PLEASE TEST YOUR FS

2010-04-07 Thread John P. Rouillard
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:27:00 +0200 Corinna Vinschen asked: Can anybody reproduce this problem with trailing dots and spaces in filenames on other filesytems than netapp? It would be quite helpful to get feedback from people using filesystems which are recognized by Cygwin as nwfs, unixfs, mvfs,

Re: looking for clean_setup.zip

2007-03-27 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hello all: I have a couple of copies of clean_setup.zip now thanks to: Angelo Graziosi arnstein at pobox.com I have placed version 1.0700 on the web at: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~rouilj/cygwin/clean_setup.zip if somebody could arrange to host this at cygwin.com that would be terrific as

Looking for clean_setup.pl/clean_setup.zip

2007-03-25 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: I am trying to find the clean_setup script done by Michael A Chase that used to be at: http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/clean_setup.zip but the home page (and I fear the script) is gone as well. I have tried the internet wayback machine without any luck. The html pages are

Re: New setup.exe release candidate - unhandled exception

2004-12-24 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Max Bowsher Subject: New setup.exe release candidate - please test [...] http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.459.exe [...] Please test - if no regressions are discovered in the next few days, it will I am getting an

New setup.exe - unhandled exception more problem packages

2004-12-24 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: In an earlier email I sent in the details on an unhandled exception that I received while trying up update some packages. It originally occurred with the package: pkgs/http%3a%2f%2fmirrors.rcn.net%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin/release/cmake/cmake-1.8.3-1.tar.bz2.bad The following

Problem with sys.executable solved

2004-06-13 Thread John P. Rouillard
I wrote a bit ago about sys.executable returning the current working directory. I am happy to report that the problem is solved, but I am not sure what caused the problem in the first place. The permissions on python2.3 were mode 000. This allowed python to run, but didn't allow it to do other

sys.executable broken under 2.3.4

2004-06-12 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: I reported this in python 2.2.2 in December, and it's still an issue on one of my systems with python 2.3.4. When running python -c import sys; print sys.executable it prints the current working directory rather than the path to python unless I invoke python with the full path. I can't

Problem with pty allocation code, race condition?

2004-05-17 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hello: I have noticed a problem when I start X windows. As part of my startup, I fire up three xterms, but only one of them actually completes and displays a prompt. I believe there may be a race condition in the pty allocation code as the three bash processes all share the same tty. ps -ef

Problem with sys.executable in python.

2003-12-14 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: Can somebody with anup to date python please run the following program interactively: import sys print sys.executable When I run this, sys.executable returns the current working directory, not /usr/bin/python. I just had to have my machine rebuilt from an image, and I have already

Re: startx and ssh

2003-08-16 Thread John P. Rouillard
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dr.D.J.Picton [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [Gary Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said] I have been trying to de-bug a problem with startx. When I tried to run the file, I would get a server window, no clock and no terminal windows. The command-line errors were:

Re: why is bash trying to access my DNS? [OT]

2003-03-04 Thread John P. Rouillard
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 23:59, Randall R Schulz wrote: Geoffrey, =20 Exactly what sneaky data can get sent in a DNS request? [...] Actually, plenty. Historically, Bind has been easily hacked. Although it's been a while since a good vulnerablity was found in Bind, that doesn't mean there's not

Syslog-ng-1.5.24 build instructions for cygwin

2003-01-12 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: Thanks go to whoever fixed the bug in cygwin1.dll that caused syslog to fail as soon as a udp packet was sent to it. The bug was introduced sometime around 1.3.12, but is fixed now. So here is my recipe for building syslog-ng-1.5.24. Download syslog-ng-1.5.24 and libol-0.3.6. Patch the

More experiences with snapshot setup-md5-20020504-compressed.exe

2002-05-09 Thread John P. Rouillard
Hi all: Well I have a couple of more data points for the snapshot. Windows 2000 5.00.2195 Service Pack 1, 130kb of RAM from http://mirrors.rcn.net I was unable to get/parse setup.ini. I got a parse error popup that read: setup.ini line 2178 parser stack overflow setup.ini line 2178 parse

New setup.exe and crashes

2002-01-28 Thread John P. Rouillard
In Message-ID: 030301c1a71f$8228eef0$0200a8c0@lifelesswks Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: o it seems to crash on certain mirrors - the ones I've had crash are ... note that the old setup.exe (2.125.2.10) works fine on the others I've uploaded a new setup.exe that shouldn't crash