Re: Home directory

2007-10-03 Thread Gmane User
Dave Korn wrote: > On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: > >> Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: >>> Gmane User wrote: >>> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release note

RE: installed packages?

2007-10-03 Thread peter360
Yep, thanks! Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > > From: peter360; Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:01 PM >> I remember there is a command to query all the installed packages -- >> name and version. But I cannot find it anywhere. Can someone remind >> me of that command? > > cygchec

Re: inetutils RSH install

2007-10-03 Thread René Berber
Alexfed wrote: > How do I install the inetutils RSH and start the service? Edit /etc/inetd.conf; I'm assuming you already read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README and installed inetd as a service.. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Probl

Re: Does Cygwin run on Windows 2003 64 bit?

2007-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please tell me if Cygwin is expected to run on Windows 2003 64 bit Enterprise Edition? From www.cygwin.com's main page: The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, with the exception of W

inetutils RSH install

2007-10-03 Thread Alexfed
How do I install the inetutils RSH and start the service? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Alex -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/inetutils-RSH-install-tf4564825.html#a13029450 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info:

Does Cygwin run on Windows 2003 64 bit?

2007-10-03 Thread samuel.m.snitman
Can you please tell me if Cygwin is expected to run on Windows 2003 64 bit Enterprise Edition? Thanks, Sam Snitman Accenture Mercury ITG Team US Delivery Centre (USDC) Delivery Centre Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] Direct Dial: 281-675-5032 AIM: SntmnS This message is for the designated recipient

rxvt: how to change font using control-wheelmouse?

2007-10-03 Thread sam reckoner
Is it possible to setup rxvt to incrementally change font sizes by doing control-wheelmouse? If so, how? thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-03 Thread Alexey Illarionov
Thanks to everyone for your help. On 10/3/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexey Illarionov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing > > about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my > > cygwin session just

Re: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Siegfried Heintze wrote: > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/grep-2.5.1a-4/po' > if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \ > .././mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ > else \ > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs //usr/local/share; \ > fi > mkdir //usr > mkdir: cannot cre

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Siegfried Heintze wrote on Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:23 PM: >> On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: >> > Is there a cygpath command that will show me all the files connected > with grep? What is this command? Should not I have been able to > manually find some notes on compili

RE: Problems compiling grep and friends

2007-10-03 Thread Siegfried Heintze
> >On 27 September 2007 14:15, Siegfried Heintze wrote: > >> I'm running xp pro and I am trying to compile grep. I downloaded the source. >> ./configure seemed to go OK but there were problems with "make". It looks >> like it cannot find the usr directory. Is there a fix for this? > > How did you

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Holden
Alexey Illarionov wrote: Hello, I have just installed cygwin using setup.exe and know almost nothing about it. I made no changes in any configuration files and launch my cygwin session just by starting the unchanged 'cygwin.bat' file. I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh'

Re: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: On 03 October 2007 06:14, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Matthew Wozniski wrote: Hibernation does involve swapping everything in memory to disk, freezing the state of all processes, and powering down the system. But, the system being powered down does not mean that no part of the sys

Re: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-03 Thread Matthew Wozniski
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:13:47PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Matthew Wozniski wrote: >> Hibernation does involve swapping everything in memory to disk, freezing >> the state of all processes, and powering down the system. But, the system >> being powered down does not mean that no part of th

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread wimxa
Dave, I take that back - it still might be one from your list. The machine has Symantec antivirus - it was hidden behind the "Show hidden icons". (Doh, I am making too many obvious mistakes.) I'm not an admin, so I cannot check which one - maybe both? The machine doesn't seem to have PC Tool's Sp

cygwin unable to get setup.ini

2007-10-03 Thread Steve Rainbird
I am trying to update my version of Cygwin. I get the message Unable to get setup.ini no matter what mirror I use. Any ideas? Steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2007 14:39, wimxa wrote: > Dave, > > Nope, this one is called Webroot Spy Sweeper (if it is the problem with it). It almost certainly is! Morgan Gangwere mentioned that software before but I forgot to add it to TBLODA; it's definitely going on now. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread wimxa
Dave, Nope, this one is called Webroot Spy Sweeper (if it is the problem with it). -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Huge-memory-leak%2C-probably-related-to-making-new-processes-tf4557470.html#a13019192 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread wimxa
I have just tried this on another machine with Cygwin - no leaks. OK, so it is not Cygwin - my bad, but I'm glad. Just to test, I have made a script for WIndows' cmd.exe: @echo off set c=1 :loop cmd /c echo > nul echo %c% set /a c=%c%+1 if %c%==123456 goto end goto loop :end Leaks... Not so fa

RE: Home directory

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: > Brian Dessent dessent.net> writes: >> >> Gmane User wrote: >> >>> it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software >>> systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the >>> release notes can be findable in s

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2007 13:38, wimxa wrote: > Guys, > > Thank you for the trouble of testing this. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm > whether this is a problem with any AV - I am not an admin on the machine in > question, cannot shut AV down. Is it one of the ones listed on TBLODA at http://cygwin.c

Re: newbie question -- problem with launching shell script files

2007-10-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Alexey Illarionov (Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:53:13 -0700) > I wrote a small script. Here is the content of the 'run.sh' > > #!/bin/sh > cd /cygdrive/c > > Unfortunately, it does not work. The command './run.sh' does nothing. Actually it does. You can see that by putting "pwd" at the bottom of your s

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread wimxa
Guys, Thank you for the trouble of testing this. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm whether this is a problem with any AV - I am not an admin on the machine in question, cannot shut AV down. About the kernel memory figures - they are increasing - much slower and in a very unpredictable see-saw way

Re: "cout" and "cerr" won't work after cygwin1.dll init from VC++

2007-10-03 Thread Anton Mellit
Francisco J. Royo Santas wrote: > > Hello > > I have a VC++ program that uses a Cygwin-compiled DLL. I can init > cygwin1.dll > but, after doing this, cout and cerr stop working. cout << "Message" << > endl > does not appear on the screen. I do not know exactly what happens here. > The > progr

RE: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2007 06:14, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Matthew Wozniski wrote: >> Hibernation does involve swapping everything in memory to disk, >> freezing the state of all processes, and powering down the system. >> But, the system being powered down does not mean that no part of the >> system is re

RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 October 2007 05:31, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:20:18AM +, Lewis Hyatt wrote: >>> Anyway, can I ask you to do this yourself - just do the last test: >>> >>> COUNTER=1 >>> while [ $COUNTER -lt 123456 ]; do (echo $COUNTER); let >>> COUNTER=$COUNTER+1; done >>>

setup.exe still can't uninstall bash

2007-10-03 Thread Mario Frasca
this is some debugging information about the crash... it happens during uninstalling of previous bash package. no other package needed to be upgraded. the machine is a ibm lenovo R60 running windows XP. Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gdb ./Desktop/setup-debug-2.578.exe GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cyg