Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

59 PM wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:55:04PM -0500, Eric D Hendrickson via Cygwin > wrote: > > Sorry for the unclarity - I meant this for the whole list - not just you. > > > > Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. Like you said, this > > really is al

Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

n the backlog and come back later to investigate this myself if I have time this winter? On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 8:11 PM Eliot Moss wrote: > On 10/11/2023 6:36 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D wrote: > > Hi Eliot, > > > > Thanks for responding. That makes total sense. > > > &g

RE: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

PM To: Hendrickson, Eric D ; cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Eric @ Gmail Subject: Re: Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9? On 10/11/2023 12:37 PM, Hendrickson, Eric D via Cygwin wrote: > Hello all, > > As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here > at my place of work. Does a

Ruby EOL in Cygwin 3.4.9?

Hello all, As a ~25 year user and sometime contributor to Cygwin, I support Cygwin here at my place of work. Does anyone know why we are deploying Ruby 2.6 which EOL about 18 months ago? https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/ I'm concerned about proliferation of EOL versions of Ruby

Resource unavailable error

program but i got an error when i give *startxwin * in the cygwin prompt. the error is* "startxwin: Resource temporarily unavailable. Another X server instance is running at DISPLAY:0"*. How to rectify this error. THANK YOU. WARM REGARDS, RAMYA D -- Problem reports: https://

Re: Resource unavailable error

Ok, I will check. On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, 6:31 pm marco atzeri, wrote: > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 11:02 AM Ramya D CSE KIOT wrote: > > > > Dear sir/madam, > > I have installed cygwin 3.3 from the cygwin.com (given > install > > from internet option) for w

Resource unavailable error

Dear sir/madam, I have installed cygwin 3.3 from the cygwin.com (given install from internet option) for windows 7 32-bit system. I have followed the instructions to install. after installing cygwin I tried to install ns2 in the cygwin command prompt. I received the error as *gcc* not

Cygwin triggers integrity scrubbing on ReFS filesystems, making searching files impossible on large datasets

e here for more information on ReFS integrity streams: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/refs/integrity-streams To format a disk with this feature, PowerShell must be used, as it's not enabled by default or accessible from the GUI: Format-Volume -DriveLetter D -FileSys

Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:20 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > > Again, the properties are read BY SYSTEM at the moment the link is created. > In other words, Windows is unable to create a link to nonexistent > (unreachable) target (not directly, at least). This is false. Links can be created arbitrarily

Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible

Operations like cp and rsync etc. should still work. The type of symbolic link to be created can be read from the file attributes of the one being copied. On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:46 AM Jeffrey Altman via Cygwin wrote: > > On 1/4/2021 10:27 AM, Matt D. via Cygwin (cygwin@cygwin.com)

Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible

ws symbolic links. It does not have a problem creating links to any target with the default Cygwin (non-Windows) symbolic links. On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:30 AM Eliot Moss wrote: > > On 1/4/2021 5:36 AM, Matt D. via Cygwin wrote: > > Did you try any of my test cases? This can't a

Re: Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible

$ cp -dv folder_a/a folder_b/ 'folder_a/a' -> 'folder_b/a' cp: cannot create symbolic link 'folder_b/a': No such file or directory $ cp -Pv folder_a/a folder_b/ 'folder_a/a' -> 'folder_b/a' cp: cannot create symbolic link 'folder_b/a': No

Native symbolic link behavior is broken and makes backups using Cygwin command line tools impossible

I have a folder with a lot of native Windows symbolic links. I want to copy this folder. I cannot rsync or cp this folder due to Cygwin being unable to create symbolic links without also wanting to verify the link target. This can be demonstrated: $ ln -s a b ln: failed to create symbolic link 'b

How to ensure that /bin takes priority over System32 with "bash -c"?

I have Cygwin's /bin directory configured to be available on my login environment PATH by default. This behavior is inherited when I run a bash login shell: $ where sort C:\cygwin\bin\sort.exe C:\Windows\System32\sort.exe But if I run the following script from a Windows command prompt: C:\> bash

Re: Error: "-gThe system cannot find the file specified." When bash script containing "cut" is run from cmd

Please ignore this. There was an error in my test case. -- 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: "-gThe system cannot find the file specified." When bash script containing "cut" is run from cmd

Simple Bash script: > #!/bin/bash > > cut Save as "testme.sh" in C:\ or elsewhere. Open a Windows command prompt and type: > cmd /c bash -c /c/testme.sh I get the following error: > -gThe system cannot find the file specified. This only seems to trigger when bash is running as a child proces

Re: diff --horizon-lines=lines

Thanks EM.I did go through the post, I understood the concept/theory, but I am unable to do a practical demo of it. Do you have a sample file set for demo or can you suggest something? On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 8:10 AM Eliot Moss wrote: > > On 5/27/2020 10:27 PM, m@d m0nk via Cygwin

diff --horizon-lines=lines

Hello All, I am trying to understand the practical use of "--horizon-lines=lines" option in the diff utility. Can i get some pointers on two sample files which can demonstrate the use of --horizon-lines=lines I understood the theory / definition from the info / man file. However, I am unable to

Re: Cygwin 3.1.x fails if I have the use legacy console box checked in Windows 10

000) End of stack trace If I use 3.07 this works. Also if I use the March 27 2019 snapshot it works, but if I use the March 31 2019 or later snapshot I get the above error. I couldn't find anything that said that Cygwin now didn't support the legacy console thus I'm r

Cygwin 3.1.x fails if I have the use legacy console box checked in Windows 10

, but if I use the March 31 2019 or later snapshot I get the above error. I couldn't find anything that said that Cygwin now didn't support the legacy console thus I'm reporting this issue. -- Michael D. Lawler email mailto:mdlaw...@lawlers.us -- Problem reports: http:/

Cygwin Error

Hi I am getting the below error while compiling a build from serena dimensions. 3 [main] python2.6 4520 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Please check once and let

Re: Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

Note that this creates a chicken-and-the-egg problem when copying paths which contain symbolic links which will be but are not yet valid at the time of copying. For example, copying a very large and complex tree with many lots of links will result in a broken copy. I'm trying to copy a directo

Copying of symbolic links not working as expected

I'm experiencing a discrepancy between Linux cp and Cygwin cp when copying native symbolic links: Test/ FolderA/ 123/ 456/ -> 123/ On Linux I can: > cp -r FolderA/ FolderB/ > ls -l FolderB/ total 0 drwxrwxr-x. 2 account group 45 Apr 21 05:47 123 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 account group 4 A

Can't create symbolic links in child directories

This works: > touch a > ln -s a b This no longer works: > touch a > mkdir b > ln -s a b/c Error: ln: failed to create symbolic link 'b/c': No such file or directory My CYGWIN environment is also configured using "winsymlinks:nativestrict". I am running the following version (updated today):

Cannot use screen when Cygwin is installed on a FAT32 filesystem / chmod does not work on FAT32 directories

I'm trying to use Cygwin on a Windows machine with the latest release. The system in question must run from a filesystem formatted with FAT32 and therefore inherits the 'noacl' field according to the documentation. After a clean install and running Cygwin.bat, I am greeted with the following e

libglut is missing library for MinGW static linking

licy is on providing static libraries for MinGW but this is a very good candidate as it already has all of the necessary declarations defined. Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygw

What is the purpose of libglut32?

e __glut*WithExit routines should NEVER be called > directly. To avoid the atexit workaround, #define > GLUT_DISABLE_ATEXIT_HACK. This library is NOT the same as libgut, which seems to be the appropriate way to include glut, even when compiling for MinGW. Matt D. -- Problem reports:

Broken junctions and symlinks halt recursive cp and rsync operations?

transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1196) [sender=3.1.2] Is there a way to recover from this? It breaks copy operations of directories which contain broken symlinks where I would expect the broken link to be copied as-is. Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cy

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

On 11/4/2017 1:38 PM, Matt D. wrote: On 11/4/2017 1:15 PM, Matt D. wrote: > On 11/4/2017 11:43 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> That's the correct thing to do, even though you made this unnecessarily >> hard for yourself by mounting your home directory with "noacl".

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

On 11/4/2017 1:15 PM, Matt D. wrote: > On 11/4/2017 11:43 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> That's the correct thing to do, even though you made this unnecessarily >> hard for yourself by mounting your home directory with "noacl". > > It's not perfect bu

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

he other "noacl". Ssh's readconf.c is using fstat(). If these results are more accurate with "noacl" defined then why always say "-rw-r--r--" when more information is available? Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

heritence must be disabled to alter other groups: icacls config /inheritance:d Effectively regarded as "group": icacls config /remove:g "Authenticated Users" icacls config /remove:g "Users" Regarded as "other": icacls config /remove:g "Everyone"

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

On 11/4/2017 9:31 AM, Matt D. wrote: On 11/4/2017 7:47 AM, Matt D. wrote: On 11/4/2017 7:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 4 05:47, Matt D. wrote: I mount with "noacl" as I don't need ACLs for my purposes and prefer to leave everything up to Windows permissions. The probl

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

On 11/4/2017 7:47 AM, Matt D. wrote: On 11/4/2017 7:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 4 05:47, Matt D. wrote: I mount with "noacl" as I don't need ACLs for my purposes and prefer to leave everything up to Windows permissions. The problem with this is that ssh insists tha

Re: Workflow for producing patches with cygport?

Thank you. There is no documentation for this from 'cygport --help' or 'man cygport'. Is this an oversight? Matt D. On 11/4/2017 9:04 AM, Jon Turney wrote: On 04/11/2017 10:45, Matt D. wrote: I've gotten this far: download cygport download package sr

Building OpenSSH fails when '--with-kerberos5' in the default configuration

OK Am I missing something? Matt D. -- 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: Building the Open SSH package from source

ake[1]: *** [Makefile:26: port-aix.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/openssh-7.6p1-1.src/openssh-7.6p1-1.i686/build/openbsd-compat' make: *** [Makefile:156: openbsd-compat/libopenbsd-compat.a] Error 2 *** ERROR: make failed Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

On 11/4/2017 7:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 4 05:47, Matt D. wrote: I mount with "noacl" as I don't need ACLs for my purposes and prefer to leave everything up to Windows permissions. The problem with this is that ssh insists that ~/.ssh/config be less permissive. B

Workflow for producing patches with cygport?

I've gotten this far: download cygport download package src cd /usr/src/package* cygport package.cygport prep I can now edit the source, compile, etc. But what is the workflow for producing a patch file of my changes? Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwi

No way to use ssh ~/.ssh/config with "noacl" option

to request ssh to ignore this requirement when "noacl" present on the mounted volume? Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://c

xinit is ignoring -displayfd option

ng used. Here is the output of xinit: https://pastebin.com/raw/HJB9WGk7 Matt D. -- 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

Settings from lang.sh causing garbled output in dialog when run from cmd.exe

ZQ If I remove this line from /etc/profile.d/lang.sh: test -z "${_LC_ALL_SET_:-${LC_CTYPE:-$LANG}}" && export LANG=$(/usr/bin/locale -uU) Then the problem goes away. Why am I getting garbled output with this line present? Matt D. -- Problem reports:

Cygwin install is broken v-a-vis dependencies

Whenever I go to install a package, I get a list of 50 other packages that it claims need to be installed. I know that list is both bogus and contains items I explicitly need to not oinstall (e.g. cmake). What is worse, when I want to uninstall a package, it gives me that ]same list plus it wants

How to get GNU Parallel working with Cygwin

I noticed today that we don't have this package. I tried building it from source with a './configure && make && make install'. But when I run "sem" I get the following output: 1 [main] perl 7712 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed by 'Util.dll' (0x1E) is already occupied 1 [main]

Re: XWin no longer working for me with -nolisten tcp?

denied xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 I tried purging /tmp on Cygwin but to no avail. Note that the server I am connecting to has not been rebooted in months and nothing has changed there. Matt D. On 2/17/2017 2:20 PM, Matt D. wrote: I just recently formatte

XWin no longer working for me with -nolisten tcp?

plete opposite workaround to what I had to use three years ago: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2014-07/msg00017.html Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe

Cannot access volumes mounted with 'mklink /d' which point to a volume UUID

On Windows you can create symbolic links which point to volume UUIDs as a way of mounting and unmounting them without having to use the administrative disk management tools. For example, in cmd: mountvol ... \\?\Volume{079b79c9----1000}\ C:\ ... mklink /d test

Re: Bash declare built-in regression loses array quotations

My scripts have been updated to account for breaking changes in Bash 4.4 and I have updated all of my Cygwin packages back to the latest version. I am no longer receiving any assertions. Was I wrong to assume that I could selectively roll back Bash to 4.3 as I did? Matt D. On 1/13/2017 3

Re: Bash declare built-in regression loses array quotations

r" This bug is SEVERE and I can no longer perform any builds with these assertions. The Cygwin installer does not appear to provide a working version for me to roll back to. Please advise. I cannot get any work done with in this state. Matt D. On 1/13/2017 3:00 PM, Matt D. wrote: I up

Bash declare built-in regression loses array quotations

confirm that this has always been the expected output when running this command on Cygwin and Linux. I run CentOS which does not track the latest Bash release and I don't know the procedure to check whether this is an upstream regression or not. I have rolled back to Bash 4.3.48-8 which ha

clamav: Request for package update

Attention package clamav maintainer (Reini Urban?) Usage of freshclam (1) reports that the recommended version of ClamAV is 0.99.1, but the most recent version in https://cygwin.com/packages/ is 0.98.7 . Version 0.98.7 isn't functional with the current ClamAV databases. Can this package be updat

Fwd: clamav: Request for package update

Oops ... I should have checked cygwin-announce first. I see there that Yaakov Selkowitz has released the last few updates of clamav. How about another update, Yaakov? Thanks! -- Forwarded message -- From: Jonathan D Johnston Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 1:10 PM Subject: clamav

Segfault when running tests for SDL 1.2.15

f segfault? My environment: CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW 2.3.1(0.291/5/3) 2015-11-14 12:42 i686 Cygwin Winows 10 x64, AMD FX-8370, GeForce 970 Thanks, Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sendmail 8.14.9-2

Version 8.14.9-2 of "sendmail" has been uploaded. General purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and delivery methods, including SMTP, SMTPS (STARTTLS), SMTPA (AUTH) used for email transport over the internet. -- v. 8.14.9-2 * sendmail-config: fi

Calling cygpath from find exec?

Is there a reason why these produce different results? find . -exec cygpath -wa {} \; find . -exec echo $(cygpath -wa {}) \; I have to do this which is much slower: find . -exec bash -c 'echo $(cygpath -wa {})' \; Or this: find . | while read a; do echo $(cygpath -wa $a); don

Re: Cygwin gjar core dumps whereas Oracle jar does not

I'm not sure if this got lost, ignored, or wasn't forwarded appropriately, but I'm still getting this core dump: https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2015-10/msg00257.html Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http:/

Re: No support for ACLs on network shares?

Cygwin isn't aware of this SID since it's the user I log in as to the remove server and isn't a local SID. Using noacl is a valid workaround but I would prefer an ACL-supported solution if possible. Matt D. On 11/23/2015 3:08 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Matt D.! I noti

No support for ACLs on network shares?

gh Cygwin only maps ACLs to the SIDs stored in passwd and group and cannot handle ACLs when accessing network devices where SIDs are not present in these files. Running passwd/mkgroup after the share is on the keychain does not provide additional SIDs. Is there no support for ACLs across ne

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libfakesu 1.2.0

Version 1.2.0-0 of "libfakesu" has been uploaded. This library simulates the Unix root user. It is meant to make porting Unix programs to Cygwin easier. Many Unix daemon programs, such as Apache, Sendmail and Procmail, start up as root but change to an unprivileged user ID. By including this libr

Re: gawk: Bad File Descriptor error with concurrent readonly access to a network file

he same error that I get. Matt D. On 10/27/2015 5:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 25 16:31, Vermessung AVT - Wolfgang Rieger wrote: 1) Concurrent read access to the setup files was possible and worked fine with local files (24 hrs testing with millions of file accesses in 4 parallel jobs).

Cygwin gjar core dumps whereas Oracle jar does not

Illegal instruction (core dumped) Test on Oracle JDK jar: $jar -uf test.jar -C test icons (works fine) Matt D. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http

gcc-java-4.9.2-3 has the wrong libgcj dependency

Latest release of setup-x86.exe downloaded today. gcc-java-4.9.2-3 has the wrong libgcj dependency. It erroneously depends on libgcj16-5.2.0-1 instead of libgcj15-4.9.3-1 and will complain that it can't find cyggcj-15.dll if I try to run gjar. Matt D. -- Problem reports:

Re: Procmail stackdumps

gjnospam2014-cygwi...@yahoo.com schreef op 20-8-2015 om 11:23: Hi, I have a problem with a procmail recipe which previously worked but now doesn't, and causes procmail to generate a stackdump. :0 # * ^Subject:.* something or other { :0 BW * ^KeyWord { :0 b NUM_FOUND=|${PMD_

Re: X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user

On 08/19/2015 11:35 AM, Jon TURNEY wrote: On 19/08/2015 00:04, L. D. James wrote: I installed Cygwin on Windows XP with X11. I tested it and it works as expected. Then I logged in as a normal user (not administrator). I get the following error when trying to X11: A fatal error has occurred

X11 Fails to load on WindowsXP normal user

t the same results. I found that if I add the user account to Administrators X11 will then work without errors. Can someone advise what has to be done to make X11 work with a normal user's account? Thanks. -- L. James -- L. D. James lja...@apollo3.com www.apollo3.com/~ljames --

RE: httpd immediate segfault on startup

>On 7/26/2015 5:24 PM, Jim Garrison wrote: >> Google turned up one other question citing the same symptoms, but on a >> Chinese website, no answers so far. >> >> cygcheck.out attached >> >> Suggestions on how to troubleshoot? I can provide an strace output >> (67k lines, 460kB gzipped) if desi

Re: Looking for 64-bit proxy

> Marco Atzeri wrote: > > you seem to have other ssh issue. > Using the 64 bit version with > > connect-proxy.exe -d -p 80 -H 176.31.237.157: mysite.com 22 > > I was able to ssh connect on USA server passing > through a France HTTPS server (176.31.237.157:) >

Re: Looking for 64-bit proxy

>On 7/10/2015 10:49 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > >>On 7/10/2015 3:16 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote: >> >>Marco Atzen wrote: >> >>Hi Denis, >>I uploaded on >>http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86

Re: Looking for 64-bit proxy

Marco Atzen wrote: > Hi Denis, > I uploaded on > http://matzeri.altervista.org/x86_64/connect-proxy/ > can you test it ? > > To install > setup-x86_64.exe -X -O -s http://matzeri.altervista.org -q -P connect-proxy I installed and tested this on two different Win7 PCs and, unfortunately, neither

Re: Looking for 64-bit proxy

Andrey Repin wrote: >Greetings, Marco Atzeri! > Currently I am using connect-proxy on WinXP (32 bit).  I would like to use connect-proxy on a Win7 PC but there is no 64-bit version.  Is there an alternative to connect-proxy for 64-bit, or would I need to revert to the 32-bit cy

Looking for 64-bit proxy

Currently I am using connect-proxy on WinXP (32 bit). I would like to use connect-proxy on a Win7 PC but there is no 64-bit version. Is there an alternative to connect-proxy for 64-bit, or would I need to revert to the 32-bit cygwin just to get this connect-proxy? Denis -- Problem reports:

RE: New apache 2.4 package

ygwin, but native windows instead. As a result, I moved further on to simply using cygrunsrv. The old httpd2_config file creates some directories and then does: cygrunsrv -I httpd2 -d "CYGWIN Apache2 web server" -p /usr/sbin/httpd2 -a "-DNO_DETACH -k start" so I believe

New apache 2.4 package

I was trying to install the new httpd (apache 2.4) package today, and can't seem to find the equivalent of the old /usr/sbin/httpd2-config file (which created the Windows service).  Does that still exist?  If so, can you please point me to where it lives now?  Or is service creation now a manual

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

I'm not sure but I think Larry was saying the issue was that Excel by its nature is an interactive program and that was the crux of the problem, even though I was running Excel without any interactive input. (And Larry wanted to emphasize this wasn't a cygwin problem per se - it was a problem w

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

I changed the cron setup to use cygserver as Corinna suggested. I used cron-config and cygserver-config to setup the cron and cygserver services and passwd -R to establish my password. Normal cron jobs run under this setup but Excel still hangs as it did before. I also tried this on the Win7

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

Well, not so lucky anymore. Last night I re-ran my Excel test on the Win7 PC that worked previously and now it doesn't work. So I guess some Win7 patch must have come along and "fixed" something. Denis Larry Hall wrote: On 06/17/2015 12:55 PM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

links.  We will check them out. Denis Corinna Vinschen Wrote: On Jun 17 13:29, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote: > Unfortunately, using the 64-bit wscript.exe didn't change anything - same > behavior as

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

ggested. (Trying to remove TOFU to make the conversation appear chronological again and with correct attributions.) 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

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

Unfortunately, using the 64-bit wscript.exe didn't change anything - same behavior as before with excel hanging. We are using 64-bit cygwin and 32-bit Excel (Excel 2007). Denis On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR ** wrote: > We need to run some Excel programs via

Unable to run excel via cron

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 the script to run a simple test excel program: Dim xlApp Dim xlWb Set xlA

Should password file entries show as machine+user

passwd file so it was created by:  mkpasswd -l >/etc/passwd Checking the passwd file, we were surprised to see the login entry as +login: +Upar:*:197609:197121:U-\Upar,S-1-5-21-3464461866-3395066926-2135031952-1001:/home/Upar:/bin/bash -- Running mkpasswd with -l

unix user - who BOYCOTTED microsoft a long time ago - still not paid for microsoft legal infringements

hi, i've been findign allot of microsoft hacks in Unix code while allot of if is #ifdef WIN32 which is "ok" (but damages readability of code) i've been seeing cygwin has been causing lib dependancy problems and breakage in Unix that is not ok - even in gcc. things that are not related to

RE: update trouble 1.7.35

>You don't have a setup per chance that doesn't yet have network connectivity >when cygserver starts up? Firewall >opened only when a user logs in? VPN >needs time to establish connection? Is cygserver dependent on the tcpip >>service? No (at least not today and recently). I'm hardwired (Et

RE: update trouble 1.7.35

> What account is cygserver as service running under? Your own, or something > like LocalSystem, or > NetworkService? In my case it is running under SYSTEM.

RE: update trouble 1.7.35

> - In a CMD shell, cd to C:\cygwin{64}\bin, call the following two > commands, and paste the output into your reply: >getent passwd %USERNAME% >id I am able to produce the failure again (by reverting to cygserver starting immediately as a service upon bootup). I would be happy to prov

RE: mintty startup message: /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory

>LDAP can't have to do with that, in theory. The whole mechanism should give a >sane result even if LDAP >connections fail, because the core part is the call >to LookupAccountSid and that's the only call which has to >succeed. Certainly my speculation of the cause is exactly thatspeculatio

RE: mintty startup message: /sbin/nologin: No such file or directory

I observed the same error. In my case, it was apparently caused by a too-rapid startup at boot of cygserver, which apparently could not connect to LDAP at that early stage. If I prevented any of my Cygwin services from starting at boot, and then started them manually once I logged in, the prob

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] (last?) TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.5

> Since Cygwin 1.7.34, chmod does not always affect the POSIX permission > mask as returned by stat(2) or printed by ls(1), due to the improved > POSIX ACL handling. As a temporary workaround, chmod now checks if I'm a neophyte regarding this ACL handling stuff. Here is my usage model, which

Re: Can't Run Excel From A Cron Job Under Windows 7

Andrey Repin [mailto:anrdae...@yandex.ru] Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 6:03 PM To: Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: [SPAM?] Re: Can't Run Excel From A Cron Job Under Windows 7 Greetings, Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **! > I am trying to port a cygwin application that uses

RE: problems with apache2 and postgres after Pc in sleep mode

On 12/11/2014 3:17 PM, Gery . wrote: >> So far things have been nicely working in my cygwin with postgres >> and apache, thanks guys for the excellent job you're doing in >> cygwin. The only thing is that when I stop apache2 and postgres, or >> put in sleep mode my laptop, then I cannot start agai

RE: Cygwin AD schema and configuration extensions (was Re: RFC: 1.7.33 problem with user's home directory)

> In the long run I'm also planning to allow replacing /etc/fstab and > /etc/nsswitch.conf with a Cygwin-specific AD configuration extension. While I can see how this might be attractive for some, I see it as something that must be an optional replacement of the /etc/fstab and /etc/nsswitch.conf

RE: occasional failure to look up

> Thanks. Unfortunately it's not useful, because the actual problem > occurred inside Cygserver. What I need would be the problem captured > by running cygserver from the command line like this: > $ strace -o cygserver.trace /usr/sbin/cygserver -d 2> cygserver.stderr St

RE: occasional failure to look up

> Does this record have one or more entries in the sidHistory attribute? Yes, as you suspected, the sidHistory attribute for S-1-5-21-1060284298-861567501-682003330-76794 contains S-1-5-21-4015118-2039090470-1726288727-4013

RE: occasional failure to look up

> That's a bit of a problem for debugging. Did you notice my mail > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-11/msg00480.html, btw? Just taking a step back...what are we trying to fix? Once startup goes smoothly, your current AD code works fine for me. The only problem I'm having is that sometimes s

RE: occasional failure to look up

On Nov 25 16:24, Habermann, David (D) wrote: > >> Still, some debugging on affected systems might be enlightening. > > > I'll be happy to do anything of interest. As a starter, I'm going > > to see if I can figure out which of my SIDs are being used by the >

RE: occasional failure to look up

> Two things to keep in mind: > - It's not actually clear yet if it's a sidHistory entry or some SID > created by another mechanism. > Even if it's sidHistory, it may be *very* old. Did you work at the > company already back in NT4 times? That might explain the sidHistory > entry and the tot

RE: occasional failure to look up

>> Still, some debugging on affected systems might be enlightening. > I'll be happy to do anything of interest. As a starter, I'm going > to see if I can figure out which of my SIDs are being used by the > couple of file shares I routinely access from cygwin. I was unable to quickly figure out

RE: occasional failure to look up

> Thanks. Unfortunately it's not useful, becasue the actual problem > occurred inside Cygserver. What I need would be the problem captured > by running cygserver from the command line like this: > $ strace -o cygserver.trace /usr/sbin/cygserver -d 2> cygserver.stderr >

RE: occasional failure to look up

> > Stopping the terminal and restarting cygserver is not sufficient? > > Also, does this also happen if you don't start cygserver at all? > > I've not tried either of these ... and I'm not sure if it happens at > every reboot now or not (I rarely reboot). I'll see if I can > reproduce it. > > >

RE: occasional failure to look up

>> I've not tried either of these ... and I'm not sure if it happens at >> every reboot now or not (I rarely reboot). I'll see if I can >> reproduce it. >> >> > When the problem occurs, can you provide an strace from id? >> > >> > $ strace -o id.trace /usr/bin/id >> >> Will do if I can get it t

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