Re: Cygwin Problems on Vista (Install and others)

rsync problems on Vista cygwin: My cygwin on Vista seems to work but when I try to do rsync to fixup files on my ftp server, it chokes with lots of errors and does a bizarre reset of the permission bits for the destination folder. Here's what happens: [this is the same rsync command that works f

Re: ps command

Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > because qseek is a perl script. Is there any way that I can get output > of the running processes that will include the text, 'qseek'? Or can > anyone suggest a work around. I need a script to be able to find out > whether qseek is running, in order to start it if it is

ps command

Apologies for asking this. I asked it many years ago and did not get an answer that allowed me to progress. I can not find the earlier replies but of course cygwin has improved since then. I have a program that runs in the background a bit like at daemon. It is called 'qseek'. I want to know wheth

Re: AllowUsers Help

Matthew Woehlke-3 wrote: > > mark2 wrote: >> I just signed up for this forum > > This is not a forum. It's a mailing list. > >> since it looks like there's quite a bit of >> useful information on Cygwin here. I have already consulted the Cygwin >> manual and searched this forum >> (http://www.

Re: AllowUsers Help

mark2 wrote: I just signed up for this forum This is not a forum. It's a mailing list. since it looks like there's quite a bit of useful information on Cygwin here. I have already consulted the Cygwin manual and searched this forum (http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=12165&local=y&q

AllowUsers Help

Hi, I just signed up for this forum since it looks like there's quite a bit of useful information on Cygwin here. I have already consulted the Cygwin manual and searched this forum (http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=12165&local=y&query=allowusers) but I haven't been able to find the ans

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

On May 21 11:55, Lev Bishop wrote: > On 5/21/07, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On May 21 15:46, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously. > >> > >> cygpath. > > > >Right. Unfortunately I jus

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On May 21 15:46, Dave Korn wrote: On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously. cygpath. Right. Unfortunately I just found that -m is sometimes used as a modifier (-dm makes sense) and sometimes standalone (-m

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

On 5/21/07, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 21 15:46, Dave Korn wrote: > On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously. > > cygpath. Right. Unfortunately I just found that -m is sometimes used as a modifier (-dm mak

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

On May 21 17:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 21 15:46, Dave Korn wrote: > > On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously. > > > > cygpath. > > Right. Unfortunately I just found that -m is sometimes used as a modifier > (-dm mak

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

On May 21 15:46, Dave Korn wrote: > On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously. > > cygpath. Right. Unfortunately I just found that -m is sometimes used as a modifier (-dm makes sense) and sometimes standalone (-m instead of -w). A

RE: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

On 21 May 2007 15:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 20 22:15, Karl M wrote: >>> So, translation: cgf made a typo. The 'w' is not needed. >>> >> However, there are scripts (google "cygpath -wm") out there. > > In the distro? Nope. > Which ones? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22cygp

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

Hi Corinna... From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive? Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:29:44 +0200 On May 20 22:15, Karl M wrote: > >So, translation: cgf made a typo. The 'w' is not needed. > > > However, there are scripts (google "cygpath -wm") out there.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.5.1-2

New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.5.1-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. The following is the only notable change since the previous release: o include bz2 module that was accidentally omitted in the previous release Old

Re: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

On May 20 22:15, Karl M wrote: > >So, translation: cgf made a typo. The 'w' is not needed. > > > However, there are scripts (google "cygpath -wm") out there. In the distro? Which ones? It would be better to change them, so we can change cygcheck to handle this unambiguously. Corinna -- Cori

RE: How to uniformly point to the root of a drive?

Christopher Faylor wrote on Monday, May 21, 2007 12:16 AM: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:12:47PM -0700, Karl M wrote: >> Hi Christopher... >> >>> From: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re: How to uniformly point to the >>> root of a drive? Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 21:21:59 -0400 >>> >>> On Sun, May 20, 2

Re: Cygwin Question?

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Dustin Ochoa wrote: > Hello Igor, Hi. Questions about Cygwin should be directed to one of the Cygwin lists. See for details. Redirecting. Please follow up to the list. > I understand that you are quite knowledgeable on Cygwin and thoug