Re: cygwin.exe installer - creation of cygwin.bat does not escapepercent signs (%) in path

2003-05-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 28 May 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I ran into a problem with the cygwin.bat script when I downloaded files from an FTP mirror and installed them locally: C:\cygwin\etc\setup\ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin Please note that the hex escapes in the path were

How dumb can I get? (libxml2..the beast)

2003-05-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
I've been away for a while; my computer mashed out and at the worst moment possible our mail server broke down...B Anyway back on topic, I didn't back-up my build tree's, only my CVS repo's (which contain most of my changes to the stock libxml2(-2.5.6)) so I had to start again on my

Re: How dumb can I get? (libxml2..the beast)

2003-05-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Sorry forgot the cygcheck and the fact that I have bootstrapped and re-libtoolised.. :-) Elfyn _ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System

Octave package for Cygwin

2003-05-29 Thread John W. Eaton
I would like to contribute a Cygwin package for GNU Octave (www.octave.org). To start, I propose two packages, one with the Octave interpreter, shared libraries, and other files necessary to run Octave and another with the the header files and scripts necessary to compile and link user-supplied

RE: Octave package for Cygwin

2003-05-29 Thread Billinghurst, David (CRTS)
I have used octave under cygwin for a few years, so this gets my vote, and I would be happy to download and test the package. I regularly build and test fortran LAPACK and BLAS on cygwin, as part of the gcc regression testing. I haven't tried to build ATLAS or fftw, and I failed to build

Re: How dumb can I get? (libxml2..the beast)

2003-05-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Elfyn McBratney wrote: I'm using the -devel autoconf, automake and libtool (2.57, 1.7.3 and 1.5, respectively) with `/usr/autotool/devel/bin' prepended to my PATH environment variable and M4PATH env set to `/usr/autotool/devel/share/autoconf' building and targetting i686-pc-cygwin . It

LibXML2/LibXSLT testers wanted (was Re: How dumb can I get?...)

2003-05-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
[ Moving this over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to hunt for some libx* testers ;-) ] Make sure that the LDFLAGS for the library, in the Makefile.am, include the -no-undefined flag. e.g.: libfoo_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 1:0:1 -no-undefined (I'm not sure, but I *think* this thread belongs on the main

Re: Local xload for cygwin

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Earle, The normal path for any Cygwin-related patches it that developers send them to me, I apply them to my local tree, I make a test release, I ball the fixes up and send them to patches at XFree86, Alan Hourihane picks up whatever I send him and commits it. XFree86's Bugzilla was just

Re: Windows NT installation 1.3.22-1

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Panos, I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you trying to use XFree86 on Cygwin? If not, you have the wrong mailing list (use [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead). If you do need help installing and running Cygwin/XFree86, please see: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.html

PCB Buyers' Website Launched

2003-05-29 Thread Board Buyer
Log on and Ask an Expert today! If you buy printed circuit boards, you need to take a look at this new resource designed to take the mystery (misery) out of the PCB purchasing process. We have designed the PCBRC (Printed Circuit Buyer's Resource Center) to help buyers and specifiers gain a

RE: Custom icons per window class/name patch

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Colin Harrison wrote: File should open in WordPad etc. What about posting the images as gif, png or jpg or even better, just posting a link to the image? bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

RE: Custom icons per window class/name patch

2003-05-29 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Colin, At 03:21 PM 5/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: ...It shows the task switcher icons with:- 3) ghostview (!) 3) konqueror (showing transparency fault) 4) xeyes and xclock (ok) Are you sure you have all the patches in? #4 xclock is actually a watch icon, with a black strap at the top and

RE: key bounce problem

2003-05-29 Thread Andrew Braverman
I tried the xset r off when it was mentioned and have not had a keyboard bounce problem since. According to the way I read the man page for xset, only the rate parameter is handled by the keyboard extension and not the autorepeat on/off. From what I can tell, in a ms-windows based xserver, that

RE: Custom icons per window class/name patch

2003-05-29 Thread Earle F. Philhower, III
Howdy Colin et. al, There is a quick, easy fix for the 16x16 bitmask icon problem. At winmultiwindowwindow.c, line 1961 there's an if statement: if (iconPtr-drawable.width 16 || iconPtr-drawable.height 16) iconSize = 32; else iconSize = 16; Replace it completely with just

RE: Custom icons per window class/name patch

2003-05-29 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Earle, Just about to try your patch. I'm going cross-eyed starring at these icon! I think that there is a black outline to xeyes and xclock icons that maybe gets lost in the wash! KDE show them with an outline (maybe it's an add-on effect?) Also think xclock has a watch icon now, after all,

RE: Custom icons per window class/name patch

2003-05-29 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Earle, Your fix is good. No more transparent background problems on ethereal or konqueror icons. I'm off to get my eyes tested! Thanks Colin

RE: Custom icons per window class/name patch

2003-05-29 Thread Colin Harrison
Hi Earle et al, Just some (final?) results to show how good icon handling now is. Notice the xclock and xeyes now have their correct border and woopee it is a watch not a clock! (It's a tiny attached file, 20K...honest Alexander!) Captured at 16 bit colour 1280x1024 display. Attached is a

problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
Looking through the archives it seems that people were discussing something like this about a year ago (see the double keystroke effects with XP thread), but I'm not sure if this is quite the same thing, since that report talks about problems only with normal-speed typing and I get it even for

Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Lev, Lev Bishop wrote: Looking through the archives it seems that people were discussing something like this about a year ago (see the double keystroke effects with XP thread), but I'm not sure if this is quite the same thing, since that report talks about problems only with normal-speed

Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
Well, it looks like while I was composing that message there were people solving the same problem. How nice that the cygwin/xfree86 community is so responsive as to be able to post me fixes before I've even finished posting the problem report ;-) Anyway, xset r off does, indeed, seem to fix my

Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Lev, Lev Bishop wrote: Well, it looks like while I was composing that message there were people solving the same problem. How nice that the cygwin/xfree86 community is so responsive as to be able to post me fixes before I've even finished posting the problem report ;-) We aim to please :)

Few minor issues

2003-05-29 Thread Biju
I dont know whether others noticed these. 1) After we start XWin.exe the mouse pointer will automatically move to center of screen. This is OK for normal mode, -nodecoration and -fullscreen. But I think its not needed in -multiwindow and -rootless modes. 2) On -multiwindow mode if we press

FW: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Fries, David D
The correct solution if you asked me is to ignore the windows repeat events and use this X feature that is causing the problem. I would say this is the correct thing to do because of the very reason that the feature was included in X in the first place (at least I assume it is the reason). It

RE: Custom icons + MouseUp fix

2003-05-29 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Colin, glad to hear it's working 100%. The original problem was the endianness of Windoze 1-bit bitmap when using a non-32-bit wide destination. I think the code was writing into the unused portion of the 32-bits and you got garbage in the real mask part. I found some kde apps on a linux

Re: FW: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
David, No need to CC me on replies. Please don't. Fries, David D wrote: The correct solution if you asked me is to ignore the windows repeat events and use this X feature that is causing the problem. I would say this is the correct thing to do because of the very reason that the feature was

Re: Few minor issues

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Biju wrote: I dont know whether others noticed these. 1) After we start XWin.exe the mouse pointer will automatically move to center of screen. This is OK for normal mode, -nodecoration and -fullscreen. But I think its not needed in -multiwindow and -rootless modes. I looked for the code that

Re: Custom icons + MouseUp fix

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Earle, Whatever you do, don't send a patch for the mouse release fix until I can make another test release. I am getting swamped with patches here. Thanks. Harold Earle F. Philhower III wrote: Howdy Colin, glad to hear it's working 100%. The original problem was the endianness of Windoze

Re: Custom icons + MouseUp fix

2003-05-29 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Harold, At 12:04 AM 5/29/2003 -0400, you wrote: Whatever you do, don't send a patch for the mouse release fix until I can make another test release. I am getting swamped with patches here. Thanks. OK, truce! -Earle F. Philhower, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrlabel - ZipLabel - FlpLabel

Re: Few minor issues

2003-05-29 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Biju, Harold: At 12:03 AM 5/29/2003 -0400, you wrote: Biju wrote: I dont know whether others noticed these. 1) After we start XWin.exe the mouse pointer will automatically move to center of screen. This is OK for normal mode, -nodecoration and -fullscreen. But I think its not needed in

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 87

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/XWin-Test87.exe.bz2 (1208 KiB) Server source, direct link: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/xwin-20030529-0045.tar.bz2 (116 KiB) xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin (all files) diff against Test86 source code: http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/shadow/xwin-Test86

Re: Custom icons + MouseUp fix

2003-05-29 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Okay, test release posted. Please replace local source with source from test release, reapply local patches to test source, and submit new patches as needed. :) I have made lots of style fixes to the source, so you might as well replace all files... otherwise diffs will be useless for me as

Xlib: No protocol specified (connection refused by server)

2003-05-29 Thread yuval lifshitz
Hi I am a new user of Cygwin-xfree86. I have an X server is listening on Win2k Server . When I try to invoke xterm -display win2k server address from the nearest Linux I get that connection problem - Xlib: No protocol specified (connection refused by server) I have read previous letters

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Test 87

2003-05-29 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
One problem with setup.exe : why are always test packages automatically downgraded to the stable releases when installing other packages ? I installed the file package after installing the Xfree86-xserv 4.2.0.38, setup downgraded it to 4.2.0.37. = Sylvain Petreolle (spetreolle at users dot

Re: Custom icons + MouseUp fix

2003-05-29 Thread Alexander Gottwald
Harold L Hunt II wrote: Okay, test release posted. Please replace local source with source from test release, reapply local patches to test source, and submit new patches as needed. :) Harold, can you import your local tree to the cvs on sourceforge? So we can easily do updates and keep

Re: Windows NT installation 1.3.22-1

2003-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
Panos, This question probably belongs on the general Cygwin list, no on Cygwin-XFree. I've added that list to this reply's distribution. Further follow-ups and replies should go there only. I believe you're expecting a CSH-equivalent shell (tcsh, e.g.). That shell is available under Cygwin,

src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc

2003-05-29 Thread corinna
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-05-28 22:05:56 Modified files: winsup/cygwin : ChangeLog fhandler_socket.cc Log message: * fhandler_socket.cc (fhandler_socket::dup): If running impersonated, revert to original

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Chuck Hamilton
Still no go. Attached is the output and my attempt to recreate the service. - Original Message - From: Harig, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:03 PM Subject: RE: crontab error Please re-run the cron_diagnose.sh

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread linamat
And you mention MySQL. Do you have recent version of MySQL server built on top of Cygwin? Is there a patch or a binary somewhere too? You may not have problems with compiling mysql-3.23.56 under Cygwin. If you need DLL headers, tell me address and I'll send you this one. Sergey. --

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:25:28PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am successfully ported qmail-1.03 and it seems to work good. broad hint Wouldn't it be nice to have somebody volunteering to become Cygwin package maintainer for qmail? ;-) /broad hint Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
Hi All, I'm not sure if this issue has been detected. I have traversed through the MANY probelm reports and haven't been able to find any specifics on this problem. The problem: My system that I have Cygwin running on is a Windows 2000 platform. I have set the appropriate environment

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sam, At 03:17 2003-05-28, Sam Edge wrote: Stuart Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Tue, 27 May 2003 13:07:18 +0100: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:42:21PM +0100, Sam Edge wrote: Make sure that if your script uses Bash-specific features, it starts with

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread linamat
Wouldn't it be nice to have somebody volunteering to become Cygwin package maintainer for qmail? ;-) It would be really good. I just finished implementing AUTH DIGEST-MD5 for qmail and intensive looking for Win32 MUA which supports it... I have such plans: - to do AUTH NTLM support, - to add a

Re: where is useradd?

2003-05-29 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Cygwin != UNIX. User management is done by Windows. If you want to add a user account, use the Windows way to do it. That being said, I remember someone (I don't recall the name but I helped him out at the time) writing some user management scripts that worked pretty well on the various

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Marcel Telka
On 2003.05.28 15:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:25:28PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am successfully ported qmail-1.03 and it seems to work good. broad hint Wouldn't it be nice to have somebody volunteering to become Cygwin package maintainer for qmail? ;-) /broad

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread linamat
Wouldn't it be nice to have somebody volunteering to become Cygwin package maintainer for qmail? ;-) /broad hint Note about qmail distribution: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html You are right, of course, it need to get him (professor Dan Bernstein) approval. Sergey. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Chuck Hamilton
I'm finding if I run the cron command manually from a shell window, it works. If I try to start it as a service, it fails to start. Below is what I found in the win2k application log. Does it help? The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
linamat schrieb: And you mention MySQL. Do you have recent version of MySQL server built on top of Cygwin? Is there a patch or a binary somewhere too? You may not have problems with compiling mysql-3.23.56 under Cygwin. If you need DLL headers, tell me address and I'll send you this one.

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Sam Edge
Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Wed, 28 May 2003 06:30:47 -0700: The interpretation of #! lines is in the kernel (or, hereabout, Cygwin1.dll, a kernel by any other name), just as the kernel would how to handle a binary executable by

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread linamat
The client is not the problem, I have compiled my own version of MySQL, including client dll and server. What I want is the server running on top of Cygwin (well, I know it is ported to Windows and runs faster without Cygwin, but just for fun I want it running on Cygwin too), unfortunately the

problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
Windows XP home edition GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) cygwin dll version 1.3.22 cygcheck -s -v -r attached So I have observed a strange phenomenon, where if I execute man bash in (using bash) and then suspend with ^Z, maybe one time in 4 there is a situation where the

Re: Will lpr be updated to enable printing to a postscript printer?

2003-05-29 Thread Rick Rankin
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Gilles Civario in his 5/14 posting (Subject: Re: a2ps and printer) indicated a simple lpr.c patch that enabled printing to a postscript printer via cygwin lpr (which tends to be in the path for utilities such as a2ps or enscript). The next release of

windows XP: how to activate the beep (when XP loses the defaultbeep)

2003-05-29 Thread Lev Bishop
This is what I had to do to enable the beep under: Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Cygwin.dll 1.3.22 It seems that cygwin from 1.3.21 uses the windows default beep sound. I wasn't able to set the default beep with the control panel sounds and audio devices applet until

gdb window interface would not start

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Genkin
Issuing gdb -w just brings up command line interface like there is no -w option. Any guess why? Thank you, Alexander Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 732 445 4579 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Spurious(?) virus warning from f-secure

2003-05-29 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
Suspicious Win32 PE, perhaps a new virus! (PE EXE files = portable executables) Pressing Web Club within the virus alert launches IE on this link: http://cgi.f-secure.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Suspicious+Win32+PE%2C+perhaps+ a+new+virus%21wf=F4211wm=wrdcmd=Search%21 -- Sorry, your search for

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hello, I wrote: The client is not the problem, I have compiled my own version of MySQL, You wrote: Anyhow what mysql you want to use, libmysqlclient.dll from mysql sources is recommended (not from mysql--win32.src). For vpopmail/vmailmgr, I mean. I have compiled mysql-4.1.0-alpha with

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Chuck, Cygwin services usually run as LocalSystem. Did you change the user the service runs as? See if /usr/sbin/cron has execute permission set for user SYSTEM (maybe do a chmod a+x?). Igor On Wed, 28 May 2003, Chuck Hamilton wrote: I'm finding if I run the cron command manually from

Re: gdb window interface would not start

2003-05-29 Thread Keith Seitz
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 09:19, Alex Genkin wrote: Issuing gdb -w just brings up command line interface like there is no -w option. Any guess why? Try running insight or gdb -i=insight. -w/-nw are broken right now. Keith -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: gdb window interface would not start

2003-05-29 Thread Alex Genkin
Thanks - that easy! - alex - Original Message - From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alex Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 12:52 PM Subject: Re: gdb window interface would not start Alex Genkin wrote: Issuing gdb -w just brings up

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Chuck Hamilton wrote: I'm finding if I run the cron command manually from a shell window, it works. If I try to start it as a service, it fails to start. Below is what I found in the win2k application log. Does it help? The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The

RE: Accented characters

2003-05-29 Thread Luciano
Hannu, would you mind posting that again? I searched the archives at Gmane and could not find your message. All I could find were messages from other people complaining about the same problem and replies telling them that's just the way it is, and a message from a Brazilian guy saying that the

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: Hi All, I'm not sure if this issue has been detected. I have traversed through the MANY probelm reports and haven't been able to find any specifics on this problem. The problem: My system that I have Cygwin running on is a Windows

Getting cleartool prompts to work in Cygwin

2003-05-29 Thread Karr, David
Uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WG44KA2G55H 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin The cleartool application (part of ClearCase) will often present question prompts in normal operation, to confirm certain operations. When I execute these commands in a DOS box, it works fine.

RE: Accented characters

2003-05-29 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
Sorry by the confusion. The subject was Re: Customizing rxvt dated 2003-04-26 and copies of the files were re-posted in RE: shell display latin char. like this '\351' in 2003-05-03. Luciano, I sent a copy of the first posting in private mail. NOTE: Only part of the content is relevant. /Hannu

Re: Getting cleartool prompts to work in Cygwin

2003-05-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Karr, David wrote: Uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 WG44KA2G55H 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin The cleartool application (part of ClearCase) will often present question prompts in normal operation, to confirm certain operations. When I execute these commands in a DOS box, it

RE: Getting cleartool prompts to work in Cygwin

2003-05-29 Thread Karr, David
-Original Message- From: Andrew DeFaria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Karr, David wrote: However, when I execute this in a Bash shell in RXVT, at the point where it would issue the prompt, it just sits there doing nothing. If I then press Return, it immediately emits the prompt

Re: Question about rexec

2003-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:45:48PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: (Wonder why this isn't on by default like ntsec...?) For the obvious reason... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Stephen, I was about to ask the same question If you find a solution, PLEASE Post, as I'm running out of workarounds, I have had no luck with nosmbntsec/smbntsec on any recent version of cygwin/inetd. I think the last time it worked was Cygwin1.3.10. with smbntsec [EMAIL

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Michael Schaap
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: For the future, please *attach* the cygcheck output to avoid generating false positives on message archive search. Random idea: would it be possible to instruct ezmlm-idx to bounce messages containing cygcheck output in the body? (Or enough text to identify cygcheck

Re: Will lpr be updated to enable printing to a postscript printer?

2003-05-29 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gilles Civario in his 5/14 posting (Subject: Re: a2ps and printer) indicated a simple lpr.c patch that enabled printing to a postscript printer via cygwin lpr (which tends to be in the path for utilities such as a2ps or enscript). Will this patch migrate into a

Re: qmail cygwin port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:25:28PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am successfully ported qmail-1.03 and it seems to work good. I've replaced flock() with fcntl() such as somebody did from one japan site. Problem with spooling (absent mkfifo() and UNIX named pipe implementation under Cygwin) was

Lack of characters

2003-05-29 Thread Luciano
Has anyone read my request for help and has any idea of what could be happening with my Cygwin installation? I didn't have any problems with accented characters until last Saturday. Then I formatted and reinstalled Windows and now I have these problems: - I cannot paste accented characters

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin package: gnupg-1.2.2-1

2003-05-29 Thread Volker Quetschke
This is an update release for the cygwin gnupg package. See: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2003q2/000267.html for the original announcement. New News: - * New upstream release. No changed patches for cygwin. Old News: - Please read the README file:

RE: windows XP: how to activate the beep (when XP loses the default beep)

2003-05-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
This is what I had to do to enable the beep under: Windows XP Home Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Cygwin.dll 1.3.22 It seems that cygwin from 1.3.21 uses the windows default beep sound. I wasn't able to set the default beep with the control panel sounds and audio devices applet

Re: Question about rexec

2003-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 04:45:48PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: (Wonder why this isn't on by default like ntsec...?) For the obvious reason... Because I refuse to eat my peas? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: qmail port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread linamat
Note about qmail distribution: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html You are right, of course, it need to get him (professor Dan Bernstein) approval. To cgf: Yes, I must forget about sharing Win32 binaries. Sergey. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: qmail port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 06:56:04AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note about qmail distribution: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html You are right, of course, it need to get him (professor Dan Bernstein) approval. To cgf: Yes, I must forget about sharing Win32 binaries. That's a really

Re: qmail port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
Christopher Faylor wrote: To cgf: Yes, I must forget about sharing Win32 binaries. That's a really regrettable outcome of the qmail license. Oh well. cgf As far as i remember some linux distro do have qmail in binary form... they asked DJB and (as far as I remember) he added to the

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Harald Maier
Sam Edge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harald Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (OT) Does anyone know if any of the common shells, when they see #!/bin/ at the front of a script, try a $PATH search for an executable if they can't find /bin/? This would seem like a good idea to

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Chuck Hamilton
It already the permissions set to 777. -rwxrwxrwx1 Administ mkgroup_32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron* I did try changing the user the service runs as but it failed with a logon error so I changed it back to LocalSystem. It seems like it's got to be some kind of Win2k permissions thing. If I run

RE: Lack of characters

2003-05-29 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Luciano - I cannot paste accented characters into rxvt. They are replaced with weird symbols. I can type them and I can copy them, but I cannot paste them back; In other words; you cannot paste characters with the EIGHTH BIT set.

Re: behaviour of for (( exp1; exp2; exp3 )); do COMMANDS; done

2003-05-29 Thread Sam Edge
Harald Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED] in gmane.os.cygwin on Thu, 29 May 2003 11:32:23 +0200: Some people are using the env program to use the PATH environment: #! /usr/bin/env perl BEGIN { $^W = 1 } Erm ... doesn't this just duplicate the problem? How can you guarantee

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:13:41AM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote: Windows XP home edition GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(9)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) cygwin dll version 1.3.22 cygcheck -s -v -r attached So I have observed a strange phenomenon, where if I execute man bash in (using bash) and then

Re: crontab error

2003-05-29 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Chuck Hamilton wrote: It already the permissions set to 777. -rwxrwxrwx1 Administ mkgroup_32256 Apr 15 11:16 cron* Ahem. Here's the problem. Your /etc/group file is not current. Rerun mkgroup with the appropriate flags. You may want to do this for

Re: problem suspending man bash (intermittent)

2003-05-29 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:04:26AM -0700, Dario Alcocer wrote: I tried reproducing this, but I don't get the same exact results. For me, it takes 7 or 8 tries, and all I get is a missing '[1]+ Stopped' message from bash; the next keystrokes still go to bash, though. The problem seems to go

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
Hi Bruce, Thanks for the reply. I have been struggling with this issue since I upgraded my version of cygwin. Something has changed, I just can't figure out what. I will let you know if I find out anything. Steve -Original Message- From: Bruce Dobrin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qmail port successfull

2003-05-29 Thread Hack Kampbjorn
Lapo Luchini wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: To cgf: Yes, I must forget about sharing Win32 binaries. That's a really regrettable outcome of the qmail license. Oh well. What license? AFAICT there is no license, at most some webpages with DJB's comments on software licenses (but no license).

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
Igor, My account that I am logging in as is domain related only. I have no local accounts with the name user name. I added smbntsec and tried playing with the service properties. This didn't seem to make a difference. Something has changed in the recent versions of cygwin surrounding nt

Re: Windows NT installation 1.3.22-1

2003-05-29 Thread Randall R Schulz
Panos, This question probably belongs on the general Cygwin list, no on Cygwin-XFree. I've added that list to this reply's distribution. Further follow-ups and replies should go there only. I believe you're expecting a CSH-equivalent shell (tcsh, e.g.). That shell is available under Cygwin,

LibXML2/LibXSLT testers wanted (was Re: How dumb can I get?...)

2003-05-29 Thread Elfyn McBratney
[ Moving this over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to hunt for some libx* testers ;-) ] Make sure that the LDFLAGS for the library, in the Makefile.am, include the -no-undefined flag. e.g.: libfoo_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 1:0:1 -no-undefined (I'm not sure, but I *think* this thread belongs on the main