Percent of CPU this job got > 100%

2003-10-15 Thread Alex Vinokur
=== Windows 2000 Professional CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.4(0.94/3/2) GNU time 1.7 === $ /bin/time -v a 1000 Command being timed: "a 1000" User time (seconds): 0.03 System time (seconds): 0.03 Percent of CPU this job got: 1

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been using Windows own TaskScheduler so far. What I don't > like it is that it cannot run jobs silently at background, > particularly when a job is a batch file or a bash script. Whenever > such a job is started, an annoying DOS window pops up

RE: dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

2003-10-15 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:10, David Byron wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, David Byron wrote: > > > $ strace dpkg-deb --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb >dpkg-deb.info.strace > > > > also hangs. I'll send the strace file in another post so the > > mailing list software will take it. There appears to be so

[alert] DST change and date comparisons

2003-10-15 Thread jw schultz
Description of Problem We are rapidly approaching the time of year when some will transition from standard time (ST) to daylight savings time (DST) and others will make the opposite transition. These vernal and autumnal transitions have important implications for those with Micro

Re: Passwordless login with ssh

2003-10-15 Thread Mark Priest
Andrew, You are reading too much into the README. The point of the note is that the account that runs ssh must be capable of switching user accounts without a password. This requires the Windows permissions of "Act as part of the operating system" "Replace process level token" and "Increase quot

Re: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating.

2003-10-15 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 03:03 PM 10/9/2003 +0900, Dylan Cuthbert wrote: >Hi there, > >I updated Cygwin yesterday and now I get this error whenever I try to do >*anything* with cygwin: > >d:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** CreateFileMapping, Win32 error 5. Terminating. > >What's odd is this doesn't happen immediately, it happ

Re: 7-Zip

2003-10-15 Thread Biju G C
Thanks to work done by "Filip Navara" and "Lapo Luchini" now we have gcc compliable port of the commandline 7-zip is available. I started a news group & home page at yahoo for further discussion. You can get patches there. Home page http://geocities.com/gcc7zip/ Mail group http://groups.yahoo.c

Re: Problems with .exe files

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Kris Thielemans wrote: Hi Since upgrading cygwin a few days ago, I can no longer cp .exe files if I don't use the .exe suffix. I can reproduce this as follows: $ mkdir a $ touch t.exe $ cp t a cp: `t' and `a/t' are the same file $ cp t somenonexistingfilename cp: 't' and 'somenonexistingfilename

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Paul Y. Peng wrote: Thank you for this definitive but negative answer. It saves me time to try in vain. Are there any alternative ways to do the same thing as cron? I only heard about WinCron. Thanks. How about Windows own TaskScheduler? I should have mentioned it in the last email. I have been

Problems with .exe files

2003-10-15 Thread Kris Thielemans
Hi Since upgrading cygwin a few days ago, I can no longer cp .exe files if I don't use the .exe suffix. I can reproduce this as follows: $ mkdir a $ touch t.exe $ cp t a cp: `t' and `a/t' are the same file $ cp t somenonexistingfilename cp: 't' and 'somenonexistingfilename' are the same file I a

Passwordless login with ssh

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Sorry, I searched the list and did not get a definitive answer. What I'm trying to do is to secure things up a little bit around here. I would like to use ssh. But I also want to allow valid users to ssh without being prompted for a password. I'm not sure this is doable. Reading from openssh

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Paul Y. Peng wrote: Thank you for this definitive but negative answer. It saves me time to try in vain. Are there any alternative ways to do the same thing as cron? I only heard about WinCron. Thanks. How about Windows own TaskScheduler? -- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tin

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Cliff Stanford
I have no idea if this is useful to those debugging this. If no, I apologise for the post. On windows, my user name is 'Cliff Stanford' with the space. I was seeing these hangs until I put in a symlink for my home directory and added a line to /etc/passwd with a user of "cliff" rather than "C

RE: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-15 Thread Sandy Pyke
See additional info below. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:11 AM > > First, in Windows Explorer remove a /dev directory if you > (or any configure script) created one. I've confirmed that there is no /dev

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:40:43PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: >>Now, I've seen no mail from CGF in a while, I wonder what he's up to... >>might he be working on some idea? > >Um... You missed it. > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00977.ht

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Brian Ford > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > > Now, I've seen no mail from CGF in a while, I wonder what he's up to... > > might he be working on some idea? > > > > Um... You missed it. > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00977.html > Ahh... THAT was inter

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Brian Ford > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:32 PM > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >Speaking of which, what's the version of SHLWAPI that hangs? On my > > >machine (which doesn't exhibit the

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Brian Ford wrote: Another weird thing I noticed in the msvcrt.dll properties: Created: Tuesday, May 13 2003 3:34:33 PM Modified: Saturday, July 15 2000 Huh? Quite a normal thing, when a file is copied. The creation date/time of the copy is set to the date/time the copy is performed, while th

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > Now, I've seen no mail from CGF in a while, I wonder what he's up to... > might he be working on some idea? > Um... You missed it. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg00977.html -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - V

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: Brian Ford > Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 7:49 PM > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > > Is it possible to put a nice big sleep into the bash script > before the it > > gets to the cygpath. > > Attach gdb to bash during this sleep > > Add a break point to the exec or whate

Re: cron and hibernate

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Y. Peng
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0230, Paul Y. Peng wrote: I have two problems with cron: 1. Where can I get cron.README? I found several places where this file is referred to. But I can't find it in my installation of cygwin. Running setup.exe shows that I have

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
I must be going senile. I just managed to duplicate the problem on my system at work. I could have sworn that I tried this several times to no avail. Stay tuned. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:31:51PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: > >On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administ SYSTEM 395264 Jul 13 16:05 shlwapi.dll > >> Version 6.00.2800.1226 > >> > >> -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administ SYST

Re:

2003-10-15 Thread caj
shlwapi.dll 6.0.2800.1226 - 395,264 bytes msvcrt.dll 6.1.9844.0 - 286,773 bytes I get the crash -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http:

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Hello, Yes, cygwin1.dll is in the C:\Cygwin\bin directory. Below is the info: C:\Cygwin\home\Administrator\mirapoint>dir c:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is BCDA-6AEC Directory of c:\cygwin\bin 09/20/2003 04:32 PM 971,618 cygwin1.dll

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:31:51PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >Speaking of which, what's the version of SHLWAPI that hangs? On my >> >machine (which doesn't exhibit the hang) I

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Paul Bezzam wrote: Brian, I did put the C:\Cygwin\bin in the DOS path; but when I try to run a program under DOS(this program was already compiled under Cygwin before), I get a dialog box saying: This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the applicati

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Speaking of which, what's the version of SHLWAPI that hangs? On my > >machine (which doesn't exhibit the hang) I have > > > >$ ls -l shlwapi.dll msvcrt.dll > >-rwxrwxr-x+ 1 Adm

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: >> > >As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with '< /dev/null' s

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > You could try testing the following things: > > $(cygpath d:/) # don't capture the output but execute cygpath in a subshell > Just a subshell works ie. (cyghan.exe). Both $(cyghan.exe) and `cyghan.exe` without assignment to a variable hang. > sh -c

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > > >As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with '< /dev/null' stops the > > >hanging, but also executing it without capturing the output

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I'd be more interested in "cygcheck cygpath" output in the two > different cases. That would tell us which DLLs were being loaded. > No difference. For the stripped down MINGW version of cygpath: Found: .\cyghan.exe cyghan.exe D:\WINNT\System32

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > >As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with '< /dev/null' stops the > >hanging, but also executing it without capturing the output to a variable > >also stops the hanging. > > I w

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Brian, I did put the C:\Cygwin\bin in the DOS path; but when I try to run a program under DOS(this program was already compiled under Cygwin before), I get a dialog box saying: This application has failed to start because cygwin1.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix it. Tha

Re: possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Sebastian, Please don't send personal e-mail with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. Also, please make sure your mailer honors the Reply-To field. I'm redirecting this to the appropriate list. More replies inline below. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Sebastian Hoffmann wrote: > Hi! > Many

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > Again, probably going over old ground but I can't find anywhere that it > has actually been stated for those that can't duplicate the problem, > that > TOPFOLDER="$(cygpath d:/)/Cygwin-XFree86" > hangs, but > cygpath d:/ > doesn't hang?

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:19:14AM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > >All, > >As a side note, I have 11 copies of that DLL (java dev and runtime, Visual >Studio/Source Safe, ...) on my system, but only the system32 one is in my >normal path. > >Someone mentioned something about possible issues to do

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > >Again, probably going over old ground but I can't find anywhere that it has >actually been stated for those that can't duplicate the problem, that > > TOPFOLDER="$(cygpath d:/)/Cygwin-XFree86" > >hangs, but > > cygpath

Re: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:49:18PM -0500, Brian Ford wrote: >I don't know how this communication works when bash is starting a >non-Cygwin process, though. The cygwin stub stays around until the non-cygwin process exits in this case. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
Again, probably going over old ground but I can't find anywhere that it has actually been stated for those that can't duplicate the problem, that TOPFOLDER="$(cygpath d:/)/Cygwin-XFree86" hangs, but cygpath d:/ doesn't hang? As Brian has noted, Executing the binary with '< /d

Re: Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Paul Bezzam wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone please point me how to run Cygwin programs(like Perl) from DOS > commad line under Windows? > Make sure the DOS path to /cygwin/bin is in your path to find cygwin1.dll. Use DOS path to Cygwin perl. What doesn't work? -- Brian Ford

Cygwin on DOS

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Hello, Can anyone please point me how to run Cygwin programs(like Perl) from DOS commad line under Windows? Thanks. Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > > > i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. > > > hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows.

Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Suresh Venkatasubramanian
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > > > i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. > > hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows. > > > Really? I thought that all Nvidia cards capable of

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
Well, as the doctor says, "If it hurts, don't do that". I think the best suggestion right now is just to run setup from a bash shell. Then all is fine. Well, at least if you haven't already started the other way. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I thought this might be useful on

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > OK, so I tried a lot of things already tried, and at least one thing that > hadn't been tried ;). I must admit I haven't followed everything said in > the threads so didn't realise we already knew cygpath wasn't actually > starting. > No problem here.

Re: Cygwin Setup 99% (fwd)

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
I thought this might be useful on the main Cygwin list as well... Igor -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:15:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 99% Open a bash shell and run "kill -9 `ps -s|gr

Re: how do I use two versions of cygwin on one machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Jim Perkins
It works now?? It was four weeks ago when I discovered this problem. Today I installed the latest cygwin so that I could investigate the problem in depth. Now everything works fine? Don't know why and I not going to worry about it. FWIW I'm running 1.5.5 now and I was having problems with 1.3.

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
All, OK, so I tried a lot of things already tried, and at least one thing that hadn't been tried ;). I must admit I haven't followed everything said in the threads so didn't realise we already knew cygpath wasn't actually starting. So, getting this straight in my own head. Setup runs normally.

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >Brian Ford wrote: > > > > There will be no ouput unless main calls foo, right? > > > > > > Actually, if the DLL was loaded, there should be output even if f

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > >On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: > >> A list of active threads is maintained. A thread calling moncontrol(1) gets > >> put in the list. When a call to SuspendThread fails, the thread is assumed > >> to be defunct and taken o

Re: possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:50 PM 10/15/2003, Sebastian Hoffmann you wrote: >Hi! >I apologize if this question is already covered somewhere else, but I didn't find >anything with a simple search of the mailing list... I'm of course also happy for >pointers to answers to be found somewhere else... Just covered last w

Re: cygwin on ext2

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:55:13PM -0400, e-bone wrote: > Just curious, > has anyone tried to run cygwin on an ext2 partition using > one of the ext2 filesystem drivers available for windows ? > > like the one from paragon e.g. > > i imagine there is nothing to gain, since cygwin was designed for

Re: possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Sebastian Hoffmann wrote: > Hi! > I apologize if this question is already covered somewhere else, but I > didn't find anything with a simple search of the mailing list... I'm > of course also happy for pointers to answers to be found somewhere > else... It's been covered, but

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:50 PM 10/15/2003, Micha Nelissen you wrote: >Larry Hall wrote: > >>At 11:45 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: >> >>>On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >>> Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it *attached*, not enclosed.

Re: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Brian Ford wrote: > > > There will be no ouput unless main calls foo, right? > > > > Actually, if the DLL was loaded, there should be output even if foo isn't > > called... > > > Just linking to it causes a l

cygwin on ext2

2003-10-15 Thread e-bone
Just curious, has anyone tried to run cygwin on an ext2 partition using one of the ext2 filesystem drivers available for windows ? like the one from paragon e.g. i imagine there is nothing to gain, since cygwin was designed for fat/ntfs, but i thought maybe extra functionality could be provided i

possible to copy whole cygwin folder to different machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Sebastian Hoffmann
Hi! I apologize if this question is already covered somewhere else, but I didn't find anything with a simple search of the mailing list... I'm of course also happy for pointers to answers to be found somewhere else... (Possibly naive) question: Is it possible to copy a whole cygwin installatio

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Micha Nelissen
Larry Hall wrote: At 11:45 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer 'cygcheck -srv'. Larry, it *is* attached. Not for me

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:45 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >> Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it >> *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer 'cygcheck -srv'. > >Larry, it *is* attached. Not for me and not in

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
I think you're in a time warp Steve. Most of this has already been discovered/presented. On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Steve Fairbairn wrote: > OK, again with simple tests... I've added a printf to the very start of > main in cygpath.cc... [snip] > Which implies main isn't even being reached. > We alrea

Re: VC++ and Perl

2003-10-15 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:46:27AM -0400, Paul Bezzam wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a C program calling a Perl module running successfully under > Cygwin. Can I use VC++ environment to call this Perl? Dunno and AFAICT it's off-topic here. If you want to do anything with MSVC, ask a MSVC-relat

Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote: > i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. > hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows. > Really? I thought that all Nvidia cards capable of pixel/vertex shaders had Linux driver support. > N

VC++ and Perl

2003-10-15 Thread Paul Bezzam
Hello all, I have a C program calling a Perl module running successfully under Cygwin. Can I use VC++ environment to call this Perl? Thanks. Paul -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

Re: setreuid

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:52:12PM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use tftp-hpa. Why does setreuid(1012, 1012) fail with > EPERM? Should I have any special privileges? Yes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Dev

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:31:50AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > Actually, when we say please attach the cygcheck output, we want it > *attached*, not enclosed. We also prefer 'cygcheck -srv'. Larry, it *is* attached. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygw

Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs

2003-10-15 Thread Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Hi, I was perusing the cygwin mailing lists and was wondering if you could help me with a cygwin/opengl question. i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers. hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows. Now, from what i understand, cygwin allows me

Re: Accessing files under rsync-process

2003-10-15 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, L.-I. Porges wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed Cygwin on a WindowsNT-machine and it works fine. > Now I want to transfer files using rsync to a Linux-machine. This > also works quite well. There's only one problem, that I am not > able to access some of the files and director

Re: Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:05 AM 10/15/2003, a12 you wrote: >Hello, > >I have just installed Cygwin and ssh. >ssh is working as expected, except when I terminate the >connection, I get the following output: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ exit >Connection to rdb closed. >\[\033]0;\w\007 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\03[0m\] > >

Re: Accessing files under rsync-process

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:22 AM 10/15/2003, L.-I. Porges you wrote: >Hello, > >I've installed Cygwin on a WindowsNT-machine and it works fine. >Now I want to transfer files using rsync to a Linux-machine. This >also works quite well. There's only one problem, that I am not >able to access some of the files and directo

Re: sshd

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:26 AM 10/15/2003, e-bone you wrote: >Anyone have any idea why I might be getting the following error when >trying to start up the sshd: > >The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic >link library cygwin1.dll > >I don't think this is a permissions problem. > >It s

Re: sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:22 AM 10/15/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: >On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:08:47AM -0400, Fred Ma wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I followed the procedure of setting up sshd: >> http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html >> >> I launch the sshd with an account that is part of >> the administrat

Re: 'bison' error, possibly installation related

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Daniel Edwards wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting the following error when i'm running the following bison > command > > bison -yd -r all -p _NPropMgr prop_parser.y > > Signal 6 > *** Error code 134 > > However, I've recently moved the cygwin installation and remounted and I > th

RE: system() refuses to work!!! HELP

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Chris January wrote: > > It did not work. Will it be that I found a bug??? How much luck I > > have.. :-) > > It follows the source. that program does not do anything of > > important! It is > > alone a test. > > > > what we most can do? > > > > I changed the command for "DIR"

little correction

2003-10-15 Thread L.-I. Porges
There is a little mistake in the two passwd-lines I've sent you some minutes ago. Here are the right ones: Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:Administrator,U-WEBCAT1\Administrator,S-1-5-21-15...-18..-91...-500:/home/Administrator:/bin/bash Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:10500:10513:Ad

sshd

2003-10-15 Thread e-bone
Anyone have any idea why I might be getting the following error when trying to start up the sshd: The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll I don't think this is a permissions problem. It should start automatically at boot as the "Local Sys

Accessing files under rsync-process

2003-10-15 Thread L.-I. Porges
Hello, I've installed Cygwin on a WindowsNT-machine and it works fine. Now I want to transfer files using rsync to a Linux-machine. This also works quite well. There's only one problem, that I am not able to access some of the files and directories using rsync. A 'ls -l' shows me in such cases, th

Re: Cygwin installer & resizable windows

2003-10-15 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Eljay, Please don't send personal e-mail with Cygwin questions unless specifically requested. All Cygwin-related inquiries should go to the appropriate list (in this case, ). This way you get access to more expertise than any one person can provide, and your question and the answers to it end up

'bison' error, possibly installation related

2003-10-15 Thread Daniel Edwards
Hello, I'm getting the following error when i'm running the following bison command bison -yd -r all -p _NPropMgr prop_parser.y Signal 6 *** Error code 134 However, I've recently moved the cygwin installation and remounted and I think this is the real problem as I can make the problem go away

RE: Daylight saving bug in winsup/times.cc

2003-10-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Vanlerberghe Ignace wrote on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 3:10 PM: >> We are using an old versio of cygwin : uname -a = > CYGWIN32_NT NTDATAKOR 5.0 17.6 i686 >> >> Now we are dealing with a daylight saving problem because the time >> from the NT-server must be correct for our application. >> >>

RE: setup hangs during postinstall

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
OK, again with simple tests... I've added a printf to the very start of main in cygpath.cc... --- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/postinstall $ ./setup_from_win.sh + CYGWIN_DEBUG=/bin/cygpath + set CYGWIN_SLEEP=2 + echo -e 'CYGWIN_DEBUG=/bin/cygpath\tCYGWIN_SLEEP=' CYGWIN_DEBUG=/bin/cygpath

Daylight saving bug in winsup/times.cc

2003-10-15 Thread Vanlerberghe Ignace
> Hello, > > We are using an old versio of cygwin : uname -a = CYGWIN32_NT NTDATAKOR 5.0 17.6 > i686 > > Now we are dealing with a daylight saving problem because the time from the > NT-server must be correct for our application. > > Since the 5 th october there is a difference of one hour

Re: how do I use two versions of cygwin on one machine?

2003-10-15 Thread Jim Perkins
Your more generic questions needs a more specific answer. I am using cygwin to cross compile the real-time program for a PPC based single board computer. The OS for the SBC is eCos. Using the most recent version of cygwin I CAN compile the real-time program but it does will not execute on the SB

Unexpected output on ssh exit

2003-10-15 Thread a12
Hello, I have just installed Cygwin and ssh. ssh is working as expected, except when I terminate the connection, I get the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ exit Connection to rdb closed. \[\033]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\03[0m\] As far as I can understand the output is supposed

setreuid

2003-10-15 Thread Baurjan Ismagulov
Hello, I'm trying to use tftp-hpa. Why does setreuid(1012, 1012) fail with EPERM? Should I have any special privileges? Cygwin 1.3.22-dontuse-21 running on a Windows XP 5.1.2600 (system utility in control panel says "version 2002", whatever this means). I'm user ibr (member of Administrators), 10

Re: sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:08:47AM -0400, Fred Ma wrote: > Hello, > > I followed the procedure of setting up sshd: > http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html > > I launch the sshd with an account that is part of > the administrator group (WinXP). One peculiarity > about this account is t

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 05:57:31PM +0800, peter garrone wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > >On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: > >> A list of active threads is maintained. A thread calling moncontrol(1) gets > >> put in the list. When a call to SuspendThread fails, the thread is assumed > >> to be

RE: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Fairbairn > Sent: 15 October 2003 09:19 > Subject: RE: cygpath hangings > > I ran this first with my normal bash shell, renamed the > output, and then ran > it again from within setup. > > I am attaching the 2 files as they are as well because of the

Re: Is multithreaded profiling on cygwin possible?

2003-10-15 Thread peter garrone
Brian Ford wrote: > >On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, peter garrone wrote: > >> A list of active threads is maintained. A thread calling moncontrol(1) gets >> put in the list. When a call to SuspendThread fails, the thread is assumed >> to be defunct and taken off the list. >> >Seems reasonable. > >I guess I

Odd error message from cp and mv when omitting .exe suffix

2003-10-15 Thread Dr.D.J.Picton
I have noticed an oddity in the behaviour of the cp command. It gives an incorrect error message when I try to copy an .exe file but refer to it without the .exe suffix: cp calc /usr/local/bin/calc.new This produces the incorrect message: cp: calc and /usr/local/bin/calc.new are the same file.

Re: various sundry things

2003-10-15 Thread Doug VanLeuven
Edward Peschko wrote: You've got to understand something. When I come across a project and evaluate it for usability, I take about a half an hour with the manual and FAQ to see if I can get it off the bat. Best is if I don't have to spend *any* time with the manual. I have to bite the hook on thi

Re: Errors when trying to access /dev/null

2003-10-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:21:37AM -0400, Sandy Pyke wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Cygwin and I've run across a problem. I have installed Cygwin on > two different Windows XP Pro machines and one is working fine and the other > is not. On both machines I did a Default installation plus some

sshd only allows connection to local accounts

2003-10-15 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I followed the procedure of setting up sshd: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html I launch the sshd with an account that is part of the administrator group (WinXP). One peculiarity about this account is that it is not a local account i.e. when I log into Windows, I specify a d

RE: system() refuses to work!!! HELP

2003-10-15 Thread Chris January
> It did not work. Will it be that I found a bug??? How much luck I > have.. :-) > It follows the source. that program does not do anything of > important! It is > alone a test. > > what we most can do? > > I changed the command for "DIR" who list the directories of the > windows just > to facilita

RE: cygpath hangings

2003-10-15 Thread Steve Fairbairn
All, As a side note, I have 11 copies of that DLL (java dev and runtime, Visual Studio/Source Safe, ...) on my system, but only the system32 one is in my normal path. Someone mentioned something about possible issues to do with the path being different, so I thought I'd run a quick test. --- $

Accessibility issues

2003-10-15 Thread Saqib Shaikh
Hi I am a blind computer user, and like many other bvlind people really would like to use Cygwin. However the package selection part of the setup.exe program is not accessible with screen reading programs. The problem is that it uses some kind of custom control which you can't navigate with the