RE: du returns inconsistent results

2010-02-10 Thread Paul Shabash
Hello, When I run "du -b dir" several times with the same directory as input, sometimes I get a smaller size the first time I run it than the subsequent times I run it.  I.e. the second, third, fourth, etc. try will all return identical sizes, but the first is smaller. The difference in size is

Re: Perl module installing issue

2010-02-10 Thread Gary
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:13:50AM +0200, Ivaylo Terziyski wrote: > > Installing perl module with perl -MCPAN -e "shell": > > > CPAN.pm: Going to build R/RG/RGIERSIG/IO-Tty-1.08.tar.gz > > Now let's see what we can find out about your system > (logfiles of failing tests are available in the c

Re: About SystemC installation in Cygwin

2010-02-10 Thread Andy Koppe
Mohammad Qayum: > 'configure' didn't succeed. What could be the > potential cause of configure failure Anything. Look at configure's output, it will usually tell you. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Fwd: [gcc] FYI, libffi FAILs with cygwin snapshot 20100205, 20100207 & 20100210...

2010-02-10 Thread Christian Joensson
maybe this would have been appropriate, sorry for the other postings... -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Joensson Date: 2010/2/10 Subject: Re: [gcc] FYI, libffi FAILs with cygwin snapshot 20100207 & 20100210... To: cygwin-develop...@cygwin.com Kopia: Dave Korn 2010/

Re: cron & Windows 7

2010-02-10 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, On 11/02/2010 3:28 AM, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: I got reports that cron is having problems with Cygwin 1.7.1 on Windows 7 - 32 bits. They occur only with seteuid method 1, not with method 2 nor method 3. Based purely on the above (and not the rest of the report... sorry) I suspect it migh

starting /usr/bin/ssh using run.exe is broken?

2010-02-10 Thread Hari Krishna Dara
I have been using this setting: "c:\cygwin\bin\run.exe /usr/bin/ssh" in one of the native windows app (specifically TortoiseSVN) that points to the path of ssh client. This has been working fine for the last 1yr, but after I updated cygwin to 1.7.1 ssh started to just hang. If I set the path direct

Re: R: aclocal problem

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:44:58PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote: >--- Mer 10/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > >> On Feb? 9 19:59, Marco Atzeri >> wrote: >> > --- Mar 9/2/10, Marco Atzeri ha scritto: >> > >> > > Hi, >> > > working on the last octave development source, >> > > recently I bumped on

about cmd /c and Quote

2010-02-10 Thread Pern
i want to run cmd like this in cygwin:  cmd /c echo "a b"      --> "a b"  cmd /c echo "ab"       -->  ab but the second cannnot work right because i really want to print out the " i also try this:  cmd /c echo '"ab"'     --> "\"ab\"" u see, the result is so strange how can i to print a " ? and

Re: Bug: select() does not modify timeout (arg 5) on return

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >According to Javier on 2/10/2010 3:29 PM: >> select() call with specified timeout in argument 5 is not altered on return >> when time is up. >> >> on windows code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 5.0 >> on linux code below retu

Re: Bug: select() does not modify timeout (arg 5) on return

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
According to Javier on 2/10/2010 3:29 PM: > select() call with specified timeout in argument 5 is not altered on return > when time is up. > > on windows code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 5.0 > on linux code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 0.0 For Linux compatibility, it w

Re: [1.7.1] ssh key auth (pubkey) problem

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 09:08 PM, Julius Davies wrote: I've read the mailing lists and I know you guys don't think this is a bug, but I wish you'd reconsider. If you're going to reference something in your posting, it makes sense to actually provide a pointer to the threads you're referring to. This

Re: man + rxvt - cannot display special characters

2010-02-10 Thread Charles Wilson
David Means wrote: > When I run 'man ', I get unprintable characters (see example below). > > Cygwin 1.7.1, using RXVT (not via X11). Exporting TERM to various > values (vt100, vt102, vt200, ansi, xterm) doesn't have an effect. > > Got any ideas? rxvt is dumb when it comes to national languages

Re: [1.7.1] ssh key auth (pubkey) problem

2010-02-10 Thread Julius Davies
>> >> I've read the mailing lists and I know you guys don't think this is a >> bug, but I wish you'd reconsider. > > If you're going to reference something in your posting, it makes sense > to actually provide a pointer to the threads you're referring to. > This was the most useful thread (closest

setfacl -- upgrade? and/or add 'chacl'?

2010-02-10 Thread Linda Walsh
Would it be possible to replace the setfacl in cygwin with the one available in linux -- it's alot more powerful: NAME setfacl - set file access control lists SYNOPSIS setfacl [-bkndRLPvh] [{-m|-x} acl_spec] [{-M|-X} acl_file] file ... setfacl --restore=file --- Notably it has "

Re: About SystemC installation in Cygwin

2010-02-10 Thread Eliot Moss
On 2/10/2010 7:50 PM, Mohammad Qayum wrote: Yes, you are correct- 'configure' didn't succeed. What could be the potential cause of configure failure, as same files and commands work for others and, in my case, another linux machine? Hard to say ... but I do wonder what you set as the line termi

Re: About SystemC installation in Cygwin

2010-02-10 Thread Mohammad Qayum
Yes, you are correct- 'configure' didn't succeed. What could be the potential cause of configure failure, as same files and commands work for others and, in my case, another linux machine? Thanks for your help. Qayum -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

regtool gives different results than reg

2010-02-10 Thread Greg Couch
My system is a 64-bit Windows 7 system with the latest cygwin installed and Corinna's unsupported cyglsa64.dll from 29 Jan 2010. And for this bug I have the 64-bit version of Python 2.6.4 installed (not cygwin's) and I'm doing these tests on the console, not ssh (but the same bug appears when ssh

Re: [1.7.1] ssh key auth (pubkey) problem

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 05:53 PM, Julius Davies wrote: I've read the mailing lists and I know you guys don't think this is a bug, but I wish you'd reconsider. If you're going to reference something in your posting, it makes sense to actually provide a pointer to the threads you're referring to. As for y

man + rxvt - cannot display special characters

2010-02-10 Thread David Means
When I run 'man ', I get unprintable characters (see example below). Cygwin 1.7.1, using RXVT (not via X11). Exporting TERM to various values (vt100, vt102, vt200, ansi, xterm) doesn't have an effect. Got any ideas? FIND(1) FIND(1) NAME find − search for files in a directory hierar

Re: R: aclocal problem

2010-02-10 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Mer 10/2/10, Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > On Feb  9 19:59, Marco Atzeri > wrote: > > --- 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.

Re: Cygwin configuration is not saved

2010-02-10 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 2/10/2010 5:03 PM, steenreem wrote: > > Whenever I mount a drive in cygwin it works for that session. But when I > close cygwin and boot it up again then the mounted drive is gone and has to > be mounted again. I think cygwin doesn't store my configuration or You need to edit your /etc/fstab f

Cygwin configuration is not saved

2010-02-10 Thread steenreem
Whenever I mount a drive in cygwin it works for that session. But when I close cygwin and boot it up again then the mounted drive is gone and has to be mounted again. I think cygwin doesn't store my configuration or something. Also I had some other windres error concerning a temp file but I don't

[1.7.1] ssh key auth (pubkey) problem

2010-02-10 Thread Julius Davies
Hi, I've read the mailing lists and I know you guys don't think this is a bug, but I wish you'd reconsider. I don't really care that "we did things incorrectly in Cygwin 1.5 and it worked when it shouldn't have" because: 1. I don't want my little SCP accounts to be local Administrators! This i

Bug: select() does not modify timeout (arg 5) on return

2010-02-10 Thread Javier
select() call with specified timeout in argument 5 is not altered on return when time is up. on windows code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 5.0 on linux code below returns: should be 0.0 but we have: 0.0 uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 computer 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin -

Perl module installing issue

2010-02-10 Thread Ivaylo Terziyski
Installing perl module with perl -MCPAN -e "shell": CPAN.pm: Going to build R/RG/RGIERSIG/IO-Tty-1.08.tar.gz Now let's see what we can find out about your system (logfiles of failing tests are available in the conf/ dir)... ERROR: cannot run the configured compiler 'gcc' (see conf/compilerok

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 03:57 PM, Eric Backus wrote: Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes: Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN rule of any UNIX system. If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it. Regards Marco It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames w

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 08:57:29PM +, Eric Backus wrote: >Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes: > >> Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN >> rule of any UNIX system. >> If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it. >> >> Regards >> Marco > >It really doesn't matter to me

Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Backus
Marco Atzeri yahoo.it> writes: > Don't use filename with a space inside is a WELL KNOWN > rule of any UNIX system. > If MS made a stupid decision, we should not follow it. > > Regards > Marco It really doesn't matter to me whether cygport supports filenames with spaces. And it is certainly t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcsh-6.17.00.1-1

2010-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've updated the Cygwin version of tcsh to 6.17.00.1-1. This is not only an upstream version update to 6.17.00. This Cygwin version is build from the most recent CVS sources. The upstream repository has an additional patch applied which I created to make tcsh multibyte/widechar aware on systems

Re: Is it possible to use any of the cygwin programs without changing registry?

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 12:45 PM, breako wrote: Hi, so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on your file system and would also I presume update your registry. Hm. Just because the installation puts a few incidentals in the registry doesn't mean that it whole-heartedly

Re: Is it possible to use any of the cygwin programs without changing registry?

2010-02-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM, breako <> wrote: > > Hi, > so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on > your file system and would also I presume update your registry. > > I'd like to do be able to run some simple cygwin programs such as grep and > ls without havi

RE: Problem installing perl module Net::SSH::Expect

2010-02-10 Thread Ivaylo Terziyski
Yes, you were right, I hadn't installed make package. After installing I made second unsuccessful attempt to install Net::SSH::Expect: cpan[1]> install Net::SSH::Expect CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20) Going to read '/home/Ivo/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:58:03 G

Is it possible to use any of the cygwin programs without changing registry?

2010-02-10 Thread breako
Hi, so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on your file system and would also I presume update your registry. I'd like to do be able to run some simple cygwin programs such as grep and ls without having to run the set up and change my registry. I am wondering if

Re: Problem installing perl module Net::SSH::Expect

2010-02-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/10/2010 11:58 AM, Ivaylo Terziyski wrote: I do not know whether the problem is caused by missing package of Cygwin or something else ? Looks like you're missing 'make'. I would start by checking to see if you've installed the package. -- Larry Hall http://ww

Problem installing perl module Net::SSH::Expect

2010-02-10 Thread Ivaylo Terziyski
Hi, I am having the following problem installing perl module Net::SSH::Expect under Cygwin: $ perl -MCPAN -e "shell" and modules installation (v1.9402) Enter 'h' for help. cpan[1]> install Net::SSH::Expect CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20) Going to read '/home/Ivo/.cpan/Metadata

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

2010-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
Cobb, Christopher (Contr) (IS ngc.com> writes: > $ dash -c "test -x '$JAVACMD';"' echo $?' > 1 > > $ ash -c "test -x '$JAVACMD';"' echo $?' > 1 dash and ash are identical. > $ getfacl.exe "$JAVACMD" > # file: /c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_18/bin/java > # owner: Administrators > # group: SYSTE

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

2010-02-10 Thread Cobb, Christopher (Contr) (IS)
(I hate Outlook 2007. If someone can tell me how to make it mailing-list friendly, I will post correctly next time). Thank you for your response. Here is what I have: $ JAVACMD="/c/Program Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_18/bin/java" $ bash -c "test -x '$JAVACMD';"' echo $?' 0 $ dash -c "test -x '$JAVACM

Re: About SystemC installation in Cygwin

2010-02-10 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2010-02-10 08:21Z, Mohammad Qayum wrote: > > I am trying to follow a tutorial to install SystemC (www.systemc.org) > in Cygwin. I am following a simple tutorial to install Cygwin > (http://www.ht-lab.com/howto/sccygwin/sccygwin.html) Their instructions for installing Cygwin are valid: "Hop o

Re: ActiveState Perl and Cygwin How To

2010-02-10 Thread raphael()
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > raphael() wrote: >> The problem is that AS Perl cannot find the Perl script I invoke on >> the command line as the script's PATH that Cygwin reports to AS Perl >> is a unix one i.e. /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/.../bin whereas AS Perl >> requires it

Re: R: aclocal problem

2010-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 19:59, Marco Atzeri wrote: > --- 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 > >      

Re: Fwd: Problems with line endings for shell scripts

2010-02-10 Thread Jurgen Defurne
>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 o

About SystemC installation in Cygwin

2010-02-10 Thread Mohammad Qayum
Hi, I am trying to follow a tutorial to install SystemC (www.systemc.org) in Cygwin. I am following a simple tutorial to install Cygwin (http://www.ht-lab.com/howto/sccygwin/sccygwin.html) I used the following procedure to install it: 1. Download systemc-2.2.0.tgz and write to a suitable location