Re: invoke vbscript from cygwin?

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: > > > Yes, that worked splendidly. Should I have known about these > > executables? Are they the regular interpreters for vbscripts? I know > > little about cygwin and nothing about vbscript, and I did

Re: Cygwin installation a permissions of /home...

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Prince
Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have noticed that after installing Cygwin, /home has the following permissions: drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Administrator Administrators 0 Mar 18 17:52 home and in /home drwxrwxrwx+ Administrator Administrators 0 Mar 18 22:49 Administrator drwxrwxrwx+ pippo Users

Cygwin installation a permissions of /home...

2008-03-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
I have noticed that after installing Cygwin, /home has the following permissions: drwxrwxrwx+ 4 Administrator Administrators 0 Mar 18 17:52 home and in /home drwxrwxrwx+ Administrator Administrators 0 Mar 18 22:49 Administrator drwxrwxrwx+ pippo Users 0 Mar 19 23:51

Re: invoke vbscript from cygwin?

2008-03-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Burns wrote: > Yes, that worked splendidly. Should I have known about these > executables? Are they the regular interpreters for vbscripts? I know > little about cygwin and nothing about vbscript, and I did not see > these mentioned in the documentation. The Cygwin documentation? Why would

Outdated Link to Texas Mirror (What sourcemaster?)

2008-03-19 Thread Jesdisciple
I just clicked on the link to the only mirror listed for Texas at http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html and got a fake website. The obfuscated URL (to avoid bestowing PageRank or similar ratings on it) is mirrors [dot] wikifusion [dot] info/cygwin/ Please remove this link! (Note: I know that the m

Re: invoke vbscript from cygwin?

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Burns
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:49 PM, James Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 19/03/2008, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I > > guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though > > I'd rather not h

Re: invoke vbscript from cygwin?

2008-03-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Burns wrote: > How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I > guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though > I'd rather not have to fiddle with the vbscript at all. You invoke it the same way you would from a Windows command prompt, i.e. cscript.

Re: invoke vbscript from cygwin?

2008-03-19 Thread James Abley
On 19/03/2008, Dave Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I > guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though > I'd rather not have to fiddle with the vbscript at all. > > I tried googling and looking at cygwin do

invoke vbscript from cygwin?

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Burns
How would one invoke a vbscript from cygwin, if it is possible? I guess invoking cygwin from a vbscript would also do the trick, though I'd rather not have to fiddle with the vbscript at all. I tried googling and looking at cygwin docs, but couldn't find anything. Thanks in advance for any clues.

1.5.25-11: Process not exiting fully on Win2k3 server

2008-03-19 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
I'm continuing to debug the problem I reported earlier [1], where some executables called from within shell scripts don't fully terminate. This happens fairly often while sourcing the default /etc/profile, but not always, and not always in the same place. When this happens, if I use windows tools

Outdated Link to "Texas" Mirror (What sourcemaster?)

2008-03-19 Thread Jesdisciple
I just clicked on the link to the only mirror listed for Texas at http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html and got a fake website. The obfuscated URL (to avoid bestowing PageRank or similar ratings on it) is mirrors [dot] wikifusion [dot] info/cygwin/ Please remove this link! (Note: I know that the m

RE: Update apparently not current

2008-03-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
No, nothing like that. And the package that was downloaded by the setup installer was wrong: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/c/temp/cyg1.5.25/http%3a%2f%2fsources-redhat.mirror.redwire .net%2fcygwin/release/cygwin> ls cygwin-1.5.25-7.tar.bz2 So I guess I'll just try it again from a different download point

Re: DLL into .a (Metis problem)

2008-03-19 Thread Tatsuro MATSUOKA
Hello I have an experience to build the Metis from source on cygwin. It is not so tough work so that you can get everything if you build the METIS libraries by yourself. However, the Metis license is NOT compatible to GPL. Therefore, the octave community have decided not to use the Metis to con

Re: Strange pthread_atfork() behavior

2008-03-19 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Thank you for quick response! Waiting for a release. On 3/19/08, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 19 08:46, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can anyone test this and see if it behaves differently? > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00436.html > > I forgot to

RE: Update apparently not current

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Korn
Bruce Dobrin wrote on 19 March 2008 18:16: > Hi, > I just tried to update from 1.5.25-7 to 1.5.25-11 using the installer > pointed at http\\:mirrors.kernel.org and although it did upgrade some > things ( at least it copied and over-wrote stuff), I still ended up > with the 1.5.25-7 cygwin1.dll (

Update apparently not current

2008-03-19 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Hi, I just tried to update from 1.5.25-7 to 1.5.25-11 using the installer pointed at http\\:mirrors.kernel.org and although it did upgrade some things ( at least it copied and over-wrote stuff), I still ended up with the 1.5.25-7 cygwin1.dll (which is what setup downloaded). I'm trying to solv

Re: perl Tk for cygwin almost fixed

2008-03-19 Thread Reini Urban
2008/3/19, Michael Kairys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I blush to confess I don't know what you mean. Can you say a little more > about how I would get the patch onto my system? You go to the bugtracker for this module - http://search.cpan.org/dist/Tk and click on "View/Report Bugs" => look for the cyg

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aria2-0.13.1+1-1

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Korn
Stepp, Charles wrote on 19 March 2008 18:00: > Aria2 supports Oracle's Metalink? What does this mean, supports? [ snip redundant repost of ENTIRE announce message ] It means "Don't be lazy and anti-social - trim your quotes". Actually, it means (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink)

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aria2-0.13.1+1-1

2008-03-19 Thread Stepp, Charles
Aria2 supports Oracle's Metalink? What does this mean, supports? Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -Original Message- From: Kostya Altukhov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:07 AM To: cygwin@cy

TexLive Binaries?

2008-03-19 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
Are there any plans to port the TeXLive 2007 to cygwin? The tetex 3.x are quite old and are no longer maintained by the author Thomas Esser and all changes are maintained in TeX Live repository. sivaram -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:25:36PM -0400, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:31 PM: > >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:24:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On Mar 18 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote: --- snip --- 9. Deploying

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I think 9.3 suggests a disagreement Yes, it accurately captures the disagreement that the Cygwin maintainers have with users that want to do this. Your replacement text isn't clear enough about the fact th

RE: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Christopher Faylor wrote on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:31 PM: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:24:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Mar 18 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote: >>> --- snip --- >>> >>> 9. Deploying Cygwin >>> >>> 9.1 I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer >>> s

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> What is stow? http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Available as a Cygwin package. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/

[Packaging error] Singular

2008-03-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Just for the record: singular-base3.0.4-1 OK Missing file: /usr/share/doc/Singular-3.0.3/COPYING from package singular-help Missing file: /usr/share/doc/Singular-3.0.3/GPL from package singular-help Missing file: /usr/share/doc/Singular-3.0.3/INSTALL from package si

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread NightStrike
On 3/19/08, Andrew Schulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * When I want to test installing something myself for which there is > > no cygwin package supplied, and I don't want to break anything (nor am > > I able to backup the current cygwin root tree) > > We have /usr/local or /opt for that. Fur

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Brian Dessent
Dave Korn wrote: > Also don't forget to shutdown any running services when swapping over. Right, implicit in all of this is you shut down all instances of any open programs or files from one tree before switching to the other. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:25:36PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Brian wrote on 19 March 2008 16:09: > >> NightStrike wrote: >> >> > If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how >> > (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) >> >> I do this all the time, it's

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:24:33PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Mar 18 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote: >> --- snip --- >> >> 9. Deploying Cygwin >> >> 9.1 I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer >> sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin >> installed b

RE: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Dave Korn
Brian wrote on 19 March 2008 16:09: > NightStrike wrote: > > > If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how > > (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) > > I do this all the time, it's trivial. You don't have to keep them in > sync, they can be total

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Brian Dessent
NightStrike wrote: > If there are any ideas on how to make that work, I'd love to know how > (perhaps by keeping the two repositories in synch somehow?) I do this all the time, it's trivial. You don't have to keep them in sync, they can be totally different versions. "umount -A" (create a mount

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 19 08:08, Dan Kegel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's quite close, especially the answer to 9.3 :) > > Care to create a matching docbook entry for the FAQ? > > I can give it a whirl. Might take me a while, though... where >

Re: perl Tk for cygwin almost fixed

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Kairys
I blush to confess I don't know what you mean. Can you say a little more about how I would get the patch onto my system? "Reini Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/3/17, Michael Kairys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I really don't know when I will have enough time av

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's quite close, especially the answer to 9.3 :) > Care to create a matching docbook entry for the FAQ? I can give it a whirl. Might take me a while, though... where is the FAQ source, again? -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Andrew Schulman
> * When I want to test installing something myself for which there is > no cygwin package supplied, and I don't want to break anything (nor am > I able to backup the current cygwin root tree) We have /usr/local or /opt for that. Furthermore you can use stow to easily install and uninstall test p

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 18 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote: > --- snip --- > > 9. Deploying Cygwin > > 9.1 I want to bundle Cygwin with a product, and ship it to customer > sites. How can I do this without conflicting with any Cygwin > installed by the user? > > A. Third party developers who wish to use Cygwin should

Re: FAQ suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread NightStrike
On 3/19/08, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't assume that everyone who asks the question > is trying to cheat or bend the rules; I'm a pretty fierce It is true -- not everyone who wants multiple cygwins installed is a software packager trying to profit off of cygwin. I have found it be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: m4-1.4.10b-2

2008-03-19 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of m4, 1.4.10b-2, is available, replacing 1.4.10b-1 as current and leaving 1.4.10-1 as previous NEWS This is a minor patch release. It applies an upstream patch to avoid an assertion failure triggered when running autoconf on the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: aria2-0.13.1+1-1

2008-03-19 Thread Kostya Altukhov
New package "aria2-0.13.1+1-1" has been uploaded. Aria2 is a command line download utility with resuming and segmented downloading. Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent and it also supports Metalink. For more information about this package, see the upstream documentation in /usr/shar

[Packaging bug] bzip2-1.0.5

2008-03-19 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Do the following files really belong to /usr/share/doc/bzip2-1.0.5 ? They look more like files were the documentation is generated from. usr/share/doc/bzip2-1.0.5/bz-common.xsl usr/share/doc/bzip2-1.0.5/bz-fo.xsl usr/share/doc/bzip2-1.0.5/bz-html.xsl usr/share/doc/bzip2-1.0.5/entities.xml

Interested in buying US traffic from Cygwin.

2008-03-19 Thread Nick Webber
We have a new product which is great for US gaming traffic – www.spadester.com. It’s a skill game so we have no legal problems. As you probably know, Spades is one of the most popular games in United States . We are the first and only site that offers Spades for real money. We get great reactio

Re: Strange pthread_atfork() behavior

2008-03-19 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 19 08:46, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone test this and see if it behaves differently? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00436.html I forgot to CC you, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader