Fonts look ugly in X with gvim

2008-04-21 Thread Steven Woody
Hi, I am using gvim in X window of cygwin. I selected a font Lucida Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim. Lucida Typewriter looks good in windows version of gvim, but in cygwin's gvim, it's ugly, looks like there is a space between every character and the letters are very thin

Re: Calling Cygwin from Dos - problem with sub program

2008-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to nlian on 4/17/2008 9:58 PM: | Hi, | | I have a bash script (e.g. test.sh), and I have the following command | inside the script: | | #!/usr/bin/bash | export PROG_LIB="D:\batch\prod\prog\lib" Non-portable use of back-slashes. But more

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-21 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sorry Brian, but this has only marginally to do with integrity levels. The real reason for this is the SeCreateGlobalPrivilege introduced with Windows 2003. Only administrative users hold this privilege by default, as well as any process running in terminal server session

Re Graphics Magic on Vista

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dobrin
I noticed that others had a problem running Graphics Magick (gm.exe) on Vista but saw no solution in my search of site:cygwin.com. It appears to me that (for once) Vista isn't completely fault. If you do a cygcheck on gm.exe you will noticed "Error: could not find cygdpstk-1.dll". I found this o

cygrunsrv:Error Starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 Error 1062

2008-04-21 Thread Dunston Rocks
Am encountering cygrunsrv :Errro Starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 Error 1062: The service was not started when trying to start apache 2.2.6 from under cygwin Steps followed: 1) Added "server" to cygwin variable 2) Started cygserver-config 3) Added httpd2 as a service using " cygrun

Re: Directory existence prevents .exe execution

2008-04-21 Thread Ross Smith
Luke, I think the fundamental point that you're missing here is that Cygwin is intended to be a subspecies of Unix, not a subspecies of Windows. I'm not familiar with Ici, but if it currently has both Windows and Unix versions, you should expect the Unix version, not the Windows version, to be

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.9.2-2

2008-04-21 Thread Reini Urban
Fixed various packaging bugs from mathomatic-12.9.2-1 Thanks to our packaging-master Volker Zell. I'd really like to have him automated, a cygzell package or something similar :) Cygwin build changes: * fixed Makefile.cygwin * added header, library, docs and helpers. About: Mathomatic is a co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lftp-3.7.1-1

2008-04-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp is available in the Cygwin distribution. lftp is a sophisticated file transfer program and ftp/http client. It supports multiple network protocols, offers tab completion, command history, job control, and bookmarks, can mirror sites and transfer multiple files in parallel, a

RE: HELP REQUIRED: Unexpected end of file.

2008-04-21 Thread Stepp, Charles
I'm betting it is the Windoze vs. Unix line endings. CRLF vs LF. I've found that using Windoze version of vim makes it easy to see and fix line ending problems with files. Charles Stepp Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it rite, but there's always time to do it over. -Original Message-

Re: wget package is outdated; suggestion for clamav package

2008-04-21 Thread Reini Urban
2008/4/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Cygwin package of Wget is outdated. > > I suggest to make additional package of ClamAV without the database. Thanks for the reminder. I've actually updated clamav yesterday but cygwin-announce didn't let me through with my 2nd email address. I'll try agin. -- Rein

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.9.2-1

2008-04-21 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Reini Urban writes: > Various minor functional and ui fixes. > See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt > Cygwin build changes: > * added /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.mathomaticrc There are a couple of empty directories included: /usr/share/applications /usr/share/pixmaps

wget package is outdated; suggestion for clamav package

2008-04-21 Thread formes01
Cygwin package of Wget is outdated. I suggest to make additional package of ClamAV without the database. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Viewing the file and directory structure in a .iso file

2008-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus Daly wrote on 21 April 2008 14:29: > The recent inclusion of cdrkit in Cygwin is marvellous, thank you. > Is there a way that one can view from within Cygwin the file/ > directory structure within a .iso file? In Linux it would be > mkdir {viewingdir} mount {isofile} -o loop

RE: Is there "losetup" utility inside cygwin?

2008-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Bo Xie wrote on 21 April 2008 03:15: > I am wondering whether there is a "losetup" utility inside cygwin so > that I can simulate a .img file to a loopback block device inside > cygwin... Nope. Cygwin doesn't support linux filesystems and only emulates a few of the most vital devices. ch

Viewing the file and directory structure in a .iso file

2008-04-21 Thread Fergus Daly
The recent inclusion of cdrkit in Cygwin is marvellous, thank you. Is there a way that one can view from within Cygwin the file/ directory structure within a .iso file? In Linux it would be mkdir {viewingdir} mount {isofile} -o loop {viewingdir} find {viewingdir} or equival

RE: Subversion problems with "svn switch", "svn co", "svn switch", because of 'wrong' permissions in .svn/ directories

2008-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Spiro Trikaliotis wrote on 21 April 2008 11:24: > Hello, > > * On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:59:56PM +0200 I wrote: >> Ok, here is the description: Sometimes (!) when I do a "svn co" or "svn >> up", I get the following error: >> >> svn: Can't move 'src/arch/riscos/.svn/tmp/all-wcprops' to > 'src/a

Re: Subversion problems with "svn switch", "svn co", "svn switch", because of 'wrong' permissions in .svn/ directories

2008-04-21 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:59:56PM +0200 I wrote: > I have run into the following issue with Subversion on cygwin. Note that > this problem does not occur when running the original Subversion > versions from subversion.tigris.org; unfortunately, the ones from > trigris.org do not work i

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 02:17, Brian Dessent wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > Right, I wasn't trying to imply that the location of the shared section > > had anything to do with IL, just explaining why his elevated shell in > > session 1 could see the processes of services in session 0 (i.e. because > > the

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Brian Dessent wrote: > Right, I wasn't trying to imply that the location of the shared section > had anything to do with IL, just explaining why his elevated shell in > session 1 could see the processes of services in session 0 (i.e. because > the elevated session 1 could create the shared section

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Sorry Brian, but this has only marginally to do with integrity levels. > The real reason for this is the SeCreateGlobalPrivilege introduced with > Windows 2003. Only administrative users hold this privilege by default, Right, I wasn't trying to imply that the location o

Re: Cygwin-1.7.0-3 problem (wet paint version)

2008-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 20 14:52, Trevor Forbes wrote: > > I access my windows XP PC either via rdesktop or ssh on a Linux Gentoo PC. > (Note I use using XPUnlimited to get multiple rdesktops) Using > Cygwin-1.7.0-3 I found I can run Cygwin application via ssh or rdesktop > but not both at the same time. Stra

Re: PATCH: login under privileged user != SYSTEM

2008-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 19 01:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Apr 18 04:32, Charles Wilson wrote: >>> So, I'm still not checking that the uid specified is a member of the >>> local Administrators group. > > Now I am. See below. > >> As for an account being Administrator, and apart from s

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 00:36, Brian Dessent wrote: > You can clear this all up with process explorer: > > Unelevated bash shell: > - user 'brian' > - IL medium > - session 1 > - shared memory area \Sessions\1\BaseNamedObjects\cygwin1S4.shared.4 > > Elevated bash shell > - user 'brian' > - IL high > - session

Re: Vista + cygwin basics

2008-04-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Charles Wilson wrote: > But wait: somehow syslogd works. If all services are at the highest IL, > then no lower IL should be able to use syslog()? But I (a lowly, > unprivileged user) can run logger.exe -- presumably with 'medium' IL -- > and my message DOES get logged. As far as I know, syslog