Re: Broken package selection for a full install

2004-03-06 Thread Daniel F. Dickinson
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Daniel, If you're willing to temporarily rename the existing installation root (and the registry keys) and reinstall from scratch, please post the /var/log/setup.log and /var/log/setup.log.full from an install session that exhibits the above problem. Note that /var/log/

[PATCH] Fix self-destructing Insight installation!

2004-03-06 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Korn > Sent: 05 March 2004 18:41 > To: 'insight' > And all of a sudden, I got this error message, and insight > refused to run. > > I've only managed to capture it in .PNG format, because it > was one of those windows that you can't copy+paste code

Re: A bit of history

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:59:30PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen > >> FWIW, related to history: >> >> There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for >> quite some >> time) >> a sister project to cygwin

Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:18:17AM +0700, David Garamond wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, hopefully, you are bunding postgresql + cygwin + whatever other binaries + *the sources to same* since this is a GPLed project, meaning that you have to provide sources for the binaries

RE: A bit of history

2004-03-06 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen > FWIW, related to history: > > There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for > quite some > time) > a sister project to cygwin here: > > http://www.geekgadgets.org That was the project

Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread David Garamond
Christopher Faylor wrote: Actually, hopefully, you are bunding postgresql + cygwin + whatever other binaries + *the sources to same* since this is a GPLed project, meaning that you have to provide sources for the binaries that you distribute as per the GPL. No source code is modified/recompiled. I'

Re: Cywin Setup application not able to maximise

2004-03-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Michael John wrote: > Hi, > > i'm using Cygwin for more than half a yeah now. Admittedly, i find it very > impractical not being allowed to resize, respectively maximize, the setup > application, because the tree of packages to install is much to large for the > window. > > Is

Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 07:36:16PM +0700, David Garamond wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>I'm trying to bundle postgresql + cygwin in a single distribution for my >>>clients. >> >>Actually, hopefully, you are bunding postgresql + cygwin + whatever other >>binaries + *the sources to same* since

Re: 256 colors for bash/rxvt-2.7.10-4 ?

2004-03-06 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Mikka (2004-03-06 14:04 +0100) > You wrote: >> Set the following values in .Xdefaults. >> >> Now we have defined 16 Colours out of 256. These 16 colours can now be >> used in rxvt refering to them by name(colorX) or number. > > Okay, building Rxvt*color references in .Xdefaults works fine. > How

Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread David Garamond
Brian Dessent wrote: Rather than creating c:\cygwin\tmp, can I make ipc-daemon2 put MultiFileMsg* and MultiFileShm* in some other place? You know you can mount /tmp to any directory, right? Since you presumably have a startup script to kick things off, why not just do something like the following,

RE: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
To mount /tmp in a "proper" way... Why not use "$TMP" or "$TEMP" as below? $ set | grep TMP TMP=/cygdrive/d/TEMP TMPDIR=/cygdrive/d/TEMP $ mount "$(cygpath -w $TMP)" "/tmp"<- HERE $ mount | grep TEMP d:\TEMP on /tmp type system (binmode) $ (sidenote: My D drive is an old 8GB drive, dedi

RE: A bit of history

2004-03-06 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
FWIW, related to history: There is ("was" in the sense that it has been very stale for quite some time) a sister project to cygwin here: http://www.geekgadgets.org I'm not aware of how this was related to cygwin, timewise - or otherwise. I know that the founder of this project was empl

Re: 256 colors for bash/rxvt-2.7.10-4 ?

2004-03-06 Thread Mikka
Hi Olaf, You wrote: > Set the following values in .Xdefaults. > [...] > > Now we have defined 16 Colours out of 256. These 16 colours can now be > used in rxvt refering to them by name(colorX) or number. Okay, building Rxvt*color references in .Xdefaults works fine. However, I can't find any hint

Re: Looking for a substitute to /usr/bin/mail

2004-03-06 Thread Robert R Schneck
Patrick Samson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a product which uses the command 'mail'. > I didn't find any /usr/bin/mail.exe in any > available package. > Does it mean that one have to install an email > package and do a cp or ln to the email client? > > The product just needs to do something l

Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread David Garamond
Christopher Faylor wrote: I'm trying to bundle postgresql + cygwin in a single distribution for my clients. Actually, hopefully, you are bunding postgresql + cygwin + whatever other binaries + *the sources to same* since this is a GPLed project, meaning that you have to provide sources for the bin

Re: Windows 2000 - starting Service

2004-03-06 Thread tobias . belch
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Re: Can ipc-daemon2 put its files in directory other than /tmp?

2004-03-06 Thread Brian Dessent
David Garamond wrote: > > I'm trying to bundle postgresql + cygwin in a single distribution for my > clients. The goal is that a user can just extract the .zip file and run > postgresql there (ipc-daemon2 + pg_ctl start; initdb need not be done > because a zipped 'virgin' data dir will also be pro

Re: read(): varblk tape records...(& Fix for : read())

2004-03-06 Thread Jason Winter
Hi Corinna, When you do get a working tape drive, here is an example of read making the next write 'go bad'... Fixed Blocks... which I don't use... (Use a parameter on testtape.exe to test both cases.) Jason. ps. Why did it get a protection-fault? maybe it's the cygwin1.dll snapshot, but I on