Regarding error which i am facing..cygpath: error converting : --filename too long

2005-04-05 Thread basuki dubey
hi all, i have been struggling with this error which i am facing..cygpath: error converting : --filename too long ...could any body help me how to get rid of this error... Please give me the solution for this problem .. i am working on cygwin on windows xp platform.. Yours sincerely Basuki

Re: Overriding the default HOME priority settings

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Pat Cahalan wrote: IIRC $HOME is set in /etc/profile. You can easily change /etc/profile to do what you like. What I used to do is make one /etc/profile then everybody symlinked to it. Unfortunately, that won't work for us here, since Cygwin is primarily used by CS people who want a UNIX enviro

Re: Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-05 Thread Reini Urban
Eric Blake schrieb: ... Below is the table of how I think ln(1) ought to behave (I'm open to suggestions if others think differently). Where ln(1) does not actually behave this way, I am open to help in patching coreutils to provide the desired functionality. Hopefully my webmail interface didn't

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-05 Thread Greg Kempe
On Apr 5, 2005 4:54 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Kempe wrote: > > > I would guess 513 is being rejected as a group ID. Does cygwin create > > the None group or is it a built-in? > > It's a built-in group, and should be in your /etc/group file. It's there. $ id uid=1005(Gr

RE: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-05 Thread Michael L. Metts
o: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot? Yes, cygwin1-20050405.dll works for my 2 PCs. Thanks. Lester :The latest cygwin snapshot at: : :http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ : :should fix the startup problems that some people were seeing. I'd :appreciate feed

Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-05 Thread Lester Ingber
Yes, cygwin1-20050405.dll works for my 2 PCs. Thanks. Lester :The latest cygwin snapshot at: : :http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ : :should fix the startup problems that some people were seeing. I'd :appreciate feedback on that fact so that we can get a new release :out quickly. : :Please tr

Re: perl, cygwin or caffeine

2005-04-05 Thread beau
It was the caffeine; I didn't want to assign , I wanted to assign from @ARGV. Oi. Sorry for the noise. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: perl, cygwin or caffeine

2005-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, beau wrote: > Not sure where the problem is, and am not having luck with the > archives. I've got a little dummy script > > <--begin quoted--> > #!/usr/bin/perl > > $foo = ; > > print $foo . "\n"; > <--end quoted> > > It just sits and spins until I kill it. I tried "export >

Re: perl, cygwin or caffeine

2005-04-05 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 06:43:06PM -0700, beau wrote: > Not sure where the problem is, and am not having luck with the > archives. I've got a little dummy script > > <--begin quoted--> > #!/usr/bin/perl > > $foo = ; > > print $foo . "\n"; > <--end quoted> > > It just sits and spins until I kil

perl, cygwin or caffeine

2005-04-05 Thread beau
Not sure where the problem is, and am not having luck with the archives. I've got a little dummy script <--begin quoted--> #!/usr/bin/perl $foo = ; print $foo . "\n"; <--end quoted> It just sits and spins until I kill it. I tried "export PERLIO=perlio" in my .bashrc, but maybe that just displ

Re: libnet-pcap-perl ??

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Dessent
"Jacob Lane, MCP" wrote: > Anyone ever used libnet-pcap-perl under Cygwin? I searched > http://cygwin.com/packages/ but got nothing. I have Perl installed, but > assume that I have to compile this lib myself. It won't work without a lot of fussing. It's not the perl module that's at issue, it's

Re: perldoc

2005-04-05 Thread beau
On Apr 5, 2005 2:17 PM, Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > export PERLDOC_PAGER="less -+C -e -isrR" You da man; thanks. Speaking of man, I read the less manpage so as to actually understand the options you've picked. Rock on. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Re: new to cygwin: where do i get...?

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Dessent
geekleaf wrote: > I am new to this list and to cygwin so please excuse some basic questions... > I installed cygwin from setup.exe from the main cygwin.org site but noticed > that many commands are missing -- not surprising -- what is the best way to > populate my various bins? where do i get the

Re: cygwin install problem

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Dessent
wangtie wrote: > i download all file needed in cygwin webpage. > > and make a iso ,so our institute can use it easily. > > but to my surprise , during installation in local , it seems nothing wrong. > > but it doesn't run at all > > when i click the shortcut on desktop, a dos shell begin,and s

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:52:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The 2005-04-05 snapshot may fix this problem. It is being generated now. > > > >I just replaced /bin/cygwin1.dll (~1.2M) with the snapshot (more than 8M?). > > The DLL is reported as 1,944 Kb on t

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Greg Kempe wrote: > I would guess 513 is being rejected as a group ID. Does cygwin create > the None group or is it a built-in? It's a built-in group, and should be in your /etc/group file. $ id uid=1003(brian) gid=513(None) groups=0(root),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),1004(Debugger U

Re: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-05 Thread Rick Rankin
--- Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest cygwin snapshot at: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > should fix the startup problems that some people were seeing. I'd > appreciate feedback on that fact so that we can get a new release > out quickly. > > Please try the snapsh

Re: Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-05 Thread Eric Blake
> This seems to have happened with today's upgrade to coreutils and > possibly with the recent upgrade to tetex. I am not certain whether > anything is broken, but I am certain that things are different. It was not today's upgrade to coreutils (on a machine still running coreutils-5.3.0-3, the /bi

RE: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-05 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Starts for me. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:24 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot? > > The latest

Re: Overriding the default HOME priority settings

2005-04-05 Thread Pat Cahalan
IIRC $HOME is set in /etc/profile. You can easily change /etc/profile to do what you like. What I used to do is make one /etc/profile then everybody symlinked to it. Unfortunately, that won't work for us here, since Cygwin is primarily used by CS people who want a UNIX environment on their laptop,

libnet-pcap-perl ??

2005-04-05 Thread Jacob Lane, MCP
All, Anyone ever used libnet-pcap-perl under Cygwin? I searched http://cygwin.com/packages/ but got nothing. I have Perl installed, but assume that I have to compile this lib myself. Anyone have hints or suggestions? Thanks, Jake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-s

Re: Overriding the default HOME priority settings

2005-04-05 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Pat Cahalan wrote: From the Cygwin FAQ: When starting Cygwin from Windows, `HOME' is determined as follows in order of decreasing priority: 1. `HOME' from the Windows environment, translated to POSIX form. > 2. The entry in /etc/passwd > 3. `HOMEDRIVE' and `HOMEPATH' from the Windows environment >

cygwin startup problems fixed by latest snapshot?

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
The latest cygwin snapshot at: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ should fix the startup problems that some people were seeing. I'd appreciate feedback on that fact so that we can get a new release out quickly. Please try the snapshot. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Overriding the default HOME priority settings

2005-04-05 Thread Pat Cahalan
From the Cygwin FAQ: When starting Cygwin from Windows, `HOME' is determined as follows in order of decreasing priority: 1. `HOME' from the Windows environment, translated to POSIX form. > 2. The entry in /etc/passwd > 3. `HOMEDRIVE' and `HOMEPATH' from the Windows environment > 4. / For reasons ve

Re: perldoc

2005-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, beau wrote: > Anyone else having trouble with perldoc? I've got perl 5.8.6-4; > trying perldoc perldoc in rxvt. What I get is: > > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > > with "ESC" reversed. > > Don't even know where to start on this; as always, all help appreciated. export PERLDOC_PAGER="les

Re: sed and searches for $

2005-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, mitch gart wrote: > It seems like sed works differently when searching for end-of-line ($) > depending if it's launched from a DOS prompt or from inside a shell > prompt. > [snip] > sed -n -e /\\$/= junk > [snip] > I've been pretty mystefied by this but I'm guessing the reas

perldoc

2005-04-05 Thread beau
Anyone else having trouble with perldoc? I've got perl 5.8.6-4; trying perldoc perldoc in rxvt. What I get is: ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m with "ESC" reversed. Don't even know where to start on this; as always, all help appreciated. beau -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simpl

sed and searches for $

2005-04-05 Thread mitch gart
It seems like sed works differently when searching for end-of-line ($) depending if it's launched from a DOS prompt or from inside a shell prompt. For example if I have a file named junk which contains 1 line hello\ ( \ is the last character of the line.) The command sed -n -e /\\$/= junk

Unusual new look to symlinks to executables

2005-04-05 Thread fergus
This seems to have happened with today's upgrade to coreutils and possibly with the recent upgrade to tetex. I am not certain whether anything is broken, but I am certain that things are different. Previously in Cygwin: Links to executables showed the full name including the .exe extension, as in

Re: req. pointer to howto

2005-04-05 Thread beau
On Apr 4, 2005 9:31 PM, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The 3.0.0-2 > packages now work, but if you genuinely want to go back Thanks for the instructions. I went with 3.0.0-2, but I reckon the time will come when it'll be good to have my head around how to install a legacy package from l

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-05 Thread Greg Kempe
On Apr 5, 2005 6:37 AM, Joe Buehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >>Failed none for Greg from 127.0.0.1 port 1202 ssh2 > >>debug1: userauth-request for user Greg service ssh-connection method > >>publickey > >>debug1: attempt 1 failures 1 > >>debug2: input_userauth_requ

Re: RFC: Fix partial NaN-parsing problem [was RE: sscanf problem]

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Johnston
Patch checked in. Thanks. -- Jeff J. Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 04 April 2005 19:07 Original Message From: Dave Korn Sent: 04 April 2005 18:51 Original Message From: Michael Hines Sent: 04 April 2005 19:43 The following program prints i=1 x=0

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:15:08AM -0400, TX wrote: >I left out some observations in my previous post. After I launch >XEmacs and click the "spell" button on the menu bar, the error message >box will immediately appear. If I click "OK" to terminate the program, >XEmacs hangs. I have to click to

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, TX wrote: > Hi > This is what I did: 1) I close all cygwin apps. 2) I downloaded > cygwin1-20050405.dll.bz2 and unzip it. 3) I rename its unzipped version > to "cygwin1.dll". 4) I move this "cygwin1.dll" to "C:\cygwin\bin". > >

RE: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: TX >Sent: 05 April 2005 16:43 > Hi > This is what I did: 1) I close all cygwin apps. 2) I downloaded > cygwin1-20050405.dll.bz2 and unzip it. 3) I rename its unzipped version to > "cygwin1.dll". 4) I move this "cygwin1.dll" to

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread TX
Hi This is what I did: 1) I close all cygwin apps. 2) I downloaded cygwin1-20050405.dll.bz2 and unzip it. 3) I rename its unzipped version to "cygwin1.dll". 4) I move this "cygwin1.dll" to "C:\cygwin\bin". Attached is the cygcheck.out. It reports the DLL as 1.5.15 bu

RE: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Christopher Faylor >Sent: 05 April 2005 16:28 > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:52:45AM -0400, xiet wrote: > The 2005-04-05 snapshot may fix this problem. It is being generated > now. I ju

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:52:45AM -0400, xiet wrote: The 2005-04-05 snapshot may fix this problem. It is being generated now. >>> >>>I just replaced /bin/cygwin1.dll (~1.2M) with the snapshot (more than >>>8M?). >> >>The DLL is

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread TX
Hi I left out some observations in my previous post. After I launch XEmacs and click the "spell" button on the menu bar, the error message box will immediately appear. If I click "OK" to terminate the program, XEmacs hangs. I have to click to close the XEmacs window. The normal Ctrl-XC won't work.

RE: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Christopher Faylor >Sent: 05 April 2005 16:06 > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:52:45AM -0400, xiet wrote: >>> The 2005-04-05 snapshot may fix this problem. It is being generated >>> now. >> >> I just replaced /bin/cygwin1.dll (~1.2M) with the snapshot (more than >> 8

Re: XEmacs+aspell failed on cygwin 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:52:45AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The 2005-04-05 snapshot may fix this problem. It is being generated now. > >I just replaced /bin/cygwin1.dll (~1.2M) with the snapshot (more than 8M?). The DLL is reported as 1,944 Kb on the web page. >cygcheck says the snapsh

runtime error 216 at [various] after update to 1.5.14-1

2005-04-05 Thread Michael L. Metts
I attempted last night to update (whatever I had) to 1.5.14-1 the installation would not complete complaining right at the end of memory faults 0x610baeda was consistently mentioned on repeated attempts. the initial error also seemed to be consistently associated with an the installers attempts to

Re: Executing a shell script from within Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Danilo Turina wrote: > Marchioni Francesco wrote: > > Hi cygwin users, > > I wonder if it's possible to execute a unix shell script from inside > > the windows command prompt using cygwin. Maybe there's an utility in > > cygwin which enables execution of shells from windows ?

Re: 1.5.14: strange sshd error (openssh-3.9p1-2)

2005-04-05 Thread Joe Buehler
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Failed none for Greg from 127.0.0.1 port 1202 ssh2 debug1: userauth-request for user Greg service ssh-connection method publickey debug1: attempt 1 failures 1 debug2: input_userauth_request: try method publickey debug1: test whether pkalg/pkblob are acceptable debug1: tempor

Re: sshd problems

2005-04-05 Thread John R Larsen
The service isn't running properly. That's why you can't connect. Look in /var/log/sshd.log to see what error messages may be there. Next, use Windows task manager to kill the cygrunsrv process and the sshd process. Use this command to verify that the process is stopped: cygrunsrv -Q sshd

cdtest with -Ur problem in binutils testsuite under cygwin

2005-04-05 Thread Christian Joensson
Hi all. Just a quick question here... when running the binutils testsuite, under cygwin, I get a problem with the ld test "cdtest with -Ur".. this is indeed not a new problem... It's reported at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46 May I ask if anyone here have comments on this PR?

Re: Executing a shell script from within Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Danilo Turina
Marchioni Francesco wrote: > Hi cygwin users, > I wonder if it's possible to execute a unix shell script from inside > the windows command prompt using cygwin. Maybe there's an utility in cygwin > which > enables execution of shells from windows ? > Thanks in advance > Francesco > maybe: C:\>bash

Re: sshd problems

2005-04-05 Thread giuseppe
> After you ran the ssh-host-config script, did you start the service with: > > cygrunsrv -S sshd > > If not, the service isn't running yet and you won't be able to connect. thanks for answering, well I tryed and that's the answer: $ cygrunsrv -S sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: Qu

Executing a shell script from within Windows

2005-04-05 Thread Marchioni Francesco
Hi cygwin users, I wonder if it's possible to execute a unix shell script from inside the windows command prompt using cygwin. Maybe there's an utility in cygwin which enables execution of shells from windows ? Thanks in advance Francesco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

new to cygwin: where do i get...?

2005-04-05 Thread geekleaf
Greetings all: I am new to this list and to cygwin so please excuse some basic questions... I installed cygwin from setup.exe from the main cygwin.org site but noticed that many commands are missing -- not surprising -- what is the best way to populate my various bins? where do i get the commands