doc suggestions for User Guide's Special filenames, including `cat /proc/partitions`

2009-03-08 Thread S Page
I was trying to figure out what device mapped to my USB flash drive. I eventually used `cat /proc/partitions` to determine it was /dev/sdb1. http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html in the User's Guide covers this topic, but is missing some important information. Here are

Re: Turning off execute permission

2009-03-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 7 08:36, Eric Blake wrote: According to Paul McFerrin on 3/7/2009 12:49 AM: I've been reading: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-files on the execute permissions. Did I read that it was impossible to deny execute permissions?? In my tests, the follow is always

Re: doc suggestions for User Guide's Special filenames, including `cat /proc/partitions`

2009-03-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 8 00:36, S Page wrote: I was trying to figure out what device mapped to my USB flash drive. I eventually used `cat /proc/partitions` to determine it was /dev/sdb1. http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html Can you please check against the latest documentation under

Re: doc suggestions for User Guide's Special filenames, including `cat /proc/partitions`

2009-03-08 Thread S Page
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can you please check against the latest documentation under http://www.cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html and see if it explains anything better in this regard? The POSIX devices section is much the same. If not, I'm open to suggestions to make the

Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move

2009-03-08 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Greetings. Long story... But I deleted the previous cygwin installation because of the same problem, as above. I installed back most of the packages that I previously had and I am having the same problem: after running rsync with this command, jic 15:58:01- rsync -ru --exclude '*~'

Re: Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move

2009-03-08 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote: jic 15:58:01- rsync -ru --exclude '*~' jic...@camello:*.txt ./ Password: jic 16:02:44- the cursor does not move and anything typed does not get displayed in the DOS Cygwin bash terminal.  However, whatever I type it is being passed

Re: Can not see what is being typed and cursor does not move

2009-03-08 Thread jose isaias cabrera
Mark J. Reed wrote... On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:10 PM, jose isaias cabrera wrote: jic 15:58:01- rsync -ru --exclude '*~' jic...@camello:*.txt ./ Password: jic 16:02:44- the cursor does not move and anything typed does not get displayed in the DOS Cygwin bash terminal. However, whatever I type

cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help

2009-03-08 Thread Dat Head
-p option says requies instead of requires setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using yum and rpm was ever tossed around? i guess they would need too much twiddling to work. cygcheck is 1.90.4.1 version -- Unsubscribe info:

df -T shows system,fixed under cygwin

2009-03-08 Thread Dat Head
I'm sure there is a good reason that it doesn't (or can't) display ntfs, or fat32, etc but was wondering what that reason is? is there another tool that could be used for getting that info from cygwin command line? I looked in the FAQ bug couldn't find anything on this topic. -- Unsubscribe

Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help

2009-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 05:10:01PM -0400, Dat Head wrote: -p option says requies instead of requires This is fixed in CVS. Thanks for the heads up. setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using yum and rpm was ever tossed around? Yes, it has been discussed many

Re: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

2009-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis an-cyg...@spiro.trikaliotis.net wrote: Hello Brian, * On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:29:02PM -0500 Brian Mathis wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Spiro Trikaliotis xxx...@spiro.trikaliotis.net wrote: Well, we can think about many things:

Re: MinTTY 0.3.3

2009-03-08 Thread Andy Koppe
What I found missing in Mintty is putty feature to start duplicate session (more welcome with hot-keys) Since MinTTY doesn't have sessions like Putty, I didn't think there was much point in keeping this. Desktop and quickstart shortcuts already provide quick ways to open a new MinTTY window,

Re: df -T shows system,fixed under cygwin

2009-03-08 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dat Head wrote: I'm sure there is a good reason that it doesn't (or can't) display ntfs, or fat32, etc but was wondering what that reason is? is there another tool that could be used for getting that info from cygwin command line? I looked

psql and mintty

2009-03-08 Thread newsletter
Hi all I have been using psql with mintty sucessfully for some time now with cygwin 1.5 over the weekend I did a update of cygwin and now psql application hangs with mintty. it works still with the 'standard' cygwin console. any ideas? Stephen -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy

2009-03-08 Thread Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer wrote: Hi, I run cygwin in Vista: I can create a volume shadow copy with vshadow from the Microsoft SDK as well as map it to drive B:. I can access /cygdrive/b (bash) as well as B: (cmd) from terminals of the same user which has mapped the shadow copy to the drive.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {tiff/libtiff5/libtiff-devel/tiff-doc}-3.8.2-10; New: tiff-opengl-3.8.2-10; Removed {libtiffxx5/libtiffxx-devel}-3.8.2-10

2009-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The tiff package provides libraries and utilities for manipulating TIFF image files. This is a security and packaging update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneously-released

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {tiff/libtiff5/libtiff-devel/tiff-doc}-3.8.2-4; New: tiff-opengl-3.8.2-4; Removed {libtiffxx5/libtiffxx-devel}-3.8.2-4

2009-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The tiff package provides libraries and utilities for manipulating TIFF image files. This is a security and packaging update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This will most likely be the final tiff update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future development will continue with tiff-3.8.2-10

Replacing setup.exe and cygcheck with dpkg (Was: Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help)

2009-03-08 Thread Sjors Gielen
Christopher Faylor schreef: setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using yum and rpm was ever tossed around? Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to getting these working, mainly due to problems installing already-running programs. cgf

Re: Replacing setup.exe and cygcheck with dpkg (Was: Re: cygcheck typo in both manpage and --help)

2009-03-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:42:31AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote: Christopher Faylor schreef: setup.exe and cygcheck are very nice but was wondering if the idea of using yum and rpm was ever tossed around? Yes, it has been discussed many times. There are big barriers to getting these working,

winsup/utils ChangeLog cygcheck.cc

2009-03-08 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: c...@sourceware.org 2009-03-08 21:13:26 Modified files: utils : ChangeLog cygcheck.cc Log message: * cygcheck.cc (usage): Fix typo. Patches:

[1.7] Updated: {tiff/libtiff5/libtiff-devel/tiff-doc}-3.8.2-10; New: tiff-opengl-3.8.2-10; Removed {libtiffxx5/libtiffxx-devel}-3.8.2-10

2009-03-08 Thread Charles Wilson
The tiff package provides libraries and utilities for manipulating TIFF image files. This is a security and packaging update. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneously-released