Re: Signature files missing

2024-03-08 Thread Bryan Dongray via Cygwin
I found them missing too, eg: https://mirrors.sonic.net/cygwin/x86_64/ Did they all lose the signature files because the upstream server lost them? On 3/8/24 16:32, dave--- via Cygwin wrote: .sig files seem to have gone missing from (at least some) mirrors. e.g. https://mirrors.kernel.org/sourc

Previously-functional Octave software routine now mysteriously failing - Please help!

2023-07-17 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I just tried performing a correlation matrix calculation with Cygwin's Octave software (having successfully performed this calculation previously on other similar data sets) using the following commands within Cygwin: *(start of commands)* [vansc@LAPTOP-OHN2RCVM ~/PKG_domB_CHESCA_an

mintty 3.5.1-1: -p center no longer works

2021-11-07 Thread Bryan Higgins
mintty 3.5.1-1: -p center no longer works. Reverted to 3.5.0, which is fine.: -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Error encountered in Octave software - Please help!!

2021-09-16 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I just tried performing an analysis in the Octave software (GNU Octave, version 5.2.0), using the attached "dm" input file, and the following commands: load dm cdmt = cor(dm.') However, I encountered the following error message: error: 'cor' undefined near line 1 column 8 What is going on

Previously-functional gawk script now failing to execute - PLEASE HELP!!!

2021-09-15 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I just tried executing an old, previously-functional awk script using a version of gawk that I had downloaded last year, and a command of the following format (as recommended in a previous communication with the Cygwin mailing list): gawk -vRS="\r\n" -f data_collect_e_-_FF_4-state.awk but t

Previously-functional gawk script now failing to execute - PLEASE HELP!!!

2021-09-15 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I just tried executing an old, previously-functional awk script using a version of gawk that I had downloaded last year, and a command of the following format (as recommended in a previous communication with the Cygwin mailing list): gawk -vRS="\r\n" -f data_collect_e_-_FF_4-state.awk but t

Re: Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-28 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Just out of curiosity: Could this "" issue be something new for Windows 10? I ask because I don't recall having this issue with my old Windows 7 computer. Bryan On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:06 AM Brian Inglis < brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote: > On 2020-07-27

Problem with output from gawk software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-27 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I just tried executing an awk script using the most recent version of gawk, but the output did not turn out the way that it was supposed to. This script uses the following command to print the output data to the output file: print(cai[i], rpi[i], i) > "Fit_Height_correln_plot_-_cPuMP_vs_2N

Problem with "xmgrace" graphing software in recent Cygwin installation

2020-07-23 Thread Bryan VanSchouwen via Cygwin
Hello. I recently installed a copy of the Cygwin software package on my new Windows 10 laptop. However, whenever I try to access the "xmgrace" graphing software (by entering the command "xmgrace &" in the xterm command shell, as I did on my old Windows 7 laptop), I get the following error message

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.898)

2020-01-02 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:22 AM Jon Turney wrote: > > > I've built setup with a patch which attempts to address this: > > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.899.x86_64.exe > https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.899.x86.exe > > Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.898)

2020-01-01 Thread Bryan Berns
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 8:40 AM Jon Turney wrote: > > > A new version of Setup (2.898) has been uploaded to: > >https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) >https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) Something definitely busted in this version for me. I've been using

Re: Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-09-01 Thread Bryan Phelps
the help and investigation! Bryan -- 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

Bug Report: Regression in Cygwin 2.11.0-1

2018-08-31 Thread Bryan Phelps
ime - is there a way we can pin the cygwin package to the 2.10.0-1 version, to unblock our builds? Thank you! Bryan Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: h

Re: cygwin stopped working

2018-02-13 Thread Bryan Zimmer
I have been following this thread closely as I have a similar problem. It only differs in that mintty, which I use to start bash, fails completely. It tells me that it cannot fork, that the problem could be that I have more than 1 cygwin1.dll, that I should run rebaseall or rebase --help. Unfortuna

How to repeat a bash shell script until success

2017-07-13 Thread Bryan Dunphy
I have a shell script, originally created for Mac OS X. that waits for an external drive to be mounted (by testing an “ls” of the volume’s root directory for success) then runs an “rsync” command. How do I get the script to be run repeatedly until successful exit under Cygwin? Here is the unmo

Re: xterm 327-1 to 329-1 needs font dependency

2017-06-26 Thread Bryan Dongray
On 06/21/2017 01:22 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote: > - Original Message - > | From: "Bryan Dongray" > | To: cygwin@cygwin.com > | Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:52:38 PM > | Subject: xterm 327-1 to 329-1 needs font dependency > | > | On an upgrade of xterm from 3

xterm 327-1 to 329-1 needs font dependency

2017-06-20 Thread Bryan Dongray
On an upgrade of xterm from 327-1 to 329-1 starting an xterm now complains: $ xterm /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-bold-R-*-*-10-100-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1" /usr/bin/xterm: cannot load font "-Misc-Fixed-medium-R-*-*-10-100-75-75-C-120-ISO10646-1" /usr/

Re: Repairing permissions after windows reinstall

2016-07-12 Thread Bryan Berns
> In fact I see _two_ raw SIDs when I look at the security tab for any > directory in the old cygwin tree: one has Full control, and the other > just Read & execute. > If everyone else's posts don't get you where you want, I have a recently-written program that can do a search/replace on a SID (or

Re: Question about tar v1.28

2016-03-12 Thread Bryan Berns
> Could be an accidental regression in my cygwin-specific patches betweenthe > two versions. But I don't normally use or test on text-mounts, so > I'll need confirmation that you are indeed experiencing the problem only > For what it's worth, I recently had the similar issues with Cygwin tar on t

Re: Question about incorrect System path from cygpath with case-sensitivity enabled

2016-01-10 Thread Bryan Henry
-u /C/WINDOWS - Bryan > On Jan 7, 2016, at 3:19:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > On Jan 2 18:33, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Bryan Henry! >> >>> I enabled (some time ago, not recently) case sensitivity on my Windows 8.1 >>> system by setting

Question about incorrect System path from cygpath with case-sensitivity enabled

2016-01-01 Thread Bryan Henry
recommendations to fix the Windows path returned by cygpath, or is this a bug? Thanks, Bryan Henry cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- 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: Mintty Crash on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

2015-11-20 Thread Bryan Tong
the help guys! On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Bryan Tong wrote: > Sorry for the extra replies. > > I am going to try to do some more research on the issue. After letting > a mintty window sit open and typing absolutely nothing inside it and > then closing it about 5 minutes la

Re: Mintty Crash on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

2015-09-29 Thread Bryan Tong
but still intermittent on them. On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Bryan Tong wrote: > Okay, > > The plot thickens. After I renamed my home folder so Cygwin would make > a new one. The problem seems to be gone. > > I will continue to test and see if it comes back. Maybe something i

Re: Mintty Crash on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

2015-09-29 Thread Bryan Tong
Okay, The plot thickens. After I renamed my home folder so Cygwin would make a new one. The problem seems to be gone. I will continue to test and see if it comes back. Maybe something in my home folder is making it unhappy. On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Bryan Tong wrote: > I wasnt able

Re: Mintty Crash on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

2015-09-29 Thread Bryan Tong
ge set. The problem continues on that installation as well. On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Bryan Tong wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and ever since I have I am getting a > hang every time I try to exit a Mintty window after using SSH. > > What makes this issue

Mintty Crash on Exit after SSH on Windows 10

2015-09-17 Thread Bryan Tong
Hello, I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and ever since I have I am getting a hang every time I try to exit a Mintty window after using SSH. What makes this issue more interesting is that I cant always reproduce it. It only happens after I have long standing SSH sessions. After I press "CTL + a

Re: Restrict active directory logins

2015-09-01 Thread Bryan Berns
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:39 PM, E. Winston wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running cygwin 2.2.1(0.289/5/3) and OpenSSH_7.1p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2d 9 Jul > 2015 on a domain joined Windows 2012 R2 server. I am not using /etc/passwd or > /etc/group and I would prefer not to use theses files as I anticipate a

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

2015-08-27 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >> On Aug 26 12:56, Helmut Karlowski wrote: >>> > > Guess that's better than to stick with the kludges, migration to 10 is >>> > > on the way. >>> > From what I've seen and heard W10, while mostly stable, still c

Re: Unable to run excel via cron

2015-06-16 Thread Bryan Berns
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote: > We need to run some Excel programs via cron and are using vbscript to do > this. We have this running on a WinXP machine but are having trouble running > on a Win7 machine, but we don't think it is a Win7 problem. > > Here's th

Re: startxwin - xinit unable to connect to X server

2015-05-13 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Kunz, Christopher L wrote: > After updating to the latest Cygwin distribution, I can no longer connect to > X server. When I run startxwin (on a fresh Cygwin install), I get the > following errors: > > xinit: giving up > xinit: unable to connect to X server: Conn

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-0.8

2015-04-24 Thread Bryan Berns
Did the fix for my Unknown user/group caching make it over from 2.0.0-0.7 (previous change note below)? - Fix a bug in SID handling which may result in broken SID info in passwd/group entries of unknown accounts. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Running tasklist /m in cygwin hangs

2015-04-17 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Saurabh T wrote: > Hi, > Running > "tasklist /m file.dll" hangs in Cygwin even though it works perfectly > fine in the cmd window. Is there any reason for this? I am using a > somewhat older cygwin (1.7.25) on a Windows 7 box, and do not want to > upgrade unless n

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5

2015-04-17 Thread Bryan Berns
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 17 10:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On Apr 16 12:53, Bryan Berns wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C >> > wrote: >> > > I am unable to start Cywin/X X-server 1.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-5

2015-04-16 Thread Bryan Berns
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I am unable to start Cywin/X X-server 1.17.1 with this version. > Previous releases of 2.0.0.x were OK. I had to revert to 1.7.35-1 for > the time being. > > Other than updating to 2.0.0.5, I also installed the April 2015 "Patch > Tuesda

Re: Making Cygwin More Tolerant of Orphaned SIDs?

2015-04-15 Thread Bryan Berns
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Not off the top of my head. The mechanism doesn't check for the > content so it should cache the above line the same way as any other. > I'm puzzled about this behaviour myself. > > That requires some debugging but I have other stuff on

Re: Making Cygwin More Tolerant of Orphaned SIDs?

2015-04-14 Thread Bryan Berns
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 14 12:44, Bryan Berns wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >> > On Apr 14 07:24, Bryan Berns wrote: >> >> For example, I create a whole bunch of files (like 50

Re: Making Cygwin More Tolerant of Orphaned SIDs?

2015-04-14 Thread Bryan Berns
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 14 07:24, Bryan Berns wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> > >> > The problem is that Cygwin, or any other tool trying to resolve SIDs >> > doesn't know a SID won&

Re: Making Cygwin More Tolerant of Orphaned SIDs?

2015-04-14 Thread Bryan Berns
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen > > The problem is that Cygwin, or any other tool trying to resolve SIDs > doesn't know a SID won't resolve before it tried. And then it's an > OS function which takes its time. It's like checking for network > machines providing shares. Sometime

Re: Making Cygwin More Tolerant of Orphaned SIDs?

2015-04-14 Thread Bryan Berns
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Orphaned SIDs shouldn't happen. Disabling accounts, ok, but removing > them? I don't know. So the question is, if there's no account with > these SIDs anymore, why aren't these SIDs removed from the ACLs? > It's not only Cygwin. Thes

Making Cygwin More Tolerant of Orphaned SIDs?

2015-04-13 Thread Bryan Berns
Based on some rudimentary performance tests, it would appear that Cygwin may repeatedly try to lookup information on a SID form an ACE if cannot find a corresponding account which will undoubtedly occur for orphaned SIDs. If the volume being read is remote, this can result in some massive slow

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-3

2015-04-13 Thread Bryan Berns
> On Apr 12 17:19, Bryan Berns wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: >> >> V:\>icacls touch-from-3 >> touch-from-3 DOMAIN\Administrator:(R,W,D,WDAC,WO) >> DOMAIN\Domain Users:(R) >> Everyo

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.0.0-3

2015-04-12 Thread Bryan Berns
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > > New 2.0.0-0.3 test release. It's supposed to fix the pty chmod problem > reported in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00240.html > Just a note: In 2.0.0-0.2, creating a file using touch on the ro

Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling

2015-04-11 Thread Bryan Berns
>> > That means, even if SYSTEM or Administrators have full access to the >> > file, the POSIX permssion bits will not reflect that fact. And while >> > other users get access denied based on the mask value, SYSTEM and >> > Administrators will never get access denied based on the mask. >>

Re: Robocopy

2015-04-03 Thread Bryan Berns
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Houder wrote: > 2015/04/02 19:13:56 ERROR 5 (0x0005) Copying File > E:\Cygwin\home\jvdwater\.bash_history > Access is denied. > Waiting 30 seconds... Retrying... > New File 689.bash_history ROBOCOPY is very reliable and it's

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
Replying to myself on this topic in case anyone else is interested. > 2) how can I get SSH to believe the two "admin" groups on my > files are acceptable. I'm not optimistic I'm going to get SSH to > change it's behavior so I may need to recompile it to avoid the > check which is obviously no

Re: Should cygwin's setup*.exe be signed using Sign Tool?

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
ike that). So that's my two cents. For all I know the *real* reason it's not signed is "nobody had asked for it". - Bryan -- 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: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
the two "admin" groups on my files are acceptable. I'm not optimistic I'm going to get SSH to change it's behavior so I may need to recompile it to avoid the check which is obviously not desirable from a maintainability standpoint. Appreciatively, Bryan -- Pr

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
need to do it. > This is not a valid argument. In the real world in large corporations with focus on security, "Administrators" is typically a tiered or least privilege arrangement. All administrators are not created equally. Thanks, Bryan -- Problem reports: http://c

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-02 Thread Bryan Berns
I'll try to reproduce the issue on a standard NTFS volume -- although I would image Cygwin is just decoding the same DACL that ICACLS is returning. The other oddity is why it's not recognizing *me* as having any permissions. In the particular case of SSH, is there any way to make SSH ignore these

Re: File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-01 Thread Bryan Berns
Andrey, Sorry for not being more clear -- yes, I had read the FAQ on SSH. I was taking the problem up a level to the more obvious weirdness demonstrated by the resultant files on a simple "touch". Why would Cygwin report that 'Domain Users' --- a group not in the DACL at all --- as being able to

File Permissions - Yet Another Question / Clarification

2015-04-01 Thread Bryan Berns
I finally am moving my user community to Cygwin 1.7.35 at work and having some issues with ssh not thinking user's ssh keys are owned by the user. I indeed can see that their directory listings do not show their userid as having read,write, or execute to *any* of their files. In short, just wante

Re: Compatibility of binaries built with one version of cygwin with other versions of cygwin

2015-03-27 Thread Bryan Berns
"Guaranteed" might be a strong word - especially given the lack of a guarantor; probably depends on whether the programmer has had to workaround any nuances in the Cygwin library that may have changed in later versions. I think the library function exports have been the same for awhile and I've pe

Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-02-26 Thread Bryan Berns
>> Crucial vote starting... now. Given my original post, I'm obviously fan of ignoring SYSTEM (S-1-5-18) explicitly. As much as the absolutist programmer in me doesn't like nuanced exceptions like this, I think it's the pragmatic thing to do. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-02-26 Thread Bryan Berns
> That's an administrator account, not SYSTEM. The BERNS-WINDOWS$ is the account the process was being run under (launched via psexec -i -s) and is indeed the system account. I ran icacls just to display the current ACL on the directory (which does not include the system account for the purpose o

Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-02-26 Thread Bryan Berns
> You just have to enable the SeBackupName and SeRestoreName privs. > Try in Cygwin. It does that automatically. > > For cases where you need to stick to the Windows ACLs, use noacl > mounts. Understood --- I can probably set SeBackupPrivilege / SeRestorePrivilege as 'RequiredPriveleges' for the

Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-02-26 Thread Bryan Berns
> That's not really a goal. The SYSTEM permissions are kind of useless > anyway, given that SYSTEM has permissions to read and write all files > anyway. I don't see that a rule to add SYSTEM permissions to all files > accomplishes anything which isn't already available anyway. I don't think this

Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?

2015-02-26 Thread Bryan Berns
I honestly haven't read up exactly how Cygwin interprets NTFS ACL/ACEs, but I remember seeing on the mailing list that a change was made in 1.7.35 was made to permission handling. It is preferable in my organization that the SYSTEM account always have full control the local file system. When usin

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryan Berns
Thanks for the reply, Andrey. I'll take a look at the archives for February. I'm not sure how it'd be "obvious" given that's it's just descriptive metadata for the SID, but I'll try to educate myself before rehashing a previous discussion. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.htm

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.34-003 (Christmas/New Year release)

2014-12-27 Thread Bryan Berns
Finally had a chance to test out the new release, albeit in a very limited fashion. On our multi-domain forest with SID-History enabled, running 'ls -l' was able to lookup account names for groups and users on files. Some ACEs had SIDs that would only be in present SID-History and those worked as

Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory

2014-11-11 Thread Bryan Berns
One big vote for the '/etc/nsswitch.conf' idea. I think the truth of the matter is that enterprise environments are way too dynamic (and inconsistent) to attempt to satisfy the majority of configurations with any particular default ordering assumption. Another user brought up a good point about d

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.33-0.6

2014-11-06 Thread Bryan Berns
I haven't tried Cygwin 1.7.33 yet. What would be the expectation of sidHistory working? In the past, I've had a script to read extra SIDs out of AD and merge them into passwd. On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Cygwin friends and users, > > > I just released a 6th TES

Re: BLODA Addition

2014-11-05 Thread Bryan Berns
4 11:43 AM, "Corinna Vinschen" wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > On Nov 5 11:12, Bryan Berns wrote: > > I recently discovered that the Liquidware Labs Stratusphere Agent > > causes random issues when launching executables through a Cygwin bash > > What means "random i

BLODA Addition

2014-11-05 Thread Bryan Berns
I recently discovered that the Liquidware Labs Stratusphere Agent causes random issues when launching executables through a Cygwin bash shell. Any chance someone can add this to the BLODA list to help others that might run into similar issues? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.

Re: Necessary To Query SACL Information?

2014-10-12 Thread Bryan Berns
Arg. Responding to myself. Apparently ALL_SECURITY_INFORMATION is internally defined and doesn't contain the flag for SACL information (so much for being 'ALL'). I'll keep exploring... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Docume

Necessary To Query SACL Information?

2014-10-12 Thread Bryan Berns
I noticed when I launch an executable, Cygwin queries SACL information on the executable (which I can see in Process Monitor as a 'QuerySecurityFile' operation). On some of my protected file servers, this generates a failure audit. Looking at the source code, I'm going to guess this might be from

RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe

2014-01-23 Thread Thrall, Bryan
our login name. > Else you'd have alot of stuff mishandled. The user I use is myself, it is just that at my company, my login name on the servers isn't the same as my Windows login name. I haven't noticed anything mishandled, though. Do you have any specific problems in mind? -

RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe

2014-01-23 Thread Thrall, Bryan
ids/gids and user/group names to SFU/Interix. That's a really cool change. How will I customize my Cygwin user name (for convenient 'ssh server' instead of 'ssh user@server') and shell without /etc/passwd, though? (I'd include home directory in that list, except I know

RE: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Thrall, Bryan
ge. Since the fork bug is only affecting the execution of the postinstall scripts, couldn't the OP install the snapshot in the partially-complete Cygwin install, then run setup.exe to finish the postinstall scripts? -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International * Vis

get_myaddress error with nfsd

2013-06-07 Thread Bryan Chua
nfsd.c and one in mountd.c and no references to get_myaddress. Has anyone else experienced this? I am not sure where to start looking. -- bryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Emacs silently fails to run after last cygwin update

2013-02-17 Thread Bryan M. Kramer
I upgraded cygwin on both an XP and a Windows 7 box this week. In both cases, the x windows version of emacs fails to start. In both cases the X server is cygwin X running on the windows 7 box). I have tried reinstalls on most of my cygwin packages on both hosts to no avail. emacs-nox does run

RE: ctags recursion broken? [ATTN: ctags, xemacs-tags maintainers]

2012-12-11 Thread Thrall, Bryan
resent? >> >> You can see from this thread: >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2634001/any-idea-why-ctags-wont- > recurse-on-cygwin/13810472#13810472 >> that I'm not the only one who stumbled onto this problem. >> Where should we go from here? Could i

RE: ctags recursion broken?

2012-12-11 Thread Thrall, Bryan
iles. > Are you sure you're using the ctags you think you are? $ ctags --help Exuberant Ctags 5.8, Copyright (C) 1996-2009 Darren Hiebert Compiled: Dec 11 2009, 11:42:40 Addresses: , http://ctags.sourceforge.net Optional compiled features: +wildcards, +regex, +internal-sort Usage: ctags

Re: tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks

2012-09-13 Thread Bryan Hogan
2 cpus Those last two were the same server (a VMware VM) with the number of cpus changed. Attempting to kill the hung processes crashed the server :-( There are no problems if tcsh 6.17.0 is used. Bryan. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

RE: curl (7.27.0-1), even curl --version, does not work

2012-09-04 Thread Thrall, Bryan
e. If you want to get your hands dirty, you could close all Cygwin processes and replace your existing cygwin1.dll with cygwin1.dll.new. Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://c

RE: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-16 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Windows Subversion command line tools. Your point of the crippled shell stands, however :) -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com

RE: Cygwin fresh install imports Windows PATH which includes spaces causing errors

2012-07-25 Thread Thrall, Bryan
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames > Can't find C:\Program on PATH. Could this be a problem with the Makefile? It looks like you're using Cygwin make now, but the Makefile might be calling out Windows paths directly... -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engi

RE: Cygwin unstable as hell on Windows7 64bit‏

2012-06-21 Thread Thrall, Bryan
; helpful. There is the obvious ways mentioned: check for 3rd-party services, > 3rd-party apps loaded via the Run registry key, AppInit_DLLs - but I'm sure > I'm missing some. CYGWIN=detect_bloda might help (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html). -- Brya

RE: How to "bisect" Cygwin?

2012-06-01 Thread Thrall, Bryan
uot; from 8/5/2008 under http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwincirca: You need to specify -X when running Cygwin setup.exe. -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

RE: Shell script loop runs out of memory

2012-05-31 Thread Thrall, Bryan
2 MD5PRINTNEW forks (md5sum and cut) with 3 (md5sum, cut, and grep)? Seems like the (untested) following would be better (in terms of fewer forks): TMPFILE=$(mktemp) md5sum $FILE_TO_CHECK > "$TMPFILE" ... while md5sum -c "$TMPFILE" do sleep 1 done rm "$TMPFILE" -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com

RE: Ctrl-C issue for Windows program

2012-04-13 Thread Thrall, Bryan
estored? Cygwin 1.7.12 has a fix for Ctrl-C handling: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-04/msg00016.html Hope this helps! -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.12

2012-04-04 Thread Thrall, Bryan
funny prompt when > doing a cd into that directory. Is there a way to drop such users from > the expansion? I see it too, and I'm running a pre-1.7.12 snapshot: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pc1163-8413-xp 1.7.12s(0.260/5/3) 20120321 15:56:37 i686 Cygwin -- Bryan Thrall Principal

RE: how to verify setup.exe signature

2012-03-28 Thread Thrall, Bryan
> to be? I think the links in the first paragraph of http://cygwin.com/install.html should answer your question. Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com

RE: perl-Tk widget broken again on perl 5.10.1-5

2012-02-29 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Thrall, Bryan wrote on 2012-02-27: > Thrall, Bryan wrote on 2012-01-25: >> perl-Tk's widget works just fine with >> >> perl5.10.1-3 >> perl-Tk 804.028-3 >> >> but if I upgrade to perl 5.10.1-

RE: perl-Tk widget broken again on perl 5.10.1-5

2012-02-27 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Thrall, Bryan wrote on 2012-01-25: > perl-Tk's widget works just fine with > > perl5.10.1-3 > perl-Tk 804.028-3 > > but if I upgrade to perl 5.10.1-5, widget breaks again[1] with the following > errors repeated u

RE: svn2cl (subversion-tools 1.7.3-1) fails to load svn2cl.xsl

2012-02-21 Thread Thrall, Bryan
David Rothenberger wrote on 2012-02-20: > subverison-tools-1.7.3-2 is available now with that patch restored. Thanks! I can confirm that fixes the problem on my end :) -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem repo

svn2cl (subversion-tools 1.7.3-1) fails to load svn2cl.xsl

2012-02-17 Thread Thrall, Bryan
gcheck -cd subversion-tools Cygwin Package Information Package Version subversion-tools 1.7.3-1 Creating a symlink /usr/bin/svn2cl.xsl -> /etc/svn2cl/svn2cl.xsl works around the problem. Thanks, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@fli

RE: man redirect error

2012-01-04 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Reid Thompson wrote on 2012-01-04: > On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 08:51 -0600, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >> Perhaps the OP was looking for something like apropos or whatis? >> >> Given that man already pipes its output through a pager, the OP could >> just use the MANPAGER environ

RE: man redirect error

2012-01-04 Thread Thrall, Bryan
c GCC(1)GNU GCC(1) NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler SYNOPSIS gcc [-c|-S|-E] [-std=standard] [-g] [-pg] [-Olevel] Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com

RE: Permission denied but have permission

2011-09-21 Thread Thrall, Bryan
'setup.exe' with Administrator privileges. You either need to disable UAC or run the installer from Windows Explorer or a command prompt. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control Hope this helps, -- Bryan Thrall Principal Software Engineer FlightSafety International b

RE: Symlink to drive and space in directory name leads to DOS warning

2011-05-02 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Eric Blake wrote on 2011-05-02: > On 05/02/2011 10:04 AM, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >> AFAIK, I am not using bash-completion; the package is installed, but > I don't source /etc/bash_completion in my ~/.bashrc. > > You don't have to manually source it in ~/.bashrc - the

RE: Symlink to drive and space in directory name leads to DOS warning

2011-05-02 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Eric Blake wrote on 2011-05-02: > On 05/02/2011 09:30 AM, Thrall, Bryan wrote: >> When I try to do a tab-completion on a directory with a space in it > for the first time after starting Cygwin, I get a DOS warning even > though I'm not using a DOS path. This only seems to ha

Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-03 Thread Bryan Slatner
Jeremy Bopp bopp.net> writes: > Could this be related to this earlier thread? > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-09/msg00212.html > > -Jeremy I think you're right, Jeremy. Once I stopped looking for my specific error message, it seems this is just a general problem with AWS images. And Ama

Re: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-02 Thread Bryan Slatner
NOT happen on a 32-bit W2K8 instance. Thanks, Bryan -- 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: Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-02-01 Thread Bryan Slatner
Thorsten Kampe thorstenkampe.de> writes: > Why don't you simply run (at least) one of the scripts manually and see > if you see an error?! I ran them all, with the following results: bash-3.2# /etc/postinstall/000-cygwin-post-install.sh bash-3.2# /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh bash: /etc

Windows 2008 64-bit install

2011-01-31 Thread Bryan Slatner
I'm trying to install Cygwin on a stock Amazon EC2 Windows 2008 64-bit image. At the end of setup, I get a dialog that says "Postinstall script errors" with the following information in it: Package: Unknown package 000-cygwin-post-install.sh exit code -1073741819 base-files-mket

RE: ATTN: Perl maintainer - RE: Problem with Perl/Tk and Pixmap

2010-12-22 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Reini Urban wrote on 2010-12-22: > 2010/12/22 Thrall, Bryan: >> Thrall, Bryan wrote on 2010-12-16: >>> Andrew DeFaria wrote on 2010-12-16: >>>>   On 12/16/2010 02:07 PM, Johannes v. Löwis wrote: >>>>> I have a Perl/Tk script that is supposed to show

ATTN: Perl maintainer - RE: Problem with Perl/Tk and Pixmap

2010-12-22 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Thrall, Bryan wrote on 2010-12-16: > Andrew DeFaria wrote on 2010-12-16: >> On 12/16/2010 02:07 PM, Johannes v. Löwis wrote: >>> I have a Perl/Tk script that is supposed to show a pixmap on the left >>> side of the title bar of the main window. It works on Linux and

RE: Problem with Perl/Tk and Pixmap

2010-12-16 Thread Thrall, Bryan
ndor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/Derived.pm line 294. at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/Tk/Derived.pm line 306 thr...@pc1163-8413-xp ~ $ cygcheck -cd perl perl-Tk Cygwin Package Information Package Version cygwin 1.7.7-1 perl 5.10.1-4 perl-Tk

Re: Permissions on Windows 2008

2010-12-10 Thread Bryan Slatner
Jeremy Bopp bopp.net> writes: > Take a look at the noacl option. You'll want to apply that to whatever > mountpoint contains the target path of your copy operation. If you want > to be surgical in the application, create a new mountpoint with this > option set and copy your files into paths wit

Re: Permissions on Windows 2008

2010-12-09 Thread Bryan Slatner
Jeremy Bopp bopp.net> writes: > By default Cygwin tries to emulate POSIX file permissions: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html > > You can disable this by modifying your /etc/fstab file and adding the > appropriate options to cause the target locations for your files to have > the ne

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