Re: Error: unable to access or write to root dir: \cygdrive\e\7x27\1423_sp

2010-06-12 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:57:39AM -0700, roshan_9052 wrote: roshan_9052 wrote: I am trying to run a perl script that tries to create a new folder in the root directory cygdrive\e\7x27\1423_sp.But I keep getting the following error.I am running this on a windows machine.Can someone help me

Re: default terminal

2010-06-03 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:54:12PM -0500, Yaakov wrote: On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:30:52 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Let's call the shortcuts Cygwin Console and Cygwin GUI Terminal, and then people will think it's obvious why there's two of them. KISS: having two options *will* lead to confusion.

Re: fatal error when starting X-Server

2010-05-29 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:42:07AM +0200, David Rockel wrote: Fatal server error: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock Hello, I would start checking if /tmp has 1777 perms. Regards. -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB pgpjn0SsQ9jcb.pgp

Re: new mirror

2010-05-24 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 07:54:50PM +0200, James Miller wrote: Hello, I am trying to tell sourcemaster about a new mirror we have established, but even though it is specified that sourcemaster is also the place to send requests to be added to this list on the mirroring page I don't see any

Re: C-o in GNU MC and mintty/rxvt issue?

2010-05-12 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:36:19PM +0300, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: On 2010.05.12 16:11, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: Recently I decide switch from Far/Total Commander to GNU MC. I use Cygwin 1.7.1. MC is look beauty with mintty but I have issue: 3. Second shell not available. I partially

Re: Error opening terminal: cygwin. when attempting to start lynx

2010-05-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 11:40:01AM +0400, Andrey Repin wrote: I'm receiving this error message when trying to start lynx browser: [C:\]$lynx Error opening terminal: cygwin. Hello, What does `echo $TERM' tells you? (I'm guessing TERM=cygwin) Does `export TERM=xterm' solve the problem? Note

[RFU] makeself-2.1.5-3

2010-04-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, Please upload: http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-3-src.tar.bz2 http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-3.tar.bz2 and please remove makeself-2.1.5-2, setup.hint is the same. Regards. -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: makeself-2.1.5-3

2010-04-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
Version 2.1.5-3 of makeself has been uploaded. Changelog of this revision: -Executable files have had their .sh extensions stripped. -makeself-header moved out of /usr/bin into /usr/share/makeself. -makeself-2.1.5-3.cygport file modified accordingly. -Added postinstall.sh to clean up in case

Updated: makeself-2.1.5-3

2010-04-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
Version 2.1.5-3 of makeself has been uploaded. Changelog of this revision: -Executable files have had their .sh extensions stripped. -makeself-header moved out of /usr/bin into /usr/share/makeself. -makeself-2.1.5-3.cygport file modified accordingly. -Added postinstall.sh to clean up in case

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:33:03PM +0200, David Sastre wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein l1ee057 at : ^^^ Ouch...! There is something _evil_ in those webmails. Sorry. *goes to write 100 times PCYMTNQREAIYR in the blackboard* --

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein l1ee057 at : FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source and the cygport None of them involve too much work. So now I would like to know (from some

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:19:27PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/28/2010 12:12 PM, d.sastre.medina wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein: FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. Fair enough. Two options, then: -patching the manpage -patching the source

Re: New package: makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-28 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 05:44:34PM -0400, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: 2010/4/28, Lee D. Rothstein FWIW, the man page says makeself, not makeself.sh. I actually didn't say that, but I alluded to it. That is true: From: Lee Maschmeyer lee_maschmeyerX It was another Lee... First

renameutils fails to build, error linking libintl?

2010-04-24 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, I'm trying to build renameutils[1], some tools for easy renaming of files; it builds OOTB without nls support, but if I try to enable it, I crash against this: (gettext and libintl's stuff while configuring) ... checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt...

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5-2

2010-04-20 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, Please upload: wget http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-2-src.tar.bz2 wget http://eco-lution.tv/cygwin/release/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-2.tar.bz2 Regards. -- Huella de clave primaria: 0FDA C36F F110 54F4 D42B D0EB 617D 396C 448B 31EB pgptk99Z2gLRj.pgp

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-19 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:44:44AM -0700, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/04/17 1:24 AM, d.sastre.medina 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:

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-19 Thread d . sastre . medina
Notes: (-) The 'makeself.README' file does not mention 'cygport' as a build requirement. However, the build instructions clearly show cygport being used, so I consider that only a minor oversight. Corrected. (-) The src package included cryptographic signatures, which is a nice

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-17 Thread d . sastre . medina
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/makeself/makeself-2.1.5-1.tar.bz2

Re: ./ns command not WORKING AT ALL!!!

2010-04-16 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, A quick google search points to this: http://ce.sharif.edu/~m_amiri/project/networksimulator1/index.htm http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ The former lists cygwin as a requirement to install NS. IMHO, the OP should email his/her problems to the account refered in the latter: ns-us...@isi.edu

List Of Oficially Orphaned Packages

2010-04-16 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, I've looking for it, but it looks like it doesn't exist. Is there a LOOOP anywhere? Regards. -- Huella de clave = 943C D77F 0CB0 02FE 166E E06F D13A A2E1 98A5 C953 pgpbB51O9vG9f.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-14 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 02:27:08AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2010-04-13 20:16, Steven Monai wrote: I see no need to get tricky here. You can just download the official sources .run file, and unpack it by running it. The disadvantage of that approach is that manual intervention is

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-13 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, 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 upstream sources are already distributed in *.run format, meaning they are packaged using makeself. -this package consist of two shell

[ ATTN d The directory lister mantainer ] typo in d-1.2.0-1.sh

2010-04-13 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, The sources were downloaded from: http://cygwin.basemirror.de/release/d/d-1.2.0-1-src.tar.bz The script to rebuild the package contains a typo that prevents it from executing correctly: $ ./d-1.2.0-1.sh all ./d-1.2.0-1.sh: line 72: syntax error near unexpected token `' ./d-1.2.0-1.sh:

[ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-10 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, This is to propose the inclusion of makeself in the cygwin repo. The web page of the project is: http://megastep.org/makeself/ This package is available in Debian: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/makeself setup.hint: sdec: utility to generate self-extractable archives ldesc:

Re: [ITP] makeself-2.1.5

2010-04-10 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Steven Monai wrote: I hope this doesn't feel like I'm piling on the criticism, but these little details do matter. Not at all. Thank you very much for the feedback and the patience with a first-timer. I'll correct those things ASAP and provide new

Re: GCC is not found and compiler cannot create executables errors

2010-04-08 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, I'm afraid any further investigation around this issue will have to wait until tomorrow morning (spanish time). Thanks everybody for your time, your answers... and not LARTing me (at least publicly) for QREAIMR... :-/ sorry for that. Best regards. -- Huella de clave = 943C D77F 0CB0

[ ATTN: xinetd mantainer ] Default xinetd init conf correction

2010-04-05 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, This is just a remainder, I sent this before to the list, but might have gone unnoticed. Please consider correcting the default xinetd config file. I checked a src version from http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/xinetd/xinetd-2.3.14-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-02 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 02:06:11AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 01/04/2010 21:46, d.sastre.medina wrote: There is no manual for chroot on cygwin, because no one here recommends doing it for anything serious. I would never recommend exposing *any* Cygwin server to the internet-at-large

How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, I'm trying to build a chrooted env in a windows 7 box: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 win7 1.7.2(0.225/5/3) 2010-03-24 21:12 i686 Cygwin Before presuming anything, I did my homework, RTFM (found nothing, though), STFW and STFCPMLA. Got some recent hits: [1]

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:26:46PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/01/2010 02:19 PM, David wrote: Hello, I'm trying to build a chrooted env in a windows 7 box: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 win7 1.7.2(0.225/5/3) 2010-03-24 21:12 i686 Cygwin What do you hope to accomplish with this? You are NOT adding

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinetd-2.3.14-1

2010-03-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 08:38:35PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Xinetd is a secure replacement for inetd, the Internet services daemon. Xinetd provides access control for all services based on the address of the remote host and/or on time of access and can prevent denial-of-access attacks.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: xinetd-2.3.14-1

2010-03-30 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:13:41PM +0200, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 08:38:35PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: Xinetd is a secure replacement for inetd, the Internet services daemon. Xinetd provides access control for all services based on the address of the

Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-09 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:20:19PM +0100, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:46:27AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Personally, I'd just back that directory *and* all the Cygwin registry sub-trees up and go ahead with the upgrade-in-place. Parallel Cygwin installs work,

General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, I'm not a contributor to this list (yet), but a fan reader, and I wanted to show my appreciation and gratitude for bringing CYGWIN. To me, WIUWI. I have been reading (not thoroughly enough yet) FAQ/features/changes/user guide for the next 1.7 release, and I have some questions: I'm

Re: General questions about upgrading to 1.7

2009-12-08 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 07:46:27AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: Personally, I'd just back that directory *and* all the Cygwin registry sub-trees up and go ahead with the upgrade-in-place. Parallel Cygwin installs work, but there are annoyances. I think I'll go this way. Given your evident