[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-4

[Steve O]

rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows
command shell.  This port can be used with or without X.

This build enables 256 color support and fixes a problem loading 
the newly named X11 dll when displaying to an X display. 


To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

To install rxvt for the first time, choose "rxvt" from the packages list,
in the "Shell" category. If you already have rxvt installed, the update will
be pre-selected.

Remember that some mirror sites may not have updated before this
announcement is made. If your usual mirror does not have the latest version
of this package, please be patient or select an alternate mirror.

Thanks.
-steve



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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rxvt-2.7.10-4

[Olaf Föllinger]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 04:23:46AM -0500, Steve O wrote:
> rxvt is a terminal program that can be used instead of the windows
> command shell.  This port can be used with or without X.
> 
> This build enables 256 color support and fixes a problem loading 
> the newly named X11 dll when displaying to an X display. 

could you please provide an example how to use 256 colors ? I'm
especially interested in a real white background.
 
 
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Re: XEmacs and hot laptops

[Tomasz Rojek]

> Most of laptops I've seen have fixed speed fans, that are turned on when
> heat exceeds some predefined limit, and for some reasons on some laptops
> fan just runs "for sure" once a while.
>
> Mine laptop is set as high as 70 celcius CPU temp, so well, it get's
> hot, specially from under (Yes, you can burn your balls if your not
> careful =)
>
> Force lower clockspeed. Can be done on Intel speedstep, or AMD's
> equivalent thingy. Of course, things takes twice as longer, but hey, no
> more heat.
>
> Laptops are designed to run on higher heats, so no concern of frying.
I can confirm Jani's words - my 3 years old Lifebook calculates SETI work
units all the time, so the fan never gets stopped :-) BTW: I use cygwin to
proccess a 100 work units queue without any additional software like
SetiQueue or similar one.

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Problem with dd to raw disks

[Anees Mannesseri]

Hi,
  I am facing problems issuing dd to raw disks from
windows 2k3 server thru cygwin.

dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=5
seek =3 fails with the error 

dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument

But it works the other way, I mean if i give
".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" as the input device and
/dev/null as the output device.
Any hints/clues ?

Thanks
Anees

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RE: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command line

[Morche Matthias]

Now that You point it out, I myself also do not understand how this can work, but it 
does!

BTW, Hannu, Your mailto does not really work :-)


> -Original Message-
> From: Hannu E K Nevalainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: Morche Matthias
> Subject: RE: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in bash/rxvt command
> line
> 
> 
> > From: Morche Matthias
> > Subject: RE: 1.5.7: Problems with german umlauts in 
...
> > set input-meta off
...
> > set meta-flag off
> > set output-meta on
...
> --- bind.mm 2004-02-28 12:49:20.0 +0100
> +++ bind.henk   2004-02-28 12:47:04.0 +0100
> @@ -6 +6 @@
> -set enable-keypad off
> +set enable-keypad on
> @@ -10 +10 @@
> -set input-meta off
> +set input-meta on
> @@ -13 +13 @@
> -set mark-symlinked-directories off
> +set mark-symlinked-directories on
> @@ -15 +15 @@
> -set meta-flag off
> +set meta-flag on
> @@ -22 +22 @@
> -set bell-style audible
> +set bell-style visible
> 
>  I find it strange that you have got characters with 8'th bit 
> set to work...
> My experience is that 'input-meta' and 'meta-flag' has to be set as
> indicated on '+' marked lines above. Read below to see how I 
> have things
> set.
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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.1.1-3

[Jason Tishler]

Peter,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0500, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> This release fixes the rebase issue concerning zsh.  Previous releases
> of zsh were generated using a method which created DLLs which were not
> rebase-able.  This release corrects this problem by changing the DLL
> building method.

Thanks for accommodating rebase!

Jason

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RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Morche Matthias]

Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation 
problem"...

> -Original Message-
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> Of Anees Mannesseri
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problem with dd to raw disks
> 
...
> dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=5
> seek =3 fails with the error 
> 
> dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
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read(): varblk tape records...

[Jason Winter]

The NT API 'ReadFile' for reading variable block tape records indicates the 
block length by returning only one full-block at a time (per read call) 
which isn't being honored by CygWin's read() function.

Can CygWin be changed to detect a *tape* read() call and not continue to 
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The Tape Block Length information is in MSDN, within the document Q161338 in 
the knowledge base.

It *may* also be the case that setting a SCSI tape (/dev/st0) to 
variable-block mode is required before each write operation under NT/2000 - 
which is slightly different to the way my RetHat Linux 8.0 works, which 
keeps the mode set even after a write call.  Then again it could be my 
setup: Adaptec 1520B SCSI Adaptor w/ 4mm DDS-2 DAT Drive.

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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote:
> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation 
> problem"...

What about reading the user's guide instead?

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806

Corinna

> > -Original Message-
> > dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=5
> > seek =3 fails with the error 
> > 
> > dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
> ...
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Re: read(): varblk tape records...

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  1 13:32, Jason Winter wrote:
> The NT API 'ReadFile' for reading variable block tape records indicates the 
> block length by returning only one full-block at a time (per read call) 
> which isn't being honored by CygWin's read() function.

???

> Can CygWin be changed to detect a *tape* read() call and not continue to 
> fill the user-buffer after the first ReadFile call returns?

I don't understand what you mean, sorry.

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Re: cygcheck

[Karl M]

Hi Chris...

Blaming is a mean thing to do :,).

...Karl


From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cygcheck
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:44:46 -0500
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:36:42PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>>At 09:16 PM 2/29/2004, George Hester you wrote:
>>>Thanks for not browbeating me.  You would be amazed at the anathema
>>>"newbies" such as myself often generate.
>>
>>Yes, Igor has been known for ruining Cygwin's email list reputation of
>>being "mean".  If you're new to the list, it's an "inside" joke so
>>don't worry if you don't get it.
>
>Hey, I'm workin' on it.  Give me a couple more years...  :-p
Just to be clear:  I started out mean.

I blame too much tech support at a young age.

HTH,
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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Anees Mannesseri]

Hi,
 Thanx for the references. I tried the forward slash,
but that didnt help. After going thru the user's
guide, i tried /dev/sde instead of //./PHYSICALDRIVE4
and it worked. From what i could undertand, the
problem is with opening the file for write. Any clue
on how to get thru this ?

Thanx
Anees
>On Mar  1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote:
> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead?
It seems to a "quotation problem"...

>What about reading the user's guide instead?

>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using->specialnames.html#AEN806

>Corinna

> > -Original Message-
> > dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4"
count=5
> > seek =3 fails with the error 
> > 
> > dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid
argument
> ...
> 
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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Larry Hall]

Pah!  The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful 
information.  Why would anyone want to read that? ;-)

Larry


At 09:47 AM 3/1/2004, you wrote:
>On Mar  1 14:07, Morche Matthias wrote:
>> Did You ever try to use //./physicaldrive4 instead? It seems to a "quotation 
>> problem"...
>
>What about reading the user's guide instead?
>
>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#AEN806
>
>Corinna
>
>> > -Original Message-
>> > dd if/dev/zero of=".\\PHYSICALDRIVE4" count=5
>> > seek =3 fails with the error 
>> > 
>> > dd: opening `.\\PHYSICALDRIVE4': Invalid argument
>> ...
>> 


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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
>Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
>information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)

Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should certainly
be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How would people
know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
somewhere in black and white?

cgf

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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> >Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
> >information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)
> 
> Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should certainly
> be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How would people
> know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
> somewhere in black and white?

You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
attempts at documentation.  A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
read the FAQ.

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[OT] List archive configuration

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Hi,

I'm aware that this may be quite a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to
reproduce the archiving setup of the Cygwin mailing lists on another list,
and I was wondering if the exact archiving procedure and the relevant
MHonArc config files are accessible somewhere, or if some particular
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used and possibly access to config files.  Any pointers would be
appreciated.  Since this may be off-topic, please feel free to send
private mail.  Thanks.
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RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Ken Thompson]

What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something.  Quit
complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all.

Ken


> -Original Message-
> From:  Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> > >Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
> > >information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)
> >
> > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should certainly
> > be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How
> would people
> > know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
> > somewhere in black and white?
>
> You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
> attempts at documentation.  A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
> Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
> read the FAQ.
>
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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

Oh well, I thought I'd made my intent impossible to mistake.

Entire discussion reformatted with top-quoting for your convenience
(though I refrained from leaving the list-trailers in).


On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:51PM -0500, Ken Thompson wrote:
> What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something.  Quit
> complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all.
> 
> Ken
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From:  Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
> >
> > You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
> > attempts at documentation.  A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
> > Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
> > read the FAQ.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should certainly
> > > be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How
> > would people
> > > know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
> > > somewhere in black and white?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > >Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
> > > >information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)

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RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Hughes, Bill]

> Sent: 01 March 2004 16:45 From: Christopher Faylor
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> >Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
> >information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)
> 
> Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should 
> certainly
> be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How 
> would people
> know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
> somewhere in black and white?
> 
> cgf

But then how would anyone know to read the FAQ, or indeed how to find it?
It's much easier just to ask on this list, no-one minds after all...

Bill
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RE: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Ah, but you'd have to read the documentation for that...
Igor
P.S. What's "cygwim.com", and what relevance does it have to this
discussion? ;-)

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Ken Thompson wrote:

> What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something.
> Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after
> all.
>
> Ken
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From:  Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > >Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
> > > >information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)
> > >
> > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should
> > > certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.
> > > How would people know that they should read the documentation unless
> > > it was spelled out somewhere in black and white?
> >
> > You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
> > attempts at documentation.  A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
> > Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
> > read the FAQ.

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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
>>>information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)
>>
>>Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should certainly
>>be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How would
>>people know that they should read the documentation unless it was
>>spelled out somewhere in black and white?
>
>You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
>attempts at documentation.  A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
>Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
>read the FAQ.

Absolutely agree, as long as there is a howto on reading both the FAQ
and the User's Guide.  Maybe the user's guide could also mention the howto.

cgf

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Re: [OT] List archive configuration

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>I'm aware that this may be quite a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to
>reproduce the archiving setup of the Cygwin mailing lists on another list,
>and I was wondering if the exact archiving procedure and the relevant
>MHonArc config files are accessible somewhere, or if some particular
>standard procedure is used...  I'm not looking for hand-holding on setting
>up MHonArc or whatever other software is used, just information on what's
>used and possibly access to config files.  Any pointers would be
>appreciated.  Since this may be off-topic, please feel free to send
>private mail.  Thanks.

I don't know much about this but I believe most, if not all of the scripts
are in /sourceware/infra/ml-archiving.  You should be able to access this
directory via anonymous cvs.

cgf

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Re: gettimeofday

[Brian Ford]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, Tim Prince wrote:

> The implementation used by cygwin doesn't set the fractional seconds
> fields, so you must fall back on the Windows API for milliseconds.
>
and
> The cygwin specific code in the g77 date_and_time() source code shows use
> of the Windows API call to compensate for this lack in cygwin
> gettimeofday().
>
I think your information may be out-of-date.  gettimeofday()
appears to currently have approximately one to two millisecond resolution
on XP.  What do you see?

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Re: Man not finding pages

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Ross Boulet (2004-02-28 23:06 +0100)
> I solved my own problem with man not finding pages but in doing the research
> on it, I found something I thought might be worthy of mentioning.  From the
> message:
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00064.html
> 
> I learned the a colon prefix to $MANPATH allows man to search its default
> paths in addition to what is specified in $MANPATH.  The
> /etc/profile.d/openssl.sh script handles this ok.  However, the
> /etc/profile.d/XFree86-man.sh does not handle it the same way.  I had an
> empty $MANPATH (since corrected by a new /etc/profile script).  The
> XFree86-man.sh ran first and found no $MANPATH and thus assigned
> "/usr/X11R6/man" (no colon prefix) to $MANPATH.  Then openssl.sh appended
> ":/usr/ssl/man".  The absence of a leading colon caused man to not find the
> basic pages so that basic stuff like 'man ls' produced 'No manual entry for
> ls'.
> 
> I would suggest the XFree86-man.sh script be modified to add a colon prefix
> to $MANPATH to be consistent with the openssl.sh treatment of an empty
> $MANPATH.
> 
> My apologies if this should have been posted to the cygwin-xfree ML, but I
> thought it appropriate here because it affects more than X.

You. Man. Are. Genius.

Recently I posted http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/44906 but
found no answer or solution. Suddenly completion started to work again
but on the next day not even calling a single man page was found by
man because of the wrong $MANPATH.

Now I corrected 'export MANPATH="${X11MANPATH}"' to 'export
MANPATH=":${X11MANPATH}"' in XFree86-man.sh and now everything is
okay.

Thanks, Thorsten


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Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

[Rolf Campbell]

I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different 
results.  Here is the stderr output from 1052 runs, but the strange 
thing is that even when I get errors, the task continues to run.  It 
seems somehow that the return code of the errored run gets lost or 
something.  This is different than how the '21 snapshot worked on my 
machine.

make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
@: not found
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
2840238 [main] make 1392 handle_exceptions: Exception: 
STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
2850856 [main] make 1392 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to 
make.exe.sta ckdump
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** virtual memory exhausted.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs

Volker Quetschke wrote:
Trapping this errors is a bit tedious, at the moment I'm using
the attached script to catch the errors, but instead of a new
stackdump/gdb prompt I got a new record, 2559 iterations until
reaching an error.


OK, enough! The script run since yesterday, with the debugging
enabled make.exe and cygwin1.dll.
I got:

Thu Feb 26 17:11:34 EST 2004
make: *** wait: Interrupted system call.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 2048 runs
MakefileV:6: *** unterminated variable reference.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 294 runs
make: -c: Command not found
make: *** [28.pp] Error 127
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 256 runs
make: *** wait: Interrupted system call.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 1857 runs
make: -c: Command not found
make: *** [14.pp] Error 127
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 5356 runs
make: *** wait: Interrupted system call.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 1387 runs
make: *** wait: Interrupted system call.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 211 runs
make: *** wait: No children.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: *** wait: No children.  Stop.
Failed after 887 runs
make: *** wait: Interrupted system call.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 690 runs
make: *** wait: Interrupted system call.  Stop.
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 1459 runs
c: c: No such file or directory
make: *** [9.pp] Error 127
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
Failed after 6226 runs
Stopped the the script at iteration 563.

No stackdump.

Any ideas? This takes way to long to reproduce.

I never run this script with cygwin 1.5.5 maybe it fails there too.
Maybe the freezes I got building OOo are long fixed and this was
always broken?
Or sh (ash) or even make has a problem and not cygwin. This
gets us nowhere.
Volker


Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0040DC0B
eax=0002 ebx=0A067DA0 ecx=6574783D edx=0001 esi=0A05CA88 edi=0A069A28
ebp=0022E478 esp=0022E470 program=C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs= ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame Function  Args
0022E478  0040DC0B  (0A067DA0, 0022E4AC, 0001, )
0022E4C8  0040C91E  (, , 0A05C860, 610C8A9F)
0022E508  0040D77B  (0A05D3A8, 0003, , )
0022E578  00419E15  (0A05D3A8, 0002, , 0002)
0022E598  00418FCA  (0A05D3A8, 0002, 0022E5C8, 004010DF)
0022E5E8  0041AADF  (0A05D3A8, 0001, 0001, )
0022E658  0041A2F7  (0A05CA10, 0001, , 0A05CA10)
0022E678  00418FCA  (0A05CA10, , 0022E6B8, 61055BB7)
0022E6C8  00418C8F  (0A0602F0, , 0022EF58, )
0022F080  0041146E  (0002, 0A040B48, 0A0400A8, 61005A20)
0022F0D0  61005EB4  (0022F0E8, 0024, 002448E8,

Re: Snapshot 20040225: make hangs/errors out

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:12:18PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote:
>I can reproduce with that snapshot, but I get slightly different 
>results.

As long as we're comparing results, I might as well mention that I've
been running this on a Windows 2000 SP4 system since Friday without
interruption.

cgf

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cron problem report

[Seiji Tokunaga]

Hi,

I have trouble getting my cron to work. I have tried cron_diagnosis.sh
1.3 but I could not find any problems. I also did the suggestion from
the cron_diagnosis.sh output but it does not work. Here is the crontab
-l, cron_diagnose.sh output and the cygcheck -srv output. Hope you can
help me.

% crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar  1 15:03:19 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
* * * * * `date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log
%

-- output of cron_diganose.sh --
% bin/cron_diagnose.sh
cron_diagnose.sh 1.3

This script did not find any errors in your crontab setup.
If you are still unable to get cron to work, then try
shutting down the cron service, uninstalling it,
reinstalling it, and restarting it.

The following commands will do that:
  $ cygrunsrv --stop cron
  $ cygrunsrv --remove cron
  $ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
  $ cygrunsrv --start cron

If the cron service does not start, try deleting the file
/var/run/cron.pid and then repeating the commands above.

If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please include a copy of your crontab,
('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'.

PLEASE include the generated files 'cygcheck.txt' *as an attachment*,
and NOT in the body of the mail message.

Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Mon Mar 01 15:16:52 2004

Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1

Path:   c:\WINDOWS\system32
c:\WINDOWS
c:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
C:\cygwin\bin

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec)
UID: 1003(Seiji) GID: 513(None)
513(None)

Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec)
UID: 1003(Seiji) GID: 513(None)
0(root)  513(None)
544(Administrators)  545(Users)

SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS

HOME = `C:\cygwin\Home\Seiji'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/home/Seiji'

ALLUSERSPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\All Users'
APPDATA = `C:\Documents and Settings\Seiji\Application Data'
CLIENTNAME = `Console'
COMMONPROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files\Common Files'
COMPUTERNAME = `HEIMINSAMURAI'
COMSPEC = `C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe'
HOMEDRIVE = `C:'
HOMEPATH = `\Documents and Settings\Seiji'
LOGNAME = `Seiji'
LOGONSERVER = `\\HEIMINSAMURAI'
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS = `1'
OLDPWD = `/home/Seiji/bin'
OS = `Windows_NT'
PATHEXT = `.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH'
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE = `x86'
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER = `x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel'
PROCESSOR_LEVEL = `15'
PROCESSOR_REVISION = `0209'
PROGRAMFILES = `C:\Program Files'
SESSIONNAME = `Console'
SHLVL = `1'
SYSTEMDRIVE = `C:'
SYSTEMROOT = `C:\WINDOWS'
TEMP = `c:\DOCUME~1\Seiji\LOCALS~1\Temp'
TERM = `vt100'
TMP = `c:\DOCUME~1\Seiji\LOCALS~1\Temp'
TZ = `EST5EDT4,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2'
USERDOMAIN = `HEIMINSAMURAI'
USERNAME = `Seiji'
USERPROFILE = `C:\Documents and Settings\Seiji'
WINDIR = `C:\WINDOWS'
_ = `/usr/bin/cygcheck'

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2
  (default) = `/cygdrive'
  cygdrive flags = 0x0022
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/
  (default) = `C:\cygwin'
  flags = 0x000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/bin
  (default) = `C:\cygwin/bin'
  flags = 0x000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\/usr/lib
  (default) = `C:\cygwin/lib'
  flags = 0x000a
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\Program Options

c:  hd  NTFS   194466Mb  30% CP CS UN PA FC 
d:  cd   N/AN/A
e:  cd   N/AN/A
f:  hd  NTFS   194474Mb  72% CP CS UN PA FC Max200G-2
h:  fd   N/AN/A

C:\cygwin  /  system  binmode
C:\cygwin/bin  /usr/bin   system  binmode
C:\cygwin/lib  /usr/lib   system  binmode
.  /cygdrive  system  binmode,cygdrive

Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe
Not Found: gdb
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe

   61k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygbz2-1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0
  "cygbz2-1.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 2:35
7k 2003/10/19 C:\cygwin\bin\cygcrypt-0.d

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Re: [OT] List archive configuration

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:34PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >I'm aware that this may be quite a bit off-topic, but I'm trying to
> >reproduce the archiving setup of the Cygwin mailing lists on another list,
> >and I was wondering if the exact archiving procedure and the relevant
> >MHonArc config files are accessible somewhere, or if some particular
> >standard procedure is used...  I'm not looking for hand-holding on setting
> >up MHonArc or whatever other software is used, just information on what's
> >used and possibly access to config files.  Any pointers would be
> >appreciated.  Since this may be off-topic, please feel free to send
> >private mail.  Thanks.
>
> I don't know much about this but I believe most, if not all of the scripts
> are in /sourceware/infra/ml-archiving.  You should be able to access this
> directory via anonymous cvs.
>
> cgf

That was it.  Perfect, thanks a lot!
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RE: cron problem report

[Harig, Mark]

Please try version 1.4.  It has additional checks.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01341.html

> -Original Message-
> From: Seiji Tokunaga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:27 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: cron problem report
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have trouble getting my cron to work. I have tried cron_diagnosis.sh
> 1.3 but I could not find any problems. I also did the suggestion from
> the cron_diagnosis.sh output but it does not work. Here is the crontab
> -l, cron_diagnose.sh output and the cygcheck -srv output. Hope you can
> help me.
> 
> % crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar  1 15:03:19 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 
> corinna Exp $)
> * * * * * `date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log
> %
> 
> -- output of cron_diganose.sh --
> % bin/cron_diagnose.sh
> cron_diagnose.sh 1.3
> 
> This script did not find any errors in your crontab setup.
> If you are still unable to get cron to work, then try
> shutting down the cron service, uninstalling it,
> reinstalling it, and restarting it.
> 
> The following commands will do that:
>   $ cygrunsrv --stop cron
>   $ cygrunsrv --remove cron
>   $ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
>   $ cygrunsrv --start cron
> 
> If the cron service does not start, try deleting the file
> /var/run/cron.pid and then repeating the commands above.
> 
> If none of this fixes the problem, then report your problem
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please include a copy of your crontab,
> ('crontab -l') and the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt'.
> 
> PLEASE include the generated files 'cygcheck.txt' *as an attachment*,
> and NOT in the body of the mail message.
> 

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RE: cron problem report

[Harig, Mark]

> 
> % crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar  1 15:03:19 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 
> corinna Exp $)
> * * * * * `date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log
> %

Do not include backquotes on 'date' -- you
are instructing cron to execute the date
string.  Simply use:

   * * * * * date >> /usr/tmp/date.txt

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Re: cron problem report

[Thorsten Kampe]

* Seiji Tokunaga (2004-03-01 21:27 +0100)
> I have trouble getting my cron to work.

Please consider explaining what you mean by this otherwise any answer
to your report won't satisfy you.

> % crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.3928 installed on Mon Mar  1 15:03:19 2004)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $)
> * * * * * `date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log

This "script" (`date` >> ${HOME}/foo.log) doesn't even work in a plain
shell so for sure not in cron. Read /var/cron/log, the system and
application entries in the eventviewer and the mail that cron probably
sent you in ~/dead.letter.

Hint: use executables with full path in crontab or set PATH in
crontab. Don't take for granted that the normal environment variables
are set ($HOME) and consider reading the man page of crontab.

Thorsten


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proftpd

[Michael Chen]

hi, after install proftpd, the bash shell cannot find "proftpd", why?

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what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Michael Chen]

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Re: proftpd

[Brian Ford]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Michael Chen wrote:

> hi, after install proftpd, the bash shell cannot find "proftpd", why?
>
It's in /usr/sbin, which is not, by default, in your PATH.

Please try a cursory look yourself before posting next time.  You can also
use the package search facility at http://cygwin.com/packages/ to see
where things are installed.

To head off your next questions, please read the documentation in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/proftpd-1.2.9.README and
/usr/share/doc/proftpd-1.2.9/*.

Also, please consult http://cygwin.com/problems.html to learn the required
method of submitting problem reports.

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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.1.1-3

[Peter A. Castro]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jason Tishler wrote:

> Peter,
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0500, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> > This release fixes the rebase issue concerning zsh.  Previous releases
> > of zsh were generated using a method which created DLLs which were not
> > rebase-able.  This release corrects this problem by changing the DLL
> > building method.
>
> Thanks for accommodating rebase!

Your welcome, but I don't really think of this as accommodating rebase.
In my analysis, I'd determined that the root problem was that zsh code
isn't properly/discretely tagging things which should be exported (like
functions and various globals) for those platforms that need such things
(like MS Windows).  Rather than go through the code and do the tagging, I
decided a more expedient path was to simply export everything, which is
in the spirit of what the original method was trying to achieve, but
which is not a very elegent solition, IMHO.  I suspect I'll have to
review this hack later, but for the moment it gets past the immediate
problem.

> Jason

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RE: proftpd

[Michael Chen]

Thanks for the reply, I learned how to find out where is the installed piece
by the help of  http://cygwin.com/packages/ . Thanks.
Surprisingly, "which" didn't tell me that.

-Original Message-
From: Brian Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:10 PM
To: Michael Chen
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: proftpd


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Michael Chen wrote:

> hi, after install proftpd, the bash shell cannot find "proftpd", why?
>
It's in /usr/sbin, which is not, by default, in your PATH.

Please try a cursory look yourself before posting next time.  You can also
use the package search facility at http://cygwin.com/packages/ to see
where things are installed.

To head off your next questions, please read the documentation in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/proftpd-1.2.9.README and
/usr/share/doc/proftpd-1.2.9/*.

Also, please consult http://cygwin.com/problems.html to learn the required
method of submitting problem reports.

HTH.

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RE: proftpd

[Brian Ford]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Michael Chen wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, I learned how to find out where is the installed piece
> by the help of  http://cygwin.com/packages/ . Thanks.
> Surprisingly, "which" didn't tell me that.
>
"which" only tells you about things in your PATH.

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invalid spawn id (4)

[Wolmarans, Brett]

Hey, nobody ever replied but the answer is, don't use Microsoft telnet
client with cygwin expect.  

Install cygwin telnet client ( NOT installed by default, heaven alone knows
why when they have a gazillion other things installed by default that will
only be useful to 0.01% of the user
base )  

Anybody know how to resolve or work around this bug in expect: invalid spawn
id (4) the first time I try to something incredibly common such as use
expect to automate a telnet session.  I could not find any references to
this in the faq or archives, found one hit on google but no solution.

cygwin version: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 bwolmarans-98 1.5.4(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-12 23:08
i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
expect version: 8.4.1 ( output from info patchlevel command )
O/S version: w2k pro SP3

log:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
$ expect
expect1.1> spawn telnet 10.26.0.100
spawn telnet 10.26.0.100
1424
expect1.2> expect ogin
expect1.3> send bwolmarans\n
send: invalid spawn id (4)
while executing
"send bwolmarans\n"
expect1.4>

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Fix for : read()

[Jason Winter]

Hi Corinna,

(For continued reference:)
The Tape Block Length information is in MSDN, within the document Q161338 
in the
knowledge base.
The CygWin read() function calls ReadFile() repeatedly while the programmers 
read buffer-length parameter value "#of bytes" hasn't been read from the 
handle.  Under Unix, low-level IO read() doesn't always return 100 bytes in 
this call:

rc = read (h, buf, 100);

In fact, if h refers to a tape, which also has a vaiable-block of data ready 
to be read at the current tape position..  You may only get, say, 80 bytes 
returned if it's a 80 byte block record.  In CygWin, since it continues to 
call ReadFile() in the cygwin1.dll read() function, the programmer, me 
actually, loses all record of the tapes original data-block-length - with 
CygWin read() you might think the block was 100 bytes long - having started 
to read the next block on the tape.  (20 bytes of it in this example.)

Jason.

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rxvt man page is garbled

[Keith Thompson]

The man page for the "rxvt" command is garbled.

I have rxvt-2.7.10-4 (the latest).  "man rxvt" shows:

.YODLTAGSTART.  roffcmd  .SH  "NAME"  .YODLTAGEND.  rxvt (ouR
XVT) - a VT102 emulator for  the  X  window  system.YODLTAGSTART.
roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND.

.YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd .SH "SYNOPSIS" .YODLTAGEND.  rxvt [op-
tions] [-e command [ args ]].YODLTAGSTART. roffcmd  .PP  .YODLTA-
GEND.
[snip]

and writes the following to stderr:

grotty::6: character above first line discarded

The /usr/man/man1/rxvt.1 file contains a number of ".YODLTAGSTART"
directives.

YODL appears to be a document language from which man pages can be
generated; Google for details.

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Error using cygrunsrv to stop bash scripts

[Cousins, Andrew]

I have installed cygrunsrv to run bash.exe with a script as parameter.
Service starts and stops OK but on the stop
it also produces these errors. .

A system error has occurred.
System error 1067 has occurred.
The process terminated unexpectedly.

Script does catch the signal and terminate gracefully and it also
 runs OK from command line and can be terminated properly with a TERM
signal.

Help in what is causing the errors would be appreciated.

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Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Gregory Borota]

You can use LaTeX for that. There are different packages depending on
what kind of slides you want to make. (here some I know of: prosper,
beamer, seminar, slides, etc.) Some of them take advantage of the
powerful presentation features of Adobe PDF (about which I think many of
us 'Windows also' people don't know at all).

HTH,
Greg

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Re: invalid spawn id (4)

[Larry Hall]

At 07:33 PM 3/1/2004, you wrote:
>Hey, nobody ever replied but the answer is, don't use Microsoft telnet
>client with cygwin expect.  
>
>Install cygwin telnet client ( NOT installed by default, heaven alone knows
>why when they have a gazillion other things installed by default that will
>only be useful to 0.01% of the user
>base )  


We recommend Cygwin telnet client over MS regardless of your intended 
use. ;-)

Of course, this list caters to 0.01% 
of the user base so we can only make recommendations to the rest of you.


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Gnucash?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

I saw that Ivan Middleton was working on getting GnuCash to run under 
Cygwin as of last May.  Anyone know if it will now?

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Re: Error using cygrunsrv to stop bash scripts

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Cousins, Andrew wrote:

> I have installed cygrunsrv to run bash.exe with a script as parameter.
> Service starts and stops OK but on the stop
> it also produces these errors. .
>
> A system error has occurred.
> System error 1067 has occurred.
> The process terminated unexpectedly.
>
> Script does catch the signal and terminate gracefully and it also
> runs OK from command line and can be terminated properly with a TERM
> signal.
>
> Help in what is causing the errors would be appreciated.

Andrew,

What exact command are you using to install the service?  Does
/var/log/.log show anything?  Does the script run and terminate
OK from a SYSTEM-owned shell?  What is the environment that the script
runs under ("env >> /tmp/svc_env", or, even better, "cygcheck -svr >
/tmp/svc_cygcheck.out")?  Did you try using another signal for service
termination?
Igor
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RE: Man not finding pages

[Ross Boulet]

> 
> You. Man. Are. Genius.
> 

Thanks, but you embarrass me.  I just get lucky occasionally.  I'm not an
expert at man and I know next to nothing about zsh, but based on some
personal observations, I think I can answer some of your questions about man
and manpath.

> Recently I posted http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/44906 but
> found no answer or solution. Suddenly completion started to work again
> but on the next day not even calling a single man page was found by
> man because of the wrong $MANPATH.
> 
> Now I corrected 'export MANPATH="${X11MANPATH}"' to 'export
> MANPATH=":${X11MANPATH}"' in XFree86-man.sh and now everything is
> okay.
> 
> Thanks, Thorsten
> 
> ,--- * MANPATH statements in /etc/man.conf
> | MANPATH /usr/share/man
> | MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man
> | MANPATH /usr/local/man
> | MANPATH /usr/man
> `---
> ,--- * Cygwin host (where it "doesn't work")
> | % echo $MANPATH
> | :/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/ssl/man
> | ^ see the empty path? ($manpath is "'' /usr/X11R6/man /usr/ssl/man")
> | % manpath
> | /usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/ssl/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man
> `---
> ,--- * Linux host (where it "works")
> | % echo $MANPATH
> |
/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.
3/man:/usr/
> | X11R6/man::/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.03/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man:/opt/vmware/man
> | % manpath
> | zsh: command not found: manpath
> `---
> /etc/zprofile and /etc/profile.d/zshell.zsh don't contain man
> settings. When I manually do "export MANPATH=/usr/share/man" then zsh
> does the man completion.
> 
> My questions are (I know they might not be specifically Cygwin
> related):
> 
> 1. Where and how is $MANPATH assembled?

It's a combination of things.  In my case, I run the pdksh shell.  MANPATH
is set in /etc/profile and further modified by .sh scripts in
/etc/profile.d.  It looks to me like zsh runs the same scripts as part of
/etc/zprofile.

> 2. Where does the path that the "manpath" command shows come from?

I'm not positive about this, but I believe manpath takes $MANPATH and,
assuming $MANPATH has an empty path in it, adds any paths specified in the
man.conf file, but eliminates any paths which do not actually have man
pages.

> 3. Why does $MANPATH and "manpath" output differ?

I think manpath eliminates any paths which do not actually contain man pages
(see previous answer) and adds paths from man.conf.

> 4. Why is /usr/share/man not in $MANPATH?

Because there is an empty path in $MANPATH, it is picked up from the
man.conf file.

> 5. Why is the first entry in $MANPATH empty?

>From my tests, an empty path, whether at the end or beginning or somewhere
in between (::) is what tells man to include the paths from man.conf.  If
there is not an empty path, man and manpath use only what is in $MANPATH

> 6. How and where can I fix this?

Hopefully, this is done.  HTH

> Thanks to all that can help,
> Thorsten



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Re: Error using cygrunsrv to stop bash scripts

[Cousins, Andrew]

Igor,

Service is installed with

#
cygrunsrv   --install actest3   \
--path c:/usr/Cyg-Win32/bin/bash.exe\
--args d:/usr/ea/dr_service/actest.sh   \
--desc "MOSAIC/DNMS Disaster Recovery"  \
--type manual   \
--neverexits\
--shutdown

The log files put out a single line .. Terminated each time the service
is stopped

Putting a cygcheck -svr in the service script and redirecting output to a
file I get this with the last line (code 5)  repeated a few times before the
Terminated Message.

cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 67
cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 67
cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 5


Terminated

Putting 
env >> tempfile 
doesn't produce anything from within the service.

Looks like it's only stderr being generated from within the service as there
is none of the additional info I get from these two commands when it is run
interactively.

Tried the INT signal, same symptons. Does what I want, but displays the
error messages.

I'm not Windows enabled - how would I run this interactively under a SYSTEM
owned sh.

Thanks

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RE: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Michael Chen]

Dear Greg,

Thanks for the reply. What I really want is something to make presentation
slides in seminar, something like Lyx, which is the drive for me to install
cygwin-:)

Any ideas?

Best regards,
Michael Chen

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Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:53 PM
To: Michael Chen
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?


You can use LaTeX for that. There are different packages depending on
what kind of slides you want to make. (here some I know of: prosper,
beamer, seminar, slides, etc.) Some of them take advantage of the
powerful presentation features of Adobe PDF (about which I think many of
us 'Windows also' people don't know at all).

HTH,
Greg


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Re: another new version of cygwin-doc for upload

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:

> Here is a new version of cygwin-doc that fixes the PDF
> problem reported on the list. It would probably be best
> to remove 1.3-7 and leave 1.3-6.
>
> 
> 
>
> Thanks.

Wasn't this intended for cygwin-apps?
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crontab: no changes made to crontab

[Michael Chen]

Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the
crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any
new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab.*" into /tmp. What's
wrong? Thanks.


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RE: can't achieve password-less ssh authentication when my home directory is on a network file server

[ncokwqc02]

> > [snip]

>
> > > - Create a local home directory (e.g. /home/john); mount the remote
> > > directory (//Filer) onto it; then mount c:\cygwin\home\john\.ssh onto
> > > /home/john/.ssh.
> >
> > I want to make sure I understand your suggestion. Does it
> amount to doing
> > the following on 'Alpha'?
> > mkdir /home/john
> > mount //Filer/john /home/john
> > mount c:\cygwin\home\john\.ssh /home/john/.ssh
> >
> > In this case my home directory is at '//Filer/john'.
>
> Yes, exactly.  Note that, as I said below, you will not be able to access
> //Filer/john/.ssh as /home/john/.ssh after that.  You should still be able
> to access it directly as //Filer/john/.ssh, though, so it's no big loss.
> Oh, and you'll need to *create* /home/john/.ssh before mounting
> //Filer/john over it...
>

I gave this a try, but it didn't work as hoped for.

> > BTW, on a related, but slightly different topic, I didn't even
> get to this
> > point until I solved the problem of 'cygrunsrv -S sshd'
> resulting in 'Error
> > 1062'. Thank goodness for 'log' files! When I finally looked at
> > '/var/log/sshd.log' I saw it filled with repetitions of the message
> > "/var/empty must be owned by root and not group or
> world-writable."
> > Indeed '/var/empty' was owned by 'john:Users'. After I changed it to
> > 'SYSTEM:root', I was able to start 'sshd'. I don't understand why the
> > '/var/empty' directory created by '/bin/ssh-host-config' didn't have the
> > right ownership. But it didn't.
>
> I actually don't recall you attaching the output of "cygcheck -svr" for
> your machine (as requested in ).  This
> would tell us, among other things, the version of Windows and the version
> of the openssh package that you're running.  AFAICS, ssh-host-config in
> the latest couple of versions of openssh contains a bit of code specific
> to NT-based systems that *does* chown /var/empty to SYSTEM:544
> (SYSTEM:Administrators, IIRC).  If that didn't work on your machine, we
> need to find out why.
>   Igor

It's correct that I didn't attach a "cygcheck -svr" report. I can say,
however, that the machines on which I have observed this problem were
running Windows 2000 and 'OpenSSH_3.7.1p2'.

I see what must be the code to create the directory with the proper
permissions/ownership:

.
.
.
# Check if running on NT
_sys="`uname -a`"
_nt=`expr "$_sys" : "CYGWIN_NT"`
.
.
.
# Create /var/empty file used as chroot jail for privilege separation
if [ -f /var/empty ]
then
  echo "Creating /var/empty failed\!"
else
  mkdir -p /var/empty
  # On NT change ownership of that dir to user "system"
  if [ $_nt -gt 0 ]
  then
chmod 755 /var/empty
chown system.system /var/empty
  fi
fi
.
.

Should the 'chown' line be 'chown system.root' instead? Anyway, if I have to
install 'sshd' again, I will pay close attention to what happens here.

Thanks for the suggestions.

john


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Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Gregory Borota]

PLEASE, configure your email client not to show email addresses in 
reply!!! (or if you can't take this off list)

I work with xemacs (under cygwin) and yap (I can give you nice pointers 
on how to configure them so that you can get real WYSIWYG). I don't like 
Lyx, LaTeX is so nice and intuitive that IMHO you don't need something 
like that to stand in the way (I don't think LyX would even work with 
slides but maybe latest versions are different from what I know LyX to be).

Look, I try to set up a group for help, discussion, etc. about (La)Tex 
under cygwin and Windows. If you join in you will automatically get all 
those pointers on how to set this up. The group is found at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wintex/ (you need to  have or create a 
Yahoo account to join)

IMO no commercial package can come even nearer to what you can get with 
cygwin and miktex and all the other packages I mention in the document 
you can get when you join.

Greg

You wrote on 3/1/2004 11:27 PM:

Dear Greg,

Thanks for the reply. What I really want is something to make presentation
slides in seminar, something like Lyx, which is the drive for me to install
cygwin-:)
Any ideas?

Best regards,
Michael Chen
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Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Randall R Schulz]

Hi,

I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to 
this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's 
inherently error prone, will never be done anywhere near thoroughly 
enough and properly is a responsibility of the list software.

IMO, of course.

Randall Schulz


On Monday 01 March 2004 22:14, Gregory Borota wrote:
> PLEASE, configure your email client not to show email addresses in
> reply!!! (or if you can't take this off list)


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Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Gregory Borota]

Randall,

I agree with you. Maybe the master wants to take notice.

Greg

You wrote on 3/2/2004 12:21 AM:
Hi,

I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to 
this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's 
inherently error prone, will never be done anywhere near thoroughly 
enough and properly is a responsibility of the list software.

IMO, of course.

Randall Schulz
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Better way to do this? (bash scripting)

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

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I hope this isn't considered too far OT, but perhaps someone will find
this useful.
I wrote the attached scripts, which I place in /etc/profile.d/, in order
to get quicker access to the original-package and Cygwin-specific
documentation.  (pkgdoc and cygdoc respectively)
What I wanted to know is:

1) is there a better and/or more precise way of searching for the file?
2) is there a better and/or more precise way of verifying that there's
actually such a file to feed to less, instead of calling find twice?
Thanks,

Yaakov
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#
#
#  Quick command-line access to package documentation files.
#
#  Copyright (C) 2004 by Yaakov Selkowitz.  All Rights Reserved.
#
#  This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 
#  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 
#  License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
#  This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
#  General Public License for more details.
#
#

version=0.1

if [ ! "${PKGDOC_PATH}" ] ; then \
  PKGDOC_PATH=/usr/doc:/usr/share/doc:/usr/X11R6/doc
  export PKGDOC_PATH
fi


function pkgdoc {

case $1 in 
  -p|--path)
echo "PKGDOC_PATH=${PKGDOC_PATH}" ; STATUS=$? ;;

  -h|--help)
echo "Usage: pkgdoc [OPTIONS] PACKAGE FILE

Displays the upstream FILE documentation for specified PACKAGE.

OPTIONS:
  -h, --helpDisplays this help and exits.
  -V, --version Displays version information and exits.
  -p, --pathDisplays the current PKGDOC_PATH and exits.
" ; STATUS=$? ;;

  -V|--version)
echo "pkgdoc $version
Copyright (C) 2004 by Yaakov Selkowitz.  All Rights Reserved.
This script is released under the GNU General Public License.

Bug reports, patches, etc. can be sent to yselkowitz AT users.sourceforge.net.
" ; STATUS=$? ;;

  *)
for d in `echo ${PKGDOC_PATH} | sed 's%:% %g'` ; do
for pd in $d/$1-* $d/$1 ; do
  if [ -d $pd ] ; then
  if [ $(find $pd -name $2) ] ; then
find $pd -name $2 | xargs less
  else
echo "No $2 documentation was found for the $1 package."
  fi
  fi
done
done ; STATUS=$? ;;

esac
}
#
#
#  Quick command-line access to Cygwin README files.
#
#  Copyright (C) 2004 by Yaakov Selkowitz.  All Rights Reserved.
#
#  This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 
#  published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 
#  License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
#  This script is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
#  General Public License for more details.
#
#

version=0.1

if [ ! "${CYGDOC_PATH}" ] ; then \
  CYGDOC_PATH=/usr/doc/Cygwin:/usr/share/doc/Cygwin:/usr/X11R6/doc/Cygwin
  export CYGDOC_PATH
fi


function cygdoc {

case $1 in 
  -p|--path)
echo "CYGDOC_PATH=${CYGDOC_PATH}" ; STATUS=$? ;;

  -h|--help)
echo "Usage: cygdoc [OPTIONS] PKG

Displays the Cygwin README documentation for specified package.

OPTIONS:
  -h, --helpDisplays this help and exits.
  -V, --version Displays version information and exits.
  -p, --pathDisplays the current CYGDOC_PATH and exits.
" ; STATUS=$? ;;

  -V|--version)
echo "cygdoc $version
Copyright (C) 2004 by Yaakov Selkowitz.  All Rights Reserved.
This script is released under the GNU General Public License.

Bug reports, patches, etc. can be sent to yselkowitz AT users.sourceforge.net.
" ; STATUS=$? ;;

  *)
if [ $(find `echo ${CYGDOC_PATH} | sed 's%:% %g'` -name $1-*.README -o -name 
$1.README) ] ; then
  find `echo ${CYGDOC_PATH} | sed 's%:% %g'` -name $1-*.README -o \
-name $1.README | xargs less
else
  echo "No Cygwin README file was found for the $1 package."
fi ; STATUS=$? ;;

esac
}

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Re: what's the software for making slide under cygwin, please?

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

Yes, the mailing-list software could be changed to obfuscate
them. Is it so hard ?

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> I think it's pretty unreasonable to rely on every individual posting to
> this list to obfuscate email addresses in their submissions. It's
> inherently error prone, will never be done anywhere near thoroughly
> enough and properly is a responsibility of the list software.
>
> IMO, of course.
>
> On Monday 01 March 2004 22:14, Gregory Borota wrote:
> > PLEASE, configure your email client not to show email addresses in
> > reply!!! (or if you can't take this off list)

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