RE: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Friday, March 03, 2006 2:08 AM: > P.P.Hughes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: >> >> I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server >> 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-completion-20060301-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash-completion, 20060301-1, is now available, replacing 20050721-1 as the current version. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Differences from the previous version can be found in http://www.caliban.org/files/bash/Changelo

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl M on 3/2/2006 2:11 PM: >> >> However, you're aware of the problems with mapping cygdrive to "/", are >> you? You'll never see the list of available drives since the special >> cygdrive handling can't kick in for the root dir. This a

Re: [Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

P.P.Hughes wrote: Hello, This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and run a vbs script that opens Word to convert documents from Word to PostScript

Apache failure with 2006-03-01/2 snapshots

Combination: cygwin-inst-20060302.tar.bz2 (2006-03-02 17:00 GMT) snapshot apache-1.3.33-2.tar.bz2 Apache won't start, and outputs the following in its log: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/mod_env.dll into server: Bad address The same holds for the 2006-03-01 Cygwin snapshot. A

Re: going thru domain switch..does cygwin grok "SID history"?

thanks Corinna On Thu 3/2/06 16:27 +0100 Corinna wrote: > On Mar 2 09:13, Tom Rodman wrote: > > Has anyone experienced a domain migration where the filesystem was > > left unchanged, and a "SID history" was injected into Active Directory > > trustees? Under "Sid history", I'm told, each trustee (

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:56:40 +0100 However, you're aware of the problems with mapping cygdrive to "/", are you? You'll never see the list of available drives since the special cygdrive handling can't kick in f

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

Thanks cygwin1-200603021700.dll.bz2 works. ...Karl From: Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:56:40 +0100 On Mar 1 21:01, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > Just was

Re: Printing man pages

* Reid Thompson [2006.03.02 14:15]: > man groff | enscript -p - | ps2pdf - groff.pdf One less step: man -Tps groff | ps2pdf - groff.pdf I find the output prettier too. -- JR -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: ssh-host-config (/var/log/lastlog)

Hi Corinna... I just tried it out and it worked fine. Thanks, ...Karl From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: ssh-host-config (/var/log/lastlog) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:37:01 +0100 On Feb 27 11:38, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > It was fun while it lasted 8-) > > Perhaps the permissions/owner f

Re: Printing man pages

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:11:09PM -0500, Reid Thompson wrote: > Reid Thompson wrote: > >George wrote: > >>[...] > >man groff | enscript -p - | ps2pdf - groff.pdf I am thoroughly impressed. For man pages, I think this is optimal as the default enscript font setting is fixed pitch, and enscript p

Re: Printing man pages

Reid Thompson wrote: George wrote: Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using: man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf which, by default, is actually /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf results in a fairly unattractive PDF file. The man page

Re: Printing man pages

George wrote: Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using: man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf which, by default, is actually /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf results in a fairly unattractive PDF file. The man page title is dropped from

Re: Printing man pages

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:08:03PM +, Tony Richardson wrote: > George sbcglobal.net> writes: ^^ Brilliant idea. I think I'll steal it, and hope others do the same. > > Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using: > > > >man -t `man -w gr

Improper snapshot install [was 'missing isnand']

I figured out my problem. Instead of installing the snapshot using the procedure documented here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC21 (which I apologize for not knowing about), I installed it by untarring the snapshot and then copying the usr and etc dirs to C:\cygwin using Explorer. S

Re: chroot bug?

On Mar 2 04:56, Eric Blake wrote: > I noticed the following strange behavior in chroot: > > $ chroot /bin /sleep 60 & > [1] 16220539 > $ readlink /proc/${!}/root # simple test of whether chroot worked > /bin > $ chroot //EBLAKE/share /cygwin/bin/sleep 60 & > [2] 566487 > $ readlink /proc/${!}/ro

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:56:40 +0100 On Mar 1 21:01, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > Just was not able to provide data earlier (from an XP PRO SP1 machine). > Here is from an XP PRO SP2 machine. Same result cd / makes

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On 02 March 2006 15:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:24:59PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 02 March 2006 15:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:49:52PM -, Dave Korn wrote: On 02 March 2006 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Well, I

RE: libm.info missing from snapshot?

On 02 March 2006 14:31, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >> While diff'ing snapshots, I noted that libm.info is in the 2006-02-24 >> snapshot, but is not in the 2006-03-01 snapshot. Is this an oversight? >> (Is there some chance that this relates to the missing isnand problem?) > > To clarify the parenth

Re: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:24:59PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 02 March 2006 15:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:49:52PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >>> On 02 March 2006 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Well, I did this: $ nm libcygwin.a | grep isnan 00

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On 02 March 2006 15:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > However, as another datapoint, I just unpacked cygwin-inst-20060301.tar.bz2 > into a directory and tried to build a testapplication(TM): > > $ tar xjf cygwin-inst-20060301.tar.bz2 > $ cat > x.c < #include > > int > main () > { >

Re: going thru domain switch..does cygwin grok "SID history"?

On Mar 2 09:13, Tom Rodman wrote: > Has anyone experienced a domain migration where the filesystem was > left unchanged, and a "SID history" was injected into Active Directory > trustees? Under "Sid history", I'm told, each trustee (user or group) in > the new domain, contains a reference to it's

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On 02 March 2006 15:14, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:49:52PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 02 March 2006 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> Well, I did this: >>> $ nm libcygwin.a | grep isnan >>> T ___isnand >>> I __impisnand >>> T _

Re: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:49:52PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >On 02 March 2006 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> Well, I did this: >> $ nm libcygwin.a | grep isnan >> T ___isnand >> I __impisnand >> T ___isnanf >> I __impisnanf >> I __i

going thru domain switch..does cygwin grok "SID history"?

Has anyone experienced a domain migration where the filesystem was left unchanged, and a "SID history" was injected into Active Directory trustees? Under "Sid history", I'm told, each trustee (user or group) in the new domain, contains a reference to it's former identity in the old domain. The file

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On 02 March 2006 14:21, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: >> You don't show us the link command you're using. Maybe there's >> something not quite correct? > > I reinstalled cygwin-inst-20060301.tar.bz2 (dll, exes, libs, headers, > etc) > from the 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, and tried once more: >

Re: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On Mar 2 14:49, Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 March 2006 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Well, I did this: > > > > $ nm libcygwin.a | grep isnan > > T ___isnand > > I __impisnand > > T ___isnanf > > I __impisnanf > > I __imp___isnan >

Update for the "Why doesn't chmod work?" section of the FAQ?

The current FAQ has this entry: 4.15. Why doesn't chmod work? ntsec will allow UNIX permissions in Windows NT on NTFS file systems. This is on by default (a recent change). ntea works on NTFS and FAT but it creates a huge, undeletable file on FAT filesystems. (The ntsec and

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On 02 March 2006 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Well, I did this: > > $ nm libcygwin.a | grep isnan > T ___isnand > I __impisnand > T ___isnanf > I __impisnanf > I __imp___isnan > T __isnan > I __imp___isn

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

On Mar 2 09:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:56:40AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >(*) It would be nice if you could try to shorten an strace in a meaningful > >way next time. Hundreds of lines with > >"--- Process 2480, exception C005 at > >

Re: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On Mar 2 07:20, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > > Using cygwin-inst-20060301.tar.bz2 (dll, exes, libs, headers, etc) from > > the 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, I'm still getting these errors when > > building Perl: > > > > /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x6

RE: libm.info missing from snapshot?

> While diff'ing snapshots, I noted that libm.info is in the 2006-02-24 > snapshot, but is not in the 2006-03-01 snapshot. Is this an oversight? > (Is there some chance that this relates to the missing isnand problem?) To clarify the parenthetically question, I know that libm.info is docs; not c

libm.info missing from snapshot?

While diff'ing snapshots, I noted that libm.info is in the 2006-02-24 snapshot, but is not in the 2006-03-01 snapshot. Is this an oversight? (Is there some chance that this relates to the missing isnand problem?) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

RE: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > Using cygwin-inst-20060301.tar.bz2 (dll, exes, libs, headers, etc) from > the 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, I'm still getting these errors when > building Perl: > > /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x643b): undefined > reference to `___isnand' > /c/perl

RE: empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops

I've already asked the IT dept over here to remove it. In the meantime I was hoping people would just ignore it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 02 March 2006 14:16 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: empty directory

Re: empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:01:55AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/2/2006 6:10 AM: >> Unless stated above to be non-confidential, this E-mail and any >> attachments are private and confidential and are for the addressee >> only and may not be used, copied or disclose

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:56:40AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >(*) It would be nice if you could try to shorten an strace in a meaningful >way next time. Hundreds of lines with >"--- Process 2480, exception C005 at >don't really add any useful information and just fill

Re: Printing man pages

George sbcglobal.net> writes: > Generating a PDF from the grep man page, for example, using: > >man -t `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf > > which, by default, is actually > >/usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc `man -w grep` | ps2pdf - grep.pdf > > results in a fairly unattractive PDF file. T

RE: OpenSSH for Non Administrators (Attn: OpenSSH maintainer)

Please don't hijack an unrelated thread for your questions. If you want to ask a question, post a new message instead of replying to one. Also, , and please don't make . On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Siegfried Heintze wrote (with

Re: empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 3/2/2006 6:10 AM: > In the Cygwin bash the following statement > > for file in ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* ; do do_it_on $file ; done > > executes the following once because of how globbing is done. > > do_it_on ./SOME_EMPTY

empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops

In the Cygwin bash the following statement for file in ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* ; do do_it_on $file ; done executes the following once because of how globbing is done. do_it_on ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* Unfortunately the gcc 4.0.2 makefiles do use this on possibly empty directories and break. Does anybody

[Newbie] Trying to run MSWord from Cygwin

Hello, This is probably a silly question to most you, but here goes: I'm opening a ssh connection from a Linux box to our Windows Server 2003 which then initiates a Cygwin terminal. I then try and run a vbs script that opens Word to convert documents from Word to PostScript. In my vbs scrip

RE: OpenSSH for Non Administrators

> Can cygwin ssh be used with VNC to open a VNC session on a remote > server? I have successfully open a session using plain "RealVNC" > server on the windows server (from red hat 8) and would like to do it > securely with ssh. Yes, I do this daily, using OpenSSH on CygWin at either/both ends. Y

Re: Querying the LIB environment (from g++) don't work with current cygwin.dll (1.5.19-4)

On Mar 2 11:32, Kai Benndorf wrote: > Hi all, > > i can't query the LIB environment variable from C++ code, compiled with > g++, with GetEnvironmentVariable, as demonstrated in the appended, small > example program. Other variables (e.g. PATH could be retrieved without > problems). The example

Querying the LIB environment (from g++) don't work with current cygwin.dll (1.5.19-4)

Hi all, i can't query the LIB environment variable from C++ code, compiled with g++, with GetEnvironmentVariable, as demonstrated in the appended, small example program. Other variables (e.g. PATH could be retrieved without problems). The example program queries LIB and prints it out. The outp

Re: 'Missing isnand' still not fixed in 2006-03-01 snapshot

On Mar 1 22:47, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > > > Using the full (inst) 2006-03-01 (23:10 GMT) snapshot, I'm still getting > > > these errors when building Perl: > > > > > > /c/perl_tmp/perl-5.8.8/libperl.a(pp.o):pp.c:(.text+0x643b): undefined > > > reference to `___isnand' > >

Re: OpenSSH for Non Administrators

On Mar 1 23:00, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I looked in http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#1.1 as reference by > c:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/openssh/README and I'm having trouble finding the > document that explains how to set ssh up as a service on a windows server. > Can someone please point me to the c

Re: ssh-host-config (/var/log/lastlog)

Karl? Ping? On Feb 28 13:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 27 11:38, Karl M wrote: > > Hi All... > > > > It was fun while it lasted 8-) > > > > Perhaps the permissions/owner for lastlog as a file should be > > 644/system.none > > > > It works for me and protects the log a bit better. > >

Re: [Newbie] Installer Question

On Mar 1 20:34, Michael Banks wrote: > We have developed a product for the medical industry, which makes use of a > few of the open-source cygwin tools (like, grep, find, etc.). The problem is > that, believe it or not, many doctors' offices do not have an Internet > connection, so installing c

Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version

On Mar 1 21:01, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > Just was not able to provide data earlier (from an XP PRO SP1 machine). > Here is from an XP PRO SP2 machine. Same result cd / makes the bash window > disappear. > > Here is a cygcheck and an strace (output from "strace /bin/bash >file"). The prob