user-group relationship problem

2012-05-14 Thread Fedin Pavel
Looks like i've figured out why NFS sometimes becomes unresponsive. This can be uid/gid problem. I have a local used named 'nfsd' to run the server. Here is its line from what mkpasswd -l reports. Note its GID=513. nfsd:unused:1010:513:nfsd,U-fedinw7x64\nfsd,S-1-5-21-2187549510-2720235518-410

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-14 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
m...@kalani.com writes: > Could you please explain more into detail on how to obtain a PS1? What else can we tell you? You've been explained how to learn about it, and you haven't. What can we do? > Run 'man bash' and look for PS1. Remove the '\u@\h' part. To make > the change permanent, set y

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-14 Thread max
Hello Greg, Could you please explain more into detail on how to obtain a PS1? Mahalo, Max On 2012-05-14 21:19Z, m...@kalani.com wrote: I am installing cygwin on a new computer and I was told that the green "username@computername ' " is supposed to be hidden, and that I somehow

Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less"

2012-05-14 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 15/05/2012 02:21, Cyrille Lefevre a écrit : Le 12/05/2012 12:57, Corinna Vinschen a écrit : On May 12 03:08, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: unfortunatelly, most doesn't exist yet under cygwin :-( http://cygwin.com/setup.html well, and then ?! forgive me, I tought you redirect me on setup.exe

Re: [feature] alias "more" to "less"

2012-05-14 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 12/05/2012 12:57, Corinna Vinschen a écrit : On May 12 03:08, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: Le 11/05/2012 18:23, Larry Hall (Cygwin) a écrit : On 5/11/2012 9:35 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Noel Grandin sent the following at Friday, May 11, 2012 4:33 AM It seems that pretty much a

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-14 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2012-05-14 21:19Z, m...@kalani.com wrote: > I am installing cygwin on a new computer and I was told that the green > "username@computername ' " is supposed to be hidden, and that I > somehow installed Cygwin improperly. That's a normal part of the default bash prompt. (Perhaps your employer w

Re: Username and Computer Name

2012-05-14 Thread René Berber
On 5/14/2012 4:19 PM, m...@kalani.com wrote: I am installing cygwin on a new computer and I was told that the green "username@computername ' " is supposed to be hidden, and that I somehow installed Cygwin improperly. That's not true, whoever told you that is either joking or making fun at you

Re: problem with find's -size and -exec options

2012-05-14 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/14/2012 04:29 PM, j. k. colligan wrote: > Friends - > > I just noticed a difference in behavior between Cygwin's "find" and > the one in Linux, or > so it seems. > > I was trying to locate files smaller than a given size, and thus ran > > find . -size -4000c > > That worked, and liste

Re: problem with find's -size and -exec options

2012-05-14 Thread René Berber
On 5/14/2012 5:29 PM, j. k. colligan wrote: I just noticed a difference in behavior between Cygwin's "find" and the one in Linux, or so it seems. I was trying to locate files smaller than a given size, and thus ran find . -size -4000c That worked, and listed the file names only for files

Re: strace crashes when given the --pid option

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:20:55PM -0400, Ken Brown wrote: >In a Cygwin terminal: > >$ strace --version >strace (cygwin) 1.7.15 >System Trace >Copyright (C) 2000 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc. >This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO >warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY

problem with find's -size and -exec options

2012-05-14 Thread j. k. colligan
Friends - I just noticed a difference in behavior between Cygwin's "find" and the one in Linux, or so it seems. I was trying to locate files smaller than a given size, and thus ran     find . -size -4000c That worked, and listed the file names only for files < 4000 bytes in size.  But if I run

Username and Computer Name

2012-05-14 Thread max
I am installing cygwin on a new computer and I was told that the green "username@computername ' " is supposed to be hidden, and that I somehow installed Cygwin improperly. Could someone please explain how to hide or setup cygwin properly to not show this? Mahalo, Max -- Problem reports

Re: GVim slow to respond (emacs-X11 too)

2012-05-14 Thread Ken Jackson
Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:55PM -0400 K Stahl wrote: > What I am witnessing is that if you hold down any of these keys, the > cursor remains in place until the key is released. I'm seeing about the same think in emacs-X11. I hold down an arrow key and the cursor stays still until I release it a

strace crashes when given the --pid option

2012-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
In a Cygwin terminal: $ strace --version strace (cygwin) 1.7.15 System Trace Copyright (C) 2000 - 2012 Red Hat, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ cat In a second Cygwin te

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 14/05/2012 12:30 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote: On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. No. Mailing lists are in

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:37:08PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Christopher Faylor writes: >> Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of >> the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track >> this down. > >This is happening on a few debian lists as well,

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:30:49AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: >On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >>> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >>> list and not a vBulletin type forum. >> >> I second the mot

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Rousell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/05/2012 19:30, Daniel Colascione wrote: > On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: >> Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >>> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >>> list and not a vBulletin type for

GVim slow to respond

2012-05-14 Thread K Stahl
Modified from my original email on the XFree mailing list: After updating yesterday (2012-05-10) I am experiencing the following behavior when using GVim within an X-Session: While scrolling through a file in visual mode using either "H", "J", "K", or "L", the cursor is slow to respond. What I a

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Daniel Colascione
On 5/14/12 11:12 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: > Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: >> As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing >> list and not a vBulletin type forum. > > I second the motion. > No. Mailing lists are infinitely easier to filter, archive, and

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Ken Jackson
Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:46PM -0400 LMH wrote: > As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing > list and not a vBulletin type forum. I second the motion. -Ken Jackson -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/fa

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread LMH
As an aside, I've wondered for some time why this group is a mailing list and not a vBulitin type forum. Would not such spam be easier to control with forum admin tools? At least a user needs to sign up (possibly with some form of CAPTCHA) and the account needs to be approved and activated. At

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Achim Gratz
Christopher Faylor writes: > Actually, if you, or anyone, gets one of these please send a copy of > the message to postmaster. Include all headers so that we can track > this down. This is happening on a few debian lists as well, Google will show you. It is unconcluive if he's even subscribed to

Re: CYGWIN inode over Samba share not constructed from IndexNumber

2012-05-14 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:53:49PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > On May 11 14:15, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:58:43PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On May 11 12:56, starlight.201...@binnacle.cx wrote: > > > > /**

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:36:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote: >>A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot >>com list, I received this, >> >>seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some >>

Re: Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Andr? Bleau wrote: >A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot >com list, I received this, > >seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some >joe1assitly at gmail dot com. How very annoying. I've already nuked some

Re: installing rsh and rlogin servers - rshd and rlogind

2012-05-14 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 05/13/2012 01:13 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Marilo wrote: I am surprised /usr/sbin isn't in the PATH though.. Why should the system/server bin be a part of the _user_ PATH? That could cause issues of starting/stopping a server unaware. Why would a user type rsh

Re: "emacs -nw" hangs in a terminal

2012-05-14 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/14/2012 8:29 AM, Ken Jackson wrote: Recently, emacs in a terminal started hanging: /usr/bin/emacs -nw --no-init-file --no-site-file I had to kill it from another terminal window. But I noticed /usr/bin/emacs points through alternatives to /usr/bin/emacs-X11, so I started calling /usr/

Someone is pretending to be some Cygwin's support

2012-05-14 Thread André Bleau
Hi, A few minutes after sending my last post to the cygwin at cygwin dot com list, I received this, seemingly from cygwin at cygwin dot com, but really from some joe1assitly at gmail dot com. --- __

"emacs -nw" hangs in a terminal

2012-05-14 Thread cygwin
Recently, emacs in a terminal started hanging: /usr/bin/emacs -nw --no-init-file --no-site-file I had to kill it from another terminal window. But I noticed /usr/bin/emacs points through alternatives to /usr/bin/emacs-X11, so I started calling /usr/bin/emacs-nox directly. (Actually I modifie

Re: autorebase

2012-05-14 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Marc Girod! > Did I miss an announcement? Yes. > I notice now in my setup log: > 2012/05/14 10:27:13 running: cmd.exe /c > "C:\cygwin\etc\postinstall\autorebase.bat" > Does this mean that I do not need anymore to run in an ash shell: > ./rebaseall && ./peflagsall Yes. > followed

autorebase

2012-05-14 Thread Marc Girod
Hi, Did I miss an announcement? I notice now in my setup log: 2012/05/14 10:27:13 running: cmd.exe /c "C:\cygwin\etc\postinstall\autorebase.bat" Does this mean that I do not need anymore to run in an ash shell: ./rebaseall && ./peflagsall followed with (in bash): perlrebase ...after an updat

Re: RPC inconsistency

2012-05-14 Thread Fedin Pavel
On 14.05.2012 9:41, Fedin Pavel wrote: 2. ti-rpc should come with more advanced port mapper (google told me it's named rpcbind). ti-rpc library can't work with old portmap. After some more debugging... 1. In fact they should be interoperable. If UNIX socket fails, ti-rpc library tries backward