On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> (I'm not subscribed to this list, so hopefully this will work.)
I'm mildly surprised it did (see below).
> One thing that bugged me in the past is the use of "BLODA" in the FAQ
> text ("all software on the BLODA") -- since it's part of the te
> Greetings, Erik Soderquist!
> To add to that, please configure your email client to not quote raw email
> addresses.
>
> @Eli Barzilay, you too.
web client; I don't have the option to configure :(
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez wrote:
> No software version can live forever, ...
Personally, I have to disagree with this statement, or at least offer
an amendment...
I have some things still running in DOS 5 in a virtual machine because
that is the most effective
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:38 AM, wilson wrote:
> I'd like to say a sincere thank you to Corina (and the rest of the team) for
> supporting XP for this long, and I hope she stays so busy the issue of
> removing XP support never becomes a priority. :)
I rather expect it will more be a matter of a bu
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:59 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
> Arguments like this is the reason I had to spend years searching through
> COBOL code for 2 digit years. Old habits seem hard to die. Either
> upgrade or forever pay the penalty yourself to keep the old code running.
Actually I agree wholehear
In cygwin, I use >/dev/null 2>&1 quite frequently and it works as expected.
In windows cmd.exe, I don't know why they would recommend the < part
for dealing with output, but I have used >NUL 2>&1 for the same effect
in Windows command shells.
-- Erik
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Kenneth Wolc
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Michele Modolo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to install the latest version of Oracle Enterprise Manager
> (13c) for evaluation purposes. Oracle states that it "is certified and
> supported with Cygwin 1.7" so I'd like to install Cygwin 1.7.
>
> The current version o
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> I hope not. Extended support ended nearly two years ago. That’s 22 months
> of unfixed security problems, bugs, and regressions with respect to the state
> of the world. (By the latter, I mean things like outdated time zone rules.)
When
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2016, at 2:58 PM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>>
>>> I hope not. Extended support ended nearly two years ago.
>>
>> ...why wast
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:21 AM, David Willis wrote:
> Thank you for the response..
>
> That is the problem though, it is not an error I am getting (that is in fact
> the issue is that I SHOULD be getting a "permission denied" but I am not).
> The problem is that I have access to things that I sho
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:34 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> David Willis writes:
>> I know this is a somewhat unique and I guess obscure issue, but if someone
>> could please look into this - I would be very surprised if it was NOT
>> reproducible following the steps below. Because if this is actually th
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:15 PM, David Willis wrote:
> So you're telling me any user that logs in using key authentication cannot
> access the network as the same user (i.e. this is the intended behavior)? If
> that's the case wouldn't it be better not to allow network access at ALL,
> rather tha
n
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Tony Kelman wrote:
> Erik Soderquist writes:
>
>> currently I'm studying programming myself now with a direct goal of
>> being able to write a Linux compatible replacement so I can dump my
>> own amber-coated XP
>
> Have you
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 8:29 PM, David Willis wrote:
> Hmm, storing the password in the registry would probably not be optimal... I
> would probably rather deal with lack of network share access from SSH
> sessions than store a plaintext password (haven't tested it so I can't say
> for sure, but si
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:49 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Erik Soderquist writes:
>> I would suspect Domain Admin for the Cyg_server account is a
>> requirement of David's environment, which neither of us know anything
>> about at present. I know I've had to do things
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Andrew Louie wrote:
> I type in the command: 'dot' expecting a bash: dot: command not found
> and instead I get:
>
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `X86'
>
> the command: 'which dot' returns:
>
> which: no dot in ($PATH)
>
> where is bash finding this
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> I implemented and tested the idea and it seems to work. Note that the
> underlying problem that we can't generate our own login session when using
> method 1 persists. However, the new code should avoid spilling cyg_server
> credential
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Thanks for testing, I really appreciate that.
You're very welcome :)
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> This has me perplexed:
>
> $ ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/XML/libXML.pm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Csaba None 65K Dec 6 14:16
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.22/x86_64-cygwin-threads/XML/libXML.pm
>
> $ which find
> /usr/bin/
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 1.0.2g-3.
Any chance of LibreSSL being added as an available option?
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Erik Soderquist!
>
>> Any chance of LibreSSL being added as an available option?
>
> If you pick up the maintainer's hat…
If I knew how, I would...
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 9 16:54, Erik Soderquist wrote:
>> If I knew how, I would...
>
> https://cygwin.com/setup.html
>
> A couple of months ago I made sure that portable LibreSSL from
> https://github.com/libressl-portable/porta
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Alex P!
>
>> How do I check that "passwd -R" worked correctly?
>> I get error messages in Event Viewer when I run it as user (vs "As
>> Administrator").
>
> You must use it with elevated privileges. Else it wouldn't work at all.
>F
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Gerrit Haase wrote:
> Well, thanks. I did the installation today, and
> /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh obviously didn't run.
So what do /var/log/setup.log and/or /var/log/setup.log.full say about
the script?
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Gerrit Haase wrote:
> How can I see all packages in Base category, I am in offline mode, and
> it shows me only all the packages which are present in my package
> folder.
I was of the understanding that the setup program used the setup.xz or
setup.bz2 file as the
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> Confirmed, at least on Win10 64-bit without any AD mucking things up. That
> is, I get both 114 and 544 here, so I don’t need the 114 rule at all.
Looks like AD may muck things up for those of us stuck with it. I
have neither 114 nor 544, b
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> Also, I have 0... how long ago was 0 and/or /etc/group removed?
>
> 1.7.34, with adjustments in .35 and 2.0.0.
>
> You *really* should consider moving /etc/passwd and /etc/group out of the way
> under 2.0+.
>
> Having done that, does the out
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> I do not know where /etc/passwd and /etc/group came from on
>> this system, unless pre-1.7.34 is still less than a year ago
>
> Google sez: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-11/msg00019.html
>
> Relevant: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygw
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> You can still re-generate them with the mkpasswd/mkgroup commands, but that’s
> strongly discouraged.
>
> These files are not removed if present, even when upgrading pre-1.7.34 to
> 2.0+, so if you copied over a prior install’s /etc contents
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> this is not documented, at least
>> not where I expected to find the information:
>> https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.cli
>
> This is “frequently asked”?
This specific question, probably not, but a command line option not
listed in
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Justin S. wrote:
> AVG anti-virus reported it found a virus in a Cygwin install pulled from
> aarnet on 8 Jan 2014.
>
> "";"Virus found Win32/Heur,
> C:\Users\justin\Desktop\ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.aarnet.edu.au%2fpub%2fsourceware%2fcygwin%2f\x86\release\cygwin\cygwi
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> I'm fairly certain that I have not had this machine that long
>
> The mtimes on those files is as reliable as your system clock, because
> they’re generated during first install.
Turns out I was wrong, I've had the machine since 2014-12-04 a
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> I'm seeing inconsistent results with cksum, with repeated
> executions on the same file giving different results.
> Now, I suspect I won't get much sympathy because I am
> accessing the remote file through a "stone_age_old"*
> (QNX4) Samba
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Nem W Schlecht wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Erik Soderquist
>> I expect if you did a capture of the traffic, you'd find the traffic
>> itself has inconsistent data...
>
> If the traffic was bad, I'd suspect the byte co
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Erik Soderquist!
>> My first suspicion is that there is very little you can do from the
>> cygwin side outside of something like doing 5 consecutive tests and
>> take the most consistent result.
>
> Sin
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Indeed, it is not cksum, but (almost) any Windows process that
> reads data mounted on my QNX4 Samba drive, including Cygwin's
> "cp", FileZilla, and Perl's File::Copy package. However, I have
> not got the DOS "COPY" command to deliver corr
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:45 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
> > the computer name "-" (dash) is illegal in the internet.
>
> Uh, that isn't true.
Yes, it is true.
> > See
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostname
> > for a start about host name definitions.
> >
>
> From this reference:
> "The Internet st
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Rashi Singhal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not getting what is wrong in my mail.
>
> I replayed in the last conversation of the message.
"Top-posting" is posting your entire reply at the top of the message
you are replying to rather than placing your reply into logical
pl
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:08 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>
> On Thu 2019-12-12 (21:59), Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin wrote:
>
> > If the temp file was created by mktemp and the name saved in an
> > environmental variable, each bash shell could have its own file with not
> > risk that a
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:45 PM Erik Soderquist wrote:
> This is very hacky, but I believe you can get the effect you want by
> having an admin process auto-start at host startup, identify itself,
> and then set parts of its own /proc/ process ID tree as world
> read/write. I think th
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:20 AM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via
cygwin wrote:
> One could put a script, batch file, or a link thereto in one's startup
> folder that will run on Windows' boot.
The OP's issue is that the data must be destroyed instantly even in
the event of a power failure.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 11:11 PM, andy wrote:
> When I open a mintty terminal as administrator, I am able to access all the
> files in the file tree rooted at ~nonAdminUserAccount, even though that
> directory & all subdirectories have mode bits drwx--+. Is this to be
> expected? I'm using Wi
I'm having a similar issue with strange acl results... I wish I knew
which update triggered this, but I'd ignored and/or worked around
it...
I can reproduce it with the following:
user@localhost ~
$ touch /tmp/foo
user@localhost ~
$ chmod 700 /tmp/foo
user@localhost ~
$ echo foo>/tmp/foo
-bash:
On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:24 AM, David Allsopp wrote:
>
> I am trying to work out the precise details for character escaping when
> starting a Cygwin process from a native (i.e. non-Cygwin) Windows process.
> For example:
>
> argv[0] = "foo"
> argv[1] = "bar baz"
>
> then the resulting command
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 4:03 AM, David Allsopp wrote:
>
> [With apologies if threading is broken; I erroneously thought as
> the list was not subscriber-only that replies would use reply-all
> and so wasn't subscribed]
Didn't break for me, though that might be google's threading in gmail
rather tha
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> > (And then do a backup of my windows file with my rsync script to the
> > external harddrive.)
>
> …the e2fsprogs package isn’t going to get you a Windows kernel driver for
> ext3 filesystems, so you aren’t going to be able to mount the for
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:40 AM, x y wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The MS Office applications are changing the ctime value of .doc and
> .xls files even if they are not modified. Opening and closing an
> office file without modifying the content is changing ctime and the
> unmodified document is included in
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I thought that support for Windows XP had been removed from Cygwin.
> Yet the Cygwin home page says:
>
> https://cygwin.com/
>
> "The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially
> released x86 32 bit and 64 bit version
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>> I thought that support for Windows XP had been removed from Cygwin.
>> Yet the Cygwin home page says:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/
>>
>> "The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially
>> released x86 32 bit and 64 b
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> On 25 May 2016 at 06:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Uh oh, bad timing...
> >
> > The next release 2.5.2 introduces the first non-XP compatible code.
> > It's in a seldom used corner of the code and it doesn't require
> > functions un
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 2.6, probably. This is much more than you got back in the days when
> we dropped support for 9x, NT4, W2K ;)
I'll be happy with that :)
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On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> Can you, by any chance, also send the output of `cd /tmp; icacls .'?
>
Unfortunately no, corporate machine, and was replaced less than a week
ago. The new machine does not have the same issue, though I have not
tested (and probably won'
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 9 18:02, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 09/06/2016 17:52, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote:
>> > Are you referring to the 83.dotm file? Looks highly suspicious. o.O
>> >
>>
>> It is clearly spam or worse.
>>
>> But some of them will always pass
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> I am inclined to try S-1-5-7 (Anonymous). But I do not know if that is a
>> bad choice for some reason or other.
>
> I thought about Anonymous myself when I wrote my reply to your OP. I
> refrained from mentioning it because it might have
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Cygwin developers and maintainers,
> Hi everyone else,
>
>
> I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 2.6.0-0.1.
If I recall correctly, this is also the release that is expected to
break XP compatibility, yes?
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On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote:
> Well my first foray into the world of CYGWIN mailing lists has been
> a lot of fun so far.
Glad you enjoyed it :)
> Rather than replying to each respondent, I will try to respond to
> each in one email. This may be a mistake.
It is, as is
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 11:31 AM, t s wrote:
> I need to make a fresh installation of cywgin. The drive I propose to install
> to is detailed in;
>
> http://www.cpm86.com/sdcard.jpg
>
> It's an NTFS drive with 238 GB capacity, allocation unit size 4096 bytes.
I see no problem with the params thems
On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote:
>>
>> code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want*
>> PATHEXT support anymore.
>>
>
> Moreso, this code has recently broken my C++ code in Cygwin.
> It tried to see if a directory /dir/subdir/something existed,
> and Cygw
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Herbert Stocker wrote:
>>>
>>> code required to handle .exe and .lnk extensions you don't *want*
>>> PATHEXT support anymore.
>>>
>>
>> Moreso, this cod
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin
> assuming the text file is a script and executing each line of the file.
> If PATHEXT were used only to determine that the file should be passed to
> ShellExecute instead it might b
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:15 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/9/2016 10:13 AM, Erik Soderquist wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:58 AM, cyg Simple wrote:
>>> I tried "chmod +x foo.txt; ./foo.txt" but that results in Cygwin
>>> assuming the text file is a scrip
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Erik Soderquist!
>
>> PATHEXT looks for *executable* files, not file association. I warned
>> previously in this thread about getting the two confused.
>
> Your statement is confusing. If not contradictory.
&
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
... Azure users that happen to be still running XP.
Is that actually possible? I thought Azure's minimum requirements
would not accept XP...
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Andreas Wettergren wrote:
> The computer I’m using to launch the setup from is running Windows 7
> Professsional (64 - bit).
> I’m using setup-x86.exe version 2.874.
Why 32 bit rather than 64 bit in a 64 bit environment? (more curious
than anything else, I don't
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 3:59 AM, Björn Kautler wrote:
> Hi Eliot,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> It seems this was an issue with the NTFS permissions.
> I also was not able to access the folders via Windows Explorer.
> After also fixing the Windows permissions it works now as expected so far.
>
>
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Andreas Wettergren wrote:
>> Why 32 bit rather than 64 bit in a 64 bit environment? (more curious than
>> anything else, I don't think this affects the outcome).
>>
>
> This is partially for historical reasons, and partially because I'm
> personally not
> 100% s
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Thank you, Erik -- you answered better than I could have! I don't
> use a domain login, so the fact that my local SID is different has
> been very plain to me!
Multiple years as a network admin managing Windows/Linux/UNIX hybrid
environments
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Marcel Grandemange wrote:
> Good Day
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone can assist me.
>
> I have a Windows server 2003 server with the latest Cygwin installed.
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 2.5.2(0.297/5/3) 2016-06-23 14:27 i686 Cygwin
>
> I have setup the SSH serv
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Marcel Grandemange wrote:
> I have entirely disabled the firewall at one point and this didn't help.
> Also keep in mind I did install bitvise ssh server to do a comparison and
> this worked.
Then I don't know, though I will be watching this thread for a
possible
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Peter Rosin wrote:
> Creating other files in the C:\cygwin64\bin folder works just fine,
> e.g. C:\cygwin64\bin\bach.exe.
>
> There is no existing C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe that has permissions
> that can be examined, so the only permissions that can reasonably
> ha
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> Here is a contrived example:
>
> $ cmd /c DIR $(cygpath -w hello.exe)
> Volume in drive C has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 6A15-FFB2
>
> Directory of C:\cygwin\home\knellis\dev\c\hello
>
> 08/26/2016 10:4760,927 hello
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Massimo Balestra wrote:
> Forget it
>
> I copied the sshd_config from /etc/defaults/etc/sshd_config to /etc and now
> it works again as it should.
>
> Now I need to figure out what was the parameter that broke it
I look forward to those results too.
Also, please d
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Now try to pipe something from a native application to your UFW build, and
> then the results from it to something else native.
> I'm eagerly awaiting reports of your success.
Done it already, using netcat and a few localhost ports, using ssh,
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> So, the answer to your question is determined by what your locale thinks
> is the appropriate representation; and I have no control over whether
> Windows' locale defaults will match glibc's locale defaults for en_US or
> any other locale outsid
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 4:17 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
>
> In other words, don't trust a default
Exactly!
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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Does this require X? No mention in the announcement, nor in the
> dependencies when I installed it.
>
> But if I try to launch I get
>
>QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
>[1]+ Aborted (core dumped) qpd
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:18 PM, wrote:
> I've no idea what it does except in the most general terms but one of
> my banks won't let me log in unless it's running so this has been
> quite a nuisance as I have to stop it w/ their management interface
> and then use task manager to kill their managem
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:18 PM, bzs wrote:
> I have spoken to the bank involved numerous times but never got past a
> very chipper, helpful person who is ready to show me how to start/stop
> the software, listens to my problem (slowness) politely and then goes
> back into their technical support d
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Felipe Vieira wrote:
> no my vimrc. From http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/map.html:
>
> **
> A easier way to get a mapping that doesn't produce anything, is to use
> "".
>
> Anyways this is not the expected behavior. Is there some complexity
> here that I'm not
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> I have been using notepad++ for my windows editor.
>
> \r = Carriage Return
> \n = New Line / Line Feed
>
> so Notepad++ produced a file with CRLF as line termination and you need
> to convert it with d2u.
Notepad++ can also do unix line term
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:15 PM, wrote:
>I'm sorry to bother maillist with this - but i've searched EVERYWHERE, and
> i can NOT find a link to download cygwin x86 setup version 2.5.2.
>
>could someone please point me in a good direction???
the "cygwin time machine"
http://www.fruitbat.org
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Peter Lazar wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
>
> Please advise: what is the way to install Cygwin on XP (for example:
> (i) how to install version 2.5.2; (ii) how to obtain/download
> setup.exe for 2.5.2?)
the "cygwin time machine"
http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#c
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> As for package maintainers needing some specific behavior --
> if a backdoor to your system was part of the "base" system, would you
If there is a "back door" in a base package, that is a security
failing and needs to be reported and fix
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> CMD.EXE has supported input and output redirection since forever (XP at
> least).
> I suggest claiming it as a "new feature" is just marketing hype.
I believe the point was that WSL is no longer quite the completely
isolated island it started a
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Rus wrote:
> I understand that Cygwin 2.5.2 was the last version that actually worked
> with Windows-XP.
> I tried to run the setup-x86.exe program, and it just fails. Quite
> unfortunate, as this
> will simply force me to abandon further usage of Cygwin.
> Short
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> And for those who think keeping a private mirror is trivial, let me give you
> some stats. A full snapshot of Cygwin, 32-bit + 64-bit (+noarch) + source
> packages (Current and Previous) is about 137Gb. Don't believe me? Your
> setup.ini h
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> Greetings, Erik,
>
> A good magician never reveals how the trick works. 8^)
>
> Sadly I'm not a good magician.
>
> It's not all that complicated, if you think about it. Each time a new
> setup.ini is generated only a hand full of packages
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
>
> I needed Windows XP support in cygwin, so I reverted the XP-removal
> patches from cygwin 2.6 git and I compiled a version that works with
> Windows XP.
Intriguing... Are you also planning to code in the new features that
were th
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:19 AM, David Macek wrote:
> What happens is that ezmlm (the mailing list software) broadcasts this
> message (after adding a bunch of links at the bottom) to everyone
> subscribed, but with the sender unchanged. Yahoo has got a DMARC policy
> set up that is supposed to en
> I really like cygwin and have used it for a decade plus. Only in the
> last year or 18-months have I noticed significant permission issues
> that slow down my workflow.
>
> Copying these folders/files from one drive to another is a task I'd
> like to accomplish, but even more importantly I'd lik
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Lee Dilkie wrote:
> I'd agree that adding "cygwin" to the setup program would be nice but it's
> certainly not the windows "way", lots of programs use just "setup.exe".
I don't recall "the Windows way" being a goal of Cygwin.
> Versioning can't be added to the file
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Use wget -N to prevent duplicate downloads when the name, date,
> and size don't change.
That only works if I am downloading to the same location/name as the source is
-- Erik
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On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> If I'm going to relegate rsync to the trash bin due to it not
> supporting Windows permissions well enough to be useful, I've got
> other Windows recursive copy tools I use that don't preserve
> permissions either.
I still use rsync in cygwin
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Vlado wrote:
> Erik (and others),
>
> don't worry about Setup version, please.
>
> Use this script:
> https://gist.github.com/Vlado-99/1d59bf05b70481377ff90bb53e13bb2d
>
> - Setup is downloaded only if gpg signature changes (only very small .sig
> file is re-downloa
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:50 PM, cyg Simple wrote:
> And if we were purely *nix your argument might hold merit but this setup
> executable provides a Windows OS based install of a Windows based
> application set known as Cygwin.
If we were purely *nix, we wouldn't be on Windows in the first place
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> In /etc/sshd_config:
>
> UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
Essentially this no longer becomes optional? Or am I misreading?
-- Erik
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> It's a reasonable suggestion, and there's no harm in politely asking for
> it. You can include a link to this thread so they can see whether the
> community wants the change.
I'm in agreement, and if it needs a vote, count me in favor of ad
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Leif W wrote:
>> Setup re-downloads the entire 2MB packages file every single time.
>
> It has to do this; the packages file might have changed since the previous
> run.
The original post isn't clear to me, b
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> Greetings, All,
> First, my apologies in advance if this is considered off-topic, or
> unwelcome in some way. I figured this would be an appropriate audience in
> which to express this information. If a more appropriate forum is
> sugges
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Mark Hansen wrote:
> Unfortunately, it looks like it won't let me create an exception for these
> executables, so I don't
> have any way to stop it from deleting them :(
>
> ... and I know better than to ask my corporate IT folks to make an exception
> for me :(
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