Re: [EXTERNAL] BUG: /usr/bin/uptime always reports 0/0/0 average

2024-08-27 Thread Jeff Rankin via Cygwin
Here's what I get with those commands: jeffr@Callisto: ~ $ uptime 10:53:42 up 3:42, 0 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 jeffr@Callisto: ~ $ cat /proc/loadavg 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/14 Cygwin version 3.5.3-1.x86_64 Jeff From: Cygwin on behalf of Lavre

Re: BUG: /usr/bin/uptime always reports 0/0/0 average

2024-08-27 Thread Jeff Rankin via Cygwin
I'm not sure if it's known or not, but there appear to be issues with multiple tools included in the procps-ng package. I reported a similar issue a while back regarding user and system reports in w, top, uptime, etc. Jeff From: Cygwin on behalf of

top, who, w no longer report users

2024-07-06 Thread Jeff Rankin via Cygwin
5.3-1. Thank you - Jeff Rankin -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: posix thread scaling issue

2023-09-02 Thread jeff via Cygwin
On 9/2/2023 12:59, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-09-02 12:27, jeff via Cygwin wrote: On 9/2/2023 10:56, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-09-02 08:57, jeff via Cygwin wrote: I have a program that is embarrassing parallel. On my older computer which has an epyc 7302 (16 cores,  32 threads) it scales

Re: posix thread scaling issue

2023-09-02 Thread jeff via Cygwin
On 9/2/2023 10:56, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2023-09-02 08:57, jeff via Cygwin wrote: I have a program that is embarrassing parallel. On my older computer which has an epyc 7302 (16 cores,  32 threads) it scales very well using cygwin, and fully utilized all threads. On my new computer which has

posix thread scaling issue

2023-09-02 Thread jeff via Cygwin
that doesn't scale well with lots of posix threads. I know this is a bit of an unusual situation, but you can buy a 128 core / 256 thread system now. Enclosed is the output of cygcheck. I updated my version of cygwin to be current as of today, Sep 2 2023. thanks, jeff Cygwin Configur

External static library within Cygwin

2021-03-22 Thread Jeff Josephs
I have a third party external static library in native Windows, and I am trying to use it within my Cygwin project. After looking at the static library, I noticed that it uses name mangling, and when compiling the Cygwin project, I get undefined references. Aside from modifying the third party lib

Re: BIM Modeling Services !!!

2020-08-17 Thread Jeff Johnson via Cygwin
Hello, Hope you are doing well. Our company specializes in BIM modeling services (Tender, Permit, Construction & GFC sets). Please let us know if you are interested in getting any BIM, Modeling or 2D/3D drafting work done. Look forward. Thanks, Jeff -- Problem rep

Re: wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

2020-05-18 Thread jeff
t; could be at play, but I don't see why it would behave like this. I can make a small tar file with some files with odd names if that would help. jeff -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://

Re: wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

2020-05-18 Thread jeff
On 5/18/2020 11:03 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 17:21, jeff wrote: On 5/18/2020 8:55 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, jeff! I have a directory that has some files with odd files. I can do a 'ls', successfully. However if I do a 'ls *'' I get:

Re: wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

2020-05-18 Thread jeff
On 5/18/2020 8:55 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, jeff! I have a directory that has some files with odd files. I can do a 'ls', successfully. However if I do a 'ls *'' I get: ls: cannot access '*': No such file or directory Here is ls output: 'Highla

wildcards don't work in directory with files with odd characters

2020-05-18 Thread jeff
2.mkv' 'Highlander-S03E22-Final'$'\303\251''_Part_II-23.mkv' I am pretty sure this used to work. This is not specific to ls. wc has the same behavior for example. cygcheck.out is enclosed. thanks, jeff Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Mon M

RE: Juniper/HP/Aruba/Huawei/VMWare and Arista

2020-03-09 Thread Jeff Kosowsky
UnsubscribeSent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Julius Matthys Date: 3/9/20 3:26 PM (GMT-05:00) To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Juniper/HP/Aruba/Huawei/VMWare and Arista Hi there,Would you like to target accounts of below technologies in order

Bison 3.0.5 Update

2019-01-21 Thread Jeff Gullett
GNU Bison Maintainer- Is there any chance you have the time to build a GNU Bison 3.0.5 Cygwin package? Thanks, -Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: out of handles

2018-11-21 Thread Jeff Kish Home
Thanks- I’ll look for those settings- What makes you think it it a TCP/IP setting? I.e. what led your analysis to this point? Regards Jeff Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 21, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > > Greetings, jeff kish! > >> I am trying to get cygwin

out of handles

2018-11-21 Thread jeff kish
[gtk_init_check() failed] Finally I downloaded the very latest version and had the same error... I tried loading the libs I could find from this post, but it still fails with the handles error. Does anyone have any steps to fix/troubleshoot? thanks Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

X windows fatal errors following install of Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803

2018-05-03 Thread Jeff Rankin
information. Thank you - Jeff -- 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: RE : SOT Annual Meeting - Attendees List

2018-03-02 Thread Jeff Lightner
Cygwin continues to pass these spam messages about selling email and other lists.  In the meantime it refuses legitimate emails simply due to corporate legal disclaimers that senders don't control.  No doubt I'll get banned but I can't help pointing out such ludicrous disparities. ---

Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

2017-07-11 Thread jeff
On 7/11/2017 11:10 AM, Garber, Dave (GE Oil & Gas, Non-GE) wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On >> Behalf Of jeff >> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:56 PM >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >

Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

2017-07-11 Thread jeff
On 7/11/2017 10:51 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2017-07-10 23:07, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Am 11.07.2017 um 00:38 schrieb jeff: >>> On 7/10/2017 1:21 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >>>> jeff writes: >>>>> jeff_xeon:/cygdrive/u:503: gpg2 --output fred.good --de

Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

2017-07-10 Thread jeff
On 7/10/2017 1:21 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > jeff writes: >> jeff_xeon:/cygdrive/u:503: gpg2 --output fred.good --decrypt fred.gpg >> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID A3791E7DD935A424, created >> 2013-03-21 >> "Jeff Deifik " >> gpg: publ

Re: problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

2017-07-10 Thread jeff
On 7/10/2017 12:42 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Am 10.07.2017 um 16:29 schrieb jeff: >> I installed gnupg2 and several versions of pinentry. >> When I try to use it with engmail on thunderbird, I don't get prompted >> for a passphrase. >> >> My engmail setup wor

problem with gnupg2 not prompting for passphrase

2017-07-10 Thread jeff
nupg2 from the command line: xeon:/cygdrive/u:502: gpg2 --output fred.good --decrypt fred.gpg gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID A3791E7DD935A424, created 2013-03-21 "Jeff Deifik " gpg: public key decryption failed: No such device or address gpg: decryption failed: No secret

fstab /tmp usertemp error after Windows Update

2017-06-27 Thread Jeff Howard
to prevent permissions issues. I also updated the Cygwin binaries for good measure, and the issue still persists. Examples of my fstab and output from "mount" are in-line below. Note that the directory "/3" does not exist in my local temp folder - "C:/Users/Jeff/AppDa

Re: gmp-6.1.1-1

2016-08-28 Thread jeff
t; https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg0.html > > The problem has been resolved, and all of my code now compiles. thanks, jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: I sent in a bug report and never heard anything back

2016-08-27 Thread jeff
about how cygwin is built and installed to know how different versions of the GMP library might be distributed for different Intel processors. But the problem is not going to go away, and really should be addressed in order to make cygwin run on all reasonable platforms. jeff -- Problem reports

Re: I sent in a bug report and never heard anything back

2016-08-26 Thread jeff
r the cygwin people to address it. Since I sent the bug report in Aug 1, and I have gotten no useful response from cygwin, I will be reporting the issue directly to the gcc folks. jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Document

Re: I sent in a bug report and never heard anything back

2016-08-26 Thread jeff
t old, I suspect they will say update the compiler, which is likely something that cygwin should do ao it may benefit everyone, not just me. thanks, jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

I sent in a bug report and never heard anything back

2016-08-16 Thread jeff
I sent in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2016-08/msg0.html about an internal compiler error with gcc. It has been about 2 weeks and I have gotten no reply. It would be nice to fix this bug. thanks, jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

gcc 5.4.0 internal compiler error

2016-07-31 Thread jeff
re is the source code: /** $Id: SubFloat.c,v 1.18 2013/10/05 22:40:24 jdeifik Exp $ filename: SubFLoat.c purpose:General purpose floating point specific functions. version:1.0 date: 06/11/97 author: Jeff turbo Deifik aka tu...@weasel.com **/ #include

git gui menu fonts are too small, unreadable

2016-06-07 Thread Jeff Buckles
is attached with usernames redacted. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks and Best Regards, -- Jeff Buckles -- jeff.buckles-cyg...@bookloaf.net -- Aloha, OR, USA cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: h

request for gnupg v2

2016-03-11 Thread jeff
Is there a way to update Cygwin's version of gnupg to version 2? I tried to compile it and all the dependencies myself, but I ran into some roadblocks. I use thunderbird and enigmail now requires gnupg 2. Thanks, Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: bug with python3 (3.4.3) and array

2015-12-27 Thread jeff
sue. Same incomplete result from cygcheck. This is from ftp mirror cs vt edu So I am guessing the incomplete package is a cygwin issue... jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

Re: bug with python3 (3.4.3) and array

2015-12-27 Thread jeff
n Sun, 2015-12-27 at 07:43 -0800, jeff wrote: > python3 doesn't seem to have the module array, which is part of > python3 > standard library > It used to work fine with previous versions of cygwin. [snip] > Included is cygcheck.out Which answers your question: > Missing f

bug with python3 (3.4.3) and array

2015-12-27 Thread jeff
ine, to get python 2.x Included is cygcheck.out thanks, jeff Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sun Dec 27 07:34:18 2015 Windows 7 Ultimate Ver 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 Path: C:\cygwin64\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin64\bin\ C:\cygwin64\bin C:\Windows\sy

Mintty 2.2.2: possible hang when breaking (CTRL+C) out of pinging unresponsive host

2015-11-24 Thread Jeff Hansen
good people. but I am at my wits end at what to try here. Any and all suggestions that works towards a solution is very welcome. -Jeff cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: LPR output disappearing

2014-06-29 Thread Jeff Hubbs
On 6/27/14, 9:35 PM, David Masterson wrote: Hmmm. Then why is LPR the default for printing from GV ? GV was able to display the file fine Sent from my iPhone GV isn't like your printer. Your printer may react as intended if you were sending it Postscript because it may have the code inside t

Re: Missing strings.exe in binutils

2014-06-01 Thread Jeff Hubbs
On 6/1/14, 8:28 PM, Cliff Hones wrote: On 02/06/2014 00:01, Jeff Hubbs wrote: I have a script within a very complex software package that uses the "strings" command. Everything I Googled/read suggests that strings.exe comes from the binutils package. The problem is that neit

Missing strings.exe in binutils

2014-06-01 Thread Jeff Hubbs
e I can just fly into place for the time being? Thanks, - Jeff -- 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

BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Jeff Crowell
running zsh locks up MinTTY requiring a force close Steps to Reproduce: 1) Copy http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f63b/index.htm 2) paste into ZSH 3) press enter Actual Results: MinTTY hangs and does not respond Expected Results: prints "command not found" -- Jeff Crow

Re: fstab mounting fails for some cygwin users

2013-04-11 Thread Jeff Avila
(3, 0x1) 54 88335 [main] ls 3892 init_cygheap::close_ctty: closing cygheap->ctty 0x61273B90 52 88387 [main] ls 3892 fhandler_base::close_with_arch: closing passed in archetype, usecount 0 259 88646 [main] ls 3892 fhandler_console::free_console: freed console, res 1 66 88712 [main] ls

cygwin fstab odd behavior

2013-04-11 Thread Jeff Avila
Hi there, Using a combination of Cygwin 1.7.17 and Windows Server 2012. I put a samba share in the Cygwin /etc/fstab. I can log in as myself, and see the share/cd to it (I performed the cygwin install, and am a domain admin on the Windows machine). my issue arises when other users try to ssh into

compiling coreutils with cygport

2012-07-13 Thread Jeff Janes
ead-end there, as I can't figure out where putchar itself is implemented. So I've just learned to use awk.exe rather than cut.exe when I care about performance. Cheers, Jeff -- 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

permission denied while executing files which have execute permission

2012-05-04 Thread Jeff Janes
rce due to the ginstall.exe file. For the curious, the reason I'm trying to build coreutils from source is to figure out why "cut" is so slow. On Linux, setting LANG=C makes cut much faster, but on cygwin this setting does not result in a speed up for 'cut'. But

Re: 90% of programs are unavailable during install using setup.exe in Windows Vista Home Premium

2012-04-01 Thread jeff beck
Thank you. Who would have thought clicking 'skip' would actually UN-skip? Jeff On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:41 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 4/1/2012 11:27 PM, jeff beck wrote: >> >> I had no problem installing and using Cygwin, however tcsh and most >> all program

90% of programs are unavailable during install using setup.exe in Windows Vista Home Premium

2012-04-01 Thread jeff beck
I had no problem installing and using Cygwin, however tcsh and most all programs are marked as n/a. I Googled for hours and could not find an answer to this problem. My first concern is getting tcsh. Secondly, that I am doing something wrong since the majority of the programs are marked n/a. I cy

problem with GNU screen solved

2011-11-22 Thread Jeff Schenck
t of privilege issue that is setup dependent? Anyway, I hope the package maintainer will find this useful. Thanks, Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info:

Re: GNU screen won't run; "chown tty: no such file or directory"

2011-06-17 Thread Jeff Schenck
On 6/13/2011 9:03 PM, Larry Hall wrote: >On 6/13/2011 1:28 AM, Jeff Schenck wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>When trying to run screen, I get the following errors: >>"chown tty: No such file or directory" in the status bar, >>followed by

fork failing, already checked big list of evil applications

2010-12-23 Thread Jeff Cook
hes when Python tries to fork() out a process. I uninstalled Symantec Antivirus per that big list of bad applications, but I am still having this problem. I don't see any other installed programs on big list of programs. Any ideas on how to fix it? All help appreciated, thanks. From Jeff

Re: Re: sshd problem with recent snapshots

2010-11-18 Thread jeff . odegard
Were you able to reproduce this on Windows 7? When will this fix be released in the regular distro? Thanks, - Jeff On 12:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 18 17:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 18 12:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 17 20:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed

Re: Re: sshd problem with recent snapshots

2010-11-14 Thread jeff . odegard
Bump. I just posted the same problem on Friday night on Windows 7. On 12:59 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 11/5/2010 8:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote: If I start sshd on a machine running a recent snapshot, I'm unable to login to that machine via ssh. The connection is closed right after I type my password.

1.7.7: Win7 SSHD, chown bad file descriptor

2010-11-12 Thread Jeff Odegard
rep ssh /etc/passwd sshd:unused:1008:513:sshd privsep,U-PTL-1\sshd,S-1-5-21-4040343701-3909715506-17 91091093-1008:/var/empty:/bin/false Any thoughts on what I might try next. I googled, but couldn't find anything that worked. Thanks! - Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.

cygserver shuts down 'unexpectedly

2010-10-27 Thread Jeff Rancier
: Shutdown finished. [1]+ Done/usr/sbin/cygserver -f /etc/cygserver.conf --log-level 7 (wd: ~) (wd now: /srv/www/htdocs) Thanks, Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http

getting 'clear' to work in Emacs shell

2010-10-18 Thread Jeff Rancier
GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of 2003-03-27 on buffy GNU bash, version 3.2.51(24)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 Microsoft Windows XP Pro - Version 2002, SP3 The 'clear' work's in a Cygwin Bash session, c106...@usliny2r86krp8 ~ $ alias clear a

FW: I am getting error messages when attempting to copy files using cp or scp

2010-08-05 Thread Jeff Silverman
which is a big file server. What do I do next? Jeff Silverman | Network Support Engineer D 206.272-6465 F 206.272-5541 www.f5.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

Re: Error building PowerPC Toolchain with Crosstool-NG in Cygwin

2010-05-09 Thread Jeff Gilton
type... powerpc-405-linux-gnu [ALL ]checking target system type... powerpc-405-linux-gnu [ALL ]checking whether ln -s works... yes [ALL ]checking for powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcc... /home/jeff/powerpc_tools/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng-1.7.0/targets/powerpc-405-linux-gnu/build/build-cc

Re: Error building PowerPC Toolchain with Crosstool-NG in Cygwin

2010-05-08 Thread Jeff Gilton
Unfortunately, it takes about ten hours to get to where the failure occurs on my Windows 7 64 bit machine. That's bettter than my Windows XP machine where it took almost 30 hours. Jeff -- From: "Khem Raj" Sent: Saturday, May 08,

Error building PowerPC Toolchain with Crosstool-NG in Cygwin

2010-05-08 Thread Jeff Gilton
because that is used extensively and the build gets over 3/4 of the way through. Any pointers on how to troubleshoot this will be greatly appreciated. Jeff Gilton jgil...@cinci.rr.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Error buildind cross development tools with crosstool-ng on Cygwin

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Gilton
Has anyone used it successfully with Cygwin? I am using the latest version of Cygwin on a Dell Inapiron 1464 with Windows 7 64-bit. Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

Hiho

2010-04-07 Thread Jeff Bader
http://sites.google.com/site/h45ftra/fxin7b -- 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

1.7.1(0.218/5/3): ls -R bug (Windows XP)

2010-02-18 Thread Jeff Wilcox
In Cygwin 1.7.x if I ls -R the root of a drive which contains only directories (i.e. no files at the root level), whatever directory comes first is omitted from the listing and the following error is thrown: ls: ./: not listing already-listed directory (Cygwin 1.5.x doesn't do this.) -- Proble

Re: flex package requires m4

2010-01-23 Thread Jeff Jones
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Cgf definitely changed it on sourceware. If you didn't get it, then the > mirror you're using didn't catch up, yet. > > Corinna > Yes, now it worked fine. I just did it again with the same mirror I had used before - http://mirrors.kernel.org - or it m

Re: flex package requires m4

2010-01-21 Thread Jeff Jones
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 06:36:12PM -0700, Karl M wrote: > >My point was that flex needs a dependency on m4 for setup so that m4 is > >installed automatically. Unless, of course, there is some reason not > >to make the dependancy explicit. > > The depe

Fwd: vista+cygwin+openmpi

2009-09-05 Thread Jeff Brown
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Brown Date: Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:30 PM Subject: vista+cygwin+openmpi To: cygwin@cygwin.com, us...@open-mpi.org I'm trying to install openmpi under cygwin on windows vista, 32 bit version. Is there a version of openmpi that works under c

cygwin 1.7 release

2009-08-25 Thread Brown, Jeff (VSL-Cupertino)
Hello, We are very interested in knowing when the 1.7 (or 1.7.1) release of cygwin will become official. We have had great success testing the beta version, and the 1.7 version fixes a serious defect in the 1.5 version, so we are eager for the new version. Thank you! Jeffrey Brown Project Ma

Re: [Fwd: [1.7] wcwidth failing configure tests]

2009-05-14 Thread Jeff Johnston
er Cygwin test release before I'm offline. Corinna, I have no problem with checking the new patch in and extending this later, assuming you have thoroughly tested this implementation. -- Jeff J. Corinna -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: How to update cygwin and installed packages?

2009-04-22 Thread Jeff Gold
Is there a way to install and update cygwin packages from the command line? Something resembling yum on Fedora and apt on Debian and Ubuntu would be extremely helpful, particularly for setting up a new system. Manually picking through a list of packages is tedious and error prone, while a command

Background process with Cygwin

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Irwin
I have been beating my head on a wall for two weeks and have googled til my fingers bled. I am running windows server 2003 with cygwin. I am attempting to get a bash script to continue to run in cygwin even after I have logged out. I have tried several different tactics. The most recent and

Re: Cannot convert string "-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff Y
rom: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) > Subject: Re: Cannot convert string > "-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" > To: cygwin-xf...@cygwin.com > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 12:27 PM > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 >

Cannot convert string "-*-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"

2009-02-19 Thread Jeff Y
h-dpi75 and font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 have been installed on my PC?   Thanks a lot.   Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: [Fwd: Possible sscanf %f conversion glitch]

2009-01-28 Thread Jeff Johnston
Patch has been made. The vfscanf code to look for "inf" and "nan" was not stopped if we had only collected zeroes to that point so it thought it was processing an invalid infinity. -- Jeff J. Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm forwarding this problem to the newlib lis

How to get aspell to display cp1252?

2008-12-15 Thread Jeff
so tried setting `CYGWIN=codepage:1252' with no joy (it is not clear from the user's guide I have whether or not the only two options that `codepage:' will accept are `ansi' and `oem'). Any ideas for how to tell aspell which encoding to use to display documents? Perhaps somet

vim-7.2.2 compiled using --with-features=normal (not --with-features=huge)

2008-10-08 Thread Jeff V Stein
ion without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): Was this an intentional change? Jeff Stein -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: h

writing to /proc file system

2008-03-04 Thread Jeff Fulmer
I'd like to access and write to the /proc file system from a java program. Can somebody steer me in the right direction? I'm starting to feel that I've exhausted my search options... TIA, Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

/proc/loadavg

2008-02-27 Thread Jeff Fulmer
I installed procps in the hopes of getting 1,5,15 minute load averages. I have them, but the values to meet my expectations. No matter how much load the system is under, the values are always 0.0 0.0 0.0 Are load averages supported? Is there something I need to do in order to set them up? Jeff

Re: [1.7.0 HEAD]: Cygwin no longer encoding/decoding names on managed

2008-01-15 Thread Jeff
rted in Vista) to map long file names onto DOS 8.3 file names. Oh yeah, which reminds me-- cygpath no longer escapes the spaces in Windows long file names when converting them to POSIX paths, making the following kludgy shell script necessary: #! /bin/bash ppath=$(cygpath "$2" | sed &

Re: which mail sending tool I should use?

2008-01-12 Thread Jeff
ailing edge equipment like I am, so that you don't mind having even more background processes running than what Windows gives you by default, you can even run fetchmail in daemon mode (I don't). Jeff -- "Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release.&qu

Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex

2008-01-10 Thread Jeff
ound them, I would have to dig for them again. These two resources, plus the Cygwin user's guide, should give you everything you need. Jeff -- "Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near stable enough for a release." -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#un

Re: how to check email through cygwin

2008-01-09 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:45:39 +, "morgan gangwere" <0[dot]fractalus[at]gmail[dot]com> wrote: >> thanks, after config can I reply mails by vi in cygwin? >thats all mutt's job. Most console mode mail user agents and newsreaders expect the user to specify an editor-- even PINE accepts an alternat

Re: rxvt red is displayed as white

2008-01-09 Thread Jeff Fulmer
to appear as red, appear as white. This problem appears only on my > laptop. On windows servers that I log into via RemoteDesktop, I don't have > this problem. My strings appear as red. I've copied configs from those > servers to my laptop and still my strings appear as white.

rxvt red is displayed as white

2008-01-09 Thread Jeff Fulmer
appear as red. I've copied configs from those servers to my laptop and still my strings appear as white. My laptop is capable of displaying red. It just doesn't do it in rxvt. Any thoughts? Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: which-2.18-1

2008-01-02 Thread Jeff
(binmode,noexec) C:\WINDOWS\TEMP on /tmp type system (binmode) \\Winxp-desk\c on /desk-c type system (binmode,noexec) \\Winxp-desk\d on /desk-d type system (binmode,noexec) C:\Cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) [...] Jeff -- "Sorry, my life is still in beta, and nowhere near sta

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Jeff
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:45:01 +, "Dave Korn" wrote: >On 29 December 2007 15:22, Jeff wrote: > >> Hm... IMO, the anger is wholly justified, considering the >> provocation: a dismissive response in the first instance, and a >> sarcastic one in the second.

Re: Squid use and configuration on cygwin

2007-12-29 Thread Jeff
a "luser" (when it is more likely that you have someone who is simply too confused to ask even mediocre questions, much less the "right" question) and telling him, in effect, to go RTFM doesn't go very far to resolve situations either, although it might make some people

Re: ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory

2007-12-24 Thread Jeff
7 2005 var Notice that this 'ls -la /' (ver. 5.94) doesn't try to list out everything mounted under '/'. This is significantly different behaviour from that in ver. 6.9. "Let the user beware," as they say-- this time, of using 'mount -f'. This has be

Re: ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory

2007-12-23 Thread Jeff
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:20:23 -0500, Robert Pendell wrote: >Jeff wrote: [...] >> $ mount >> >> \\Winxp-inspiron\c on /inspiron type system (binmode) >> C:\WINDOWS\TEMP on /tmp type system (binmode) >> \\Winxp-desk\c on /desk-c type system (binmode) >>

ls: reading directory /: No such file or directory

2007-12-23 Thread Jeff
5petc 12/23/2007 11:04ahome 12/19/2007 2:24alib 5/09/2006 6:53asbin 4/08/2007 7:04atmp 12/19/2007 2:22ausr 12/19/2007 2:22avar [...] This only shows up with 'ls [options] /' ie. when listing the Cygwi

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff
h of quiet >> friendship... > >Wha? I'll take a dragon thank you. BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAAH... Thanks, I needed that laugh. Sure, why not? At this point in my life, a dragon seems to be about as much a virtual creature as a horse. Dogs and cats are good company, until you'v

Cygwin/Windows/DOS integration: Tips and Tricks

2007-12-22 Thread Jeff
ch drive on your system: $ mount -ft 'D:' /d $ mount [...] A: on /a type system (textmode) C: on /c type system (textmode) D: on /d type system (textmode) E: on /e type system (textmode) This eliminates the necessity of prepending "/cygdrive" to every path name outside of Cy

Re: A question on cygcheck

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:35:53 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: > >> Same reason as strace, I would assume: it's a DOS-based program, >> not a cygwin one. > >I think you mean "it's a MSVCRT-based program" I guess that's one way to describe them. I've heard them described as "nati

Re: cygwin 1.5.25-7: cygcheck does not work?

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:15:11 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Eric Blake wrote: > >> Odd. Cygwin's bash does not usually capitalize it's name. You might have > >That's a Win9x oddity. > >> > The OS: Windows 98 SE >> >> Rather old; I hope you're aware that cygwin 1.7.0 won't run on your OS, >> and

Re: 2.6.STABLE17 install

2007-12-20 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:21:22 +0300, "Mironov, Leonid {PBG}" wrote: >squid 2.6 install deleted the existing /etc/squid.conf and >/etc/mime.conf, then put the default files from /etc/defaults to the new >location in /etc/squid/. Right, let's check our backups. I think the only directory you can ha

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: joe 3.5-2 -- Fast and simple editor which

2007-12-17 Thread Jeff
ust to have it (that, or I'll save my current copy so that it is not removed). Please put it back in. Thanks, Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: missing 'which' documentation

2007-12-14 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:51:46 -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >glib != glibc. Yeah, I realized my error (faulty memory) just an hour or two ago when I ran setup again and read the short package descriptions: glib is part of GNOME, and Cygwin Ports doesn't have a port of glib

Re: missing 'which' documentation

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff
Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >but I am using the 2.16 version of cygwinports :-) Jeff wrote: >Heh heh... Care to write a little more about that? I didn't see a base >package (other than the cygport packager tool) or installation with >that version number, but was delighted to s

Re: missing 'which' documentation

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:24:29 +0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Dec 12 22:55, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: >> Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- >> '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on >> Cygwin. That is, there is no internal

Re: missing 'which' documentation

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:34:48 +0100 (CET), Marco Atzeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--- "Lee D. Rothstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > >> Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- >> '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on >> Cygwin. That is, t

Re: New setup.exe?

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:24:06 +, Greg Chicares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2007-12-13 11:07Z, Jeff wrote: >> Setup.exe is currently at 510, but setup.ini at several mirrors is >> telling me that there is a ver. 573 available. ??? > >I

New setup.exe?

2007-12-13 Thread Jeff
Setup.exe is currently at 510, but setup.ini at several mirrors is telling me that there is a ver. 573 available. ??? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin setup hangs in postinstall

2007-12-12 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:38:36 +0100, "Wernke zur Borg" wrote: (Corinna wrote:) >> Please don't send unsolicited strace output. Did you notice how big >> your mail is? > >Yes, I noticed it and I conciously decided to send it to prevent >responses asking for decent eviden

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