Re: scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Robert Pendell
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:43 PM wrote: > > I am dealing with Windows UAC for the first time. From a script, I would > like to launch a process with elevated (administrative) privilege. I > can accept that Windows will pop up a modal dialog box confirming the > elevated privilege. > > Is there an ex

Re: Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode

2010-04-15 Thread Andy Koppe
Eric wrote: > Hi I have been confused about a matter between cygwin and the (open)ssh > server package. I think your confusion stems from the fact that Cygwin 1.7, released at the end of last year, does in fact support Unicode (i.e. UTF-8). It's the default. > I believe everything works when  Fi

Cygwin does not have unicode support however FileZilla displays unicode

2010-04-15 Thread Eric
Hi I have been confused about a matter between cygwin and the (open)ssh server package. I am also finding it a bit tricky in wording this in the best way possible. Essentially I am trying to figure out why FileZilla is able to display unicode characters when connected to the SSHd server setup us

scripting elevated privilege on Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread DavidArnstein
I am dealing with Windows UAC for the first time. From a script, I would like to launch a process with elevated (administrative) privilege. I can accept that Windows will pop up a modal dialog box confirming the elevated privilege. Is there an existing utility in Cygwin or elsewhere. An example o

Re: Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/15/2010 9:20 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: On 4/15/2010 6:26 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: On 4/15/2010 5:56 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: If reported problems before the release of 1.7 were any indications, you'll find running 1.5 on Windows 7 a sub-par experience. I myself haven't been interested in t

Re: Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Hussein Patwa
> On 4/15/2010 6:26 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: >>> On 4/15/2010 5:56 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: >>> >>> If reported problems before the release of 1.7 were any indications, >>> you'll >>> find running 1.5 on Windows 7 a sub-par experience. I myself haven't >>> been >>> interested in trying it. >> >> E

Re: Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/15/2010 6:26 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: On 4/15/2010 5:56 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: If reported problems before the release of 1.7 were any indications, you'll find running 1.5 on Windows 7 a sub-par experience. I myself haven't been interested in trying it. Even if the experience is sub pa

Re: Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Hussein Patwa
> On 4/15/2010 5:56 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: > > If reported problems before the release of 1.7 were any indications, > you'll > find running 1.5 on Windows 7 a sub-par experience. I myself haven't been > interested in trying it. Even if the experience is sub par, I just need the program I'm usin

Re: Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/15/2010 5:56 PM, Hussein Patwa wrote: If reported problems before the release of 1.7 were any indications, you'll find running 1.5 on Windows 7 a sub-par experience. I myself haven't been interested in trying it. However, I tried running the legacy setup but Cygwin will not start, with th

Running old cygwin.dll under Windows 7

2010-04-15 Thread Hussein Patwa
Hello, Apologies for what is probably such an obvious question, but some of the utilities I wish to use do not support the latest cygwin dll. However, I tried running the legacy setup but Cygwin will not start, with the Windows 7 Subsystem for Unix complaining of invalid applications and .pif fil

Re: gcc: building gcc-4.5.0 for Cygwin

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Bibbings
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" writes: > On 4/15/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Bibbings wrote: >> Can I, then, do the same with the .dlls in question? Is it possible, >> for instance, for .dlls to be loadable via symlinks under Cygwin? > > No. The Windows loader does not recognize Cygwin symlinks. Actually, > not

Re: Hello.

2010-04-15 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:02:50PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: >>Ok, I'll bite. > > Your biting is off-topic and responding to spam is just plain stupid. > > Stop it. Hmm.. I didn't realize the reply-to was set to cygwin. Sorry :( Somet

Re: Hello.

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 05:02:50PM -0400, NightStrike wrote: >Ok, I'll bite. Your biting is off-topic and responding to spam is just plain stupid. Stop it. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin

Re: Hello.

2010-04-15 Thread NightStrike
Ok, I'll bite. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:58 PM, farhad Fai wrote: > Hello Sir/Ma, > > > My name is farhad Fai  from  I newly established a art gallery here in Mumbai > India, I saw some beautiful artworks which am interested to buy on the > internet and I contacted them on phone but the sellers

Re: gcc: building gcc-4.5.0 for Cygwin

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/15/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Bibbings wrote: Can I, then, do the same with the .dlls in question? Is it possible, for instance, for .dlls to be loadable via symlinks under Cygwin? No. The Windows loader does not recognize Cygwin symlinks. Actually, nothing in Windows does. ;-) -- Larry Hall

Re: SSHD configuration problem

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/15/2010 12:42 PM, npolite wrote: Thanks for the help. I've installed the new service but am still getting the same problem with connections closing after the attempt is made to the server. Any way to debug this problem? I don't see anything written to the /var/log/sshd.log file. I think this

Re: Disabling *.stackdump ?

2010-04-15 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I'd be glad if you could do that. I'm so tangled up in the > tty thingy. That should be worth a gold star, IMO :) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

gcc: building gcc-4.5.0 for Cygwin

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Bibbings
Whilst I do use the versions of gcc available as Cygwin packages, I have also successfully built from source and used other versions. Most recently I have added gcc-4.4.1, 4.4.3 and a 4.5.0 snapshot (end of Feb 2010). I configure them to build and install in /opt/gcc-{version}. I then incorporate

Re: Setup, update thyself

2010-04-15 Thread Warren Young
On 4/11/2010 1:13 PM, Rance Hall wrote: The standard way to do this would be to write a script that wgets (or other windows alternative) the setup.exe on the web into a staging area. Firefox and Adobe do it with a separate updater program. I'm not recommending that for Cygwin, but setup.exe c

Re: SSHD configuration problem

2010-04-15 Thread npolite
Thanks for the help. I've installed the new service but am still getting the same problem with connections closing after the attempt is made to the server. Any way to debug this problem? I don't see anything written to the /var/log/sshd.log file. I think this may have to do with Windows ADS users

RE: procps aborts on Cygwin 1.7.5

2010-04-15 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Chris January wrote on 2010-04-15: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:13:30 -0500, "Thrall, Bryan" wrote: >> thr...@pc1163-8413-xp ~/visual >> $ procps >> >> >> Signal 6 (ABRT) caught by ps (procps version 3.2.7). >> Please send bug reports to or > users.sf.net> >> thr...@pc1163-8413-xp ~/visual >> >> I

Re: Disabling *.stackdump ?

2010-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 10:54, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:29:24AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Apr 15 09:44, Rurik Christiansen wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Is there a way to disable the stackdump ? ('ulimit -c 0' doesn't seem to > >> do the trick) > > > >The only way to disable

Re: Disabling *.stackdump ?

2010-04-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:29:24AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 15 09:44, Rurik Christiansen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to disable the stackdump ? ('ulimit -c 0' doesn't seem to >> do the trick) > >The only way to disable stackdumps right now is to use the respective >setrlimit(R

Cygwin 1.7 Windows 7/2008 Public key intermittent problem

2010-04-15 Thread shane fenton
Hi, I have about 8 machines experiencing problems while trying to use passwordless public key authentication, via passwd -R. Happening on W7, w2k8, x86 & x64 sshd running on all as a domain user, with the correct local security policy changes made, and /var/empty owner by sshd user etc. pub key aut

Re: [BUG] Installer wrong report "file locked by another process" if not free space on disk.

2010-04-15 Thread Dave Korn
On 15/04/2010 07:24, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > Installer say that some files locked, but this files like .h > so its particular impossible. Also installer suggest replace it after > reboot. > > But really problem lies on zero space on disk. > (I understand that when Firefox download manager repor

Re: rsync: rename .file.JVPk8f -> file: Device or resource busy (16)

2010-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 11:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 15 10:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 15 07:14, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: > > > I have converted a USB hard drive from fat32 to ntfs because git now > > > does not work on fat32 drives and git is essential to my work. > > > I also use this disk to

Re: rsync: rename .file.JVPk8f -> file: Device or resource busy (16)

2010-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 10:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 15 07:14, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: > > I have converted a USB hard drive from fat32 to ntfs because git now > > does not work on fat32 drives and git is essential to my work. > > I also use this disk to backup my local hard drive with rsync. > > When it

Re: rsync: rename .file.JVPk8f -> file: Device or resource busy (16)

2010-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 07:14, Fr?d?ric Bron wrote: > I have converted a USB hard drive from fat32 to ntfs because git now > does not work on fat32 drives and git is essential to my work. > I also use this disk to backup my local hard drive with rsync. > When it was fat32, everything was fine but now that it is

Re: Disabling *.stackdump ?

2010-04-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 15 09:44, Rurik Christiansen wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to disable the stackdump ? ('ulimit -c 0' doesn't seem to > do the trick) The only way to disable stackdumps right now is to use the respective setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE, ...) call within the application itself. It's not one of the

Re: procps aborts on Cygwin 1.7.5

2010-04-15 Thread Chris January
Hello Bryan, On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:13:30 -0500, "Thrall, Bryan" wrote: > thr...@pc1163-8413-xp ~/visual > $ procps > > > Signal 6 (ABRT) caught by ps (procps version 3.2.7). > Please send bug reports to or users.sf.net> > thr...@pc1163-8413-xp ~/visual > > I believe this was work