Re: Command echo

2015-11-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
from a cmd window and then start cmd you will not get the echoing. If, however, you start cmd from a bash shell that is in a mintty window then you're using pty's and you'll get echoing. Likewise if you run bash in a cmd window, then say ssh to another machine, you're n

Re: Every time I run ssh, ssh prompts "password:" with latest OpenSSH package.

2015-09-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
insecure (quite opposite), FIPS compliant systems enforce DSA key length to 1024 bits, which is considered to be weak nowadays. You CAN use longer DSA keys, but not all systems support it. Or perhaps use ecdsa? ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -- http://defaria.com";>Andrew DeFaria http://clearscm.

Re: Clean up /tmp on system reboot [was: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0]

2015-04-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
cron service is started. Regards, Frank I haven't used it either, but I saw it there. Makes you wonder what would happen if you simply restarted the service or stopped it and then started it again. -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

Re: Clean up /tmp on system reboot [was: Xorg server always starting up on DISPLAY 3.0]

2015-04-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
on system start that changes directory to the Cygwin /bin directory and executes sh -c 'rm -f /tmp/*'. -- cyg Simple Or use cron... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Re: X11Forward and xauth problems

2015-03-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 3/26/2015 3:06 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Not having to wait 20 seconds every time I start a remote terminal would be a plus too! -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation

Re: X11Forward and xauth problems

2015-03-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 3/26/2015 12:12 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 25/03/2015 17:40, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Prediction: This problem probably will end up having something to do with the permissions and file system that ~/.Xauthority resides on, which is, I believe, a NetApp. This file system is the file system for the

Re: X11Forward and xauth problems

2015-03-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
cp. Now I get: Sorry for any ambiguity, but you have misunderstood what I wrote. If you want explicitly setting DISPLAY and allowing access using xhost to work, you must start the server with the option '-listen tcp'. Sorry I misunderstood. This works for me and is a work around. But I

Re: X11Forward and xauth problems

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 3/23/2015 2:06 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 23/03/2015 20:48, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Normally I just turn on -X (or put X11Forward yes in ~/.ssh/config) but that usually results in a noticeable delay in logging in and the following error: Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key

X11Forward and xauth problems

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
olution(s): Either that ssh -X complains about .Xauthority but still reliably puts up X clients or I can use xhost + and export DISPLAY. -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentat

Re: Error from Perl when running git add -p

2015-03-11 Thread Andrew DeFaria
rt available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 0 DB<1> f Error Choosing /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14/Error.pm matching `Error': 1 # Error.pm -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.co

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 2/26/2015 2:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 14:21, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 2/26/2015 12:24 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 12:04, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 2/25/2015 4:12 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 15:52 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Can somebody

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 2/26/2015 12:24 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 26 12:04, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 2/25/2015 4:12 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 15:52 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Can somebody summarize where we're at here. I've been noticing all this email about slow start

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 2/25/2015 4:12 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 15:52 -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Can somebody summarize where we're at here. I've been noticing all this email about slow startup and I'm excited by the inclusion of domain accounts using /etc/nsswitch.conf, et

Re: slow startup after upgrade

2015-02-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
the slowdown myself. Unfortunately I'm too busy to actively participate but it looks like some good progress has been made. Should I update or is everything still in snapshots? Thanks in advance. -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FA

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/21/2014 2:09 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! On 11/21/2014 10:58 AM, Warren Young wrote: Warning: cygwin1.dll not found on your path this is curious It’s happening because he’s not running cygcheck under Cygwin, since Cygwin won’t start on his system. Hence, c

Re: Unable to use Mintty - Fresh Install

2014-11-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
checks, and why it complains about things like awk not found. You don't need mintty to "run cygwin". Open a cmd prompt and do C:\Cygwin\bin\bash -i --login (Or wherever you installed Cygwin). -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: /usr/local, /var and */tmp in c:\Users\Public

2014-11-12 Thread Andrew DeFaria
ed to reinstall. However, as a contractor I've often had the need to install again... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
rectories rarely are shared.... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: how to embed shell script within a .BAT file

2014-11-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
gt; Sorry for my terrible english... I always thought it odd that MS invents UNC's then fails to support them properly in their own tools. Try pushd on a UNC path... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: perl -d causes completion to fail

2014-10-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
option D is the best choice for me at this moment as this is the only thing that doesn't complete for me and I'm about to be hammered at work and too busy to follow up on this. Maybe later. Damn good response though! Thanks. -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports:

Re: perl -d causes completion to fail

2014-10-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/20/2014 1:05 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 10/20/2014 1:04 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/20/2014 4:23 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Whatever you're using doesn't seem to be the Cygwin bash-completion package. Both x86 and x86_64 install /etc/bash_completion.d/perl: https://cygwin.co

Re: perl -d causes completion to fail

2014-10-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/20/2014 4:23 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 03:08:42PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/15/2014 2:30 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Adefaria-lt:ls /etc/bash_completion.d/perl ls: cannot access /etc/bash_completion.d/perl: No such file or directory Adefaria-lt:ls /usr/share

Re: perl -d causes completion to fail

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/15/2014 2:30 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/15/2014 11:47 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 04:22:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Now I did some Bash completion stuff before so I'm familiar but where would I find which completion thing causes this to work but on

Re: perl -d causes completion to fail

2014-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/15/2014 11:47 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 04:22:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Now I did some Bash completion stuff before so I'm familiar but where would I find which completion thing causes this to work but only if -d was not specified? Specify some other

perl -d causes completion to fail

2014-10-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I'm a big fan of Perl and using Perl's debugger (i.e. perl -d

Re: locale -uU in ~/.profile

2014-09-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 9/30/2014 1:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/30/2014 11:53 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I recently debugged this. I share my home directory from a NetApp filer such that I can use it from Cygwin or the various Linux machines at my client (largely CentOS). Recently I started seeing: Adefaria

locale -uU in ~/.profile

2014-09-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Now this .profile came from a refreshing of Cygwin. How best to handle this... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
n the default for decades... The man page it's the default but you should proob) -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe i

Re: About cygstart in Cygwin64

2014-08-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
ed.. This is a minor issue but I wonder if there is a way to avoid it. Any self respecting Windows app should honor either $TMP or $TEMP. Non self respecting Windows apps should be uninstalled ;-) -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html F

Re: Problem with cron jobs

2014-08-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
your script. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 21.08.2014, <18:24> Sorry for my terrible english... $ man bash | grep abort Control-G will abort an incremental search and restore the original abort (C-g) It might be better if your searched for "erre

Re: Cygwin terminal collapse

2014-08-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
see if anybody has had this problem before". Then the sales rep pipes up and says "Naw, we'll just call the office and order a new car!" -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 8/4/2014 8:41 PM, Doug Henderson wrote: On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: On 8/4/2014 7:52 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Thankfully, the "rough attitude" is not held by everyone, though it sometimes has been seen in people who carry platinum watches

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
mine. You sir, are no platinum watch. :-D (I'm afraid I'm dating myself with my "artist's interpretation" of this quote - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator,_you%27re_no_Jack_Kennedy#Transcript). What's a "watch"? ;-) -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria

Re: Basic question about cygport

2014-08-04 Thread Andrew DeFaria
mine. You sir, are no platinum watch. :-D (I'm afraid I'm dating myself with my "artist's interpretation" of this quote - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator,_you%27re_no_Jack_Kennedy#Transcript). -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports:

Re: Withdrawing from the project

2014-08-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
best wishes in your new endeavor. Your efforts here were very much appreciated. Linda Walsh Indeed! Thanks for all your hard work and patience. I just wished that I could have persuaded you and Corinna to get on the FLOSS weekly podcast... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem repo

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-08-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
o days ago. Yes, yes, I know. I wanted to react from the heart, without the intellectual baggage of knowing the technical intricacies behind the problem. D. Yes, who wants the facts to get in the way of a good emotion! ;-) -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 7/30/2014 1:48 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 07/30/2014 04:04 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 7/30/2014 11:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 30 11:15, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 7/30/2014 6:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: When it is, how would I install it? The existing code is in

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 7/30/2014 11:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 30 11:15, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 7/30/2014 6:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: When it is, how would I install it? The existing code is in almost all developer snapshots of the last few months. Just try the last one from http

Re: Simplify AD integration?

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
, or always? Bonus question: 4. Should Cygwin downcase all usernames when generating the Cygwin username, so, if your Windows username is 'Ralph', your Cygwin username will be 'ralph'? I say downshift them! -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports:

Re: Trusted vs untrusted ssh/X connections

2014-06-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 6/19/2014 7:37 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 06/19/2014 04:25 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: This is something that's been bothering me for a long time and I thought I might look into it a little deeper. I'm not sure if I should post this here because it involves Cygwin/X but it als

Trusted vs untrusted ssh/X connections

2014-06-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
091s sys 0m0.477s Adefaria-lt: Bonus points if you can help me get right of the other errors! -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: Building cpan module that links with proprietary libs

2014-05-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/30/2014 1:01 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 5/29/2014 6:42 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: As a result, you will never get code compiled with g++ to link with these libraries. There is no common ABI among C++ compilers. Thus, the

Re: Building cpan module that links with proprietary libs

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
27;s C++ compiler or write your own "shim" library that wraps the necessary calls and objects in a C API, compile that with VS, and link your program against the APIs in your library. Being as this code is proprietary I doubt that Perforce will release it to me to compile but I will po

Re: Building cpan module that links with proprietary libs

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/29/2014 1:29 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote: Hi Andrew, On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm attempting to build a cpan module (well actually it's not a cpan module but rather a module that uses MakeMaker and has the familiar perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, ma

Building cpan module that links with proprietary libs

2014-05-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
e .dll? Meantime it fails with many undefined references. I think I might need to do perl Makefile.PL with other opts to tell it that while it's using Cygwin and can be very Linux-like, it needs to produce .dll's and not .a's or .o's. Has anybody managed to do this? What am

Re: Enquiry on Cygwin function - file sharing between Windows and Windows

2014-05-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
the ssh server. Which, luckily, comes with Cygwin! Yes install the OpenSSH package in Cygwin and Cygwin with OpenSSH and on the remote Windows server. Run ssh-host-config to set up the service and scp (or sftp) to your heart's content... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Proble

Re: Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/7/2014 5:12 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 5/6/2014 11:42, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Adefaria-lt:cygrunsrv -I httpd2 -d 'CYGWIN Apache2' -p This may be your problem. While poking around in /usr/sbin, I found httpd2-config, which is 167 lines long, so it must be doing something fai

Re: Newer version of Perl?

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/7/2014 5:17 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 5/7/2014 16:10, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Apologies if this has been asked before. Actually, I brought it up here yesterday, as a result of trying to help you with mod_perl alternatives: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-05/msg00113.html What the

Newer version of Perl?

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Apologies if this has been asked before. What the latest version of Perl available for Cygwin. I see 5.14 but I know that 5.16 and 5.18 are out. -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
did! It's been a long time and in the meantime somebody made /usr/sbin/httpd2-config which sets up the service nicely. On 5/7/2014 12:13 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 5/7/2014 6:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Goal: Set up Apache2 on my Windows laptop with mod_perl working as well as Apache2::AuthCooki

Re: Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/7/2014 6:33 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Andrew DeFaria! Hey guys! I missed you! :-) Personally I prefer Cygwin Apache because all of the pathing then can be POSIX-like and can easily port to Linux systems later on. Plus Cygwin's Perl is, IMHO, far superior to ActiveState.

Re: Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew DeFaria
text/html\r\n\r\n"; Read http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-4 pretty please. Normally I use CGI and call start_html. This script I just grabbed off the net as a simple test. Note that LF works just find and CRLF does not seem to be required. -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com

Re: Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/6/2014 2:51 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 5/6/2014 15:10, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Yeah thanks for all of that but really my real goal was just to get Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP working. Plack::Middleware::Auth::Basic supports LDAP auth: http://goo.gl/O7RHgp Personally I prefer Cygwin Apache

Re: Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 5/6/2014 12:33 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 5/6/2014 11:42, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I could just switch to a Linux server but I figured I'd try my Windows laptop first. Don't neglect the option of running a minimal Linux VM on the laptop. You can shove a headless Linux VMs into a pr

Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Forgive me if this is double posted. I posted yesterday after a long hiatus of posting anything to the Cygwin Mailing list and it didn't seem to show up so I'm trying again. If anybody sees this then a quick email to adefa...@audience.com saying you saw it would clear that up. I've been workin

Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
/bin/cpan line 12\cJ" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/CPAN.pm line 392. CPAN::shell() called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/App/Cpan.pm line 338 App::Cpan::_process_options("App::Cpan") called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/App/Cpan.pm line 421 App::Cpan::run("App::Cpan&qu

Setting up Apache2 with mod_perl and Apache2::AuthCookieLDAP

2014-05-06 Thread Andrew DeFaria
bin/cpan line 12\cJ" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/CPAN.pm line 392. CPAN::shell() called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/App/Cpan.pm line 338 App::Cpan::_process_options("App::Cpan") called at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/App/Cpan.pm line 421 App::Cpan::run("App::Cpan&q

Re: git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"

2013-11-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/05/2013 03:35 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/31/2013 08:04 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/26/2013 03:12 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: It's been very quite about

Re: git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"

2013-11-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/31/2013 08:04 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 10/26/2013 03:12 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: It's been very quite about this issue. Usually at least somebody responds. I fear that perhaps nobody's seeing this. Could somebod

Re: git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"

2013-10-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/26/2013 03:12 PM, Balaji Venkataraman wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: It's been very quite about this issue. Usually at least somebody responds. I fear that perhaps nobody's seeing this. Could somebody, anybody, simply respond if even just to say &q

Re: git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"

2013-10-26 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/23/2013 07:56 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Please excuse any duplication. I'm getting the following when attempting to clone a large git repository using Cygwin's git: $ git clone gitolite@172.20.10.200:axcient Cloning into 'axcient'... remote: Counting objects:

git clone failing with "fatal: index-pack failed"

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
/3) 2013-08-31 20:37 x86_64 Cygwin $ I saw some things about this a while ago. Has this been fixed? -- Andrew DeFaria -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

git clone - error: index-pack died of signal 11

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I know this has been asked before, a while ago. But I was wondering if this issue has been fixed yet. I'm doing a git clone of a large git repository using Cygwin and it fails: Administrator@MATER2K8SHPT /cygdrive/d/cygwin $ git clone gitolite@172.20.10.200:axcient Cloning into 'axcient'... rem

Re: Using cygpath with backticks

2013-06-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
posix path then that's already what cygpath does. And the following also would work: $ alias pathw='cygpath -w' $ pathw /cygdrive/c C:\ $ -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Cranial-rectal inversion disorder - a condition where one's head is where one's

Re: dosfilewarning

2013-06-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
27;re not getting the message, you still have a process somewhere keeping the DLL in memory. Sounds like a job for Process Explorer... -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Question: Why do people always seem to find things in the last place that they look? Answer: Because most p

Re: X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0

2013-06-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/18/2013 04:01 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 18/06/2013 17:23, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Lately I noticed the following error when attempting to ssh from my Ubuntu Not sure if "lately" means you haven't changed anything, but it didn't report this error before, or you'

X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0

2013-06-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
issue. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> If you knees bent the other way, what would chairs look like? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/17/2013 07:18 PM, g...@malth.us wrote: Mostly, I couldn't resist giving a literal answer to Andrew's (maybe-not-so-literally-intended) question of "why not fix it?" (nevertheless, I did fix it, already). I see, and I rest my case... -- Andrew DeFaria <http://def

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/17/2013 12:01 PM, Dan Kegel wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm confused. Let me ask a different way - why not fix such scripts instead? That's all I'm asking. He's probably daunted by the thought. Doesn't really address the question. OK, I'm out of h

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
it. -gmt If upstream code is broken it's broken. You can 1) fix it and submit it as a patch or 2) don't fix it and find a better solution. Stripping off additional '/''s is not that hard a problem to solve - even in spaghetti code. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defa

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 06/17/2013 10:35 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrew DeFaria writes: I'm trying to understand the reluctance towards "fixing the problem" and instead the insistence on "putting a band aid on it". So in the above, why would you not instead do --prefix=/usr/local? Becaus

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
mmend against implementing this -- a great many configure scripts test for whether // == /, which means packages could break if packagers happened to build while using the proposed anti-feature-feature (the inevitable response being, "shouldn't those packages just fix their broken configure s

Re: UNC and POSIX paths

2013-06-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
t;not very well written configure scripts and makefiles" instead? BTW I've never come across a single one of those. Where are you getting yours? -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Very funny Scotty - now beam down my clothes. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: when will the cygwin site come up?

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew DeFaria
l. And if you don't have a recent copy you can get one from http://defaria.com/tmp/setup.exe (<- will be deleted in 7 days) -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> I don't have a license to kill. I have a learner's permit. -- Problem reports: h

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
nment then we'll use that - otherwise we'll use what's in /etc/passwd (and I think last resort /home/). -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> This space for rent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

Re: How do I change the default home directory after I fire up cygwin?

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
to /home/. In this manner everybody's happy and no matter which architecture you're on (Windows/Linux/Solaris/etc) home is always /home/... There's no place like $HOME... :-) -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> This space for rent -- Problem reports:

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 1/17/2013 4:31 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/16/2013 08:27 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/16/2013 07:24 AM, Tim Prince wrote: I still remember the occasion 15 years ago when I entered "rsh tim" and fo

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 01/16/2013 08:27 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 01/16/2013 07:24 AM, Tim Prince wrote: I still remember the occasion 15 years ago when I entered "rsh tim" and found myself logged in as the head of corporate IT with root privilege. Did you do "rm -rf /"

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
window logged in as root. Guess what I did... Never leave a root bash shell open to the public... -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> As I always say "I never repeat myself" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
et more support by using ssh. Maybe you could describe exactly what you are doing with rsh... -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
td.README. I'm curious - is there a reason you don't want to use the more secure ssh? -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> This space for rent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cy

Re: How to make persistent changes to PATH in cygwin?

2013-01-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
a moment to read the bash(1) man page and familiarize yourself with it's startup capabilities. Take control of your own environment. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> This space for rent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: adding a folder to my path

2013-01-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
FreeBSD paths and Windows paths to path_dirs. The net result is that I get the right set of paths on each of these systems dynamically. YMMV. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> This space for rent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:

Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses

2012-12-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 12/21/2012 10:51 AM, bartels wrote: On 12/21/2012 07:30 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: On 12/21/2012 10:11 AM, bartels wrote: So where can I find strace? Where did you look? $ type strace strace is /bin/strace strace is one of my favourite toys on linux. Somehow, I never located it on cygwin

Re: trouble accessing samba shares with spaces and/or parentheses

2012-12-21 Thread Andrew DeFaria
m in their scripts. This is a recipe for errors. Other people say sometimes that some Windows apps can't work with UNC paths. I don't know of any that have this problem anymore. Q:/ doesn't tell me where this directly is located... -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> T

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/30/2012 9:35 AM, David T-G wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew -- ...and then Andrew DeFaria said... % %On 11/30/2012 06:00 AM, David T-G wrote: % % But what if the evil is not real in the first place? % %I love it when people respond to my taglines. [snip

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 11/29/2012 3:28 AM, David T-G wrote: Andrew, et al -- ...and then Andrew DeFaria said... % % On 11/28/2012 1:21 PM, anulav2 wrote: % >Andrew, % >Keys will "ALWAYS" be different irrespective if it is two servers on same % >or different domain. % >That is the whole po

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
7;s why sharing your home directory is a good thing and that's why I always work to get my home directory shared between Windows and Linux systems. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> I'm a tagline virus, please copy me to your signature file -- Problem reports: http://cygw

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
also mean that you cannot share home directories between two different domains... And i have tried regenerating them again. I have added rsa.pub files to authorized_keys on remote servers. No luck. From: Andrew DeFaria-2 [via Cygwin] To: anulav2 Sent

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-28 Thread Andrew DeFaria
do passwordless authentication between two different machines in Domain A? -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docu

Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
ntication with ssh. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.htm

Re: Command line arguments

2012-11-02 Thread Andrew DeFaria
d to convey a higher and deeper meaning. Think about it instead of simply taking it literally. And with that I think we should end this, pretty much off topic discussion (take it to email if you'd like). -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> One time a cop pulled me over for running a st

Re: Command line arguments

2012-11-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
y from things like contractions under a habit of always spelling out all words even if they aren't absolutely necessary... YMMV. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not wha

Re: Command line arguments

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 10/31/2012 12:40 PM, David T-G wrote: Andrew, et al -- ...and then Andrew DeFaria said... % % On 10/31/2012 11:23 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: ... % >${1}, ${2}, etc. Also, you may want to read up on the getopts command as a % >way to process command line arguments. % Technically, the {}

Re: Command line arguments

2012-10-31 Thread Andrew DeFaria
"/path/to/$1/dir". But if you wanted to do something like this - "This is the ${1}parameter" or even "/path/to/$1.save/dir" but not "/path/to/$1save/dir" you'd need the {} (i.e. "/path/to/${1}save/dir" because otherwise the shell would be loo

Re: real beginer

2012-10-24 Thread Andrew DeFaria
ust before it exits with a status of 2 would be extremely interesting -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: real beginer

2012-10-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
he make. You really should approach the people who maintain this package and ask them about it. This package is not Cygwin. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: real beginer

2012-10-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
ule command? Currently I'm not using gpu (there is option to load cuda configure --enable-cuda-gpu) I'm just trying to make sure this thing works at all. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing what I was doi

Re: real beginer

2012-10-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Windows, are reasonable options too. If you're using Cygwin's gcc/fortran and linker I suspect you'll need .dll's not .a's. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: real beginer

2012-10-23 Thread Andrew DeFaria
tenacious in their goal of getting this done. I would highly recommend you contact the developers of BigDFT and ask if they have considered porting it to Cygwin. -- Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com> And whose cruel idea was it to put an S in the word Lisp? -- Problem reports: http://cy

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