Re: Passwordless authentication between two domains.

2012-11-28 Thread Brian Wilson
I am still getting the same error. And permissions are all good. When i run SSHD in debug i get this? Has anyone encountered this issue before. bash-3.2# /bin/sshd.exe -D -ddd -e debug2: load_server_config: filename /etc/sshd_config debug2: load_server_config: done config len = 206

Re: environment variables in ssh non-interactive shell

2012-11-12 Thread Brian Wilson
I'm trying to use environment variables to pilot a windows system through cygwin+ssh. Things work nicely with an interactive shell, but mess up with a non-interactive shell because my environment variables aren't set. -snip- Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? I'd suggest a

Re: Command line arguments

2012-11-01 Thread Brian Wilson
% ${1}, ${2}, etc. Also, you may want to read up on the getopts command as a % way to process command line arguments. % Technically, the {}'s are not needed. You can access them with $1, $2, ... % /path/to/$1.save/dir but not /path/to/$1save/dir you'd need the {} % (i.e.

Re: Command line arguments

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Wilson
If you have a script (e.g. foo.sh) and you wish to pass arguments to the script, your command line should look like foo.sh arg1 arg2 arg3... The number of arguments will be correct and you will be able to access them as ${1}, ${2}, etc. Also, you may want to read up on the getopts command as

Re: real beginer

2012-10-23 Thread Brian Wilson
Welcome to Cygwin Trixie. If you visit the Problems link on the Cygwin home page (http://cygwin.com/problems.html) you will see that there are some things you can do to help the community diagnose your issue. Please run the cygcheck command and attach the output file (see the web page

Re: gnome and hicolor exit code 127 for /usr/bin .vs. /bin

2012-10-08 Thread Brian Wilson
Package: gnubg gnubg.sh exit code 127 Package: Unknown package gnome-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 hicolor-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 --snip-- could you please try : /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache --force /usr/share/icons/gnome and ls -l /usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache

Re: gnome and hicolor exit code 127 for /usr/bin .vs. /bin

2012-10-01 Thread Brian Wilson
I have been doing setup updates for a few weeks with the error as shown in the following paragraph. Package: Unknown package gnome-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 hicolor-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 snip the scripts are not incorrect. They works for almost

Re: gnome and hicolor exit code 127 for /usr/bin .vs. /bin

2012-10-01 Thread Brian Wilson
I have been doing setup updates for a few weeks with the error as shown in the following paragraph. Package: Unknown package gnome-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 hicolor-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 snip the scripts are not incorrect. They works for

Re: gnome and hicolor exit code 127 for /usr/bin .vs. /bin

2012-09-30 Thread Brian Wilson
I have been doing setup updates for a few weeks with the error as shown in the following paragraph. Package: Unknown package gnome-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 hicolor-icon-theme.sh exit code 127 snip the scripts are not incorrect. They works for almost everyone, but there

Re: gnome and hicolor exit code 127 for /usr/bin .vs. /bin

2012-09-29 Thread Brian Wilson
do not hijack mail thread. Start a new one, please. My appologies. I had thought that changing the Subject line would start a new thread when I did a reply to the cygwin email address. I have been doing setup updates for a few weeks with the error as shown in the following paragraph.

Re: ssh tunneling and keys - how to...

2012-09-04 Thread Brian Wilson
You have your local computer connected to a second computer and want to go fro the second machine to a third machine (if I understand this). The connection from the local machine to the second machine works; but the connection from the second to the third does not work. You need to set up an

Fw: Re: Need help creating a script that is ran from a batch file.

2012-08-20 Thread Brian Wilson
Hi Michael The Cygwin general group is probably not the best place to get help with scripting. Places like LinkedIn.com's discussion boards would be a better place for tutoring. That said, there's nothing special about a script versus the commands you type in online. Take the command you

RE: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Wilson
Sometimes I don't understand the antagonism towards interop with native Windows programs that don't do anything unusual and do things by the (Windows) book. It seems like it defeats the point of the project if that goes too far. What's wrong with being pragmatic sometimes? There is

Re: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Wilson
Software built for Cygwin should _always_ follow *NIX behaviour. Yaakov Amen! -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-16 Thread Brian Wilson
This recent wish for SQLite on Cygwin to act more Unix-like is the first such request I've received, and I don't remember it being an issue with the previous maintainer, either. Maybe the reason is because subversion didn't use SQLite before? That's mere happenstance. There's

Re: RCS file corruption.

2012-06-21 Thread Brian Wilson
I suspect this happens because sometimes I edit the files on my Linux box and sometimes on my Windows box. If I remember correctly, RCS (and the earlier SCCS systems) were designed to work with source code (i.e. text files). They determined file changes based on lines added or deletes and

Re: 1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-04-12 Thread Brian Wilson
deamon, etc. I hope my notes are correct. :) Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson -- Original Message --- On 3/29/2012 9:10 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: From: Andrew I just got this exact same thing and tried re-installing coreutils with no effect. Initially, I had been installing

Re: 1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-03-29 Thread Brian Wilson
From: Andrew I just got this exact same thing and tried re-installing coreutils with no effect. Initially, I had been installing binutils, and was told to restart because I had left a cygwin console open during the install. Interested to hear what is known about this (recent) issue.

1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Wilson
I did my usual morning updates from Cygwin and saw the following error messages (thank you for the autorebase by the way, long needed, great idea). Package: Unknown package autorebase.bat exit code 1 coreutils.sh exit code 127 I've tried re-installing the coreutils package and

Re: 1.7.11-1 Update returns non-zero exit codes for coreutils

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Wilson
While I can run the Cygwin terminal window, there appears to be a very serious issue as I can't run commands like cd, ls, or cygcheck either. Can you tell us what this means? How did you determine that you can't run these commands? I opened the cygwin terminal and got the usual shell

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rebase-4.1.0-1

2012-03-28 Thread Brian Wilson
I hope it doesn't leave the system in an unusable state if some DLL is still in use. I may be wrong but I'm nearly certain that has been Corinna's goal from the start. She is sometimes just a little too M. A lot of her seemingly tireless efforts in getting Cygwin working are actually

Re: Cygwin 1.7.9 Apache2 startup question issue.

2011-10-31 Thread Brian Wilson
I would like to create a bug report on the cygrunsrv command. I've tried everything I can think of, and written to others who have web sites about using Cygwin and Apache, and no one was able to get Apache to run under another, secure, account from the administrative account with a command

Re: Cygwin 1.7.9 Apache2 startup question issue.

2011-08-15 Thread Brian Wilson
Hello Andrey: I'm having a bit of trouble with starting the Cygwin Apache2 package on my Windows XP (SP3) system. Why don't you use native Windows Apache HTTPD server? Because I'd like to use a more *nix like environment than Windows. ...Why does the apachectl2 help message display

Cygwin 1.7.9 Apache2 startup question issue.

2011-08-14 Thread Brian Wilson
I'm having a bit of trouble with starting the Cygwin Apache2 package on my Windows XP (SP3) system. If this is not the correct forum please accept my apologies and point me to the correct forum when you flame me. :) I have looked for a proper Cygwin User Guide for Apache2 and a Cygwin

Cygwin 1.7.9 Apache2 startup question issue.

2011-08-14 Thread Brian Wilson
I'm having a bit of trouble with starting the Cygwin Apache2 package on my Windows XP (SP3) system. If this is not the correct forum please accept my apologies and point me to the correct forum when you flame me. :) I have looked for a proper Cygwin User Guide for Apache2 and a Cygwin

Re: Drop pdksh?

2011-03-24 Thread Brian Wilson
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 05:13:02PM +0100, David Sastre wrote: Maybe it should be considered to drop pdksh from the distro, being mksh a mantained replacement and pdksh orphaned and upstream unmantained. This sounds like a good idea to me. Should I make this happen? cgf Oh great

Re: Newbie confused about chmod

2011-02-15 Thread Brian Wilson
I cannot chmod files I untarred into a folder and I cannot chmod a file I create in cgwin myself. I understood that you could do this if the file system was NTFS. The bottom line is I have an executable that is not executable. In addition to solving that though it might be nice to get

Re: scp just spews usage

2010-11-27 Thread Brian Wilson
Hi, I've been using ssh with cygwin for years w/ no issues.? After my last upgrade, I am not able to use scp (ssh still works). $ scp myfile myusern...@myserver:~ usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port]

Re: Odd No Package message.

2010-11-16 Thread Brian Wilson
\) Sent: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:33:53 -0500 Subject: Re: Odd No Package message. On 11/16/2010 7:16 AM, Brian Wilson wrote: I've been following several of the recent message threads dealing with setup user issues... That's fine but we'd ask that you start a new thread when you want to address

Re: SSH - Can't Login (3rd Post)

2010-10-31 Thread Brian Wilson
snip No, if it's reporting 1.7.1, I expect that's the version you're running. And I expect that's coming into play here. But go ahead and double check it in the Windows explorer. I expect you'll find it reports 1.7.1 too. This is a problem. I expect you know that you need to stop all

Re: SSH - Can't Login

2010-10-31 Thread Brian Wilson
On 31 October 2010 16:45, James Broadhead wrote: I also have this problem; Context? ssh ja...@192.168.1.15 usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]           [-I pkcs11] [-i

Re: SSH - Can't Login

2010-10-31 Thread Brian Wilson
On 31 October 2010 17:12, Brian Wilson wrote: In my case the context was that suddenly ssh stopped working and would only give the usage message no matter what I tried.  I ran the cygcheck -svr and noted that I did not have the latest Cygwin (1.7.7) installed even though running setup

Re: SSH - Can't Login (3rd Post)

2010-10-29 Thread Brian Wilson
On 10/28/2010 10:37 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: The ssh command and its response are just a cut and paste of the bash screen. Trying to execute ssh -v ncc-1701 gives exactly the same results (note there is no -v option in the displayed list). $ ssh wil...@ncc-1701 usage: ssh

Re: SSH - Can't Login (3rd Post)

2010-10-28 Thread Brian Wilson
I have the same problem and have not been able to resolve the issue either. I get the following from the type -a command. Invoking either [ssh version] from the bash shell with a complete path still just displays the usage message and gives a return code of 255. Everything

Re: SSH - Can't Login (3rd Post)

2010-10-26 Thread Brian Wilson
On 10/26/2010 1:53 PM, Charles Smith wrote: I'm apparently having the same problem you are - when I run the ssh client, it gives me the usage output. I discovered that if I go back to the previous version (5.5p1.2?), it works. Every time I update with setup.exe, I have to go back and reset

Re: diff issue

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Wilson
Greetings, All! I have strange (to me) issue that I'm not entirely sure how to interpret. Let's say I have two versions of the same batch file: The old version from CVS: rem $Id: backup.bat,v 1.1 2007/07/17 01:53:30 Daemon Exp $ rar a -ag--MM-DD_HH-MM -- MinerTimer

Re: use the list of files stored in a text file and process it

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Wilson
I store a list of files in a text file (test.txt) on Windows XP. I want to use the list of files and process it (e.g. ls). What is the command to do that? I tried the following commands but to no avail. $ cat test.txt test.txt $ cat test.txt | xargs ls : No such file or directory

Re: diff issue

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Wilson
Let's say I have two versions of the same batch file: The old version from CVS: rem $Id: backup.bat,v 1.1 2007/07/17 01:53:30 Daemon Exp $ rar a -ag--MM-DD_HH-MM -- MinerTimer @MinerTimer.list The new version I've imported to Subversion: @echo off rem $Id: backup.bat 10

Re: distro apache2 will not start

2010-09-17 Thread Brian Wilson
The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. Apache2 is too important to lose from the distro, so: I agree. I've been using the Apache2 binaries to run servers

Re: Problem with subversion-apache2

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Wilson
Is this the right board for rebase issues? Should I be looking somewhere else to determine which gcc and other tools I need. Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson -- Original Message --- From: Brian Wilson wil...@ds.net To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:03:21 -0400 Subject

Re: Problem with subversion-apache2

2010-08-06 Thread Brian Wilson
-only...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:40:08 -0400 Subject: Re: Problem with subversion-apache2 http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Yuck! Reformatted. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On 8/6/2010 3:25 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:03

Re: Incomplete downloads reported across several mirrors

2010-06-26 Thread Brian Wilson
By any chance, when you start a Cygwin shell do you occasionally get errors like 4 [main] bash 15592 C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D, top 0x74, reserve_size 454656, allocsize 458752, page_const 4096? This is an error I've run

Re: cygwin.com website

2010-03-20 Thread Brian Wilson
Wait a minute...  This new web page looks crisp and professional.  The information is easily seen and well laid out.  How will anyone know this is a volunteer software community supported project? Thank you for the redesign.  I think it looks great (my attempt at dark humor not withstanding).  

Re: Windows 7

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Wilson
--- From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:13:03 -0500 Subject: Re: Windows 7 On 01/29/2010 08:45 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: I had a similar problem upgrading on XP. I think my issue was related to a heap space allocation issue

Re: Windows 7

2010-01-29 Thread Brian Wilson
I had a similar problem upgrading on XP. I think my issue was related to a heap space allocation issue which prevents the shell from running during the installation. I found that failed installations left shell processes running, but not doing anything useful. Check the documentation as I

Re: Cygwin on FLOSS Weekly

2010-01-20 Thread Brian Wilson
I think it would be a great idea and might interest someone in joining the esteemed support team. That would be a nice bonus. Sincerely, Brian S. Wilson === Home: (678) 376-9258 Cell: (678) 232-9357 wil...@ds.net

RE: Can't set variables in a while loop that is passed to the rest of the script.

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Wilson
The pipe is what spawns the sub shell. In Unix the last process runs in your current shell. In Linux the first process of the pipe runs in the current shell. The difference is that when the while statement (which is run in the sub shell) finishes the sub shell dies and any variable changes

Re: setup 1.7.1 hangs on 000-cygwin-post-install.sh

2009-12-30 Thread Brian Wilson
I had the same problem and have written up the detailed solution on my own problem thread; but will share it again here. It looks like the issue is the shell is not starting (heap space error) so the installation won't complete it's last steps (which require running shell scripts). Don't know

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

2009-12-28 Thread Brian Wilson
I've always installed to the default locations, and I removed everything from the default C:\cygwin\ folder so I would have a clean install. I also cleaned the registry of everything I could find and used a registry cleaner tool (Advanced System Care One) to try and get everything I couldn't

Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

2009-12-28 Thread Brian Wilson
-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:26:49 -0500 Subject: Re: 1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:18:25AM -0500, Brian Wilson wrote: There is a warning about multiple cygwin1.dlls in my path. I've run a windows search

1.7.1-1 Install freeze of Cygwin post install.sh

2009-12-27 Thread Brian Wilson
I'm running a Dell XPS (single core 3GHz processor) with WinXP SP3 with latest patches. My system has 4GB memory installed and 20GB free disk space available. I had 1.5 installed and working well. I tried to upgrade to 1.7 and received many errors and could not complete the installation