mount (1) man page - inccorect description of -c option

Hello, The description of the --change-cygdrive-prefix option states that "By default, the cygdrive-prefix applies only to the current user". Currently, mount changes by defult the system prefix. Pavel -- COMPUTERBILD 15/03: Premium-e-mail-Dienste im Test ---

Help install in winNT

Dear's: I do'nt install cygwin in WinNT Error: Dr. Watson de WinNT Error de aplicacion y se esta generando un registro de error de aplicacion setup.exe Excepcion: infraccion de acceso (0x005), Direccion: 0x0045f1b0 Please help ... thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

Re: Bug in make?

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 02:27:02PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >This could well be a bug in make. I'll take a look at the make source >later to see whether there's something obvious. You might want to hop over to the gnu web site and check out the make mailing list to see if this is a known p

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

Doug VanLeuven wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:46:05AM -0700, Doug VanLeuven wrote: Why isn't ntsec a mount option? The standard reason. Which is the standard reason? 1. It's that way because nobody has coded it yet. 2. It's that way because the core team an

RE: Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS

Greetings, I realize most people may not be familiar with the byacc package, but it can't hurt to ask. I would like to alter the behavior of byacc to make the file pointer yyin use this "text" mode by default. I can always reopen the pointer myself in the correct mode, but it would be nice to kn

Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page

--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > S Taylor wrote: > > > Where else are the while-viewing-manpage shortcuts > > explained? > > > > Getting help, "h" while viewing man page (e.g. man > > man) triggers errors and blank less output > > > > - win98se, cygwin-1.3.22-1, bash 2.05b.09, man >

use ipc-daemon from terminal-service

I write a program using ipc-daemon.exe service,and I want to run my program from remote machine through microsoft terminal service. But unfortunatly I dosn't use the ipc-daemon service from terminal service. My log reports"Functions not implemented" *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

RE: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user

Also, rather than going via command line, is there any other way I can do the same setting (i.e. going via services and modifying the properties of inetd)? Any arguments to cygrunsrv or inetd or modifying the registry... -Original Message- From: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) Sent: We

gpg -c does NOT work

hi. i'm trying to use gpg in symmetric cipher mode. when i encrypt and then decrypt, i get the strange result that my file has SLIGHTLY changed (an error every 32 bytes, or so.) for example: % gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.2 % gpg -c foo % gpg -d foo.gpg > bar gpg: CAST5 encrypted data gpg: WAR

RE: Has ANYONE got telnet via xinetd working on 2000 *SERVER*??( or 2003)

WOW! Thanks dude! You're my hero! YES - I would *GREATLY* appreciate: "edit to make appropriate to xinetd (available on request)" So I am hereby *requesting* it :-) It still *seems* like I did everything here (and more than once I might add) - and that I *should* have got it working. Of

RE: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden --END OF MESSAGE-- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Larry Hall > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 5:07 PM > To: S Taylor > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: man "h" command triggers error

Re: perl -MCPAN -e shell crashes w98se

Gerrit, Thanks for helping me out. 8/6/03 1:19:06 AM, "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hallo Graham, > >the crashing with perl-5.8 seems to be the problem which was already >reported several times and we have no fix for this yet. > Is it easy to install 5.61 instead ? >Why there wa

Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003, David Rothenberger wrote: > > You can find out what DLLs an executable needs by running cygcheck on it. Note that this may not give a complete list. Consider rxvt.exe: quine% cygcheck rxvt.exe Found: .\rxvt.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe rxvt.exe .\cygwin1.dll C:\

RE: Unable to bring up netscape as any other user

BTW, as I mentioned before, cygrunsrv has the -i/--interactive option that allows you to set this from the command line. FYI, backtick processing does not happen in the background -- the spawning shell actually waits for the child to complete. That said, what are the exact errors you're getting w

Re: Cygwin DLL configuration

David Rothenberger wrote: Gerrit recently posted a script ... See . Thank you David, it did the trick. tooldir is the culprit. ifeq ($(target_alias),$(host_alias)) ifeq ($(build_alias),$(host_alias)) tooldir:=$(exec_prefix) else tooldir:=$(e

Re: Yes but I don't understand ...

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:07:46PM -0500, Wayne wrote: > >I thought it went like this: > > > >In the beginning, there was B20, and it was GOOD. After that, it went > >downhill... > > That raises the age old question of "If there was a B20, what abou

Re: OT: to be "nice", or not...

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > Scenario: > I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0) > When this task has finished I wish to be paged... > > In other words; > Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one >

RE: cygwin to backup Windows data

> > I'm beginning to think a non-Cygwin solution may be their > better fit and > > may be the one they are leaning towards. > > rsync compiles fine without cygwin. >http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/nt.html > Just thought i should correct this. from that link "1. You will need two files, rs

Re: Bug in make?

RM> Has anyone seen this problem before? ... RM> RM> make RM> RM> @echo hi RM> /bin/bash: line 1: @echo: command not found RM> make: *** [a] Error 127 IP> FYI, any shell (I tried /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, etc) tries to execute '@echo', IP> with the obvious result. Of course, I thought that was self

Re: libcrypto.a problem

Jérôme DESPATIS wrote: > Hello > > i try to compile a program with nmake (msvc++), using > a dll created with cygwin (my dll uses thread etc... > so i need cygwin1.dll, my dll also uses ssl, crypto > and z) > > but at link time, i get this error: > > libcrypto.a (b_print.o) : error: unresolved exte

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

Maybe I am a little slow but if someone wants a shortcut to the "X" apps can't they just create a short cut to the "C:\cygwin\use\X11R6\bin" directory? Again, I am into the KISS (Keep It Simple, cause I am Stupid) method for most things. Am I missing something? Jim Drash -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin 1.5.1 libc.a link problem

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:58:51PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:20:15PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:09:57PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: > >>While attempting to rebuild procmail against Cygwin 1.5.1, I believe I > >>have found a pro

Re: cygwin 1.5.1 libc.a link problem

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:14:21PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I assume that you must not have correctly replaced your copy of > /lib/libc.a: > > % ls -l libc.a > ls -l libc.a > -rwxrwxrwx1 root cgf741756 Aug 5 23:29 libc.a > % sum libc.a > 31407 725 > > cgf $

RE: Less fails with link error

> -- > From: Ronald > Landheer-Cieslak[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 6. avgust 2003 17:54 > To: David Balazic > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Less fails with link error > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:20:55PM +0200, David

Re: use ipc-daemon from terminal-service

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:01:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I write a program using ipc-daemon.exe service,and I want to run my > program from remote machine through microsoft terminal service. But > unfortunatly I dosn't use the ipc-daemon service from terminal > service. My log reports"

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

Larry Hall wrote: > Brian, what makes you think this is a Cygwin problem? To me, if it > works Cygwin->Cygwin and Cygwin->Solaris but not Cygwin->Linux, then > it's not likely that a change on the Cygwin side is going to help, IMO. > FWIW, this worked for me Cygwin->Cygwin from bash and from rxvt

Re: Less fails with link error

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:45:23PM +0200, David Balazic wrote: > > From: Ronald > > Landheer-Cieslak[SMTP:x] Could you please change the way your mailer replies so it doesn't include any E-mail addresses in the body - they're not mangled in the archives and can

Less fails with link error

If I try to run less from bash, I get a dialog saying : less.exe - Entry Point Not Found The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll. [OK] I would give you the "less" version number , but "rpm -q less" gives : $ rpm -qa error: db4 error(13

Re: cygwin to backup Windows data

Hello Brian, Thanks for the feedback. At 06:34 PM 8/4/2003 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >This is too generic a question. Cygwin is just a set of libraries that >provide a Unix-like environment to programs... the behavior you describe >would depend entirely on how those programs are written. Wit

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:46:05AM -0700, Doug VanLeuven wrote: Why isn't ntsec a mount option? The standard reason. Which is the standard reason? 1. It's that way because nobody has coded it yet. 2. It's that way because the core team analyzed it and believe i

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:52:13PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote: > > > Make sure the SYSTEM user doesn't have any *user* mounts (by running > > "mount" from a SYSTEM-owned shell). > > Spot on. > > C: on / type system (textmode) (...) > Starting service as SYSTEM still fails: (...) > but I d

RE: Directory problems after fresh install of v1.3.22-1

> -- > From: Igor Pechtchanski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 5. avgust 2003 16:06 > To: David Balazic > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Directory problems after fresh install of v1.3.22-1 > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Balaz

Using forking cygwin programmes with JNI

Hi there, I've got a Java programme which needs to read and write to the stdin and stdout of a native programme. On Linux, I've used /dev/ptmx and then forked and exec'd to give myself a single file descriptor which I can use to both read and write to the child process. I would like to do the same

RE: Yes but I don't understand ...

> That raises the age old question of "If there was a B20, what about B19? > Why are there ChangeLog I'll have to read this later when it's not so late :) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.506 / Virus Database: 3

Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS

Greetings, When installing 1.3.22-1 on XP, I select DOS as the default text file type. Unfortunately, the packages I use, flex and gcc, don't appear to correspond to this setting. For gcc, I wrote this program: #include int main() { char *token; token = "\n"; printf("token[0] = %d; token[1] =

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

Max Bowsher wrote: Having ntsec on by default has shown us that the imperfect mapping between ACLs and file modes can cause a *lot* of problems. Essentially, for ntsec to be useful, a fair amount of caring for permissions is required. New users are often not prepared for this. Hence: what about ma

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: > > > >I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives > >the > >same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that. > > > > > What does /var/log/sshd.log say? It remains empty, on both servers. Based

Re: [BUG] pututline () & rxvt: rxvt leaves stale utmp entries

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I wonder if this problem contributes to the problem of the shell process > not dying when one click on > the close button in rxvt... I highly doubt it. Anyway I think the problem that you describe seems to be the same problem that MC experiences with its subshell. Both rxv

Re: libcrypto.a problem

re only by curiosity (even i you don't advise to compile with libgcc.a), i've added libgcc.a to LIBS, and then i get another warnings, someone knows something about them ? : libcygwin.a unresolved external symbol __data_start__ libcygwin.a unresolved external symbol __data_end__ libcygwin.a unre

Re: Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS

Brian Dessent wrote: Francis Harvey wrote: Thanks. I have now replaced \n with \r\n every place I used \n in a character string. I have made sure not to switch the single character when used separately from a string. Everything appears to work fine now. But that completely misses the point

Now I understand !

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Selby wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: David, At 12:28 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: I have hit a problem with bash ... as a sample program I have ... Your problem is that /bin/sh is ash, not BASH. To get BASH, use /bin/

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:46:05AM -0700, Doug VanLeuven wrote: >Why isn't ntsec a mount option? The standard reason. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and be permanently blocked from mai

RE: "contents altered after message signed" when sending openssl smime signed messages - partial work around found

When sending out of cygwin and using the "-nodetach" parameter, it kind of works: - the mail looks like encrypted instead of signed in the Outlook inbox (blue dot at the bottom right of the envelope icon). - when opening the message - all is fine: the content can be read, outlook claims that the si

Re: Yes but I don't understand ...

Randall R Schulz wrote: David, At 13:14 2003-08-05, David Selby wrote: You are dead right, I tried /bin/bash

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:17:24 -0700 (PDT), Jeff Nokes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's my ssh -v output: [snip] > debug1: channel 0: request x11-req > debug1: channel 0: request shell > debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 > [EMAIL

RE: Directory problems after fresh install of v1.3.22-1

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Balazic wrote: > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 5. avgust 2003 16:46 > > To: David Balazic > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Directory problems after fresh install of v1.3.22-1 > > > > On Tue, 5 Au