Re: 1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ?

2010-02-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/09 9:17 PM, William Deegan wrote: > When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I get > the following error: > ssh: Could not resolve hostname myhost.xyz.com: Non-recoverable > failure in name resolution I see you have the 'bind' package installed, so you should hav

Re: 1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ?

2010-02-09 Thread William Deegan
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 02/10/2010 12:17 AM, William Deegan wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I've just setup a win7 ultimate vm under vmware fusion. >> >> And of course, installed cygwin. >> >> When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I

Re: 1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ?

2010-02-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 12:17 AM, William Deegan wrote: Greetings, I've just setup a win7 ultimate vm under vmware fusion. And of course, installed cygwin. When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I get the following error: ssh: Could not resolve hostname myhost.xyz.com: Non-reco

1.7.1 ssh on win7 Non-recoverable failure in name resolution ?

2010-02-09 Thread William Deegan
Greetings, I've just setup a win7 ultimate vm under vmware fusion. And of course, installed cygwin. When I try to ssh to my favorite host using my favorite username I get the following error: ssh: Could not resolve hostname myhost.xyz.com: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution Any suggesti

Re: poll() on fifo read descriptor with non-zero timeout ==> segfault

2010-02-09 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/09 8:34 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Relevant threads: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-12/threads.html#00685 > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00067.html > > Bottom line: The crash is fixed but cygwin still doesn't work right. Doh! (face-palm) It looks like Enrico Fores

Re: 1.7.1: dash/ash test -x broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
According to Cobb, Christopher (Contr) (IS) on 2/9/2010 1:30 PM: > I recently upgraded to 1.7.1. > > I have noticed that dash/ash shell scripts which test for the > executability of files don't work. For example, the maven build > application comes with a 'mvn' script which contains this line: >

Re: about base-files

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Blake
According to Cyrille Lefevre on 2/9/2010 4:21 PM: > > /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh > > => should export CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning No, it should not. > > How about to add the followed lines to the beginning of the > base-files-mketc.sh script ? Better yet, it should apply this patch: -W

Re: about cron

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:21:53AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >PS : don't know why I can't submit to -apps while I'm subscribed ! I think you're probably tripping the tedium detector. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ D

about sysvinit

2010-02-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Hi, I use ksh as /bin/sh bcoz pdksh is far more performant than bash (the same heavy script takes around 2.5 mins using ksh and around 6 mins using bash !) $ ls -l /usr/bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-02-08 17:11 /usr/bin/sh -> ksh.exe But : package version : *** sysvinit-2.86-3.tar.bz2 $

about cron

2010-02-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Hi, I use ksh as /bin/sh bcoz pdksh is far more performant than bash (the same heavy script takes around 2.5 mins using ksh and around 6 mins using bash !) $ ls -l /usr/bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-02-08 17:11 /usr/bin/sh -> ksh.exe But : package version : cron-4.1-57.tar.bz2 $ cron-c

about pdksh

2010-02-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Hi, FYI package version : pdksh-5.2.14-3.tar.bz2 postinstall message : running: D:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/pdksh.sh /etc/postinstall/pdksh.sh: line 6: @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2: No such file or directory Installing default /etc/ksh.kshrc install: cannot sta

about base-files

2010-02-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Hi, FYI package version : base-files-3.9-3.tar.bz2 postinstall message : running: D:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/s

about terminfo

2010-02-09 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Hi, FYI package version : terminfo-5.7_20091114-13.tar.bz2 postinstall message : running: D:\Cygwin\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile /etc/postinstall/terminfo.sh chmod: cannot operate on dangling symlink `Eterm-color' Regards, PS : don't know why I can't submit to -apps while I'm subscribed

1.7.1: dash/ash test -x broken?

2010-02-09 Thread Cobb, Christopher (Contr) (IS)
I recently upgraded to 1.7.1. I have noticed that dash/ash shell scripts which test for the executability of files don't work. For example, the maven build application comes with a 'mvn' script which contains this line: if [ ! -x "$JAVACMD" ] ; then print error message fi This scrip

R: aclocal problem

2010-02-09 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mar 9/2/10, Marco Atzeri ha scritto: > Hi, > working on the last octave development source, > recently I bumped on: > > $ aclocal --force -I m4 > unknown channel obsolete. at > /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line 632 >         > Autom4te::Channels::msg('obsolete.', 'configure.ac:26

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:59:32AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >On 2/9/2010 11:05 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Btw, I did check the difference in http headers in the before/after >> scenario and now see a new "Expires" field but I have no way of actually >> checking this to see if it really does

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2010-02-09 Thread no-reply
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Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Young
On 2/9/2010 11:05 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: That should reduce cygwin mailing list traffic at the expense of network traffic on cygwin.com I doubt it'll make a significant difference. Browser caches turn over pretty regularly, so between any two visits, the chance that there is still a c

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:03:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints >>>that setup.exe shouldn't be cached >> >>In th

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints >>that setup.exe shouldn't be cached > >In the PTC spirit: > > > ExpiresActive On > > >

Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Anonymous bin ich
Hi! Thanks! On a second thought, I do think I chose the wrong list. Sorry... The problem with replacing bash with zsh in passwd is that somehow /etc/zprofile is not read (and $SHELL is not set, resulting in different problems). I will read further into this... thanks for the pointer. Until then,

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Young
On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints that setup.exe shouldn't be cached In the PTC spirit: ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "now" -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: telnet connected but without response

2010-02-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/09/2010 10:50 AM, Tomasz Pona wrote: Out of necessity we're using SSH now, but it looks like telnet is a lot easier to maintain and understand: we had inetd configured already and we had to enable sshd. Obviously ssh-config scripts are doing great job setting defaults, but when reading doc

Re: Fwd: Problems with line endings for shell scripts

2010-02-09 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/9/2010 2:41 AM, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > To be more complete : > > 1) These are the mount points on my portable : > > C:/Documents and Settings on /home type ntfs (binary) > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin on /

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:21:56AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: >Hello yet again, > >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: >> >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: >> > >> >> These both work: >> >> >> >> http://www.cygwin.com/se

Re: poll() on fifo read descriptor with non-zero timeout ==> segfault

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:54:26AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 6 20:52, Steven Monai wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Here is a short test case I've named "fifo-read.c": >> [...] >> Here's what happens at the command line: >> >> $ uname -a >> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 lonestar 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-0

Re: Changing interactive shell from Bash to Zsh

2010-02-09 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Anonymous bin ich wrote: > Hi! > > I am having trouble changing my shell from Bash to Zsh. If you are using the desktop shortcut the Cygwin installer created for you, you can edit c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat and change the line that starts bash. I used to use rxvt throug

Re: telnet connected but without response

2010-02-09 Thread Tomasz Pona
Charles Wilson wrote: > Bingo! telnet is an inherently unsafe technology which exchanges > passwords in plaintext, where any schmuck with a packet sniffer can see > your password. Combined that with wireless ethernet, and you're just > screaming "HACK ME!". > > If you have ANY choice in the matter,

Re: [Packaging error] c3270/tcl3270/s3270/pr3287/x3270

2010-02-09 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Hi The binaries from the following packages are missing the .exe extension. c3270-3.3.4p7-2 pr3287-3.3.4p7-2 s3270-3.3.4p7-2 tcl3270-3.3.4p7-2 Yikes! Hmm...how strange. Ok, I'll fix that. Thanks for the catch! The following package is using

Re: telnet connected but without response

2010-02-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Tomasz Pona wrote: > to Philipp: > this subject was once discussed yet on 8-9 Jan ("Vista and CYGWIN telnet") > where in conclusion Charles Wilson admitted it's a problem in inetutils. I'm currently working on an updated inetutils release based on upstream inetutils-1.7 (cygwin's current release i

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello yet again, On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> These both work: > >> > >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy! > >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_pr

Re: telnet connected but without response

2010-02-09 Thread Tomasz Pona
Hello all, to Philipp: this subject was once discussed yet on 8-9 Jan ("Vista and CYGWIN telnet") where in conclusion Charles Wilson admitted it's a problem in inetutils. Anyway seems like most members are just silently ignoring this issue... Why? Is there some obvious solution/workaround? ...nob

AW: AW: [bulk] - Re: One Problem solved other found -> dlclose not calling destructors

2010-02-09 Thread DEWI - N. Zacharias
Moin Moin, > Von: Dave Korn [mailto:dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com] > Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Februar 2010 15:30 > An: Dave Korn > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com > Betreff: Re: AW: [bulk] - Re: One Problem solved other found -> dlclose not > calling destructors > > On 05/02/2010 14:12, Dave Korn wrote: >

Re: poll() on fifo read descriptor with non-zero timeout ==> segfault

2010-02-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 6 20:52, Steven Monai wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here is a short test case I've named "fifo-read.c": > [...] > Here's what happens at the command line: > > $ uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.1 lonestar 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin > > $ gcc-4 -Wall -Werror -ansi -pedantic -o fifo-read

Fwd: Problems with line endings for shell scripts

2010-02-09 Thread Jurgen Defurne
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Defurne, Jurgen wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > Jeremy Bopp > Sent: 2010 feb 08 16:20 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Problems with line endings for shell scripts > > On