Re: Many Cygwin (mintty) windows - How to close all?

2009-10-09 Thread Arun Biyani
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: Is there some sort of Cygwin command that - 1. Closes all Mintty windows 2. Unloads services - such as cron 3. Exits X server in short, gets rid of all Cygwin processes so I can update & restart without having to do all this myself. I use the attached script (run it elev

RE: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

2009-03-06 Thread Arun Biyani
>> http://directedge.us/content/winhotkey >> When I execute "minty" using winhotkey, I get bash: [: too many arguments This is BASH 3.2 - DISPLAY on tty1 Mar 5 07:27:0.0 Fri Mar 6 12:51:45 PST 2009 [Home$:500] This does not happen when I execute mintty directly (or

RE: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

2009-03-06 Thread Arun Biyani
>> >> Arun Biyani wrote: >> >> > It appears that Windows XP shortcuts have a limitation. The shortcut >> must >> > be to a target on the desktop (or to a target in a folder on desktop). >> >> Surely you can't mean what you

RE: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script?

2009-03-06 Thread Arun Biyani
>> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf >> Of Dave Korn >> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:48 PM >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: How can I assign a hotkey to run a cygwin/bash script? >> >> Hongyi Zhao wrote: >> > Hi all,

RE: date generates a "\r"

2009-02-03 Thread Arun Biyani
>> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf >> Of Dave Korn >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:40 PM >> To: cygwin@cygwin.com >> Subject: Re: date generates a "\r" >> >>Well this stuff don't look good: >> >> Missing file: /usr

RE: Re: date generates a "\r"

2009-02-03 Thread Arun Biyani
> No, the fix is to quit using linefeeds in your script files unless you are > willing to teach bash to ignore those line feeds. d2u is your friend. Attached are the relevant files. I don't see where the problem is. cygcheck.log Description: cygcheck.log crontab.log Description: crontab.log

RE: Re: date generates a "\r"

2009-02-03 Thread Arun Biyani
>> No, the fix is to quit using linefeeds in your script files >> unless you are willing to teach bash to ignore those line >> feeds. d2u is your friend. I ran dos2unix on that script. Its not the script. I use emacs as editor. "crontab -e" invokes emacs. Maybe the crontab file has something in

RE: Re: date generates a "\r"

2009-02-03 Thread Arun Biyani
>-Original Message- >From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of >Eric Blake >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 11:16 AM >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: date generates a "\r" >>Arun Biyani dickey-john.com> writes

date generates a "\r"

2009-02-03 Thread Arun Biyani
[log$:513] name=$(date +tiny-%b-%d-%g) [log$:514] bakup=$name.tz The assignments above result in bakup being "/c/home/bak/tiny-Feb-02-g\r.tz". I'd like to understand why this happens when the script is being run from cron (but not when I run it in a bash shell). Is the fix is to put "/usr/bin/da

RE: MinTTY

2008-12-30 Thread Arun Biyani
Very Good. On the options dialog box, an apply button would be a good Addition. Arun -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Bash problem - v3.1.17(8) - syntax error]

2006-09-26 Thread Arun Biyani
Igor Peshansky wrote: Is there any particular reason you post the output of od on .bashrc when the error was reported in .bash_login? BTW, for the future, you might want to run "od -c" instead -- its output is a bit more readable. Igor Igor & Dave, Thx. It is a CR/LF problem. I had

[Fwd: Re: Bash problem - v3.1.17(8) - syntax error]

2006-09-26 Thread Arun Biyani
Original Message Subject:Re: Bash problem - v3.1.17(8) - syntax error Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:17:34 -0700 From: Arun Biyani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave Korn wrote: On 26

Bash problem - v3.1.17(8) - syntax error

2006-09-26 Thread Arun Biyani
I just upgraded to the current bash. Now I am getting an error. I reinstalled, rebooted the machine. Still get the same error. The variable $HOME is set correctly. > bash: /c/home/abiyani/.bash_login: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ bash --version > GNU

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-14 Thread Arun Biyani
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: See your cygcheck output: I have a crontab task which generates a cygcheck.log file every night. I've just realized that the cygcheck output of the cron task is quite different from when I run cygcheck as a us

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-13 Thread Arun Biyani
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: [download$:575] ls //goddard/y ls: //goddard/y: No such file or directory [download$:576] ls //goddard/abiyani ls: //goddard/abiyani: No such file or directory

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-13 Thread Arun Biyani
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: [download$:575] ls //goddard/y ls: //goddard/y: No such file or directory [download$:576] ls //goddard/abiyani ls: //goddard/abiyani: No such file or directory [download$:577] Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: what

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-12 Thread Arun Biyani
mwoehlke wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: [download$:575] ls //goddard/y ls: //goddard/y: No such file or directory [download$:576] ls //goddard/abiyani ls: //goddard/abiyani: No such file or directory [download$:577] Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: what does 'ls /cygdrive/y' say? You did

Re: Mount does not show Samba files

2006-09-12 Thread Arun Biyani
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: I am having some problems accessing files on a Linux server in Cygwin. The files are exported via Samba. I can see the whole directory using my computer, which shows a Y: directory on machine Goddard. However, "ls /y" prints no such fil

Re: Cannot execute binary file

2006-09-07 Thread Arun Biyani
Thx, very much. There are 2 files there exactly as you state. Arun Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:19:39PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 07 September 2006 19:08, Arun Biyani wrote: Recently, I've run into this "cannot execute binary file" problem.

Re: Updatedb does not finish

2006-07-13 Thread Arun Biyani
This morning there were no "find" jobs running. It appears that adding /proc to prunepaths did work. /usr/bin/updatedb --localpaths="/ /c" --prunepaths="/a/proc" Arun Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Arun Biya

Re: Updatedb does not finish

2006-07-12 Thread Arun Biyani
I am running it now with the command line - /usr/bin/updatedb --localpaths="/ /c" --prunepaths="/a/proc" Arun Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Arun Biyani on 7/10/2006 5:23 PM: I have been running "updatedb&quo

Updatedb does not finish

2006-07-10 Thread Arun Biyani
I have been running "updatedb" via a cron job for almost 6 months now. It is started at 11PM & is usually done in an hour. Recently, I have been noticing that there is a "find" job still running when I get in, in the morning. My crontab has - # run updatedb daily 5 22 * * * /usr/bin/updatedb --

Re: Current snapshot - problem with httpd

2006-05-12 Thread Arun Biyani
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: "httpd" server crashes with current snapshot. Runs fine with Jan 20 cygwin1.dll. Both cygcheck outputs are attached. Any chance you could narrow down a little more the working and non-working snapshots? Are you saying that httpd

Re: Current snapshot - problem with httpd

2006-05-12 Thread Arun Biyani
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Arun Biyani wrote: "httpd" server crashes with current snapshot. Runs fine with Jan 20 cygwin1.dll. Both cygcheck outputs are attached. Any chance you could narrow down a little more the working and non-working snapshots? Are you saying that httpd

Re: Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting"

2005-11-14 Thread Arun Biyani
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Arun Biyani wrote: Hello, I am trying to get cron to work reliably on my pc (runs Windows XP). When I type cygrunsrv -S cron I get an error message that the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Looking under services from Control

Cron does not start - Hangs "Starting"

2005-11-14 Thread Arun Biyani
Hello, I am trying to get cron to work reliably on my pc (runs Windows XP). When I type cygrunsrv -S cron I get an error message that the service did not respond in a timely fashion. Looking under services from Control Panel, cron status is listed as "Starting". I cannot stop it by using cy