Re: after recent update, svn tools exiting with code 57
Dave Steenburgh wrote: I haven't been able to find any info related to this problem; hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. From time to time, I use setup.exe to update all the packages I have installed. After doing that earlier today, I found out that svn, svnadmin, and svnserve (and presumably all other svn tools) are exiting with code 57 and no error message, with complete disregard for command-line options. Assuming this is a propogation of a Windows error: $ net helpmsg 57 A network adapter hardware error occurred. Any chance? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: For all we know bldmake could be bldmake.bat which contains a line such as: sh E:\Symbian\M04765_Symbain_OS_V9.5\bin\Tech\Viewepoc32\tools\bldmake.bat Intending to use Symbian's version of sh which can handle backslashes but due to how your PATH is setup it's using Cygwin's version of sh which doesn't like the backslashes. I'm not saying that's exactly what's going on, I'm saying that we don't know given your description so far. I think I've make little progress in this regard: I compared environment variables from an original cmd.exe and that of cmd.exe invoked from cygwin bash. I noticed that, for the one invoked from cygwin, the %Path% variable had cygwin\bin directories before all Windows paths. After I removed the cygwin\bin directories, the same utility seem to work fine (as of now). How can I prevent cygwin\bin directories occupying at the beginning of %path%? The Cygwin paths are added in '/etc/profile'. Obviously, you can remove them though that will make your configuration non-standard and unsupported. Essentially, this would make Cygwin tools inaccessible when running 'bash', which doesn't sound like what you really want. Obviously, you could add the Cygwin paths somewhere else to give Symbian priority but this is likely to just cause other conflicts and, again, not be what you really want. So to me, the question comes down to which tools to you really want to use, Symbian's, Cygwin's, or something else? Once you can answer that, you should be able to configure things so that you get the proper set for your needs. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Dodgy adding a package to Setup.exe
Paul Keeble wrote: Environment Windows XP Setup.exe - 2.573.2.3 (Unix, Currently what I do is have a setup.exe + release directory that contains all of the packages downloaded. When we install to another machine we choose all the local packages, and hence we have a nice simple(ish) definition of what our system uses in the cygwin packages and a way to install it. However due to a problem in csih I would like to have a custom package that replaces the script file, This is not a bug in csih, its a special case for terminal services disabling that I would like to be seamless. There seems to be two basic approaches - 1) Add a new version of csih into the release directory and say that this is the latest version in the setup.ini, 2) Add a whole new package that replaces the file/uses post install to replace the file file. I have tried both approaches but in both cases when doing an install from local my version did not appear, and nor did my package. My ideal scenario was that I can put a tar.bz2 into the release directory in the right place, modify the setup.ini and it'll show on the list and I can use either post install or file replacement to achieve my goal. I can't find an error in my tar.bz2 or the setup.ini but if it should work that would be good to know that its possible to do this way. Submitting this as a real package I maintaining it doesn't make any sense as no one else needs this change. On the other hand I need the change to be installed on many machines and I would like it as seamless as possible and hence a custom makes sense until 1.7 is production ready and fixes my specific issue. How can I achieve what I am trying to do? It's not immediately obvious to me why what you're doing isn't working for you but it seems to me that you've ignored one option that may be the easiest of all to implement - change the existing package without changing the version. Of course, you may need update the md5sum in 'setup.ini' to make this work. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: The Cygwin paths are added in '/etc/profile'. Obviously, you can remove them though that will make your configuration non-standard and unsupported. Essentially, this would make Cygwin tools inaccessible when running 'bash', which doesn't sound like what you really want. Obviously, you could add the Cygwin paths somewhere else to give Symbian priority but this is likely to just cause other conflicts and, again, not be what you really want. So to me, the question comes down to which tools to you really want to use, Symbian's, Cygwin's, or something else? Once you can answer that, you should be able to configure things so that you get the proper set for your needs. Thanks for the info. My intention is not to throw Cygwin and it's utilities away; but to move Cygwin path towards the end when--and only when--I run Symbian tool chain, because, AFAIK, Symbian tool chain doesn't ask for any tools from Cygwin. But your batch file is invoking Cygwin's bash. Perhaps if you decouple things there, then they will work as you expect without changing other things in your environment. Moving Cygwin paths to the end of the path in '/etc/profile' would have the effect of making everything else in the system with a like name override the Cygwin version, even when you're using Cygwin and want the Cygwin versions. I expect this is not at all what you want. By the way, did anybody get a change to look at my screencast? I did not have a chance to, no. Is there something there that you believe significantly changes the context of your original question? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Disable Toolbar
Jose Luis wrote: Hi, When I start XWin Server, the Toolbar is enabled by default. How can I disable it, so it is not shown in when XWin Server is launched? Wrong list. You want the Cygwin-X list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
On 01/05/2009, Jeenu V wrote: I did not have a chance to, no. Is there something there that you believe significantly changes the context of your original question? Well, I initially thought these two problems were related. But now that one appear to be solved, and and other remains, I think it's worth taking a look. I'll also check with other Cygwin users around me if they face the same problem. Or is it best that I start another thread altogether? You mean the part about the text overwrtiting itself? Your 'TERM' environment variable is set to 'screen'. Make sure that it's set to 'cygwin' and you'll see less trouble. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: You mean the part about the text overwrtiting itself? Your 'TERM' environment variable is set to 'screen'. Make sure that it's set to 'cygwin' and you'll see less trouble. ;-) Ehm... that was because I was using screen when I generated that cygcheck output and when recorded screen cast. I tried invoking cmd.exe from a fresh Cygwin shell (i.e. $TERM is set to 'cygwin'), but the problems still exist. I can't reproduce this. Do you have that problem before you invoke 'cmd'? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Installing cygwin failing - some Windows errors
On 01/05/2009, Phil Reynolds wrote: I find that I can start cygwin bash but if I try to ls (for example), it fails. Nothing happens, and then bash closes. I want cygwin mainly for X but I need to solve this first, of course. So you're saying that you're starting bash from an xterm or similar X proggie? If so, is this not just an instance of this? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin SQUAT com wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. I can't reproduce this. Do you have that problem before you invoke 'cmd'? Sad :(. I don't have any problems before invoking cmd.exe; bash just works fine. Would you suggest a fresh install of Cygwin? I hope you watched the screencast to see what's going on. And I assume that you don't have this problem if you just invoke 'cmd.exe' from Windows and try the same thing and further that it does reproduce if you then invoke 'bash' from that command prompt and then 'cmd.exe' again. I watched the screencast. That's how I came to understand the problem you were seeing. I wouldn't say I couldn't reproduce it otherwise. I try really hard not to lie about this kind of thing. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: And I assume that you don't have this problem if you just invoke 'cmd.exe' from Windows and try the same thing and further that it does reproduce if you then invoke 'bash' from that command prompt and then 'cmd.exe' again. cmd.exe from Windows: no; it behaves normally cmd.exe - bash - cmd.exe: same problem OK, sounds like an environment problem then. You could probably spot the issue by comparing the environment you get in bash with the one you get in cmd.exe. I watched the screencast. That's how I came to understand the problem you were seeing. I wouldn't say I couldn't reproduce it otherwise. I try really hard not to lie about this kind of thing. ;-) Just making sure, you know :) Yep. I checked with one of my colleagues who has Cygwin installed, but he doesn't seem to have this problem. I feel like going with a fresh installation. Fair enough. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: OK, sounds like an environment problem then. You could probably spot the issue by comparing the environment you get in bash with the one you get in cmd.exe. I did that already and that was how I came to know I could solve the original problem by modifying %path%. PATH is the only variable whose contents differed - %path% was prefixed with Cygwin bin directories. Also there were new variables inherited from bash which were: snip But, I don't see anything harmful here. Not obviously to cmd.exe anyway... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jeenu V wrote: [...] I checked with one of my colleagues who has Cygwin installed, but he doesn't seem to have this problem. I feel like going with a fresh installation. I did a fresh, quick and bare-minimum installation (to a different directory, but keeping the old one intact), but the problem still seem to exist. Do you think this is a bug? If so what if I want to report this as one - where would I do that, in this list or dev? Bugs are reported to this list. I know you've looked at the environment differences on your machine between a plain cmd and one under bash. How about comparing yours under bash with your colleague's? Also, does the shell matter? Does it happen for you with tcsh, pdksh, or zsh too? This might provide some insight. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Jeenu V wrote: [...] I checked with one of my colleagues who has Cygwin installed, but he doesn't seem to have this problem. I feel like going with a fresh installation. I did a fresh, quick and bare-minimum installation (to a different directory, but keeping the old one intact), but the problem still seem to exist. Do you think this is a bug? If so what if I want to report this as one - where would I do that, in this list or dev? Bugs are reported to this list. I know you've looked at the environment differences on your machine between a plain cmd and one under bash. How about comparing yours under bash with your colleague's? Also, does the shell matter? Does it happen for you with tcsh, pdksh, or zsh too? This might provide some insight. Almost forgot. One more thing and probably the most important. Is this reproducible with the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-12/msg9.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Missing telnet, rlogin, and rsh on cygwin
Freddy Jensen wrote: I just realized that my current cygwin installation is missing telnet, rsh, and rlogin. I cannot find them in the cygwin setup.exe package list. Does anyone know where to find them? Sure. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=telnet.exe -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I know you've looked at the environment differences on your machine between a plain cmd and one under bash. How about comparing yours under bash with your colleague's? Also, does the shell matter? Does it happen for you with tcsh, pdksh, or zsh too? This might provide some insight. Almost forgot. One more thing and probably the most important. Is this reproducible with the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release? I installed 1.7 I tried with other shells you mentioned I sourced my colleagues enviornement variables to my bash None made a difference! :(. I started suspecting my PC more, though I'm not sure how to pin the problem down. Any clues? With cgf's help and a good look at your cygcheck output, I believe I was able to reproduce something like your problem. If I'm right, then you want to remove 'tty' from your CYGWIN environment variable. Make sure you exit *all* Cygwin processes, including services, before firing up bash again and invoking 'cnd' from there to test. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Empty include file on samba share
Fabian Cenedese wrote: Hi I have a problem that may be cygwin or not. I'll just ask here if anybody knows something (or to show me some better place to go to). We use a quite old cross-gcc (2.95.2), built with cygwin and running on various windows (since NT on to vista). The currently used cygwin is version 1.5.19-cr-0x5ef, but we have also worked with other versions. We have some projects that are C++ with header files and can be compiled with no problems on a local drive. However if the whole C++ project is moved from the local drive to a share (samba, probably also windows) the compilation may fail with various errors. The main problem seems to be that include files are not read properly. They are found (gcc emits an error if the name is wrong) but the content seems not to be read. Even if such a problematic header file contains crap it is not mentioned by gcc. To make things worse is that on different computers the compilation may fail differently or even work without problems. I don't know if there's anything I could change in cygwin to improve this (except updating, but I'd like to hear first, if this is known). Has anybody ever experienced something similar? Or an idea what I could look into (from the cygwin side)? I have already asked on the gcc mailinglist, but it was unknown so far. We're missing some information about your system configuration. Please read the problem reporting guidelines found at the link below, paying particular attention to the part about the cygcheck output. A STC might also be warranted. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Absent the above, my WAG is that you need to add 'smbntsec' to your CYGWIN environment variable. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html Exit all Cygwin processes/services for good measure. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Missing telnet, rlogin, and rsh on cygwin
Freddy Jensen wrote: == Begin included message == From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) XXX Date: Tue Jan 6 2009 2:55pm To: cygwin XXX Subj: Re: Missing telnet, rlogin, and rsh on cygwin [ Attachment (text/plain): 1301 bytes Character set: utf-8 plain text Encoded with base64 ] == End included message == Got it. Thanks Freddy You're welcome. For future reference, we ask that you not include header information in your replies, since they: 1. Serve no purpose 2. Provide raw addresses that spammers can harvest. Thanks, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?
Grant Edwards wrote: I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're awfully close to what I want. http://www.Cygwin.com/ml/Cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html This link goes nowhere for me. The only thing that (AFAICT) is missing is the inclusion of the source packages for the binary packages on the CD. I think I can figure out enough zsh to do that. Before I have a go at it, is there something else I ought to be using instead? [*] Why, you ask, do I need a CD? Because we're distributing a bunch of tools along with the Cygwin snapshot. If we distribute just the tools along with instructions on installing a current Cygwin, then we'll have to worry about constantly updating the tools as updates to Cygwin cause them to stop working. We've got a half-way decent chance of supporting a static snapshot of Cygwin+tools, but supporting the tools on top of a constantly changing Cygwin base would require more resources than we have available. Even distributing the source code to the tools along with a build script doesn't work, because future versions of Cygwin will undoubtedly stop being able to compile the tools. For example, the previous version of the tool binaries won't run on current Cygwin install. The previous version of tools won't build on a current Cygwin install either. FWIW, the component of the tools that causes the most problems is gcc -- Cygwin stopped being able to build gcc/g++ 3.2.1 sometime in 2005. The next version of the tools will use gcc/g++ 3.4.3. That version can be built on current Cygwin (as of yesterday at some point in mid-morning GMT-6), but there's no guarantee that will be true tomorrow or that the binaries built today will run on tomorrow's current Cygwin. The Cygwin DLL is meant to be backward compatible through the 1.5 series. There will, of course, be a difference moving from 1.5 to 1.7. After that, later 1.7 releases will be compatible with earlier ones. And by compatible, I mean binary compatible. No rebuild necessary. If you find this is not the case with 1.7, then that would be good to report. Since 1.5 is a dead end, it doesn't make allot of sense to report these kinds of problems for it. Of course, as you note, other packages aren't necessarily compatible through all their versions or even their minor version bumps. If you need to support a particular set of Cygwin tools, it can make sense to lock the set you're working with. Of course, you'll still need to contend with users that already may have Cygwin installed and the version conflicts there. And, as you noted, you need to distribute the source of your application along with that for the Cygwin DLL and the tools you're distributing to comply with the GPL, but I expect you already know this. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Pointers on Making a Cygwin CD (including source)?
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks. Grant Edwards wrote: I need to put a Cygwin snapshot on CD[*]. To that end I've been searching the mailing list archive. So far the scripts wirtten by Vin Shelton look like they're awfully close to what I want. http://www.Cygwin.com/ml/Cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html This link goes nowhere for me. Doh! My spell-checker capitalized Cygwin. It should be http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-03/msg00606.html Got it. Looks OK. The Cygwin DLL is meant to be backward compatible through the 1.5 series. There will, of course, be a difference moving from 1.5 to 1.7. After that, later 1.7 releases will be compatible with earlier ones. And by compatible, I mean binary compatible. No rebuild necessary. If you find this is not the case with 1.7, then that would be good to report. Since 1.5 is a dead end, it doesn't make allot of sense to report these kinds of problems for it. Of course, as you note, other packages aren't necessarily compatible through all their versions or even their minor version bumps. If you need to support a particular set of Cygwin tools, it can make sense to lock the set you're working with. Of course, you'll still need to contend with users that already may have Cygwin installed and the version conflicts there. Users who already have Cygwin installed are probably savvy enough to build the tools from sources. If that doesn't work then they're out of luck, and should just do things right and install Linux. And, as you noted, you need to distribute the source of your application I don't see what my application has to do with anything. Just because I compile an application with gcc, that doesn't place the application under the GPL. OK, I missed that part then. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cd to the path including space.
On 01/08/2009, Hongyi Zhao wrote: 3- In the cygwin/bash, if the space are included in the path, it will be troublesome. FWIW, this is not specific to Cygwin. You'd see the same problem in Windows using the command prompt. Quoting, as Eric points out, is the solution. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cmd.exe from Cygwin
Jeenu V wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. It's not good to feed the spammers. Thanks. Do you think screen is the only thing that uses ptys in the whole distribution? Nope; I've no idea. ptys are a commonly used facility under Linux/Unix and so also on Cygwin. 'screen' is not the only Cygwin package that makes use of them. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Empty include file on samba share
Fabian Cenedese wrote: At 11:28 08.01.2009 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: snip 1. Your installation is outdated. You may have better luck if you upgrade. I might try that, but I guess I need to rebuild the tools to use 1.7. I have now used gcc 3.4.3. and 4.1. with exactly the same cygwin1.dll. They both could compile without showing these errors. So I guess cygwin is not at fault. OK, good to know. 2. You seem to have competing tools installed and to not have Cygwin tools in your path. These two things make it unclear what parts of Cygwin are actually in use in your scenario. Why do you say competing tools? There's only 1 cygwin1.dll in the path. And the other cygwin tools are not needed. gcc, as, ld etc are all in the same directory, built with the same environment. Your installation is grabbing tools from 'C:\programme\rtksupport\' and 'N:\IMD\Bin\'. These match Cygwin counterparts but aren't overridden by the Cygwin tools in your environment. This can lead to strange failures if these different sets of tools with different requirements interact. 3. Since you mention your share is just a samba share, I'm not sure if you mean it's from a Linux machine or simply a Windows server with a FAT* partition. If the former, have you tried using NFS? Yes, it's a linux file server with samba shares, underlying FS probably ext3. I have not tried NFS as we mostly use windows and we have customer reports with the same problem that only use windows (no linux server). Perhaps 'smbntsec' would be a help there, though it may only be useful if it is set prior to unpacking stuff into those remote locations (or if unpacked on that system locally under Cygwin, you may need to make sure you have that user in your '/etc/passwd' and/or set the POSIX permissions appropriately.) 4. Are you sure there aren't network issues here? Do you mean IP-address conflicts? Or what else? As the windows network doesn't show problems the basic setup seems fine. I mean anything that could cause sporadic, intermittent drop-outs. This could certainly explain why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Thanks for the help, I'll start looking into gcc changes. Does sound the most promising, though it's not clear to me why gcc would be having problems here. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: New Cygwin User, Cygwin doesn't seem to see my hardrive
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2009-01-09 14:18Z, Bluehat85 wrote: I cannot navigate to the C: directory http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.accessing-drives or to My Documents http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.filename-spaces You would also likely benefit from taking a gander at the User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ There's lots of good stuff in there that explains how Cygwin works. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Octave has stopped running for me - no error msg
Bruce McNamara wrote: Bruce McNamara wrote: Before: I have cygwin (ver 1.5.25-15) with octave (ver 3.0.2-1), X and a few other packages. My OS is XP with Service Pack 3. Everything works fine. Possible cause: I installed the GNUARM tools Argh. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#3PP alert! After: When I run octave, either from a bash shell or an xterm window, it just thinks for a couple of seconds and then gives me another prompt - if octave ran, it quit right away. There is no error message or other indication of what went wrong. Other /usr/bin executables run just fine. Standard shell advice: use echo $? to check the exit status if there's no error message. When I run echo $? after running octave I get: 53 That means you're missing a DLL octave needs to run. Run 'cygcheck octave' and look for DLL(s) it reports missing. Then, look up the packages that contain the DLL(s) that are missing with http://cygwin.com/packages/. Install those packages with 'setup.exe'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Help me please install OpenSSH Server on Windows Vista
Alexey Eremenko wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Alexey Eremenko al4...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All ! I have installed Cygwin on Vista -- but was unable to install SSH server on it. ssh-host-config returns an error no matter what I do. Diabling UAC doesn't help. Here is what I get when I try to setup SSH on Vista: $ ssh-host-config chmod: changing permissions of `/etc': Permission denied setfacl: Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of `/var/log': Permission denied setfacl: Permission denied Are you running with elevated Administrator permissions? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Became root within cygwin.
Hongyi Zhao wrote: Hi all, The cygwin doesn't has the root user by default. How can I add it and then login as root only when I require root privilege to do something? Windows doesn't have the concept of 'root' so neither does Cygwin. Probably the closest thing is to either 'ssh' in as a Windows privileged user (on XP and lower) or use Windows Run as administrator to start the Cygwin shell you want to work in. I know, it's not the same. I feel your pain. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?
On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a nuisance console window. [Question: does local directory refer to the directory where setup.exe is located or to the current working directory?] It refers to the local directory containing all the packages in the directory structure you get when you download packages. So it is neither the directory where 'setup.exe' is located not the current working directory. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: file mirroring
jedalaurin wrote: We are on implementation stage for a scalability and we a currently looking for suggestion on file mirroring real time or near real time? Please clarify how the above is a Cygwin-specific question. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a nuisance console window. [Question: does local directory refer to the directory where setup.exe is located or to the current working directory?] It refers to the local directory containing all the packages in the directory structure you get when you download packages. So it is neither the directory where 'setup.exe' is located not the current working directory. If it's neither the current working directory nor the directory where setup.exe is located, then how does setup.exe know where to find it? Are you only interested in knowing where the local directory defaults to the first time it is run on a machine without a Cygwin installation? If so, then yes, it is CWD. Otherwise, the local directory is the local package directory where packages were downloaded last time, which may not be the synonymous with the CWD at the time that you start 'setup.exe'. In any case, the local directory to use is stored in '/etc/setup/last-cache'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Help me please install OpenSSH Server on Windows Vista
Alexey Eremenko wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Alexey Eremenko wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Alexey Eremenko al4...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All ! I have installed Cygwin on Vista -- but was unable to install SSH server on it. ssh-host-config returns an error no matter what I do. Diabling UAC doesn't help. Here is what I get when I try to setup SSH on Vista: $ ssh-host-config chmod: changing permissions of `/etc': Permission denied setfacl: Permission denied chmod: changing permissions of `/var/log': Permission denied setfacl: Permission denied Are you running with elevated Administrator permissions? Yes, I tried running that with:-- right click-run as administrator-cygwin bash shell If this is what you mean by elevated Administrator permissions... or something else? It does not help. Seeing the output (*attached*) from 'cygcheck -s -r -v' as requested by http://cygwin.com/problems.html would help. What does 'ls -ld /etc' say? What does 'getfacl /etc' say? What about 'cacls c:\cygwin\etc'? In other words, who has permissions to change '/etc' and who's it's owner? Sounds like you need to rejigger ownerships/permissions to make this work. Perhaps try that based on the output of the above. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: rm seems to fail
Mark J. Reed wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote: your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file, which is revealing. I should have included a return code check: perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!' I suspect that will still run silently without removing the file, indicating that the problem is indeed in the unlink(2) system call. Which *should* succeed in any case; unlink() doesn't care about the permissions of the target file, only of the directory containing it. I see your original message confirmed that you were running Cygwin's rm, btw; sorry for the extra hoop-jumping there. So at this point I'm at a loss. I'm running the same version of Cygwin (though on Vista, not XP) on the same type of filesystem (NTFS) and not seeing the issue. Is there any way this could be BLODA-induced? Sounds like it. His cygcheck output names one possible source of conflict: Potential app conflicts: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: fetchmail pops up console windows
Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2009-01-13, Jason Tishler wrote:
Gary,
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:55:36AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2009-01-13, Jason Tishler wrote:
FWIW, I don't have this problem when running fetchmail as a service.
I saw that in an earlier post and tried to follow the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/fetchmail-6.3.9.README, but I get this result:
[snip]
$ cygrunsrv -S fetchmail
cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069:
The service did not start due to a logon failure.
I have both cron and sshd running as services, so that much works,
but they may be running as the system user (whatever it's called).
I don't know how to diagnose this sort of failure.
Did you heed the following from the README?
o the $USERDOMAIN\\$USERNAME account must have the Log on as a
service user right for Cygwin fetchmail to start as a NT service
I heeded it in the sense that I read it and understood that it might
be the problem. I did go searching in the Control Panel for likely
utilities, but I couldn't find anything in User Accounts or anywhere
else that would let me set user rights or that even told me what
they were. I did not search Windows Help and Support. That sort of
cluelessness was meant to be implicit in the statement, I don't
know how to diagnose this sort of failure, but I suppose I should
have been more clear.
So how does one set that right?
'/usr/share/csih/cygwin-service-installation-helper.sh' has this:
editrights -u ${user} -t SeServiceLogonRight
Try that, substituting the appropriate user for your situation and
Windows version.
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Re: rm seems to fail
greenup greenup wrote: broken again/still. On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM, greenup wrote: your perl test was a nice try; but it also did not remove the file, which is revealing. I should have included a return code check: perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!' d...@w2 ~ $ perl -e 'unlink(goo/foo) or die $!' d...@w2 ~ $ echo $? 0 d...@w2 ~ $ ls -la goo total 0 drwxr-xr-x+ 2 dz mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 14:47 . drwxrwx---+ 25 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jan 13 14:46 .. -r 1 dz mkgroup-l-d 0 Jan 13 14:47 foo Any luck on the BLODA front? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: rm seems to fail
greenup greenup wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: greenup greenup wrote: broken again/still. On 1/13/09, Mark J. Reed wrote: Any luck on the BLODA front? Afraid I don't know BLODA, but disabling the virus scanner for a few minutes didn't work. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA Certainly sounds like something is locking that file. Perhaps Process Explorer http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx or Handle http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx can help you figure out who might be doing this. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?
johun...@postoffice.utas.edu.au wrote: I can find no recent discussion of how to cleanly shut down Cygwin - by this I mean shutting down all Cygwin processes, but not the Windows operating system (in my case XP). Not cleanly shutting down Cygwin processes tends to invoke Windows error messages on starting up Cygwin (I use the X startup script startxwin.bat) and sometimes a failure to generate an X-window from startxwin.bat (which then has to be called again - generally successfully). Shutting down Cygwin by just closing all Cygwin windows does not seem to be a satisfactory option - other things are clearly going on in the background. If your question really is directed just at Cygwin-X, you're probably better off sending it to the cygwin-xfree list. If you're experiencing issues beyond that of X, then it would be helpful to anyone here who can help to list those issues. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock problem (answer to FAQ 3.4. does not solve the problem)
Leonardo Vanneschi wrote: Dear sirs, when trying to launch /usr/bin/startxwin.bat, I have a problem. The problem reported in file /var/log/XWin.0.log is Can't read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock I have tried to apply the solutions in the FAQ page (FAQ 3.4), but they do not work. More precisely, what I tried to do as follows: This is the wrong list for Cygwin-X questions. Please use cygwin-xfree for this. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: rm seems to fail
greenup greenup wrote: I notice someone else is having problems with their X lock files; that was one of the things that got me started fiddling with rm. Today is busy for me, so I'm not sure that I'll get to strace/etc, but hopefully tomorrow. I checked another box in my house, that seems to be working fine with mostly similar packages, I'm scared to upgrade any of its parts in case it breaks it. It's not on the domain, though, could that be related? Certainly. Try a local user and see if you see the same problems or not. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Help me please install OpenSSH Server on Windows Vista
Alexey Eremenko wrote: Seeing the output (*attached*) from 'cygcheck -s -r -v' as requested by http://cygwin.com/problems.html would help. What does 'ls -ld /etc' say? What does 'getfacl /etc' say? What about 'cacls c:\cygwin\etc'? In other words, who has permissions to change '/etc' and who's it's owner? Sounds like you need to rejigger ownerships/permissions to make this work. Perhaps try that based on the output of the above. I have attached output in text-files. You've sanitized your cygcheck output so that I can't see what groups user belongs to. According to your 'ls'/'getfacl' output, user is the owner of '/etc' (and I assume '/var/log'). Try 'chmod 755 /etc' from the command line instead. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How do I shut down Cygwin cleanly?
john.hun...@utas.edu.au wrote: Thanks Larry, but I'm loath to waste space on this and other lists, and also people's time by listing any of the knock-on effects of not terminating all Cygwin processes (and resetting locks etc.) prior to firing up Cygwin again - it seems reasonable to me that these effects would exist (I've experienced them) but it also seems largely irrelevant to my present question to discuss them. This is not a bug report - it is a howto request. So I'll summarise my original post into a single question: When running the latest version of Cygwin on Windows XP, what is the best simple way of terminating all Cygwin processes, and resetting XP to effectively the same state as it was before Cygwin was started? It depends on what you're running. If you've just started a Cygwin shell or shells, exiting them is enough. If you have a Cygwin service or services running, then you must stop them (with 'cygrunsrv --stop' or 'net stop'). If you have X running, you must exit X (typically through the menu on the X taskbar item). If you have a combination of these running, then you must do some combination of them. This will return you to a state where cygwin1.dll is not loaded anymore, which is the same process state relative to Cygwin as you were before you started any of them. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: SSH Setup Issue
Syphon wrote: I cant seem to get sshd service to start on my Windows Vista box. I tried a few different things, I turned off UAC, I ran bash as Admin. Also, 'chown system:system /var/empty /etc/ssh_*' , 'chmod 755 /etc'. ^ Why did you do that? 'ssh-host-config' will handle all this for you and do it correctly. What you have above won't work for Vista. Still when I run 'ssh-host-config', I seem to be missing a few prompts $ ssh-host-config Overwrite existing /etc/ssh_config file? (yes/no) yes Generating /etc/ssh_config file Overwrite existing /etc/sshd_config file? (yes/no) yes Privilege separation is set to yes by default since OpenSSH 3.3. However, this requires a non-privileged account called 'sshd'. For more info on privilege separation read /usr/share/doc/openssh/README. . Should privilege separation be used? (yes/no) yes Generating /etc/sshd_config file Host configuration finished. Have fun! And 'net start sshd' $ net start sshd The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. The CYGWIN sshd service could not be started. The service did not report an error. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. Any suggestions ? I attached my cygcheck output. Other than the above, which I think is at least a large part of your problem, you can take a look at '/var/log/sshd.log'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat. So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that, stick with 'setup.exe'. On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list. Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in differently named libraries. Can anybody help? Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: SSH Setup Issue
Syphon wrote: Had the issue before I did all of the above, I know all this is already performed by ssh-host-config, So does this mean ssh-host-config is not working properly ? For you, perhaps. Took a look at '/var/log/sshd.log'. '/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable.' So, 'chown SYSTEM empty' SYSTEM does not have the proper permissions on Vista for 'sshd' to run properly. If 'ssh-host-config' did it's job correctly, it set up a new user for this. Look for 'sshd_server'. If you have this, then that's the user you want to use above and in all places where you used 'SYSTEM'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Uninstall/reinstall
royma...@verizon.net wrote: I encountered a problem with v1.5.25-15 on Windows XP. My application is C/C++ with an embedded Perl interpreter. The C/C++ code worked fine until I attempted to invoke the perl script. I got an invalid DLL error. I'm not really asking about this -- it's the steps I took to address the DLL problem where I must have overlooked something. Thinking their might have been an install error or a conflict between multiple perl interpreters, I decided to uninstall/reinstall cygwin. ActivePerl had been installed on the machine as well. I checked out the web pages for uninstalling cygwin and cleaning out the registry and carried out the steps. When I re-installed cygwin, two things went wrong. The first was that bash was not installed by setup.exe. I was able to remidy this problem simple enough by finding the tar.gz file containing bash and restoring it to the right location. The second problem was that cygwin1.dll was not installed. Nor could I find it in the distribution package. (I assume it is built on the fly somehow.) Ultimately, the sys admin re-loaded windows on my machine. (Not only does this solve a re-install problem, but it would clean out the registry and possibly remove any corrupt dlls, so overall it made sense.) I am about to re-install a version of cygwin on my computer, but I am concerned about encountering the original dll problem again -- meaning that I could have to uninstall/reinstall cygwin again -- maybe go to a different version of Perl or an earlier version of cygwin. What I want to know is, what did I do wrong in the uninstall? Or in the reinstall? Impossible to tell given the generalities you mentioned here. Personally, I wouldn't have chosen to uninstall and reinstall Cygwin to try to fix your original problem. I would have looked for what the problem was and tried to fix that. It does sound like you had some clash in your tools (ActiveState's perl and Cygwin's perhaps) but I can't be sure. One thing I can say that you shouldn't do is install packages manually if you don't know exactly what you're doing. 'setup.exe' is designed to handle all the little details you wouldn't normally think of so using it is the safest route. My WAG is that you had some Cygwin service or bash process (or both) running when you uninstalled, which would leave those in place and inhibit the installation of the reinstalled versions. Also note that the Cygwin DLL comes from the cygwin package. It is not built on the fly. HTH, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
George R Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^^ . Thanks. George R Nelson wrote: As a newcomer to cygwin, my attempts to download from ctgwin.com or a number of mirror sites all failed with signature errors. WHy do I get this problem? The error I get is: Setup.ini signature http://cygwin.com/setup.bz2.sig from http//cygwin.com failed to verify. I have managed to download cygwin using the setup.exe from redhat. So what were you downloading it with before? 'setup.exe' is the prescribed way to download (for installation) and/or install. If you want a mirror, you want to use another tool but barring that, stick with 'setup.exe'. I downloaded setup.exe from the cygwin site - my apologies as I presumed that was assumed. This failed as described with the signature error. From http://cygwin.com/: The signature for setup.exe can be used to verify the validity of this binary using this public key. Sounds like your download didn't work for some reason. Try again. See the link below for background: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-08/msg1.html I then downloaded setup.exe from the Redhat site and that worked on the Redhat site. The setup.exe from Cygwin did not work on the Redhat site or any of the mirrors I tried. Cygwin != Red Hat. Use Cygwin's site for Cygwin and support from this site. Since I had no idea how to select a site from the list of sites I had added, I wasn't able to check if the Redhat setup.exe worked on other systems. It was only while making this request that it occurred to me that I might be able to select one from the list by highlighting it. From http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-mirror: Since there is no way of knowing from where you will be downloading Cygwin, you need to choose at least one mirror site. Cygwin mirrors are geographically distributed around the world; check the list at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html to find one near you. You can select multiple mirrors by holding down CTRL and clicking on each one. On a related topic, is there any way to change the URL for the download? Or do you just add download sites then highlight the one you wish to use? There are plenty of download sites in the list to choose from. But if you want another one not listed, you can add it by typing it into the edit control below the list and clicking Add. Then you can select it from the list. You can select up to 4 from the list. The setup.exe I downloaded had an empty download list. I added cygwin.com and got the error described. I then added a mirror from the list on the ctgwin site and that too produced the same error. Likewise any mirror I picked from the site displayed the same signature error. The Redhat setup.exe had their own site added to the list already. Finally, I am trying to build some C sources using cygwin but the build fails as it is not finding some libraries: libsocket.a, libnsl.a and libxnet.a. I've searched both the package lists and the installed libraries without success. I am sure that the functions defined in these libraries do exist in the cygwin distribution but may be in differently named libraries. Can anybody help? Not significantly with that description. I'd recommend reading the problem reporting guidelines and trying again if you're still having problems. The guidelines can be found at the link below. I have read the submission guidlines and the installation documentation as well as searching the FAQ before submitting. I could find no details on the steps carried out by setup.exe or any explanation of the error I was getting. I have read the relevant portions of the user guide and all other links that I could follow from the initial description of how to get cygwin but could find nothing that described how to select a URL from the list that I had created. See the User's Guide link above. I think if you read it carefully, it's pretty clear that you can select from the list of mirrors. Also, although 'setup.exe' does have a non-standard control for package selection that has been known to throw some people off, the mirrors list is a standard Windows list box. So despite the User's Guide not taking you by the hand and walking you through the selection of a mirror in the list, generally speaking I think it's fairly explicit. I'm guessing that you just glossed over this part and/or got confused by your attempt to use the 'setup.exe' you found somewhere on the Red Hat site. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying
Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
On 01/16/2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: George R Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^^ . Thanks. Ugh! should have been http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Manage Cygwin packages in command-line (without using graphical Setup.exe)
Salokine Terata wrote: Dear Cygwin users, I have installed Cygwin on few PC; To install Cygwin, I use graphical setup method to install vim, rsync and openssh packages. Now I would like to install cron on all PC. Could I use SSH service and a command line to install cron package ? How can manage Cygwin without go on all PC and reload Setup.exe. My goal is to manage all my PC with my server via dsh -f list.pc.txt -- aptitude -y install cron or something like. Is there an equivalent of aptitude or apt-tools ? How to manage the cygwin distribution (update package list from repository and upgarde all cygwin) http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.automated http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli I found Setup.exe options: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00526.html But I don't understand how manage list of packages. There was talk about this in the past. I forget where it ended up. But you don't really need a list of packages if you have a local package directory with all the packages you want to install. If some are already installed at the current version, those will be skipped. Of course, doing this through 'ssh' means you need the OpenSSH server to have access to the desktop, assuming you're PCs are Vista. See the '-i' switch on cygrunsrv. Optional Question: Is there an official wiki for Cygwin project ? No. The Cygwin site is the place to go for official, supported information. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup.exe 2.573.2.3 signature failure
On 01/16/2009, George R Nelson wrote: There's only few points I wanted to follow-up on here, since it seems like you've gotten resolutions to your start-up issues in one form or another. Did I ever say Cygwin = Redhat. I think if you read carefully that I said I downloaded Cygwin from the Redhat site (following a link on the Cygwin home page - third link down on the left-hand column). Actually, I didn't say that you said Cygwin = Red Hat (and at the risk of being accused of being antagonistic, it is Red Hat, not Redhat.) The fact that Red Hat has an association with the project and has their own version of the software that they distribute and sell support for is exactly the point I was trying to make. I'm not suggesting that you were somehow inappropriately looking at Red Hat's offering, just that you were really mixing two separate things that shouldn't be mixed and that doing so wasn't going to help you. While I think this is clear to you now, I wanted to answer it for others that might come across this thread and have similar confusion. My apologies for taking up time and bandwidth. I have an installer that works and will resolve any other issues I have with Cygwin myself. It seems you've misinterpreted my responses. I was not lambasting you for not reading documentation. I was pointing you to Cygwin documentation that addressed some of the specific issues you raised. As you say, there is allot of documentation there and there are allot of posters here who don't read it or even if they do, miss some key points. So I was pointing to some specific things that I thought would help you with some specific problems you mentioned. But my pointer to http://cygwin.com/problems.html was actually in response to your general inquiry for help with some C sources you were building and the issues you were having getting things to link. Perhaps I needed to be more direct there but I try hard not to cover the same ground that is already covered in existing links. OK, my bad. Let's see if I can rectify that with you. You need to provide specific code, command line invocations of the compiler/linker, and error statements that are emitted in this process, in addition to basic boot-strap configuration information requested at the above link, in order for someone on this list to take a stab at what the solution to your problem might be. Well, that's all I can do. I'll bow out of this thread now, in case you want to continue it with someone else, taking into account the information I mentioned that will be needed for someone else on this list to continue fruitfully. I would ask, if I could, that you read this link before replying: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR I realize that I only included the placeholder in my original reply to you and that this was the reply that you felt was lambasting you, so you had little incentive to heed my follow-up which included it. But other responders to you would likely appreciate the courtesy. Good luck, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Bash in batch mode !
Sébastien Major wrote: Hi, Thanks for all the done job : packages, setup and mirrors. I would like to know if there's a way to lauch some cygwin program without have windows console box _on screen_. I whould lauch at start-up, via services.msc, a command line to have a resident like program. Is that possible ? See 'cygrunsrv --help'. You can use this to install and run a service, just like Cygwin does with OpenSSH, Cron, etc. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ?
dazjorz wrote: Hey all, I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings. I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are a few reasons: - Cygwin didn't have md5sum, GNU coreutils did (and I need md5sum) http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fmd5sum Did you miss this? - It should work, and Because I Can is always a valid reason in UNIX world - I'm trying to bootstrap Debian on Cygwin, and coreutils from Debian is my first try; getting coreutils from Cygwin may be done later. However, I noticed there are some very weird bugs happening. See for example, this bug in cat (don't look at the title of the page, I blamed bash first) http://paster.dazjorz.com/?p=3845 Your example works fine for me with the latest coreutils. Perhaps you're working with a buggy locally built version? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Question about windows shortchts to start a bash script
On 01/18/2009, LMHmedchem wrote: Can anyone tell me why this is not working, especially since it works on another computer with the same setup? Without any configuration information from the machine having this problem, it's hard to say anything too definitive. However, my WAG is that you don't have Cygwin in your Windows path on this new machine but do on the other. If you need to follow-up with this list on this issue, I recommend reading http://cygwin.com/problems.html to find out the necessary information required for a problem report. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Question about windows shortchts to start a bash script
LMHmedchem wrote: I added c:\cygwin\bin; to the path and that seems to have corrected the problem, thanks for the tip. Two questions if you have a minute, 1. At first I tried adding cygwin to the end of the path, but that didn't work. I checked my other machine and found cygwin immediately after %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem; I stuck cygwin in as the first entry after Wbem, and it worked after that. I am surprised that it matters where it is in the list. Does it actually matter or do you think I made an error in my first entry? The order doesn't matter. 2. There was another variable on my other machine, Variable name: CYGWIN Variable value: ntsec tty I did not set up that environment and I am wondering if that really needs to be there. No, it's not a requirement. 'ntsec' is default now, so that setting is redundant. 'tty' is only needed if you require pty emulation in a Cygwin shell started from a Windows cmd.exe window. See: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Apache2 under Cygwin on Vista
On 01/19/2009, Myron Turner wrote: So, I assume, cygserver is not working or not working properly. I do have the CYGWIN environment variable set to server: $ set | grep server CYGWIN=server And you set this before starting any Cygwin processes (including services)? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Manage Cygwin packages in command-line (without using graphical Setup.exe)
Salokine Terata wrote: Hi, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.automated http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli Yes, I have read them, but I don't find how to use it to install a specified package. Coud you give me an example to install my cron package? Well I haven't done this myself, mind you, so this is untested but: setup.exe -q -n -N -d -R c:\cygwin -s http://yourFavoriteMirror -l c:\localPackageDir There isn't a flag that specifies individual packages, so this will get and install all current packages. If you want to control what gets installed, you could pull down the package(s) you want using 'wget' or 'curl' to your local package directory and then use the '-L' flag instead of the '-s' flag to install the package(s) you got, which will happen by default since these are the only new packages in your local package directory. Alternatively, you can look in the cygwin and cygwin-apps email archives for discussions about this. I believe there was a patch offered to do this, but I'm not sure of its status. You could also check the source in CVS for the current state of the available options. Of course, doing this through 'ssh' means you need the OpenSSH server to have access to the desktop, assuming you're PCs are Vista. See the '-i' switch on cygrunsrv. Yes, it's work fine. I search how to install/remove/update a package through SSH. If someone have an exemple (with Setup.exe or other method) What do you think about apt-cyg (http://stephenjungels.com/jungels.net/projects/apt-cyg/) Is it a perennial solution ? Is it in de Cygwin repository ? (I don't find it in http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=apt-cyg) This suffers from the same bootstrap problem that rpm, dpkg, and other established Linux install facilities have. Only 'setup.exe' can install Cygwin from scratch as well as maintain the installation. So these other facilities/options can usually help with the maintenance for those who want to try them. But they aren't considered a supported installation/ maintenance procedure. If you plan to use one of these methods, you're on your own. apt-cyg is not a Cygwin package. It is not part of the distribution and therefore not in the Cygwin repository. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Help me please install OpenSSH Server on Windows Vista
Alexey Eremenko wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Dmitry Semyonov linu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 16:12, Alexey Eremenko wrote: $ cygrunsrv -S sshd and I hope SSH service started but have no idea if it really started... cygrunsrv -Q sshd Thanks Dmitry... u...@user-pc ~ $ cygrunsrv -Q sshd Service : sshd Display name: CYGWIN sshd Current State : Running Controls Accepted : Stop Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D C:\cygwin\binssh localhost ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host It still does not work. What else info I can provide? man ssh: -v Verbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its progress. This is helpful in debugging connection, authentication, and configuration problems. Multiple -v options increase the verbosity. The maximum is 3. C:\cygwin\binssh -v localhost OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8h 28 May 2008 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to localhost [127.0.0.1] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/user/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host What does it tell ? SSH Server is running - but it does not offer login or user name to enter. Why? Did you read '/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.readme'? Did you run ssh-user-config? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: /usr/bin/sh: /usr/bin/awk: No such File or Directory Message
blazt wrote: I am trying to create a portable cygwin install. I downloaded all the packages I needed and installed Cygwin on a Box. I then tried to Zip them all into a self extracting.exe. When I unzip them on a clean machine it appears to work. However when I try to run ssh-host-config I get these errors. I am assuming Cygwin does some sort of post Install on a normal setup when running the exe. I checked the C:\etc\postinstall directory and found a bunch of files that are .sh.done. I tried rerunning these but I still get this message. Is it possible to do what I am trying to do? Or what do I have to run after to get things setup on the new machine. See this link for guidelines on submitting a problem report. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Questions about missing DLLs and program behvior, and symlinks to DLLs
Ray Simard wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:28:25PM -0800, rhs.cyg...@sylvan-glade.com wrote: Hello! I haven't been able to find anything about this in the archives. ... shows, programs simply exit silently and unceremoniously when that happens. That is fixed in Cygwin 1.7.x. Good news. Second, symlinking to DLLs doesn't enable programs to find them, as is also shown below. Right. Symlinks are a Cygwin invention. Cygwin doesn't start running until after DLLs are loaded. So, since Windows does not know about Cygwin symlinks there is no way that they can be used to symlink DLLs. True; they are .lnk files with a special comment, IIRC. I'd just like to make sure I understand this. Suppose I compile bar.dll and libbar.dll.a, and then foo.exe with -lbar.dll, so it uses that DLL, and these are compiled entirely within the Cygwin environment (thus using Cygwin's gcc and related tools). I then launch it from the command line of a bash shell running in a Cygwin xterm. What I think you're saying is that there there is something that foo.exe needs to do before it can understand Cygwin symlinks, and that something is done sometime *after* it needs to actually load bar.dll, which prevents it from finding bar.dll if the DLL's name is actually bar-froob.dll and bar.dll is a symlink to it. Is that the idea? Ah, not quite. DLLs are loaded by the O/S, not Cygwin. So if the O/S can't find the DLL referenced, it won't load it. Since the O/S doesn't know that Cygwin's bar.dll.lnk is a symbolic link to bar.dll, it's not going to find bar.dll. If so, then it's just a matter of putting the real DLLs in the paths Windoze searches for them. Symlinks would be nice, but if you can't, you can't. Right. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Connecting to other PC's on a network using cygwin
foulis wrote: Hi Im currently running cygwin on a windows pc on our company network. In windows to connect to a machine I can do \\pcname\c$ from the run command to view someone elses c: Cygwin uses //host/share syntax to do the same thing. I am very new to cygwin and unix, is there a similair command that can be run from cygwin to view other pc's on the network in the same way? I'd recommend reading through the Cygwin User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ It will help answer allot of questions you will likely have. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problem accessing GRASS setup.ini file
Karen M Weston wrote: Hi Mark Hello I am trying to download GRASS GIS software onto a windows laptop and am having some problems with downloading the setup file required from http://geni.ath.cx. I wonder if you can help me. When I come to the I need to select 2 sites - 1) any mirror site and 2) http://geni.ath.cx. The mirror site seems fine but I receive an error message 'unable to get setup.ini from http://geni.ath.cx/grass/setup.ini'. Therefore there seems to be a problem with my getting the correct access to the http://geni.ath.cx site. I would really appreciate any advice on how I would be able to resolve this. If you're sure the problem is with a particular site, then contacting that site's owner is likely to be a more expedient solution. However, in this case, I suspect the problem is on your end since I was able to call up the file in my browser by clicking on its link. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Status of Compatibility with Windows Server 2008 (2k8)
Oren Elrad wrote: Perhaps it's bad form to reply to my own message, but I've got the 2k8 installation (x86) up and running and I'm ready to take the plunge and report back on what works and what doesn't work. Should I use the 1.5 release on the main page, or use the 1.7 release (setup-1.7.exe)? Alternatively, should I not even bother because it is known that Win2k8 and Cygwin just don't play well together? ~Oren PS. If the lack of reply to my previous question was due to some failure on my part, I'm quite sorry. I did check the FAQ and the archives of this list for any information in Cygwin's relationship with Win2k8. Google was also rather unhelpful in finding up-to-date information. There have been some reports here on Cygwin and W2K8, though generally none that I recall suggest any major issue with W2K8. Since I don't use W2K8, I can't say whether 1.5 or 1.7 would work better there. It depends on your needs. 1.7 is definitely where things are headed and should give you a better experience overall, especially for things like sshd that wants to change users (see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.readme and/or http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2006-11/msg0.html). If you're up to using beta software, I'd recommend trying that. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: problem - installing in 64 bit os
kavitha s wrote: i installed cygwin-2.249.2.5 in 32 bit os..it installed correctly. There is no cygwin-2.249.2.5. Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin and domain users...
garethrichardadams wrote: Hi all, I've set up Cygwin on a portable usb drive and would like to use it on different machines. The problem is that one of the machines is a standalone, the other is a domain machine. When I used it from the standalone it worked fine. When I started it on the domain machine I got: Your group is currently mkpasswd. This indicates that the /etc/passwd files should be re-built... What are the consequences of being in the mkpasswd group?? Is there anyway I can get Cygwin to run as a cygwin user - i.e. nothing to do with the user that's currently logged into windows? It's best to just add the users and groups needed the passwd and group files. This will allow Cygwin to work with these users as Windows sees them, which is really what you want. If you just have the current user to add, try: mkpasswd -c /etc/passwd mkgroup -c /etc/passwd -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Trouble installing ssh server on Vista Home 64
Dan Kegel wrote: Followup: I tried again, with cygrunsrv --stop sshd cygrunsvr --remove sshd ssh-host-config and then saying yes to everything except do you want to use a different name. This time configuration succeeded, net start sshd succeeded, and ssh localhost succeeded! I then added an exception for port 22 in Windows Firewall, and ssh from the next machine also worked. Whew. That was a struggle! I wonder if ssh-host-config's -y option should be changed to default do you want to use a different name to no. Yes, this is a known issue. Currently I think it's best to _not_ use the '-y' option for 'ssh-host-config'. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: configure cannot find boost libraries
Paulianna2002 wrote: Hi, I am trying to build the package 'SRecord' from source. When I configure I get === ... ... ... checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking boost/shared_ptr.hpp usability... no checking boost/shared_ptr.hpp presence... no checking for boost/shared_ptr.hpp... no You need to install the Boost C++ library to be able to compile SRecord. http://boost.org/ If you have a package based system, the package you need to install will be called libboost-devel or something similar. === I did install the boost package(s) under Cygwin. Any advice is appreciatedthanks!! Try starting here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problems with pair key auth and sftp server
Benjamin Stössel wrote: Hi there, I hope I write to the right place. Yes, it is. I got a problem with my cygwin setup. I got a setup running at the moment but as I want to upgrade to the latest version soon, I installed it on my test machine. Which is running a plain Windows Server 2008 Setup. I did the normal setup procedure, just added a few packages like all basic ones, some editors, openssh, openssl and syslog-ng. After that I run the ssh-host-config and created the group and passwd files. All this has been done in local admin. And exactly how did you do this? What were your answers to the questions? Is 'sshd' actually running now? Now I switched to my user, which is domain admin and changed the group and passwd files with mkgroup -d and so on. Hm, why is this? Changed to sshd_config file to activate RSAAuth, Logs, Authfiles, etc. RSAAuth is activated by default. Why are you changing things here before you know the defaults work? Then I created the key files with ssh-keygen. After that I copied the id_rsa file to my local machine and created with the puttygen and .pkk file for putty and winscp. Why not use 'ssh-user-config' to create your user SSH config files with proper locations, permissions, etc.? And now comes the strange part where I dont get further. I tried everything, read everything I found for about a day with no result. When I try to login it says, Refused our key and in the log files it says that the sftp-server file could not be found. Which is strange as I have not changed the folder where it is and did also not change the entry line in the config. I hope someone can help as my boss is not happy that he has to pay all these hours without progress :D We're really going to need to know what you're doing exactly and what your configuration is: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I'd really recommend using the existing utilities for configuring 'sshd' and 'ssh' and testing out your new configuration with 'ssh'. This may not be as you want it or the exact interface you're looking for but it will help narrow down the myriad of possibilities. I'd also recommend looking at the email archives for others who may have had similar issues to what you're experiencing. There's allot of OpenSSH discussion and help there. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: configure cannot find boost libraries
Paulianna2002 wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Paulianna2002 wrote: Hi, I am trying to build the package 'SRecord' from source. When I configure I get snip checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking boost/shared_ptr.hpp usability... no checking boost/shared_ptr.hpp presence... no checking for boost/shared_ptr.hpp... no You need to install the Boost C++ library to be able to compile SRecord. http://boost.org/ If you have a package based system, the package you need to install will be called libboost-devel or something similar. === I did install the boost package(s) under Cygwin. Any advice is appreciatedthanks!! Try starting here: Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I am not sure what you are implying. Sorry if I have not been a smart question asker. I was trying to follow the cygwin etiquette. If I have violated cygwin mailing list protocol in some way, I apologize. I am not sure what I should do differently to post my problem. Thanks. I'm saying that you should read the entirety of the link I pointed you to. Without information about your configuration at the very least, no one here can make an informed attempt to solve the problem you're seeing. We need at least the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v' *attached* to your problem report. And since the package you're trying to build can't find Boost, it would be logical to assume that a STC http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#STC wouldn't either or if it does, that would tell us something about the package you're trying. So please consider including a STC as well with the commands you invoked and the results you get. That should make it pretty easy for anyone here to try and help you track down, if the process itself doesn't help you resolve the problem yourself. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: configure cannot find boost libraries
Claude Sylvain wrote: Paulianna2002 wrote: snip I did install the boost package(s) under Cygwin. Any advice is appreciatedthanks!! I had the same problem. It seems that boost library include files are not located in /usr/include/boost/, but in /usr/include/boost-1_33_1/boost, or something like that, depending of the cygwin version you use. A workaround can be to make a copy of /usr/include/boost-1_33_1/boost/ directory into /usr/include/. This make the boost directory appear at the right place. Not sure if it is the best solution, but its work for me. If this is the problem Paulianna is having, then I would say two better solutions would be adding '-I/usr/include/boost-1_33_1' to CFLAGS or creating a symbolic link from '/usr/include/boost' to '/usr/include/boost-1_33_1'. But I agree that your solution would indeed work, though it would be less maintainable and would take up more disk space. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: syntax highlighting on Joe
Julio Emanuel wrote: snip I also would like to grab this opportunity to (once again) ring the service bell to whoever maintain this package 'joe'. It's my favorite (actually the only) editor in the Unix/Cygwin ^ Perhaps it's your only favorite editor but it is not the only editor in the Unix, Linux, or Cygwin environments, in case anyone gets the wrong immression. ;-) environments, and that's unfortunate to see this package negleted, because this seems to be a simple packaging problem. Also, currently the upstream version is already 3.7 (TWO versions beyond the Cygwin current!). Could all this whining give us joe'ers a brand new version of this package? Pretty Please? :) If this really is just a packaging issue, you may have better luck reporting it to the cygwin-apps list (where packaging issues are on- topic). Jari has responded to things there of-late. Of course, if you're desperate for a newer 'joe' and aren't going to build it yourself, you can take advantage of the version packaged and announced here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-11/msg1.html Of course, if you go this route, you can't come back to this list with your whining if something doesn't work. Perhaps it's a small price to pay. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problems with pair key auth and sftp server
Benjamin, Please try to keep the quoting format. It makes it easier to follow the discussion and pick out your replies to my questions. Also, it is preferable to reply to the messages as this maintains the message threading. Benjamin Stössel wrote: And exactly how did you do this? What were your answers to the questions? Is 'sshd' actually running now? about the answers I used ssh-host-config -y so every answer was yes. And the sshd is running. Except that it throws the error about the sftp-server. Unless you had the foresight to answer 'sshd-server' when asked for a user name for the service, this won't work for you. I recommend you rerun 'ssh-host-config' without the '-y' and just answer the questions. You can just take the defaults. Hm, why is this? I switched the user to set up the key pair for my own user and not the local admin. As I do not want that the local admin can connect except for console. I'd recommend working with a local user first. RSAAuth is activated by default. Why are you changing things here before you know the defaults work? RSAAuth was in the config as comment with a # in front. That means the setting that's in the comment is the default. Why not use 'ssh-user-config' to create your user SSH config files with proper locations, permissions, etc.? I did use the ssh-user-config up front, forgot to mention. And it did not work afterwards. That's where we want to start looking at the problem then. You should reinstate things as you had them, though using a local user, and we can proceed from there, assuming changing the user running the service to 'sshd-server' doesn't resolve your problems. If you need anything like config or so let me know. I've already asked for this information: We're really going to need to know what you're doing exactly and what your configuration is: http://cygwin.com/problems.html And in case this also was glossed over: I'd really recommend using the existing utilities for configuring 'sshd' and 'ssh' and testing out your new configuration with 'ssh'. This may not be as you want it or the exact interface you're looking for but it will help narrow down the myriad of possibilities. I'd also recommend looking at the email archives for others who may have had similar issues to what you're experiencing. There's allot of OpenSSH discussion and help there. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: jmp_buf size?
Jay wrote: What is up with the size of jmp_buf? It appears that setjmp.h confuses bytes and ints, specifically in the Cygwin case. _JBLEN should be 13, not 13*4. or #define _JBTYPE to char, but that doesn't work as easily. snip Did you see this reply to your first inquiry on this subject? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00863.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Problems with X surfaced recently
Linda Walsh wrote: I updated my Cygwin software about 2 weeks ago but didn't try out the X-server. Cygwin-X questions go to the cygwin-xfree list. I mostly use the shell tools which seemed fine. But today I noticed some problems in my X-based utils -- first from Linux-based computers displaying onto my cygwin-box, and 2nd a slightly different error when trying run X-utils locally. I looked through the recent announcements/postings and saw the I the ANNOUNCEMENTS about setup and X problems and updated everything to the latest. I'm still having problems. The main and most serious problem for me is that remote X apps and the local X-version of rxvt, open X-display windows on the local cygwin-box, BUT allow no keyboard input. Did you miss this FAQ? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-i-cant-type-anything I also found that Local X-apps, Xterm and Xmined (randomly chosen x-app) fail with (displayed in local cmd-BASH window): Warning: Cannot convert string -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font Error: Aborting: no font found Or this one? http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-where-are-my-fonts FYI: If I start the non-X version of rxvt, I get double-wide spacing of characters -- as if it is having some unicode spacing problem. Attached is output of cygcheck.txt. Thanks for following the problem reporting protocol concerning cygcheck output. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: how to install libtoolize
On 02/05/2009, Wynfield Henman wrote: Though I am building a different package, I have the same problem as mentioned below. The libtool package downloaded is 46 bytes (effectively null) and get stashed into the _obsolete folder without ever getting installed. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=usr%2Fbin%2Flibtoolize Don't install obselete packages unless you really know what you're doing. Given the above, why doesn't just installing the 'libtool' package get you what you need? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: how to install libtoolize
wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: Re: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 02/05/2009, Wynfield Henman wrote: Though I am building a different package, I have the same problem as mentioned below. The libtool package downloaded is 46 bytes (effectively null) and get stashed into the _obsolete folder without ever getting installed. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=usr%2Fbin%2Flibtoolize Don't install obselete packages unless you really know what you're doing. Given the above, why doesn't just installing the 'libtool' package get you what you need? That is just the problem it doesn't get what is needed, but only shows the obsolete (from what you say) versions as the newest. I even tried experimental to try to find newer libtool version, but none show up. Version1.5b or whatever was presented as the newest version by setup. There was no intentional _obsolete gets on my part. I solved the problem by hand getting the new vesion and untarring it in the appropriate location, but that shouldn't have to be done. I believe it is a setup related problem, either hints or ini file data. It may have been related to a problem with 'upset' late last week. I just tried it now using ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin and http://sources-redhat.mirror.redwire.net/cygwin and had no trouble getting version 2.2.6.a-1. After the install, I have '/usr/bin/libtoolize'. If you continue to see problems with 'setup.exe', report back with the process you went through and the problems you're seeing. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: /bin /usr/bin
Lee D. Rothstein wrote: Peter Rosin wrote: Den 2009-02-07 00:37 skrev Lee D.Rothstein: First, PATH must include the Windows path of the /bin, where typically both mintty.exe and cygwin1.dll' will be found. Remember, this is a Here, I think I have the path right, since, the Windows equivalent of '/bin' is 'c:\Cygwin\bin', which means I don't understand the following comment at all: My (minor) point was that from the mintty point of view, the fact that /bin and /usr/bin are equivalent is a coincidence - it's a Cygwin quirk. Since mintty installs in /usr/bin, Not on my Vista 64b System! Everything is in /bin, (c:\_r\bin) NOTHING is in /usr/bin. (c:\_r\usr\bin). I thought, I had remembered that, in prior systems almost the reverse was true, but I checked before I wrote the last reply (and checked again, just now). As everyone has implied, all items in /bin, are accessible through /usr/bin. Is my system different? Why? Pilot error? No. In a default installation, there will be a 'C:\usr\bin' and a 'C:\usr\lib' that are empty as far as Windows is concerned. 'C:\bin' and 'C:\lib' are mounted to these directories, respectively, so that they are equivalent in the Cygwin environment. See the output of 'mount' for further clarification. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: X server causing IE lockups
rhubbell wrote: Recently started using the Xserver and have issues now with IE. IE will become unresponsive. When I kill the xserver IE becomes responsive again. I also have issues with any vncclient sessions I'm running. The cut-n-paste buffers stop working in vnc. Vnc doesn't require the xserver. It's not a showstopper because I can kill the xserver and get expected behavior back. Is this a known issue/limitation? This is on winxp. Wrong list. Use the cygwin-xfree list for X-specific items. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: 1.5.25: changed dev/ino error with shared drives
Correa, Wagner wrote: Hello, I'm using Cygwin 1.5.25, and when I try removing directories in shared drives, I get an error message like this: rm: FATAL: directory `foo' changed dev/ino Could this be a reoccurrence of this old problem? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00315.html. Given the different format of the message and the abundance of alternate but like-named tools on your machine, I have to wonder if you're getting this message from Cygwin's 'rm'. Are you? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: 1.5.25: changed dev/ino error with shared drives
Correa, Wagner wrote:
-Original Message-
snip
Correa, Wagner wrote:
Hello,
I'm using Cygwin 1.5.25, and when I try removing
directories in shared
drives, I get an error message like this:
rm: FATAL: directory `foo' changed dev/ino
Could this be a reoccurrence of this old problem?
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00315.html.
Given the different format of the message and the abundance
of alternate but like-named tools on your machine, I have
to wonder if you're getting this message from Cygwin's 'rm'.
Are you?
snip
I think so:
$ which rm
/usr/bin/rm
But how can I be sure?
Invoke '/usr/bin/rm' directly. If you still see a problem, we need
to see the permissions of the directory you're working with ('ls -l'
and 'getfacl') and its contents as well as the input and results you
get. Perhaps stracing might be necessary as well but I'll hold off
asking for that right now. Let's see if the above helps you find the
problem.
--
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216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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Re: 1.5.25: changed dev/ino error with shared drives
Correa, Wagner wrote: -Original Message- From: XXX [mailto:XXX] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 2:44 PM To: XXX ^^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. No sense in feeding the spammers after all. Subject: Re: 1.5.25: changed dev/ino error with shared drives Before pursuing this much further, it makes sense to try this with Cygwin 1.7 and see if the problem reproduces there. If so, that will be where any fix will happen. If not, then there's no need to chase it under 1.5. See the link below for more details on 1.7. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Are there vnc packages?
rhubbell wrote: I looked for vnc packages in cygwin but didn't find any. Do they exist? Maybe no need since there are plenty of vnc packages that run on winxp already? http://cygwin.com/packages/ is the official answer to whether any package is available with the Cygwin distribution. There's also cygwin-ports which has a number of other packages but those aren't in the distribution and aren't supported by this list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: ssh muliple authentication
Jody Burnett wrote: Can public key authentication and password authentication be set in the openssh 5.1 that is packaged with cygwin 1.5.25. There is a .patch file on https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983 but this is for openssh 4.7. As well i do not know how to install the patch for ssh. Any help is much appreciated. You mean the requirements part? If it's part of the vanilla release of OpenSSH, then I would say the facility is there. Haven't tried it myself though. But I'd recommend trying it with the version available from 'setup.exe' before you do much patching of local source. It's just easier. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How does one find cygdrive path in a Win .bat file (was Re: Bug in startXwin.bat)
Linda Walsh wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location. You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your windows path, as mine is). If not, need to look in the registry: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\cygdrive prefix No, you don't need to look in the registry. There's nothing there that 'mount' won't tell you. Forget about the registry. You'll be better off, especially when Cygwin 1.7 is released. --- I'm curious -- how does mount find or 'know' the cygdrive path if it doesn't come from the registry. How it finds it is an implementation detail. There's no need to know how it does what it does if it does what you want. ;-) And, like I said, the registry won't be used for 1.7 so anyone that uses this as a basis of anything will find it broken once 1.7 is released. For that matter, how would a windows .bat file find the 'mount.exe' binary if the .bat file doesn't know 'cygdrive path'? That's a different issue. However you imply a paradox that doesn't exist. Whether one knows the 'cygdrive path' or not will not make it easier to find 'mount.exe'. 'mount.exe' is always in '/bin'. As for the issue of finding '/bin', there may be times when it is necessary to script this, though I would say this is not one of those cases. For those cases, searching the file-system or spelunking in the registry are possible avenues, each with their own pluses and minuses. In this case, just looking at 'cygwin.bat' will provide the answer needed. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How does one find cygdrive path in a Win .bat file
Linda Walsh wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: The startxwin.sh script works, but startxwin.bat does not work if your Cygwin installation isn't in the default location. You could use mount -p (presuming your cygwin\bin is in your windows path, as mine is). If not, need to look in the registry: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\cygdrive prefix No, you don't need to look in the registry. There's nothing there that 'mount' won't tell you. Forget about the registry. You'll be better off, especially when Cygwin 1.7 is released. --- I'm curious -- how does mount find or 'know' the cygdrive path if it doesn't come from the registry. How it finds it is an implementation detail. There's no need to know how it does what it does if it does what you want. ;-) And, like I said, the registry won't be used for 1.7 so anyone that uses this as a basis of anything will find it broken once 1.7 is released. For that matter, how would a windows .bat file find the 'mount.exe' binary if the .bat file doesn't know 'cygdrive path'? That's a different issue. --- Then answer the question. First you avoid the answer by saying it is an implementation detail. long winded response deleted Linda, you've been around this list long enough to understand how to handle them. Please, if you want to berate someone for answering your posts, do it on one list only. Of course, I'm having trouble seeing the benefit of continuing with either thread, given your stubbornness to hold onto the notion that there must be a complicated way to solve this problem. So let me summarize once more. You can take it as your answer or not. 1. Going to the registry in general for information you can get from the Cygwin 'mount' command is not supported and is error prone. 2. Providing the proper path in 'startxwin.bat' does not require special analysis of the registry, file system, or any other source to find the proper root for Cygwin. There are at least two ways of directly solving this robustly: a. Have 'setup.exe' do it, like it does for 'cygwin.bat' b. Use the path to 'startxwin.bat' as the path (it is in the Cygwin installation path after all). 3. If you need to do this generically for any batch file, then yes, you have to rely on external data and heuristics. Going to the registry to see if it will help or searching the file system are two alternatives but there is no one key or one spot that will unequivocally give you the installation path. Looking at the mount paths in the registry will work for 1.5 but is flawed for 1.7. Looking in the file-system may work depending on what you look for and where you start looking. Hopefully this summary of what I've said already is clear and compact enough for you to understand what I'm saying. If not, I'll leave you to enjoy your continued quest unimpeded by more answers from me. If you don't like this answer, please feel free to post more long-winded prose that picks each word of my response apart such that it looses all context. But I think it's fair to say that the thread will end after that. There's really nothing worthwhile that can be said relative to your inquiry that hasn't already been covered. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?
On 02/09/2009, Linda Walsh wrote: I.e. maybe Cygwin should add an official dir in the system (for an all-user install), or user (for a 1-user install) environment (stored in the registry), so add-on applications that rely on Cygwin or rely on knowing where it was installed will work. It's not like in Windows where you can add something to the linux-registry, /etc, or path-specific part /etc/profile.d and have other apps pick up this information. It would make more sense to put it in a registry environment variable. What do you think? Actually, this has been discussed already and has been resolved by having 1.7's 'setup.exe' putting the Cygwin root installation directory in... the registry! See HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the rootdir value. I know, it's not in the environment. That might be nicer. But such a change could spoil my there's no good way statement so I can't endorse it. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: xterm losing accent keys
Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote: When I press ` ^ ¨ or ~ and then space keys in xterm, it ignores the accents and puts a simple space. The same with composition of accented characters like é. What worse is: this behaviour can change back to normal and back to improper, and I have no clue as to upon exactly what? Seems that sometimes just a change of focus to another window (xemacs) is sufficient, and the accent keys get deprived of function. It's a really dangerous problem. Imagine: I'd launch rm -f * (instead of rm -f *~)and pop would go the weasel. Anyway it's darn annoying. The question is: How can I force proper handling of accent keys? Preferably a method more elegant than a reboot. If this problem occurs for xterm and not in the shell as started by cygwin.bat, then it's an X issue and should be directed to the cygwin-xfree list if available xterm documentation doesn't provide a working solution (i.e. if there is a Cygwin-specific issue with enabling the right behavior here). If it is reproducible in the shell started by cygwin.bat, then perhaps this FAQ will help: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.unicode -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)
On 02/10/2009, Linda Walsh wrote: Plblblblb! (*raz*) Um...so..um... I know it could spoil your day and all...but it really would be more *linux* like if it was added to the environment variables. OK, I need to be clear. I have nothing against the enviroment variable idea. I was making (a little) joke. If you'd like to see this happen, I'd suggest offering it as a patch to 'setup.exe'. Since I'm not the gatekeeper for 'setup.exe' code, whether or not I'm convinced it's a good idea isn't necessarily going to help or hurt your cause. The patch is likely to be the path of least (though not necessarily 'no') resistence. I forget, does Cygwin offer the option of installing for 1 user vs. all users? I only remember it being installed for all...? Both are offered in 1.7. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)
rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) In case I need to be crystal clear on this subject, no we have no common relationship beyond that of both being participants on this list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)
Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Linda Walsh cygwin AT tlinx DOT org wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. Then anything else in Cygwin that uses paths -- including setup's cygwin.bat could use %CygWinDir% Not that there's being a vote taken or anything, but I would like to support that notion. I have several trampoline scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those locations change from user to user (some people install under c:\, some under the standard location). I would like to have the scripts work for any system. This can be done now, if you look back through the thread to all the different options I outlined and even a few scripts others have thrown in. What Linda is proposing here is simply having the mechanism for communicating this be an environment variable. While this could arguably make it easier to do what you want, it doesn't mean that you can't do it now for either Cygwin 1.5 or the upcoming 1.7 (though you may be required to do something different for 1.5 and 1.7.) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)
Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Tim McDaniel wrote: I have several trampoline scripts, a bat file doing nothing but invoking a corresponding bash shell script or Perl program. I have to hard-code a location for the bash / perl interpreter, but those locations change from user to user (some people install under c:\, some under the standard location). I would like to have the scripts work for any system. This can be done now, That appears to contradict what you wrote yesterday: Not really. See below. ] If you need to do this generically for any batch file, then yes, you ] have to rely on external data and heuristics. Going to the registry ] to see if it will help or searching the file system are two ] alternatives but there is no one key or one spot that will ] unequivocally give you the installation path. Looking at the mount ] paths in the registry will work for 1.5 but is flawed for 1.7. ] Looking in the file-system may work depending on what you look for ] and where you start looking. You did mention ] HKLM/Software/Cygwin/setup, the rootdir value. But you noted that that is in version 1.7. This would work for 1.5 as well if someone back-ported the 1.7 change. But unless someone makes some change to both the 'setup.exe' for 1.5 and the one for 1.7, you still won't have one place to look for this information. And even if this happens, it would only work for installations that have used the new 'setup.exe'. That may cover all 1.7 installations but it will be unreliable for 1.5 for... probably forever (or long enough that it will seem that way.) That doesn't mean that one can't create something that works good enough for one's needs. It just means that there's no good way(tm) to do this for all cases. If that's not a concern to you, then you diligently read this thread for its key points for nothing. ;-) If you're wondering where in the registry to find this information for 1.5 (assuming you're stuck with no other option), this FAQ should help point you in the right direction: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all (When mentioning it, by the way, you might also mention REG.exe, a program to do registry access, and the options for FOR that allow running a program and getting the results in a variable in CMD.exe. I hadn't heard of REG until I went searching just now.) Sounds similar to Cygwin's 'regtool'. Definitely would be helpful if you're trying to batch script something like this. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)
Tim McDaniel wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Larry Hall wrote: snip Sounds similar to Cygwin's 'regtool'. Definitely would be helpful if you're trying to batch script something like this. Well, not in *this* special case, because like this is trying to find the Cygwin installation in the first place; if it knew where regtool was, it would already know where Cygwin was installed ... Yeah, that's what I meant though it could be read either way... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: xdvi problem: second attempt to get help
Dan Tsafrir wrote: Hi, a few days ago I reported a problem regarding xdvi and did not get any response, so I'm trying again: When opening xdvi, I get the following error message: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: X locale modifiers not supported, using default Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Even though, to my understanding, I don't have any locale related variables set: % printenv | egrep -i 'lang|lc|locale' LOCPATH=C:\Programs\IBM\RunTime\locale XTERM_LOCALE=C % export -n XTERM_LOCALE % xdvi Warning: locale not supported by C library ... Any idea how to fix this? As you may know, Cygwin doesn't support alternate (other than C) locales. But since this is related to xdvi, there may be something that can be configured there to help. If the documentation for xdvi doesn't suggest a solution or if you believe this is strictly a Cygwin-specific issue, you may have better luck with the cygwin-xfree list. X issues are discussed there. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: GCC 4.3.2 OpenMP Support in Cygwin
Michael Craft wrote: I am trying to compile an OpenMP program in Cygwin using GCC 4.3.2 installed from the repositories. This program compiles in linux with the exact same compiler fine. $ gcc-4 -std=gnu99 -fopenmp -o mvp-cygwin matrix-vector-bench.c matrix-vector-bench.c:11:18: error: omp.h: No such file or directory Can anyone help? Sorry, I know nothing about OpenMP but the above suggests to me that the compiler can't find omp.h. Does it exist? Is it in the same directory as matrix-vector-bench.c? If not, does it work if you add '-I path' where path is the path to the directory where omp.h lives? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?
Lloyd Wood wrote: I've just updated my Cygwin installation (1.5.25), and got the new x.org xserver. startx has stopped working. After xauth creates a new authority file, it throws up a dialog saying it's put help text in /var/log/XWin.0.log Perusing /var/log/XWin.0.log shows: XWin was started with the following command line: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lwood/.serverauth.32660 [..] unrecognized option: and suggesting that missing quotes somewhere in startx borked the command. Adding quotes in throughout startx (xinit command, whenever I saw $HOME) didn't change this; whatever can't handle spaces is a little hidden. xinit run alone dies because it can't find supported fonts. How to get cygwin's x-window-in-Windows-window support running again and get to an xterm? X questions and issues should go to the cygwin-xfree list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: new x.org server - startx and xinit fail?
On 02/16/2009, Lloyd Wood wrote: Ah, installing a number of fonts in Cygwin setup's X11 list, that allows xinit to produce a working X11 virtual desktop window. Once I launch a window manager it's usable, with xterms etc. However, /usr/bin/startx and treating X windows as Windows windows appears to have problems with spaces in path names, as outlined below. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00369.html Please use the recommended list for X questions and issues. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: sshd w/o admin?
Aaron Davies wrote: is it possible to get sshd working w/o admin privs? Running 'ssh-host-config' requires adminstrative privileges to create users to run 'sshd' as a service (for W2K3 and later) and for privilege separation. If you don't want/need these, then you can bypass these as part of the configuration. This will mean: 1. You cannot run sshd as a service (on W2K3 or later) so you will not be able to use pub-key authentication. On W2K and XP systems, you can use the existing 'SYSTEM' user to run 'sshd' as a service if you'd like. 2. You will always be running 'sshd' as a privileged user but this doesn't mean much if you're not running it as a user with elevated privileges, which you're likely not if you chose not to run as a service, this is likely a non-issue. i've run ssh-host-config (without creating a new user) and started sshd manually from the shell. when i try to connect, i get Connection closed by 127.0.0.1 and an error sshd: PID 6520: fatal: seteuid 45758: Permission denied shows up in the event viewer id idnicates that 45758 is me any suggestions? Use password authentication? If you need to follow-up on this thread, please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines found here - http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: libpng headaches!
David Karlgren wrote: Hello dear Cygwin users, I hope I'm posting this to the right list. If not, then I sincerely apologize! I'm programming a game using SDL and I compile with gcc under Cygwin and link with the mingw libraries. So you're really using MinGW then. The MinGW list would be the appropriate place to look for help with this problem. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: rsyncd cannot access volume shadow copy
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. But I can not access the shadow copy from terminals of other users AND my rsyncd, which runs under the same user where the shadow copy was mapped, can't access /cygdrive/b. rsync: chdir /cygdrive/b failed I try the same under Windows XP and it works only one time :-O I map the drive with dosdev b: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device... rsyncd works but has locked files 2009/02/18 19:54:05 [2112] rsync: send_files failed to open Dokumente und Einstellungen/Administrator/Lokale Einstellungen/Anwendungsdaten/Microsoft/Windows/UsrClass.dat (in B): Device or resource busy (16) After dosdev -r -d b: and again dosdev b: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device... I get from rsyncd: 2009/02/18 20:03:19 [2580] name lookup failed for 127.0.0.1: Unknown server error 2009/02/18 20:03:19 [2580] connect from UNKNOWN (127.0.0.1) 2009/02/18 20:03:19 [2580] rsync: chdir /cygdrive/b failed : No such file or directory (2) In both (XP) cases ls -alh /cygdrive/b will list the content of drive c: Is there something of significance here that differs from http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00404.html? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: sshd w/o admin?
Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) XX wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks! Aaron Davies wrote: is it possible to get sshd working w/o admin privs? Running 'ssh-host-config' requires adminstrative privileges to create users to run 'sshd' as a service (for W2K3 and later) and for privilege separation. If you don't want/need these, then you can bypass these as part of the configuration. This will mean: 1. You cannot run sshd as a service (on W2K3 or later) so you will not be able to use pub-key authentication. On W2K and XP systems, you can use the existing 'SYSTEM' user to run 'sshd' as a service if you'd like. I'm on XP Pro. How would I go about installing it as a service under SYSTEM? ssh-host-config doesn't seem to be able to do that for me (log attached, as is cygcheck output). Of course. My mistake. You need admin privileges to install a service. If you don't have this or can't get it for the configuration portion of the installation, you won't be able to run as a service. :-( i've run ssh-host-config (without creating a new user) and started sshd manually from the shell. when i try to connect, i get Connection closed by 127.0.0.1 and an error sshd: PID 6520: fatal: seteuid 45758: Permission denied shows up in the event viewer id idnicates that 45758 is me any suggestions? Use password authentication? I don't get to an authentication stage at all AFAICT. But what authentication methods do you allow? If you allow pubkey and have set up the keys for this (via 'ssh-user-config'), this could be the problem. Your 'sshd' won't be able to change user to 'you'. That's what the 'seteuid' message above means. I'd recommend removing all ssh key files in ~/.ssh and trying again. Also, FWIW, using a remote drive as your home adds a level of complication. You may want to try to create a local home directory, point to this in your '/etc/passwd', and rerun 'ssh-user-config' if you continue to have problems. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: RFE?: CygWinDir in ENV? (was Re: How does one find where Cygwin was installed from Windows?)
rhubbell wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:10 -0500 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. rhubbell wrote: Are you and Linda married by any chance? Now that's funny! :-) I'm glad you laughed, whew! That exchange had me a little worried about the list. But now I see all's fine. Indeed. I know Linda and she knows me from this list. We've both been around here a while. So there may be some shorthand and references that the uninitiated may have missed. But if our exchange made you uncomfortable, your constitution may be too weak for this list. If you doubt me, put on your favorite pair of flame-proof overalls and do some light reading of the email archives. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: sshd w/o admin?
Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Aaron Davies wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks! is this even possible in gmail? if not, i'll do it manually for now. Not sure. Probably not. But I don't know much about gmail so I wouldn't put too much stock in anything I might say about it. snip I tried moving all my keys aside (outside of ~/.ssh). Now ssh localhost on the local box takes my password, prints the banner, then quits with Connection to localhost closed. % ssh localhost adav...@localhost's password: Last login: Thu Feb 19 10:41:39 2009 from localhost Connection to localhost closed. The same setreuid error is left in the event log Why exactly does it need to setreuid to me when it's already me? This sshd process is started by and running under the same id it's trying to become. I'm not sure. I thought this was because it was trying to use pub-key authentication, which is why I suggested password. So I can't help here. Also, FWIW, using a remote drive as your home adds a level of complication. You may want to try to create a local home directory, point to this in your '/etc/passwd', and rerun 'ssh-user-config' if you continue to have problems. I'll give this a try next, I guess. It's worth a shot. If you get things working that way, you can always try going back to your remote home and set 'smbntsec' in your CYGWIN environment variable. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: path to graphics.h
H Le wrote: Hello, I wonder where is this lib located? I have installed cygwin under ^^^ You mean header or include file. d:\cygwin directory. Thank you for your helps. I can't answer your question directly but I think I can help you answer it. From the main Cygwin page, first line: Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. Where on a Linux machine or from what Linux package would you expect to find graphics.h? If you can't answer that, then perhaps an easier question is why would you expect to find graphics.h with Cygwin? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Setup - command line only
Kevin and Nancy wrote: I was hoping someone would consider a version of setup.exe that only ran on the command line, i.e. a non-graphical setup program. This would be especially helpful for remotely updating packages of the Cygwin suite. I think it's ironic that the Cygwin suite which specializes on command line utilities only has a graphical user interface for setup/updates. A separate question might be, why can't setup update itself? Even, click here to download the new setup would be a setup forward. Just some ideas. Hopefully, this isn't the 300th time someone has asked, but I did do a Google before sending this. No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from 'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them. If you're interested in contributing something, see the link below: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
