chere problem with directories with single quote marks

Hey gang, So I started having this little issue with chere, where every once in a while the startup fails. I go to the parent folder, and it works just dandy. I actually bothered to think about the problem today, and it has to do with the way the folder name is quoted. I use bash, and here's th

How to really really "remove all mounts"

I find that the command $ umount -A intended to "remove all mounts" (see man) actually leaves straggling $ mount -m mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive" $ mount -p Prefix Type Flags /cygdrive

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

> > I played with this all day and I can't convince myself that it isn't a > readline bug. It seems like there is a situation where bash/readline > unmasks SIGINT and potentially lets a stray CTRL-C in while the signal > handler is still carefully dealing with signals, causing recursion and, > ev

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

When I tried the latest snapshots, I didn't go through all the combinations - I just found a combination that actually works! Everything downloads and installs very quickly. - the latest setup snapshot: setup-2.523.exe - used C:\Cygwin and C:\Cygwin_localpkg folders - Norton Antivirus auto-pro

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

Phil Pollock wrote: I'm sure this is frustrating for both of us. I was expecting Cygwin to be running a couple of days ago. There is nothing unusual about what I am doing with setup.exe. I don't know why setup.exe would be sensitive to my hardware/software more than other people's. Yeah,

Re: cygwin returning screen on exit?

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Tyler Spivey wrote: > Hello. How can I tell cygwin not to return the screen to the state it > was in before running a full screen program such as vim or mutt? This is > highly annoying. I actually find it useful, but to each his own... There are two ways of doing it: one is

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

Op Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:07:05 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor in <20051223220705.GA28617trixie.casa.cgf.cx>: : On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:46:04PM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote: : > Op Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:49 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor : > in <20051221162249.GA9890trixie.casa.cgf.cx>: : > Te

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

I'm sure this is frustrating for both of us. I was expecting Cygwin to be running a couple of days ago. There is nothing unusual about what I am doing with setup.exe. I don't know why setup.exe would be sensitive to my hardware/software more than other people's. Hardware: Compaq Presario,

Re: newbie question chdir

Luke Vanderfluit wrote: > long saga about windows Perhaps we're having a terminology problem here. Are you typing (literally) the string "cd c:\" as the entire input to bash? If so, you need to be aware that all Unix-y shells do *escape processing* using "\", so you have to double them up if

cygwin returning screen on exit?

Hello. How can I tell cygwin not to return the screen to the state it was in before running a full screen program such as vim or mutt? This is highly annoying. Thanks, Tyler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Phil Pollock wrote: > > From: Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Phil Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please read this link. Thanks.

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

I apologize for putting Cygwin into my convenient shareware folder with other stuff - but I don't organize my folder for political correctness. Regarding setup-2.523.exe: 'Install from Local Directory' following 'Download Without Installing' with error messages in log file: I believe that the

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

Op Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:07:05 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor in <20051223220705.GA28617trixie.casa.cgf.cx>: : On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:46:04PM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote: : > Op Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:49 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor : > in <20051221162249.GA9890trixie.casa.cgf.cx>: : > :

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:46:04PM +0100, Bas van Gompel wrote: >Op Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:49 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor >in <20051221162249.GA9890trixie.casa.cgf.cx>: >: Only four more testing days remain if we want to get a cygwin 1.5.19 >: release out there by Christmas. Please try a sn

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Phil Pollock wrote: > > From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Phil Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks. > > Subject: Re

Re: Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

Regarding /setup/snapshots: === INSTALLATION ATTEMPT n+1: Download then Install with setup-2.521.exe 1. I emptied folders: C:\Shareware\Cygwin C:\Shareware\Cygwin\LocalPkg 2. I ran setup.exe and selected: - 'Download Without Installing' - Local Package Dir

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

Op Wed, 21 Dec 2005 11:22:49 -0500 schreef Christopher Faylor in <20051221162249.GA9890trixie.casa.cgf.cx>: : Only four more testing days remain if we want to get a cygwin 1.5.19 : release out there by Christmas. Please try a snapshot and report : success/failure to this thread. Testing a self

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:35:07PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:07:19PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >>CYGWIN = `tty ntsec title server' > ^^^ >Thank you. That was why I couldn't duplicate it. I played with this all day and I can't convince mysel

Re: Gnuplot 4.0.0-1 dependencies

> Mike Parker writes: > As of a few days ago, it appears as if gnuplot v4.0.0-1 has the following > dependencies: > ed: 0.2-1 > libdb4.2: 4.2.52-1 > libdb4.3: 4.3.28-1 > libkpathsea3: 2.0.2-15 > libkpathsea4

Re: Using gcc under cygwin to compile and link the db2 udb sample c programs

Thanks Eric. I was able to compile and link the db2 udb sample program using gcc with no errors. But I got segmentation fault error when running the sample program. After spending some time on this problem, I decided to install Microsoft VC++. I then ran nmake all and was able to run the sample

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

> Dec 22 snapshot on Win98. > > 410 [sig] BASH 687835 wait_sig: short read from signal pipe: 160 != 164 >1690 [sig] BASH 687835 wait_sig: short read from signal pipe: 4 != 164 > 60002603 [main] BASH 687835 sig_send: wait for sig_complete event failed, > signal > -20, rc 258, Win32 error

Re: SSH problem after upgrade - SOLVED

Ed Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ed Brady wrote: > >> Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >>> IIRC, the Windows dynamic loader will first look for DLLs in the >>> application directory, and only then in the PATH. Here's a WAG: do you >>> have a copy of winsock.dll or ws2_32.dll in /usr/bin? >>> >>>

Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group & passwd problem

Igor Peshansky wrote: > > You said you get the same message for a bash shell? Could you please try > to capture the output (by opening a CMD.EXE window and typing > "c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat")? Output follows: C:\Documents and Settings\kallender>c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat CreateFileandSetSecurity failed

Cygwin install (v2.510.2.2) failure WinXPHome fopen failed 22 invalid argument.

I have attempted to install Cygwin DLL release v1.5.18-1 under my Windows XP Home (SP2) administrative account over the last couple of days - just doesn't work for me. Is there another way to download and install Cygwin? Any help would be appreciated. Here's what I attempted: =

Re: perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > To further explain, suppose we had a package of all the DateTime:: > modules (which are broken up into many distributions, but I hope you > would agree would belong together). They have a number of small > general purp

Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group & passwd problem

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Kyle S. Allender wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > >> mkpasswd -l -s > /etc/passwd > > ^^ > > At a guess, here's your problem. This flag completely omits the SIDs > > from /etc/passwd. When you omit SIDs, there is no way for Cygwin to > > map your user id back

Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group & passwd problem

Igor Peshansky wrote: >> >> mkpasswd -l -s > /etc/passwd > ^^ > At a guess, here's your problem. This flag completely omits the SIDs from > /etc/passwd. When you omit SIDs, there is no way for Cygwin to map your > user id back to Windows security mechanisms, so any attempt to use n

Re: bug in path traversing in 1.5.19 snapshots

>From: Krzysztof Duleba >To: Cygwin >Subject: bug in path traversing in 1.5.19 snapshots > >Hi > >There is a funny bug in the 1.5.19 family, maybe in earlier versions too. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >$ cd /usr/.../var > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/.../var >$ ls >ls: .: No such file or directory > >Note th

bug in path traversing in 1.5.19 snapshots

Hi There is a funny bug in the 1.5.19 family, maybe in earlier versions too. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd /usr/.../var [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/.../var $ ls ls: .: No such file or directory Note that I don't have var directory in /usr. Cygcheck output attached. Regards Krzysztof Duleba Cygwin Con

ssh localhost date #fails for me, but WJFFU; report enclosed

working test case; Dec 16, was last snapshot that ran OK: ~ $ uname -a # *all* tests done initiated from an ssh session CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer108 1.5.19s(0.148/4/2) 20051216 23:59:19 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin ~ $ echo $CYGWIN binmode tty ntsec smbntsec ~ $ ssh localhost date # IN AL

Re: Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group & passwd problem

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Kyle S. Allender wrote: > Morning all. > > I am experiencing a problem with Cygwin @ startup. After having to do a > rebuild on my local XP system, reinstalling Cygwin went fine until I > encountered this message when starting the Cygwin environment: > > CreateFileandSetSecur

Re: SSH problem after upgrade - SOLVED

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Ed Brady wrote: > Ed Brady wrote: > > > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > IIRC, the Windows dynamic loader will first look for DLLs in the > > > application directory, and only then in the PATH. Here's a WAG: do you > > > have a copy of winsock.dll or ws2_32.dll in /usr/bin? >

Re: Please try a snapshot - final push for 1.5.19

On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 08:07:19PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >CYGWIN = `tty ntsec title server' >^^^ > Thank you. That was why I couldn't duplicate it. Hmm, this is weird. I've reproduced this on my machine[1], with the

Cygwin 1.5.18-1 on Windows XP group & passwd problem

Morning all. I am experiencing a problem with Cygwin @ startup. After having to do a rebuild on my local XP system, reinstalling Cygwin went fine until I encountered this message when starting the Cygwin environment: CreateFileandSetSecurity failed with FALSE (Expected on FAT Partitions) GLE: 32

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-13

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.0-13, is available, replacing the current 3.0-11 and experimental 3.0-12. NEWS: = This is a minor bug-fix update, and includes all official upstream patches. It also contains various cygwin-specific patches to work around

Re: Can not Contact Domain Controller

--- Mike Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:40:53 -0800 (PST) > From: Mike Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > > > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:08:12 -0800 (PST) > > From: Mike Blanco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Can not Contact Domain Controller >

Re: responding to someones post

Mariusz Wodzicki wrote: More interesting is the question how to reply to somebody's post *without* subscribing to the cygwin mail list. I find it very useful to visit the mailing list whenever I feel so but my previous experience with subscribing to mailing lists having such a high volume like c

Re: Cron and find

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:08:07AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Christophe Sauthier on 12/23/2005 6:51 AM: >>I've been googling a bit, and I've found nothing really usefull... >>Does anybody encount that problem and has a solution ? By the way, >>just a little precision : the user that e

Re: Cron and find

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christophe Sauthier on 12/23/2005 6:51 AM: > Hi, > > I am facing a weird stuff : I am executing a shell script that > contains a call to the find command. > > When I am running it from the shell command list, everything run > smoothly...

Cron and find

Hi, I am facing a weird stuff : I am executing a shell script that contains a call to the find command. When I am running it from the shell command list, everything run smoothly... But when I am calling it from my crontab, find didn't seems to return anything... In fact it didn't to work at all..

Re: Using gcc under cygwin to compile and link the db2 udb sample c programs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to ERIC HO on 12/22/2005 2:15 PM: > I'm wondering whether anyone have used gcc under cygwin (windows xp) to > compile and link the db2 udb sample c/cpp programs successfully? I'd > appreciate if you could share the steps and command syntax.

RE: responding to someones post

More interesting is the question how to reply to somebody's post *without* subscribing to the cygwin mail list. I find it very useful to visit the mailing list whenever I feel so but my previous experience with subscribing to mailing lists having such a high volume like cygwin@cygwin.com stops me

Re: Can not Contact Domain Controller

--On 22 December 2005 14:08 -0800 Mike Blanco wrote: So I have tried to do this: mkgroup -l -d > /etc/group mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mkpasswd -u "mblanco" -d "bgchemical.com" > /etc/passwd mkpasswd (731): [2453] Could not find domain controller for this domain. I can nev

AW: responding to someones post

Try "reply" and you should be able to answer the editor of the post. Just check the To-field of your email-client. Marco - Marco Lechner office: Department of Physical Geography University of Freiburg Werderring 4 D-79085 Freiburg Germany phone +49 (0)761 / 203-35

Re: custom installer

En/na Larry Hall (Cygwin) ha escrit: angel bosch wrote: If you're talking about just installing tools within your own company, you're fine. ok, any info about the topic? i just want to know what exaclty do the installer of cygwin to avoid any problem. is enough with copying the whole dir

Re: perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:14:06PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > I'm working on creating a bundle of common Perl mod