rsync over ssh hanging on connect

2005-03-05 Thread mgk
having trouble trying to connect from cygwin machine to linux machine running Fedora 3. when i run: $ rsync -vv -e ssh linux-machine: i get: opening connection using ssh linux-machine rsync --server --sender --vvr and then no further output (no password prompt). the task manager shows ssh.exe c

Re: CSAgent warning with setup.exe

2005-03-05 Thread Jean-Sebastien Trottier
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:52:46PM -, Max Bowsher wrote: > Will Parsons wrote: > >I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work. The IT > >department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now > >when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe "

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread Jean-Sebastien Trottier
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:55:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > > > It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is > > intended that when I use my file 'a' from my original example and do the > > following: > > copy a b > > that then:

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 06:55:12PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >I don't know enough about Cygwin history or internals to say why this is >the case. Someone who knows more about it would have to explain it. >And as you've seen it can lead to confusing situations. I'm not sure how an explanation w

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. However I don't quite understand this is > what one would want. I'll let someone else address most of your points except one: > It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is > intended that whe

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > It also seems inconsequent if what you say is truely correct and what is > intended that when I use my file 'a' from my original example and do the > following: > copy a b > that then: > diff ./a .\b > says that the files are completely different, wherea

Re: Bug cat 5.2.1. No \ supported

2005-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:13:52AM +0100, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: >When I executed the following command it failed: > >cat ..\..\diff\separateDirDiffs20050304\*.bat >cat: diffseparateDirDiffs20050304*.bat: No such file or directory The backslash character is a special character in UNIX shell

Bug cat 5.2.1. No \ supported

2005-03-05 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
When I executed the following command it failed: cat ..\..\diff\separateDirDiffs20050304\*.bat cat: diffseparateDirDiffs20050304*.bat: No such file or directory Replacing \ by / made it work. This violates the statements in the User's Guide that both separators will work. Output of: c

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
Thanks for the explanation. However I don't quite understand this is what one would want. With regard to paths I would expect one to want: A Windows or Posix style path is converted to one internal path format. After this conversion the behaviour is independent of whatever the original format was

RE: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

2005-03-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of imaginate > australiamail.com > Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 3:26 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write() > > > > > Brian Dessent wrote: > >

Error on make expat-1.95.8

2005-03-05 Thread Robert Mark Bram
Hi All! I am getting an error while trying to compile expat-1.95.8 I had this error first: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01686.html and implemented the solution suggested. However, when I tried make again, I got the following error: 12:19 PM /cygdrive/f/_oginals/cygwin/expat-1.95.8 $ m

Re: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
"imaginate australiamail.com" wrote: > > > > > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > > > If > you don't want that, then don't use textmode mounts. > > > > ...or open the file with O_BINARY. > > > > Mounting binary solves the problem - I wasn't aware of that functionality. > O_BINARY is probably not so por

Re: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

2005-03-05 Thread imaginate australiamail.com
> > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > If > you don't want that, then don't use textmode mounts. > > ...or open the file with O_BINARY. > Mounting binary solves the problem - I wasn't aware of that functionality. O_BINARY is probably not so portable so I'll steer clear of that. Cheers for the help.

Re: cron and cygwin

2005-03-05 Thread Ravi Ram
Larry Hall wrote: At 01:37 PM 3/5/2005, you wrote: I have setup cron services in cygwin and am trying to run a csh scriot using cron nad could not get it the script working. I can run the script as it is but when i launch it using cron it doesn't work. The script is in a samba share. crontab -

Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found

2005-03-05 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 11:21 AM 3/5/2005 -0800, John Kim wrote: >Phew, getting rid of "exim" user did the trick. (I had it in there because >I'm trying to set up Mailman to work with Exim. I was following what seemes >to be an outdated recipe. I just found newer instructions on exim.org.) > >Thanks to Igor Pechtchan

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread Dave
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > > --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > > > > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile > > > > for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh. > > > > > I don't recall

Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found

2005-03-05 Thread John Kim
Phew, getting rid of "exim" user did the trick. (I had it in there because I'm trying to set up Mailman to work with Exim. I was following what seemes to be an outdated recipe. I just found newer instructions on exim.org.) Thanks to Igor Pechtchanski and Pierre A. Humblet. Sorry I didn't send my

Re: cron and cygwin

2005-03-05 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:37 PM 3/5/2005, you wrote: >I have setup cron services in cygwin and am trying to run a csh scriot using >cron >nad could not get it the script working. I can run the script as it is but >when i >launch it using cron it doesn't work. The script is in a samba share. > > >crontab -e >

Re: Can't run Cygwin?

2005-03-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:53:54PM +0630, Gu Gu wrote: >I can't run Cygwin. I got an error like this: " The procedure entry >point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library >cygwin1.dll" >I hope I'll get a sloution. You have an older version of cygwin on your system. -- Unsubscr

cron and cygwin

2005-03-05 Thread Ravi Ram
I have setup cron services in cygwin and am trying to run a csh scriot using cron nad could not get it the script working. I can run the script as it is but when i launch it using cron it doesn't work. The script is in a samba share. crontab -e 13 10 * * *(/mnt/user/test/sw/cro

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > > > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile > > > for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh. > > > I don't recall if this was part of the discussion, but any particular > > r

Re: Can't run Cygwin?

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Gu Gu wrote: > I can't run Cygwin. I got an error like this: " The procedure entry > point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library > cygwin1.dll" > I hope I'll get a sloution. Go read http://cygwin.com/problems.html for details on how to report problems, specifically the part

Can't run Cygwin?

2005-03-05 Thread Gu Gu
I can't run Cygwin. I got an error like this: " The procedure entry point __getreent could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" I hope I'll get a sloution. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread Dave
--- "John Morrison (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, March 5, 2005 9:25 am, Dave said: > > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > >> > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile > >> > for zsh; /etc/csh.l

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have attached a cygcheck, though I am afraid it's rather large. As suspected, you have textmode mounts -- see Igor's response which was spot on. To summarize, using '\' as a path seperator bypasses all of Cygwin's processing since it signals a native windows path/filen

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread John Morrison (Cygwin)
On Sat, March 5, 2005 9:25 am, Dave said: > --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: >> > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile >> > for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh. > >> I don't recall if this was part of the discussion,

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

2005-03-05 Thread JPMCYAFVMHSL
Brian Dessent wrote: >Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: >> >> Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files, >> one with and one without a directory specifier: >> diff a someDir\b >> then all lines are reported as different. >> Whereas when both have a directory specifier: >> diff

Re: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: > If > you don't want that, then don't use textmode mounts. ...or open the file with O_BINARY. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread Dave
--- Jason Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mmmm. Leftovers. I'll clean that out in the next release. > > > >CHere didn't work because you either have an old or custom /etc/profile. > > I fell fowl of the customized /etc/profile too. I think it is worth a > note in the man page (or /usr/share/

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread Dave
--- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > > The cd occurs in /etc/profile for bash, ash, and pdksh; /etc/zprofile > > for zsh; /etc/csh.login for tcsh. > I don't recall if this was part of the discussion, but any particular > reason you're not doing this

Re: apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

2005-03-05 Thread Brian Dessent
"imaginate australiamail.com" wrote: > > I'm experiencing unexpected behaviour under cygwin that as far as I > know doesn't happen under linux. I don't have access to linux to > test at present. > > Some successful write()s to a file increment the file's position by > more than the count argumen

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

2005-03-05 Thread Jason Pearce
Mmmm. Leftovers. I'll clean that out in the next release. CHere didn't work because you either have an old or custom /etc/profile. I fell fowl of the customized /etc/profile too. I think it is worth a note in the man page (or /usr/share/doc/chere?) in next release. Regards, Jason -- Unsubscr

apparent bug: incorrect file position after write()

2005-03-05 Thread imaginate australiamail.com
I'm experiencing unexpected behaviour under cygwin that as far as I know doesn't happen under linux. I don't have access to linux to test at present. Some successful write()s to a file increment the file's position by more than the count argument. The extra byte(s) are added to the file's si