Re: Cygwin needs a man-db port

op 17-04-14 20:32, Chris J. Breisch schreef: Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, The major linux distributions have switched for their man system to 'man-db' (http://man-db.nongnu.org/) in favour of the classic man. I think that Cygwin should also switch to man-db. man-db is much better in handling

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tar-1.27.1-1

A new release of tar, 1.27.1-1, is available, leaving 1.26-1 as the previous version. This is my first build for 64-bit cygwin (the previous build was supplied by others as part of bootstrapping the platform). NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Upstream release notes are attached. See a

Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin

Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > HTH, Corinna Indeed it does. Thanks. -- 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: Mount / Access is Denied

On 3/8/2014 12:50 AM, Cicero Silva Luiz Junior wrote: My OS is Windows 8.1 x64. UAC is on, behavior set as Prompt for Credentials on Secure Desktop. Only elavate executables that are signed and only elevate apps in secure locations settings are both on. Any help is greatly appreciated. I just r

RE: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

> -Original Message- > Of Ken Brown > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 4:38 PM > Subject: Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so > > On 4/15/2014 12:13 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 4/15/2014 12:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >>> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:08:15 -0700 > >>> From:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sqlite3-3.8.4.3-1 for Cygwin/Cygwin64

SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine Changes since 3.8.4.1-1 = * Updated to upstream 3.8.4.3 release. See: * One new Cygwin package:

Re: Fatal error from Cygwin emacs-w32 every day or so

On 4/15/2014 12:13 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 4/15/2014 12:12 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 21:08:15 -0700 From: Ken Brown I just saw it die, and this is the bt I get: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000100551354 in wait_reading_process_output (

Cygwin won't run web2py but gives no errors iether

While this issue came about trying to install web2py on Cygwin, as per http://killer-web-development.com/section/2/5, I do think that it is more an issue with my Cygwin install. When I try and do the step " ./web2py.py" Nothing happens. How do I confirm where the issue lies i.e. with my Cygwin

Re: "Bad Address" response to many net tools after updating cygwin x86_64 1.7.29

On Apr 19 20:18, repudi8or repu wrote: > I decided to update my cygwin x86_64 environment a few days back out > of concern about the openssh heartbleed bug. > > Since that time most of my network tools no longer work as expected, > reporting "Bad address" as the failure reason > > Here are some s

Re: core-dump, cygwin64-only in locate in 4.5.11.1

On Apr 18 16:04, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/15/2014 03:32 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 14 14:55, Linda Walsh wrote: > >> I updated 77 cygwin pkgs Mar 19, and since have had > >> problems running > >> 'locate' to completion... it dumps core at what > >> appears to be the end of showing file

"Bad Address" response to many net tools after updating cygwin x86_64 1.7.29

I decided to update my cygwin x86_64 environment a few days back out of concern about the openssh heartbleed bug. Since that time most of my network tools no longer work as expected, reporting "Bad address" as the failure reason Here are some samples:- rep@WinServer:~$ ping 192.168.1.1 -bash: /c

Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

On Apr 19 00:41, Andy wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: > >On 04/18/2014 06:36 PM, Andy wrote: > >> I'm curious about the circumstance that allows a file that is > >> readable and executable by all to invisible to cygwin. Just > >> something to be aware of when using cygwin, that so