Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
guys, I can't believe you fell for this. *Do Not Feed The Trolls*.
See LoPresti's other contributions to civil discourse:
http://cygwi
Sorry for the previous e-mail... DBDOracle just started working under
1.3.22 for no apparent reason after a hard reboot ( but not a soft reboot),
must have been some weird library access issue... sorry for wasting
whatever cycles were wasted on this...
- Original Message -
From: "Bruce
Art,
Replies inline below:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Arthur I Schwarz wrote:
> How do I reinstall /etc/passwd & /etc/group to it's initial state? In a fit
> of efficiency I deleted some entries in both files to find out (later) that
> they apparently allow correct display of GID and UID for system fi
Arthur,
At 18:04 2003-03-25, Arthur I Schwarz wrote:
How do I reinstall /etc/passwd & /etc/group to it's initial state? In a fit
of efficiency I deleted some entries in both files to find out (later) that
they apparently allow correct display of GID and UID for system files. Is
there any way to r
How do I reinstall /etc/passwd & /etc/group to it's initial state? In a fit
of efficiency I deleted some entries in both files to find out (later) that
they apparently allow correct display of GID and UID for system files. Is
there any way to recover the original other than deleting Cygwin and
sta
I just upgraded from 1.3.20 to 1.3.22 and noticed the the DBDoracle module
(1.13 and 1.12( Oracle.dll) fails on the new version. I tried recompiling
agianst the same libraries on both cygwins, and though the compile gives
the same output and result under both, the dll fails to load under 1.3.12
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:06:57AM +0100, roland wrote:
>ooops - what a thread :)
>thanks - it was very interesting to see such different point of views.
>
>As a resumee, I basically mostly agree with Pat:
>
>>At issue here are people who distribute something for free along with
>>Cygwin. They inc
Failed non-blocking connect returns incorrect errno on AF_UNIX protocol.
See attached test program.
On cygwin:
$ ./afunix
EINPROGRESS: Operation now in progress
On
Linux 2.4 (Debian 2.2)
Linux 2.4 (Redhat 7.3)
Sun Solaris (8):
$ ./afunix
ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused
When i comment following cod
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Kyle Yamnitz wrote:
> > This list is not responsible for supporting or validating
> > information and/or utilities from sites other than cygwin.com.
> > If you have trouble with information/utitilties you get from
> > other sites, contact that site. In this case, your questio
Well, what to say... my computer is ok again, I *just* have to read some
thousands emails and I can begin contribute again =P
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Mike W. wrote:
> Ha Ha!
>
> The bug I have been digging into (with my Dell laptop)
> that I first saw in cygwin also manifests from the
> Win2000 command prompt, with no involvement by cygwin
> at all.
Well then, it's kind of off topic here then...
> Soo
>
> What list do peo
ooops - what a thread :)
thanks - it was very interesting to see such different point of views.
As a resumee, I basically mostly agree with Pat:
>At issue here are people who distribute something for free along with
>Cygwin. They include full credit and links to the Cygwin source code,
>which is
> This list is not responsible for supporting or validating
> information and/or utilities from sites other than cygwin.com.
> If you have trouble with information/utitilties you get from
> other sites, contact that site. In this case, your question
> is properly directed at tech.erdelynet.co
Ha Ha!
The bug I have been digging into (with my Dell laptop)
that I first saw in cygwin also manifests from the
Win2000 command prompt, with no involvement by cygwin
at all.
Soo
What list do people suggest I go to with this Win 2000
bug?
Any suggestions?
Here is the WIN
I've said this before and I'll say it again:
This list is not responsible for supporting or validating
information and/or utilities from sites other than cygwin.com.
If you have trouble with information/utitilties you get from
other sites, contact that site. In this case, your question
is pr
> Hello,
>
> I can't transfer big files. In the output below, you can see that rsync
only
> transfer 1383275520 of a 5448046592 bytes file:
Cygwin cannot handle files larger than ~2GB.
> Is Cygwin able to handle Large Files??, Any idea?
There is work going on at the moment to migrate Cygwin's sy
Cygwin itself is currently limited to 32 bit file access, though
I can't say whether or not this is a contributing factor to
your rsync issue.
Larry
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From: Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:25:02 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rsync
Hello,
I can't transfer big files. In the output below, you can see that rsync only
transfer 1383275520 of a 5448046592 bytes file:
F:\shells>rsync -e ssh -avz ./backup [EMAIL PROTECTED]:backups
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
building file list ... done
wrote 114 bytes read 20 bytes 3.01 bytes/s
> > FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
> And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
Just for reference, if someone's looking for a lawyer not to ignore,
that would probably Eben Moglen, FSF general counsel and board member
(also a professor of law and legal history, formerly a cl
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:20:29PM -0500, Robert Praetorius wrote:
>I'd say that he ought to be prevailed upon to right a document on how
>non-lawyers can help with GPL enforcement, but he probably has and I
>just haven't found that link yet.
I suspect that http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
Hi everyone,
I'm new to Cygwin and have recently set it up to do SSH Tunneling
for VNC. I can connect just fine to my SSH server from my home LAN and
from my work computer (A), but when I try to connect from a separate work
location (B), I get Access Denied. However, I *can* connect to
Sorry, I've run this here for over 4 hours and not seen a PID
break 4000. This is with W2K + SP3 and Cygwin DLL 1.3.20. Looks
like you're going to need to dig a little deeper.
Larry
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From: Mike W. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:36:54 -0800 (PST
Original Message:
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From: Patrick J. LoPresti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Mar 2003 14:41:16 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Another GPL violation: Re: Minimalistic
Build-Environmentforwin32 (~7.5MB)
>>Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If this truly has
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:28:09PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>At 09:36 2003-03-25, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>>>Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
>>>
>>>And therefore, everything you have said may be
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:41:16PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Just to be clear: Providing a simple link to the Cygwin sources is not
>>adequate.
>
>So you keep saying. Is that a legal opinion on the meaning of the
>license, or a personal req
Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Pat,
>
> At 09:36 2003-03-25, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> >Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
> >
> >And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
>
> Et tu?
I require neither qualificati
Question (this will lead to my real question, later):
Are the "mirrors" also responsible for providing source for all packages
downloadable by the Cygwin setup.exe?
Most Cygwin packages offer a "Src" tarball available for download along with
the "Bin" package, but there are numerous (significant)
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Igor Pechtchanski (03-03-25 18:33 +0100)
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >> * Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
> >>> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
> >>
> >> "Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looki
* Igor Pechtchanski (03-03-25 18:33 +0100)
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> * Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
>>> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
>>
>> "Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for
>> it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows
Martin Gainty wrote:
Does anyone know the location of /bin/bash?
Might it be in "/bin"? :-) (Sorry, couldn't resist..)
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:54:49PM -0500, Jim Drash wrote:
>A simple reading of the GPL text maks it clear that if you make use of GPL
>software you must provide the same to your "downstream" clients. Charles
>Wilson is correct.
>
>"Cease and desist" letters are the initial legal step. However, al
* Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:51 +0100)
> I am doing a make of mysql and am getting the error:
>
> libmysqld/sql_derived.cc: You are trying to create a symlink on a win32 file
> system.
> This file type is not supported on this platform.
What has that got to do with /etc/hosts? No application runn
Jason,
I have a snapshot-generating script called "snap." It's attached. There
is usage output via the "--help" argument and a little header
commentary in the script itself.
% snap --help
# snap: Usage
# -c Run target directory's "clean" program, if any
# -D Place snapshot file
Randall R Schulz wrote:
What options to procps are you using to get that output format? I cannot
reproduce it.
It's the output of "top", and yes, I see the problem too. The "size"
column is always around 400 (+/-) MB, however large or small the process.
The RSS size is correct - it matches the
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
>Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
>
>And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
>
>Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order
>from an attorney,
I have installed Cygwin with the default-settings on Windows XP
professional.
If I want to run Cygwin, by running the "cygwin.bat" file the following
error message appears:
19 [main] bash -584 sync_wth_child: child 2820(0x5DC) died before
initialization with status code 0x0
580 [main] bash -584 s
I'd love to see the scripts. I have written some of my own, but have
run into the full name and path problem. Please post.
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
Because of a number of problems in backup, I have written a
couple of Cygwin-specific bash script
Running "ls /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" takes 5 to 10 seconds
on my NT build machine. Using gdb to step through it, the culprit
is the GetSecurityInfo() call in get_nt_object_attribute().
A google search shows up the following, a bug in GetSecurityInfo() in Windows
that looks like it might
Thanks. Unfortunately for me, I am running sp3.
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Mar 21 16:37:16 2003
Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service
Pack 3
Can you please send me the output of
cygcheck -sr > cygcheck_Elfyn_McBratney.txt
(my cygcheck is
Pat,
At 09:36 2003-03-25, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
Et tu?
Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order
from an attorney, he has no reas
A simple reading of the GPL text maks it clear that if you make use of GPL
software you must provide the same to your "downstream" clients. Charles
Wilson is correct.
"Cease and desist" letters are the initial legal step. However, all that
needs to be done to avoid any legal action is to put the
Great!
I am doing a make of mysql and am getting the error:
libmysqld/sql_derived.cc: You are trying to create a symlink on a win32 file
system.
This file type is not supported on this platform.
How do I correctly identify file types to cygwin and
correct this error situation?
Sorry for the bothe
> Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
>
> And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
>
> Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order
> from an attorney, he has no reason to even consider modifying his
> behavior.
Charles Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FWIW: I am not a lawyer.
And therefore, everything you have said may be safely ignored.
Until this alleged GPL violator receives a "cease and desist" order
from an attorney, he has no reason to even consider modifying his
behavior. (Except to be poli
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
> > Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
>
> "Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for
> it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows default file in
> %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\
* Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
"Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for
it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows default file in
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\.
Thorsten
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Martin Gainty wrote:
> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
> Thanks, Martin
Cygwin is a layer on top of Windows, and it uses the Windows machinery to
implement networking. Thus, the question is: where does Windows look for
the "hosts" file? And the answer to that is Win
Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
Thanks,
Martin
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> Because of a number of problems in backup, I have written a
> couple of Cygwin-specific bash scripts that I use to backup my
> system. Is there a forum for sharing these kinds of things? (Of
> course, they use 'bzip' and 'tar'.) BTW, I am not convince
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> Since 'man' pages for commands all have the same extension
> ('.1'), it seems to me that it should be possible to write a
> batch file that calls 'bash' that 'invokes' man for the page?
>
> This would allow you to double click a 'man 1' page, and voil
Because of a number of problems in backup, I have written a
couple of Cygwin-specific bash scripts that I use to backup my
system. Is there a forum for sharing these kinds of things? (Of
course, they use 'bzip' and 'tar'.) BTW, I am not convinced that
these scripts will save the "free world" from t
Your assumption that man pages all have the same extention is
fundamentally flawed. Might I suggest your start with 'man man'.
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Since 'man' pages for commands all have the same extension
('.1'), it seems to me that it should be possible to write a
batch file that calls 'bash' that 'invokes' man for the page?
This would allow you to double click a 'man 1' page, and voila, a
'cmd.exe'/'bash.exe' window would appear with th
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:12:50AM -0700, Martin Gainty wrote:
>A quick heads up:
>Standard Binaries wont run under cygwin-
Cygwin is a Windows application. It doesn't run linux binaries. That
is what you seem to be referring to as "standard". A "standard" binary
for Windows would be a windows
Cary-
A quick heads up:
Standard Binaries wont run under cygwin-
There is the possibility of rebuilding with cygwin lib's
Martin
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Cary Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 8:4
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>From: Gary Ash [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:25:19 -0500
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Bash cut and paste
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Could somebody point me to something that will allow me to setup Bash cut
>and paste to the Windows Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V set? (or
> > I believe most of your suggestions assume that the user has little or
> > no knowledge of Unix. I'm operating under the assumption that most new
> > users have knowledge of Unix and will already have run into things like
> > \r\n line endings, man, info, etc.
>
> IMHO my suggestions adds just
> This relates to a bug in Win NT 2000 sp3 or cygwin-
> hard to say which. I can only exercise the bug in
> cygwin, but I would like to exercise it from
> command.exe- see below. Another user jammed cygwin in
> 183 iterations of the loop, after two days without a
> reboot. I am not alone.
Mike,
* Gary Ash (03-03-25 16:25 +0100)
> Could somebody point me to something that will allow me to setup Bash cut
> and paste to the Windows Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V set? (or something near that) I've
> checked the faq but I guess the terms I'm using to search are wrong.
Probably because it's not Cygwin related
Please check out the project web page for links to available information
and ports: http://cygwin.com/ .
If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is
the best place to make observations or get questions answered.
Information on the mailing list is available at the project
Chuck,
You're a scholar and a gentleman.
Thanks,
Larry
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From: Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:18:35 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vim quits and cygwin window contents not restored
Sorry, I haven't been following this th
Larry,
At 07:18 2003-03-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Randall,
Oh it's a problem alright. I'm just not sure the exact source and
whether this functionality is in conflict with something else that 5.3-1
was trying to fix. I looked at the email archives for discussions
surrounding terminfo and
Personally, I use rxvt, which allows me to select anything in the console
and paste it anywhere else (selection == copying - no hotkeys needed)
and use Shift-Ins to paste.. (or the middle mouse button, of course)
HTH
rlc
NB: rxvt is a Cygwin package, of course
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gary Ash wro
Jurgen,
What options to procps are you using to get that output format? I
cannot reproduce it.
Randall Schulz
At 23:44 2003-03-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all,
Thanks for the nice procps package.
However, are all values always shown as megabytes ?
When top or procps are used, the size
Hi,
Could somebody point me to something that will allow me to setup Bash cut
and paste to the Windows Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V set? (or something near that) I've
checked the faq but I guess the terms I'm using to search are wrong.
Thanks
Gary
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I have an existing unix application that makes extensive use of named pipes:
mknod pipe p
and shell scripts and 'C' programs that read and write pipes. Messages must
be read in order that they were written to pipe. As well many processes must
be able to write to a pipe and not have their messages
Hi Randall,
Oh it's a problem alright. I'm just not sure the exact source and
whether this functionality is in conflict with something else that 5.3-1
was trying to fix. I looked at the email archives for discussions
surrounding terminfo and couldn't find anything current, except for
Chuck's a
Martin,
Please read the below carefully. Cygwin cannot run *Linux* binaries.
Cygwin, of course, *can* run Cygwin binaries (always could).
Unless you mean "there's no binary but the Linux binary", in which case
Cygwin will probably not be of much use to you, but you might be
interested in somethi
"Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello
> ./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> What is cygwin doing to this binary to cause this error?
> How do I fix?
Please give more information:
-What kind of application is my_print_defaults, s skript or a binary,
where to
so...cygwin CANNOT run binaries?
uh oh!
Thanks!
Marty
- Original Message -
From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: cant run binaries in cygwin
> Martin Gainty wrote:
> > Hello
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am planning a centralisation of my cygwin environment.
>
> Now I have three servers with each their separate cygwin installation.
> I would use our Solaris server together with Samba to create a share
> on which the cygwin tree would be m
Looks like you don't have permission to do something.. if you can read the
dir, my guess is you don't have write access to the registry. Try adding
the -u flag to the mount command.
HTH
rlc
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am planning a centralisation of my cygwin
Martin Gainty wrote:
> Hello
> ./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> What is cygwin doing to this binary to cause this error?
> How do I fix?
Last time someone got this error, they were trying to run Linux binaries
under Cygwin.
YOU CAN'T DO THIS!
Cygwin is a porting framew
How do you expect anyone to know the answer to your question with so
little information?
Have a look at http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
and come back with the information we need to figure out your problem.
rlc
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Martin Gainty wrote:
> Hello
> ./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax e
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are using pkgadd utility to install a package in Sun Solaris.
> Currently we need to install in windows platform using cygwin. Any
> suggestion/input on the above issue.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Cheers,
> Naga
On Cygwin, the installer is
Hello
./bin/my_print_defaults: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
What is cygwin doing to this binary to cause this error?
How do I fix?
Thank You
Martin
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Hello,
I am planning a centralisation of my cygwin environment.
Now I have three servers with each their separate cygwin installation.
I would use our Solaris server together with Samba to create a share
on which the cygwin tree would be maintained.
I am now testing the mount command, and when I
* Martin Gainty (03-03-25 14:57 +0100)
> I need to setup a symlink to /bin/bash but cant find it anywhere.
>
> Does anyone know the location of /bin/bash?
/bin/bash is in /bin and via the mount in /usr/bin. If it is not there
reinstall bash or do some further investigating (locate bash.exe).
Th
Hello-
I need to setup a symlink to /bin/bash but cant find it anywhere.
Does anyone know the location of /bin/bash?
Thanks!
-Martin
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Mike W. wrote:
> This relates to a bug in Win NT 2000 sp3 or cygwin-
> hard to say which. I can only exercise the bug in
> cygwin, but I would like to exercise it from
> command.exe- see below. Another user jammed cygwin in
> 183 iterations of the loop, after two days without a
> reboot. I am no
Hi,
We are using pkgadd utility to install a package in Sun Solaris.
Currently we need to install in windows platform using cygwin. Any
suggestion/input on the above issue.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Naga
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Passing errno values across systems isn't portable. You need to define
your own error codes and map errno to those. There is nothing else you
can do if you want to be portable.
These problems pop up in various networked file systems every once in a
while. The most recent one I saw was on AFS wh
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:12:59PM -0800, Matt Berney wrote:
> Unfortunately, yes. I had considered this option. But, it would require changes to
> both the server and client-side code, that I was hoping to avoid.
I don't see another chance. Numerical errno values are nonportable.
Corinna
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