Re: MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Stefan Walter
Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: Stefan Walter wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: Stefan Walter wrote: If you redirect output in cmd.exe to a file (echo "Hello world..." >output.txt), then the file "output.txt" have the file permissions inherited from the parent folder. If you redirect outp

Re: MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Stefan Walter wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: Stefan Walter wrote: If you redirect output in cmd.exe to a file (echo "Hello world..." >output.txt), then the file "output.txt" have the file permissions inherited from the parent folder. If you redirect output in bash.exe to a file, then t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.3.4-1

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a feature enhancement release. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This will most likely be the final cygutils update for the cygwin-1.5 distribution; future development will continue with cygutils-1.3.4-10 for cygwin-1.7

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygutils-1.3.4-10

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin platform. This is a feature enhancement release. [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] This is the first (non brown-bag) release specific for cygwin-1.7; the only differences between this package and the simultaneously-released cygutils-1.3.

Re: Cygwin git and Windows native Git differ on flipping permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > ...the native windows git is compiled with a flag that > states that the x bit is unreliable (which, in general, Windows apps are > so lousy with their handling of the x bit on NTFS, and it is impossible to > track x bit on FAT, is probably the

Re: Updated: cygutils-1.3.3-1

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
David Rothenberger wrote: > The following fixes the problem for me: > > % mkdir /usr/bin/.libs > % ln -s /usr/bin/conv.exe /usr/bin/.libs > > That's not a real solution, just a hint as to the problem. > Fixed in cygutils-1.3.4-1 (and cygutils-1.3.4-10 for 1.7), which should be on the mirrors so

Re: Updated: cygutils-1.3.3-1

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > dos2unix is broken. It produce no output despite any input. I have > had to revert to the previous version. Fixed in cygutils-1.3.4-1 (and cygutils-1.3.4-10 for 1.7), which should be on the mirrors soon. Thanks for the report. -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Cygwin git and Windows native Git differ on flipping permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Alexy Khrabrov on 4/22/2009 8:17 PM: > -- which come with a Windows-native Git and git-gui. Strangely, the > gui shows that permissions of lots of things changed from 100755 to > 100644.When I agree and add and commit that in the windows

Re: MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Stefan Walter
Larry Hall (Cygwin) schrieb: Stefan Walter wrote: If you redirect output in cmd.exe to a file (echo "Hello world..." >output.txt), then the file "output.txt" have the file permissions inherited from the parent folder. If you redirect output in bash.exe to a file, then the file permissions a

Cygwin git and Windows native Git differ on flipping permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I have git working fine under cygwin, and made a repo with it. Now I got GitExtensions, http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/ http://github.com/spdr870 -- which come with a Windows-native Git and git-gui. Strangely, the gui shows that permissions of lots of things changed from 100755 t

Re: MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Stefan Walter wrote: If you redirect output in cmd.exe to a file (echo "Hello world..." >output.txt), then the file "output.txt" have the file permissions inherited from the parent folder. If you redirect output in bash.exe to a file, then the file permissions are restricted. I need this s

MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

2009-04-22 Thread Stefan Walter
If you redirect output in cmd.exe to a file (echo "Hello world..." >output.txt), then the file "output.txt" have the file permissions inherited from the parent folder. If you redirect output in bash.exe to a file, then the file permissions are restricted. I need this solved, because the curr

Similar Cron issue--Cron wont do anything

2009-04-22 Thread LAU2
Hi I have been having similar problems with running cron on through cygwin. Here is what I have done so far: 1) created a simple shell file #!/bin/sh echo "test" mkdir "/home/landon/scripts/HIPPO" 2) ran shell in command prompt and it worked perfectly. 3) created a text file : */1 * * *

Re: SSH error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2009-04-22 Thread Sam Snitman
Unfortunately rolling back the security changes does not seem to help. Here is the latest sftp attempt: >sftp -v ftpu...@65.38.96.67 Connecting to 65.38.96.67... OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to 65.38.96.6

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 22 14:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Hmm. This would mean that you can't debug glob/noglob using strace > though... I guess I'll check in a fix for the common case where you > don't want to be surprised by having your quoted wildcards expanded. > The other case is probably only useful for

Re: The Ghostly Install Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 22 12:10, Wayne Watson wrote: > However, that's exactly what it says in the choice, redhat. Why don't > you look? It's about 20 lines down in the list of download sites. There > is no log that I know now for the gatech download. There is need to > pursue this any longer. I'm installed. I'm d

Re: The Ghostly Install Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Wayne Watson
However, that's exactly what it says in the choice, redhat. Why don't you look? It's about 20 lines down in the list of download sites. There is no log that I know now for the gatech download. There is need to pursue this any longer. I'm installed. I'm done on this question of installation. Chris

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 02:31:02PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:08:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Apr 22 12:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>> >> In other words, strace is mistakenly performing

Re: SSH error: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2009-04-22 Thread Sam Snitman
Andrew/Jakob, The following is the result of the sftp command with the -v parameter: >sftp -v ftpu...@65.38.96.67 Connecting to 65.38.96.67... OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to 65.38.96.67 [65.38.96.67] port

Re: Updated: cygutils-1.3.3-1

2009-04-22 Thread David Rothenberger
On 4/22/2009 10:32 AM, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: dos2unix is broken. It produce no output despite any input. I have had to revert to the previous version. The following fixes the problem for me: % mkdir /usr/bin/.libs % ln -s /usr/bin/conv.exe /usr/bin/.libs That's not a real solution, just a

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:08:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Apr 22 12:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> >> In other words, strace is mistakenly performing glob expansion on the >> >> subsidiary arguments to the program being tr

Re: Updated: cygutils-1.3.3-1

2009-04-22 Thread Jerry D. Hedden
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Cygutils is a collection of useful(?) tools for the cygwin > platform. This is a feature enhancement release. > > [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999 ]] > > This will most likely be the final cygutils update for the cygwin-1.5 > distribution; fu

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 22 12:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >> In other words, strace is mistakenly performing glob expansion on the > >> subsidiary arguments to the program being traced, when we really wanted to > >> trace ls with a literal argument o

Re: The Ghostly Install Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:30:20AM -0700, Wayne Watson wrote: > As posted earlier, I downloaded the install via redhat/redwire, and then > found no way to complete the install. I did get 16M of files. I went > through the same source a few hours ago, redhat/redwire, but asked for the > install t

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 06:49:44AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> In other words, strace is mistakenly performing glob expansion on the >> subsidiary arguments to the program being traced, when we really wanted to >> trace ls with a literal argument of "*". > >And this strace limitation (bug?) was jus

Re: The Ghostly Install Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Wayne Watson
gatech worked fine. I'm installed. I guess a possible lesson here is stay away from redhat/redwire. Apparently, they have their own agenda. Wayne Watson wrote: As posted earlier, I downloaded the install via redhat/redwire, and then found no way to complete the install. I did get 16M of files.

Re: The Ghostly Install Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Wayne Watson wrote: As posted earlier, I downloaded the install via redhat/redwire, and then found no way to complete the install. I did get 16M of files. I went through the same source a few hours ago, redhat/redwire, but asked for the install to be carried out via the internet, no download ch

Re: How to update cygwin and installed packages?

2009-04-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jeff Gold wrote: Is there a way to install and update cygwin packages from the command line? Something resembling yum on Fedora and apt on Debian and Ubuntu would be extremely helpful, particularly for setting up a new system. Manually picking through a list of packages is tedious and error pron

Re: How to update cygwin and installed packages?

2009-04-22 Thread Jeff Gold
Is there a way to install and update cygwin packages from the command line? Something resembling yum on Fedora and apt on Debian and Ubuntu would be extremely helpful, particularly for setting up a new system. Manually picking through a list of packages is tedious and error prone, while a command

The Ghostly Install Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Wayne Watson
As posted earlier, I downloaded the install via redhat/redwire, and then found no way to complete the install. I did get 16M of files. I went through the same source a few hours ago, redhat/redwire, but asked for the install to be carried out via the internet, no download choice this time. Afte

endless loop while setup under Windows XP

2009-04-22 Thread Frank Seelisch
Ok, maybe my initial mail was a bit too detailed... Let me try to ask this once again, straight to the point: Why does my cygwin installation get caught in an endless loop? See the setup.log's: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/setup.log and http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seelisch/set

Re: cron does not do anything

2009-04-22 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
- Original Message - From: "Ting Zhou" <> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:20 PM Right on, Pierre! Thanks a lot for the clue. Finally I figured it out. There were two problems. The first problem, yes, I was a bit impatient and should've waited one more minute. It seems crontab change

Re: [openssh] service with domain user

2009-04-22 Thread Julio Costa
> "Why do the first 'editrights' command fails?" Because I'm trying to do 'editrights' with a cygwin user, when editrights only accepts *Windows* users - duh! Once again, I took it for granted something that it just isn't there... So, forget this question, sorry for the noise... ___ Juli

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 4/22/2009 6:24 AM: > COMPREPLY=($( awk 'BEGIN {FS=","} > /^\s*[^|\#]/ {for (i=1; i<=2; ++i) { \ > gsub(" .*$", "", $i); \ >

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ken Brown on 4/22/2009 5:58 AM: >> It is maybe getting globbed on the command-line because not >> protected by >> quoting and it contains pattern match chars? > > The text in question is in the definition of _known_hosts() in > /etc/bas

Re: [1.7] Backslash incorrectly triggers DOS style path warning

2009-04-22 Thread Ken Brown
On 4/21/2009 10:06 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Cygwin isn't scanning command lines looking for backslashes to scold you about. Glad to hear it The line in question was somehow used as an argument to open() or stat() or

Re: Copying/Pasting in Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Andy Koppe
Xterm supports an OSC sequence for accessing the clipboard/selection. I don't know whether vim or emacs have support for this though. From http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html: OSC P s ; P t BEL ... P s = 5 2 → Manipulate Selection Data. These controls may be disabled using the a

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

2009-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 21 22:18, Eric Blake wrote: >> The bug was that isblank(-1) was blindly treated as if were equivalent >> with isblank(0xff), which, in some locales, is flat out wrong >> (isblank(EOF) should always be 0, even when isblank(0xff) is well-defined >> as 1). Broken apps

Re: Copying/Pasting in Cygwin

2009-04-22 Thread Fergus
Are you using X? If you are, then you could try including -clipboard as an option for XWin: e.g. run XWin -clipboard -nolisten local -multiwindow 2>nul & (or however you usually start X up). This will put text selected for copy-ing into the Windows clipboard. If you are not using X, then I am s

Re: [openssh] service with domain user

2009-04-22 Thread Julio Costa
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 18:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Well, PTC.  If you have a domain account, its rights are usually > administered centralized. Not here. > Who are we to change the user rights locally > for that user?  That's the responsibility of the admins. Precisely. In this context,

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

2009-04-22 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 22:18, Eric Blake wrote: > The bug was that isblank(-1) was blindly treated as if were equivalent > with isblank(0xff), which, in some locales, is flat out wrong > (isblank(EOF) should always be 0, even when isblank(0xff) is well-defined > as 1). Broken apps can't tell the difference bet