Increasing Available Memory for Cygwin Run Programs in XP

2006-05-10 Thread Brad Krane
I am trying to run a numerical simulation that requires a large amount of RAM in the cygwin environment running on a Pentium 4 with Windows XP and 3GB RAM. I have so far learned that Windows XP (and other Windows versions) allot only 2GB RAM for user program space. I have verified this with a smal

Re: MySQL 5.0.21 C API under cygwin

2006-05-10 Thread Lloeki
Thanks for the information. For the benefit of all, could you list all of your configure options that are relevant to building MySQL on Cygwin? FWIW, mine is: $ mysql --version mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.18, for pc-cygwin (i686) using EditLine wrapper conf'd with just --prefix=/opt/mysql

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-3, rxvt-unicode-common-X-7.7-3

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Wilson
rxvt-unicode is clone of the familiar rxvt terminal emulator, that supports unicode. Except that it doesn't support unicode on cygwin. Yet. So why bother? == (1) bugfixes. Upstream development of rxvt is dead. cygwin's rxvt is moribund. rxvt-unicode is actively maintained. (2) Heck,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New: checkx-0.1.0-1

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Wilson
checkX is a little utility I wrote that tests to see if (a) the X11 client DLLs are installed on the machine, and (b) the Xserver on $DISPLAY (or -d x.x.x.x:x) is running and usable. It does not link against the Xll libraries itself, but attempts to dlopen it, using a fuzzy name/path search.

net.cc Re: need help with cygwin snapshot debugging

2006-05-10 Thread Bryan D. Thomas
> 2) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00205.html > I'd like to know if my debugging suggestion in 2) worked. Your debugging suggestion appears to have worked for me. Below is what I did in an attempt to assist as requested. I hope this will be useful for others who may want to help test,

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Eric Blake wrote: $ cvs co test cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. No such file or directory This was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.19, which returned the wrong error code for creating this directory, and CVS didn't know to ignore it. Try a snapshot. It wasn't the 'wrong' errno, so much as a different er

Re: ssh to 2003 server exist immediately

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Andrew DeFaria wrote: /etc/passwd and /etc/group are symlinks to a shared and up to date copy of the output of mkpasswd/mkgroup. That's not the issue. As I understand it, for sshd (or in.rlogind) to "switch user" it needs special privileges. Indeed the documentation alludes to that. And until

Re: ssh to 2003 server exist immediately

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having a problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and I find the following in /var/log/sshd.log: 5 [mai

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:38:58AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:30:50PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 08:50:59PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:47:09AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >

Re: MySQL 5.0.21 C API under cygwin

2006-05-10 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
Eric Lilja wrote: > Using a fully updated Cygwin, I compiled MySQL 5.0.21 with --disable-server > (and some other disables). It compiled cleanly, woot! Thanks for the information. For the benefit of all, could you list all of your configure options that are relevant to building MySQL on Cygwin?

Re: MySQL 5.0.21 C API under cygwin

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Eric Lilja wrote: For a long time I've been wanting to compile C/C++ programs that can talk to a MySQL server under Cygwin. I tried to compile to several version of MySQL (configuring with the flag --without-server), but the build process always ended with some error. I also tried to convert th

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Nicholas Thayer wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +, Michael Lemke wrote: Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, cygwin), the cvs pserver fail

Subject: RE: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52

2006-05-10 Thread Charles D. Russell
Gary van Sickle wrote To the OP (sic!): "Old" != "Well Tested". You should be testing whatever program you're using to do backups, GNU, Cygwin, or otherwise. _ No testing that I could do is as comprehensive as the trial by thousands of users that any new version o

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Nicholas Thayer
Nicholas Thayer wrote: After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. I am using the CVS pserver under cygwin to run an intranet CVS repository that networked computers can access. Since this is an intranet envir

Re: Test: zip-2.31 and unzip-5.52

2006-05-10 Thread Charles D. Russell
Charles Wilson wrote: Do you really think that every cygwin package compiles out-of-box with no changes? _ Not every package, but I would have thought that zip could be written in code that would work on any unix system, and that the standard cygwin installation would p

Re: MySQL 5.0.21 C API under cygwin

2006-05-10 Thread Nicholas Thayer
Eric Lilja wrote: For a long time I've been wanting to compile C/C++ programs that can talk to a MySQL server under Cygwin. I tried to compile to several version of MySQL (configuring with the flag --without-server), but the build process always ended with some error. I also tried to convert th

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Nicholas Thayer
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +, Michael Lemke wrote: Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checko

MySQL 5.0.21 C API under cygwin

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Lilja
For a long time I've been wanting to compile C/C++ programs that can talk to a MySQL server under Cygwin. I tried to compile to several version of MySQL (configuring with the flag --without-server), but the build process always ended with some error. I also tried to convert the msvc-libraries th

www.cygwin.com Has been added...

2006-05-10 Thread Shawn Myers
Hello, I'm writing to let you know that I have just added your website, www.cygwin.com, to my directory. You can find your listing here... http://www.faxwin.com/serverlinuxfaxtelefon I also wanted to gauge your interest in networking our websites together more closely for mutual benefit. If yo

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Eric Blake
> > $ cvs co test > > cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. > > No such file or directory > > This was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.19, which returned the wrong error code for > creating this directory, and CVS didn't know to ignore it. Try a > snapshot. It wasn't the 'wrong' errno, so much as a different err

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:23PM +, Michael Lemke wrote: >Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: >>On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: >>>After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, >>>cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. [snip] $ cvs >>>co

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Michael Lemke
Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: > > > After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, > > cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. > > [snip] > > $ cvs co test > > cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. > > No su

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: > Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: > > > > > After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, > > > cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. > > > [snip] > > > $ cvs co test > > >

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Nicholas Thayer
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. [snip] $ cvs co test cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. No such file or directory This was a bug in

Re: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Wed, 10 May 2006, Nicholas Thayer wrote: > After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, > cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. > [snip] > $ cvs co test > cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. > No such file or directory This was a bug in Cygwin 1.5.19, w

Re: ssh to 2003 server exist immediately

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having a problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and I find the following in /var/log/sshd.log: 5 [main] sshd 12912 C:\Cygwin\usr\

Re: Win2003 server and cron/sshd as services (1.5.19)

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Mike Dunn wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 05/06/2006, Mike Dunn wrote: I did just test by running cron from the command line (not as a service), and it appears to work fine. I suspect, that it can only exec commands under my uid, since my account does not have things like SeCreateToken

need help with cygwin snapshot debugging

2006-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
There are a few reported problems with the current snapshots that require some debugging: 1) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00718.html 2) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00205.html There are also supposedly some problems with openssh which may be due to either Corinna's raising of

RE: cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 May 2006 18:41, Nicholas Thayer wrote: > After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, > findutils, cygwin), the following error message is being > displayed and the pserver is no longer usable: > > $ cvs co test > cannot mkdir /tmp/cvs-serv3172/. > No such file or directory >

cvs pserver issue with new cygwin packages

2006-05-10 Thread Nicholas Thayer
After upgrading to the latest cygwin packages (coreutils, findutils, cygwin), the cvs pserver fails for updates and checkouts. I am using the CVS pserver under cygwin to run an intranet CVS repository that networked computers can access. Since this is an intranet environment, there are no se

RE: cygpath error: file name too long

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 May 2006 18:22, Capaci, Christopher wrote: > Hi, > > I have two machines which, as far as I know, have the same setup. Using > the same PATH string, one fails when trying to convert it with cygpath > and one doesn't. The error is saying that the file name is too long. Can > anyone suggest s

cygpath error: file name too long

2006-05-10 Thread Capaci, Christopher
Hi, I have two machines which, as far as I know, have the same setup. Using the same PATH string, one fails when trying to convert it with cygpath and one doesn't. The error is saying that the file name is too long. Can anyone suggest some windows or cygwin setting that might be slightly different

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Lloeki
>I don't know what this reg key does but there is no need to change it. >I switch around Cygwin DLLs all the time using simply the copy command >in CMD.EXE (with no Cygwin processes running of course) and have never >had to do anything else. Ditto. If this was really necessary, the information w

Re: tcdrain

2006-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:04:41PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: >It looks like tcdrain in cygwin doesn't wait until data are transmitted, >but just drains the software buffer, and doesn't drain the buffer in the >16550A chip. Can you please confirm that this is really how Cygwin >works? The source

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:56:06PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Lloeki wrote: >>Of course I just find it minutes after posting... >> >>it's in >>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer >>add a DWORD of name AlwaysUnloadDll and give it a 1. Though it's >>advertised eve

RE: tcdrain

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 May 2006 14:05, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > Hello > > It looks like tcdrain in cygwin doesn't wait until data are transmitted, > but just drains the software buffer, and doesn't drain the buffer in the > 16550A chip. Can you please confirm that this is really how Cygwin > works? Nope, but I c

Re: ssh to 2003 server exist immediately

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having a problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and I find the following in /var/log/sshd.log: 5 [main] sshd 12912 C:\Cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fata

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-10 Thread Lloeki
http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR ... AIYCNPSOREBH (and if you can not please snip out raw email by hand)

Re: Win2003 server and cron/sshd as services (1.5.19)

2006-05-10 Thread Mike Dunn
Hi Mark, Thanks for you reply. Regarding #1, yes the last 2 lines of the cygrunsrv command were joined on my terminal (the email client must have wrapped them). On #2, what the heck? :) I'm not saying that you are wrong about the behaivor, but the shell ought to have striped the quotes (si

Re: ssh to 2003 server exist immediately

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Andrew DeFaria wrote: I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having a problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and I find the following in /var/log/sshd.log: 5 [main] sshd 12912 C:\Cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal error - could not load ws

Re: problem in cvs/CVSROOT/history:permission

2006-05-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
pramod g.s wrote: Sir, i have problem in cvs please solve in detail:; problem is shown below::: checkout -P CVSROOT cvs checkout: warning: cannot write to history file /cvs/repos/CVSROOT/history: Permission denied cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/repos/CVSROOT' (/

Re: Win2003 server and cron/sshd as services (1.5.19)

2006-05-10 Thread Mike Dunn
Was there anything in particular you are referring to in the README, or is this a general RTFM comment? I have read the READMEs, googled the list for 5 days, picked apart the install scripts, tested with alternative services, reinstalled, etc. I would like to think that I've done my home wor

Re: jump to the first new mail in marked tread

2006-05-10 Thread Dirk Schleicher
Am Wed, 10 May 2006 15:05:07 +0200 schrieb Dirk Schleicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: SORRY forget what I wrote down. It's the wrong ML Sorry again I want to got to Sylpheed Claws -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: jump to the first new mail in marked tread

2006-05-10 Thread Alexander J. Herrmann
Dirk Schleicher wrote: Hello, it is possible to make a script/ action etc. that by using a shortcut or icon the cursor jump to the first new mail in a marked tread? It is depending on your mail programm. Using Thunderbird just mark the thread and select from the menue GO->First unread messa

jump to the first new mail in marked tread

2006-05-10 Thread Dirk Schleicher
Hello, it is possible to make a script/ action etc. that by using a shortcut or icon the cursor jump to the first new mail in a marked tread? Thanks Dirk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

tcdrain

2006-05-10 Thread Karel Kulhavy
Hello It looks like tcdrain in cygwin doesn't wait until data are transmitted, but just drains the software buffer, and doesn't drain the buffer in the 16550A chip. Can you please confirm that this is really how Cygwin works? I got data corrupted because of this because the data rate was switched

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-10 Thread S. William Schulz
On 5/10/06, Lloeki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to run it in a console other than the default DOS-like box? [snip] puttycyg (google) might help. Woo, now you're talking. Thank you for this, works great. S -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Pr

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-10 Thread Lloeki
Is there a way to run it in a console other than the default DOS-like box? rxvt (setup) and puttycyg (google) might help.

RE: readv() questions

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 May 2006 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:11:35PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> So far so good, but if anyone sees anything glaring might as well point it >> out - although this is not really CW related at this point. >> >> -cl > > Just to follow up on

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 May 2006 07:33, Lloeki wrote: >> there's even a reg key to tweak that flush delay >> but it seems I can't put the finger on it anymore. > > Of course I just find it minutes after posting... > > it's in > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer add a > DWORD of

Re: Cygwin and Emacs: How to exit?

2006-05-10 Thread S. William Schulz
On 5/9/06, Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try putting set CYGWIN=tty Thank you both for your replies. This turned out to be the solution. EB queried as to which console I was running cygwin in. Is there a way to run it in a console other than the default DOS-like box? Also, f

Re: readv() questions

2006-05-10 Thread clayne
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:11:35PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So far so good, but if anyone sees anything glaring might as well point it > out - although this is not really CW related at this point. > > -cl Just to follow up on this.. I did take your advice fully Dave, and decided to ju

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Lloeki
there's even a reg key to tweak that flush delay but it seems I can't put the finger on it anymore. Of course I just find it minutes after posting... it's in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer add a DWORD of name AlwaysUnloadDll and give it a 1. Though it's ad

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Lloeki wrote: > Of course I just find it minutes after posting... > > it's in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer > add a DWORD of name AlwaysUnloadDll and give it a 1. Though it's > advertised everywhere as managing all dlls, I dunno the exact effect, > and the

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

2006-05-10 Thread Jens Wilken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lloeki wrote: >> >> BTW: What's the easiest way to switch cygwin versions without >> having to reboot? I quite commonly come across changing snapshot >> dll's and having bash throw errors (probably relocation related >> or something of the sort) and i

ssh to 2003 server exist immediately

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I'm trying to set up ssh access to a Windows 2003 server. I am having a problem in that when I ssh to this server it immediately exits and I find the following in /var/log/sshd.log: 5 [main] sshd 12912 C:\Cygwin\usr\sbin\sshd.exe: *** fatal error - could not load ws2_32, Win32 error 0 F

RE: fatal error - system shared memory version mismatch detected - 0x75BE0074/0x75BE0096

2006-05-10 Thread Dave Korn
On 10 May 2006 06:57, Alex Pivovarov wrote: > I'm a new user of cygwin > I've just installed cygwin in default confuguration > > When I trying to start cygwin I get an error, showed below. > > --