Re: cp.exe bug

Mark Blackburn wrote: Ross Boulet wrote: [...] Above is the makefile which produced the error. The cause seems to be cp's handling of a .exe file. A simple way to get what I now see as a misleading error message from cp is: $ touch foo.exe $ cp foo bar# note the absence of the .exe exte

Re: cp.exe bug

Ross Boulet wrote: [...] Above is the makefile which produced the error. The cause seems to be cp's handling of a .exe file. A simple way to get what I now see as a misleading error message from cp is: $ touch foo.exe $ cp foo bar# note the absence of the .exe extension cp: `foo' and `bar'

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

Unless you set your "reply-to", generally you'll see two copies of every reply, since you'll get one copy to you and one from the list. Chris's first two posts were in response to my replies and I set my "reply-to" to the list. If you're not subscribed to the list, you wouldn't see these mess

Bug in GNU Emacs...

When I open the attached file (main.cpp) using "emacs main.cpp" (this works without loading my ".emacs" too) on i686-pc-cygwin (Cygwin 1.5.5 on Windows XP Home 5.1.2600 SP1), go to the beginning of any line that is not already flush left, and press the TAB key, the line becomes flush left. I am us

ipcs shows no output

Hi, I have installed latest release of Cygwin on my Windows XP machine. I wrote a program to create a semaphore. When I run it on Unix and do ipcs I can see this entry in the ipcs The same program I port to cygwin, and I see 0 ipc's I have my ipc-daemon2 and cygserver both running, besides CYGWI

updatedb reports error in non-existant /etc/mtab (solution)

In the interest of having the answer to this problem in the searchable archives, here is the partial original (unanswered as far as I can google) Aug 6 2002 question: >I'm trying to run updatedb and keep getting this error message: > > $ updatedb > /usr/bin/find: error in /etc/mtab: /usr/X11R6/l

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

Welcome to a night of cygwin mailing list misconceptions! On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:09:55AM +, Jason Winter wrote: >>Are you talking about the values in mt_gstat? See below. > >This mailing list rejects emails that contain source code (which isn't >'attached' in a different file) so I can't

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

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Jason Winter wrote: > [snip] > This mailing list rejects emails that contain source code (which isn't > 'attached' in a different file) so I can't easily show you what I mean: > [snip] Igor --

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

> I don't see how it could be worthwhile since cygwin doesn't use posix > threads or even posix mutexes under the hood. Sorry for my stupidity. The tools are probably very OS specific anyway. Just trying to help. Oh well. Pete -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P

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

Hi Corinna, Are you talking about the values in mt_gstat? See below. This mailing list rejects emails that contain source code (which isn't 'attached' in a different file) so I can't easily show you what I mean: Function 'tape_status' in 'fhandler_tape.cc' uses 'not' mt_blkno to see if it's pa

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:33:52PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're > >a spammer. :-( > > You are confused. There is nothing which says that you may not cc another list > when sending email to th

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:33:52PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're >a spammer. :-( You are confused. There is nothing which says that you may not cc another list when sending email to the cygwin list. Of course that is accep

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 04:36:56PM -0800, Peter J. Stieber wrote: >If you think it's worth it, I could take a stab at building it for you. I don't see how it could be worthwhile since cygwin doesn't use posix threads or even posix mutexes under the hood. -- Christopher Faylor Cygwin Project Leader

cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're a spammer. :-( I will now post to the cvs list and warn people not to Reply-All or they may be marked as spammers too. :-( luke -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cvs problem unde

Re: How do I reply?

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Ben Taylor wrote: > Nice mailing list! Glad I discovered it. > Just one problem - how do you reply to an existing message???!!! > Like on newsgroups??? You subscribe and then "Reply" to the message in your mailbox... :-) If you want to get a message sent before you subscribed

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

Oh right! OK, sorry - I didn't know there was a mailing list. I was under the impression that you just sent an email to cygwin and somebody at cygwin who knew the works picked it up, and it went on the mailing list so it came up in searches as a by-product of that. I thought that all message poster

How do I reply?

Nice mailing list! Glad I discovered it. Just one problem - how do you reply to an existing message???!!! Like on newsgroups??? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

That's strange... I got an email from Chris in addition to the ones I've been getting from you, but none of the previous ones including answers Chris says he's given got to me... don't the people who send mails to the list get replies, or do only the elite members or something? Sorry, I'm really co

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

> I wonder if there is a super-secret club out there somewhere that I can > now join having spent the last four months wrapping my head around > subtle multi-threaded race conditions. My wife has not quite picked up > on the fact that when I have a certain pained intense look on my face, > I'm rea

Re: Re: cvs repository not found

Thanks very much, Igor. The culprit was an old installation of cvsNT. I had shut down the cvsnt service, so thought that it must be executing the cygwin cvs, but it was still getting the nt version, and that's why it didn't know about /cvs. thanks, calvin -Original Message- From: Igor

xdvi - minor bug

Last line of the script reads: xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"} Should be: exec xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"} so that SIGNALS are sent to xdvi.bin and not xdvi script. Whizzytex for example, needs to send SIGUSR1 to xdvi.bin to ask it to reread the dvi file. Greg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

Re: cvs repository not found

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Calvin Smith wrote: > I am not able to get CVS working via ssh. The following illustrates my > problem. > > Logged into the server machine: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ cvs -d /cvs checkout foo > cvs checkout: Updating foo > U foo/testing > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ exit >

cvs repository not found

I am not able to get CVS working via ssh. The following illustrates my problem. Logged into the server machine: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cvs -d /cvs checkout foo cvs checkout: Updating foo U foo/testing -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ exit logout Connection to kilimanjaro closed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Deskt

Emacs bug?

These are tidings of great sorrow and melancholy, for ever since I upgraded X11 on my Cygwin workstation (about a week ago) I lost my reliable faithful friend, GNU Emacs, whose X11 version crashes often and unpredictably with segmentation fault (the "nox" version runs fine). I run Emacs and X11 se

Re: Re: Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Thanks for all the help, everybody. It was a domain permissions problem. I got added to the administrators group, and the command works now, and I can log in. Next problem is getting cvs working. I've seen a problem that others have had, but I didn't see a solution to, so I'll start a fresh thr

Re: ddate: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3170

"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > 'fortune'; 'wtf'; 'espdiff' from patchutils. None are Cygwin-specific. What about the western romance novel someone has been adding to in spawn.cc? ;-) -- J. Lambert. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: ddate: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3170

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, zzapper wrote: > > ddate > > Are there any other fun/spoof features in Cygwin/*nix? 'fortune'; 'wtf'; 'espdiff' from patchutils. None are Cygwin-specific. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[E

Re: ddate: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3170

> ddate Are there any other fun/spoof features in Cygwin/*nix? zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: cygpath --ignore problem

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:58:03PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >When cygpath is invoked with a --ignore (-i) option, it still prints "Try > >`cygpath --help' for more information." on missing input. Can I still > >send in trivial (essentially

Re: cygpath --ignore problem

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:58:03PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >When cygpath is invoked with a --ignore (-i) option, it still prints "Try >`cygpath --help' for more information." on missing input. Can I still >send in trivial (essentially one line) patches without a copyright >assignment? If

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OT ## RE: Difference between just having cygwin1.dll and running under cygw in

Thanks for answering one of my long-standing questions (re. the AT+T guy). You might consider replacing "Can't think of a witty .sigline today" with "I'm no relation to the AT+T guy.". :-) -Original Message- From: Dave Korn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:33

Re: Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Do you have write access to /etc/passwd & /etc/group with the (old) domain user account when you are running mkpasswd -d? Normally these files should not be world-wide writeable. Try 'mkpasswd -d' (without redirection) If this doesn't work either - happily ignore my comment :) If this does work th

Delphi + dbExpress + PostgreSQL (Cygwin)

Hello all, I am having the following problem: I have a application written in Delphi 6 than access PostgreSQL 7.4.1 database on Cygwin, via dbExpress driver from Vitavoom. I am able to compile the project but when i put it to run from the IDE or out of IDE, but with Delphi open, the applicatio

Re: Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Hm, you must have some weird server configuration on that end then. You shouldn't need to be more than a member of "Domian Users" (GID 10513) AFAICS. Certainly I can say it works for me. Larry At 03:07 PM 3/15/2004, you wrote: >Oops, I didn't think the first message got sent, so I sent anoth

Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

The password field in /etc/passwd is not used on NT/W2K/W2K3 Larry At 03:05 PM 3/15/2004, you wrote: >Thanks for the information. I tried to run mkpasswd, but got the following error >message: > >mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. > >Do I need to be logged i

Re: Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Oops, I didn't think the first message got sent, so I sent another with some more information. I did try running the command as a domain user, but I got the "Access Denied" error. Does this imply that I need to be something other than just a plain old user to execute the command? Something more

Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Thanks for the information. I tried to run mkpasswd, but got the following error message: mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. Do I need to be logged in as a domain administrator to execute this successfully? I tried the above as a local administrator, since I don'

Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

If the user you're trying to access the domain with is not a valid domain user, then you will have problems like this. You don't need to be the domain administrator to run 'mkpasswd' with '-d' but you will need to run it as a user that's a member of the domain. Larry At 02:43 PM 3/15/2004, yo

cygpath --ignore problem

When cygpath is invoked with a --ignore (-i) option, it still prints "Try `cygpath --help' for more information." on missing input. Can I still send in trivial (essentially one line) patches without a copyright assignment? If not, could this annoying issue be fixed before 1.5.8 is released? Than

Re: re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Thanks for the information. When I tried to run mkpasswd, I got the following error message: mkpasswd: [1326] Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. I looked in the man page and didn't see anything about using a username and password. Is this error message familiar to anyone? Do I ha

Re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

At 01:37 PM 3/15/2004, you wrote: >hi, > >I have not been able to find any information online or in the cygwin documentation on >how to get cygwin's sshd to do authentication using a windows domain controller. Does >anybody know if a) this is possible, Sure is. >and b) some good step-by-step

re: windows authentication for cygwin sshd

Calvin, You can update the /etc/passwd file and /etc/group file with the domain users and groups with the following command: cd /etc /usr/bin/mkpasswd -l -g -d > passwd /usr/bin/mkgroup -l -d > group net stop sshd && net start sshd Use 'man mkpasswd' & 'man mkgroup' for help. --Matt -- Uns

windows authentication for cygwin sshd

hi, I have not been able to find any information online or in the cygwin documentation on how to get cygwin's sshd to do authentication using a windows domain controller. Does anybody know if a) this is possible, and b) some good step-by-step resources for how to configure this? I've installed

Checking initialization in phread_mutexattr_init

Dear developers Dear Thomas As Thomas Pfaff has commented in previous messages, for example, http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01227.html, cygwin contains some code to check for an already initialized mutex attr and other pthread types. I would strongly recommed to remove those checks be

RE: cp.exe bug

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:50 AM > > > I cut more from my makefile and just use one symbolic in > > place of your BIN, OBJ, and FILE as follows: > > > > ### Even More Simple Makefile Example > > > > CC= gcc > >

sshd authentication question

Over time, we continue to experience intermittent sshd authentication problems in our environment. Every so often (~ 1.5% of the time, but enough to cause our automated tests to fail), admin privileges are not granted. Perhaps there is some setting in the /etc/sshd_config file that we need to

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:21:38PM -0500, Rolf Campbell wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now >>with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. >> >>I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my >>syst

Re: latest snapshot seems better wrt make -j hang problems

Christopher Faylor wrote: I have been running the "make -j" cygwin breaker for about ten hours now with no hangs, no segvs, and no strange error exits. I'm sure this is just because of the magical way in which I have my system set up but could anyone confirm or deny whether that this snapshot behav

Re: g++ 2.95.3 (FAQ alert)

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 06:03:05PM +0100, Luis Valent?n wrote: >Where can I find the gcc-g++ 2.95.3 cygwin package ? Cygwin used to offer gcc 2.95 but it is no longer available. Possibly it is available on old mirror out there somewhere but there is no official support in cygwin. Joshua/David, i

g++ 2.95.3

Where can I find the gcc-g++ 2.95.3 cygwin package ? Thanks. -- -- Luis Valentín [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

RE: Using gcc 3.3.3

At 02:32 AM 3/15/2004, you wrote: >Thanks >I tried building 3.3.3 using 3.3.1, which didn't work when doing 'make >bootstrap'. But then I did a successful 'make bootstrap' of 3.3.2 using >3.3.1. The bootstrapped 3.3.2 works fine, and claims to have been compiled >by itself not 3.3.1. Even -mno-cygw

Re: Using gcc 3.3.3

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 07:32:56AM -, Ben Taylor wrote: >I tried building 3.3.3 using 3.3.1, which didn't work when doing 'make >bootstrap'. But then I did a successful 'make bootstrap' of 3.3.2 >using 3.3.1. The bootstrapped 3.3.2 works fine, and claims to have >been compiled by itself not 3

Re: fork fix for Win64

Please do not send me private email with cygwin questions or observations. Instead, check out the project web page for links to available information. If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered. Information on

Re: WinXP Pro and PostgreSQL

Jason, On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 08:40:50PM -0500, Jason B. Alonso wrote: > I know this has appeared several times on this list, but it never > seems to be addressed with perfection... > > initializing pg_shadow... FATAL: /usr/bin/postgres: could not locate > postgres executable > > ... is a bug

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

On Mar 15 01:02, Jason Winter wrote: > 1/ Read buffer pointers are being reused by the write handler. Shouldn't happen anymore. > 2/ Possible drive-busy signal (in WinNT) leads to incomplete API result. I don't quite understand this one. What means "incomplete API result"? > - This means getti

perl_construct segfaults under cygwin

I'm seeing the call to perl_construct() segfault under cygwin. The same code works fine on linux. Here's the code: #include #include static PerlInterpreter *my_perl; int main() { my_perl = perl_alloc(); perl_construct(my_perl); printf("Hooray\n"); } The last 10 lines of

RE: cp.exe bug

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Ross Boulet > Sent: 14 March 2004 21:45 > I cut more from my makefile and just use one symbolic in > place of your BIN, OBJ, and FILE as follows: > > ### Even More Simple Makefile Example > > CC= gcc > > FILE= foo > > all: $(

Fw: 1.5.7-1: Apache/httpd will not start as service (yes, I read README)

Hello, I am running WindowsXP Home with all service packs applied. Cygwin 1.5.7-1. Attached is the output of cygcheck -s -v -r. Apache 1.3.29 as distributed with Cygwin 1.5.7-1 will not start as a service for me. I tried using Invoker.exe, which I found out about by googling, but it will not wo

ddate: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3170

Hi Ya It has been noticed that many of you have have still not set your PC Clock to ddate see >man ddate zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: