Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: Andrew, please, stop it. Why? Because I disagree with you? Do you really don't understand the difference between a simple command line tool like scp and a client that offers extended functionality?! Yes I understand the difference. What I don't understand is the

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: This is no flaming war. It's just nonsense to say everything I can do with foo I can do with bar, too. Actually, no, it's not nonsense at all. In fact it's a very good argument! Of course you can do everything you can do with mutt also with telnet to port 110. It's not

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] Cygwin Content-O-Meter(tm), as of a few dozen posts in this thread ago: +---+ | 0% 100% | | \ | | \ | | \ | | O | +---+ Too bad nobody polices such things. Does your reader of choice lack functionality for skipping a particular thread that you

Re: Lilypond package: fix for convert-ly bug

2007-09-17 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Silas S. Brown writes: convert-ly as shipped in the Cygwin lilypond package doesn't work because it complains about a missing module lilylib. Thanks for the report. It turns out that the relocation snippet was not included. This will be fixed in 2.10.29-2. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen

Re: setup.exe crashes upgrading (uninstalling) bash

2007-09-17 Thread Mario Frasca
On 2007-0911 07:45:57, Brian Dessent wrote: It would help greatly if you could run one of them (ideally the latest) in gdb and get a backtrace at the faulting location. hope this is what you meant... greetings ang thanks, Mario Starting program: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Mario

Re: Webdav batch file transfer: curl, wget

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Ivarson
Many thanks to all posters on the thread; your comments have been very helpful and it works fine now. Also I learned the differences between wget and curl, too. All the best! -ric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

NFS mount problem: portmap error

2007-09-17 Thread DanieleRm
Hello guys, I'm new here... I get a really strange problem with portmap and conseguently with NFS mount If I try to mount a directory I get this error: pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Timed out mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused than if i launch rpcinfo

1.5.24-2 question about using echo on remote node.

2007-09-17 Thread Prakash Babu
Hello all, I am trying to run the following command using cygwin on a remote node using ssh. /bin/sh -c 'echo Number=\1234567\ /tmp/file1' The command executes successfully but the file has content Number=1234567(double quotes missing) instead of Number=1234567. The same command works

Re: wxPython build

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Holden
Morgan Gangwere wrote: are you sure that the lihe breaks are the same consistantly? thats what happened to me once... Thanks, that's a worthwhile idea. Unfortunately an examination of several files (not conclusive, I know, but indicative) reveals no carriage returns. The source I downloaded

Re: [BUG] python-2.5.1-2 file usr/bin/python2.5-config

2007-09-17 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:09:56PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote: There is an obvious bug on the first line of that script. --- usr/bin/python2.5-config.orig 2007-09-15 03:58:10.671875000 + +++ usr/bin/python2.5-config2007-09-15 03:58:41.640625000 + @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@

severe performance problems in cygwin

2007-09-17 Thread Boris Ouretskey
Hi, I have severe performance problems with cygwin. Cygwin becomes almost unusable. The problem seems to go away when cygwin window is out of focus, e.g. when I click on some other window (not cygwin), cygwin performance rapidly increases. It has something with output to console window. When I

Re: severe performance problems in cygwin

2007-09-17 Thread Tim Prince
Boris Ouretskey wrote: I have severe performance problems with cygwin. Cygwin becomes almost unusable. The problem seems to go away when cygwin window is out of focus, e.g. when I click on some other window (not cygwin), cygwin performance rapidly increases. It has something with

Re: [ipc] semtimedop undeclared

2007-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 28 14:47, Dave Korn wrote: On 28 August 2007 14:28, Mehdi Rabah wrote: Hi, I'm trying to compile a linux project with cygwin. There is a file which use IPC and include all the necessary files #include sys/types.h #include sys/ipc.h #include sys/shm.h #include

RE: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Phil Betts
Marko Loparic wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM:: Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I have? I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't reach

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:09:41PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] Cygwin Content-O-Meter(tm), as of a few dozen posts in this thread ago: +---+ | 0% 100% | | \ | | \ | | \ | | O | +---+ Too bad nobody polices such things. Does your

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: Gary's evaluation of the situation was correct. This thread has devolved into an uninteresting argument about whether sftp is useful to you or not. What you don't seem to be getting is that no one besides you finds this very interesting. Give it a rest please. The

Re: executing an executable

2007-09-17 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Cole Radcliffe wrote: I do an ls -la and I see I have an executable called executable.exe. I chmod to 777. Then I try to type execut and I press tab and it does not find it. When I type in the entire name and press enter, bash says the command is not found! It works fine

Re: cross-device mv regression in latest snapshot

2007-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 31 14:18, Eric Blake wrote: Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: I'm trying to track down a breakage in cross-device moves in the latest cygwin CVS code, whether it is in coreutils-9.6-5 or due to a recent cygwin change, although my current suspect is Corinna's changes.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-4.7p1-1

2007-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.7p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 4.7p1: OpenSSH 4.7 has just been released. It

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Marko Loparic
Hi Phil, I have also tried to do what you say but it did not solve the problem. Thanks a lot anyway, Marko On 9/17/07, Phil Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marko Loparic wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM:: Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Holden
Marko Loparic wrote: Hi Phil, I have also tried to do what you say but it did not solve the problem. Thanks a lot anyway, Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support will get you any further than using this list! The information you get here is

math packages

2007-09-17 Thread Cole Radcliffe
Is there any math package that I can install for free on cygwin that will allow me to do symbolic algebra and symbolically solve DEs and symbolically integrate better than my TI-89? Apparently Octave only produces numeric solutions. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: math packages

2007-09-17 Thread Reid Thompson
not sure if qalculate will compile or meet your needs, but it may be worth a look On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:49 -0500, Cole Radcliffe wrote: Is there any math package that I can install for free on cygwin that will allow me to do symbolic algebra and symbolically solve DEs and symbolically

Re: 1.5.24-2 question about using echo on remote node.

2007-09-17 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/17/07, Prakash Babu wrote: Hello all, I am trying to run the following command using cygwin on a remote node using ssh. /bin/sh -c 'echo Number=\1234567\ /tmp/file1' The command executes successfully but the file has content Number=1234567(double quotes missing) instead of

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-17 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/17/07, SQueeZe wrote: Hi All I am trying to connect to my home computer from work and I have to use the work HTTP proxy on port 443 in order to do so. I have done this using PuTTY just fine so I know there is nothing wrong with my setup. I have downloaded the windows binary of

Re: math packages

2007-09-17 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Cole Radcliffe wrote: Is there any math package that I can install for free on cygwin that will allow me to do symbolic algebra and symbolically solve DEs and symbolically integrate better than my TI-89? Apparently Octave only produces numeric solutions. mathomatic might do what you need.

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Keith Christian
- Original Message From: Marko Loparic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:49:39 PM Subject: Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support? Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way, to

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Marko Loparic
Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support will get you any further than using this list! I have already tried the list, some people helped, someone suggested me to use cacls, which

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-17 Thread SQueeZe
Thanks for your reply Jason. I have also tried putting it in a config file but it had the same result. I ended up using the command-line just because I could be sure that it was using correct parameter. I did look at corkscrew, however I couldn't find a precompiled download. I know I can

Re: [rxvt packaging bug?] New rxvt introduces broken font default

2007-09-17 Thread Rodrigo Medina
Hi, Max Bowsher wrote: I don't think it makes sense to now start shipping rxvt with a font configuration which leaves native mode broken out-of-the-box. I agree 100% with that, besides I have X11 installed and use it extensively, but I never use rxvt-X11 because it does not work properly with the

Space in Home Directory Path

2007-09-17 Thread G. Huang
Ok this is really a newbie question. I moved from W2k to XP and reinstalled cygwin. On W2k, my Cygwin home directory was placed in c:\cygwin\home\gang upon installation, where gang is the user name. Now on the XP, it is in c:\Document and Settings\gang. This created a lot of problem whenever I

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-17 Thread SQueeZe
OK, I have installed the full version of Cygwin and now it is working as expected. I still need to get this working without a full installation of Cygwin though, so if anyone has any ideas, they would be greatfully received. SQueeZe wrote: Thanks for your reply Jason. I have also tried

Re: math packages

2007-09-17 Thread Markus E L
Cole Radcliffe wrote: Is there any math package that I can install for free on cygwin that will allow me to do symbolic algebra and symbolically solve DEs and symbolically integrate better than my TI-89? Apparently Octave only produces numeric solutions. Maxima? I'm almost sure it's not in

ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-17 Thread SQueeZe
Hi All I am trying to connect to my home computer from work and I have to use the work HTTP proxy on port 443 in order to do so. I have done this using PuTTY just fine so I know there is nothing wrong with my setup. I have downloaded the windows binary of Connect and placed it in the same

Re: Space in Home Directory Path

2007-09-17 Thread Markus Schönhaber
G. Huang wrote: So my question is: Is there a way to change the home directory on the XP machine to c:\cygwin\home\gang? Or alternatively, get around the space problem? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home In /etc/passwd, set the the user home directory field to the desired

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/17/2007 11:38 AM, SQueeZe wrote: I have installed cwRsync which has the OpenSSH client version 4.5. You should probably ask for support from the cwRsync project. I should be able to type in the following: ssh -v -o ProxyCommand=connect -H -d proxy:8085 %h 443 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-17 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Andrew DeFaria wrote: IOW what's the advantage of an sftp client over just plain scp? Directory listings. Unless I miss something, it's hard to scp a file when you don't already know its path. -- Matthew It's impossible! But... do-able. -- Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery, Entrapment) --

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Holden
Marko Loparic wrote: Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support will get you any further than using this list! I have already tried the list, some people helped, someone suggested me to

Re: Space in Home Directory Path

2007-09-17 Thread G. Huang
From: Markus Schönhaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home In /etc/passwd, set the the user home directory field to the desired value, ex. /cygdrive/c/home/gang. That worked. Thanks GH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

find command in script getting access denied in my crontab but works when I run it manually

2007-09-17 Thread kuliksco
so i have two scripts for generating shortcuts to my movies to put in one centralized folder. i have the crontab service installed and it is running under my user name. both scripts work from the command line when run manually as me but script #2 does not. script #1 - works from the command

Re: find command in script getting access denied in my crontab but works when I run it manually

2007-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 09/17/2007, kuliksco wrote: Anyone have any idea why the find isn't working properly when in the crontab? I dont actually think it's a permission denied issue but something with the parsing possible (since I made sure i have full access to all the files and the script works from the command

Re: find command in script getting access denied in my crontab but works when I run it manually

2007-09-17 Thread kuliksco
thanks i got it working! yea i knew they had separate environments i forgot microsoft had a find command though :\ thanks alot though!! Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 09/17/2007, kuliksco wrote: Anyone have any idea why the find isn't working properly when in the crontab? I dont actually

Re: find command in script getting access denied in my crontab but works when I run it manually

2007-09-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
kuliksco wrote: thanks i got it working! yea i knew they had separate environments i forgot microsoft had a find command though :\ thanks alot though!! You're welcome. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK

How to use the X clipboard

2007-09-17 Thread Robert Kiesling
I need to set the X server option, emulate3Buttons, in order to use the X clipboard with the Cygwin system's mouse. The FAQ tells me that I can add, -emulate3buttons ms, to the X server arguments. However, if I start the server with startx -- -emulate3buttons 10 all of the X server's default

tin shows ? for german umlauts

2007-09-17 Thread Reinhard.Irmer
hi list, I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine, tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in bash, only tin makes problems:.look at subject. In a german usenetgroup was said, that this problem is a cygwin- not a tin-problem because

Re: tin shows ? for german umlauts

2007-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:32:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:56:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi list, I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine, tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in bash, only

Re: tin shows ? for german umlauts

2007-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:56:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi list, I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine, tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in bash, only tin makes problems:.look at subject. In a german usenetgroup

[RFU] flac-1.2.1-1

2007-09-17 Thread David Rothenberger
New upstream release. Please leave 1.2.0-2 as previous. wget -x -nH --cut-dirs=2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/flac-1.2.1-1.tar.bz2 \ http://mysite.verizon.net/res00a7j/cygwin/flac/setup.hint \

[upload] ctags-5.7-1

2007-09-17 Thread Warren Young
New upstream release; replaces previous. http://tangentsoft.net/cygwin/ctags-5.7-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tangentsoft.net/cygwin/ctags-5.7-1.tar.bz2

RE: Problems starting X and a solution to be appended to the FAQ

2007-09-17 Thread Phil Betts
Martin Sebastian Wain wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 4:45 PM:: I was going crazy with the fixed font error... to later find out (somewhere) that it was caused by the DOS/Text mode (\r\n) in the instalation of cygwin. With a textmode mounted root, it seems the fonts fail to load, and the

Dead systray icon

2007-09-17 Thread xerces8
Hi! When the XWin.exe program is closed (normally, not crash or forced), the systray icon stays behind, like for crashed apps. Can this be fixed ? I use the latest version, updated last week (I think the issue is months old anyway). Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info:

FW: Uninstalling Cygwin/X ??

2007-09-17 Thread Lisa Di lorenzo
Hello,    I'd like to uninstall Cygwin/X from my hard drive, but can't seem to find instructions for doing so.  How should I go about doing this? Thanks, Lisa    p.s. I'd like to uninstall it so that I can re-install it, in the hopes of having a 'home' directory created for me the second

Re: FW: Uninstalling Cygwin/X ??

2007-09-17 Thread Holger Krull
Lisa Di lorenzo schrieb: p.s. I'd like to uninstall it so that I can re-install it, in the hopes of having a 'home' directory created for me the second time around: C:\cygwin\home\ I read that this should happen if I install Cygwin/X to the properly instructed places in the installation

Re: FW: Uninstalling Cygwin/X ??

2007-09-17 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 05:02:23PM +0100, Lisa Di lorenzo wrote: I'd like to uninstall Cygwin/X from my hard drive, but can't seem to find instructions for doing so.? How should I go about doing this? p.s. I'd like to uninstall it so that I can re-install it, in the hopes of having a 'home'

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler.cc

2007-09-17 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-09-17 16:48:14 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler.cc Log message: * fhandler.cc (fhandler_base::open): Partly revert change from 2007-08-24: Call has_acls to avoid

Updated: OpenSSH-4.7p1-1

2007-09-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of OpenSSH to 4.7p1-1. This is a new major upstream release. The Cygwin release is created from the vanilla sources. The official release message of 4.7p1: OpenSSH 4.7 has just been released. It