, cygwin 1.5.15). The daemons (portmap, mountd, and
Maybe you want to update to current (or snapshot) Cygwin (at least)?
Since the nfs
Crump, Michael wrote:
When I was trying to get NFS working a few months back I found that if
you have more than one network connection on the server machine all of
the connections have to be enabled and connected to a network. After I
did this nfs did work.
I am not sure what you mean by
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Will Parsons wrote:
Crump, Michael wrote:
When I was trying to get NFS working a few months back I found that if
you have more than one network connection on the server machine all of
the connections have to be enabled and connected
snip
However, after some more experimentation, I see the ls /xp eventually
does return, after about 17 minutes. So it appears as though NFS kind of
works, but so slowly as to be useless. There is no problem with other
types of network access, e.g., I am logged on to the client machine vai
After an abortive attempt a few months back, I am trying once more to get
NFS working (Windows XP, cygwin 1.5.15). The daemons (portmap, mountd, and
nfsd) start up without error. I have a /etc/exports file that contains:
/exports/c rowan(rw)
The remote NFS client (rowan) is running
Robb, Sam wrote:
You want to start portmap with the '-F' flag - take a look
at the /bin/nfs-server-config script for an example. If you
can back out your changes (uninstall portmap, etc. as services)
and run the nfs-server-config script, that should put you in
a working state (or at
I attempted to get NFS working following the directions in the Cygwin
documentation. When I tried to start portmap (cygrunsrv -S portmap), I got:
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a
Robb, Sam wrote:
I attempted to get NFS working following the directions in the Cygwin
documentation. When I tried to start portmap (cygrunsrv -S
portmap), I got:
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus:
Win32 error 1053:
The service did not respond to the start or
I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work. The IT
department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now
when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe tried to make
system call from self-modifying code and that this may mean the program
has
I am trying to get cron working and am having difficulties. I installed
the following minimal crontab:
$ crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (crontab.wbp installed on Tue Jun 29 07:47:31 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna
On XP, trying to access stdout from Expect results in an error:
expect1.1 puts xxx
= can not find channel named stdout
Any ideas?
- Will
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. There in my .bashrc file (which I had taken from a
Unix system) I had cleverly (?) defined:
cd ()
{
command cd $1
pwd
}
And of course I had never noticed the bug in Unix...
Thanks to all who replied.
At 16:31 2002-04-01, you wrote:
At 07:15 PM 4/1/2002, Will Parsons wrote:
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