Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-14 Thread René Berber
Brad wrote: [snip] Would anyone care to: a. confirm whether 'nsswitch.conf' and such work in Cygwin? No. But /etc/resolv.conf does if you installed minires. b. tell me how I can get Cygwin to search various domains when trying to resolve hostnames? Haven't tried it myself but

Re: Cygwin: Problem detecting subprocess termination after _spawn_posix in distutils?

2007-09-14 Thread Steve Holden
Steve Holden wrote: Steve Holden wrote: [Python interpreter hanging during distutils install of Python imaging library 1.1.6] Martin v. Löwis wrote: The only environment variables that don't appear in the shell output from the env command are INFOPATH, MAKE_MODE and PLAT. I am still

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not necessarily against the idea of well go out and get a working copy of these programs but often clients do not give consultants that privilege. If your

Re: Copy/Paste doesn't run on Cygwin

2007-09-14 Thread Jose Luis
I have fixed this issue deleting the line: set mouse=a in the .vimrc file. Jose Luis wrote: Hi, Without the .vimrc file the copy/paste runs fine in a vim's edited file, but when I copy the example vimrc file (/usr/share/vim/vim71/vimrc_example.vim) in $HOME/.vimrc, the

gnuplot 4.2.2

2007-09-14 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dear Dr. Volker Zell The gnuplot 4.2.2 has been released. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055 There is the cygwin version on that web. Is there a plan this version gnuplot to be intallabel from the setup? Sincerely yours Tatsuro MATSUOKA

Re: Cygwin-bug#20070914T0555: mksh getop bug

2007-09-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jari Aalto dixit: I've ported mksh to Cygwin and we're considerign including it in the distributions. Thanks, that’s great. Could you let me have a look at that, just out of interest, as I haven’t really understood the Cygwin packaging process myself, otherwise I had submitted one earlier. The

Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread D
I have installed a program called Fontforge (An outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I would like to update the editor, but when I try the uninstall commands cygwin does not uninstall the program can some provide help as to how to

Re: gnuplot 4.2.2

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Tatsuro MATSUOKA writes: Dear Dr. Volker Zell The gnuplot 4.2.2 has been released. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2055 There is the cygwin version on that web. Is there a plan this version gnuplot to be intallabel from the setup? It should be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gnuplot-4.2.2-1

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* D (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:25:59 -0700 (PDT)) I have installed a program called Fontforge (An outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I would like to update the editor, but when I try the uninstall commands cygwin does not

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread D
--- Thorsten Kampe wrote: It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we know how to uninstall the program? A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you issue this command and why does it not uninstall the program? On the other hand it

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* D (Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:56:03 -0700 (PDT)) --- Thorsten Kampe wrote: It's not a part of the official Cygwin distribution. So how can we know how to uninstall the program? A sufficient problem description would be fine. What happens when you issue this command and why does it not

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Lou Losee
On 9/14/07, D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed a program called Fontforge (An outline font editor) into the Cygwin environment in order to create and manipulate fonts for Windows XP. I would like to update the editor, but when I try the uninstall commands cygwin does not uninstall

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not necessarily against the idea of well go out and get a working copy of these programs but often clients do not give

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an - - - - - cut - - - - - vi /etc/sshd_config uncomment line: Subsystem sftp

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the program he indicated that the problem was not with fontforge, but with Cygwin, He is wrong. The command he provided is a simple delete of all the files that the installer should have

Re: gnuplot 4.2.2

2007-09-14 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Dr. Volker Zell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It should be mirrored soon. Thanks! I'll wait for it. Tatsuro -- Easy + Joy + Powerful = Yahoo! Bookmarks x Toolbar http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/toolbar/ -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 15:14, Dave Korn wrote: On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the program he indicated that the problem was not with fontforge, but with Cygwin, He is wrong. The command he provided is a simple

Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-14 Thread Marko Loparic
Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I have? I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't reach the right person...). It is described in the cygwin list:

'rm' immune to .exe magic?

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Just checking: is rm supposed to ignore exe magic, then? /artimi/software/firmware $ cp /bin/ls.exe /usr/local/bin/a2.exe (Makes no difference if I use cp /bin/ls /usr/local/bin/a2 either). /artimi/software/firmware $ a2

Re: drag and drop to cygwin scripts ?

2007-09-14 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Keith Chiem wrote: Is it possible to write a script in cygwin, say bash or perl, create a shortcut to it in windows, and drag and drop a path or a url to it and have the script run and take it as an argument somehow ? --k If you drag and drop files onto a batch script, Windows will run

reinstallation fail: cygwin1.dll not found

2007-09-14 Thread Zhen Cao
Dear all, I have installed cygwin on the folder D:\cygwin, and it is okay but I have forgot to install make. Maybe a mistake to delete all the contents in D:\cygwin, but unfortunately I did. After I reinstall cygwin from scratch (also in d:\cygwin), I cannot use the shortcut on the desktop and

Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Hello, I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as possible) on Cygwin and Linux. A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting output to the null device, or bit-bucket. If I write the following ls nul It works as expected under Cygwin,

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Lewis Hyatt
I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because every script would have to check for this... Any advice? Puzzled about nothing. J

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Louie
Did you check the Cygwin User's Guide? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html It sort of explains it. -Jason I wonder if this problem I'm having with postgresql is related: $initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user

RE: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 16:24, Andrew Louie wrote: Did you check the Cygwin User's Guide? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html It sort of explains it. -Jason I wonder if this problem I'm having with postgresql is related: This line of reasoning is just a bit like

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because every script would have to

RE: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 16:09, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: If I write the following ls nul It works as expected under Cygwin, however under Linux I must write ls /dev/null 'NUL' is a DOS device name, like COM1; cygwin implicitly supports it because when it passes the open call to the

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hello, I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as possible) on Cygwin and Linux. A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting output to the null device, or bit-bucket. If I write the following

Re: 'rm' immune to .exe magic?

2007-09-14 Thread Eric Blake
Dave Korn dave.korn at artimi.com writes: Just checking: is rm supposed to ignore exe magic, then? For now, yes. I tried it once, according to /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils- 6.9.README: -- coreutils-5.3.0-5 -- 2005-04-14 - Revert rm(1) implicit .exe handling, it broke

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex transfers, but if you are more familiar and comfortable with scp, then

Re: reinstallation fail: cygwin1.dll not found

2007-09-14 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Zhen Cao wrote: I have installed cygwin on the folder D:\cygwin, and it is okay but I have forgot to install make. Maybe a mistake to delete all the contents in D:\cygwin, but unfortunately I did. After I reinstall cygwin from scratch (also in d:\cygwin), I cannot use

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex transfers, but if you are

can't boot gvim after cygwin update

2007-09-14 Thread kafe
Hi, recently I had my cygwin updated for cygnome. But after updating I can't start gvim in Xterm. It displays like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gvim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ And nothing happens. I tried to reinstall gvim from cygwin setup.exe. Problem remains. Thanks for your help! -- Unsubscribe

RE: can't boot gvim after cygwin update

2007-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
On 14 September 2007 15:52, kafe wrote: Hi, recently I had my cygwin updated for cygnome. But after updating I can't start gvim in Xterm. It displays like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gvim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ And nothing happens. It's quite likely if you were to type echo $? after

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

2007-09-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian Mathis wrote: On 9/14/07, Lewis Hyatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because every script

RE::RE:can't boot gvim after cygwin update

2007-09-14 Thread kafe
Sorry I don't know how to reply here. I click follow up it just says No such file first, I don't get 53 but 57 after calling gvim. and the result is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ gvim [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo $? 57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cygcheck 'which gvim' Error: could not find which gvim [EMAIL

scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Sam Snitman
I am trying to use command line scp and sftp on a Windows NT 5.2 server that has cygwin installed. When I enter the ‘scp’ command or the 'sftp' command, it gives me the usage as if they are installed, however, when I try to connect to a remote server using the command ‘scp filename1 [EMAIL

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Sam Snitman wrote: I am trying to use command line scp and sftp on a Windows NT 5.2 server that has cygwin installed. When I enter the ‘scp’ command or the 'sftp' command, it gives me the usage as if they are installed, however, when I try to connect to a remote server using the command

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Sam Snitman
Brian, Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. That's definitely not right Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can you please elaborate what mounts are and about how to/risks of changing them to point to d:\cygwin instead

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 9/14/07, Sam Snitman wrote: Brian, Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. That's definitely not right Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can you please elaborate what mounts are and about how to/risks of

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Brian Dessent
Sam Snitman wrote: Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. That's definitely not right It means that when scp refers to /usr/bin/ssh it will be actually be looking for d:/cygwin2/bin/ssh.exe which -- I'm guessing -- doesn't exist.

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

2007-09-14 Thread Sam Snitman
Brian, Not sure why we have cygwin2 directory. There does not appear to be much under this directory only tmp and var directories and a log directory under var. I will check out the mount command. Thanks for your help. Thanks, Sam --- Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Snitman wrote:

Re: Establishing Unix network control under cygwin?

2007-09-14 Thread LDR
Brad wrote: Hi. I've just recently installed cygwin and I'd like to ask a few questions about networking. I've installed practically all the Cygwin packages but I'm frustrated by a couple of trivial little problems. For example, when I do a ping host the host can't be found; I have to put

RE: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread D
So basically take the command that is at the bottom and use that instead because I am on windows xp? --- Dave Korn wrote: On 14 September 2007 15:14, Dave Korn wrote: On 14 September 2007 13:56, D wrote: When I tried to ask the developer of the program how to remove the program

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp gives you a familiar FTP shell; it is not just a command you run I understand that. you can list the files on the remote system and make decisions about what files you want instead of requiring that knowledge beforehand Simple. Just ssh remotemachine ls /path.

Re: Uninstalling a program from Cygwin in Windows XP

2007-09-14 Thread Morgan Gangwere
On 9/14/07, D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So basically take the command that is at the bottom and use that instead because I am on windows xp? This has NOTHING to do with Windows XP. you went a traditional route to install from sources. a simple 'make uninstall' should suffice (in all good

[BUG] python-2.5.1-2 file usr/bin/python2.5-config

2007-09-14 Thread René Berber
There is an obvious bug on the first line of that script. --- usr/bin/python2.5-config.orig 2007-09-15 03:58:10.671875000 + +++ usr/bin/python2.5-config2007-09-15 03:58:41.640625000 + @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -#!/tmp/python.6884/usr/bin/python2.5.exe +#!/bin/python2.5.exe import sys

Re: [ITP] bcrypt-1.1 -- Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish

2007-09-14 Thread Jari Aalto
* Thu 2007-08-30 jari aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w jari.aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: abs9upp7.fsf AT cante.net Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/bcrypt Jari sdesc: Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish ldesc: A cross

[ITP] flip 1.19 -- Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats

2007-09-14 Thread Jari Aalto
The legendary \n = \r\n end of line converter. Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/flip Jari sdesc: Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats ldesc: Program converts line endings of text files between MS-DOS and **IX formats. It detects binary files in a

[GTG] Re: [ITP] bcrypt-1.1 -- Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: * Thu 2007-08-30 jari aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w jari.aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: abs9upp7.fsf AT cante.net Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/bcrypt Jari sdesc: Cross

[GTG] Re: [ITP] flip 1.19 -- Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: The legendary \n = \r\n end of line converter. Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/flip Jari sdesc: Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats ldesc: Program converts line endings of text files between MS-DOS

Re: [ITP] flip 1.19 -- Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats

2007-09-14 Thread Carlo Florendo
Jari Aalto wrote: The legendary \n = \r\n end of line converter. Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/flip Wow! and I thought we had d2u and u2d :) -- Carlo Florendo Software Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, UP Campus Diliman

Re: [ITA] joe 3.5 - Fast and simple editor which emulates 5 other editors

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Corinna Vinschen writes: On Aug 16 11:08, Jari Aalto wrote: * Sat 2007-08-11 jari aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w jari.aalto-w6EBCRcXQ4deoWH0uzbU5w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: 643m43l9.fsf AT blue.sea.net Adopted joe (by Joe Allen) Jari sdesc: Fast

Re: [ITP] annoyance-filter 1.04 -- Adaptive Bayesian Junk Mail Filter

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jari Aalto writes: Ping. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2007-08/msg00097.html Jari Ciao Volker

Re: [ITP] flip 1.19 -- Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats

2007-09-14 Thread Jari Aalto
* Fri 2007-09-14 Carlo Florendo subscribermail-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: 46EA5BF2.1020701 AT gmail.com Jari Aalto wrote: The legendary \n = \r\n end of line converter. Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/flip Wow! and I thought we had d2u

Re: Cygwin-bug#20070914T0555: mksh getop bug

2007-09-14 Thread Jari Aalto
* Fri 2007-09-14 Thorsten Glaser tg AT mirbsd.de INBOX Jari Aalto dixit: I've ported mksh to Cygwin and we're considerign including it in the distributions. Thanks, that’s great. Could you let me have a look at that, just out of interest, as I haven’t really understood the Cygwin packaging

Re: [ITA] joe 3.5 - Fast and simple editor which emulates 5 other editors

2007-09-14 Thread Jari Aalto
* Fri 2007-09-14 Dr Dr Dr.Volker.Zell-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: 82zlzplerl.fsf AT vzell-de.de.oracle.com The packaging looks mostely ok, but not quite. The /usr/share/joe directory is now /etc/joe. Is that a good reason to move it? Jari, any

Problems starting X and a solution to be appended to the FAQ

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Sebastian Wain
I was going crazy with the fixed font error... to later find out (somewhere) that it was caused by the DOS/Text mode (\r\n) in the instalation of cygwin. With a textmode mounted root, it seems the fonts fail to load, and the diagnostic from X isn't very helpfull. I'm a newbie with this, and

Updated: gnuplot-4.2.2-1

2007-09-14 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi A new version of 'gnuplot' has been uploaded to a server near you. DESCRIPTION: Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility for UNIX, MSDOS, VMS, and many other platforms. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay