Re: Windows file permissions

2003-10-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: sshd and cat

2003-10-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Windows file permissions

2003-10-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Open a cygwin command prompt in a specific folder?

2003-10-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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;

Re: ACLs are not handled correctly

2003-10-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: On Windows.NET

2003-11-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: ssh and displays

2003-11-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: latex and lyx

2003-11-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Crontab does not work, Windows 2000

2003-11-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Problem making rxvt

2003-11-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: rxvt and bold directory entries

2003-12-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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.

Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1

2003-12-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1

2003-12-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1

2003-12-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: sshd on alternate port doesn't seem to work

2004-01-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: sshd on alternate port doesn't seem to work

2004-01-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: cygwin-1.5.6-1 Vim now broken

2004-01-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

postinstall scripts not updated

2004-02-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
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

Re: Local (polish) characters

2004-02-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Local (polish) characters

2004-02-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: zsh-4.1.1-2 still seems broken under Cygwin-1.5.7-1 .

2004-02-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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 .

Re: using setup to update cygwin

2004-02-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: execute RPM files

2004-02-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: new to cygwin, not understanding a setup issue...

2004-02-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Running cygwin cron under WinXP SP1

2004-02-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

man completion in zsh not working

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
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

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: python and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: vi and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: python and cygwin

2004-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Can I change sfuuser's password ?

2004-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: 'less' can not find dll

2004-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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?

Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line

2004-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line

2004-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: 'less' can not find dll

2004-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: 'less' can not find dll

2004-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Man not finding pages

2004-03-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: cron problem report

2004-03-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: multiple cron cause problem

2004-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab

2004-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: multiple cron cause problem

2004-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
*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

Re: 256 colors for bash/rxvt-2.7.10-4 ?

2004-03-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found

2004-03-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found

2004-03-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found

2004-03-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: emacs / libICE.dll

2004-03-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: zsh 4.1.1-3 on W2000 hangs with command not found

2004-03-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: rebase-2.3-1

2004-03-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
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

Re: Difference between just having cygwin1.dll and running under cygw in

2004-03-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: cygXft-2.dll cannot be found...

2004-03-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* [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:

Re: cygXft-2.dll cannot be found...

2004-03-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* [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: Displaying The Cygwin Version

2004-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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 ?

Re: Windows 2k configuration

2004-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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 --

Re: Readonly

2004-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Cant debug a Delphi application with cygwin bash opened

2004-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association

2004-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association

2004-03-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association

2004-03-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: SSHD working only once...

2004-03-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association

2004-03-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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,

Re: Question on Perl (.pl) association

2004-03-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Apache obatined in Cygwin Setup is FOREIGN

2004-03-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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:

Re: Trailing commandline arguments not allowed.

2004-03-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Starting a Win32 app from inside Cygwin

2004-03-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Bash tries to connect to the internet

2004-03-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Bash tries to connect to the internet

2004-03-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Cygwin doesn't recognize my internet connection.

2004-03-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* [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

Re: launching a remote webbrowser with cygwin

2004-03-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Bash hangs with the 20040325 snapshot

2004-03-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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:

Re: Bash hangs with the 20040325 snapshot

2004-03-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1

2004-03-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.0-1

2004-03-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

unable to start services with snapshots 20040326 and 20040329

2004-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
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

Re: Shouldn't we put or [CygXwin] here depending on the question?

2004-04-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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:

Re: [Q] Use of UTF-8 in cygwin bash shell scripts

2004-04-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: i am newbie anybody help me installation

2004-04-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Environment variables for DOS programs

2004-04-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: applying command shell properties to cygwin.bat

2004-04-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: .logout files?

2004-04-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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:

Re: Uninstall packages/dependecies

2004-04-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: gentoo portage and cygwin

2004-04-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)

2007-02-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Setting up a ssh service

2007-02-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Cygwin speed

2007-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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:

Re: One happy screen user

2007-03-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Most recent update broke BZR (?)

2007-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Bug Report: Purging Old and Invalid User Names With Spaces

2007-03-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: slow bash spawn

2007-03-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: rxvt + backtab

2007-03-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Calling Windows progs from cygwin command prompt?

2007-03-26 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: scp doesn't copy - neither returns an error message

2007-03-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Escape colour codes

2007-04-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Escape colour codes

2007-04-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Escape colour codes

2007-04-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Escape colour codes

2007-04-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

RE: bash: tar: command not found

2007-04-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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,

Re: problem with globs using curly brackets and ^

2007-04-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

RE: Mapping windows drives in cygwin?

2007-04-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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?

Re: Install problem on XP SP2

2007-04-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

Re: Newbie question on current version running established perl program

2007-04-25 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* 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

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