Re: Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/18/2016 10:13 AM, Byron Boulton wrote: On 2/18/2016 10:09 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 18/02/2016 15:34, Byron Boulton wrote: Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron only manually selecting skip for that specifically package. Why ? -- Problem reports

Re: Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/18/2016 10:09 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 18/02/2016 15:34, Byron Boulton wrote: Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron only manually selecting skip for that specifically package. Why ? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Freeze package

2016-02-18 Thread Byron Boulton
Is there a way to freeze a cygwin package to prevent upgrade? Byron -- 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: locate and updatedb

2016-02-17 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/17/2016 11:00 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 AM On 2/16/2016 5:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: This is technically OT since this involved a non-cygwin tool. find is slow compared with a

Re: locate and updatedb

2016-02-17 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/16/2016 5:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Linda Walsh sent the following at Saturday, February 13, 2016 7:15 AM Marco Atzeri wrote: --- On 11/02/2016 19:33, Byron Boulton wrote: On 2/11/2016 1:18 PM, cyg Simple wrote: On 2/11/2016 9:00 AM, Byron Boulton wrote: Does

Re: locate and updatedb

2016-02-11 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/11/2016 1:18 PM, cyg Simple wrote: On 2/11/2016 9:00 AM, Byron Boulton wrote: Does anyone here have success using `updatedb` and `locate` in cygwin? I use `locate` heavily on my Linux machines, but everytime I've tried to run `updatedb` on cygwin I've given up and killed t

locate and updatedb

2016-02-11 Thread Byron Boulton
plementation of `updatedb` making it not work at all or making it slower that on my Linux machines? Or are there others who have success using it on cygwin? Byron -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: ht

Re: Tmux man page not up to date

2016-02-08 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/6/2016 10:53 AM, Michael Wild wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Byron Boulton wrote: On 2/5/2016 3:31 PM, Byron Boulton wrote: On 2/5/2016 3:01 PM, Michael Wild wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:54 PM Byron Boulton wrote: The man page for tmux in Cygwin is not up to date. The

Re: Tmux man page not up to date

2016-02-05 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/5/2016 3:31 PM, Byron Boulton wrote: On 2/5/2016 3:01 PM, Michael Wild wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:54 PM Byron Boulton wrote: The man page for tmux in Cygwin is not up to date. The version of tmux in cygwin is 2.1, but the man page is not consistent with that. Specifically I

Re: Tmux man page not up to date

2016-02-05 Thread Byron Boulton
On 2/5/2016 3:01 PM, Michael Wild wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:54 PM Byron Boulton wrote: The man page for tmux in Cygwin is not up to date. The version of tmux in cygwin is 2.1, but the man page is not consistent with that. Specifically I noticed it because I was getting warnings about

Tmux man page not up to date

2016-02-02 Thread Byron Boulton
tmux changelog on their website. Byron Boulton -- 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

Tmux man page not up to date

2016-02-02 Thread Byron Boulton
the tmux changelog on their website. Byron Boulton -- 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: With nsswitch db_home of /cygdrive/c/%U ssh can't seem to use .ssh folder

2015-12-18 Thread Byron
On Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:12:55 +0100 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 18 10:02, Byron wrote: > > Every time I use ssh to a machine I get the fingerprint warnings > > like it's the first time I've ssh-ed to that machine. I've narrowed > > it down to have somethi

With nsswitch db_home of /cygdrive/c/%U ssh can't seem to use .ssh folder

2015-12-18 Thread Byron
Every time I use ssh to a machine I get the fingerprint warnings like it's the first time I've ssh-ed to that machine. I've narrowed it down to have something to do with my `db_home` being set to `/cygdrive/c/%U` in `nsswitch.conf`. I have it set to this value because I want my Cygwin home folder t

RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set

2010-03-16 Thread David Byron
> > > > $ echo $LC_ALL > > > > en_US > > > > > > Hang on, where did that come from? It was in my environment. My apologies for being dense. > > I unset LC_ALL and... > > Where? I unset LC_ALL in bash, which was the wrong place. > > Now ls foo adds the actual accented character to > > the comm

RE: filenames with characters that have the high bit set

2010-03-16 Thread David Byron
> > And my ~/.inputrc contains: > > > > set meta-flag on > > set convert-meta off > > set input-meta on > > set output-meta on > > Makes plenty of sense. But note that meta-flag is a synonym for > input-meta, so you can remove one of them. I was just following the instructions at http://cygwin.co

RE: return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7

2010-03-15 Thread David Byron
On March 10, 2010, Andy Koppe wrote: > David Byron: > > mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0. > > Yep, known issue. > > > I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case. > >

return value of mkshortcut on Windows 7

2010-03-10 Thread David Byron
mkshortcut is returning 8 when I expect it to return 0. This only happens to me on Windows 7. It returns 0 on XP. Here's what I do. $ rm -rf a $ mkdir a $ mkshortcut -n a/b a $ echo $? 8 $ file a/b.lnk a/b.lnk: MS Windows shortcut I'd love a hand getting mkshortcut to return 0 in this case.

RE: MoveFileW succeeding with cygwin 1.7.1 where it failed with cygwin 1.5.25?

2010-02-08 Thread David Byron
On Monday, February 8, 2010, Larry Hall wrote: > So your user must be part of the administrators group > then. Adminstrators have access even when permissions are > set to deny them, just like on Linux. Yes, my user is part of the Administrators group. Risking an annoying question, is this wri

RE: MoveFileW succeeding with cygwin 1.7.1 where it failed with cygwin 1.5.25?

2010-02-08 Thread David Byron
On 8-feb-10 David Byron wrote: > I've found a difference in behavior between cygwin 1.5.25 > and cygwin 1.7.1 that I don't understand. Renaming a file > using MoveFileW fails with access denied under cygwin > 1.5.25 as expected, but it works under 1.7. I figured o

MoveFileW succeeding with cygwin 1.7.1 where it failed with cygwin 1.5.25?

2010-02-08 Thread David Byron
I've found a difference in behavior between cygwin 1.5.25 and cygwin 1.7.1 that I don't understand. Renaming a file using MoveFileW fails with access denied under cygwin 1.5.25 as expected, but it works under 1.7. Here's what I do: $ echo foo >foo $ mkdir temp $ chmod a-w temp $ ./my_rename Und

RE: regtool freezes on XP (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwi n-1.5.6-1)

2004-01-19 Thread David Byron
On Mon, January 19, 2004, Rolf Campbell wrote: > When I run this script *not* from another cygwin program (Windows Run > menu as "bash -c scriptname.sh", or from W32 GNU Emacs) > ---begin script > #!/bin/sh > echo -n Getting location... > regtool get '\' > ---end script > I get the expect

RE: inetd desktop interaction w/o console?

2003-11-25 Thread David Byron
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Brian Ford wrote: > Anyway, I know there has been lots of work around getting > windows console output from net, etc. to show up in an > rlogin, telnet, ssh, etc. window. Would hiding the console > mess this up? Also, when if ever is the console window > desireable for in

RE: dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

2003-10-20 Thread David Byron
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:10, David Byron wrote: > > On Tue, 07 Oct 2003, David Byron wrote: > > > > > $ strace dpkg-deb --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb >dpkg-deb.info.strace > > > > > > There a

dpkg --info crashes / dpkg-deb --info hangs

2003-10-07 Thread David Byron
I ran into a problem using dpkg, like this: $ dpkg --info dpkg_1.9.21_i386.deb Segmentation fault (core dumped) I can send the .stackdump file if it's interesting, but I'm running into the 100K limit. Since dpkg --info is pretty close to dpkg-deb --info, I tried that next. $ dpkg-deb --info dpk

sshd, native console apps

2003-06-16 Thread David Byron
mation I can provide to help figure this out? -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everdream http://www.everdream.com 6591 Dumbarton Circle voice:(510)818-5550 Fremont, CA 94555fax:(510)818-5510 Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Curre

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread David Byron
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, David Byron wrote: > > > On Thursday, June 12, 2003 9:30 AM, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > > > > The CYGWIN environment for the sshd service is set when sshd is > > > installed (via cygr

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread David Byron
CurrentControlSet\Services\sshd\Par > ameters\Enviro nment) or by removing the service and > reinstalling it. Thanks for the pointers. Unfortunately, changing it there (both removing tty, and removing everything) still doesn't make my printfs appear. Still curious, -DB -- David Byron

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-12 Thread David Byron
output. I'll be looking for more info about this, but if anyone can lend this poor sap a hand, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks much. -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everdream http://www.everdream.com 6591 Dumbarton Circle

RE: problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-10 Thread David Byron
On Monday, June 9 @ 5:22p, I wrote: > I seem to have run into the same problem that folks with > inetutils pre 1.3.2-11 had with console output from native > apps not getting displayed in a telnet session. > My console app doesn't display any output. A bit more info here. I get the same behav

problem with telnet, xinetd, native console apps

2003-06-09 Thread David Byron
ilar patch to xinetd as there was in inetutils 1.3.2-11? I searched the archives, but came up empty. Thanks much for your help. Please let me know if I can provide more information. -DB -- David Byron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everdream http://www.everdream.com 6591 Dum