Re: Shift-Tab for Backwards Completion

2008-06-20 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Frank Jacobs (Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:51:00 -0500) Because Windows Console returns the same keycode for shifted/ unshifted and for the Ctrl key. You can easily test that with [Ctrl][V] or od -c (which are the standards tools to find out the key codes to be able to assign actions to them).

Cannot suspend shell (Ctrl+Z)

2010-11-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
[latest Cygwin DLL and all updates] Hi, I cannot suspend applications (like Midnight Commander) in a running shell (bash or Zsh) - nothing happens. Nevertheless when I run mc (for instance) in screen session then it works as expected: % mc

Re: Cannot suspend shell (Ctrl+Z)

2010-11-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:59:26 -0500) On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: [latest Cygwin DLL and all updates] Hi, I cannot suspend applications (like Midnight Commander) in a running shell (bash or Zsh) - nothing happens. Nevertheless when I

Re: Cygwin 1.7.7, User Variables, User Profiles

2010-11-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* rudolf.be...@extern.sdv-it.de (Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:13:14 +0100) I try to invoke the set command over ssh to a Cygwin 1.7.7 server and would expect that I get the variables I have defined in $HOME/user/.profile ... TEST=test export TEST That's equivalent to export TEST=test. But

Re: Fwd: Suspicious EXE named [.exe in c:\cygwin\bin?

2010-12-13 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:51 -0500) However, since you are reporting 1) a nonissue and 2) a known issue [...] Best of 2010. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: problem with sshd

2010-12-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:26:29 +0300) I have a problem running cygwin sshd. I often end up with a lot of bash processes running and eating memory while there are no single active ssh session. It happens when either connection lost or user closes connection without logging out, sshd

Re: problem with sshd

2010-12-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:17:11 +0300) On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Thorsten Kampe thors...@thorstenkampe.de wrote: * Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:26:29 +0300) I have a problem running cygwin sshd. I often end up with a lot of bash processes running and eating memory

Re: uptime not reporting CPU usage on Windows 7 (Possibly only when running in VMWare)

2010-12-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andy Koppe (Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:22 +) On 31 December 2010 02:49, Andrew DeFaria wrote: IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's gives you no info at all! Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin devs don't even understand what an

Re: USB flash drive not showing up in Cygwin under Windows 7

2011-01-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jeffrey J. Kosowsky (Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:32:33 -0500) My USB thumb drive does not show up in /cygdrive/ (or seemingly anywhere else for that matter). It does of course show up in the regular Windows 7 GUI in the Computer folder. This happens even if I open the cygwin window using Runas

Re: ls Slow When Using /cygdrive/...

2011-01-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Tim Daneliuk (Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:18 -0600) I am having a problem with ls being VERY slow on at least in some circumstances. For example, ls c:/ is quick, but lc /cygdrive/c/ is very slow. strace, Process Monitor Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Antliff (Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:13:22 +1300) On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:06, David Antliff wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:06, Jeremy Bopp wrote: I've also tried running the sshd service as the same user currently logged in [snip] people are discouraged from attempting it and then

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Antliff (Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:59:39 +1300) Jeremy: thank you also - ProcessMonitor is very useful, and I'm using it to compare the behaviour of the working (local) and non-working (over SSH) instances. It's going to take me some time to sift though them, but there are big differences:

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Antliff (Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:27:36 +1300) On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 21:30, Thorsten Kampe wrote: I don't think anyone will do that unless you provide the logs in native (PML) format. Ok, I can do that - I posted them as CSV as I thought they'd be easier to read/diff and I wasn't

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Antliff (Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:31:25 +1300) On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:28, David Antliff wrote: Ok, an update - I've managed to solve this problem - the vendor informed me (indirectly) that the error I was seeing was due to the access of files in c:\lsc_env - turns out I hadn't

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* David Antliff (Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:47:02 +1300) On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 20:06, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * David Antliff (Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:31:25 +1300) Actually there is one outstanding issue with this Hudson slaves over SSH issue - due to the inability for Cygwin's bash to run scripts

Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Bryan Slatner (Tue, 1 Feb 2011 04:33:40 + (UTC)) I'm trying to install Cygwin on a stock Amazon EC2 Windows 2008 64-bit image. At the end of setup, I get a dialog that says Postinstall script errors with the following information in it: Package: Unknown package

Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Bryan Slatner (Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:25:26 + (UTC)) Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de writes: Why don't you simply run (at least) one of the scripts manually and see if you see an error?! I ran them all, with the following results: bash-3.2# /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post

Re: Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX?

2011-02-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jørgen Steensgaard (Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:34:15 +0100) I want to terminate this discussion, originating from my concern for consistency among distribution providers. Originally I reported on a successful installation of basic Cygwin, i.e. without X, followed by a failing attempt to install

Re: FW: Windows XP Headaches w/ Network Communication

2011-02-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gary Furash (Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:02:25 -0700) I just had to downgrade my PC from Windows 7 to Windows XP. I reinstalled Cygwin (from scratch), rebased, etc. However, now, none of my cygwin network programs work except within my work's internal network (they used to work just fine with

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* hardya (Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:48:58 -0800 (PST)) I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7 (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. I cannot [whatever] is a bit weak. Can you be a bit more specific? What

Re: CYGWIN setup home directorys for users

2011-03-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dale Harrison (Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:29:56 +) When creating a user inside CYGWIN using net user *username* /add, could someone tell me the command that I can type to set the home directory the user is to land into when the connect? Sorry, you got it completely wrong. You cannot add a user

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT)) No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly build scripts: rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/* sigh Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :) Sure, it does. It's called intelligent scripting and

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: As for rm, it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off. As far as I know -f is already the default... Thorsten -- Problem reports

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:33 -0400) On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100) On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote: As for rm, it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and that's what

Re: EXTERNAL: Virus that deletes everything under c:/cygwin?

2011-03-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dave Korn (Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:11:05 +0100) And I just learnt about the `--preserve-root' option, that I didn't even know about before. You mean --preserve-root do not remove `/' (default) (quoting the man page)? I wonder whether I will receive another If you're saying that --

Re: Resetting time via time server doesn't affect cygwin 'date'

2011-03-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Henry S. Thompson (Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:10:37 +0100) I'm running 1.7.9-1 on my 64-bit Windows 7 laptop. I recently noticed that my box was 15 seconds adrift from my Linux desktop. After some minor hassles, I was able to use Clock/Date and Time/Internet Time/Change Settings/Update now to sync

Re: Editing protected files in Windows 7 (like the etc/hosts file)

2011-05-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Avishai Geller (Mon, 16 May 2011 02:09:57 -0700) How do I edit my hosts file in cygwin on Windows 7? VI opens it in read-only mode. I have administrator permissions, but Windows 7 has that UAC feature which I think is preventing editing the file. You disable UAC or run the shell as

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Lee D. Rothstein (Fri, 27 May 2011 11:53:16 -0400) Globbing is case sensitive while full command name invocation/full filename use is not. And, you may never have been confused by that, but I maintain it's very confusing. This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing

Re: File Name Case Sensitivity Globbing! Was: file system name case insensitivity issue: Possible inclusion for the FAQ or User Manual?

2011-05-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Edward McGuire (Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:06 -0500) The globbing is not where the confusion lies. This globbing: $ ls xwin* ls: cannot access xwin*: No such file or directory works as expected and did not confuse anybody. Lee begs to differ: Globbing is case sensitive [while ...]. And, you

User name in screen caption not displaying with snapshot from 28th

2011-05-30 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, I have these two lines in my .screenr: backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME caption always %{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-% m-%d %0c:%s]%{d} Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as [thorsten@hombre:0$loadavg: 0.00 0.00 0.00 2011-05-30 17:20:46]

Re: Don't use snapshots until I send all-clear

2011-05-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Edward Lam (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:51 -0400) On 31/05/2011 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Oh, and, btw: All clear! So cygwin1-20110531.dll.bz2 is good? It still has the screen issue I reported yesterday and that issue sounds to me suspiciously pipish. So I would say, no. Thorsten

Re: User name in screen caption not displaying with snapshot from 28th

2011-05-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andrew Schulman (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:20:16 -0400) I have these two lines in my .screenr: backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME caption always %{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-% m-%d %0c:%s]%{d} Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as

Re: User name in screen caption not displaying with snapshot from 28th

2011-06-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andrew Schulman (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:20:16 -0400) I have these two lines in my .screenr: backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME caption always %{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-% m-%d %0c:%s]%{d} Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as

Re: Don't use snapshots until I send all-clear

2011-06-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:29:11 +0200) * Edward Lam (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:51 -0400) On 31/05/2011 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Oh, and, btw: All clear! So cygwin1-20110531.dll.bz2 is good? It still has the screen issue I reported yesterday and that issue sounds

Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values

2011-06-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Roland Bluethgen (Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:55:56 +0200) I don't update my Cygwin installation regularly, but recently I did, and then a script of mine stopped working. Looking for the cause I found out that the Cygwin maintainers chose to redefine the TEMP and TMP environment variables in

Re: TMP and TEMP get redefined, but I need the original values

2011-06-13 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Roland Bluethgen (Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:01:12 +0200) Thorsten Kampe wrote: If you want Linux TMP and Windows TMP point to the same directory then mount it in fstab or use $USERPROFILE/AppData/Local/Temp. I shortened the story a bit, it's really more complicated. The TMP definition in my

screen terminating with latest snapshot

2011-06-13 Thread Thorsten Kampe
[screen is terminating] message from screen trying to run screen with snapshot from June, 12th. Fine with snapshots up to the previous one (June, 8th). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Console Windows Host stopped working stopped working

2011-06-21 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hello, starting with the snapshot from June, 14th, I cannot run screen inside a Windows Console (also Take Command) terminal anymore. It terminates with the message mentioned in the subject while screen and the shell continue running and consume excessive CPU. Mintty, rxvt, Console

Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

2011-06-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andrey Repin (Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:05:34 +0400) Try it yourself, as well as what Peter tried to suggest (or correct me). Neither is working straight. Just for example: $ cygpath -u DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile /c/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile $ cygpath -u DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile

Re: Strange cygpath behavior.

2011-06-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Andrey Repin (Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:06:05 +0400) To tell you, that was actually a good idea for me. I don't have an eternity to type /cygwhatever every time I want to address another drive. Ever heard of tab completion? So the idea to map cygdrive to / was actually very handy, thanks to

Re: /bin/date differs 10-12 minutes from Windows time

2011-07-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Voelker, Bernhard (Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:28:42 +0200) I'm experiencing windows time (which is right) being constantly 10-12 minutes behind GNU's time: $ cmd.exe /c time /t ; /bin/date 09:21 Fri Jul 29 09:33:22 WEDT 2011 I've seens this for several weeks on this PC now. Why is

Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

2011-08-01 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Sebastien Vauban (Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:46:52 +0200) My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32 (Cygwin) and Ubuntu Why don't have simply put your alias definitions in if [[ $OSTYPE = cygwin ]]; then else? Thorsten -- Problem reports:

Re: Portable shell code between Cygwin and Linux

2011-08-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Eliot Moss (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:40:44 -0400) On 8/2/2011 8:24 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Sebastien Vauban (Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:46:52 +0200) My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32 (Cygwin) and Ubuntu Why don't have simply put your

Re: SSHD Issue Windows 2003 64 bit

2011-08-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gary (Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:59:14 -0700) The logs specify: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. That's pretty clear, isn't it? I've tried changing permissions, What exactly did you try? and also looking on the forums for this

Re: /etc/fstab

2011-08-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* J.V. (Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:42 -0600) What is the exact line I should put in /etc/fstab to get C:\ mounted to /c on Windows 7? none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 The documentation makes me think. Please do not make me think. I know, thinking can sometimes hurt. This is because

Re: SSHD Issue Windows 2003 64 bit

2011-08-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gary (Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:01:58 -0700) I've attempted chmod from the terminal and to change the permissions through the standard UI. Terminal is better. Try again chmod 700 /var/empty. I've attempted to chown to SYSTEM, but the user does not exist. It should: % grep -i system /etc/passwd

Re: SSHD Issue Windows 2003 64 bit

2011-08-11 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gary (Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:25:04 -0700) I've tried re-running the 000-cygwin-post-install.sh receive no echo from the terminal, I've moved the passwd file (from my understanding outside the directory before running the post-install). My passwd file looks like this: sshd:*:27:27:sshd

Re: Failure of name resolution with ssh on windows 7 and VMware

2011-08-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Dzielski (Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:11:03 -0400) I am unable to get name resolution to work with ssh. The command ssh X returns the error ssh: could not resolve hostname X: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution. The command nslookup X returns a valid IP address. Run a Wireshark trace

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

2011-08-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* LMH (Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:59:12 -0400) I have just installed 1.7 on win7 enterprise 64 bit and I tried to modify the shortcut that starts the bash window and I get a windows error message, can't modify the shortcut . make sure it has not been deleted or renamed Why on earth and in

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

2011-08-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* LMH (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:50:01 -0400) If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify properties of the bash shell window such as the size, font color, font size, etc. You're not modifying the bash shell

Re: install on win7 enterprise, can't modify bash start up shortcut

2011-08-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:56:49 +0200) You are confusing a terminal and the shell it runs in. I meant you are confusing a shell and the terminal it runs in. Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-09-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:59:21 +0200) And above all, there *is* an official way for the user to align the Cygwin locale with the Windows locale [...] Misses the point. Users who chose to have a specific language environment most likely want to have this choice of language for all

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-09-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:09:04 +0200) It is not at all the task of libintl to override the underlying OS, and in the case of Cygwin, the underlying OS is Cygwin, not Windows. Pardon me? Cygwin is: a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment for Windows.

Re: cygwin started speaking German today

2011-09-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:49:50 -0400) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 01:44:44PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:09:04 +0200) It is not at all the task of libintl to override the underlying OS, and in the case of Cygwin, the underlying OS is Cygwin

Re: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Ruckstuhl (Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:40:40 -0700) I'm trying to create files in the current dir, on a network fileserver. I do have the necessary permissions. The standard incantation fails, but some non-standard incantations succeed. I'm willing to bet $10 that it's a cygwin1.dll problem,

RE: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* John Ruckstuhl (Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:31:50 -0700) Larry Hall wrote: On 9/14/2011 1:56 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: The obvious way to troubleshoot this would be to use a network drive (Z: for instance) instead of UNC or to mount the share and see if that works. Naturally it would also

Re: how to run a .bat or .cmd file from bash prompt

2011-09-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* J.V. (Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:03:35 -0600) To run a .bat or .cmd file, I can do this: $cmd C:mybat.bat or C:\mycmd.cmd In other words, I have to type two commands (one to get to the shell, and another to run the .bat or .cmd file). What I want is to write a shell script

Re: how to run a .bat or .cmd file from bash prompt

2011-09-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Perlberg (Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:10:38 -0400) cmd /c batch_file [arguments ...] This is such an original idea. I wish the Unix shell had something like that. It does. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: openSSH

2011-10-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Clayton Evans (Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:43:45 -0500) I have four questions that are not clear to after reading /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. 1) When running ssh-host-config, what is the correct string to enter for the CYGWIN environment variable? Just leave it blank. 2) When running

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10

2011-12-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:37:46 +0100) - Fifos have been rewritten and should now be more reliable. Trying to run GNU Screen: open fifo /tmp/uscreens/S-thorsten/2756.cons1.hombre: Bad file descriptor Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Starting Z-shell via telnet connection to XP box

2011-12-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Mike Brown (Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:52:43 -0600) While I can use remote desktop to get from my Solaris server to the XP box, doing so while at some place other than the LAN, the DSL connection speed tends to cause the RD to fail and close. And since I don't really need a graphical connection,

Re: Starting Z-shell via telnet connection to XP box

2011-12-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Mike Brown (Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:22:23 -0600) On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:31:44PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Use SSH I installed the bitvise WinSSHD server and can connect with it. I had to build a different start BAT file in order to get zsh started and to use my home zsh config

Re: Starting Z-shell via telnet connection to XP box

2011-12-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Mike Brown (Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:33:05 -0600) On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:10:34PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Better use OpenSSH And why would that be? Okay, better is not correct. Let's call it equally good. It's free, constantly updated, easy to setup and is integrated in your existing

Re: Starting Z-shell via telnet connection to XP box

2011-12-09 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Mike Brown (Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:31:45 -0600) On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:42:42PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: I suppose I better update my installation. I may be in trouble as uname says that it is: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 cygcheck version 1.88 System Checker for Cygwin Copyright 1998

Re: 1.7.9: dircolors error on WinXP

2011-12-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Jon Seidel CMC (Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:25 -0800) Running the following: dircolors -b .dircolors dircolors -b .dircolors results in the error: .dircolors:1: invalid line; missing second token eval $(dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors) Thorsten -- Problem reports:

Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

2012-03-31 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700) Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab. If yes, can someone give me some tips for what to do to mount a share named \\server\~foo ? [...] It looks like mount

Re: error mounting smb shared with ~ in name

2012-04-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Daniel D (Sun, 1 Apr 2012 07:49:49 + (UTC)) Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de writes: * Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700) Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab

Re: sshd not doing key based authentication

2012-04-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Rurik Christiansen (Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:23:04 +1000) On 6/04/2012 08:44, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Rurik Christiansen! [...] and my understanding is that I can't run the sshd frontend without screwing the permissions. I don't understand what you mean by this. From an

Re: cygwin: how to mount linux FS from cygwin

2012-06-29 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* ping (Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:01:34 -0400) I just installed full cygwin and I now need to access a folder from inside cygwin machine(win7). I did some google search but no good match. are there any known best practice for that (e.g through SSH)? the cygwin ssh client works fine but I just dont

Re: Why won't my .sh file work with cygwin?

2012-07-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gundament (Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:38:36 -0700 (PDT)) I am new to Cygwin but I understand it does it's best to simulate a linux terminal. No. Cygwin is: a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment for Windows. http://cygwin.com/ I want to make a little program and I

Re: sshd service will not start on Windows 8 (Enterprise) because the netlogon service isn't running

2012-09-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dan Regan (Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:02:23 -0700) The root of the problem appears to be that sshd relies on the netlogon service to be running Can you elaborate? Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

2003-08-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Robert Collins (2003-08-01 11:43 +0200) On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 10:21, Alan Miles wrote: I don't believe it should be doing the rmdir H:\CygnusSolutions-Cygwin Files\CygwinMachine_Package_Dirs\dest rmdir H:\CygnusSolutions-Cygwin Files\CygwinMachine_Package_Dirs\build commands, and I am not

Re: where to find dig command?

2006-04-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Hiroki Sakagami (2006-04-28 16:19 +) Where is dig DNS lookup command? It seems that search at http://cygwin.com/packages/ has no result package. ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/contrib -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: LFTP Version 2.6.10 is very old

2006-05-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (2006-05-03 16:28 +) On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:51:27PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: Danny Harris, le Wed 03 May 2006 14:41:48 +0100, a ?crit : I'd love to have the time to do that! I'd be prepared to have a go at a one off update for now though, if anyone can point me

Re: export arrays from cygwin ksh

2006-05-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* bob (2006-05-23 12:37 +) I have an hp unix script that runs in ksh and am porting it to PC. You mean you have a ksh script that runs on HP Unix? It uses and exports arrays in hp unix. Does not seem to work in cygwin. does not seem to work in Cygwin... To quote an immortal phrase: can

Re: export arrays from cygwin ksh

2006-05-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* mwoehlke (2006-05-23 16:37 +) It does seem like this doesn't work - at least, not how I would expect it to - on bash (either on Cygwin or on Linux). Maybe you should try ksh on Cygwin. He said he did. Read the subject of this thread. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: please test ptys and ttys in the latest snapshot

2006-06-04 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (2006-06-04 17:26 +) On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:42:17PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I've rewritten some of the pty/tty code in the latest snapshot to work around problems that Dave Korn raised. Thanks to Dave for finding the problem and for his

Re: dialog/Xdialog or substitution in Cygwin ?

2006-06-08 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* LiuYan (2006-06-06 16:42 +) Is there a dialog and/or Xdialog package release in cygwin ? If not, can I found a substitution of it or will it be migrated to cygwin ? It compiles under Cygwin. So just migrate it yourself. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Uninstalling cygwin

2006-06-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* julien (2006-06-15 06:37 +) I got problems with cygwin under WinXP and I want to uninstall it completely to re-install it correctly. Cygwin is not in the Windows Configuration panel/Uninstall I first deleted the Cygwin root folder and all subfolders, then I re-installed Gygwin, but

Re: Unable to delete directory in Cygwin

2006-06-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gina Verlekar (2006-06-15 10:53 +) I have implemented some changes in the linker code for some intermediate processing. For that I need to create a temporary directory, generate some intermediate files in it, process those files by calling a function. After processing of the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.017-1

2006-06-19 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* René Berber (2006-06-18 23:22 +) Linda Walsh wrote: [snip] Vim 7 seems to still have a few kinks to work out and doesn't seem nearly as stable as vim64. Since vim7 is already out as vim, maybe vim6.4 could be made available as a separete vim6 or vim64 package for those not wanting

Re: Double backslashed registry names can't be found?

2006-07-15 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Stephen D Lindner (2006-07-15 01:35 +) OK, no more top posting...I can take a hint...erp, excuse me. Your quoting is way beyond good and evil... You can't check with regtool for values - only for keys. The documentation says it. On the other hand you shouldn't trust the documentation

psql crashes with snapshot

2013-02-18 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hello, I just downloaded the PostgreSQL client tools and noticed that psql crashes every time. The usual rebase didn't help. I reverted cygwin1.dll to the latest official version (1.7.17, 2012-10-19) and now psql works fine. What can I do - if anything at all - to debug the issue? Obviously,

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-22 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Fedin Pavel (Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:53:39 +0400) On 22.03.2013 11:44, Frank Fesevur wrote: I'm also considering adding possibility to customize the shutdown message: shutdown -rf 22:00 Rebooting because of Windows Updates. Who knows... And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the

Re: Obtaining Windows 7 behavior on Windows 8

2013-10-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Eliot Moss (Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:33:23 -0400) I am upgrading from one laptop to another, the old one running Windows 7 and the new one Windows 8. On the old one, I disabled UAC and bash appears to run with admin privileges (which is what I normally want). In particular, if I say 'groups'

Re: cygwin64 1.7.25 locate core dumps

2013-10-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:11:18 +0200) On Oct 25 20:19, Steve wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:45 PM, jeff.newmil...@dnvkema.com wrote: Could not find reports on core dumps in system programs recently, or problems with the locate tool. What I do:

Re: Newbie Alias and Profile questions

2014-02-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Mike Rushton (Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:28 -0500) I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc alias clear='printf \033c' clear is part of the ncurses package, so I would simply install this. But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user directory. I put this code in

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-27 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in recent snapshots. Reporting a possibly related bug in connection with the latest snapshots: connecting to

Re: Need general snapshot testers

2014-02-28 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:26:33 -0500) On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500) I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am working on a fix for this and the other screen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: tmux-1.9a-1

2014-03-07 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Michael Wild (Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:28:06 +0100) This is the first release of tmux that features support for Cygwin and despite me using it for some time now without any problems, you might encounter some rough edges. Should you find any glitches that are not due to my packaging, please report

Re: cygwin bash script suddenly can't find ls, grep

2014-10-12 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* LMH (Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:30:07 -0400) Good Lord, I guess I wasn't thinking very clearly trying to use PATH as a variable for something else. I changed to, FILE_DIR=$(ls -d './'$SET'/'$FOLD'/'$FOLD'_anneal/'$PARAM_SET'/'$AN_SET) echo $FILE_DIR FILE_LIST=($(ls $FILE_DIR'/'*'out.txt' ))

Re: Does sftp file system work in Cygwin?

2015-04-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Woody Setzer (Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:28:36 -0400) I am running Mate under Cygwin on a Windows 7 Professional system, and want to connect to a Linux server running on our local network. Ultimately, I will be connecting through my Agency's VPN, which is so slow as to render using X over that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.1

2016-01-24 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Corinna Vinschen (Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:56:54 +0100) > Please give this new POSIX.1e ACL implementation a test. If you > have > a project or maintain a package utilizing ACLs, please make sure that > your project picks up the new POSIX.1e API and that it works as desired. Procps warning: ``` $

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.5.0-0.11

2016-04-05 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Yaakov Selkowitz (Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:29:11 -0500) > Corinna just released a new Cygwin TEST version 2.5.0-0.11. > > If things are not going very wrong, this is basically what you'll > get as 2.5.0-1 release (really, we mean it this time). Please, please > test and report regressions. As

which does not find batch files

2016-09-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, while the Cygwin shell (bash and zsh) can find and execute batch files (extension bat and cmd) the external and internal which command cannot. Is there a way around this? Thorsten -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: which does not find batch files

2016-09-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:29:18 +0200) > while the Cygwin shell (bash and zsh) can find and execute batch > files (extension bat and cmd) the external and internal which command > cannot. Is there a way around this? On further inspection, it seems as the cause is that

Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe

2016-10-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gene Pavlovsky (Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:46:54 +0300) > > So, when installing, the type of symlinks doesn't honor the CYGWIN > option since they are just unpacked by tar as is. > > The question I'm proposing now - should `tar` be modified to honor the > CYGWIN option and automatically convert

Re: Native symlinks and setup.exe

2016-10-02 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Gene Pavlovsky (Sat, 1 Oct 2016 18:52:47 +0300) > > I'm installing Cygwin 64-bit on a fresh Win 7 x64 installation. > Before running setup.exe I've set the system env var CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native > After that I ran setup-x86_64.exe and installed cygwin64. > The symlinks to .exe files in bin,

/dev/stderr problem

2016-10-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
Hi, the following bash script results in a different output when redirected to a file. ``` printf "FIRST LINE\n" > /dev/stderr shopt -os xtrace printf "SECOMD LINE\n" > /dev/stderr ``` ``` $ bash script.sh FIRST LINE + printf 'SECOMD LINE\n' SECOMD LINE ``` ``` $ bash script.sh 2> file && cat

Re: /dev/stderr problem

2016-10-17 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Thorsten Kampe (Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:25:13 +0200) > the following bash script results in a different output when > redirected to a file. > > ``` > printf "FIRST LINE\n" > /dev/stderr > shopt -os xtrace > printf "SECOMD LINE\n" > /dev/s

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