Re: DNS BIND package for cygwin

Brian Dessent wrote: > No, there isn't. But ISC offers win32 binaries of bind and the > associated command utilities (host, dig, rndc, ...) so the need for a > Cygwin version is rather slim. I think some people have reported > success building it out of the box, though, if the win32 version for

RE: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

At 06:10 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >> At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >> >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in >> >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate >> >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? >> >> Yes, this has come up

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> > Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is my old > > nemesis > > - The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee here... Yep, still doing > it, let's > > check if... "ACTIVESHIELD" HAS TURNED ITSELF ON AGAIN... > > > > ...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:04PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > Tom Rodman wrote: > > > wtouch() > > { > > local file=$1 > > CYGWIN=nontsec touch "$file" > > setacl -on "$(cygpath -aw "$file")" -ot file \ > > -actn setowner -ownr "n:Administrators;s:n" \ > > -actn setgroup -grp "n:

Re: DNS BIND package for cygwin

"Auteria Wally Winzer Jr." wrote: > > Is there a DNS/BIND package available for cygwin? No, there isn't. But ISC offers win32 binaries of bind and the associated command utilities (host, dig, rndc, ...) so the need for a Cygwin version is rather slim. I think some people have reported success b

DNS BIND package for cygwin

Is there a DNS/BIND package available for cygwin? Regards, Auteria W. Winzer Jr. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: bug in du

Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One possible fix is revisiting line 377 in src/du.c in CVS, which > currently skips hard links only if a file has multiple links. Sorry, I don't quite follow this. Don't all the directories in question have multiple links? Or, if you're talking about wal

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would

Tom Rodman wrote: > wtouch() > { > local file=$1 > CYGWIN=nontsec touch "$file" > setacl -on "$(cygpath -aw "$file")" -ot file \ > -actn setowner -ownr "n:Administrators;s:n" \ > -actn setgroup -grp "n:None;s:n" \ > -silent || echo $FUNCNAME:setacl failed > # see http://seta

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would

On Wed 5/18/05 16:18 CDT Tom Rodman wrote: > > $ CYGWIN=nontsec touch foo > > Thanks Brian, that should do it. Here's a function I plan to use: wtouch() { local file=$1 CYGWIN=nontsec touch "$file" setacl -on "$(cygpath -aw "$file")" -ot file \ -actn setowner -ownr "n:Administrators;s:

RE: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

> At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: > >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in > >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate > >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? > > Yes, this has come up before, though I couldn't find a > poi

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: > >> "all", downloading 190 *.bz2, but there's no libintl3-0.14.1-1.tar.bz2 to > >> be > >> found, and not even a gettext directory under release. Oddly enough, using > >> mirrors.kernel.org and ftp.sunsite.utk.edu I get 308 *.bz2, yet still no > >> libintl

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

Walter Bunch wrote: > cygcheck won't run, since it can't find cygintl-3.dll. You can grab the > installed.db at http://www1.chapman.edu/~bunch/installed.db > > The setup.exe came from sources.redhat.com/cygwin yesterday. Wow. You're missing ash. You're missing gettext. You're missing several

RE(Re): Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv

John, you mailed to Igor that there will be a new release of base-files. Will it fix also /etc/profile? < == As I wrote: the problem of chmod 1777 /tmp is present also for the user (NOT-ADMIN.) th

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:20:33PM +, Walter Bunch wrote: >Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: >>If that's really the case then there's something wrong going on in >>setup.exe. Can you please attach your "cygcheck -srv" as well as the >>contents of /etc/setup/installed.db? > >cygcheck won't ru

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: > If that's really the case then there's something wrong going on in > setup.exe. Can you please attach your "cygcheck -srv" as well as the > contents of /etc/setup/installed.db? > > Brian > > cygcheck won't run, since it can't find cygintl-3.dll. You can g

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would

> $ CYGWIN=nontsec touch foo Thanks Brian, that should do it. On Wed 5/18/05 13??:34 PDT Brian wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I like and depend on NTSEC, but sometimes I want pure windows behavior. > > > > How can I create a new file from the bash prompt without umask being > > honored

Re: Base-files: error in /etc/skel/.inputrc, plus more sample code

On Wed, 18 May 2005, John Morrison wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 8:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > > John, > > > > There is an error in /etc/skel/.inputrc: AFAIK, some readline > > implementations require a space after the colon for key bindings. > > Thanks Igor, all fixed :) > > I'll release a n

Re: mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

At 03:12 PM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >Has anyone else run into this or similar problems? Am I right in >thinking that this might be a problem caused by having two seperate >accounts (one domain, one local) with the same name? Yes, this has come up before, though I couldn't find a pointer either. T

Re: New call: Please test latest snapshot

Corinna Vinschen wrote: We would like to release 1.5.17 soon. Please try the latest snapshot, 2005-May-17, from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ $ ls // using Ctrl-C if the ls call takes too long. I have looked at the file_chooser (win32 gui) demo from the fltk package. When you enter // as path in t

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:28:35PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Walter Bunch wrote: > >> I see libintl3-0.14.1-1.tar.bz2 at mirrors.rcn.net, but setup.exe doesn't >> show >> it under the libs category, or anwhere else I look. I tried a global INSTALL >> on >> "all", downloading 190 *.bz2, but the

libxml2-devel-2.16.2: missing static archive

The current libxml2-devel package contains: /usr/lib/libxml2.la /usr/lib/libxml2.dll.a There is no /usr/lib/libxml2.a This leads to unsatisfied references when linking with -static. Comparing this situation with other libraries, I think this is a deviation from the standard packaging that I hope wi

Re: create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like and depend on NTSEC, but sometimes I want pure windows behavior. > > How can I create a new file from the bash prompt without umask being > honored- what I want is a script to create a new empty file, > so the DACL, owner & group will be exactly what a user would

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

Walter Bunch wrote: > I see libintl3-0.14.1-1.tar.bz2 at mirrors.rcn.net, but setup.exe doesn't show > it under the libs category, or anwhere else I look. I tried a global INSTALL > on > "all", downloading 190 *.bz2, but there's no libintl3-0.14.1-1.tar.bz2 to be > found, and not even a gettext d

create new file from bash: with DACL, owner, & group as windows would

I like and depend on NTSEC, but sometimes I want pure windows behavior. How can I create a new file from the bash prompt without umask being honored- what I want is a script to create a new empty file, so the DACL, owner & group will be exactly what a user would get by running the below from a sim

Re: Cannot find the librtl3 package even after reading suggestions in FAQ and posts!

Larry Hall cygwin.com> writes: > >Is the package database wrong > >in saying that cygintl-3.dll is in: > > > >libintl3/libintl3-0.14.1-1GNU Internationalization runtime library > > > > No, it's correct. For instance, I found it on the RCN mirror at > >

Re: Base-files: error in /etc/skel/.inputrc, plus more sample code

On Wed, May 18, 2005 8:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > John, > > There is an error in /etc/skel/.inputrc: AFAIK, some readline > implementations require a space after the colon for key bindings. Thanks Igor, all fixed :) I'll release a new version in a few days (working an overtime project at th

Base-files: error in /etc/skel/.inputrc, plus more sample code

John, There is an error in /etc/skel/.inputrc: AFAIK, some readline implementations require a space after the colon for key bindings. So, the last 7 lines should be - # kvt "\e[H": beginning-of-line "\e[F": end-of-line # rxvt and konsole (i.e. the KDE-app...)

mkpasswd and mkgroup failures

A colleague ran into problems running mkpasswd and mkgroup on her machine, as shown below: Your group is currently "mkpasswd". This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow

>> Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems >> don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done. >> So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'. > > Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygwin supports > creating hardlinks

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow

On May 18 14:41, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Two, Cygwin implements hard links as file copies. Windows file systems > don't support hard links, so this is probably the best that can be done. > So 'ln a b' is really the same as 'cp -p a b'. Huh? NTFS supports hardlinks from the beginning and Cygw

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow

> Does stow have support for hard links at all? No, not at present. > If not is that an easy > thing to add in? It probably is, although I can't spend any time on it in the foreseeable future. > Such an option would make stow more useful on Cygwin, IMHO. I think you're right, for the foll

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is > my old nemesis > - The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee here... Yep, still doing > it, let's check > if... "ACTIVESHIELD" HAS TURNED ITSELF ON AGAIN... > > ...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change > anything, I still get >

Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Brandon J. Van Every wrote: It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted to grab the small "zip" tool and keep going with my real work. Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out. Well... s

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

On May 18 16:23, Clemson, Chris wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris > 9. > > According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. > Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble > getting

RE: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

In the mail below, I see that still with version 3.0.0-3, which still I have not installed because I failed both with 3.0.0-1 and 3.0.0-2, when one is doing "latex filename.tex", in the line below the output is "pdfeTeX..." With the previous version of tetex (2.something) this was not happening.

Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

At 11:23 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >Hi everyone! > >I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris >9. > >According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. >Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble >getting cygwin cpio t

RE: can not compile cscope on cygwin

Please don't send personal e-mails. It looks like that your cvs tarball wasn't "pluged-in". As I see it, you have two options: 1. Use setup to install cvs on your system, then put the cvs tarball in your cvs repository, and then check out the files. Alternativelly, you could follow instuctions

Re: Cygwin-developers archive

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Richard Campbell wrote: > Is there any reason not to allow public read-only access to the > cygwin-developers archives? Is that where your meanness really comes > out? :-) Yes. :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,

Re: Cygwin-developers archive

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:41:55AM -0400, Richard Campbell wrote: >I am not interested (well, I don't quite qualify) in subscribing to the >cygwin-developers mailing list, but I am interested in seeing the >lower-level discussions (I read the patches list as well as the main >one). > >CGF recentl

CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

Hi everyone! I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris 9. According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble getting cygwin cpio to view it: E:\>cpio -ivF v240-disbox-v1-08

Cygwin-developers archive

I am not interested (well, I don't quite qualify) in subscribing to the cygwin-developers mailing list, but I am interested in seeing the lower-level discussions (I read the patches list as well as the main one). CGF recently referenced a discussion that was going on on the cygwin-developers lis

Re: Serial programming - Writing bytes in a blocking mode - Problem with tcdrain() ?

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:10:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I wonder if you're just seeing the effects of a buffer on the comm >>device itself not draining even though Windows has flushed everything >>from its own memory. > >I'm not reading any buffer, the idea of my program is the followi

bug in du

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reini Urban reported a du bug on the cygwin list - using mount points (or directory hard links on systems that support that) confuses the default behavior, and files are being double-counted and inflating the actual disk space in usage. In the example

Re: More: Recent increase in size

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Reini Urban on 5/17/2005 5:14 PM: > mkdir -p /tmp/test/test1 /tmp/test/test2 > cd /tmp/test > # junction or mount is the same here > junction `cygpath -w /tmp/test/test1` test3 > cp ../* test1/ > ls -i > 22236523160786906 test1 9288674

Re: locale and keychain

Hi All... From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: locale and keychain Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:34:15 -0400 On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:20:45PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >The next upstream version of keychain uses the locale command to check on >the settings. I didn't see any function by that name. Can cor

Re: dllwrap command line processing problem

Well, sure that's possible. And I'm able to work around the problem here easily enough... I just think if dllwrap is distributed, it ought to be correctly documented and not silently ignore command line options. Jules On Wed, 18 May 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > jules wrote: > > > I'm using

Re: Sort - locale: cygwin_nt-5.0

Many thanks to all the experts who kindly answered my question. I am sorry to know that I cannot use cygwin for sorting texts with languages other than English, but it was important for me to know if locales was supported or not. Unfortunately, fro lack of competence I cannot be the one who fixe

Re: dllwrap command line processing problem

jules wrote: I'm using a rather outdated version, so I'm not sure if this has been fixed, but dllwrap seems to ignore the "--mno-cygwin" command line option that is documented in its --help output. "-mno-cygwin" works as expected. $ dllwrap --version GNU dllwrap 2.15.91 20040725 Copyright 2004

Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff

Lionel B wrote: To give an example, I have installed the exp gcc 3.4.1 and mingw-gcc 20040822 packages. Now I see I have libtool-devel 1.9f_20041024 installed, whreas setup wants to change that to 1.5.10. I suspect, but am not sure, that this is a dependancy of my "exp" gcc and should therefore k

Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff

Brandon J. Van Every wrote: I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I typically use to build various HLL compilers. One of these compilers needed the "zip" tool in order to be built. So I fired up Cygwin and clicked to install "zip." Well, instead of doing just that, it also starte

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

On May 18 05:45, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > What about using strace or, better, gdb? Does it even occur > > under strace? > > As I said, WJFFM for hundreds of iterations. > > > > Corinna > > Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is my old nemesis > - The Nosy Virus Scanne

Re: Hiding xemacs console window when started from windows explorer

Hi, Brian Dessent wrote: > Maxime Beaudry wrote: > > >>I installed xemacs along with cygwin. I try to start xemacs by directly by >>double clicking on the xemacs-21.4.17.exe file in my windows explorer. This >>starts a dos console window which in turns starts xemacs properly. >> >>My question

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > ...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I still get > "Permission Denied"s. Gat dang, and I was just itching to put McAff... er, > I mean, a certain virus scanner manufacturer... back at the top of The List I don't know if it matters in this

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:01 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems > > On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > Unless tar is

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Sounds not convincing. If the OS isn't able to deal with such a basic > situation, it's seriously unusable. Windows might have some annoying > properties, but it's certainly usable. > > I'm just running a script which desperatly tries to reproduce the above > problem,

Ambiguous address warning

Mail addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" was ambiguous, but was delivered to John_G_Dorsey (john) The name "john" also matched the following users Full name (login name) Andrew_John (aj14) Bonnie_John (bej) To avoid this warning message in the future, add

dllwrap command line processing problem

I'm using a rather outdated version, so I'm not sure if this has been fixed, but dllwrap seems to ignore the "--mno-cygwin" command line option that is documented in its --help output. "-mno-cygwin" works as expected. $ dllwrap --version GNU dllwrap 2.15.91 20040725 Copyright 2004 Free Software

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Unless tar is doing something like untarring to a temp directory and then > doing a shell-api move that it doesn't wait for. I don't know. I'll get a > test case together and... well, I'm sure then the problem will mysteriously > vanish. ;-) What abou

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

On May 18 02:30, Brian Dessent wrote: > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > > ...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a > > failure: > > > > while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo "retrying > > move..."; done > > > > it will eventually work afte

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:31 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems > > "Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > > > ...and, if I change the mv to

Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff

"Brian Dessent" wrote: > Lionel B wrote: > > /.../ > > If you want to keep one or more packages at "Exp" versions this is the > method I use: > > First thing you do after running setup each time, switch to partial. > You will see a combination of Exp packages that setup wants to downgrade > to

Re: Black letters on white background?

Martin Mrazek wrote: > I can find it neither in FAQ nor in documentation, so sorry for the > simple question: > > How can I switch the default Cygwin colours? I need black letters on > white background... > > I tried DIR_COLOR but it seems it relates only to color of letters... Use rxvt. You c

Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > ...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a > failure: > > while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo "retrying > move..."; done > > it will eventually work after a few iterations. > > I... huh? > > I'll brew up a t

Black letters on white background?

Hello, I can find it neither in FAQ nor in documentation, so sorry for the simple question: How can I switch the default Cygwin colours? I need black letters on white background... I tried DIR_COLOR but it seems it relates only to color of letters... Thanks Martin -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff

Lionel B wrote: > To give an example, I have installed the exp gcc 3.4.1 and mingw-gcc 20040822 > packages. Now I see I have libtool-devel > 1.9f_20041024 installed, whreas setup wants to change that to 1.5.10. I > suspect, but am not sure, that this is a > dependancy of my "exp" gcc and should

RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems

> Am I losing my mind, or shouldn't this "just work"(tm) in a > shell script?: > > #!/bin/sh > # ^^ behaves the same if it's /bin/bash > > tar xvjf file.tar.bz2 > mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name > > ??? > > About half the time I get "Permission denied" from mv, the > other

Mv after tar in a shell script problems

Am I losing my mind, or shouldn't this "just work"(tm) in a shell script?: #!/bin/sh # ^^ behaves the same if it's /bin/bash tar xvjf file.tar.bz2 mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name ??? About half the time I get "Permission denied" from mv, the other half it works fine. If I d

Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff

"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote: > Setup by default tries to bring any > already-installed package up/back to the "curr" version. Not only does it > update old stuff, but if you have any "exp" releases installed, it'll > actually try to "downgrade" them back to "curr". Yeah, that's not too cool. > If

Re: [patch] update documentation Was: cygwin-host-setup does not install sshd

On May 17 20:37, Brian Dessent wrote: > 2005-05-17 Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR ;-) I'd send ChangeLogs always without the head line. > * install.texinfo ("How do I uninstall..."): Rewrite to cover > removing services, dealing with perm

Re: Serial programming - Writing bytes in a blocking mode - Problem with tcdrain() ?

Hi Christopher, thanks for your attention, I've been working on it, and I've found a workaround for the problem using the ioperm libraries, accessing the UART LSR register of the serial port. In this way I'm able to know exactly when the output buffer is empty. >I wonder if you're just seeing

RE: Cygwin installing too much stuff

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon J. Van Every > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:32 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Cygwin installing too much stuff > > I have a reasonably healthy Cygwin installation that I > typically us