I updated to Cygwin.dll 1.5.6-1 yesterday, and today bash won't start.
It hangs somewhere in the startup scripts. The scripts are unchanged
for several months, and they worked just fine yesterday.
I've tried to pin down the place in the startup scripts where bash
hangs, but it jumps around.
> I updated to Cygwin.dll 1.5.6-1 yesterday, and today bash won't start.
> It hangs somewhere in the startup scripts. The scripts are unchanged
> for several months, and they worked just fine yesterday.
Here is output from cygcheck under 1.5.6-1 (run from cmd, since bash
won't start):
C:\Doc
> You might want to read the list this is a know issue.
> Try the latest snapshot 1.5.7
Okay, sorry. I do read the list but missed that.
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> IP> (...) this is not a Cygwin problem at all. (...)
>
> Thank you Igor,
> you were very helpful, indeed.
> Of course, this was not a cygwin problem,
> and narrowing it down to the cygwin_gethostname call
> directed me to some old thread:
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00097.html
> Can Cygwin currently run under Wine?
A buggy, incomplete emulator running inside a buggy, incomplete emulator?
It sounds hellish.
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> http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/
Hallelujah, a resizable setup program. What a relief.
Now if only it would recognize my mouse wheel...
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> > > http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/
> >
> > Hallelujah, a resizable setup program. What a relief.
> >
> > Now if only it would recognize my mouse wheel...
>
> It depends on windows to send the appropriate messages. What OS and what
> mouse are you using?
Win2K SP4, with a Logitech generic
ipconfig | grep 'IP Address' | sed -e 's/.* //'
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Has anyone had any success in building autossh for cygwin? I have
version 1.2f. When I try to compile it with any of the provided
Makefiles, I get a boatload of errors:
$ make -f Makefile.linux
gcc -Wall -D"SSH_PATH=\"/usr/bin/ssh\"" -D"VER=\"1.2f\"" -c -o
autossh.o autos
sh.c
autossh.c:126
> > I'm sorry but I never have packaged unison-gtk2 for Cygwin. I did try
> > at first, but ran into a fatal error that seemed to be caused by
> > lablgtk2, the OCaml interface to GTK2. I wasn't able to solve it right
> > away, and since I only use the text interface myself, I've never gotten
> >
I'm trying to build dante, a SOCKS client and server, for Cygwin. Right now
build is failing with
.libs/Rbindresvport.o: In function `Rbindresvport':
/usr/local/src/dante-1.1.19/lib/Rbindresvport.c:68: undefined reference to
`_bindresvport'
based on a call to bindresvport(). bindresvport() is n
> > I see that bindresvport.c is part of the cygwin source code.
>
> You have apparently better eyes then I have. Where did you see that
> bindresvport function in Cygwin?
>
> If you're talking about the implementation in newlib/libc/sys/linux/...
> then it's unusable for Cygwin. There's a reas
> I've been doing "find | xargs grep" types of things
Bob, I don't know the source of your trouble, but as a workaround consider
running grep -r instead of find | xargs grep. In many cases it's equivalent
or almost as good, and it probably will avoid all of the forking that's
causing trouble for
> The current version of LFTP available in Cygwin seems to be V2.6.10, which
> is very old now (December 2003!). The current version is 3.4.4, from April
> 2006. Any chance of this being updated, or me being pointed in the right
> direction to do it myself?
I also use and like lftp, so if the cu
> > Last I heard, lftp was "up-for-grabs". You could check the archives of the
> > cygwin-apps list to see if I missed an update. Corinna has been the one
> > managing this list. But she won't be able to correct me if I'm wrong for
> > a few weeks. So I'd say, if you're interested, go for it.
>
> > $ AUTOSSH_FIRST_POLL=5 AUTOSSH_POLL=5 AUTOSSH_DEBUG=yes autossh -M 3
> > -N dessent.net
> > autossh: PID 3204: short poll time: adjusting net timeouts to 2500
> > autossh: PID 3204: checking for grace period, tries = 0
> > autossh: PID 3204: starting ssh (count 1)
> > autossh: PID 3204: ssh
> > May I ask at gmane.org to add the cygwin-developers list there ?
>
> I'd rather avoid that. I can't speak for cgf, but I'm somewhat
> confident that he thinks the same. Opening the list didn't imply that
> we're interested in zillions of lurkers. People interested in helping
> to develop th
Ed Peschko wrote:
> I was wondering if you ever got around to fixing that screen detaching
> bug (ie: the parent being unable to be closed due to an active screen
> process being around. I really like screen, and would like to use it as
> it was intended on cygwin..
Hi Ed. No, I never was able to
> > screen is an extremely useful program, and I wish someone could solve
> > the Cygwin problems with it. Many people have tried over the years.
> > I'd be happy to package it for Cygwin if someone could get it working.
>
> I would think that packaging it a with few minor bugs is better than
> On 7/19/06, Duane Krings wrote:
> > Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > and it will mostly work. You get a multiplexed screen. But when you
> > > detach a session most of the time you can't reattach to it, even
> > > though the processes live on
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ cd c:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c
> $ ls
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
WAG: if you run 'cd /cygdrive/c' instead of 'cd c:', does the problem go
away?
The shell obviously is interpreting c: as /cygdrive/c in your shell prompt,
but maybe it's
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:15:44AM -0600, Monte Riding wrote:
> >I have an issue when trying to run ls in the root of my C: drive
> >that's cropped up recently, not sure what's happened -
>
> Morale of the story: Use POSIX paths, i.e. "cd /cygdrive/c".
OK, but mightn't it be considered a bug t
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
> $ cd /cygdrive/c
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c
> $ ls
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
Permission problem on the root folder of C:?
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Hi Volker.
> I installed unison-2.10.2-1 and tried to sync 2 directories
> with the following default.prf in my /home/vzell/.unison
>
> # Unison preferences file
> owner=true
> group=true
> perms=-1
> log=true
>
> First of all unison didn't find my $HOME/.unison but instead created a
> new one
> > (1) Unison is looking in $UNISON last. This is clearly wrong,
and if
> > fixed would allow you to solve your problem by setting
> > UNISON=/home/volker/.unison. But here's something I don't understand:
> > on my Cygwin host both UNISON and USERPROFILE are set, but UNISON
> > I don't know OCaml, but that sure looks to me as though $UNISON is only
> > used if $USERPROFILE and $HOME are not set. And yet that behavior
> > doesn't match what I observe on my host. So that's why I asked, what
> > happens if you export UNISON=/home/volker/.unison and
make-3.80-1 suffers from the "virtual memory exhausted" bug:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02871.html
Following that discussion thread leads to a patch available at
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=1517
(although I had to reformat the patch: t
Sorry, the link to the bug should have been
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02871.html
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> Once when I felt particulary stupid, I've added redirection to 'nul'
> instead of '/dev/null' to a program run from cygwin cron. Now I've got a
> file called 'nul' on NTFS disk and can do nothing about it neither with
> windows tools nor from cygwin shell. Not a big problem, but annoying. Any
> i
> Would it be possible to include a description of what the package
> actually is, in the email announcement? Even if it's very short.
>
> Often you can't tell from the package name alone.
Yes, this is reasonable. Someone else asked for the same thing in this
NG within the last week.
Maybe th
> > why doesn't "gcc -lfoo" (ld) find /usr/local/lib/foo.dll?
> > what do I do to avoid this?
>
> Edit /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/specs
Geez, that thing should be in /etc.
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> > Now I was wondering if there was any progress in the meantime or if
> > there are plans to develop a fix in the near future. Otherwise I would
> > have to find a solution for unison without the cygwin ssh client.
>
> Your mileage should be greater if you use the cygwin build of unison,
> avai
Hi Richard. I'm the maintainer of Unison for Cygwin.
> There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version
> numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems;
> it can cross different operating systems over IP. The protocol uses the
> version number to dec
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > Richard Lethin wrote:
> >
> >> Max Bowsher wrote:
> >>
> >>> Richard Lethin wrote:
> >>>
> There is a problem with the way that cygwin is updating the version
> numbers for cygwin/unison. Unison is used to synchronize filesystems;
> it can cross differen
> > On Jan 10 21:56, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > > Oh, one more thing: I'd prefer it if any threats to
> > 'censor' or 'ban'
> > > me from this forum also be sent to this forum, and not to me
> > > personally, so any hilariously blatant hypocrisy said
> > threats may or
> > > may not contai
> When I run man I get this printed before the page displays:
>
> $ man man
> Unrecognized line in config file (ignored)
> JNROFF LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj
> Unrecognized line in config file (ignored)
> KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc
> Unrecognized
> I was just installing postgreSQL and ran across the problem with
> getting initdb to run as the postgres user. As expected, I could
> neither su nor login to work. Searching the archives and the like
> for a fix, the most often specified one was to use ssh. But as I
> don't run sshd, and it seem
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > So now I wonder, is it not just me? Is su in Cygwin broken for
> > everyone?
>
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC42>
Thank you. As I said, I never bothered to look into it... Guess it's time to
> Problem description:
> Having a background job running, even in the lowest priority (low),
> execution of pipes is extremly slow. Everything else seems to run fine.
>
> That's really weired, because at cygwin startup all scripts in
> /etc/profile.d are sourced, which are using a lot of pipes. Th
I just upgraded to cygwin 1.5.13-1 on two hosts, and am observing the same
problem on both: my bash startup hangs. I traced the problem to an
invocation of ssh-add in .bash_profile, with three keys as arguments.
The first time I run ssh-add after rebooting the host, it hangs. I can
leave it for
> On Mar 8 05:54, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > I just upgraded to cygwin 1.5.13-1 on two hosts, and am observing the same
> > problem on both: my bash startup hangs. I traced the problem to an
> > invocation of ssh-add in .bash_profile, with three keys as arguments.
>
&g
> In my case, this snapshot does not fix the problem. Now instead of
> ssh-add hanging the first time it's run before prompting for the
> passphrase, it now hangs *every* time after prompting for the
> passphrase.
I can confirm this. I'm now running with cygwin1-20050308.dll-1. All
invocations
I'm running autossh-1.2g-4 with cygwin1-2005-03-08.dll-1. autossh has
been quite stable for me with versions of cygwin1.dll up to and
including 1.5.12-1. But with 1.5.13 and later snapshots, it crashes
reliably 5 minutes after starting, right at the time when it wakes up to
do some polling of
> > 184 47362 [main] ssh-add 2980 fhandler_socket::signal_secret_event:
> >signaled secret_event
> >36925366 36972728 [unknown (0xC24)] ssh-add 2980 _cygtls::remove: wait
> >0x
>
> Do you actually have an ssh-agent running at this point? If so, try
> "strace -ofoo -p " on ssh-agent's
> Out of curiosity, do you run your shell in an xterm window? If I run
> from the command line it works fine, but in an xterm window it hangs.
No, I just run C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login. The default console
window opens.
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> Just to clarify. When ssh-add is hanging, the ssh-agent process still
> exists?
Yes.
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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:24:25AM -0500, Chuck wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>Corinna identified a couple of problems and checked in some fixes which
> >>may solve the problem with ssh-add hanging.
> >>
> >>Please try the latest snapshot and report success for failure here.
> >>
> >>htt
> Hi All...
>
> With the latest snapshot, I can not see the problem now.
>
> It also seemd to take a long time sometimes with the previous snapshot
> (March 4) in ssh-add. That also seems better now. But I really don't have
> enough data to say much here...it just seems better.
You're right--
> 0065E938 61093A1F (6112B460, 7974742F, 61120031, 6974616D)
> malloc.cc:3952
> nextchunk = chunk_at_offset(p, size);
> nextsize = chunksize(nextchunk);
>
>
> yeesh. nasty heap corruption leading to bad nextchunk pointer and an
> exception when it is dereferenced in the attem
> The problem is that autossh is freeing the return value of
> gethostbyname(). I can't find any reference which says that is a
> acceptable thing to do. It certainly screws up cygwin, and I can't
> think of any way to avoid having it screw up cygwin. Maybe it won't
> screw up other systems sinc
> GOK why it works on glibc-based systems, but I guess it must, or the
> problem would surely have cropped up before. Hm..
Simple: that part of the code is contained in an #ifdef HAVE_NO_ADDRINFO
... #endif block, and so is only built on systems without a getaddrinfo
() function. That
> Generally speaking, it is whoever mallocs memory that has the
> responsibility for freeing it. If your app mallocs it, your app should free
> it; if the library mallocs it, the library should free it.
>
> In some cases, the ownership of a bit of memory (or any other resource)
> may be trans
> >> mysqldump='/cygdrive/c/program\ files/mysql/MySQL\ Server\
> >> 4.1/bin/mysqldump.exe'
> >>
> >> I get "/cygdrive/c/program\: No such file or directory..."
> >>
> >> Is this just hard luck?
> >
> >Nope, just the way the quoting rules work. You've already quoted the spaces
> >by
> >using th
> There is one potential problem in that we may need to adapt Pierre's
> patch to prevent problems with pid reuse to 3.0 if it is released.
Besides that, looking at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.0-
patches/, I see 16 patches. I hope all of those will be applied to a
Cygwin bash 3.0 packa
>$ head -1 /usr/bin/rename
>#!/usr/bin/perl -w
Yes, Debian includes a perl script /usr/bin/rename, which seems more
powerful than Cygwin rename:
NAME
rename - renames multiple files
SYNOPSIS
rename [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] perlexpr [ files ]
DESCRIPTION
"rename" rename
Hi Marcus. Thanks for the report.
> Seems that Cygwin port of the unison file synchronizer does not do the
> -fastcheck very well. Transcript follows:
>
> # Start of transcript
>
> # creates archives for first time
> $ cd /tmp ; touch a b ; /bin/unison-2.10.2 ./a ./b
> ...
>
> $ touch a
>
> $
> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:50:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>_The socket is no longer a socket._
>
> Try a snapshot.
Hm, and after all that detailed reporting...
The problem is fixed with the 20050516 snapshot. I'll continue testing
screen.
Thanks, A.
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> Does stow have support for hard links at all?
No, not at present.
> If not is that an easy
> thing to add in?
It probably is, although I can't spend any time on it in the foreseeable
future.
> Such an option would make stow more useful on Cygwin, IMHO.
I think you're right, for the foll
>> Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems
>> don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done.
>> So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'.
>
> Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports
> creating hardlinks
> Just for the records: It should also fix the socket problem on
> postgresql, loosing the socket file attributes on touch().
Yes, I had the same problem with screen, and it is fixed in 2005-05-17.
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> Somone a month or so ago posted a list of little known Cygwin
> commands, and in that list was a cool command that allowed you
> to rename a list of files, like thus:
>
> cmd First*.* Second*.*
>
> which would rename all files starting with "First" to be "Second".
> I used this command a bit
> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069:
> The service did not start due to a logon failure.
>
> This happens only if my account has no password. Once I set any password -
> it works great. Autossh starts under cygrunsrv as a service under my account
> and sets all
>> Yes, the reattachment problem is now solved AFAICT, using Cygwin 1.5.17 or
>> later. Most of it works just fine, but there's one problem that I haven't
>> solved yet: when you detach a session, it stays bound to its parent
>> shell. So if you then try to exit the parent shell, it hangs. Y
> I am wondering if there is a firewall that coexists with Cygwin well.
> IIRC, there were complaints about Norton software and about some other
> firewalls too. What would you recommend me?
>
> I ask because I've never had to use firewall before (my home box is behind
> NAT in a secure network) a
> I found a problem building GNU screen on cygwin 1.5.17.
> Invoking ./configure leads to produce below error message.
>
>>rm: cannot remove `conftext.exe': Permission denied.
IIRC I encountered this problem during the test for a broken FIFO
implementation. As it turns out, Cygwin's FIFO impleme
>> Why is this a Cygwin question? A firewall is a firewall. Network
>> applications, both Cygwin and non-Cygwin, have to deal with it. I don't
>> know what a Cygwin-hostile firewall would look like.
>
> Cygwin uses sockets to implement many of its functions, such as IPC.
> Some overzealous fire
> /home/corrada
> 6 % jython.bat
> jython.bat: Command not found.
What does 'which jython.bat' tell you?
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I've installed ocaml 3.08.1-1.
$ ocamlc -v
The Objective Caml compiler, version 3.08.1
Standard library directory: /usr/local/stow/ocaml/lib/ocaml
The library location is wrong; it should be /usr/lib/ocaml. This breaks
some compilations of course.
Andrew.
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> $ ocamlc -v
> The Objective Caml compiler, version 3.08.1
> Standard library directory: /usr/local/stow/ocaml/lib/ocaml
>
> The library location is wrong; it should be /usr/lib/ocaml. This breaks
> some compilations of course.
My mistake: I had set OCAMLLIB earlier in my environment, then for
I'm trying to build Unison version 2.9.99. Compilation succeeds, but
the link step fails with
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
cannot find -lutil
after running a gcc command that includes '-lutil'. I've searched the
Cygwin packages, and it does seem th
>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
>>cannot find -lutil
>
> As you noted, the file doesn't exist in the cygwin distribution. It's
> possible that you could just get by with removing it from the link line
> entirely since it looks like most of the functions
> "the link still fails" provides almost zero useful information.
True.
> Since Corinna went to some effort to add libutil functionality to the
> cygwin DLL a while ago and since I can't see any functions in libutil.so
> which are missing from cygwin1.dll, I don't see why this didn't work.
Okay,
find / -name cygwin1.dll
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http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_1.html, "Is it free software?":
"... read the copyright section of the FAQ more more information ..."
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"If you are looking for the a version number ..."
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> I need gtk 2 to get Dia (an open source diagramming package to displace
> Microsoft Visio). (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/)
Consider also xfig, which is already in Cygwin and which Dia looks very
similar to.
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> I just updated an xp machine to sp2 and unison-2.9.1 (the win32 version)
> using ssh (cygwin) started hanging. I have done a clean install of cygwin
> and am running with the 16sep snapshot. cvs (cygwin) works fine with ssh.
> unison hangs with ssh.
>
> Because win32 unison will not run under
> As somebody who uses gmane instead of email lists, I cannot find these
> new lists on gmane. Any idea if they will be automagically included or
> does somebody need to notify the gmane site?
Someone needs to ask the gmane admins to add the lists.
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$ ls -l dir1
$ ln -fs --target-directory=dir1 ../test.txt
ln: `dir1/.': cannot overwrite directory
$ ls -l dir1
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx1 ASchulma None 11 Oct 14 16:42 test.txt ->
../test.txt
What seems to happen here is that when ln --target-directory is given
only one target file (here
> I have a problem with cygwin. I wanted to install on my PC cygwin with the
> UNIX text mode.
> I don't know why because I tried it many times but cygwin after installing is
> working allways
> in the DOS text mode. Furthermore, the most basic functions like "ls" or
> "dir" aren't
> working. I
> I updated my Cygwin installation this morning and picked up the new
> version of Bash (3.0-7). When I started a new shell (running under
> rxvt) I was suprised to see that my prompt displayed differently than
> before the upgrade. I use the following prompt
>
> PS1='\[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED
> Is it advisable to edit one's .bashrc? I'd like to put in a bunch of
> customizations, aliases, etc., but I'm intimidated by the message
> saying that my .bashrc will not be updated by setup.exe if I modify
> it. Does this mean that I'll have to put in changes for new programs
> manually? If so,
>> The 'extra space in the prompt' bug is well known; see e.g.
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-04/msg00325.html and
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-04/msg00036.html.
>
> Status update:
> The upstream maintainer has been alerted to this issue, and Thomas Dickey has
> provi
> Specifically, I need to do
>
> Set PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\bin;%PATH%
> Set INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit
> 2003\include;%INCLUDE% Set LIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> .NET 2003\Vc7\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ To
> > The package 'orpie' is now available in the Cygwin distribution.
>
> There is a packaging bug in this release.
>
> /etc/default/etc/orpierc
>
> should be
>
> /etc/defaults/etc/orpierc
Thanks. Sorry, I thought I had corrected this. A new release will come out
shortly.
> Also I woul
I'm running bash 3.0-11. I've just noticed for the first time that
the NAME environment variable is set (to the same value as USER). This
is breaking one of my Makefiles.
Of course I can work around that, but what's bothering me is that I
can't figure out why or where NAME is being set. I've gre
> >Any suggestions for how I can figure out who's setting NAME? I want
> >to make them stop.
>
> Look in your Windows environment. Apparently someone set it for you there.
> If you don't want it, you can try removing it. Windows doesn't require it
> either so whatever added it is local to your
> I'd like to request a gold star for Andrew Schulman for displaying the
> bravery, patience, and organization necessary for maintaining the unison
> package.
>
> This package requires juggling a confusing mishmash of different
> versions and, AFAICT, Andrew actually un
> after just a few bytes of network traffic (far
> less than the full 400kb), it hangs. Runs of "ps -ef" confirm that the
> unison-2.9.20 processes are still running on both machines, but there is
> no network traffic, and no CPU usage.
>
> Attempts to run Unison on directories with lots of ch
> > Brooks, I do remember seeing a lot of reports about 6 months or so
> > ago, that Unison was hanging. My recollection is dim but I think it
> > had to do with some bad combination of versions of cygwin.dll and
> > Unison. Are you using the latest cygwin.dll on your servers?
>
> "uname -sr" re
I'm trying to run orpie in Cygwin. When I start it, a window pops up
saying "cygblas.dll not found".
orpie requires gsl, which requires lapack, which includes
/usr/lib/lapack/cygblas.dll. All of these packages are installed on
my host, and I do have /usr/lib/lapack/cygblas.dll.
The problem seem
> >(2) lapack makes some other provision for finding cygblas.dll, but it
> >isn't working for me.
>
> This is the right choice. lapack installs /etc/profile.d/lapack.sh, which
> does
> what you want; putting /usr/lib/lapack in your path.
>
> The default /etc/profile executes all scripts in /etc
Ploticus is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Ploticus is
command-line software for creating plots, charts, and graphics from data.
Ploticus is good for automated or just-in-time graph generation. With
ploticus you can use 'prefabs' to quickly create common types of graphs,
or write
Debian has a package called popularity-contest:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/misc/popularity-contest. The package
installs a cron job that mails in statistics once a week about which Debian
packages the user has installed, and which ones they're using. This allows
the Debian team to track wh
> Hi all.
>
> I am no longer working with Windows, so I have no free resources (including
> time) to maintain my Cygwin packages. The list (I hope that it is complete) of
> my packages follows:
>
> docbook-xml412
> docbook-xml42
> docbook-xml43
> docbook-xml44
> docbook-xsl
> hexedit
> ioperm
> s
> I find that I miss the command such as size.exe ar.exe, nm.exe,
> make.exe, awk.exe and strip.exe etc
> where can I find those packages to insall? are there any instructions I
> need to follow for installation?
Please Read the Fine FAQ.
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> Ironically enough, by reposting the message, there are now two copies of it
> in the archives.
>
> I think Bobby may have inadvertently quoted it as well.
>
> Oops.
>
> I see it's available on nabble and gmane as well. And mail-archive.org, and
> MARC. Amd who knows how many other li
> BAD:
> alias cdp=cd\ "$USERPROFILE"
> +alias 'cdp=cd C:\Documents and Settings\me'
>
> alias cdp="cd $USERPROFILE"
> +alias 'cdp=cd C:\Documents and Settings\me'
>
> GOOD:
> alias cdp="cd \"$USERPROFILE\""
> + alias 'cdp=cd "C:\Documents and Settings\me"'
>
> alias cdp='cd "$USERPROFILE"'
> +
> > lftp ftp.microsoft.com
> lftp: host name resolve timeout
I'm not able to reproduce this problem:
$ lftp ftp.microsoft.com
lftp ftp.microsoft.com:~> ls
dr-xr-xr-x 1 ownergroup 0 Jan 25 11:03 bussys
dr-xr-xr-x 1 ownergroup 0 Jan 25 11:18 deskapps
dr-xr-xr
> * Andrew Schulman (Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:12:54 -0500)
> > > > lftp ftp.microsoft.com
> > > lftp: host name resolve timeout
> >
> > I'm not able to reproduce this problem:
>
> I figured it out myself: it's the "dns:fatal-timeout 0"
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