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

2014-11-07 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/07/2014 03:26 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: I'm tired of creating pairs of script files: a clickable .BAT file to invoke my shell script and then my shell script to do the actual work. I was wondering if any of the geniuses on this list have come up with a way to embed a shell script

Re: git fork failure on pull with a workaround (hopefully a clue for a fix)

2012-11-07 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/07/2012 01:02 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote: Is there a way to debug this? The first step is to follow the problem reporting guidelines: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Following them may reveal a conflicting cygwin.dll file or something similar in your full path which is interfering with

Re: cygwin: how to mount linux FS from cygwin

2012-06-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 06/28/2012 02:55 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 6/28/12 12:34 PM, ping wrote: I still miss the magic sshfs tool in linux... You can make it happen. In principle, FUSE should work as well in Cygwin as it does under Linux, albeit for Cygwin programs only. It'd just be a matter of writing

Re: Query about how to get 'full' Cygwin/unix support

2012-03-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 03/28/2012 03:07 PM, AngusC wrote: Hello I am using cygwin and have copied the core cygwin files to a folder called binarytools on my Windows PC. This folder is first item in path env variable. When I run make it has commands to do a mkdir -p foldername But mkdir -p myfolder

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-03-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 03/01/2012 01:05 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 03/01/2012 10:53 AM, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: You don't think that Setup telling the user package xyz requires package xinit might at least tip off some users that running xyz now requires starting an X server? Even if it doesn't reduce the

Re: Recent upgrade to wish leads to a problem

2012-02-24 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 02/24/2012 08:25 AM, Fergus wrote: Previously bin/wish was a link to wish84.exe (from memory). Recently it was upgraded to wish 8.5.exe. Now, unless X is also running, wish fails with $ wish % Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable I'm

Re: Documentation on -mno-cygwin Accuracy

2012-02-08 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 02/08/2012 09:49 AM, Jesse Ziser wrote: On 2/7/2012 11:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:14:59PM -0600, Jesse Ziser wrote: If you really want Mingw (a free compiler and development environment for Windows), maybe what you should do is just download and install

Re: What Package Contains the cw (Color Wrapper) Software

2012-01-27 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 01/27/2012 03:43 PM, lookingupw...@lavabit.com wrote: Oops. I'm signed up as digest and I forgot to include the subject RE: on the prev post. Thank you Larry! My problem is I am trying to download it via ftp rather than Cygwin's Setup.exe and I cannot find it on the ftp site. (I am

Re: Distributed Git not compiled under Cygwin?

2012-01-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/29/2011 04:31 PM, cxira wrote: Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: Good stuff. You can avoid the window that pops up by using the run.exe program to kick off your chmod command rather than bash. It's available in the run package. I think the window is actually cmd.exe since this is a Windows

Re: Distributed Git not compiled under Cygwin?

2011-12-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/29/2011 04:38 AM, cxira wrote: Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: I don't see any way around this except to either build your own Git that doesn't include the Cygwin changes or run a git config command to set core.filemode after cloning or initializing a repository. Sorry if I got your hopes up

Re: Distributed Git not compiled under Cygwin?

2011-12-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/29/2011 02:28 PM, cxira wrote: Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: I never had a problem with the native gVim cooperating with Cygwin's Git (more accurately file permissions) either. Can you provide more detail about your situation? How exactly are the permissions broken, and for which

Re: Distributed Git not compiled under Cygwin?

2011-12-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/29/2011 03:44 PM, cxira wrote: I moved away from msysgit because it wasn't displaying colors properly in mintty. As for a vim script, I put together something that executes `chmod 0644` when saving new files only: Change permissions on new files to be 0644 in cygwin augroup filePerms

Re: Distributed Git not compiled under Cygwin?

2011-12-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/28/2011 03:14 PM, cxira wrote: I noticed when using the Git that is distributed under the Cygwin setup (Git v1.7.5.1-1) that, when creating a new repository, the core.filemode local setting is set to true. Being under Windows, this should be false because of how file permissions are

Re: Distributed Git not compiled under Cygwin?

2011-12-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/28/2011 03:53 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: I also remember reading somewhere once that you should be able create a configuration template that would be used by new repositories created by git init or git clone that can set the property as you need. I can't find any links

Re: Installing sshd on Windows 2008 R2 in a domain

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/22/2011 10:06 AM, RITTER, Philippe wrote: Hello, New fresh server. I'm trying to install sshd with all the latest release of cygwin. But when I what to connect as a domain user, I get only this error in the event log : Sshd: PID 3212: fatal: seteuid 10500: Permission denied I

Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'

2011-12-22 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/22/2011 01:58 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: On 2011-12-22 18:08Z, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs. [...] I've

Re: setup 2.761 regression: '--quiet-mode' conflicts with '--packages'

2011-12-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/21/2011 12:15 PM, Greg Chicares wrote: It appears that some recent change to setup.exe has unintentionally made '--quiet-mode' incompatible with '--packages' for command-line installs. A similar problem was reported here: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00244.html Using

Re: saving list of packages

2011-12-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/19/2011 10:33 AM, e...@iol.it wrote: From: marco.atz...@gmail.com 2) see ./setup --help at setup -P seems that -P accept one package a time. Example: setup -M -P arj ash atk ... Use commas to separate package names: setup -M -P arg,ash,atk,... -Jeremy -- Problem reports:

Re: cron still not working - even after rerunning cron config

2011-12-16 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/16/2011 02:31 PM, Mike Brown wrote: I desperately need to get this fixed as I will be leaving for a trip on the 20th and have some cron stuff to run while I am gone. I ran cron-diagnose.sh, which now runs the cron-config, and changed from just-me to local system and that still didn't

Re: I gave up and reverted to 1.5

2011-12-16 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/16/2011 10:55 PM, Mike Brown wrote: Long standing programs like cron just install and run. Using cygwin 1.5, it does. Using 1.7, it does not. I have no idea what was done to 1.7 to cause cron to not work, no matter what the Hell I try to do. So I said f**k it and removed all of

Re: Sorry people (NOT MY taxonomy!!), but igncr IS flawed

2011-12-16 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/16/2011 11:13 PM, manu0507 wrote: Hi all, Notwithstanding the completely preposterous reply by Eric Blake (more of an idiotic acrimony, actually) to my previous post (see http://old.nabble.com/Igncr-ineffective--tt32983438.html ), there does seem to be a problem in dealing with

Re: Symlinks and sharing a home directory between Windows and Linux

2011-12-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/14/2011 01:33 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I like having only one home directory. It's extremely convenient to have the same settings and the like both when on Cygwin and when on Linux. Often home directories are on NAS's and the like and served out via smb. Somewhere along the line

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

2011-12-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/12/2011 11:44 AM, Mike Brown wrote: snipped doc references... In other words, no where in the documentation is it stated that mintty is now the default startup. It all leans toward cygwin.bat as being the way things are started. So, just what is a user supposed to think when reading

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

2011-12-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/12/2011 03:23 PM, Mike Brown wrote: In my case that is a no go. That is because, as mentioned, I told the installer not to create the desktop shortcut or the start menu option, as I already had them. So, the start menu currently points to the BAT file. Hmm, it seems that my messages

Re: Latest cygwin.bat - need one

2011-12-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/12/2011 07:37 PM, Mike Brown wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:48PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: General [Name:] Cygwin Terminal Shortcut Target: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico - Start in: [empty] Shortcut key: None

Re: cygwin limping after update (subject chage)

2011-12-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/09/2011 01:03 PM, Mike Brown wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:28:36PM -0600, Mike Brown wrote: Now I need to know why the rxvt program is not working correctly. Still do not know why that doesn't work. You may or may not like this answer, but try using mintty instead. It's the

Re: Minor cygrunsrv nit: --help should go to stdout, not stderr

2011-11-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/28/2011 10:05 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: Currently, cygrunsrv --help dumps output to standard error. This behavior is a slight annoyance because it results in cygrunsrv --help | less not being very helpful. Can cygrunsrv --help dump its output to stdout instead? It's not the first

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.761)

2011-11-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/21/2011 09:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: A new version of setup.exe, release 2.761, has been uploaded to http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. Changes: - Now that mintty has become part of the default installation, setup will create desktop and start menu shortcuts called Cygwin Terminal,

Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion

2011-11-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/17/2011 01:39, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Jeremy Bopp! All I really wanted to know was why it was important to hang back from the latest available version when getting the older one was less than trivial. Not using anything more than the command line for svn (infrequently

Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion

2011-11-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/17/2011 05:12, Csaba Raduly wrote: On 11/17/11, Andy Koppe wrote: Can one use different svn clients on the same working copy, even if they are the same version? I've always been wary of that due to fear of subtle differences in working copy format. Character encoding and line endings

Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion

2011-11-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/17/2011 10:09, Jon Clugston wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: I want to think that they only change the working copy format when the minor version changes, but I also think that they have done that with every minor version transition since

Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/15/2011 15:47, Sean LeBlanc wrote: I've accidentally updated Subversion to 1.7.x on Cygwin. Is there a way to get an older package of Subversion installed? It looks like you'll need to check out the Cygwin Time Machine (http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine) if you

RE: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion

2011-11-16 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Jim Garrison jim.garri...@troux.com wrote: -Original Message- On Behalf Of Jeremy Bopp Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 9:18 AM Subject: Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion That whole process is going to be unsupported here though, so is there some reason you must remain

Re: Issue downloading appropriate DLLs for CDRTools

2011-11-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/9/2011 15:43, Dr. Torsten Kühn wrote: A couple of days ago, I had serious problems finding the appropriate DLLs for a recent Win32-port of Jörg Schillings famous CDRTools. The port done by Thomas Plank available at http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank/cdrtools-3.01a06-win32-bin.zip is

Re: Pass windows-style paths to the interpreter from the shebang line ?

2011-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/9/2011 09:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's not as easy as it may sound. What about creating wrapper scripts with the same name in another dir and put that dir in front of the other bin dir in $PATH? The wrapper scripts could be shell scripts which use `cygpath -wa' to convert the

Re: Pass windows-style paths to the interpreter from the shebang line ?

2011-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
Sorry to reply again, but I hit send too early... On 11/9/2011 09:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That's not as easy as it may sound. What about creating wrapper scripts with the same name in another dir and put that dir in front of the other bin dir in $PATH? The wrapper scripts could be shell

Re: Copy, paste and deleting characters in the openssh screen.

2011-11-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/9/2011 08:38, gabier wrote: Hi, I am experiencing daily frustration because I do not know how to get the following features to my fingertips while controlling my Freenas/FreeBSD server from my openssh console on a remote Windows computer. 1) copy from windows document or browser and paste

Re: Can't get sshd to work

2011-11-04 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/4/2011 08:58, gabier wrote: Ken Brown-6 wrote: On 11/4/2011 8:17 AM, gabier wrote: Hi everybody, First post here, I am a Cygwin newbie. I try to implement ssh connectivity between my Windows 7 desktop and a FreeBSD/FreeNAS server. Openssh shell commands seem to work, but sshd is not

Re: How to run a bash script that calls a Win exe under Windows without installing Cygwin?

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/19/2011 02:57, bagvian wrote: Dear all, I have gone through Cygwin FAQ and documentation, did some googling but could not find any answer to my cross system problem. I currently work under Win Vista and have a proper Cygwin installation running perfectly. I have to perform heavy

Re: How does setup.exe cope with upgrading of already installed packages if there exist modification in installed files?

2011-10-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/19/2011 09:13, Andrew Schulman wrote: How about templates? For example if package like Mercurial provide WEB templates which I like to customize (fix time format to ISO-8601). Templates lies in /lib/python2.6/site-packages/mercurial/templates/*. It seems that that's something you'll

Re: Fw: 1.7.9-1 path issues

2011-10-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/14/2011 15:33, David Bartlett wrote: Recently I updated from a thinkpad T61 to a T410 and installed cygwin on it exactly as I had on the T61. The only difference was that on the T61 I had an older version of cygwin installed (I'm not sure which one but it would have been from around

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2011-09-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 9/13/2011 13:38, Larson, Donald (Don) wrote: I understand su does not work – answer use ssh. SSHD cannot start because user sshd cannot login. I run login sshd type in the password and then I get the message. What you're saying is that you want a way to log in as another user as one would

Re: login: no shell: /bin/bash: Permission denied

2011-09-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 9/14/2011 14:25, Ryan Johnson wrote: Question: in my experience sshd will not allow connections to users who have no password set, even when password-auth is not used. This happened on my wife's laptop, for example, where I ended up having to create a dummy user for myself that had a

Re: Typical Cygwin fork problem

2011-08-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 8/19/2011 11:38, big glass wrote: so what is ash exactly?? ash is another name for dash, which is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Almquist_shell The short answer is that it's a minimal shell that you need to use in your case for running the rebaseall command so that

Re: how to access to drive using cd

2011-07-15 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 7/15/2011 12:32, dbonneau wrote: Hi, I am trying to access to a drive call Q when I acess to c drive by typing cd /c , it works fine but not with cd /q could you tell me how to do that ? Assuming you're running under the Cygwin Bash shell, the default way would be the following:

Re: how to access to drive using cd

2011-07-15 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 7/15/2011 13:02, dbonneau wrote: Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: On 7/15/2011 12:32, dbonneau wrote: Hi, I am trying to access to a drive call Q when I acess to c drive by typing cd /c , it works fine but not with cd /q could you tell me how to do that ? Assuming you're running under

Re: Who's using CYGWIN=tty and why?

2011-05-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 5/10/2011 09:50, Bernhard Ege wrote: I generelly use command line editing a lot (is tty necessary for that?). General command line usage doesn't require the setting. If in doubt though, remove the setting and try things out for a bit. You'll probably find that nothing changes for your

Re: determining what user mounted a drive

2011-05-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 5/10/2011 16:25, Len Giambrone wrote: Is there a way of determining with what user credentials a share was mounted? I suppose I could touch a file on the drive and then find out who the owner is, but that's not ideal. mount will tell me that it's a user mount, but won't tell me WHICH

Re: Who's using CYGWIN=tty and why?

2011-05-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 5/9/2011 16:14, Karl M wrote: I did try rxvt and didn't like the way it looked, so I stayed with a console window and CYGWIN=tty. Hi, Karl. Have you tried mintty yet? If looks are what turned you away from rxvt, I think you'll like mintty much more. -Jeremy -- Problem reports:

Re: Issue with SCP and SSH on Windows 7

2011-05-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 5/6/2011 12:54, Metroshica wrote: I have recently written a script in Windows Server Edition 2008 that SSHes into a few linux servers, and then uses SCP to copy a file out of them. The issue I'm having is with SSH keys getting set up, and cygwin trying to create a .ssh directory in the

Re: cygwin git terminal won't capture password

2011-04-07 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 4/7/2011 14:47, Faisal Memon wrote: Hi, When you use git from cygwin to clone a repo which requires a password, your password when typed comes out as plain text, instead of being taken from your terminal silently (without echo). The clone thus fails. The same local machine, but using

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

2011-03-29 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/29/2011 08:30, Dante Allegria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: Sure, it does. It's called intelligent scripting and it includes setting errexit and nounset in bash or Z Shell. If you are scripting and not using those above, then you got exactly what you deserved. Thanks for the tip,

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

2011-03-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/28/2011 09:43, Dante Allegria wrote: We just discovered that a whole bunch of our Windows machines had everything under their c:/cygwin directories deleted over the weekend. Has anyone else experienced this? Just trying to rule out some sort of malware/virus related to Earth Hour or

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

2011-03-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/28/2011 12:07, Dante Allegria wrote: --- On Mon, 3/28/11, Damon Register damon.w.regis...@lmco.com wrote: this at a company. Is that so? Do you have an aggressive IS department who might have decided they don't like Cygwin? No, turns out it was because someone committed this into

Re: ps command (process status) does not return anything anymore

2011-03-28 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/28/2011 13:04, Antha Lamus wrote: Hi all, I recently installed a newer version of bash and now the ps command does not issue anything anymore (return code is 128). in fact, even the options seem different as I don't see -W in the man anymore. also, I can pretty much issue anything I want

Re: Migrating home dir

2011-03-18 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/18/2011 10:28, Tod wrote: I'm going to be migrating to win7 in a few weeks. When I do I'll be logging in with a different userid. What's the best way to migrate my existing install and home dir to the new userid? My recommendation is that you back up only your Cygwin home directory

Re: How do I make a COM port in windows accessible using cygwin?

2011-03-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/17/2011 08:22, Vinod Pillai wrote: Vaclav Haisman wrote: Vinod Pillai wrote, On 15.3.2011 21:03: Im sorry but Im a complete novice at this. I cd-ed into the /dev folder. But I could not find a ttyS1. If you could elaborate what exactly I must do, it would be helpful. Thank you. Read

Re: Autostart Cygwin on Windows boot and run a cygwin command

2011-03-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/14/2011 13:10, Jeremy Bopp wrote: bash -c cd /cygdrive/e/solr/apache-solr-4.0-2010-10-12_08-05-48/example/;java -Dsolr.solr.home=\./example-DIH/solr/\ -jar start.jar I forgot to append the trailing quote on the above command. It should be as follows: bash -c cd /cygdrive/e/solr/apache

Re: Autostart Cygwin on Windows boot and run a cygwin command

2011-03-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/14/2011 09:07, PeterSmith wrote: Sometimes my Windows server reboots at night to install new updates. Then the next day I find out that my cygwin instance has been stopped. What I want is on Windows start, also run Cygwin AND run a specific command. so, step 1: Right now I have a

Re: Autostart Cygwin on Windows boot and run a cygwin command

2011-03-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/14/2011 13:25, PeterSmith wrote: FYI, this list prefers bottom posting rather than top posting. Reformatting... :-) Jeremy Bopp-3 wrote: bash -c cd /cygdrive/e/solr/apache-solr-4.0-2010-10-12_08-05-48/example/;java -Dsolr.solr.home=\./example-DIH/solr/\ -jar start.jar If you still

Re: Autostart Cygwin on Windows boot and run a cygwin command

2011-03-14 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 3/14/2011 14:21, PeterSmith wrote: Ok, so for now lets focus on the contents of the .bat file. I'll have a look at the startup of the bat later :) Excellent idea, especially considering that it's not really a Cygwin problem at that point. ;-) I now have this: @echo off C: chdir

Re: git/ssh problem should be fixed

2011-02-21 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/21/2011 12:12 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Thanks to some insight from Corinna, the git/ssh problem should be fixed in the latest Cygwin snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ . I can no longer reproduce the problem documented in the message below using the latest snapshot:

Re: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin

2011-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 02/09/2011 08:42 AM, Fergus wrote: I have Cygwin mounted conventionally under Q:\cygwin. I would like to access files under Q:\else. But (for example) ls ../../.. only ever attains \cygwin (and lower). I can use ls /cygdrive/q/else/ (and lower) but this means knowing the drive name (in

Re: Accessing folders elsewhere than C:\cygwin

2011-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 02/09/2011 09:50 AM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: mount | grep -q 'on /mnt/else type' || mount $(cygpath -m)/../else /mnt/else ^^^ I lost a slash in the above code. It should be as follows: mount | grep -q 'on /mnt/else type' || mount $(cygpath -m /)/../else /mnt/else

Re: How to detect CygWin SVN?

2011-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 02/09/2011 01:10 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: Hi, I'd like to write a script, which ought to work with the CygWin SVN client as well as any native SVN clients. As a prerequisite, I need to detect whether the svn program in the path is CygWin SVN or not. Question is, how to do this? Because

Re: How to detect CygWin SVN?

2011-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 02/09/2011 02:22 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: I'm assuming that your script expects svn to be in the PATH, so you could check to see if the path to the svn client lives within Cygwin's installation: if [ $(type -p svn

Re: 1.7.7: window cuts off output / saving output

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/2/2011 10:13 AM, Rachel Trent wrote: I have a seemingly simple problem that I either haven't found the answer to or I didn't understand the answer when I saw it. I presume I'm not describing it with the correct terminology... Short version: In layman's terms, the Cygwin window cuts off

Re: 1.7.7: window cuts off output / saving output

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/2/2011 10:44 AM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: All of that is just a quick hack though because you could always have output that is longer than your scrollback buffer. What follows is not Cygwin-specific, but you don't seem to know about this stuff yet. Sorry to reply to myself, but I just realized

Re: ssh-keygen command not doing anything OR github problem

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/2/2011 2:29 PM, mearrex wrote: However, when I type in the commands ssh ssh-keygen ssh-keygen -t rsa -C xxx...@xxx.com ssh g...@github.com ssh -v g...@github.com nothing happens. It just returns a new line. I am attaching a screenshot. What am I doing wrong? What do I need to do to

Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/2/2011 3:11 PM, Bryan Slatner wrote: Thorsten Kampe thorsten at thorstenkampe.de writes: I'd just delete everything and do a fresh minimal installation. If this fails again, you can continue here. First check http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda I'll do my best, but

Re: Where to find a reliable provider of CygwinX?

2011-02-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/1/2011 3:10 PM, Jørgen Steensgaard wrote: Another experience that emerge from this discussion is that it seems very hard to be believed. It is also very hard to document the details of what goes on during installation. Please take than into account when you take this as a support

Re: gfortran, lapack, and cygwin

2011-02-01 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/1/2011 3:41 PM, Timothy Sliwinski wrote: I am using the following command for my compilation: $ gfortran test.for –o test –llapack And the error I receive is /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack collect2: ld returned 1 exit

Re: vim wraps lines

2011-01-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 01/26/2011 09:20 PM, Mike Brown wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:12:01PM -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 1/26/2011 12:00 PM, Daniel Ajoy wrote: I'm using the latest cygwin, min-tty and vim But when I open vim, lines seem to wrap. Here is the image: http://i.imgur.com/oC8lo.png Is

Re: failing to clone a git repo via ssh

2011-01-23 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 01/23/2011 06:21 AM, Rafael Kitover wrote: I just realized this bug is replicatable without having ssh access to our repo, you just need the cygwin sshd enabled, and the guy with access to the gitosis went off somewhere anyway... Here are the steps: cd ~ mkdir tmp cd tmp git clone

Re: failing to clone a git repo via ssh

2011-01-23 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 01/23/2011 01:37 PM, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net All of these combinations avoided the early EOFs problem no matter how many times I repeated my testing. As cgf said, this does appear to be a problem in Cygwin's pipe code, but it's

Re: windows paths in shebang lines

2011-01-23 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 01/23/2011 03:47 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote: When a script's shebang line has a windows path, rather than a cygwin path, it does not work: rkitover@eeebox ~ $ head -1 /cygdrive/c/Perl64/site/bin/ack #!C:\Perl64\bin\perl rkitover@eeebox ~ $ /cygdrive/c/Perl64/site/bin/ack --version

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/17/2011 3:20 PM, David Antliff wrote: Hello, I've found this thread so far: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg6.html It's related to what I am trying to do, but I'd like to get confirmation that what I am attempting is impossible, or not. Essentially I have a seemingly

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 1/17/2011 3:46 PM, David Antliff wrote: I just tried this - in fact I used the AdministrativeTools/Services applet to set the Cygwin SSHD service to Allow service to interact with desktop. This actually had a useful effect - I can now start 'notepad' or 'calc' and I see the process appear

Re: Invoking GUI programs over SSH

2011-01-17 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 01/17/2011 05:06 PM, David Antliff wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:06, Jeremy Bopp wrote: Is it possible that Synplify Pro is attempting to access some network resource or a special dongle for verifying its registration or something similar? There's no dongle but there is a license

Re: cygwin windows 7 path environment variable.

2010-12-15 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/15/2010 05:26 AM, sean rankin wrote: I am trying to set the path vaiable for the cygwin compiler to use with netbeans IDE. i can't seem to find anywhere on the website the specific path that i need to put in to get it to run. can you please email the the correct path? Usually, all you

Re: Problem installing packages

2010-12-11 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/11/2010 10:26 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi All, According to http://www.cygwin.com/, Run setup.exe any time you want to update or install a Cygwin package. : jeff...@descartes ~ $ setup.exe Result is a message box that states Please go to the Control Panel to install and

Re: Permissions on Windows 2008

2010-12-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/09/2010 03:38 PM, Bryan Slatner wrote: Jeremy Bopp jeremy at bopp.net writes: By default Cygwin tries to emulate POSIX file permissions: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html You can disable this by modifying your /etc/fstab file and adding the appropriate options to cause

Re: setup from a list of packages rather than interactive selection?

2010-12-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/10/2010 09:32 AM, Lee D. Rothstein wrote: I vaguely remember a discussion, here, about how to install using 'setup.exe' from a list of packages contained in a file which is then pointed to on the command line. I see the '-p' option in 'setup', and although I know how to put the list

Getting Bounce Messages

2010-12-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
When sending replies to this list, I'm getting bounce messages for a single email address that is apparently subscribed to the list but no longer valid: The original message was received at Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:41:09 GMT from gw-out.ccsw.co.uk [78.33.22.223] - The following addresses had

Re: skipping initial setup screens for existing installation with setup.exe?

2010-12-07 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/7/2010 1:43 PM, Steven Lefevre wrote: When I want to install a new package in my existing cygwin installation, I fire up setup.exe and blow through the first couple screens that ask me about installation directory, mirrors, packages directory, etc, to get to the package installation

Re: skipping initial setup screens for existing installation with setup.exe?

2010-12-07 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/7/2010 2:08 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: If this normal for setup ? $ ./setup.exe --help Starting cygwin install, version 2.721 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/extrakeys) failed 2 No such file or directory io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/chooser_window_settings) failed 2 No such

Re: skipping initial setup screens for existing installation with setup.exe?

2010-12-07 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/7/2010 2:03 PM, Steven Lefevre wrote: On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Bopp jer...@bopp.net wrote: Run setup.exe --help for a full list of command line options. The option you want is -M. Hello Jeremy - Thanks for your help :) I had tried the -M option, but got

Re: Permissions on Windows 2008

2010-12-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 12/06/2010 11:09 PM, Bryan Slatner wrote: I've just installed Cygwin on a Windows 2008 Standard server with SP2. I'm noticing two strange behaviors with files that I upload via SFTP (or SCP, I'm not actually sure which protocol WinSCP uses by default). First, the ACL list on the

Re: 1.7.5: fixing git damage

2010-11-22 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/22/2010 4:06 PM, Bill Ross wrote: I just tried this sequence with my cygwin git: $ git checkout master $ git pull $ git checkout my_branch error: Untracked working tree file 'java/api_client/test/xls/qa2/QA2WWWKeyword.xls' would be overwritten by merge. $ git --version git

Re: File format problem after updatin to 1.7.1 - solved

2010-11-19 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/17/2010 09:55 PM, Paul wrote: Jeremy Bopp jeremy at bopp.net writes: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table Now that I'm looking specifically for this issue in the linked documentation, I see that there *is* a way to override the root mountpoint clearly described

Re: [patch 2/8] Document EXECIGNORE in Cygwin readme

2010-11-02 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 11/2/2010 3:48 PM, dan.colasci...@gmail.com wrote: Index: bash-3.2/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README === --- bash-3.2.orig/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README +++ bash-3.2/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README @@ -55,7 +55,14 @@ is on a binary mount

Re: Connection timed out

2010-10-30 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/30/2010 09:41 AM, KeithLaw wrote: 4. I modified the ssh_config as below. snip 5. I modified the sshd_config as below snip That's it for my settings but still cannot connect. Did you try any of this with default settings for sshd_config and ssh_config before making your modifications

Re: Subversion mangling names in .svn/entries metadata file

2010-10-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/26/2010 05:58 AM, J.C. Wren wrote: OK, I did several things. First, I downgraded subversion to 1.6.12 and everything worked. Then I re-ran the installer and re-installed the base cygwin package, which should have upgraded the DLL. It did not, It was still at 1.7.5. I'm using setup

Re: Subversion mangling names in .svn/entries metadata file

2010-10-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/26/2010 8:11 AM, J.C. Wren wrote: Do you *really* think I didn't reboot it? C'mon now, be serious. I've been using Cygwin for at least 5 years, I think I can follow some instructions when setup tells me I'll need to. Sorry, but yes, that's what I thought. It's a common enough problem

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

2010-10-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
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

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

2010-10-26 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/26/2010 09:10 PM, Brian Wilson wrote: 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 from the bash shell with a complete path still just displays the usage message and gives a return code of

Re: How can I get mintty to not display my password?

2010-10-22 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/22/2010 01:49 PM, risin...@nationwide.com wrote: When using cmd.exe, when I am prompted for a password, no characters are displayed, but the password gets entered. However, when I use mintty, the characters I type at the password prompt are displayed. TERM=xterm. How can I stop

Re: Build Graphviz

2010-10-12 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/12/2010 4:58 AM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 11:21 +0800, Steven Woody wrote: Thanks Jeremy. I like to try the patches. But I get the source from svn rather than the git as Yaakov suggested. Actually, I am not so well understand the page

Re: Build Graphviz

2010-10-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/10/2010 10:24 AM, Steven Woody wrote: Who succeeded in building Graphviz for cygwin? Cygwin Ports has support to build version 2.26.3 from the look of things: http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/graphics/graphviz/ -Jeremy -- Problem reports:

Re: Build Graphviz

2010-10-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/10/2010 12:39 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 10:36 -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: On 10/10/2010 10:24 AM, Steven Woody wrote: Who succeeded in building Graphviz for cygwin? Cygwin Ports has support to build version 2.26.3 from the look of things: http://cygwin

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