Re: Cygwin/rsync Hang Problem Testing Results

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Thompson wrote: | 2.4.5 success success 2.4.6 failure failure Funny this is: 2.4.6 is exactly the release where many cygwin-related patches landed in rsync code, as I'm seeing from a diff. (I began packaging rsync on CygWin at 2.4

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 14:19, Alan Miles wrote: > All, > > I concur - I have a couple of private packages that I build, and then use a > local copy of upset to create the setup.ini file. My packages are ** NOT ** > XFree86 related, and I have the same type of $(cygpath -S) call in my > postinstall

RE: cygpath hangs from postinstall scripts when called like $(cygpath -S) but not otherwise

All, I concur - I have a couple of private packages that I build, and then use a local copy of upset to create the setup.ini file. My packages are ** NOT ** XFree86 related, and I have the same type of $(cygpath -S) call in my postinstall scripts. They also freeze up this latest setup.exe, the 2.3

Re: changing my cygwin username to have no spaces in it

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Terrence Brannon wrote: > I just got a great new laptop --- the Toshiba P25 with a 17" widescreen. > > However, I was dumb enough to enter my name as "Terrence Brannon" during > the initial welcome screens. Now when attempting to compile xemacs from > scratch (because xemacs' w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: setsid-0.0-3

Basically it allows to call an application, say `sleep', like this: setsid sleep 10 `setsid' forks and detaches from the controlling terminal and so the inferior application will not be attached to the terminal as well. Or, to make it short, you can start an application as above and immediate

changing my cygwin username to have no spaces in it

I just got a great new laptop --- the Toshiba P25 with a 17" widescreen. However, I was dumb enough to enter my name as "Terrence Brannon" during the initial welcome screens. Now when attempting to compile xemacs from scratch (because xemacs' windows goes into some sort of white - on - white mo

Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 04:48:43PM -0400, James D Below wrote: > HI everyone, > > I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local > policy settings. Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe, > rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc 3.3.3-1, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 missing java headers

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:07:54PM -0700, Jim Kleckner wrote: >Is it possible the java code simply wasn't configured to build? >All of the java headers are missing. > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>I've moved all of the latest gcc stuff out of "test" and into "current". >>This is the standard gcc 3

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc 3.3.3-1, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 missing java headers

Jim Kleckner wrote: ... I tried uncompressing, configuring, and "make" of gcc. Recompiling and installing 3.3.1-1 fails to install the headers. Subsequent uncompress, configure, recompile of 3.2-3 failed to compiler. To be clear, the install ofo 3.3.1-1 succeeds but it doesn't appear that the in

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc 3.3.3-1, gcc-mingw-20030911-2 missing java headers

Is it possible the java code simply wasn't configured to build? All of the java headers are missing. Christopher Faylor wrote: I've moved all of the latest gcc stuff out of "test" and into "current". This is the standard gcc 3.3.1 release from gcc.gnu.org + patches from Danny Smith and (to a vastl

Re: Windows XP and Cygwin file permission problem

Derek, I did not have a file permissions problem relating to chmod. The chmod command has always worked fine for me. The problem I had related to file permissions in the CVS repository. I have not upgraded to cygwin 1.5.5, however. Have you tried using the getfacl and setfacl commands? Does a

Re: openssh-3.7.1p2 giving error about entry point in cygwin1.dll

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Brian V. Smith wrote: > I just installed openssh-3.7.1p2 using the setup program, but it didn't > actually install the files into cygwin/usr/sbin where the older ssh > files are so I manually copied them there. > > The ssh client works fine but the sshd.exe server gives the err

openssh-3.7.1p2 giving error about entry point in cygwin1.dll

I just installed openssh-3.7.1p2 using the setup program, but it didn't actually install the files into cygwin/usr/sbin where the older ssh files are so I manually copied them there. The ssh client works fine but the sshd.exe server gives the error "The procedure entry point __getreent could not

Re: New package: libmcrypt-2.5.7-1

Thought you might find this interesting: Cygwin email list: At 2003-10-03 08:45 AM, you wrote: >I have packaged the libmcrypt encryption library. Libmcrypt is a library that >provides access to several symmetric block and stream encryption algorithms. >The following algorithms are implemented:

Re: dd command is not working properly

Corinna: Thank you for your hit, Finally I can clone my flash card, from an XP machine, there was the problem, I was supporting Cygwin on Win98. José Carlos:) --- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:48:10AM -0700, Jose > Carlos Henriquez wrote: > > Hello: >

Re: Problems with Cygwin and Procmail..

Billy Huddleston wrote: I'm having a problem with Cygwin when using it with procmail.. I've written some fairly extensive spam filtering scripts to use on my mail server and they work perfectly.. However, I occasionally get these error messages and after so many of them, procmail just stops work

RE: Do you google?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > Nice, but I believe the attached approach will work better on this > > list. > :-D > > Unfortunately, that program has a bug. It will only print > one (rather long) line - not the 500 presumably intended :-). Hmm.. Not if you configure th

Problems with Cygwin and Procmail..

Hi guys, I'm having a problem with Cygwin when using it with procmail.. I've written some fairly extensive spam filtering scripts to use on my mail server and they work perfectly.. However, I occasionally get these error messages and after so many of them, procmail just stops working (fortunat

Re: Do you google?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Cliff Hones wrote: > > Nice, but I believe the attached approach will work better on this list. :-D > > Unfortunately, that program has a bug. It will only print one > (rather long) line - not the 500 presumably intended :-). > > -- Cliff It sort of is -- see the initial Bart

Re: Do you google?

> Nice, but I believe the attached approach will work better on this list. :-D Unfortunately, that program has a bug. It will only print one (rather long) line - not the 500 presumably intended :-). -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, James D Below wrote: > HI everyone, > > I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local > policy settings. Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe, > rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see the > following error:

MC - big pause

I forgot to mention that after MC is loaded, programs invoked at the MC command prompt also take a LONG time. These same programs run normally outside of MC. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

messed up user permissions from w2k terminal session

HI everyone, I'm not sure how I did it but I messed up my user permissions or local policy settings. Now whenever I run any cygwin app (bash.exe, wc.exe, rxvt.exe) from a w2k terminal session and logged in as a user, I see the following error: CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminat

MC - big pause

(newbie) On one installation of Cygwin, MC takes a long time (45 seconds) to comes up. Other Cygwin programs (like Info, Man, e.g.) have 'normal' performance. I don't *think* it's my path, I checked and fiddled with that and nothing changed. I tried -u -d with MC. The machine is a single u

RE: cygwin setup.exe request

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 9:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin setup.exe request > > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at

Re: Do you google?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > >>I post this for all those who respond with a "Do you google?" response > >>(and lord knows I've gotten them too). This is a pictoral > >>representation for you "do you google

Re: Do you google?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I post this for all those who respond with a "Do you google?" response (and lord knows I've gotten them too). This is a pictoral representation for you "do you google"r's! http://www.holgermetzger.de/pix/bart.jpg Perhaps we shou

Re: Do you google?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I post this for all those who respond with a "Do you google?" response > (and lord knows I've gotten them too). This is a pictoral representation > for you "do you google"r's! > http://www.holgermetzger.de/pix/bart.jpg > Perhaps we should save a copy of

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: docbook-xsl-1.62.4-1

I've updated the docbook-xsl package to version 1.62.4-1. docbook-xsl package contains XSL stylesheets for the DocBook XML DTD created by Norman Walsh and others. Note: This package is independent on the cygwin kernel, so it should work with both 1.3.x and 1.5.x cygwin kernel series. To update

Re: cygwin setup.exe request

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:13:09PM -0400, Derek Mahar wrote: > >Please make the setup.exe package installation dialog resizeable. This > >way, we can expand the window to see all columns and display more > >packages. > > It is resizeable but it requ

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Hannu said: > > Are you implying that setup isn't that well coded? ;-) > > I have yet to look at the code. > Robert Collins said: > Please do, before you redesign from scratch. Ehrm? Is this to be ironic or some such? :-} Sorry to disappoint you if so; my language skills doesn't cover that :-p -

Re: 2.95.3-10 streams cause seg-fault

Sorry about the post to the wrong list, thank you for redirecting it. I don't have the time or interest to track down the problem. I would recommend that the 2.95 g++ be removed as an option from cygwin if it is not going to be supported. It really is not very useful without file io working, a

Do you google?

I post this for all those who respond with a "Do you google?" response (and lord knows I've gotten them too). This is a pictoral representation for you "do you google"r's! http://www.holgermetzger.de/pix/bart.jpg Perhaps we should save a copy of this funny... === Learn from your parents' mista

Re: 2.95.3-10 streams cause seg-fault

[redirecting to the correct mailing list] On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:11:48AM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: >The following program crashes when compiled with g++-2: > >-start cyggcc295bug.cxx--- >#include > >int main() >{ > char buffer[1024]; > std::ifstream fin("./cyggcc295bug.cxx

Re: cygwin setup.exe request

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:13:09PM -0400, Derek Mahar wrote: >Please make the setup.exe package installation dialog resizeable. This >way, we can expand the window to see all columns and display more >packages. It is resizeable but it requires spatial orientation to be effective. For instance, i

Re: Why is too fast PID reuse a problem?

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:17:46PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >Lapo Luchini wrote: >> Vaclav Haisman wrote: >> >>> I have been searching for why Cygwin doesn't use native Windows PIDs >>> >> Does it? >> I see the same PIDs in TaskManager and in "ps"... > >Look carefully at "ps", specifically the PID

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There must be something wrong with your system, Yes, indeed there is! I checked it out on my machine here at work and it does work fine. It would not be the first time my box at home made me look/sound stupid on this list - lol. When its not completely catatonic it'

RE: chmod not working on Windows XP

Igor: Thanks, including "smbntsec" in the CYGWIN environment variable solved my problem. Derek -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 1:15 PM To: Derek Mahar Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: chmod not working on Windows XP Derek,

RE: chmod not working on Windows XP

Derek, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: setting. There's no need to even Cc: me -- I read the list. Network permissions are controlled by the "smbntsec" setting of the Cygwin environment variable. However, it should be on by default. Your cygcheck output looks normal. I'm o

Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command

The problem ended up being the extention of my script file. It was *.cmd as it was under my Sun OS. This force the cmd.exe to execute it and never allow the cygwin environment to take hold. "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:3

RE: Cygwin setup.exe request

Igor: Thanks for the reference. I apologize for the repeat message, but I was just placing my vote. Apparently, many others agree that a resizeable setup.exe window would be nice. Derek -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 3, 2003 12:26 PM

RE: chmod not working on Windows XP

Igor: Thanks for the tip. Please see attached cygcheck.out that contains the output to cygcheck -svr. I was changing file permissions on my home directory on a network drive, so this is probably why it did not work, even though that drive is NTFS. Using chmod to change the file permissions of a

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >There must be something wrong with your system, 'cause it sure does work > >for me... > > I think it has more to do with "tty"/"notty" and "rxvt"/"cmd" than > anything else =) FWIW, it works for me the same way in rxvt (just

Re: chmod not working on Windows XP

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Derek Mahar wrote: > After having read the FAQ and setting CYGWIN to "ntsec tty", chmod still > does not change file permissions on my Windows XP system. I've created > /etc/passwd and /etc/group as follows: > > mkpasswd --local --domain > /etc/passwd > mkgroup --local --domai

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There must be something wrong with your system, 'cause it sure does work for me... I think it has more to do with "tty"/"notty" and "rxvt"/"cmd" than anything else =) -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP & X.509 keys available) http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 5

Re: Cygwin setup.exe request

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Derek Mahar wrote: > Please make the setup.exe package installation dialog resizeable. This > way, we can expand the window to see all columns and display more > packages. > > Thanks for making Cygwin! > Derek might be of in

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Steve Coleman wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > >You can use the binaries from the precompiled win32 BIND packages from > >ISC. They're not cygwin aware, but since they're ports from a unix-like > >environment you can hardly tell the difference. > > For the client side command

Re: 'dig', 'nslookup' etc?

Brian Dessent wrote: You can use the binaries from the precompiled win32 BIND packages from ISC. They're not cygwin aware, but since they're ports from a unix-like environment you can hardly tell the difference. For the client side command line there is also "/cygdrive/C/WINNT/system32/NSLOOK

Cygwin setup.exe request

Please make the setup.exe package installation dialog resizeable. This way, we can expand the window to see all columns and display more packages. Thanks for making Cygwin! Derek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems

chmod not working on Windows XP

After having read the FAQ and setting CYGWIN to "ntsec tty", chmod still does not change file permissions on my Windows XP system. I've created /etc/passwd and /etc/group as follows: mkpasswd --local --domain > /etc/passwd mkgroup --local --domain > /etc/group My system configuration is: Micros

Re: file times and cp -u

> We're having a problem with 'cp -u'. It would appear that when you copy a > file in the manner the sub-second part of the files' timestamp gets zeroed > out causing the file to be recopied on subsequent attempts. Is this a bug > in cp or is it intentional behaviour? Are you copying to a FAT pa

file times and cp -u

We're having a problem with 'cp -u'. It would appear that when you copy a file in the manner the sub-second part of the files' timestamp gets zeroed out causing the file to be recopied on subsequent attempts. Is this a bug in cp or is it intentional behaviour? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Why is too fast PID reuse a problem?

Lapo Luchini wrote: > Vaclav Haisman wrote: > >> I have been searching for why Cygwin doesn't use native Windows PIDs >> > Does it? > I see the same PIDs in TaskManager and in "ps"... Look carefully at "ps", specifically the PID and WINPID columns. Often they are the same, but not always. Max.

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Sent: 03 October 2003 14:23 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Another place to check is the setup TODO list and WISHLIST in the README. > > > You can either download the setup source package, or check it out on > > > > > > o

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 02 October 2003 16:02 From: Igor Pechtchanski > >On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Linda W. wrote: > > ..snip.. > > > > What's wrong with a resizable > > > window? I really don't know -- does it require a Ph.D. to do? I've > > > never done windows programming, s

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libmcrypt-2.5.7-1

I have packaged the libmcrypt encryption library. Libmcrypt is a library that provides access to several symmetric block and stream encryption algorithms. The following algorithms are implemented: 3-Way, Arcfour, Blowfish, Cast-128 (known as Cast5), Cast-256, DES, Enigma, Gost, Loki97, Panama, R

Re: invocation "slowness"?

Lapo Luchini wrote: Even a single "echo" takes up to 500ms: $ time /bin/echo 1 1 real0m0.442s user0m0.030s sys 0m0.030s $ time /bin/echo 1 1 real0m0.040s user0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s ARGHHH Found it... I had *lotsa lotsa lotsa* rsync "dead processes" waiting ther

Re: Why is too fast PID reuse a problem?

Vaclav Haisman wrote: I have been searching for why Cygwin doesn't use native Windows PIDs Does it? I see the same PIDs in TaskManager and in "ps"... (I know nothing more on the issue, though; yep I'm throwing the stone and retreating the hand =P) -- Lapo 'Raist' Luchini [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP

invocation "slowness"?

Hi. Yes, I've read http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC33 No, I have no network share in path 0=) I'm writing this message because it *seems* to be that this issue is not very old, but I couln't say if this is exact, expected, or always was. $ cat do-something.sh #!/bin/bash for ((i=0; i<10; i++

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Sent: 03 October 2003 12:57 From: Hannu E K Nevalainen > > > Another place to check is the setup TODO list and WISHLIST in > > the README. > > > You can either download the setup source package, or check it out on > > > > > >

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

> From: Hughes, Bill > Sent: 02 October 2003 16:02 From: Igor Pechtchanski > >On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Linda W. wrote: > > ..snip.. > > > > What's wrong with a resizable > > > window? I really don't know -- does it require a Ph.D. to do? I've > > > never done windows programming, so I really don't kn

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

> Are you implying that setup isn't that well coded? ;-) > I have yet to look at the code. Please do, before you redesign from scratch. Setup is not factored out into a solid MVC or equivalent framework today, and we are slowly working towards that. Rob -- GPG key available at:

RE: Postinstall hangs with bash

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > > Igor? > > > > Have you been able to reproduce the hang using "my" scripts? > Hannu, > > As I said before, I'm unable to reproduce the hang on my machine at all - > setup always runs to completion. O

ps2pdf and fonts

I'm trying to get ps2pdf to convert some postscript files I have in cygwin on windows. But it doesn't seem to want to use one of the fonts. What should I do to ensure that the special font I want it to include is in fact used in the PDF file? Øystein -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: telnet, ftp unknown service

Hi, it does not look corrupted to me (pls. take a look in the attached files). I attached another strace output of a telnet, if you like me to "strace" something else, just let me know. A strange thing is that Windows telnet works and cygwin telnet does not... "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Why is too fast PID reuse a problem?

I have been searching for why Cygwin doesn't use native Windows PIDs and I have found out that it is because somehow too fast PID reuse is a problem. But I can't find why is it a problem? Could somebody enlighten me? Vaclav Haisman -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

RE: Cygwin_setup.exe comments...

Sent: 02 October 2003 16:02 From: Igor Pechtchanski >On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Linda W. wrote: ..snip.. > > What's wrong with a resizable > > window? I really don't know -- does it require a Ph.D. to do? I've > > never done windows programming, so I really don't know, but is it really > > that diffic

Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:43:35AM +0100, Chris January wrote: > Did you check the line endings? Very good hint! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubsc

Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:30:28PM -0700, Neil Messmer wrote: > I should also mention that the script was executed within a cygwin shell > window when this error occurred. > "Neil Messmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I would have thought the paths set in your p

windows file protection

I hava a Linux's program , when I compiled it successfully on Cygwin environment(cygwin1.dll 1.5.5-1 newest ) . The program uses ipc-daemon2.exe for IPC. When I run it on Windows. Sometime Windows event syslogs tell me that: windows file protection( tahoma.ttf, resrcmon.exe msxmlr.

RE: #! not a recognized internal or external command

Did you check the line endings? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Neil Messmer > Sent: 02 October 2003 23:30 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: #! not a recognized internal or external command > > > I should also mention that the scrip