Re: emacs installed but won't run

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Blair
Thank you for your help. "cygcheck emacs" produced the output below. After I used setup to install the "lib" and "X11" packages, I am happy to report I have a working emacs. However, (1) Although "info emacs" works, C-h does not provide any help options (2) C-x C-c does not exit emacs, alt

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Jerry DeLisle
On 09/14/2009 02:04 AM, Dave Korn wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Nah, hang on, I'll give the psychic debugging a go. I'm getting something the spirits are talking... or maybe it's just the beer... and they tell me: The problem is that the CPUID instruction in your virtual machine is returnin

tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-14 Thread Charles Wilson
Redirected from cygwin-patches: Dave Korn wrote: > Granted that the whole _TIMEVAL_DEFINED/__USE_W32_SOCKETS thing is basically > an ugly and undesirable hack, but until we have a plan to fix the whole > tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight combo (as well as gnat), I figure we have to > live with it,

Re: PostgerSQL startup script bug

2009-09-14 Thread Reini Urban
Huang Bambo schrieb: The cygwin 1.7 don't need “server” tag in CYGWIN environment but the start up of postgresql 8.2.11 checked this tag. code: 131 check_cygserver() { 132 # Check for running cygserver processes first. 133 if ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -q cygserver 134 then 135

Re: ClamAV antivirus v.0.95 - When?

2009-09-14 Thread Reini Urban
Alexey Lyubimov schrieb: The current version of the Cygwin's port of ClamAV is 0.94-2. The canonical stable version is 0.95.2. Freshclam says that the installed version is OUTDATED, and clamav.net/support/faq recommends to upgrade immediately. So, what about the newest version for Cygwin? Is it

Re: Re: GNU screen 4.0.3-1 -- Spawns a screen.exe cmd window when launched

2009-09-14 Thread Joel Eidsath
The 1.7 beta works for me. Thank you. -- Joel Eidsath -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: GNU screen 4.0.3-1 -- Spawns a screen.exe cmd window when launched

2009-09-14 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/9/14 Joel Eidsath: > When I launch screen by typing 'screen' at the basic Cygwin bash prompt, a > screen.exe cmd window launches and stays open for the entire screen session. > > I only see this behavior with Windows 7. Cygwin 1.7 has a workaround for the Windows 7 bug that causes this. It wo

GNU screen 4.0.3-1 -- Spawns a screen.exe cmd window when launched

2009-09-14 Thread Joel Eidsath
When I launch screen by typing 'screen' at the basic Cygwin bash prompt, a screen.exe cmd window launches and stays open for the entire screen session. I only see this behavior with Windows 7. -- Joel Eidsath -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: ht

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> >> This is new behavior with 1.7 and it's there to mimic what one sees in >> Linux.  I can't reproduce your reported results in Fedora 8.  For me, if I >> am 'root', I can see the contents of 'foo.txt' just fine

Re: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151

2009-09-14 Thread Lee
On 9/14/09, Judy Anderson wrote: .. snip .. > Except on my usual development machine, where I get the error: > > E:\yduJ> c:\cygwin\bin\tar cf foo.tar --format=ustar foo > /usr/bin/tar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151 > /usr/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous err

Re: C++ script doesn't work using g++

2009-09-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 02:09:59PM +, Gery Herbozo Jimenez wrote: >Thanks Jeremy and yes, in the message I forgot to put the and >respectively, but my script has them and however it doesn't work. I >now know cygwin doesn't support borland c++, and thanks for the posts >about it. I have to sta

Re: subversion hangs on svn up using 1.6.4 & 1.6.5

2009-09-14 Thread David Rothenberger
On 9/13/2009 1:46 PM, John Bito wrote: I'm not sure how to diagnose this problem, as svn up produces no output and svn admin recover says: svnadmin: Expected repository format '3' or '5'; found format '10' I imagine that the format 10 indicates that the repository is corrupt. Do you have any s

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I do not have Fedora but Kubuntu (8.04 and 9.04). On Kubuntu the user > created in the installation step, say 'pippo', is also 'root' in the sense > that 'pippo' needs 'sudo' (or 'sudo su') for administrative usage. OK, then, big differen

RE: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Angelo Graziosi wrote on Monday, September 14, 2009 9:27 AM: > Mark J. Reed wrote: >> That makes no sense. "sudo" means "run as root". If you're already >> root, there's no need for sudo, and most systems don't even allow root >> to run the sudo command. > > I do not mean that 'root' need 'sudo

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Mark J. Reed wrote: Administrative users on Windows are treated as equivalent to root by Cygwin. I know that. If you're saying that admin users should have to use sudo or equivalent to gain elevated access in Cygwin, then that's a feature request. Does it match what Windows does? Outside of

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Mark J. Reed wrote: That makes no sense. "sudo" means "run as root". If you're already root, there's no need for sudo, and most systems don't even allow root to run the sudo command. I do not mean that 'root' need 'sudo'. It sounds to me like your Fedora I do not have Fedora but Kubuntu (

RE: C++ script doesn't work using g++

2009-09-14 Thread Gery Herbozo Jimenez
Thanks Jeremy and yes, in the message I forgot to put the and respectively, but my script has them and however it doesn't work. I now know cygwin doesn't support borland c++, and thanks for the posts about it. I have to start working under c++ now! more interesting and wonderful work :).

RE: C++ script doesn't work using g++

2009-09-14 Thread Gery Herbozo Jimenez
Thanks for your answer Larry. I'll try in the same way you did. It's a pity cygwin doesn't support borland c++. Cheers, Gery > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:57:22 -0400 > From: reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com > To: gameji...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re:

Optional command -R of inetd service

2009-09-14 Thread Tomohiko Nakagawa
Hi,I have the following problems now. 【use of cygwin】 I executed to use "Remote Command(rcp/rsh)" from Solaris to Windows and 【Problem】 Problem is "Stop" the system during File transfer and windows bat module moving. 【Factor】 The number of issues of remote commands(rcp/rsh) exceeded the upper b

Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151

2009-09-14 Thread Judy Anderson
I need to send a collection of files to a Z/OS machine from a windows machine. When we were on Windows 2000, we just used "pax". But apparently Microsoft has discontinued pax in Win2003. So we searched for a solution. Cygwin tar SAID it would produce pax format files, but the Z/OS machine do

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: > Why 'root' should read, for example, private mails of the other simple > users of that PC? Root is the superuser. Root is the administrative account. Root can do anything. The sysadmin /has/ to be able to access all the files on a system, it is a necessary part of ad

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I do not know how Fedora works, but on Kubuntu the user created when > installing the SO is also 'root': one need only to use 'sudo...'. After > typing the password it 'remains active'  for about 15 minute. That makes no sense. "sudo" mean

sshd -- "Note that the CYGWIN=ntsec setting is required for public key authentication"

2009-09-14 Thread Dmitry Semyonov
Hello all, I recently had to switch CYGWIN environment of sshd service from 'ntsec' to 'nontsec' (because of 'sed -i' breaking inherited access rights to some files used by native Windows apps). All seem to work fine after the change, including public key logins to modified sshd, but $subj quote f

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > Nah, hang on, I'll give the psychic debugging a go. forehead, covering eyes, waves other hand out in front of me in a > mystical-looking way> I'm getting something the spirits are talking... or > maybe it's just the beer... and they tell me: The problem is that the CPU

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > Jerry DeLisle wrote: > >> gdb says: >> (gdb) r >> Starting program: /home/jerry/prs/test/a.exe >> [New thread 162.0xa9] >> [New thread 162.0x8e] >> >> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. >> set_fpu () at ./fpu-target.h:80 >> 80 ./fpu-target.h: No such file

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Jerry DeLisle wrote: > gdb says: > (gdb) r > Starting program: /home/jerry/prs/test/a.exe > [New thread 162.0xa9] > [New thread 162.0x8e] > > Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. > set_fpu () at ./fpu-target.h:80 > 80 ./fpu-target.h: No such file or directory. > in ./

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: This is new behavior with 1.7 and it's there to mimic what one sees in Linux. I can't reproduce your reported results in Fedora 8. For me, if I am 'root', I can see the contents of 'foo.txt' just fine with the permissions you have set on it. I do not know how Fedora