Re: Windows file permissions
* Krzysztof Duleba (2003-10-19 13:02 +0200) Is there a way to change file access permissions that are used by Windows 2000 pro having only ssh account? chmod, cacls Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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 and cat
* Asif Iqbal (2003-10-19 01:45 +0200) Today is the first time I am using cygwin in my XP. You've just discovered the real thing. Improve your experience by reading the FAQ and the User's Guide. I am trying to run cat and it says command not found Well, these dumb computers. This could mean that either the package containing 'cat' is not installed or the executable is not in $PATH. A search for the package at http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cat.exe leads to the conclusion that you have to have textutils installed. Also when I try to start sshd it fails not finding /etc/sshd_config file Please follow the installation guidelines at /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh-3.7.1p2-1.README The third thing I just noticed I can't copy using my mouse. Yes, you can. If you are using the windows console you can enable this in the properties dialog and if you are using rxvt you just have to select the text. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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: Windows file permissions
* Krzysztof Duleba (2003-10-19 17:22 +0200) Thorsten Kampe wrote: Is there a way to change file access permissions that are used by Windows 2000 pro having only ssh account? chmod I knew that, but it affects only the Cygwin permissions. No, Cygwin doesn't have its own permissions - they directly affect the NT ACLs. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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: Open a cygwin command prompt in a specific folder?
* Alfonso Esteban Gonzalez Sencion (2003-10-23 11:26 +0200) I would like to open a cygwin console from the windows file manager, and have the console be positioned in the directory selected on the windows file manager? Google for Bash prompt here Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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: ACLs are not handled correctly
* Dierk Schmedes (2003-10-31 10:15 +0100) Problem: nearly each tool that the create or modify a file/directory (e.g. cp, touch, setfacl) ignore the ALCs of the current directory or add further users/groups to it. Example /home/dierk has the following ACLs (listed with xcalcs.exe from the MS resource kit; same with Explorer) xcalcs F:/cygwin/home/dierk f:\cygwin\home\dierk domainname\dierk:F NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(IO)R Now I create a new file (e.g. touch /home/dierk/newfile). Everyone expect that the file has the same rights as my home folder /home/dierk, [...] Why? Cygwin doesn't support ACLs and inheritance - including Windows ACLs. And cp or touch don't either - umask is the thing they ask. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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: On Windows.NET
* Adrian Parker (2003-11-05 00:50 +0100) Do you guys know if Cygwin will run on Windows.NET? There's no such thing as Windows.NET. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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 and displays
* Anne L Caraley (2003-11-10 23:12 +0100) Everything looks great except that I can't get the displays to export properly from my Linux machine (RedHat 7.3) to the Windows 2000 machine running CYGWIN. What do you mean by that? Termcap? I know the advice is to reinstall with the latest version of cygwin1.dll --- well how do I do that without killing what I've installed already? I especially don't want to have to reinstall all the extras I've put on. Choose reinstall in the setup for the base package. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- 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: latex and lyx
* Demmer, Thomas (2003-11-20 10:07 +0100) Thorsten Kampe wrote: * koorapati, koundinya (2003-11-20 09:24 +0100) Has anyone got lyx to work under cygwin with latex (one which is packaged under cygwin ?. Yes, works like a charm. There's s package for Cygwin on their website. Thorsten Thorsten, there is no cygwin package that contains lyx, that is none I found in the package search, and I didn't find a cygwin hint on www.lyx.org, but I may missed that. Can you give us a pointer? http://wwwserv1.rz.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/ Native: http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ Thorsten -- 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: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000
* Tim Ashman (2003-11-21 23:39 +0100) Igor, I have looked through /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README like you suggested. The only problem is that the cygrunsrv file does not exist on my computer. I've done a thorough search. Do you have any idea why this happened? Is it common and what should I do about it? Thanks. Original Message Follows From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:59:54 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote: Igor, I did not run the cygrunsrv utility. I searched my hard drive and it does not exist. I just created a crontab under my username from the crontab -e command. Is cygrunsrv a trivial part of running cron tasks? Your cron service is not running. See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README. Also, I ran cron_diagnose and it is getting stuck on the mounts. I'm pretty sure that the mounts are system mounts, not user. -Part of my output after running the diagnose script: The SYSTEM user cannot access the mount point /usr/bin. Please run the following command to add a system mount point: mount -f -s -b [DOS path to Cygwin]/bin /usr/bin where [DOS path to Cygwin] is something like c:/cygwin. For more information, run 'mount -m' and 'mount -h' After adding this mount point, please re-run this script. -My output after running mount -m: mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib mount -f -s -b C:/cygwin / mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive Should I run the command you suggested at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg00486.html ? No, I think you have a different problem. Looks like your SYSTEM user may have user mounts that shadow the system ones. Try getting a SYSTEM-owned shell and running mount -m from there. If you see any user mounts, umount -u them. Igor Hopefully we get this sorted out after this posting! :) Thanks Original Message Follows From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:59:55 -0500 (EST) Tim, Umm, sorry, I meant just the underlined lines, but I guess no dice... Did you try running Mark Harig's cron_diagnose.sh (Google for it) on your system? Does it report any errors? Does the date example produce any messages in syslog (i.e., Windows Event log)? An obligatory silly question, BTW: did you start the cron service? What options did you pass to cygrunsrv to create the service? Igor On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote: Igor, The output I displayed in my last posting was from the event log. It is not what my script is supposed to output. My script uses the lynx utility to download specific data files from an http site and echoes some progress statements back to the shell. I have tried what you suggested below and the hello world date crontab as well. Both do not work. I have also tried different combinations of path (/bin and /usr/bin) in my crontab, but still no luck. Note, I open a bash shell from /bin/bash and write my crontab from there. Just a quick sidetrack...why does the pwd command give /usr/bin when the shell was opened in /bin? Any other ideas of what the problem could be? Do you think it's path-related? Thank you so much... -- Tim, Replies inline below. On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Tim Ashman wrote: Igor I have attached the windows event log. Can you help? Thanks. Event Type: Information Event Source: ./crontab Event Category: None Event ID: 0 Date: 11/18/2003 Time: 10:37:29 AM User: ECPACIFIC\ashmant Computer: TAYLORBILL Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( ./crontab ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: ./crontab : PID 596 : (ashmant) LIST (ashmant). Isn't this what your script is supposed to output? Looks to me like your crontab actually worked. If you don't redirect the output of your script, it goes to syslog (which, in case of Cygwin, is the Windows event log). Try changing your crontab entry to something like 33 12 * * * /usr/bin/bsh_ubcfxscript.txt /tmp/bsh_ubcfxscript.out and see if it works. In fact, did you try the Hello, world! of all crontabs, i.e.
Re: Problem making rxvt
* David A. Cobb (2003-11-27 17:54 +0100) My configure/make score is just barely above zero. I'd be sure it was all me if it was indeed zero - but not quite. Latest attempt: rxvt-2.7.10 Install rxvt via Setup.exe. -- 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: rxvt and bold directory entries
* Brandon Saxe (2003-12-12 16:59 +0100) I'm using rxvt and do directory listings with the --color=auto option. Certain files are not only colored, but are bold as well. How do I turn off the bolding of certain listings? I only want colors. The bold makes certain entries difficult to read. man rxvt -- 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: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1
* Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100) It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed. I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is back. I also downloaded a few X-modules. One of these modules caused the 'man' problem to re-appear. Same with me. Anyone with a solution (because every man page is unreadable). I haven't installed any X modules. Thorsten -- 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: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1
* Larry Hall (2003-12-29 20:18 +0100) At 01:48 PM 12/29/2003, Thorsten Kampe you wrote: * Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100) It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed. I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is back. I also downloaded a few X-modules. One of these modules caused the 'man' problem to re-appear. Same with me. Anyone with a solution (because every man page is unreadable). I haven't installed any X modules. Does that mean that you updated to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 as well or did you intend to imply that there were no overlaps between the packages you installed/updated and Lynn's? The latter: no doc*, no X*. All packages are on their latest releases. Thorsten -- 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: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1
* Thorsten Kampe (2003-12-29 19:48 +0100) * Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100) It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed. I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is back. I also downloaded a few X-modules. One of these modules caused the 'man' problem to re-appear. Same with me. Anyone with a solution (because every man page is unreadable). I haven't installed any X modules. Got a personal mail referring to a recent thread called man produces ESC. My manpager was 'most' (which is no problem on Gentoo Linux). export LESS=R export MANPAGER=less ...in your .bashrc/.zshrc fixes the problem. Thorsten -- 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 on alternate port doesn't seem to work
* Mooky Mooksgill (2004-01-14 20:07 +0100) i add the Port to the ssh_config file, sshd restarts, but refuses connections. Yes, of course: man ssh_config - the first sentence. i have debugged this for a while, can someone verify that sshd on non-standard does (or does not work)? Sure it does. I never run ssh on the default port. Thorsten -- 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 on alternate port doesn't seem to work
* Mark Himsley (2004-01-15 00:53 +0100) On 15 January 2004 00:05 +0100 Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Mooky Mooksgill (2004-01-14 20:07 +0100) i add the Port to the ssh_config file, sshd restarts, but refuses connections. Yes, of course: man ssh_config - the first sentence. Try sshd_config since it is, after all, the daemon that you want to configure rather than the client. Thank you so much. Now that this mystery is solved, could you explain me and MM the meaning of a follow-up?! Thorsten -- 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-1.5.6-1 Vim now broken
* Frédéric L. W. Meunier (2004-01-20 06:47 +0100) On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: And, no, screen becoming screwed up in an rxvt session is not a show stopper. Yes, but it's something that will make all screen users not upgrade to 1.5.6 or downgrade to 1.5.5 when they see how broken it's. Broken dettach / reattach is nothing compared with such a problem. BTW, it's broken in everything (rxvt, XTerm, and cmd.exe). I guess it'd be a show stopper if screen were part of Cygwin. Still, I think it's more important than Vim, as there are a dozen editors but no screen alternatives. How could you exactly predict what was going to happen on my pc this morning?! :-) Thorsten -- 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/
postinstall scripts not updated
Quite a few of the postinstall scripts are not updated in respect to the transition from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc which results in important rcfiles in /etc not to be written. Just a quick look at a fresh install from today: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/postinstall/wget.sh.done cp: cannot stat `/usr/doc/wget-1.9.1/sample.wgetrc': No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/postinstall/zsh.sh.done Installing default /etc/zprofile install: cannot stat `/usr/doc/zsh-4.1.1/StartupFiles/zprofile': No such file or directory Thorsten -- 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: Local (polish) characters
* Krzysztof Duleba (2004-02-08 00:19 +0100) Is there a way to make Cygwin display polish characters? I see no setconsole, setfont programs, nor /etc/sysconfig directory. Does Cygwin support local character sets at all? Cygwin itself is just an emulation layer so it cannot display any character at all. For applications like bash, ls or other it depends on your settings. BTW (on my Gentoo box): [EMAIL PROTECTED] setconsole zsh: command not found: setconsole [EMAIL PROTECTED] d /etc/sysconfig /etc/sysconfig doesn't exist! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thorsten -- 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: Local (polish) characters
* Krzysztof Duleba (2004-02-08 05:08 +0100) Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Now bash works ok. Thank you very much for your help. Now I just have to remember to use d directory lister instead of ls (which produces ?? where Polish characters should be) :-) As I said, it depends on the configuration of your specific application: ls --show-control-chars. Thorsten -- 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: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .
* Peter A. Castro (2004-02-12 08:03 +0100) On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Morris Siegel wrote: My PC is running under Windows XP Professional, and until recently with Cygwin-1.5.5-1 and zsh-4.1.1-1 . I upgraded to Cygwin-1.5.6-1, installing everything available, in particular including zsh-4.1.1-2 . zsh behaved in a buggy fashion. I reported it; you kindly replied that similarly problems had been reported by others, and that Cygwin-1.5.7-1 should fix matters. I upgraded to that, and the behavior is improved, but still buggy: (1) sometimes when I start zsh it hangs, sometimes it starts normally; (2) zsh command-line editing generally badly messes up the display when long command lines are being edited. I seem to recall that problem (2) was a consistent nuisance a while back, but then some new Cygwin release (I don't remember which) fixed it. (I generally run zsh under screen, by the way.) cgf said in earlier email that this has been fixed in CVS and will be pushed into the next release. For the moment, if you really need zsh (like me :), downgrade to 1.5.5 and wait for the update to appear. No, use the new snapshot 1.58s. Thorsten -- 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: using setup to update cygwin
* Kevin Ison (2004-02-16 14:47 +0100) I have been using cygwin for a few months now and reading through the documentation and FAQs it mentions that I can update the software packages installed with the setup program that I used to install cygwin. It doesnt seem to work though. When I run the setup program it does not return any newer version of the software packages I have already installed. I am running version 1.5.5 of cygwin and I know the latest version is 1.5.7 . My question is how do I get newer versions of those packages I have already installed. I did not delete the subfolders that setup originally created. According to what I read when I run the setup program it should get the latest or current versions of packages available. Is there something I need to do to insure I always get a current list? *sigh* Yeah, choose Install from Internet on the third setup screen. Thorsten -- 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: execute RPM files
* Jimmi Wolf (2004-02-17 11:22 +0100) Is it possible to execute a RPM file in cygwin, and if yes, how??? What do you mean by execute a RPM file? RPM files are not executable. If you mean open then yes. Just install rpm. If you mean install, probably yes, but it wouldn't make sense. As you could know this relates to the question is it possible to run Linux binaries on Windows? The answer is no, of course. Thorsten -- 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 to cygwin, not understanding a setup issue...
* Adam Reiswig (2004-02-18 01:45 +0100) Hello, I am new to cygwin. I am running a windows 2000 machine. I just finished downloading and installing cygwin. When the setup finished I ran the Cygwin icon on my desktop, got the bash prompt and every command I type comes back command not found. The head of the bash window reads bash: /etc/profiles: Permission denied. The path isn't set - same as in Windows. Try /bin/ls instead of ls. The path is set in /etc/profile. Is there a cygwin for dummies out there somewhere?? The FAQ and the user manual. You'll find them on your own, won't you? -- 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: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1
* Russell Hind (2004-02-19 10:55 +0100) I have just installed the latest cygwin and set up cron to run using cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D cygrunsrv -S cron It is running as a service (both in XP task manager and in ps -ef) But I can't get it to execute commands. I have tried a crontab as both /etc/crontab and /var/cron/tabs/Russell How did you create those? crontab -e for the latter? You know that the system-wide crontab has a additional field for the user? cron logs tho /var/whatever and into the eventviewer. Please consult those two logs and explain further can't get it to execute commands. Try redirecting the output with . For executables use the full path or the PATH variable inside the crontab. Please read the fine manual which answers all FAQs. Thorsten -- 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/
man completion in zsh not working
This has been a problem for a quite a while to me: the man command doesn't complete to the possible manpages anymore. For example man zsha[tab] should complete to man zshall. It worked some time ago in Cygwin zsh and it stills works on my Gentoo Linux box. Here are the facts: zsh and man are uptodate. I use exactly the same .zshrc on both hosts and it doesn't contain any MAN* environment settings. /etc/man.conf is exactly the same on both hosts (generated automatically from man.conf.in by the configure script) ,--- * MANPATH statements in /etc/man.conf | MANPATH /usr/share/man | MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man | MANPATH /usr/local/man | MANPATH /usr/man `--- ,--- * Cygwin host (where it doesn't work) | % echo $MANPATH | :/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/ssl/man | ^ see the empty path? ($manpath is '' /usr/X11R6/man /usr/ssl/man) | % manpath | /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/ssl/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man `--- ,--- * Linux host (where it works) | % echo $MANPATH | /usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/man:/usr/ | X11R6/man::/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/man | % manpath | zsh: command not found: manpath `--- /etc/zprofile and /etc/profile.d/zshell.zsh don't contain man settings. When I manually do export MANPATH=/usr/share/man then zsh does the man completion. My questions are (I know they might not be specifically Cygwin related): 1. Where and how is $MANPATH assembled? 2. Where does the path that the manpath command shows come from? 3. Why does $MANPATH and manpath output differ? 4. Why is /usr/share/man not in $MANPATH? 5. Why is the first entry in $MANPATH empty? 6. How and where can I fix this? Thanks to all that can help, Thorsten -- 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: vi and cygwin
* Totte Karlsson (2004-02-20 23:49 +0100) my question was if vi is available under cygwin. I know about vim and about it's compatible option. Just curious if there is a pure vi available and it seems not to be... If you knew vim you knew that it has a vi compatibility mode - vim can emulate vi perfectly. Thorsten -- 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: python and cygwin
* Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 00:29 +0100) OK, I see, However, it seems as if I can execute the win32 python interpreter from within the cygwin bash shell, and it seems to work as long the cygwin path come into play, which is unfortunate. I thought the idea with cygwin was to provide unix tools working under windows, Exactly. That's why you need the python binary for Cygwin. not to make windows into unix/posix? I hope at least you know what you mean by that. Now it looks as if I need to have two sets of python running, one for cygwin and one for windows, In fact you don't, as long as you translate Posix paths to Windows (via cygpath -w). Many Cygwin utilities also understand Windows paths (cd 'C:\', cd C:/, etc). and both are running in windows! No, one runs in Windows and the other one under Cygwin. You can always run the Cygwin binaries from Windows (ls, d, etc. work for me in a Windows cmd.exe console window). Many Windows binaries work *directly* in Cygwin bash or zsh (also much slower, so it's wise to execute them in a cmd subshell). Thorsten -- 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: vi and cygwin
* Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:25 +0100) does not mean that vim is vi! Read my question! Read my answer: vim behaves like vi, it is called with vi in the shell and therefor it /is/ vi (http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html). The original vi is not free software so you will hardly find it on any Linux machine (same with ksh for example). Thorsten -- 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: python and cygwin
* Totte Karlsson (2004-02-21 02:45 +0100) When I open up a cygwin-bash on windows, I just thought that I could use my already installed win-32 python. I realize now that you can't As I already told you in my answer: You *can* with a little effort. Python as a multiplatform scripting language is even better suited for that as any other Windows tool/program. and I think that creates problems. As a programmer I don't like do have to duplicate things. I only want one repository. When you install Zope for instance on Windows you have to make some effort to use an existing Python installation and not the Python interpreter that comes with Zope. Same with Cygwin. Thorsten -- 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 I change sfuuser's password ?
* lau bella (2004-02-27 08:20 +0100) In Cygwin 1.3.10 (win2k SP3 Advanced Server) , sfuuser password is same as username. Aah, Cygwin 1.3.10. This is antique! 1. For security reason, can I change the sfuuser password ? Yes. Any impact ? Maybe - as for any user account, services might be started under that account. 2. What's the usage and privilege of sfuuser ? Don't know. SFU = Microsoft Services for Unix - ask Microsoft. 3. If changing sfuuser password is not recommended, any method to mininize the security impact ? UPDATE Cygwin and disable the account and update the SP of Windows 2000. Thorsten -- 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: 'less' can not find dll
* MEA-MikeFriedrichs (2004-02-27 06:38 +0100) I just installed Cygwin from the net, and having problems with 'less'. Its always looking for '/bin/cygpcre-0.dll' but not found in the path. I've searched all partitions with no success. find / -name *less* Errm, did it say less: not found? Wouldn't make find / -name cygpcre* make more sense? Where can I get the required 'dll' ? * Setup Package Search http://cygwin.com/packages/ The name of the dll might lead you the right way. -- 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: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line
* Olaf Föllinger (2004-02-27 09:49 +0100) I have trouble to show german umlauts in bash command line in rxvt. What about zsh (or another shell) and the standard Cygwin Console? I get are the following values: $ \344\366\374 bash: äöü: command not found I have set the following in .inputrc $ less .inputrc set input-meta on set convert-meta off set output-meta on This is the canonic way. Make sure that the file is sourced. But I have no problems here - although typing non-ascii characters in a shell doesn't make sense. The only use is showing files with ls or d - which is not a shell thing. Thorsten -- 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: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line
* Alejandro Lopez-Valencia (2004-02-27 14:42 +0100) On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:35:23 +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: although typing non-ascii characters in a shell doesn't make sense. The only use is showing files with ls or d - which is not a shell thing. Really? Say, you use cygwin to do text processing (I do, with the help of a bleeding edge groff), and in a whim you decide to write poetry to your girlfirend. Being a German speaker, you type, e.g., Lieder_für_meine_geliebte.tr. Did you or did you not need to type high-bit charecters in your shell? (Don't say you type them from within your editor, that's cheating). I simply wouldn't generate filenames with non-ascii characters in a shell. Same with spaces. Sooner or later some application will choke on it and it'll take me hours to search and find the script or application and fix it or make a workaround. Lieder_fuer_meine_Geliebte.tr suffices and probably I'd call it poems_for_my_sweetheart.txt because she comes from Poland and we communicate in English... :-) Thorsten -- 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: 'less' can not find dll
* redirected to the list* * do NOT send private email * * MEA-MikeFriedrichs (2004-02-27 17:29 +0100) At 04:18 AM 2/27/2004, you wrote: * MEA-MikeFriedrichs (2004-02-27 06:38 +0100) I just installed Cygwin from the net, and having problems with 'less'. Its always looking for '/bin/cygpcre-0.dll' but not found in the path. I've searched all partitions with no success. find / -name *less* Errm, did it say less: not found? Wouldn't make find / -name cygpcre* make more sense? Where can I get the required 'dll' ? I have executed 'find / -name *less*', which indicates 'less' is available. Which you already knew because less gave you this error message and if less wouldn't be available it couldn't tell you anything. By the way locate is your tool of choice. I have then executed 'find / -name cygpcre*, and NO 'cygpcre-0.dll' is found. This is the file that is missing. Where can 'cygpcre-0.dll' be located? Do you suffer from an inability to read postings that are answers to your posting until the very end? If so, I repeat my answer: ,--- | Where can I get the required 'dll' ? | | * Setup Package Search | http://cygwin.com/packages/ | | The name of the dll might lead you the right way. `--- Thorsten -- 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: 'less' can not find dll
* MEA-MikeFriedrichs (2004-02-27 22:29 +0100) At 11:49 AM 2/27/2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * redirected to the list* * do NOT send private email * * MEA-MikeFriedrichs (2004-02-27 17:29 +0100) At 04:18 AM 2/27/2004, you wrote: * MEA-MikeFriedrichs (2004-02-27 06:38 +0100) I just installed Cygwin from the net, and having problems with 'less'. Its always looking for '/bin/cygpcre-0.dll' but not found in the path. I've searched all partitions with no success. find / -name *less* Errm, did it say less: not found? Wouldn't make find / -name cygpcre* make more sense? Where can I get the required 'dll' ? I have executed 'find / -name *less*', which indicates 'less' is available. Which you already knew because less gave you this error message and if less wouldn't be available it couldn't tell you anything. By the way locate is your tool of choice. I have then executed 'find / -name cygpcre*, and NO 'cygpcre-0.dll' is found. This is the file that is missing. Where can 'cygpcre-0.dll' be located? Do you suffer from an inability to read postings that are answers to your posting until the very end? If so, I repeat my answer: ,--- | Where can I get the required 'dll' ? | | * Setup Package Search | http://cygwin.com/packages/ | | The name of the dll might lead you the right way. `--- You are one smart 'ass', or is this your personalty hidden behind a keyboard. If this is the only way you have to communicate assistance, you should stick to your day job!! I told you the canonical way to search for missing files and dependencies. Obviously you don't want my help and I honor your wish. I searched for 'cygpcre-0.dll' at http://cygwin.com/packages and all I found is where it should reside in the tree structure. I didn't see any means to download this file. Obviously I should have guessed or otherwise known that you did that although you didn't mention it at all in your email. Well, I'm sorry for not being able to read your mind. It won't happen again. T. -- 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: Man not finding pages
* Ross Boulet (2004-02-28 23:06 +0100)
I solved my own problem with man not finding pages but in doing the research
on it, I found something I thought might be worthy of mentioning. From the
message:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00064.html
I learned the a colon prefix to $MANPATH allows man to search its default
paths in addition to what is specified in $MANPATH. The
/etc/profile.d/openssl.sh script handles this ok. However, the
/etc/profile.d/XFree86-man.sh does not handle it the same way. I had an
empty $MANPATH (since corrected by a new /etc/profile script). The
XFree86-man.sh ran first and found no $MANPATH and thus assigned
/usr/X11R6/man (no colon prefix) to $MANPATH. Then openssl.sh appended
:/usr/ssl/man. The absence of a leading colon caused man to not find the
basic pages so that basic stuff like 'man ls' produced 'No manual entry for
ls'.
I would suggest the XFree86-man.sh script be modified to add a colon prefix
to $MANPATH to be consistent with the openssl.sh treatment of an empty
$MANPATH.
My apologies if this should have been posted to the cygwin-xfree ML, but I
thought it appropriate here because it affects more than X.
You. Man. Are. Genius.
Recently I posted http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/44906 but
found no answer or solution. Suddenly completion started to work again
but on the next day not even calling a single man page was found by
man because of the wrong $MANPATH.
Now I corrected 'export MANPATH=${X11MANPATH}' to 'export
MANPATH=:${X11MANPATH}' in XFree86-man.sh and now everything is
okay.
Thanks, Thorsten
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Re: cron problem report
* Seiji Tokunaga (2004-03-01 21:27 +0100)
I have trouble getting my cron to work.
Please consider explaining what you mean by this otherwise any answer
to your report won't satisfy you.
% crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar 1 15:03:19 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
* * * * * `date` ${HOME}/foo.log
This script (`date` ${HOME}/foo.log) doesn't even work in a plain
shell so for sure not in cron. Read /var/cron/log, the system and
application entries in the eventviewer and the mail that cron probably
sent you in ~/dead.letter.
Hint: use executables with full path in crontab or set PATH in
crontab. Don't take for granted that the normal environment variables
are set ($HOME) and consider reading the man page of crontab.
Thorsten
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Re: multiple cron cause problem
* Michael Chen (2004-03-02 12:08 +0100) As many users did, cron starts with bash. (probably in .barshrc) Sorry? Cron is a normal windows service and a look into your .bashrc would advise you: grep cron ~/.bashrc. And bash is not the default shell for cron - if you meant this - but sh: man 5 crontab. But we keep open new terminal, because of more jobs or previous termial deadlock. Thus we started many cron process at different time. Will this cause problem? Cron is not started via bash and it doesn't use a terminal. I observed that cron procedures remain in the windows NT Task Manager even after the terminal finish or be throttled. Is it supposed to be? Sorry, but again: cron has nothing to do with your terminal. It forks when it executes a new job and terminates afterwards. It is also observed that cygwin.bat in the distribution, which uses NT termial + bash is worse at terminating cron, while xterm+bash is better at cleaning up. Definetely not as cron is a normal windows service and runs in the background - so no terminal is involved at all (Windows console, rxvt, xterm). I think you have a totally wrong or missing impression of what cron is and what it does. Please read the manpage of cron and crontab and /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README Thorsten -- 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: crontab: no changes made to crontab
* Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) Dear all, since the first time using crontab -, I can never change the crontab file anymore. crontab -e calls emacs, but cron just discarded any new modifications. The emacs saved the crontab.* into /tmp. What's wrong? Thanks. Try using another editor as Emacs is a GUI editor. -- 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: multiple cron cause problem
*Please do NOT send private email* * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 20:12 +0100) I read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README I doubt that. and see that cron in cygwin is actually a windows 2000 service, surprising! It is not by itself. You have to install it as described in the readme. But does it mean I shoud see cron in the NT Task Manager once windows 2000 starts? If you set the start type of the service to automatically, yes. Otherwise no. I checked carefully, and it is not there. Either you didn't install it as a services or it isn't run automatically: read /var/cron/log, the system and application entries in the eventviewer. Without calling it from termail, cron won't do anything on my machine. As you stated it DOESN'T DO ANYTHING EVEN WHEN CALLING IT FROM A SHELL. What do yo type? - net start cron? I editted my crontab file /var/cron/tabs/Administrator to let it write date to a log file every minute and nothing happens! I and others already told you that your command line is totally wrong. You didn't even bother to test it in a shell. Do you expect cron to compensate for your inability in testing?! By the way, cron man page says that it send output to user. But I didn't see 'mail' or 'sendmail' package in Cygwin. Why? Because you didn't read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron.README. There it says that Mail is send using /usr/sbin/ssmtp instead of using sendmail. It does it even if there is no ssmtp by redirecting output and error messages to ~/dead.letter. Thorsten -- 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: 256 colors for bash/rxvt-2.7.10-4 ?
* Mikka (2004-03-06 14:04 +0100) You wrote: Set the following values in .Xdefaults. Now we have defined 16 Colours out of 256. These 16 colours can now be used in rxvt refering to them by name(colorX) or number. Okay, building Rxvt*color references in .Xdefaults works fine. However, I can't find any hint in a documentation or (web) tutorial how to point to these values within a prompt definition. Let's say, I've got the following prompt: PS1='\[\033]0;\l \w\007\# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' That reads: 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ with the current console's name added to the console title (tty0 ~). Including the colouring information, my prompt reads PS1='\[\033]0;\l \w\007\# \[\e[37;[EMAIL PROTECTED];1m\]\w\[\e[0m\] ' The line above colours the [EMAIL PROTECTED] section bright (i.e. bold) white, and the path section (~) green. The rest (both line numbering and entered text) is standard (white, or rather some sort of gray). Not too special, though. I want the path section to be GreenYellow (#ADFF2F), and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] part being rendered OrangeRed (#FF4500). In my .Xdefaults I set: Rxvt*background:#11 Rxvt*backspacekey: ^H Rxvt*boldFont: Andale Mono-14 Rxvt*color0:#11 Rxvt*color1:GreenYellow Rxvt*color2:LightGray Rxvt*color3:OrangeRed Rxvt*color4:White ... Rxvt*cursorColor: GreenYellow The values GreenYellow and OrangeRed are definitely accepted by rxvt, so I assume these settings are valid. $TERM is set to rxvt (also tried it with cygwin) - dunno whether that matters - but how to refer correctly to the .Xdefaults colour values? $color(0), ... $color(15) ? $color0, ... $color15 ? $Rxvt*color0, ... $Rxvt*color15 ? Who knows, maybe bash 2.05b.0(1) lacks extended colour prompt support after all? Maybe. But how is bash supposed to know what you defined in .Xdefaults for rxvt? These are only rxvt settings. The second thing, I intend to change is the behaviour of the ls output. I've alias'd ls to something like: alias ls='ls --color=auto --show-control-chars' The --color thing provides a cyan, blue and green output that is not too pleasant to read. It should be able somehow to change these default colours as well, but how? man dircolors man d Thorsten -- 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: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found
* Davide Marchignoli (2004-03-08 11:38 +0100) Zsh hangs when running a non-existent command. It usually hangs as soon as you give a non existing command, however sometimes it works correctly two or three times and then hangs. What do you mean by non-existant command? I am running zsh also on Win XP and there it behaves correctly. Some people were already describing similar things (including me). It appears to me (running Windows XP) that things like aeiou don't hang while /bib/aeioiu hang. I have to do unsetopt correct correctall (both!) to make it go away. On my Gentoo Linux box (same hardware, same .zshrc) I have no problems and not a single second delay. If the problem is the same for you I might suggest debugging this with strace (with all the correct options set and after that unset). I have no experience with strace and just very limited time this week so I cannot myself. Thorsten -- 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: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found
* Christopher Faylor (2004-03-08 14:43 +0100) On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:55:31PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Davide Marchignoli (2004-03-08 11:38 +0100) Zsh hangs when running a non-existent command. It usually hangs as soon as you give a non existing command, however sometimes it works correctly two or three times and then hangs. What do you mean by non-existant command? I am running zsh also on Win XP and there it behaves correctly. Some people were already describing similar things (including me). Yes. This problem was reported within 48 hours after 1.5.7 was released. It was reported as a problem which existed in 1.5.6, for which the reporter was waiting for a fix to appear even though the problem was not reported. The problem was fixed within a few hours after being reported and has been fixed in snapshots ever since. So, download a snapshot or wait for 1.5.8. 1.5.8 is due to be released in 2004. I'm already running the snapshot from 2004-Mar-05 (and now downloading the one from 2004-Mar-06) all the 1.5.8 snapshots I tried didn't fix that. Thorsten -- 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: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found
* Christopher Faylor (2004-03-08 15:05 +0100) On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:56:20PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (2004-03-08 14:43 +0100) On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 01:55:31PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Davide Marchignoli (2004-03-08 11:38 +0100) Zsh hangs when running a non-existent command. It usually hangs as soon as you give a non existing command, however sometimes it works correctly two or three times and then hangs. What do you mean by non-existant command? I am running zsh also on Win XP and there it behaves correctly. Some people were already describing similar things (including me). Yes. This problem was reported within 48 hours after 1.5.7 was released. It was reported as a problem which existed in 1.5.6, for which the reporter was waiting for a fix to appear even though the problem was not reported. The problem was fixed within a few hours after being reported and has been fixed in snapshots ever since. So, download a snapshot or wait for 1.5.8. 1.5.8 is due to be released in 2004. I'm already running the snapshot from 2004-Mar-05 (and now downloading the one from 2004-Mar-06) all the 1.5.8 snapshots I tried didn't fix that. Nope. You are mistaken. It works fine. In fact, on checking the archives you even told someone to use the snapshot to fix this problem. Yeah, that was to someone who had problems 1) sometimes when I start zsh it hangs, sometimes it starts normally; (2) zsh command-line editing generally badly messes up the display when long command lines are being edited I never had these problems myself so I told him to upgrade instead of downgrade (what the zsh maintainer advised). If you truly had a problem I am sure that you would have reported it prior to this point rather than implying that it worked. This is just a tiny problems for me. There was a real problem with zsh where *completion* took a long time (it tried to do DNS lookup - according to my Personal Firewall - and timed out when I wasn't online and no DNS was available). This is gone. The other problem is no problem for me because I use the completion and therefor the correct mechanism is /very rarely/ triggered. After that zsh caches the answer and replies immdiately zsh: no such file or directory. (If I'm so dumb to try it again.) But please be aware that there may be different problems. The one I described is with the correct function of zsh (and I figured that out just today). Davide Marchignoli's problem seems to be different: % aoidfjkl# immediately: zsh: command not found: aoidfjklj % /bin/aoidfjklj # hangs for about ten seconds until zsh: no such file or directory: /bin/aoidfjklj Thorsten -- 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: emacs / libICE.dll
* Oodini (2004-03-09 14:12 +0100) I've just installed Cygwin on Windows 2000 to learn Unix stuff, and I don't succeed to run emacs. Windows looks for the missing dll libICE.dll. http://www.cygwin.com/packages -- 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: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found
* Peter A. Castro (2004-03-08 20:39 +0100) On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Also, for the record, I've just tried the latest snapshot, 20040306, and running missing commands do not hang or have any other strange behaviour as your describe: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[101] ~ % les zsh: correct 'les' to 'ls' [nyae]? n zsh: command not found: les zsh: 1240 exit 127 les ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[102] ~ % /bin/les zsh: no such file or directory: /bin/les zsh: 1245 exit 127 /bin/les ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[103] ~ % uname -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 garfunkel 1.5.8s(0.111/4/2) 20040306 23:59:38 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[104] ~ % cygcheck -s | grep zsh zsh 4.1.1-3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[105] ~ % setopt | grep correct correct correctall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[106] ~ % This is just a tiny problems for me. There was a real problem with zsh where *completion* took a long time (it tried to do DNS lookup - according to my Personal Firewall - and timed out when I wasn't online and no DNS was available). This is gone. The other problem is no problem for me because I use the completion and therefor the correct mechanism is /very rarely/ triggered. After that zsh caches the answer and replies immdiately zsh: no such file or directory. (If I'm so dumb to try it again.) My example above has both correct and correctall on and I don't experience any problems no matter how many times I try to run a bad command. This goes for weither zsh tries to correct the command or not. But please be aware that there may be different problems. The one I described is with the correct function of zsh (and I figured that out just today). Davide Marchignoli's problem seems to be different: % aoidfjkl# immediately: zsh: command not found: aoidfjklj % /bin/aoidfjklj # hangs for about ten seconds until zsh: no such file or directory: /bin/aoidfjklj Sorry, mine returnes immediately, no delay at all. And this is on an old 400MHz PII running under a vmware emulator. Oh, and I tried this same setup, with the latest snapshot on a 1.7Ghz system running MS Windows native without any problems either. I also tried both of these on network mounted drives and didn't have any delays or problems. I feel you should examine your environment thoroughly. Perhaps you have more than one copy of cygwin1.dll in your PATH? When you last upgraded, are you sure you existing all cygwin based processes before starting a new shell window? I did that. My .zshrc is *exactly* the same on this host and on my Gentoo Linux where everything is fine. I tried to narrow the problem by deleting * /etc/zprofile * /etc/profile.d/zshell.zsh * ~/.zshenv * ~/.zprofile * ~/.zlogout * ~/.zlogin and everything in .zshrc except setopt correct correctall. It's those two options that make zsh hang. I even unset all environment variables inherited from Windows. No change. If you have any hint how to find the problem I'd be glad to assist (strace). By the way - I freshly installed Cygwin on this box and the Windows installation (Windows XP SP1) is two months old. I deactived my PF (Kerio - newest version) and even detached from my NetWare. Even the Novell Client is the latest one. And locate shows only one cygwin1.dll Thorsten -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1
Following up a thread in comp.lang.python... * Jason Tishler (2004-03-12 17:00 +0100) Old News: === WARNING It is *strongly* recommended that users only use rebaseall unless they *really* know what they are doing or are instructed by one of the Cygwin developers. /WARNING This warning is in my not native english speaking opinion to be misinterpreted. I understood it as only when you *really* know what you're doing, use 'rebaseall' (and in all other cases 'rebase'...) but you probably meant use only 'rebaseall' (and not rebase) unless... Thorsten -- 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: Difference between just having cygwin1.dll and running under cygw in
* George Hester (2004-03-13 01:24 +0100) This coming from a whipper-snapper I don't expect a response. But you sure have a famous name. Now if I could just get the Korn Shell in cygwin or integrate UWin into cygwin that would be really neat. George Hester __ Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall Sent: 11 March 2004 20:28 At 03:17 PM 3/11/2004, you wrote: What's the difference between running an executable in the cygwin environment and running it in a Win2K DOS shell on the same machine(which obviously has cygwin1.dll)? As I mentioned in another thread of mine, I have a program(port of objcopy) that I've compiled that runs just fine under cygwin, but crashes with a stack violation whenever I run it under a DOS window on the same machine! There's really no significant difference, assuming your DOS shell can see cygwin1.dll and it's the same one you get when you run under your Cygwin shell (having more than 1 cygwin1.dll on your system is a *very* bad idea anyway). Certainly, there can be all kinds of differences in the environment, literally, but it should be pretty obvious if you're dependent on some environment variable or something that's not set for Windows. Maybe you just need to debug it and see where the problem is and why you get it. Like I said, objcopy that comes with Cygwin's binutils works just fine for me outside of a Cygwin shell so it's not a problem with the tool in general. Larry I think you may slightly underestimate the amount of difference it makes. For example, it's going to make a big difference to the runtime memory layout. If you run under bash you're going to have a whole load of posix environment vars at the very top of your runtime stack. I could easily imagine a stray pointer or stack smashing bug that harmlessly scribbles on the environment vars under bash but writes over what is active program stack at the same address / offset-from-sp when run from dos. However, I agree with your conclusion: any *correct* program should run equally well under either, and I think in this case it's not that running under DOS breaks the program, but that it just happens to get lucky and work by chance under bash. My makefile does the same thing as the objcopy makefile, but the result of my compilation is something that only works under cygwin. That's quite an assertion to make! How did you generate your makefile, and how can you be really sure it's doing exactly the same? Autoconf-produced makefiles are fairly hairy; if you've hacked up the autoconf one, you're probably in the clear, but if you've tried reading the autoconf one and duplicating it's effects from scratch, you may easily have introduced a discrepancy. However, that's a side issue; it's unlikely to be a compiler option that's causing your problem. The fact that it's hanging in malloc suggests that it's very likely that the root cause of the crash is trashing the heap, most likely by writing past the end of a malloc'd block of memory. Beyond that it's difficult to speculate, particularly since we don't really have any idea what sort of changes you've made to the code. You should investigate any of the changes you've made that refer to arrays or malloc'd memory, or perhaps use some kind of error-checking malloc wrappers - e.g. efence, http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ (ftp site currently down, it seems) or http://freshmeat.net/projects/efence/?branch_id=2277release_id=7043 . Of course it's always possible that it's not the code you've changed that is overwriting memory but something elsewhere by means of some indirect and unexpected interaction. Those are the worst kinds of bugs to look for, but malloc-wrappers might still help. How big are the changes you've made to the source? Minor overhaul or radical surgery? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today pdksh -- 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: cygXft-2.dll cannot be found...
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-03-14 14:07 +0100) This application has failed to start because cygXft-2.dll was not found. Re-installing application may fix this problem. http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ -- 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: cygXft-2.dll cannot be found...
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-03-14 14:33 +0100) It's the problem of starting X. I cannot even start X after typing startx. I just install the latest package of X. Jason * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-03-14 14:07 +0100) This application has failed to start because cygXft-2.dll was not found. Re-installing application may fix this problem. http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ -- I know. You said that. Search for the package that contains this dll and reinstall. Before you surely want to find out if that file exists on your hard disk: updatedb; locate cygXft-2.dll Thorsten -- 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: Displaying The Cygwin Version
* Crescioli, Phil (2004-03-16 20:51 +0100) This is probably already been posted, but I cannot find the answer in the users guide, FAQ, or google... I've got Cygwin installed and working fine on my Win XP PC. I simply want to display the version of Cygwin I currently have installed. How ? uname -rv -- 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: Windows 2k configuration
* Christina Kingsberry (2004-03-16 16:33 +0100) Does anyone have any information on configuring cygwin/rsyc on a Windows 2k server. I'm interested in knowing about required permissions and other settings that need to be configured. less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rsync-2.6.0.README -- 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: Readonly
* Martin Gainty (2004-03-16 16:24 +0100) If you chmod 511 /bin/bash.exe and run bash.exe you will encounter same capabilities as executing bash.exe --restricted Nonsense. There is a correlation between the 2 operations but I'm smart enough to say I don't understand what the bash binary is doing with --restricted flag. I think you're smart enough to understand what restricted mode does, but probably not smart enough to find the information although it's terribly simple: man bash - RESTRICTED SHELL Thorsten -- 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: Cant debug a Delphi application with cygwin bash opened
* Marco Antonio (2004-03-16 21:26 +0100) I am coding an frontend application with Delphi 6 and using Postgre on Cygwin as a backend. The connection is made via dbExpress Driver. The problem is that i cant compile and run the application directly from the Delphi IDE. It compiles fine but takes too much time to connect to the database. The most interesting is that when i close the cygwin bash window the application connects and opens immediately. http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- 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 on Perl (.pl) association
* Martin Gainty (2004-03-16 21:56 +0100) How does one associate CYGWIN Perl with .pl extensions within CYGWIN environment? Same as in the Windows environment: ftype in connection with assoc (or more convenient with associate from the ResourceKit). When I invoke CYGWIN in order to execute a Perl Script I need to state perl whatever.pl I would like to place an association for .pl to the Cygwin Perl Interpreter so when I invoke whatever.pl the associated Cygwin Perl interpreter will be invoked to interpret the script You're confusing Windows and Unix semantics. There's never been such a thing as an association between a file extension and an application/interpreter in Unix/Cygwin. You might be looking for a she bang which does something similar. Thorsten -- 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 on Perl (.pl) association
* zzapper (2004-03-17 10:44 +0100) On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:39:58 +0100, wrote: * Martin Gainty (2004-03-16 21:56 +0100) How does one associate CYGWIN Perl with .pl extensions within CYGWIN environment? Same as in the Windows environment: ftype in connection with assoc (or more convenient with associate from the ResourceKit). On MKS I used to have this in a setup script .profile (ftype is builtin to Windows Command) ftype Perl 'c:/usr/local/bin/perl.exe %1 %*' The advantage of FTYPE is that it allows you to specify which Perl you want used (when you might have several installed, and also to ignore the shebang which might be set for a distant server The /disadvantage/ of ftype is that you cannot use it on its own. First you have to create an association between the extension and a file type with assoc and then an association between the file type and the executable. associate let's you skip the first step. Better I could use Windows Environment variable PATHEXT echo $PATHEXT .COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.php;.pl so that I could call a perl script hello.pl just with hello Haven't got this to work with CYG I don't think this can be done. Thorsten -- 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: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association
* Martin Gainty (2004-03-17 12:59 +0100) I this solution works on windows But how do we get .pl association with CYGWIN Perl? I already answered this question. Let me explain it more simply: it can't be done with Cygwin; it has to be done in Windows. It won't benefit you in Cygwin (except for cygstart). assoc /? ftype /? associate /? -- 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 working only once...
* Carlos Moffat (2004-03-18 17:02 +0100) I have cygwin (latest distibution) running on Win XP pro. I have installed SSHD using: ssh-host-config -y and CYGWIN=tty ntsec Now, I can ssh to my machine successfully once, but the second time it just hangs there without ever getting to asking a password. Any ideas? (If you haven't guessed yet, I am not quite an expert on Cygwin) Run the server and client in debug mode (-v or -vv) -- 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 on Perl (.pl) association
* Igor Pechtchanski (2004-03-17 20:51 +0100) Again, since you have no such restrictions, simply change the '#!' line at the top of your .pl files to '#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (or add it at the very top if it isn't there). This should be enough to allow you to invoke .pl files (or any other files, for that matter) from Cygwin shells using perl (after appropriately 'chmod +x'ing them, of course). Another possibility would be to use a decent shell, hehehe: ,--- | New features between zsh versions 4.0 and 4.2 | - | | Syntax and builtins: | - Suffix aliases allow the shell to run a command on a file by suffix, | e.g `alias -s ps=gv' makes `foo.ps' execute `gv foo.ps'. Supplied | function zsh-mime-setup uses existing mailcap and mime.types files | to set up suitable aliases. Supplied function pick-web-browser is | suitable for finding a browser to show .html etc. files by suffix alias. `--- Thorsten -- 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 on Perl (.pl) association
* Martin Gainty (2004-03-19 15:48 +0100) I have the greatest respect for the incredible job that the CYGWIN maintainers have done with BASH shell. According to /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/bash-2.05b.README the Cygwin bash is almost plain vanilla. So the Cygwin maintainers have done a terrific job with Cygwin but not much with bash. But the last time I used a bash shell on a Unix platform I was able to setup the .pl to perl association but I cannot within CYGWIN. Hear, hear - you never mentioned this. So what did you actually do under this Unix platform and what were the actual error messages when you tried the same thing under Cywin?! this is a nice to have feature which I would prefer to boost to a must have feature Use the new zsh (in bash compatibility mode to make your bash scripts run) - that's what my posting was about. -- 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: Apache obatined in Cygwin Setup is FOREIGN
* George Hester (2004-03-20 05:49 +0100) [whatever] And for christ's sake: have a line break and stop these senseless bottom full-quotings. You're emails are already unreadable enough. Thorsten -- 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: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed.
* George Hester (2004-03-21 06:42 +0100) I tried $cygrunsvr -I Apache Oh forget it. The problem was my servername. I cannot have $cygrunsrv -I Apache 1.3-p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -t auto It has to be $cygrunsrv -I Apache -p /usr/sbin/httpd.exe -t auto No. It was the space in Apache 1.3 You know this ancient saying: Spaces have to be quoted, unless otherwise stoted...? Thorsten -- 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: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin
* Chris Powell (2004-03-21 03:52 +0100) I currently use cygwin in WinXP to display X session from an AIX machine. This works very well. The software on the AIX box can call a word processor (Uniplex) on the AIX box to edit text files. What I'd like to do is instead of launching the AIX word processor inside of the X session is launch Word on the WinXP machine to edit the file out on an NFS. Another site is currently doing this, but they are all linux and OpenOffice. The script on the AIX box does a rsh back to the linux box and opens OO word processing with the text file on an NFS. It there anyway to do this back to a WinXP box? MS Word is no X client to my knowledge - although answering the question in your subject: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin is no problem at all - neither GUI nor command line (in most cases). Thorsten -- 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 tries to connect to the internet
* Joel (2004-03-21 14:49 +0100) Hi, I just downloaded Cygwin yesterday, and Bash tries to connect to the internet when I open it. ZoneAlarm stopped it though. Yes, /great/ piece of software... I talked with the nice people at Perlmonks, who say they have never had that happen. So I came here. When I open Bash, I get a message from ZoneAlarm asking me if Bash can connect to the internet at 199.166.219.2. Vim does the same thing, including the IP address. I downloaded almost all of my packages from www.get-software.com using the setup program before switching to the University of Calgary mirror. Did I download hacked copies of the software? Did you try to find out what 216.75.188.50 is? It's a DNS server (name server) - probably the one you use for all queries. Thorsten -- 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 tries to connect to the internet
* DePriest, Jason R. (2004-03-22 22:51 +0100) Joel wrote: Why is it trying to access a DNS anyways? Is there any way to stop it from doing this? What is your bash prompt (PS1) set to? If you have '\h' in it, it will try to put your host name there and it has to look it up before it can display it. Yes, sure. That's why the default prompt in bash is [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Couldn't we just end this thread before it gets totally ridicilous...? Thorsten -- 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 doesn't recognize my internet connection.
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-03-22 21:07 +0100) I am somewhat unfamiliar with linux and needed certain linux capabilities, so I installed cygwin and got many things working well. The only problem that I cannot seem to find a solution to is getting cygwin to recognize the internet connection that windows xp is connected to. When I try to use curl, it reacts as if the connection is dead. I suppose something needs to be done to make cygwin realize what the connection this computer has to the internet. Same as with all Windows applications in Windows and Linux applications in Linux: nothing has to be done make them Internet aware. They just use the connection that your computer has and your route to the Internet. Thorsten -- 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: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin
* Chris Bullock (2004-03-23 15:14 +0100) Background: With all the recent Microsoft virii and code leaks we are slowly blocking Windows based pcs from accessing the Internet. What we are doing is placing a box running a Linux terminal server client beside every Windows box that needs to access the Internet. This is beginning to get very cumbersome and a huge headache. What I desire. I wish to load a very small portion of Cygwin on each Windows box. When the user clicks the icon it would then connect to the Linux Terminal Server and launch $browser of choice. First off is this possible? and if so can someone point me on how to make this happen. I do not want to have to run the entire terminal client. Currently, what we have tested is from the cygwin prompt we run 'X --query $LTSP:1' but this gives us the entire terminal server and all I want the users to do is access a webbrowser. Start X, login to the terminal server via ssh, start the browser with the DISPLAY variable set to the Cygwin X server. That's it. All you have to do is to automate this: the ssh-session into the startup file of your X server or Windowmanager. None of this is Cygwin specific (except the link to the the .bat to start the X server) Thorsten -- 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 hangs with the 20040325 snapshot
* Rodrigo Medina (2004-03-26 10:40 +0100) I have to report that bash hangs with the 20040325 snapshot. The rxvt window appears, but the prompt never apprears. I can confirm that. Same with Windows Console. zsh works okay. Thorsten -- 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 hangs with the 20040325 snapshot
* Corinna Vinschen (2004-03-26 16:08 +0100) On Mar 26 14:17, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Rodrigo Medina (2004-03-26 10:40 +0100) I have to report that bash hangs with the 20040325 snapshot. The rxvt window appears, but the prompt never apprears. I can confirm that. Same with Windows Console. zsh works okay. What system? I've tried builds from yesterday and today on XP, but with both builds, bash in rxvt works fine. Windows XP SP 1 - all patches. Cygwin is current as of today. Thorsten -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1
* Peter A. Castro (2004-03-26 16:09 +0100) An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.0-1) has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. Thank you. Thorsten -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1
* Peter A. Castro (2004-03-26 18:10 +0100) BTW, I've tried many, many ways to reproduce your original hang problem but am still unable to do so. One last try: I have recently set option autocd[1]. Now when I type something like adksfaj the delay (~ 10 seconds) is the same like with the correction mechanism (/skjhf/aksjfdh). It is noticeable that unlike normal completions I cannot stop the hanging search (or whatever it is) by [Ctrl]-[C]. In /this case/ I have found the culprit: I have / in my CDPATH[2]. When I remove / it works normally by instantly saying command not found. Of course this doesn't make sense as there are only nine directories in / and of course having / in cdpath is okay on my Linux box. Maybe this bug (or whatever) is just behaving the same way like the correction bug but my hope is that it may ring some bell on your side (or any zsh user's)... It is my hope that 1.5.10 will resolve this for you. But, if not, some serious debugging will need to be done on your machine. Have you tried the latest snapshot? I will try it when it's bash-unbroken ;-) Thorsten [1] If a command is issued that can't be executed as a normal command, and the command is the name of a directory, perform the cd command to that directory [2] cdpath=(.. ~ / /cygdrive/h /cygdrive/g /cygdrive/c) -- 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/
unable to start services with snapshots 20040326 and 20040329
The subject says it all. This is a full patched Windows XP SP1 box. The services in question are cron and ssh. cygrundsrv is shown in the taskmanager but not the corresponding sshd and cron. 20040325 works. Thorsten -- 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: Shouldn't we put or [CygXwin] here depending on the question?
* David (2004-04-01 18:12 +0100) I've been using Outlook Express, and it doesn't seem that I can sort mails to different folders. Use a different mail client. I can? If so, would you tell me how? F1 -- 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: [Q] Use of UTF-8 in cygwin bash shell scripts
* Arifi Koseoglu (2004-04-02 23:23 +0100) I have a question regarding the use of UTF-8 in a cygwin-bash shell script under windows XP and 2000 (does the behavior differ between 2000 and XP ?). I have a bash script automatically generated with a Perl program, which is supposed to copy files from one disk to another and at the same time replace all international characters in the filename and path with english counterparts (for example c with cedilla becomes c). The lines in the shell script are all of the form: cp source path with international chars in it target with no international chars The shell script is generated/saved in UTF-8 encoding. (since it has to properly contain the international chars). By the way, with international I mean the additional characters in the Turkish alphabet - but the same question should apply to all non-english alphabets. Now, I cannot get the script to work. I can 'ls' the files using $ ls source path with international chars in it the listing displays the Turkish characters properly, however whenever I go ahead to execute the script, bash complains that source path with international chars in it cannot be found. What am I missing? Does bash not support scripts encoded in UTF-8? *You* should know that otherwise trying to execute scripts is a waste of time. Ask Google as this is not Cygwin related. Should I use another Unicode encoding (and how?) You might do that after you have investigated if bash supports it. Or shoud I trash this method and try something else (what?). Use the ISO charset of your language. There are thousands of files to be renamed. By using a shell (bash) script this should be a trivial task. Thorsten -- 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: i am newbie anybody help me installation
* kiran kumar (2004-04-07 11:35 +0100) hello guys, i want g++ compiler exactly as it works in linux. what are the packages i have to install? so it will work well in windows too. Setup.exe - Developer -- 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: Environment variables for DOS programs
* levent (2004-04-07 21:03 +0100) From my Cygwin terminal, I want to call DOS programs which require some environment variables to be set properly (such as the commandline utility *link.exe* of Visual Studio) for current session. Unfortunately, this was not possible by simply setting the variables in the shell (I am using tcsh). Link.exe refuses to see the environment variables defined in tcsh. Is this the desired behaviour? Is there anyway to make the DOS programs see the environment variables in Cygwin shells? Or am I making a fundamental mistake in expecting such a behaviour? Simply export the variable -- 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: applying command shell properties to cygwin.bat
* james pentland (2004-04-13 18:04 +0100) when i run the cygwin bash shell on system startup from the startup entry in the registry the foreground/background color and other properties are not applied to the command shell in which bash runs. in the properties dialogue for the cygwin shell shortcut, one can adjust the foreground/background color, font characteristics, layout and icon of the command shell window in which bash runs. the properties dialogue can be entered from the command shell window or by right clicking on the shortcut. however, these properties are associated with the shortcut, not with the batch file which runs bash. as a consequence, when invoking bash by running the batch file, which is named cygwin.bat and is in a path something like n:\cygwin\cygwin.bat, the properties are not applied and one ends up with a generic command shell window - white text on black background, default layout, no icon. how can one associate the properties with the batch file cygwin.bat such that they stay with the command shell? This is not Cygwin related but anyway: Why don't you then edit the properties of the batch file? Or put a color (color 07 for instance) statement in the batch file? If you want to change it for all windows then export your settings and apply them manually for [HKCU\Console\%%SystemRoot%%_System32_cmd.exe] or even [HKCU\Console]. I do that with for instance: reg add HKCU\Console /v WindowSize /t REG_DWORD /d 5177431 /f A better aproach is not to set to use the Windows Console but rxvt. Or even better in the Unix environment you use (using the colour escape sequences or your shell or some of terminal manipulation programs tput, tset or whatever) Thorsten -- 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: .logout files?
* Corinna Vinschen (2004-04-17 09:17 +0100) On Apr 16 21:35, Christopher Spears wrote: Hi! I can't seem to find a .logout file. I found The reason might be that there is none. Aah, an answer in the true spirit of cgf ;-) Thorsten -- 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 packages/dependecies
* Larry Hall (2004-04-08 23:22 +0100) At 03:48 PM 4/8/2004, you wrote: I'm curious if there is a way to force the setup.exe to disable automatic dependecies and automatic package upgrade/selection. It makes it quite inconvient when trying to uninstall many packages from the system (whole categories), but when clicking on a few stray ones (to set to skip/uninstall) it automatically checks a ton more. Do you have a specific example of this? Try to uninstall any two packages where one depends on the other one, for instance bash and cygwin. Choose to uninstall Cygwin in Setup.exe and then try to choose to uninstall bash[1]. It first selects reinstall and this turns keep for Cygwin on again. Now imagine Cygwin wouldn't be placed underneath bash but some place where you can't see it. It's a design bug of Setup.exe... Thorsten [1] Okay, this doesn't make sense but it was the only example where I knew the dependency -- 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: gentoo portage and cygwin
* Sven Köhler (2004-04-19 07:58 +0100) has anybody ever tried to port the gentoo-portage to cygwin? not that i expect many of the gentoo-ebuilds to compile, but the cygwin-people could maintain their own portage. the gentoo-portage also supports binary packages so that you don't have to compile everything yourself. * portage-cygwin http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27249package_id=19019release_id=199935 * Gentoo/Cygwin https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87984package_id=91835 The first one is available through setup.exe the latter one has its own Gentoo mailing list (http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml) Thorsten -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)
* Jeff2007 (Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:22:54 -0800 (PST)) Just to conclude my query, in the file usr/etc/profile I've added the line: PATH= Above my other PATH variables. When I run cygcheck again, all of the pre-existing Windows Path environment variables have gone, which seems to be what I needed to happen. No. You were advised to clean up your Windows paths - which are a mess. You've just cleaned up by putting the dirt under the carpet. Do not modify /etc/profile unless you know what you're doing. In this case it's obvious you're not. Thorsten -- 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: Setting up a ssh service
* Gregg Levine (Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:48:21 -0500) Obviously it should be part of the base documents, and I know I have read them. I'll do more of that before I ask a question that is more of a case of RTMF. I definitely wouldn't recommend to read the manual fu Thorsten -- 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 speed
* Brian Dessent (Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:11:54 -0800) Vinod Gupta wrote: Cygwin was a slow by a factor of 3x. Is that normal? Yes. Actually no. The standard approximate guess is a factor of two which corresponds to Vinod's testings. -- 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: One happy screen user
* Frank Fesevur (Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:32:28 +0100) I am using the screen test package Andrew Schulman mentioned here some 2 weeks ago. And so far it works great for me. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00446.html Andrew, thanks for your work. Again, I'm not experiencing any problems with this build. Please consider trying to make it an official cygwin package. But only after he resolved the issue I reported ;) : http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-02/msg00465.html -- 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: Most recent update broke BZR (?)
* Jeff Dooley (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:03:31 -0700) bzr: ERROR: Couldn't import bzrlib and dependencies. Please check bzrlib is on your PYTHONPATH. Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/bzr, line 48, in module import bzrlib ImportError: No module named bzrlib I tried reinstalling bzr and the problem persists. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Well, is it there or not? Which python are you using? Is bzr in site- packages? -- 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: Bug Report: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces
* Robert Peaslee (Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:52:40 -0400) Actually, this information is incorrect. Windows XP stores the first username you choose and will associate your current username to it regardless of what you change it to. Cygwin stores nothing, it is asking Windows what your username is and getting a response of what Windows tells it. Cygwin asks Windows at first install about the user names and creates /etc/passwd. The problem is (or can be) that this list never gets updated even if the user names change or new user are added. As Keith wrote: Subsequent installations of CygWin utilize the aforementioned out of date username list, even though those usernames have been changed and are no longer valid. The secret is to run mkpasswd -l -c /etc/passwd and mkgroup -l -c /etc/group Also you have to run this if you're in a domain (because Cygwin retrieves only the local user names, not the domain names). Thorsten -- 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: slow bash spawn
* Marc Compere (Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:27:31 + (UTC)) The recent setup.exe update has caused bash.exe to have startup times approx. 10x longer than before. sh.exe starts pretty quickly but bash.exe via cygwin.bat takes ~30 seconds to start. Took just a couple of seconds before. Cpu is nowhere near pinned, hovering around 3% or 5%. Each bash process spawn from within bash takes a long time as well making ./configure and make take a lot longer than before. Similar problem here: http://www.nabble.com/Slow-compile-issue-with-cygwin- make-since-v1.5.17-t3235008.html Interestingly enough, sh.exe spawns relatively quickly. Now, that's really interesting as bash and sh are exactly the same file... -- 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: rxvt + backtab
* Chris Sutcliffe (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:18:30 -0400) Is it possible to configure rxvt to recognize backtab (shift-tab) as being different from tab? No, it's not possible. Rxvt either recognises the difference or not. Thorsten -- 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: Calling Windows progs from cygwin command prompt?
* Gustavo Seabra (Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:42:02 -0400) It's probably a long shot, but... Is there a way to call windows programs from inside a Cygwin shell? Yes. Specifically, I'd like to be able to open the Windows version of VMD from the Cygwin command line, like typing: $ vmd Yes, like in Windows: either just VMD (if VMD is in the path) or /cygdrive/c/path_to_vmd/VMD Ideally, that would open VMD at the directory I'm visiting in the shell, just like it works in Linux. Is it possible? As I said: absolutely no problem T. -- 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: scp doesn't copy - neither returns an error message
* Thomas Wiedmann (Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:37:49 +0200) Search the package list for the 'rebase' package. Meanwhile I found and downloaded the package rebase-2.4-1.tar.bz2, decompressed it and saved the files in the relevant subdirectories of C:\Programme\OpenSSH. Seems like you neither used Setup.exe nor put the files in the correct folder. Trying to run rebaseall I've got a message like Entrypoint not found ... (in German: Einstiegspunkt nicht gefunden ...). You're snipping the DLL in which it was not found Looks, that the correct installation for resolving my original scp problem is rather complicated. What to do else to make scp run (and rebase and - what else is required ...)? Please in detailed description - to avoid misunderstandings. Okay, it won't get any simpler: delete everything you've setup so far, delete the Cygwin registry entries and run Setup again. Choose OpenSSH and be happy. Cygwin is an environment and you can't just download single packages and expect them to magically work... Thorsten -- 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: Escape colour codes
* Thorsten Kampe (Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:44:30 -) I'm having a problem with colour escape codes for prompts in different applications and terminals. Basically it is like this. lftp and yafc show a wrong prompt in the following terminals: cmd, 4nt, console and far manager. Basically each coloured part of the prompt is surrounded by two funny faces - the first is white and the second has the desired colour. Let's say my prompt is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:directory where directory is cyan. Then the prompt looks like this[1]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[FW][FC]directory[FC][FW] The interesting thing is that the coloured prompts /do/ work in bash, zsh and screen[2] with cmd, 4nt, console and FAR manager. Also the coloured prompts from lftp and yafc show correctly in rxvt. They also show correctly in Linux and Konsole so the syntax of the coloured prompt is correct. Well, I never got no answer so I had to solve this myself: IPython has the same problem and the reason is that the prompts are wrapped in \001 \002 pairs so readline can properly know the length of each line and can wrap lines accordingly. Obvioulsy all Windows terminals can't interpret those non-visible characters (or they don't ignore them like they should or readline doesn't eat them like it should). Where is the culprit here? Cygwin readline not correctly interacting with non Cygwin terminals? Windows terminals not understanding common readline(?) escape characters? Is there a way to solve the issue? Patching Windows cmd is out of question so either readline had to be patched (if involved) or all the applications using those \001 (^A) start non-visible characters, \002 (^B) end non-visible characters. Thorsten -- 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: Escape colour codes
* Matthew Woehlke (Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:55:45 -0500) Thorsten Kampe wrote: lftp and yafc show a wrong prompt in the following terminals: cmd, 4nt, console and far manager. Basically each coloured part of the prompt is surrounded by two funny faces - the first is white and the second has the desired colour. I don't know what these are. Are they non-Cygwin applications that are looking at the environment variable 'PS1'? No, these are Cygwin applications using Cygwin readline and allowing you to define your own application specific prompt (similar to the PS1 prompt syntax used in bash and zsh). Cygwin apps (e.g. 'printf') should cope with escapes correctly even in Windows consoles That's exactly the point. They actually do cope with the escapes - just not with the \001 and \002 used by readline to calculate the length of the line. (otherwise even bash would not work). Yes, bash is the exception. Maybe bash doesn't use \001/\002? Obvioulsy all Windows terminals can't interpret those non-visible characters (or they don't ignore them like they should or readline doesn't eat them like it should). Where is the culprit here? Cygwin readline not correctly interacting with non Cygwin terminals? Windows terminals not understanding common readline(?) escape characters? Windows consoles don't understand escapes, period. Also AFAIK nothing except readline understands \[ and \]. But Cygwin understands escapes so Cygwin applications should work even in a Windows console. Okay, so it's obviously a readline (or Cygwin) bug. I think it's a readline thing (as rxvt doesn't have the problem) - the question is just where to submit a bug report? To the Cygwin readline maintainer or upstream? Thorsten -- 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: Escape colour codes
* Eric Blake (Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:17:22 -0600)
According to Thorsten Kampe on 4/4/2007 1:38 AM:
That's exactly the point. They actually do cope with the escapes -
just not with the \001 and \002 used by readline to calculate the
length of the line.
(otherwise even bash would not work).
Yes, bash is the exception. Maybe bash doesn't use \001/\002?
I need a simple test case.
It's easy to show that one Cygwin application (lftp) has a problem
with its prompt but it's rather lenghty to show that not lftp is the
culprit but readline making output to Windows Terminals (Cmd, 4NT,
Console, FAR manager, Poderosa)
1. Install lftp, start cygwin.bat
2. Start lftp. Type
set cmd:prompt \[\e[1;36m\]\[\e[m\]
...you will see that the instead of a light cyan prompt you will
get surrounded by white/cyan-cyan/white Funny Faces (control
characters).
Conclusion: there is something wrong with lftp or readline or the
Terminal.
3. Run lftp from rxvt: you see that the prompt displays fine
Conclusion: there is nothing wrong with lftp.
4. Read Matthew Woehlke's statement Windows consoles don't understand
escapes, period.
Conclusion: there is nothing wrong with the Windows Terminal, readline
might have a bug.
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5. install yafc (http://yafc.sourceforge.net/) - another popular Linux
FTP client (from source because there is no package yet)
6. Insert
prompt1 %{\e[1;36m%}%{\e[m%}
into your yafcrc and start yafc
7. You will see exactly the same as in 2. with lftp
Conclusion: there is nothing wrong with yafc, but with readline or Cmd
8. Repeat 3. with yafc and see the same result
Conclusion: there is nothing wrong but readline might have a bug.
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9. Install Python and IPython (http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/)
set
prompt_in1 '\C_White[\#\C_White]\C_LightCyan '
prompt_out '\C_White[\N\C_White]'
in your ipythonrc and start IPython. Type 1 [Enter]
you will see exactly the same as in 2. And 7. for the out prompt
10. Repeat step 3. with IPython: you will see exactly the same as in
3. and 8.
11. Install Windows Python and pyreadline (Python readline for
Windows) and use the same IPython from the Cygwin installation. Repeat
step 3.: the prompt displays fine
Conclusion: pyreadline doesn't make the Windows Terminal show Control
characters
12. Remove the \001/\002 constructs in line 88 and 89 from
ColorANSI.py in Cygwin IPython
from
Normal = '\001\033[0m\002' # Reset normal coloring
_base = '\001\033[%sm\002' # Template for all other colors
to
Normal = '\033[0m' # Reset normal coloring
_base = '\033[%sm' # Template for all other colors
See that Cygwin IPython with Windows terminal now displays correctly
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13. Recompile yafc, comment out lines 167 and 172 in prompt.c
case '{': /* begin non-printable character string */
#ifdef HAVE_LIBREADLINE
// ins = \001\001; /* \001 +
RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE */
#endif
break;
case '}': /* end non-printable character string */
#ifdef HAVE_LIBREADLINE
// ins = \001\002; /* \001 + RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE */
#endif
Now see that yafc does not show the Control characters as Funny
Faces anymore.
--
I tried to modify the lftp source, too, but my C knowledge was not
sufficient
char StartIgn[3], EndIgn[3];
/* bash adds the extra \001 too, don't know why */
StartIgn[0] = '\001';
StartIgn[1] = RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE;
StartIgn[2] = 0;
EndIgn[0] = '\001';
EndIgn[1] = RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE;
EndIgn[2] = 0;
Thorsten
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Re: Escape colour codes
* Eric Blake (Wed, 4 Apr 2007 19:50:24 + (UTC)) Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de writes: 9. Install Python and IPython (http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/) set prompt_in1 '\C_White[\#\C_White]\C_LightCyan ' prompt_out '\C_White[\N\C_White]' in your ipythonrc and start IPython. Type 1 [Enter] The bug is in IPython. 12. Remove the \001/\002 constructs in line 88 and 89 from ColorANSI.py in Cygwin IPython from Normal = '\001\033[0m\002' # Reset normal coloring _base = '\001\033[%sm\002' # Template for all other colors to Normal = '\033[0m' # Reset normal coloring _base = '\033[%sm' # Template for all other colors I'm not sure if this is correct. If you pass invisible characters to readline without marking them as such, using \1 and \2, then readline messes up the display width. The from is the original code, the to is my modification to show that omitting the \001/\002 constructs will make IPython not show the colour escape codes. Of course this wasn't meant as a solution because the escapes are there for a reason (as you correctly pointed out). Simply removing them will just introduce a new kind of problem. Thorsten -- 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: tar: command not found
* Dave Korn (Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:26:57 +0100) On 12 April 2007 16:19, Cheney, Christian wrote: Don't extract things using non-Cygwin tools unless you really know what you're doing (or have been told to do so). You can make a real mess doing this. I would've used CYGWIN, but, unfortunately, tar didn't work ;) You've destroyed your installation. See, we told you it was bad. Specifically, you've gone and created a real /usr/bin directory, when normally it is only a mount point that mirrors /bin. That's because winzip doesn't know about cygwin mountpoints. If it had been untarred by an earlier cygwin tar, or by setup.exe which *does* respect cygwin mountpoints, it would have ended up in the right place: /bin, and been *visible* in /usr/bin too. This means that tar.exe has been unpacked into C:\cygwin\usr\bin. That's why setup thinks it's installed. But you can't find it in your $PATH or anything, because when cygwin goes to look in /usr/bin (which is where tar.exe has been put by winzip), it actually looks in your /bin dir. And doesn't find it. That's why setup thinks it's installed but cygcheck reports Not Found: tar. The fix would be to go into your C:\cygwin\usr directory, using a DOS shell or windows explorer, and delete the bin dir. \cygwin\usr\bin and \cygwin\usr\lib are /real/ directories created by the initial Cygwin installation routine. He shouldn't delete those directories - just keep them empty... Thorsten -- 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 with globs using curly brackets and ^
* Jens Rasmussen (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:34:17 +0200 (CEST))
I'm having a problem with globs using curly brackets and ^.
I've searched the web+forum with no luck, so I'm sorry if an answer
aleardy exists.
The answer is in the bash manual page. What has that got to do with
Cygwin?!
I've tried the commands on a linux environment and they worked fine + I've
read elsewhere that they should work in cygwin.
So I assume that my config is wrong. I'm using bash 3.2.15(13)-release
(i686-pc-cygwin) and I've just updated all packages.
THE PROBLEM (using ls for illustration):
$ ls
Desktop.ini docoptimering test.txt
bin music spaceninja
FOLLOWING WORKS:
$ ls -d {Desk*,doc*}
Desktop.ini doc
ls -d Desk* doc*
BUT: (I assume that the following is because it normally makes no sense)
$ ls -d {Desk*}
ls: cannot access {Desk*}: No such file or directory
ls -d Desk*
AND: (my actual problem)
$ ls ^doc
ls: cannot access ^doc: No such file or directory
^ is only used in character ranges ([^a-z])
$ ls -d ^{Desk*,doc*}
ls: cannot access ^Desk*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access ^doc*: No such file or directory
- And yes, I'm a Linux/UNIX/Cygwin newb!
This has nothing to do with Linux nor UNIX nor Cygwin:
$ shopt -s extglob
$ echo !(Desk*|doc*)
Thorsten
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RE: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?
* Kevin Markle (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:07:16 -0400) Possibly a dumb question but I have tried a lot of different quoting methods and can't seem to get it to work? How do I quote back slashes in Cygwin? You quote them with '' and you escape them with \. What has that got to do with Cygwin? Thorsten -- 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: Install problem on XP SP2
* Morgan Gangwere (Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:30:00 -0600) to DaveK: i once had the username Sys Admin under windows before i installed the cygwin stuff, and after, any script/app that used the username in a path with ls or bash or some other place without properly quoting it would fail. That's expected behaviour. Exactly the same thing would happen under Linux or any other OS under the sun. The antidote is to fix the scripts and to omit spaces in user names. T. -- 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: Newbie question on current version running established perl program
* Jennifer Young (Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT)) Very new user installing cygwin for the first time on new pc. Trying to run perl program that has been used a number of times (probably not the problem) Followed all the instructions on install and all instructions in faq and user docs that could assist. Installed the base and all the packages with 'perl' in the name plus a bunch of other ones. to run my program, I was instructed to use command: $ perl preprocesstest.pl -o buffer -n 2 -t 00:00:000 -l 300 (-o = output, -n = number in test, -t = start time, -l = length of time of test) system returns: bash perl: command not found Bash cannot find perl. That's pretty clear, isn't it? Either there is not perl or it is not where bash is searching it. Search for perl.exe with your favourite search program. It should be below C:\cygwin and verify that the path to perl.exe (if there is one) is in your shell (echo $PATH). If there is no Perl, try reinstalling. If there is a perl.exe then specify the full path to the executable or adjust your path. -- 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/
