Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 16/02/2014 06:54, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Gerry Reno! No kidding. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Truly. I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a I'm not talking about using MSI to install Cygwin. Reading your own original message, which you shamel

Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Marco Atzeri! >> I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a >> deferred copy of some files into /usr/local/bin >> and /usr/local/etc. >> >> The copies into /usr/local/bin succeed fine. >> >> The copies into /usr/local/etc always get Access denied. >> >> I've

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! >> It provide no information at all in any event (be it missing argument, or >> nonexistent path (not like it's checking for existence right now... which >> only >> making situation more complicated)), requiring non-obvious, manually >> conceived >> tests to ensur

Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 16/02/2014 03:12, Gerry Reno wrote: I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a deferred copy of some files into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc. The copies into /usr/local/bin succeed fine. The copies into /usr/local/etc always get Access denied. I've tried swa

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/16/2014 1:21 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: It provide no information at all in any event (be it missing argument, or nonexistent path (not like it's checking for existence right now... which only making situation more complicated)), requiring non-obvious, manually conceived tests to ensure that

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, m0viefreak! > I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch, > but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present: > cygpath --help > states > -i, --ignore ignore missing argument With "that patch", this option can be dropped altoge

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/16/2014 12:40 AM, m0viefreak wrote: I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch, but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present: cygpath --help states -i, --ignore ignore missing argument which outputs nothing if you pass it an e

Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gerry Reno! > No kidding. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU Truly. >>> I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a > I'm not talking about using MSI to install Cygwin. Reading your own original message, which you shamelessly pushed behind, you are. > I'm ta

Re: seteuid 1019: Operation not permitted

2014-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/15/2014 7:08 PM, Evan Rowley wrote: Everyone! I finally figured out what the problem was here. A group policy was in effect on the Windows machine. The group policy is supposed to enforce the baseline security configuration as defined by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmark for

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread m0viefreak
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to accomplish with that patch, but it looks to me as if everything you want is already present: cygpath --help states -i, --ignore ignore missing argument which outputs nothing if you pass it an empty argument (or even without any further ar

Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Gerry Reno
No kidding. I'm not talking about using MSI to install Cygwin. I'm talking about using an MSI installer which calls out to the regular Cygwin setup and lets it do the Cygwin install. Then when Cygwin setup is finished then files are copied into the Cygwin installation. Understand now? On 02

Re: Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Gerry Reno! > I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a > deferred copy of some files into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc. Cygwin distribution does not come in a form of MSI installer. Please use supported installation methods (links available at the end

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > P.S. > I've tried to rebuild it myself, but hit a roadblock. Had to get appropriately tired before I realized, what make tried to tell me. > make: *** No rule to make target > '/c/dev/sdc1/cygwin/build/winsup/cygwin/Makefile', needed by > '/c/dev/sdc1/cygwin/build/

Installer cannot write to Cygwin's /usr/local/etc

2014-02-15 Thread Gerry Reno
I have a Windows MSI installer that first loads Cygwin and then has a deferred copy of some files into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc. The copies into /usr/local/bin succeed fine. The copies into /usr/local/etc always get Access denied. I've tried swapping them and same behavior. The files

Re: seteuid 1019: Operation not permitted

2014-02-15 Thread Evan Rowley
Everyone! I finally figured out what the problem was here. A group policy was in effect on the Windows machine. The group policy is supposed to enforce the baseline security configuration as defined by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmark for Windows Servers. One particular Local User

in6addr_any declaration

2014-02-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
on /usr/include/cygwin/in6.h extern const struct in6_addr in6addr_any; extern const struct in6_addr in6addr_loopback; should not a __declspec(dllimport) be added ? Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! >> >> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath. >> >> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently >> >> return an empty result without error message. >> >> This would greatly simplify wrapper scripts. >> >> > Why isn

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: octave-3.8.0-2 and octave-forge

2014-02-15 Thread Marco Atzeri
New versions 3.8.0-2 of octave, octave-devel, octave-doc are available in the Cygwin distribution: CHANGES This is a mainstream first release of 3.8.x series deployed Full changes: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/NEWS-3.8.html Main difference: there are now 2 octave main binaries

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: OpenSSH-6.5p1-1

2014-02-15 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Corinna Vinschen writes: > I've just updated the Cygwin version of OpenSSH to 6.5p1-1. Just to keep other folk from wasting time -- this release has a known bug upstream, in that hostnames from the command-line are always down-cased. This means that if you have e.g. mixed case pseudo-host entrie

Re: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 14 23:43, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! > > > On 2/14/2014 1:22 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: > >> Greetings, All! > >> > >> I would like to request a small functional change for cygpath. > >> In the event of empty given path argument (i.e. `cygpath -ml ""') silently > >>

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 14 22:48, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2014-02-14 11:48 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > Oh, hang on. I'm a tcsh gal, so I set /bin/tcsh in my AD domain entry. > > However, the default is *not* /bin/bash, but /bin/sh at the moment. I'm > > a bit fuzzy on bash, but does bash read the .bachrc file

Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-02-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 14 13:11, Warren Young wrote: > On 2/14/2014 03:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 13 17:30, Warren Young wrote: > >>On 2/13/2014 07:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > >>> Apart from power shell scripting or inventing new CLI tools, these > >>> attributes can be changed using the "Attr

Re: Cygwin SSH and msysGit

2014-02-15 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:23:30PM +0200, Someone Somebody wrote: > 1. Can Cygwin's Git inter operate with a clone from msysGit? at least > for push/pull purposes? In my experience, Git clones made using one build of Git are fully compatable with another build -- the repository format does not cha

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-02-15 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:11:44AM +0100, Alexander Kriegisch wrote: > I am wondering if this version will ever make it into the official > distribution and be auto-updated when I run setup*.exe. Is there any > progress? Just wondering, not demanding anything... As the (hopefully) incoming maintan

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-4.8.2-3 (x86_64)

2014-02-15 Thread JonY
I have rebuilt gcc for 64bit Cygwin, this time, internals are in /usr/lib to get around failures when gcc is called from /bin. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the emai

Re: Maintainer for git?

2014-02-15 Thread Alexander Kriegisch
I am wondering if this version will ever make it into the official distribution and be auto-updated when I run setup*.exe. Is there any progress? Just wondering, not demanding anything... -- Alexander Kriegisch > Am 21.01.2014 um 00:29 schrieb Steven Penny : > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:55 A