Re: pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

2007-02-07 Thread Lev Bishop
On 2/7/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: My department manages some Netscreen NS208 firewalls. If I ssh into them with the cygwin ssh client (either with rxvt or with cygwin from a cmd.exe prompt), pasting into the session runs like a 2400 baud modem. If I ssh into them with something else such as

Re: calling cgwin apps from the windows shell

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Bear wrote: I use rsync and was wondering if there is a way to call rsync directly from a windows batch file where the path arguments would be properly cleaned and slashflipped -- I'm wondering if the windows shell will be more kind to file names with spaces in them... or if rsync will stil

Re: stupid spaces in environment vars

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
David Bear wrote: I would like to have used something like cd $USERPROFILE in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this seems impossible. I did find a usecase where the spaces in c:\Documents and Settings\username were tripple quoted. However, this did not work f

Re: daylight savings in March

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Dave Korn wrote: On 07 February 2007 18:53, Ken Shaffer wrote: Just curious if the daylight savings time change occurring in the middle of March might be a factor. A factor in what? I suppose if cygwin gets its time from the PC and does no time adjustment, then there's no worries but to

calling cgwin apps from the windows shell

2007-02-07 Thread David Bear
I use rsync and was wondering if there is a way to call rsync directly from a windows batch file where the path arguments would be properly cleaned and slashflipped -- I'm wondering if the windows shell will be more kind to file names with spaces in them... or if rsync will still choke on names..

gnome without fonts!!!

2007-02-07 Thread tompouce
Hi! I install x, gnome, etc.. All goes well, work nice, speedy and all, but without fonts!!! Everything is squared, instead of letters... So I wonder what to do,.. Thanks !!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/gnome-without-fonts%21%21%21-tf3190947.html#a8858323 Sent fro

stupid spaces in environment vars

2007-02-07 Thread David Bear
I would like to have used something like cd $USERPROFILE in a bash script but since windows insists on putting spaces in names, this seems impossible. I did find a usecase where the spaces in c:\Documents and Settings\username were tripple quoted. However, this did not work for me. Bash still wa

Re: pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: My department manages some Netscreen NS208 firewalls. If I ssh into them with the cygwin ssh client (either with rxvt or with cygwin from a cmd.exe prompt), pasting into the session runs like a 2400 baud modem. If I ssh into them with something else such as PuTTY, then

accessing db2 v9 from cygwin shell

2007-02-07 Thread Hans Horn
Folks, I used to be able to access db2 (v8 and prior) from within a cygwin bash shell after doing some tricks with the DB2CLP variable (see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00635.html). e.g. export DB2CLP=$CLP_SAVE # saved during db2cmd session db2 connect to mydb db2 list tables for a

Re: Eliminating -mno-cygwin from gcc.

2007-02-07 Thread Joe Smith
"Christopher Faylor" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] I guess this means that I need to generate a cross-binutils, too. Is a cross-binutils really needed? Which (if any) of the binutils act differently when targeted at MingW32 than when targeted at Cygwin? (I've never worked

weird seg. fault related to fhandler_pipe::get_guard()

2007-02-07 Thread winner wei
Hi there, I checked up all the archives and FAQ but seems not got a resolve. Ok here is the details: My pc is HP with XP Pro; the cygwin version is 1.5.24 (Jan.31,2007). The basic structure of my program is like this: main() { : : status=A(file_input_name, ..); : } A(input_file,..){ : : status=B(i

Workaround for timeout problems with ssh/scp etc on a dual core Dell Laptop

2007-02-07 Thread Clifford Geschke
Using my new Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop, with dual-core processor, I was unable to transfer much data using ssh or scp without getting the error: "Disconnecting: Timeout, server not responding." That made the laptop unusable for accessing my CVS server via ssh. The problem seems similar to the on

Re: sshd exits during login attempt on WinXP 2003 x64 -- even with sshd running as service

2007-02-07 Thread Brian Kasper
Thanks for responding, Corinna. I obviously wasn't clear in my original post -- ssh login attempts to my Win2003 x64 system running Cygwin sshd as a service always fail, which is why I tried running sshd from the command prompt as a test. As far as I know, my Cygwin installation is completely up

Using a DLL built with cygwin in VC++

2007-02-07 Thread Papasha
Hello, I'm trying to use a DLL created with cygwin in my VC++ project. I have a DLL file and I need to create .lib in order to use the DLL in VC++, I use the following command sequence: dlltool --export-all-symbols --output-def mylib.def mylib.dll #cygwin's dlltool lib /DEF:mylib.def /OUT:mylib

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I took the time to install and configure SUA on my R2 server. Then I tried to rename a file, where the target file name already exists: [snip test program] So it WJFFM. There must be a problem in your setup. Ok, trying your exact test, I get EXDEV... so I agree with th

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 12:21, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Forget getfacl. NFS doesn't support ACLs so there's no such thing > >as Windows security settings. The actual relevant settings are in > >the SFU or SUA MMC snap-in. > > IOW the Unix permissions (as read by SUA)? Those're fine.

Re: Vista how to guide or FAQ?

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 10:45, Eric Blake-1 wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > Eric, given that I pasted a matching manifest file in one of my mails > > > about this Vista "feature"(*), would you mind to create a new coreutils > > > package which contains this manifest file in /usr/bin al

Re: ssh usage banner truncation

2007-02-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Robin Walker wrote: The "usage" banner lines produced by ssh.exe (latest version and previous ones) are unexpectedly truncated like this: usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F when they ought to say: usa

ssh usage banner truncation

2007-02-07 Thread Robin Walker
The "usage" banner lines produced by ssh.exe (latest version and previous ones) are unexpectedly truncated like this: usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F when they ought to say: usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgkM

RE: daylight savings in March

2007-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07 February 2007 18:53, Ken Shaffer wrote: > Just curious if the daylight savings time change occurring in the > middle of March might be a factor. A factor in what? > I suppose if cygwin gets its time > from the PC and does no time adjustment, then there's no worries but > to ensure that

daylight savings in March

2007-02-07 Thread Ken Shaffer
Just curious if the daylight savings time change occurring in the middle of March might be a factor. I suppose if cygwin gets its time from the PC and does no time adjustment, then there's no worries but to ensure that Windows takes care of it. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Vista how to guide or FAQ?

2007-02-07 Thread Eric Blake-1
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > Eric, given that I pasted a matching manifest file in one of my mails > > about this Vista "feature"(*), would you mind to create a new coreutils > > package which contains this manifest file in /usr/bin alongside with > > install.exe? > http://sourcewar

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 7 11:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Maybe it's something with your permissions. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI2(*) Thanks for trying. Sorry about forgetting the version info, although (and I forgot to mention this too, more apologies...) '

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 11:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >Maybe it's something with your permissions. > >http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI2(*) > > Thanks for trying. Sorry about forgetting the version info, although > (and I forgot to mention this too, more apologies...) 'ren' in cmd.c

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Matthew Woehlke
(I hope this gets through (and only once), gmane has been misbehaving all day...) Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 7 11:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 6 16:38, Matthew Woehlke wrote: ...anyone have any guesses why rename() can't rename files in the same directory, if the directory is an N

Re: Vista how to guide or FAQ?

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 18:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Eric, given that I pasted a matching manifest file in one of my mails > about this Vista "feature"(*), would you mind to create a new coreutils > package which contains this manifest file in /usr/bin alongside with > install.exe? The problem is that the b

Re: Vista how to guide or FAQ?

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 11:02, Tim michals wrote: > I've attempted to go over the entire Vista related postings and inferred > that current cygwin.dll 1.5.24-2 on Vista has the following issues: > - Cannot fork another process You got that wrong. 1.5.24 runs on Vista. > - Has an issue doing the install Yes,

Vista how to guide or FAQ?

2007-02-07 Thread Tim michals
I've attempted to go over the entire Vista related postings and inferred that current cygwin.dll 1.5.24-2 on Vista has the following issues: - Cannot fork another process - Has an issue doing the install The fix is to download the latest snapshot and do a rebaseall, if so, what is the commandline f

Problem with OpenGL support under python: ctypes cannot find GL lib(?)

2007-02-07 Thread Martin Felder
Hi, I have a python specific question, but the problem only seems to occur under cygwin, so here I am. In trying to get my python OpenGL application to run, I installed the PyOpenGL package, version 3.0.0a5 for python 2.4, and ctypes 1.0.1. Now whenever I try to run it, the following happens

Re: No manual entry for tar?

2007-02-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Frank Fesevur on 2/7/2007 3:22 AM: > Hi, > > It is normal that there is no man page for tar, or is this a package error? Normal. The upstream tar maintainer doesn't go to the efforts of creating one in his tarball, so I don't put forth

Re: late bash CR/LF functionality change problem

2007-02-07 Thread Václav Haisman
peter.kielbasiewicz wrote: > I recently updated to the latest bash rev. only to find that most of > my scripts do not work anymore. I browsed through the FAQ and mailing > lists and found many people having problems with the changed > behaviour of treating \r literally. > > I do not want to argue

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 7 11:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 6 16:38, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > ...anyone have any guesses why rename() can't rename files in the same > > directory, if the directory is an NFS mount? This causes 'ar' to fail > > with the error: > > > > ar: unable to rename 'libcloudobj.a'

Re: ar 'unable to rename... Invalid cross-device link'

2007-02-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 6 16:38, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > ...anyone have any guesses why rename() can't rename files in the same > directory, if the directory is an NFS mount? This causes 'ar' to fail > with the error: > > ar: unable to rename 'libcloudobj.a' reason: Invalid cross-device link > > I see this in

Re: No manual entry for tar?

2007-02-07 Thread Saro Engels
Frank Fesevur schrieb: Hi, It is normal that there is no man page for tar, or is this a package error? $ man tar No manual entry for tar Regards, Frank -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

No manual entry for tar?

2007-02-07 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hi, It is normal that there is no man page for tar, or is this a package error? $ man tar No manual entry for tar Regards, Frank -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Bugzilla under Cygwin?

2007-02-07 Thread Matthias Bobzien
Hi, I'm playing with the thought to install Bugzilla under Cygwin. Did anyone tried that before? Are there any experiences? Any recommendations? Most of the prerequisites are available under Cygwin (Apache, Perl,...), I'm only missing MySQL. It might be possible to combine Bugzilla with the Wind

Re: late bash CR/LF functionality change problem

2007-02-07 Thread Eric Lilja
peter.kielbasiewicz skrev: I recently updated to the latest bash rev. only to find that most of my scripts do not work anymore. I browsed through the FAQ and mailing lists and found many people having problems with the changed behaviour of treating \r literally. I do not want to argue what is

late bash CR/LF functionality change problem

2007-02-07 Thread peter.kielbasiewicz
I recently updated to the latest bash rev. only to find that most of my scripts do not work anymore. I browsed through the FAQ and mailing lists and found many people having problems with the changed behaviour of treating \r literally. I do not want to argue what is right or wrong though. Fact i