Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 12:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:03:23AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Thats cool. The offer remains open. arch would be great for this (as it addresses all the points above :}), but I simply don't have time to port it properly to cygwin.

Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:07, Robert Collins wrote: cgf TCM TCM? Doh. found it in the other thread. Rob -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: release candidate setup snapsnot.

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Brian Gallew wrote: [snip] I don't suppose there will ever be a never-install-so-don't-ever-show-it-to-me view? I think there is some plan (or let me see a wishlist item) for Setup to remember what was previously skipped and not show you again. The key word here

Re: [PATCH] Setup postinstall logging - take X+1 (regen against HEAD)

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Same as above, but regenerated against cvs HEAD. Thanks, Igor == ChangeLog: 2003-03-18 Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] * script.cc (run): Add file_out parameter. Redirect output of

Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 12:43, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 11:03:23AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Thats cool. The offer remains open. arch would be great for this (as it addresses all the points above :}), but I simply don't have time to port it

Re: ntsec setup

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Pierre A. Humblet wrote: ... The patch below also introduces two changes: 1) Currently setup only attempts to change its default group to Users (or Administrators) if it is None. The patch tries all the time. I have not seen a case where it would hurt. There are typical scenarios where it

Re: [PATCH] Run postinstall scripts in a thread with progress bars

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: This is a preliminary patch that runs postinstall scripts in a thread and updates the progress bars accordingly. Some parts of it are pretty raw, and I've hacked up some stuff using existing functionality, as I didn't want to change some class

Re: [PATCH] Setup postinstall logging - take X+1 (regen against HEAD)

2003-03-20 Thread Brian Keener
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't remember. Are you using the -P option when you update? Nope - you know I saw that though but it says prune empty directories from your local files - nothing about removing files that no longer exist in the repository. Wouldn't that get risky anyways if I add

Re: [PATCH] Setup postinstall logging - take 3?

2003-03-20 Thread Brian Keener
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: patch, though the CREATE_NO_WINDOW is probably overkill). Could someone familiar with the Windows CreateProcess mechanism make sure this is ok? Also, this needs testing on Win95 again. Brian? Okay - I lost track now - does this still need testing on Win95 and do all

Re: [PATCH] Setup postinstall logging - take 3?

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Brian Keener wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: patch, though the CREATE_NO_WINDOW is probably overkill). Could someone familiar with the Windows CreateProcess mechanism make sure this is ok? Also, this needs testing on Win95 again. Brian? Okay - I lost track now -

Re: Trivial ChangeLog amendment for setup-200206 branch

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:12:21PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: I was just working on extracting the correct changelog entries for the release notes for the upcoming setup release, when I discovered an accidental deletion of an entry. OK to apply this to the 2.249 branch? I think that ChangeLog

Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 01:46, Max Bowsher wrote: Is the shudder over Tom, or arch ? If Tom, then I can understand ;]. If arch itself - have you tried a recent version? I've found arch to be incredibly useful, making some of the things I'd fought with CVS to make happen trivial. (Notably

Re: Trivial ChangeLog amendment for setup-200206 branch

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:12:21PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: I was just working on extracting the correct changelog entries for the release notes for the upcoming setup release, when I discovered an accidental deletion of an entry. OK to apply this to the 2.249

Re: [PATCH] Run postinstall scripts in a thread with progress bars

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:49, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Same as above, but regenerated against HEAD. ChangeLog is the same. The only thing about this patch that really makes me uncomfortable is having to run through iterators/FindVisitors twice. Any suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Re: Trivial ChangeLog amendment for setup-200206 branch

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 07:12, Max Bowsher wrote: I was just working on extracting the correct changelog entries for the release notes for the upcoming setup release, when I discovered an accidental deletion of an entry. OK to apply this to the 2.249 branch? Please do. Thanks, Rob -- GPG

Re: Trivial ChangeLog amendment for setup-200206 branch

2003-03-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:25:18PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:12:21PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: I was just working on extracting the correct changelog entries for the release notes for the upcoming setup release, when I discovered an

[PATCH] Run postinstall scripts in a thread with progress bars - take 2

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 21 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:49, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Same as above, but regenerated against HEAD. ChangeLog is the same. The only thing about this patch that really makes me uncomfortable is having to run through iterators/FindVisitors twice. Any

Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:29, Max Bowsher wrote: cvsup requires a remote cvsup server, doesn't it? So short of convincing overseers to install cvsup on sources.redhat.com, it isn't useful here. Or have I misunderstood it? cvsup was there on sources when I experimented with this. Rob -- GPG

Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:29, Max Bowsher wrote: cvsup requires a remote cvsup server, doesn't it? So short of convincing overseers to install cvsup on sources.redhat.com, it isn't useful here. Or have I misunderstood it? cvsup was there on sources when I experimented

Re: juggling patches...

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:16, Max Bowsher wrote: Oh! I didn't think to actually check. I just assumed it wasn't, since it isn't publicized. Max. http://gcc.gnu.org/cvsup.html -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a

Summarizing the release notes for setup

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
We now face the job of summarizing 42kB of ChangeLog entries. It seems the best way to do this would be to collaborate, so we need a collaboration tool. Subject to approval from Chris and/or overseers, I could set up a mini cvs repository in my home directory on sources.redhat.com, in which we

Re: Summarizing the release notes for setup

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:36, Max Bowsher wrote: We now face the job of summarizing 42kB of ChangeLog entries. It seems the best way to do this would be to collaborate, so we need a collaboration tool. Subject to approval from Chris and/or overseers, I could set up a mini cvs repository in my

What to put in setup release notes?

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
What level of detail is required here? For non-user-obvious bugfixes, can we just say Many miscellaneous bugfixes? Do we mention command line options at all, given that there is no way to dump a list? Max.

Re: What to put in setup release notes?

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 09:46, Max Bowsher wrote: What level of detail is required here? For non-user-obvious bugfixes, can we just say Many miscellaneous bugfixes? Do we mention command line options at all, given that there is no way to dump a list? The ones that are useful and new, yes.

Problem with urls in cygwin-apps-cvs messages

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, There seem to be a couple of problems with the URLs in messages from the cygwin-apps-cvs list: - The initial revision provides r1=NONE parameter, which is not recognized by cvsweb - cvsweb goes to the Attic to find changes in RELEASENOTES... For an example of the first, see

Re: Q: pressing of space necessary after ~?

2003-03-20 Thread Heiko Nardmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mittwoch, 19. März 2003 21:34, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Heiko Nardmann wrote: I am looking for a reason why I have to press space after pressing ~ to get the ~ shown. Any idea? - -- Heiko Nardmann Heiko, Are

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread J S
Does it make any difference to the titles if you change the color depth setting? JS I have also experience the repeated keystroke bug. As for the window title bug, it was possible to give a new xterm a different title under XWin-4.2.0-20. If you run xterm -T my title -e bash, the xterm will

Re: Can't get windowmaker to work

2003-03-20 Thread Tomasz Rojek
When I start wmaker I get a dialog saying Fatal error Window Maker received signal 11 Have I not installed something?? Your home/$USER directory? I remember that when I had no such directory created by cygwin (on w2k with SP3 normal user rights) windowmaker could not start. Then after

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread Brian E. Gallew
Jack Tanner wrote: Harold L Hunt II wrote: The other possibility is that the MultiWindow Window Manager handles setting the initial title just fine, but it does not handle requests to change the message. Thus, xterm sets the message to bash on startup, but requests to change it to the current

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread Brian E. Gallew
Jack Tanner wrote: How did you do this? I can't reproduce your results. I'm running rxvt 2.7.9, the latest Cygwin release. Assuming that bash is your shell, add this to your .bashrc: PS1=\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \d \w\n\#

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread Harold L Hunt II
JT, Please send in the contents of /tmp/XWinrl.log. Harold Jack Tanner wrote: Brian E. Gallew wrote: In case anyone cares, rxvt does the right thing, so you might consider switching like I did. How did you do this? I can't reproduce your results. I'm running rxvt 2.7.9, the latest Cygwin

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
XWin set window title when that window is shown, and never update. So -T option works, PROMPT_COMMAND doesn't work. Kensuke Matsuzaki

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread Raymond Kwong
As I said in my earlier post, with XWin-4.2.0-20, xterm -T my title will set the xterm window title to my title. With later versions, including XWin-4.2.0-28, xterm -T any string always produces the following window title: Cygwin/XFree86 X rl The title on the root window entry at the bottom

Re: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread keith
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote: | xterm -T my title works for me with XWin-4.2.0-28. This is different | functionality, though -- I was talking about a window title that | updates automatically to show the current directory. Try reading this:

RE: two new -multiwindow bugs

2003-03-20 Thread Ben . Kelley
Hi. If I login using xdm, yes, all windows get the title Cygwin/XFree86 X rl, and you can't change it. As with other posters, if I start a window (such as xterm or rxvt) locally (so not using xdm) specifying a title on the command line it works, but if I try and change the title after that it

Title changing is unimplemented in MultiWindow mode

2003-03-20 Thread Harold L Hunt II
There seems to be some questions about why the title on the Windows-window does not change when running with -multiwindow. The answer is simply this: title changes are a feature of X Window Managers that the MultiWindow Window Manager does not yet implement. Would it be easy to implement this

Error Messages

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Darren Chatterton
I am getting an error message when i try and run xterm. It is saying 'can't open display' Can anyone help with this?? Mark

Re: Title changing is unimplemented in MultiWindow mode

2003-03-20 Thread Raymond Kwong
I have found perhaps something interesting. 1. If I start the Xserver with start XWin-4.2.0-20 -multiwindow -nolisten tcp I can change the xterm window title using -T option on the command line. 2. If I start the Xserver with start XWin-4.2.0-28 -multiwindow again I can change the xterm

RE: Error Messages

2003-03-20 Thread Harold L Hunt II
You have to give a better description of the problem. You can start by sending in /tmp/XWin*.log. Harold -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Darren Chatterton Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc

2003-03-20 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-20 08:53:28 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc Log message: * fhandler_socket.cc (fhandler_socket::sendto): Restrict EPIPE and SIGPIPE handling to

Re: [PATCH] updated pthread list patch

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 18:50, Thomas Pfaff wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: I just followed the already existing method names in thread.h. Methods like forEach, initMutex or isGoodObject were made by you. Yes, I realise that. I would suggest to commit my patch now and do a

Re: [PATCH] pthread_equal

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 18:28, Thomas Pfaff wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 00:54, Thomas Pfaff wrote: 2003-03-19 Thomas Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] * pthread.cc (pthread_equal): Replacement for pthread_equal in thread.cc. * thread.cc:

Re: cygwin freezes for minutes on Ctrl+C

2003-03-20 Thread Michel G rimminck
I had the same problem, but this issue appears to be solved in version 1.3.22 Possible not all mirror servers have updated yet. Michel Juman Byun wrote: Issue: cygwin shell freezes for about a minute on Ctrl+C pressed to stop execution of a program. Here is how to repeat the problem.

allocating large amounts of memory failes

2003-03-20 Thread Michel G rimminck
I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under gnuC. I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb. My system contains 1.3 Gb

allocating large amounts of memory fails

2003-03-20 Thread Michel G rimminck
I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under gnuC. I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb. My system contains 1.3 Gb

Re: [PATCH] fhandler_socket::sendto and EPIPE

2003-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:17:49PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: 2003-03-19 Brian Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fhandler_socket.cc (sendto): Handle SIGPIPE for ECONNRESET. Hmm, while this looks okay on the first glance, reading SUSv3 and the Linux man pages tell another story. SUSv3 has an

1.3.20: [incr Tcl/Tk] interpreters missing - second try

2003-03-20 Thread Jerzy Witkowski
Hello, (since I did not receive any answer to my previous posting, I'm trying for the second time) I refreshed my Cygwin installation and found out that [incr Tcl/Tk] interpreters are missing. In the previous version Tcl/Tk interpreters were named `cygtclsh80.exe', `cygwish80.exe',

How to increase stack size!!!

2003-03-20 Thread Poramate Manoonpong
Hi all, I have just started to use cygwin and I got the problem about stack size because it was "stack overflow" when I run ODE (simulation) . I already tried to increase the stack size but it didn't work. Anyway, you can see my problem from following picture. Please tell me , how to

Mail from cron yields error

2003-03-20 Thread a12
Hi gurus, In the process of mailing messages using cron, I have created /var/cron/tabs/sysaccount: SHELL=/bin/sh # mail any output to 'sysaccount', no matter whose crontab this is MAILTO=sysaccount # 0 * * * * /cygdrive/h/blat/blat.exe ssmtp -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] -server

Re: Mail from cron yields error

2003-03-20 Thread Tino Lange
Hi! If you use blat, then you don't have to care about the ssmtp settings, if you use ssmtp then you don't have to care about the blat settings. These are different approaches to send mail. The MAILTO Variable inside crontab is only used by cron to invoke the default mailer (which might be

cron fails

2003-03-20 Thread a12
Hi gurus, My crontab contains: SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=sysaccount 15 * * * * echo $USER $HOME/c.log I have checked /home/sysaccount, and there is no c.log there. What have I missed here ? Marek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

ssmtp issued by cron fails

2003-03-20 Thread a12
Hi gurus, My crontab contains: SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=sysaccount 15 * * * * echo $USER $HOME/c.log For some reasons this crontab fails, and cron issues a request to ssmtp to notify the user, as I can see in Windows Event Log: sSMTP mail : PID 1032 : /usr/sbin/ssmtp sent mail for sysaccount.

Re: chmod() on AF_UNIX sockets broken

2003-03-20 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:35:19PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 04:10:09PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: While tracking down a PostgreSQL problem, I uncovered that chmod() appears to have no affect on AF_UNIX sockets on recent Cygwin versions. Thanks for

inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vito
how to configure inetd to allow anonymous ftp access under windows nt/2000/xp ? Grazie, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
man ftpd specificly the bit on authentication -Original Message- From: Vito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 March 2003 12:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: inetd anonymous ftp access how to configure inetd to allow anonymous ftp access under windows nt/2000/xp ? Grazie,

cygwin commands sometime hang on dual-processor (WinNT-SP5)

2003-03-20 Thread Henrik Wist
Hi, I'm using Cygwin version 1.3.22-1 on a dual-processor machine running WindowsNT SP5. I'm seeing hangs on random commands (rm, cat, cut ...) when running my scripts. I searched Google already and it turned up a discussion on the cygwin-developers list from mid July 2002 (first message

Sources

2003-03-20 Thread Nicholas Marsh
Where can I get the installer sources? I want to tinker with it, maybe see how hard it would be to create a more user firendly version of the installer. nick marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vito
i have tried all, but still having problems with anonymous access created an ftp user under winXP added it to the /etc/passwd file created the home for ftp in /home/ftp deleted the entries from /etc/ftpusers but when i try anonymous access i get the following messages: $ ftp localhost Connected

Re: Sources

2003-03-20 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Nicholas Marsh wrote: Where can I get the installer sources? I want to tinker with it, maybe see how hard it would be to create a more user firendly version of the installer. Here you can find all the information you need to fetch/build the installer from source:

XP mount: Permission denied

2003-03-20 Thread Demmer, Thomas
Hi all, I have a problem with mounting drives into my freshly installed Cygwin 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) under XP. If I try to execute mount -f -s -b c: /c I get a permission denied error. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg01368.html suggests that this may have something to do with my user

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
oops ok try the instructions in /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils/inetutils-1.3.2.README this worked for me (although i had to (briefly) enable the guest account and modify the /etc/passwd entry as my security setting wouldnt allow my ftp user to have a blank password ;) -Original Message-

Re: 1.3.20: [incr Tcl/Tk] interpreters missing - second try

2003-03-20 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Have a look here http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC29 and here http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00376.html and here http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00010.html rlc On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jerzy Witkowski wrote: Hello, (since I did not receive any answer to my

Re: XP mount: Permission denied

2003-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:10:03PM +0100, Demmer, Thomas wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with mounting drives into my freshly installed Cygwin 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) under XP. If I try to execute mount -f -s -b c: /c Try mount -u instead. Probably you don't have write access to the

Re: No PIDs left, failure to fork, child state waiting for longjmp AND ps FAILS

2003-03-20 Thread Mike W.
I notice another thing about when the errors begin to cascade; the ps command fails also momentarily, then works again! Here is what I could see in two terminal windows; the first was running the command ./configure --with-perl=/usr/bin/perl --enable-shared in

Re: How to increase stack size!!!

2003-03-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, A screen capture is a bit excessive, is it not? I'm not sure which shell you're using. Probably it's /bin/sh, which under Cygwin is ash. Under BASH the diagnostic is a bit more enlightening: % ulimit -s 2046 % ulimit -s 4096 bash: ulimit: stack size: cannot modify limit: Invalid argument

Re: allocating large amounts of memory fails

2003-03-20 Thread Rolf Campbell
Michel G rimminck wrote: I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under gnuC. I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb. My

Re: cgf:RCM

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, David A. Case wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: Oddly enough, his company (or at least the company he used to work for) was the *only* one to ever send me a token of appreciation for my work on cygwin. I don't know what constitutes a token

emacs autosave file names

2003-03-20 Thread Steven J. Zeil
When running the CygWin port of emacs, I frequently see failures in the auto-save mechanism. The problem occurs when editing a buffer whose name includes characters that are acceptable in Unix file names but not in Windows file names. For example, in replying to a message in VM, I may get

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vito
hi, thanks for your suggestion. sorry but nothing seems to work for me! :( This is my entry in the /etc/passwd file ftp::501:513:U-Guest,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1677128483-1343024091-501:/home/ftp :/bin/bash with this entry, i'm able to telnet with user ftp, but for ftp nada de nada :( i have

fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student)
I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error: ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: ( unexpected after typing: ./fsplit at the prompt (i.e. there was no ( typed). It also gives the same error when I try using the fsplit executable

Idle telnet sessions appear to go to sleep

2003-03-20 Thread Reid Thompson
Is anyone else having this issue: If I leave a telnet session idle for a couple of minutes, when I return to it the session appears to need time to 'wake up'. I.E. I'm working in a telnet session, I begin work in a different window/application, I make the telnet session window active again by

Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
Tyson, Cygwin does not emulate the Linux operating system at a binary executable level. It implements POSIX APIs in terms of Windows APIs. It has a great deal of FSF / GNU software, but that software is compiled specifically for Cygwin. There's no binary compatibility. If the tool you want is

Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote: I was trying to use the same fsplit executable that I use under Redhat Linux, but with Cygwin, it gives this error: ./fsplit: 1: syntax error: ( unexpected after typing: ./fsplit at the prompt (i.e. there was no ( typed).

Re: No PIDs left, failure to fork, child state waiting for longjmp

2003-03-20 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
I see the behaviour when I try to compile Image Magick. This doesn't have to do with your PID issue, but why not use the precompiled Cygwin binaries on the ImageMagick site? I just downloaded it the other day. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum

Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Tyson Bourbina
Thanks, you answered my question. It was a binary file. I thought Cygwin was binary-compatible with Linux. Thanks for your help. Tyson On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Bourbina, Tyson Derrik (UMR-Student) wrote: I was trying to use the

Re: cgf:RCM

2003-03-20 Thread Cliff Hones
Still waiting for someone to send me a laptop... cgf How about one of these? http://www.mystique.net/amish.html [And please, Amish Cygwin users, I mean no offence.] -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

RE: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Vince Hoffman
all i can do now is compare my settings to yours and see whats different. I enabled the guest account my guest user (renamed to ftp) looks like this in /etc/passwd ftp:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:501:513:U-JHARY\Guest,S-1-5-21-1417001333-413027322 -725345543-501:/home/ftp:/bin/false only real

Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Tron Thomas
I wrote a simple program to test an open source library I am planning to use in a development project. I want the project to be supported on different compilers, including the GCC compiler included with Cygwin. I have been able to successfully build my test application using the Micrsoft and

Re: Re: fsplit problems

2003-03-20 Thread Timothy C Prince
fsplit can easily be built under cygwin from source. If there's any interest, I could sign on as maintainer. -Original Message- From: Tyson Bourbina [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:15:45 -0600 Subject: Re: fsplit problems Thanks, you answered my

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:53:54PM +0100, Vito wrote: hi, thanks for your suggestion. sorry but nothing seems to work for me! :( This is my entry in the /etc/passwd file ftp::501:513:U-Guest,S-1-5-21-1606980848-1677128483-1343024091-501:/home/ftp :/bin/bash with this entry, i'm able

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
At 10:43 2003-03-20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:53:54PM +0100, Vito wrote: ... please HLP MEE Keep cool. Did you check that ftp and anonymous are removed from /etc/ftpusers? Corinna Corinna, He said he did. Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info:

inetd/telnet on win98 vs WinXP

2003-03-20 Thread BB
When I use inetd Win98 and telnet to it, I get a prompts for a password. When I telnet to inetd on XP, it prompts for a user id and then a password. Is there any reason for this inconsistency? Is there anything I can do to make them consistent? My guess is that is has something to do with the

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:54:20AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: At 10:43 2003-03-20, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 06:53:54PM +0100, Vito wrote: ... please HLP MEE Keep cool. Did you check that ftp and anonymous are removed from /etc/ftpusers? Corinna

Re: emacs autosave file names

2003-03-20 Thread Joe Buehler
Steven J. Zeil wrote: Is there a way to filter/transform characters in auto-save file names? Ask on the GNU emacs help list or bug list. Someone there can probably help you. -- Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Re: ssmtp: can't open the smtp port (0) on mailhost

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
gSOAP acct wrote: Hi, I am totally clue less. I have cygwin installed on an NT 4.0 system with no NT native email software (ie no outlook). I have some shell scripts that use to run on a Solaris system that used mailx to email error messages to me. I tried changing the scripts to use smtp in

Re: logon as a service for XP home edition

2003-03-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andrew, That's not true. Karl agreed (whether he knew it or not) to allow content to be added to messages he sends via that email account. Probably the mail service was billed as free, though I cannot concur with that description, given that the injection of commercial announcements must be

RE: midnight commander start new bash proccess after exit

2003-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You'll want to check the email archives for answers to questions like these. The same issue was reported within the week. You can check the archives for the discussion. For now, the solution is to turn off subshells. Larry Original Message: - From: Tihomir Ganev [EMAIL

Re: Apache under Cygwin

2003-03-20 Thread Stipe Tolj
Andrew DeFaria wrote: In playing with this I jump on the server and start killing the children and reattempting either a web page connect or a telnet connection. Usually before I kill all of the children the web server responds and all is fine. However, needless to say, this is not how I

Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Tron Thomas wrote: I wrote a simple program to test an open source library I am planning to use in a development project. I want the project to be supported on different compilers, including the GCC compiler included with Cygwin. I have been able to successfully build my test application

Spamassasin Permissions Problem.

2003-03-20 Thread Ajay Simha
hi, When I run spamassassin through procmail, I see: Cannot open bayes_path /home/asimha/.spamassassin/bayes R/W: Permission denied in my procmail log file. what is it complaining about? I tried giving directory files any and all permissions but it still complains. Thanks, -ajay --

Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Tron Thomas
Earlier, I tried almost exactly what you suggested before posting my question, and it worked fine with the Cygwin compiler. Would it be helpful if I actually provided the headers the library is using? Max Bowsher wrote: Tron Thomas wrote: I wrote a simple program to test an open source

Re: inetd anonymous ftp access

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
What's your ~ftp structure look like? Here's what I have (and it works for me): $ cd ~ftp $ ls -ld bin etc; ls -l bin etc dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 4 11:07 bin/ dr-xr-xr-x+ 2 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Mar 23 2002 etc/ bin: total 956 -r-xr-xr-x1 SYSTEM SYSTEM

Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Tron Thomas wrote: Earlier, I tried almost exactly what you suggested before posting my question, and it worked fine with the Cygwin compiler. Would it be helpful if I actually provided the headers the library is using? No. It seems you have discovered you were using a non-portable construct.

Re: Apache under Cygwin

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Stipe Tolj wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: In playing with this I jump on the server and start killing the children and reattempting either a web page connect or a telnet connection. Usually before I kill all of the children the web server responds and all is fine. However, needless to say, this

Re: logon as a service for XP home edition

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Randall R Schulz wrote: Andrew, That's not true. Karl agreed (whether he knew it or not) to allow content to be added to messages he sends via that email account. Probably the mail service was billed as free, though I cannot concur with that description, given that the injection of commercial

Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Tron Thomas
I'm sorry. I misread what you wrote. I thought you were suggesting that I try the #elif directive in simple coding example to see if the compiler would accept it. This is was I used: #include iostream int main() { using std::cout; #if FOO cout Foo\n; #elif BAR cout Bar\n #endif

Re: Invalid compiler error

2003-03-20 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:01, Tron Thomas wrote: I'm sorry. I misread what you wrote. I thought you were suggesting that I try the #elif directive in simple coding example to see if the compiler would accept it. This is was I used: This program compiles just fine, and if I define the

Re: Apache under Cygwin

2003-03-20 Thread Stipe Tolj
Andrew DeFaria wrote: What could I do to help? This sucks. It means I need to go back to Apache for Windows... definetly. I'd like to see this resolved more then anyone else :| Ok, I guess you have the latest cygwin version running, right?! First thing would be to get the latest 1.3.27

seteuid and file ownership

2003-03-20 Thread Vishal Jain
Hi, I am making a seteuid() call to impersonate user shweta. Then I create a file. When I do ls -l on the file, it shows the owner as vishalj which was the user before doing impersonation. -rw-rw-rw-1 vishalj mkgroup 0 Mar 20 12:50 shweta Is this expected behaviour in cygwin? I am

Re: seteuid and file ownership

2003-03-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
You might start by checking the status after the setuid call. Perhaps it failed. Vishal Jain wrote: Hi, I am making a seteuid() call to impersonate user shweta. Then I create a file. When I do ls -l on the file, it shows the owner as vishalj which was the user before doing impersonation.

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