Re: cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Prasad Dabak
Hello, I am using public key authentication. If I use the old version of cygwin (1.3.1), I am able to ssh on to the box. However, it fails with cygwin heap error while spawning bash. But at least it does not give me authentication error. c:\bin\bash.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's he

Re: In the distance, the sound of a snapshot going off, and thelonely plaintive wail of...

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > ...someone who is amazed by how badly botched the -o managed stuff was. > > I've released a snapshot with a better behaving implementation of "-o > managed". > > If people will kindly check this out and see if it fixes the reported > problems, I'd a

Re: default shell cannot be changed from bash to tcsh

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Alireza Moini wrote: > I cannot seem to change the default shell from bash to > tcsh, despite changing the entry in passwd. > > I have attached the cygcheck -svr and passwd entry. > ali:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:MY > NAME,U-ALI-WORK-PC\ali,S-xxx-1000:/home/

Re: In the distance, the sound of a snapshot going off, and the lonely plaintive wail of...

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:42:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >...someone who is amazed by how badly botched the -o managed stuff was. > >I've released a snapshot with a better behaving implementation of "-o >managed". > >If people will kindly check this out and see if it fixes the reported >

In the distance, the sound of a snapshot going off, and the lonely plaintive wail of...

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
...someone who is amazed by how badly botched the -o managed stuff was. I've released a snapshot with a better behaving implementation of "-o managed". If people will kindly check this out and see if it fixes the reported problems, I'd appreciate it. If it seems to be ok, I'll release a 1.5.1 wi

default shell cannot be changed from bash to tcsh

2003-07-10 Thread Alireza Moini
I cannot seem to change the default shell from bash to tcsh, despite changing the entry in passwd. I have attached the cygcheck -svr and passwd entry. ali:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:MY NAME,U-ALI-WORK-PC\ali,S-xxx-1000:/home/ali:/usr/bin/tcsh Also even when using bash the /etc/

RE: Why do symlinks need to be system files

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, P. Brockill wrote: > >Sure. Use new-style symlinks (i.e., shortcuts). They only need to be > >read-only, IIRC. Make sure your CYGWIN variable doesn't contain > >"nowinsymlinks", though. > > Igor > > Sounds right enough, but: don't the new-style symlinks always contain

PostgreSQL problems

2003-07-10 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi all, I've got problems setting up PostgreSQL on Cygwin. I've been following the excellent description in the PostgreSQL readme file and got the following result: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ipc-daemon & [1] 157 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ initdb -D /usr/share/postgresql/data The files belonging to this d

RE: Why do symlinks need to be system files

2003-07-10 Thread P. Brockill
Hi, Sure. Use new-style symlinks (i.e., shortcuts). They only need to be read-only, IIRC. Make sure your CYGWIN variable doesn't contain "nowinsymlinks", though. Igor Sounds right enough, but: don't the new-style symlinks always contain the full path to the file (e.g. e:\some_dir\some_fi

Re: make 3.80 and VPATH

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:04:04PM -0700, Christopher Seawood wrote: >It appears that make 3.80 no longer translates the path in VPATH to a >native cygwin path. Is this intentional? > >This causes a problem for objdir builds with Mozilla which uses win32 >paths for VPATH, topsrcdir & srcdir. > >

RE: Why do symlinks need to be system files

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, P. Brockill wrote: > I've been having problems making CD-R's with symbolic links (the kind > made when nowinsymlinks is set) which function under cygwin. > > I wanted to put symbolic links on a CD-R which cygwin could follow on any > machine. Then I could just toss in a CD, m

RE: Why do symlinks need to be system files

2003-07-10 Thread P. Brockill
I've been having problems making CD-R's with symbolic links (the kind made when nowinsymlinks is set) which function under cygwin. I wanted to put symbolic links on a CD-R which cygwin could follow on any machine. Then I could just toss in a CD, mount it under cygwin, and have the whole lot there,

make 3.80 and VPATH

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Seawood
It appears that make 3.80 no longer translates the path in VPATH to a native cygwin path. Is this intentional? This causes a problem for objdir builds with Mozilla which uses win32 paths for VPATH, topsrcdir & srcdir. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210393 - cls -- Unsubscribe

1.5.0: rxvt copy/paste problems

2003-07-10 Thread David Rothenberger
I'm seeing some weird, new behavior with rxvt under cygwin-1.5.0-1 related to copy/paste and its interaction with the Windows clipboard. All of the weirdness described below goes away when I revert to 1.3.22. I'm running under Win2k Pro SP4. It seems that if I startup rxvt directly from Windows

Re: Issue with net.exe and no output when ssh'ing into NT system

2003-07-10 Thread Larry Hall
Todd Bowden wrote: To all below you will find my cygcheck.out file. Im running cygwin 1.3.22. The issue Im having is after ssh'ing into a Win 2000 system and try to execute net.exe I get no output. If Im logged on locally and bring up a bash shell I get the output that I expect. I have tested

Re: Problem in compiling : cannot find -ldl

2003-07-10 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Philippe, Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2003 um 14:25 schriebst du: > I manage to access to the directory lib and bin but i > can't see it ... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ mount > c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) > c:\cygwin\usr\bin on /usr/bin type u

Issue with net.exe and no output when ssh'ing into NT system

2003-07-10 Thread Todd Bowden
To all below you will find my cygcheck.out file. Im running cygwin 1.3.22. The issue Im having is after ssh'ing into a Win 2000 system and try to execute net.exe I get no output. If Im logged on locally and bring up a bash shell I get the output that I expect. I have tested a few scenerios:

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > > > Yeah, that's what I thought. I was hopping we might have figured out an > > > easy way to do this by now, though. Oh, well. I'll figure it out myself. >

Re: m68k-elf-gcc

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote: > hi folks, > > Could someone please tell me where to get documentation > on m68k-elf-gcc assembler directives in CYgwin ? > Things like .lock , .even etc ? Incase no one here know's you might try looking at and see if your

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > Yeah, that's what I thought. I was hopping we might have figured out an > > easy way to do this by now, though. Oh, well. I'll figure it out myself. > > > > One reason I ask is that I am the unofficial

m68k-elf-gcc

2003-07-10 Thread DEEPA SIVASANKARANE
hi folks, Could someone please tell me where to get documentation on m68k-elf-gcc assembler directives in CYgwin ? Things like .lock , .even etc ? Thanx, best regards, Deepa -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

RE: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers? openmoz for file URLs

2003-07-10 Thread Ralf Hauser
... > there's no particular jiggery-pokery needed to get a Cygwin app to launch > a URL in a Windows browser. > > e.g. try typing > > explorer "http://www.google.com/"; > > from your bash prompt, or if you want your default Windows URL handler to > handle it by magic, you can do > > cmd /c start "h

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >> By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of > >> the changed datatypes as parameter or p

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > > > Could Corinna, or someone else knowledgeable, help me clear up some > > > issues with respect to development under 1.5.0? If I should just > > > wait for the

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >> By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of > >> the changed datatypes as parameter or p

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:14:20PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of >> the changed datatypes as parameter or part of a parameter. This >> part of the application is of

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:49:41PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> Is it safe to use 1.3.22 headers with a 1.5.0 dll (I think so)? Obviously >> the converse is not true. > >Your statement isn't either. All the structure sizes/offsets would have >changed, so you can't use older headers with the

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 21:51:28 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect any of > the changed datatypes as parameter or part of a parameter. This > part of the application is of course not 64 clean. However, for > testing purposes I've buil

Re: Read access to all keys in /proc/registry

2003-07-10 Thread William S Fulton
Chris January wrote: find /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ does not go down the /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE directory(key) because there is no read access for people outside of the SYSTEM group: $ ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ total 0 dr-xr-xr--5 Administ SYSTEM

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > > Could Corinna, or someone else knowledgeable, help me clear up some > > issues with respect to development under 1.5.0? If I should just > > wait for the (forth coming?) posting to cygwin-apps, just say s

RE: Read access to all keys in /proc/registry

2003-07-10 Thread Chris January
> find /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ > > does not go down the /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE > directory(key) > because there is no read access for people outside of the SYSTEM group: > > $ ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ > total 0 > dr-xr-xr--5 Administ SYSTEM

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:33:09PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > Is it true that I should not recompile anything under 1.5.0 unless > all the dlls it uses have been recompiled first under same? If not all, > how do I identify the subset? By testing. It's save to use older DLLs if they don't expect

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > Could Corinna, or someone else knowledgeable, help me clear up some > issues with respect to development under 1.5.0? If I should just > wait for the (forth coming?) posting to cygwin-apps, just say so. > Thanks. > > Is it true that I should not recompile

Re: development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:33:09PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >Could Corinna, or someone else knowledgeable, help me clear up some >issues with respect to development under 1.5.0? If I should just >wait for the (forth coming?) posting to cygwin-apps, just say so. >Thanks. If you want to use 1.5.0,

Re: anybody has an exim binary with mysql support? Got 'main option "mysql_servers" unknown' error upon start-up

2003-07-10 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Christopher Faylor wrote: > I would like a real ldd in the release someday, though. > Maybe the above-mentioned script is adequate. Would it be a > candidate for cygutils? There's also the old http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-04/msg00327.html , which produces different output but seemed

development under 1.5.0 ?s

2003-07-10 Thread Brian Ford
Could Corinna, or someone else knowledgeable, help me clear up some issues with respect to development under 1.5.0? If I should just wait for the (forth coming?) posting to cygwin-apps, just say so. Thanks. Is it true that I should not recompile anything under 1.5.0 unless all the dlls it uses ha

Re: anybody has an exim binary with mysql support? Got 'main opti on "mysql_servers" unknown' error upon start-up

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:50:49PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote: >I seem to remember Chris saying cygcheck wasnt intended to replace ldd. >but these is a bash script that emulates ldd here just in case. >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-09/msg00856.html I'm not near my computer right now but, II

RE: anybody has an exim binary with mysql support? Got 'main option "mysql_servers" unknown' error upon start-up

2003-07-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
> > Questions: > 1) Does anybody have a cygwin exim binary that also has mysql support? > 2) also, as per http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=ldd, I don't find a usable ldd - will "cygcheck" find all relevant libraries in exim-4.20-1.exe? I seem to remember Chris saying cygcheck was

anybody has an exim binary with mysql support? Got 'main option "mysql_servers" unknown' error upon start-up

2003-07-10 Thread Ralf Hauser
Hi, /usr/bin/exim -bd -q30m gives me <<2003-07-10 16:29:12 Exim configuration error in line 12: main option "mysql_servers" unknown>> http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-2009/032287.html suggests that I have an exim version compiled without mysqlclient.so? Questions: 1) Do

Re: flaky disk share access

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Troy wrote: > Hi All, > > When I ssh in to my cygwin/W2000 system, I don't reliably have access to > the disk shares, even if I log in as the same user who's "logged in on the > console." The shares in question are served by Samba and are reconnected > at "console" log

Re: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers?

2003-07-10 Thread Scott W Brim
Hi Jeff. On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 11:32:59AM -0400, Jeffrey C Honig allegedly wrote: > I use emacs under Cygwin (with Cygwin/XFree86 and/or Exceed) and would > like to switch to using mh-e in this environment. The last I heard getting nmh working wasn't easy. Have you done it? > One thing that I wo

Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:08:33PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote: >> XPPro, NTFS. Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine, >> which covers a lot of intermediate territory. Autoconf/Automake/Perl still >> work. I

Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 forked off child processes have open handles to non-existant processes

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 05:48:21PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >I was just walking my process tree with the process explorer when I saw >the cron process had an open handle to a non-existant process >(presumably its parent). That is correct. It is working as designed. It has always don

newlib math bug (fpclassify)

2003-07-10 Thread Joseph E. Vornehm, Jr.
I've already posted this info to the newlib list along with a patch. Someone suggested I re-posting it here, since it affects development of scientific/mathematical software using Cygwin. Apologies if this is repeat information for anyone; this seemed to be a more appropriate forum than, say,

flaky disk share access

2003-07-10 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, When I ssh in to my cygwin/W2000 system, I don't reliably have access to the disk shares, even if I log in as the same user who's "logged in on the console." The shares in question are served by Samba and are reconnected at "console" login every time with password authentication. They are

Re: cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:18:19AM -0700, Prasad Dabak wrote: > I am using cygwin 1.3.1 on Windows 2003. While > executing certain commands, I am getting the following > error. This happens especially, when, one command is > internally spawning another command > [...] > breaks openssh 2.5.2p2-3 ser

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Available for test: cygwin-1.5.0-1

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Yanghui Bian wrote: > Hello, > If I install it, is there any command under bash shell to know the > Version of Cygwin DLL? Thanks. `uname -r' Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Available for test: cygwin-1.5.0-1

2003-07-10 Thread Yanghui Bian
Hello, If I install it, is there any command under bash shell to know the Version of Cygwin DLL? Thanks. Regards, Yanghui Bian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here

2003-07-10 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Gary R Van Sickle wrote: XPPro, NTFS. Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine, which covers a lot of intermediate territory. Autoconf/Automake/Perl still work. I don't know if the tools thus built use 64-bit file APIs, since I don't

Re: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers?

2003-07-10 Thread andrew brian clegg
I'm no expert on how to do this in mh-e but speaking of the general case, there's no particular jiggery-pokery needed to get a Cygwin app to launch a URL in a Windows browser. e.g. try typing explorer "http://www.google.com/"; from your bash prompt, or if you want your default Windows URL hand

Re: Globally redirecting output elsewhere than /tmp/

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The directory /tmp seems to be hardwired into some applications as a > repository for temporary files created during those applications' activity. > (Rather than using env. vars. TEMP or TMP, I mean.) '/tmp' is the UNIX 'Recycle Bin'. Some programs m

Re: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers?

2003-07-10 Thread Jeffrey C Honig
Cool! I tried looking in the mail archives, but I guess I didn't use the right search string... Thanks. Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers?

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Jeffrey C Honig wrote: > I use emacs under Cygwin (with Cygwin/XFree86 and/or Exceed) and would > like to switch to using mh-e in this environment. > > One thing that I would like to do is to be able to click on a URL and > have my Windows browser (in this case Opera) be told

Globally redirecting output elsewhere than /tmp/

2003-07-10 Thread fergus
The directory /tmp seems to be hardwired into some applications as a repository for temporary files created during those applications' activity. (Rather than using env. vars. TEMP or TMP, I mean.) Is there a way of globally diverting such temporary files elsewhere, as in "for /tmp read h:/temp thr

Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here

2003-07-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Gary R Van Sickle wrote: > XPPro, NTFS. Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine, > which covers a lot of intermediate territory. Autoconf/Automake/Perl still > work. I don't know if the tools thus built use 64-bit file APIs, since I > do

Re: 1.5.0-1 Working Great Here

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Gary R Van Sickle wrote: > XPPro, NTFS. Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine, > which covers a lot of intermediate territory. Autoconf/Automake/Perl still > work. I don't know if the tools thus built use 64-bit file APIs, since I > don't have any source

1.5.0-1 Working Great Here

2003-07-10 Thread Gary R Van Sickle
XPPro, NTFS. Builds working GCC cross compiler and binutils just fine, which covers a lot of intermediate territory. Autoconf/Automake/Perl still work. I don't know if the tools thus built use 64-bit file APIs, since I don't have any source files exceeding 4GB ;-). And I've even been using the

Re: bounced messages

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > Hi, > > This guy asked me to post his question since his messages get bounced. > > [...] > Sorry to email you directly, > Im trying to post a question to the user list but I keep getting bounced > messages from cygwin saying I have HTML in my message b

bounced messages

2003-07-10 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
Hi, This guy asked me to post his question since his messages get bounced. -Original Message- From: Bowden, Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, July 10, 2003 5:49 PM To: 'Pavel Rozenboim' Subject: RE: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug Sorry to email you directly, Im trying

Re: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > Similar problem: `touch prn' doesn't create a file; I won't try to cat > > something into it as that will probably print something :) > > > > The same thing as with com? happens with lpt? > > Th

Re: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > Similar problem: `touch prn' doesn't create a file; I won't try to cat > something into it as that will probably print something :) > > The same thing as with com? happens with lpt? There's a small bug when handling comn and lptn. I'd offer a

Re: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug (please don't use managed mode yet)

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:12:00PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: >When I execute following commands in directory mounted in managed mode I get >some failures: > >touch com1 >touch: setting times of `com1': Invalid argument > >(Same error for com2) > >touch com3 >touch: creating `com3': No such file

RE: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug

2003-07-10 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
> -Original Message- > From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu, July 10, 2003 5:52 PM > To: Pavel Rozenboim > Cc: Cygwin (E-mail) > Subject: Re: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug > > > Similar problem: `touch prn' doesn't create a file; I won't > try to

RE: rxvt shortcut problem (bash, XP, memory, heap, Win32 error 487)

2003-07-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
What are the contents of your shortcut? I point to this batch file: @echo off C: cd \cygwin\bin rxvt.exe -bg white -fg black -fn "Lucida Console-12" -ls -sl 9000 -rv -geometry 110x49 -sb -si -sk -sr -sw -e bash --login -i Which works fine. I briefly see a command window and then the RXVT term

Re: another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug

2003-07-10 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Similar problem: `touch prn' doesn't create a file; I won't try to cat something into it as that will probably print something :) The same thing as with com? happens with lpt? HTH rlc On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > When I execute following commands in directory mounted in manag

Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 managed mount bug (?)

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:40:31PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >Perhaps, next time, you could be a bit more specific and I could try >snapshots a bit more often, eh? It's a deal. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwi

cygwin 1.5.0-1 forked off child processes have open handles tonon-existant processes

2003-07-10 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
I was just walking my process tree with the process explorer when I saw the cron process had an open handle to a non-existant process (presumably its parent). I tried the following code snippet to test that hypothesis: -- BEGIN -- #include #include #include int main( void ) { pid_t child;

Cygwin apps talking to Windows browsers?

2003-07-10 Thread Jeffrey C Honig
I use emacs under Cygwin (with Cygwin/XFree86 and/or Exceed) and would like to switch to using mh-e in this environment. One thing that I would like to do is to be able to click on a URL and have my Windows browser (in this case Opera) be told to open the page. Is there an app to allow this? How

Re: rxvt shortcut problem (bash, XP, memory, heap, Win32 error 487)

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Garrett, Ron wrote: > I'm having trouble starting rxvt from a shortcut icon. If I simply click on > the rxvt.exe icon in a Windows Explorer window, then I get a console window > that is running /usr/bin/sh. If I then try to start bash, I get a heap > allocation error: > > $ ps

RE: Problem with TCL , couldn't execute a TCL file

2003-07-10 Thread Stucky, Mark B. UTRC
How exactly are you launching THEPROGRAM ? command {exec /home/me/THEPROGRAM &} The braces {} above just enclose a string (ie "exec /home/me/THEPROGRAM &") and I have no idea what "command" is... You probably want something like the following: [exec /home/me/THEPROGRAM &] --Mark

Re: posix and win32 enviornment

2003-07-10 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >> Shankar Unni wrote: > >>> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>> > [...] you'll be using the MinGW libraries, and your program will > not understand POSIX paths (i.e., you'll h

rxvt shortcut problem (bash, XP, memory, heap, Win32 error 487)

2003-07-10 Thread Garrett, Ron
I'm having trouble starting rxvt from a shortcut icon. If I simply click on the rxvt.exe icon in a Windows Explorer window, then I get a console window that is running /usr/bin/sh. If I then try to start bash, I get a heap allocation error: $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDST

another cygwin-1.5.0 managed mount bug

2003-07-10 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
When I execute following commands in directory mounted in managed mode I get some failures: touch com1 touch: setting times of `com1': Invalid argument (Same error for com2) touch com3 touch: creating `com3': No such file or directory I have 2 serial ports, this probably explains different erro

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu, July 10, 2003 3:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode > > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:22:27PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > > > > > >> -Original Message

Re: Problem with TCL , couldn't execute a TCL file

2003-07-10 Thread philippe guillaume
No it does not work ... it is THEPROGRAM and not THEPROGRAM.exe ... and the path is well defined in command{} But when i type "exec THEPROGRAM &" it runs !!! What a mystery ! :-) --- Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] philippe guillaume > wrote: >

Re: cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Mark Priest
Prasad, I'm not sure if this helps you but I am running Cygwin 1.3.22 with openssh 3.6.1p1-2 (which is the latest openssh version I believe) and I am not having any problems. My machine is running Windows XP Professional. You might try upgrading both Cygwin and openssh if that is feasible. -Mar

Re: Problem with TCL , couldn't execute a TCL file

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] philippe guillaume wrote: > Hi ! > > There's a new problem in porting my program ... > A button of the main window (written in TCL) calls > another TCL file. > > When i click on this button it produces this error: > > "Error : couldn't execute > "C:\cygwin\home\me

Problem with TCL , couldn't execute a TCL file

2003-07-10 Thread philippe guillaume
Hi ! There's a new problem in porting my program ... A button of the main window (written in TCL) calls another TCL file. When i click on this button it produces this error: "Error : couldn't execute "C:\cygwin\home\me\THEPROGRAM": no such file or directory But this file really exists !!! it i

Re: php-mysql-cygwin how to

2003-07-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> In short: Comment out all '#pragma interface' and '#pragma >> implementation' lines, it doesn't work on Cygwin. >> >> And besides that, compiling and linking works well. > > Wish I'd read this before blingly hacking the source

Re: cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Prasad Dabak
Hello, Its not a typo. I am indeed using cygwin 1.3.1. As I mentioned in my original mail, upgrading to latest version 1.3.22 does solve the heap problem. However, it creates problems for openssh server that I am running on the same box. Sorry for sending it to cygwin-apps. I will keep it in mind

Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 managed mount bug (?)

2003-07-10 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > >There seems to be a slight problem with the mangling/demangling of the > >name. > You're right. I know exactly what the problem is. Great :) > Can I make my usual grumble

Re: cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Prasad Dabak wrote: > Hello, > > I am using cygwin 1.3.1 on Windows 2003. While > executing certain commands, I am getting the following > error. This happens especially, when, one command is > internally spawning another command Just out of curiousity, is the above version a

cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Prasad Dabak
Hello, I am using cygwin 1.3.1 on Windows 2003. While executing certain commands, I am getting the following error. This happens especially, when, one command is internally spawning another command e.g. If I am trying tar -xvzf, it will internally spawn gzip. I get the following error in this cas

mount managed warnings!

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
I should have put some stronger caveats in the release announcement about the use of the -o managed option to mount. As people have discovered, it is not ready for prime time. And, even if it was ready for prime time, it is definitely not something that you want to use on all of your directories.

cygwin on Windows 2003...

2003-07-10 Thread Prasad Dabak
Hello, I am using cygwin 1.3.1 on Windows 2003. While executing certain commands, I am getting the following error. This happens especially, when, one command is internally spawning another command e.g. If I am trying tar -xvzf, it will internally spawn gzip. I get the following error in this cas

Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 managed mount bug (?)

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:52:26AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >>I just downloaded the new Cygwin for testing - cygcheck output is >>available at >> >>http://blytkerchan.chez.tiscali.fr/cygcheck.out >>af795066e634db972

Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 managed mount bug (?)

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: >I just downloaded the new Cygwin for testing - cygcheck output is >available at > >http://blytkerchan.chez.tiscali.fr/cygcheck.out >af795066e634db97201a98fdb1a974d4 *cygcheck.out > >and did this: > >$ mkdir c:/foo >$ mkdir

Re: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > >How can I make cygwin to mount its directories (/,/usr/bin,...) in managed > >mode by default, to make experiments with it easier? > > Please *do not* use this in normal operation.

Re: make from cvs file

2003-07-10 Thread alex hardy
ok thanks Elfyn works ok now "Elfyn McBratney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, alex hardy wrote: > > > Mixy and Andrew (no need to post here) Thankyou > > > > Elfyn here is what the output gave > > > > This is the result: > > $ [ -f"./src/minion/ma

Re: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:22:27PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thu, July 10, 2003 3:19 PM >> To: 'Pavel Rozenboim'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode >> >> >> mount manipula

Re: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:02:15PM +0200, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: >How can I make cygwin to mount its directories (/,/usr/bin,...) in managed >mode by default, to make experiments with it easier? Please *do not* use this in normal operation. It is not ready for prime time, as the recent bug report

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Try the -f (--force) switch HTH rlc (BTW: you *do* know that this is *alpha* software (as cgf said) don't you? I would be a bit hesitant mounting all of Cygwin under managed mode.. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Vince Hoffman [mailt

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > when I try this from the shell I get an error : > > mount: /: Mount device busy You have to unmount '/' first. It's best if you do something like this mount -m >/tmp/mtab ...edit the file to add `-o managed'.. and then unmount your mount points,

Re: mysqlc (was RE: php-mysql-cygwin how to)

2003-07-10 Thread Jason Tishler
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:46:36PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bill McCormick wrote: > > Ok. I was thinking of cygwin in terms of a development environment > > for Linux based web apps. As far as PostgreSQL running under Win32, > > unless things have changed, I thought cygw

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > Actually I meant the changes in the registry (maybe??) to make it happen > automatically. `mount' does this for you. You shouldn't ever have to play with the registry to change mounts. Elfyn -- Elfyn McBratney, EMCB http://www.emcb.co.uk [EMAIL PRO

Re: cygwin 1.5.0-1 managed mount bug (?)

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > I just downloaded the new Cygwin for testing - cygcheck output is > available at > > http://blytkerchan.chez.tiscali.fr/cygcheck.out > af795066e634db97201a98fdb1a974d4 *cygcheck.out > > and did this: > > $ mkdir c:/foo > $ mkdir /foo > $ mount

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
> -Original Message- > From: Vince Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu, July 10, 2003 3:19 PM > To: 'Pavel Rozenboim'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode > > > mount manipulates the registry entrys for you. Thanks. > > > If 'C:\Cygwin' is mounted as

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Vince Hoffman
mount manipulates the registry entrys for you. > -Original Message- > From: Pavel Rozenboim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 July 2003 15:11 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto

RE: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
> -Original Message- > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu, July 10, 2003 3:14 PM > To: Pavel Rozenboim > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > How can I make cygwin

Re: cygwin 1.5.0 and managed mode

2003-07-10 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote: > Hi, > > How can I make cygwin to mount its directories (/,/usr/bin,...) in managed > mode by default, to make experiments with it easier? If 'C:\Cygwin' is mounted as '/' you would do mount -o managed C:\\Cygwin / from a shell. You should look at

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