On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 09:15:55PM +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> there is no "/usr/share/dict/words" in any package
>
> $ cygcheck -p usr/share/dict/words
> Found 0 matches for usr/share/dict/words
>
> But scowl has 3 dictionary that eventually you can
> try to use. (I have not tested it)
Thank y
Wnen I type something like
look mental
I get
look: /usr/share/dict/words: No such file or directory
In fact, directory /usr/share/dict does not even exist.
Rather than trying to diagnose this problem, I would like to re-install the
relevant package(s). So far, I have tried util-li
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:53:24AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> We use coverity at work. It is annoying and it does have false positive
> but a lot of what look like false positives often turn out to be: "Oh,
> wait. (#*(&$ Yeah. That's a problem."
I use Coverity as well, and I find it
My experience with AVG was very good, as long as I disabled all of its
continuous protection features. I mean, I just used it as a scanner.
Cygwin worked fine for me in this arrangement.
I switched to Microsoft's free MSE because it is good enough for my
purposes. But I did not find AVG to be bad.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 04:11:19PM +, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> Hi,
> S-lang library and shell are now available for cygwin.
> The version 2.2.2-1 of
> libslang2
> libslang-devel
> slsh
> have been uploaded.
Thanks. This makes it easier to build "most," the pager program.
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On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:21:51PM +0100, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> After the update from AVG9 Free to AVG 2011 Free, I notice a great slow
> down using Cygwin. A few applications, like 'wget' and 'python', are
> marked as 'malaware' by the new AVG (surely false positives), and now
> building
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:57:02AM -0600, Durwin De La Rue wrote:
> First, I am using latest version of cygwin. I normally use rxvt. But
> after having this issue with it, and finding information that mintty
> does not have the issue, I started using mintty. My first attempt to
> fix the i
>From setup.exe, I have been using download site http://mirrors.kernel.org
exclusively. For the last few days, I have been getting a pop-up dialog
box stating that this site is "not on the list of official mirrors."
Is this really true, or do I have a problem with my cygwin environment?
I would pr
I have finished upgrading from 1.5.x to 1.7.x and I don't intend to
go back. Now I would like to delete the entries some entries from my
Windows registry. What are the keys that were used in 1.5.x, but are
no longer used in 1.7.x?
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 03:42:52PM -0400, Kevin Holleran wrote:
> I am building a new laptop and was wondering if there was a way I
> could copy some ini or setup file from cygwin to the new one so that
> the cygwin installer would install the same packages as opposed to
> having to go through and
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:50:34AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> That's what I meant, yes. I think many people don't understand that
> those files don't need to be there and since we advocate using
> just the straight install from internet, we probably should be nice
> and delete the files.
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:29:21PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
> - The control sequences sent by the mousewheel outside application
> mouse mode have changed. The previous scheme that tied the encoding to
> the "modifier for scrolling with cursor keys" was a bad idea, because
> it meant that the confi
ated to 4.72.
In both cases, I only find these Logitech processes: khalmnpr.exe and
setpoint.exe.
I searched the "services" section of my Windows registry for the
string "logitech" (case insensitive). The only matches I found were
for "filter" services, suc
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:42:23PM +0300, Vladimir Romashkin wrote:
> I have found a new software which interfere with Cygwin.
> It is the Logitech SetPoint, at least a version 4.7.213.
> When I kill SetPoint's process the Cygwin work normally.
> I use Cygwin which is included to Altera Quartus II
I am able to compile mtr 0.75 under Cygwin, see
http://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/.
But mtr is not working. Using ddd, I see that the call
getsockname (recvsock, name, &len);
does not seem to be filling in name correctly, when recvsock=3. It
fills in name->sa_family = 0.
Any suggestions?
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Here is one thing that Cygwin rxvt does badly. Both Cygwin xterm and
the new Cygwin MinTTY do quite well.
>From one of (xterm, rxvt, MinTTY) I telnet into a remote host. On the
remote host, I launch the usenet news reader trn. In trn, text can be
selected with the mouse, even though trn is nomina
bodge.c:2:30: w32api/ddk/ntapi.h: No such file or directory
So what is the proper way to use the DDK functions in Cygwin? You
mention MingW, so I assume that I should use the MingW compiler (gcc
-mno-cygwin). Do I assume wrong?
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I would like to use some of the "undocumented" NTDLL functions from
within a C or C++ program. I would like to compile this program from
Cygwin's C or C++ compiler.
The functions I refer to involve Registry operations, such as
NtQueryValueKey() and NtEnumerateValueKey(). I found some sparse
docum
I ran Cygwin's setup.exe and it seemed to hang. So I used the Cancel
button. Verily, setup.exe did then disappear from my peecee.
I restarted setup.exe and I selected the same mirror as before. This
time, while uninstalling bash, I got an application error:
The instruction at "0x004f42cb"
I find that AVG 8.0 (Windows anti-virus product) frequently flags
Cygwin files as being infected.
Last night, AVG quarantined these files:
ncurses-5.5.3.tar.bz2 (Trojan horse Downloader.Generic7.ABKD)
zip-2.32-2.tar.bz2 (Trojan horse Downloader.Generic7.ABHQ)
toe.exe (Troja
Is this a bug? The following three-line shell script prints out the
string
when executed.
#!/bin/bash
trap "echo '' ; exit 1" ERR
grep -q -e 'foo' < /dev/null
This indicates that grep has raised the signal ERR. It is inconvenient
for me. I am attempting to clean up some scratch files w
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my bash shell script, and now I am back in business!
Thank you for your exc
I just upgraded ClearCase to a new version and immediately I have
new problems relating to Cygwin.
I use Windows XP Pro service pack 2, latest Cygwin, and ClearCase
7.0.1.0.
ClearCase tools such as clearexplorer.exe and clearvtree.exe run OK
when launched from Windows. I can also launch them fr
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:43:18PM -0700, William Deegan wrote:
> Anyone else seeing this?
Yes. Last night, AVG (paid version) detected a massive 131
Win32/PolyCrypt infections, mostly in Cygwin files. I suspect false
positive here. I emailed a request for help to the vendor.
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I would like to use the gdate command in cygwin. I did a package search
on cygwin.com. I found that gdate.h is in the glib2-devel package. But
I could find no gdate.c, gdate.exe, or gdate.anything for that matter.
Since someone has already provided glib2-devel, is there an easy way to
compile a va
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restoring. As has been noted 10497 times in this mailing list Windows
ZIP does not properly save the bits needed to recreate things like
symlinks.
And, we'
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On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:59:04PM -0400, John P. Rouillard wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I am trying to find the clean_setup script done by Michael A Chase
> that used to be at:
>
> http://home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/clean_setup.zip
I put my copy on yousendit.com:
http://download.yousendit.com/C5A
When I launch cygwin's rxvt from within cygwin's X11, I use the option
"-fn 9x15bold". I like the appearance of this font.
When I launch cygwin's rxvt WITHOUT X11, with "-fn 9x15bold", I do not
get the same font as I get with X11.
When I launch rxvt WITHOUT X11, with the option "-fn 'Lucida Conso
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:51:51AM +0100, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> The following two files have DOS line endings:
>
> /etc/defaults/etc/manweb.conf
> /etc/postinstall/netpbm.sh
On my machine, it is netpbm.sh.done that has CRLF line terminations.
I also see these CRLF text files:
gtk-doc.sh.done
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 05:20:00PM -0400, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
> I found and adapted a Windows registry hack to permit opening Bash
> prompts in any folder in Explorer by right-clicking on the folder and
> selecting the "Open with Cygwin Shell (bash)" menu entry.
You might be interested in t
I have a bash shell script that I run every night using Windows task
scheduler. The purpose of this script is to take an inventory of my
PC, and to make copies of a few important files. The script calls ls,
find, cp, and a few other ordinary Linux/Unix utilities.
My problem is that the script does
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> So mounting the share should work-around this issue, right?
Yes. I also have to redefine the HOME environment variable to P:/ and
do "cd P:/" before starting lyx, in order to get it to work correctly.
In this case, P: is the dr
I just tried to use the Cygwin port of lyx. It cannot cope with my
home directory, which appears as //fs-sj1-15/darnstein in Cygwin. This
is a network directory, obviously.
When lyx starts up, it emits a complaint
QSettings: error creating /fs-sj1-15/darnstein/.qt
When I try to save a lyx
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:05:52PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> Most of the above is irrelevant. This sounds like a bug in mkdirhier, and
> I also seem to recall that it was mentioned on the Cygwin lists before,
> with proposed fixes. Apparently, the fixes haven't been incorporated in
> 6.8.99.
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:35:24PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> This is very frustrating because my client relies on a command I wrote
> called "smake" which essentially boils down to: "rsh -n cd
> && make" that is intended to perform the make on .
> As you can see it
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:28:20PM -0500, Herb Martin wrote:
> Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin
If you are looking for a relay DNS server, consider dnrd. Look it up on
Sourceforge. It is ported to cygwin (I helped!).
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I installed the new geoip package announced today. Then I did
/usr/sbin/makewhatis -w
For some reason, the "database" /var/cache/man/whatis did not pick up
any of the geoip executables: geoiplookup, geoipupdate, etc.
The "man" pages for these executables are in place:
/usr/share/m
using the mirror http://mirrors.kernel.org. When I switched
to http://mirrors.mcs.anl.gov, the problem went away.
I attach the output from "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" in case it
is needed.
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The default version of the libexif package seems to be 0.6.12-1. There
is a fatal error in this version. It has been fixed in 0.6.13
In exif-data.c, there is a single line of code
if (s & 1) *ds++;
The author really wanted
if (s & 1) (*ds)++;
This bug will be exercised whenever a
three overlapping
packages present. Why don't they install files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig? Is
this directory only for Gnome related work?
I attach the usual output from cygcheck -s -v -r
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On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:35:30PM -0600, Ren? Berber wrote:
> If you want the source for version 0.6.12-1 just select the source (put the x
> in
> the 4th column) don't change the versions.
I did exactly as you said above. The GUI of Cygwin setup.exe
definitely indicated I was about to download
When I run the Cygwin setup.exe, it shows that my libexif package is up
to date at version 0.6.12-1. But when I use setup.exe to download the
source, I get these three files in /usr/src:
libexif-0.6.9-1.sh
libexif-0.6.9-1.patch
libexif-0.6.9.tar.gz*
What should I do? I n
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:17:09PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> I've been having problems with "fork: resource unavailable" on my machine
> with the 10/03 snapshot. The problem is only reproducible after Cygwin
> has been running for a while, under a heavy load. I'll try to see if it
> appea
I have not had much luck building the gimp (Gnu image processing) with
Cygwin. I tried building it from the official gimp tarball, and the
configure script complained that I had an old version of gtk. So I tried
to build gtk from a recent tarball. While compiling, I got a complaint
that some symbo
Some cygwin packages install shell scripts that begin with the line
#!/bin/sh
The latest example is the smartd script that smartmontools installs in
/etc/rc.d/init.d. But there are many others. This seems to be standard
Linux usage.
On some of my PCs, this causes the shell script to fail.
I updated my installation of smartmontools by using the usual cygwin
setup.exe. This caused my smartd.conf file to be overwritten.
This is not a good thing. The comments in the distributed smartd.conf
file urge the user to customize the file.
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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:41:14PM -0700, Xantius wrote:
> I have again discovered how to compile Minicom in Cygwin and have posted
> the instructions on my website. Please go to
> http://www.xantius.com/articles/minicom.php or just visit
> http://www.xantius.com and browse to the article. I k
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:41:14PM -0700, Xantius wrote:
> I have again discovered how to compile Minicom in Cygwin and have posted
> the instructions on my website. Please go to
> http://www.xantius.com/articles/minicom.php or just visit
> http://www.xantius.com and browse to the article. I k
> Somewhat offtopic and probably FAQ:
> The local package cache fills up with outdated (no longer in
> setup.ini) versions.
> Is there any hidden setup.exe functionality or cleanup script
> available to delete old package files?
I asked this question a long time ago. The answer is that Michael
Cha
izing tinyproxy ...";
retval = strptime (message, "%c", &tms);
return 0;
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On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:44:37AM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> First of all, on this Win2k SP4 I don't see that behavior. Even when I start
> several "normal" Windows programs that value doesn't increase. (It's at 132
> here.)
Thank you for this data Mr. Quetschke. I will test two other machi
Synopsis:
the "fork: resource temporarily unavailable" problem may be caused
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I see a problem with calling select(). The problem occurs when I
select on a single read file descriptor 0 (standard input) and no
write file descriptors.
The return value of select() indicates that data is ready. But when I
call read(), its return value is either 0 or -1. Because I am
controll
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:13:51AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I've created a new snapshot which may work around this problem by trying
> again when this error is presented. Could you give it a try?
Thank you Mr. Faylor. I have installed the cygwin1.dll dated August
19. If I see any releva
Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window
running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash:
--
10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't create pipe tracker for
pid 3768,
Win32
I have been running sshd on Cygwin for over a year now. I always keep
my Cygwin installation up to date.
Recently, remote ssh connections into the Cygwin box have been
disconnecting. It is very inconvenient! I see an error message in the
Windows "Application" event log:
[23910] sshd
Here is a behavior that I believe began with the cygwin updates of
2005-05-16.
I launch a cygwin command window running the bash shell. From there, I
run "startxwin.sh." Yes, this is a X11 launcher, but please bear with
me. I think this is a core cygwin issue, not a cygwin/X11 issue.
As a r
rsion 810801-2 that the cygwin installer.exe seems
to prefer.
Am I doing something wrong?
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Sean Aitken wrote:
> I have been fighting a problem with trying to run SSHD on a Windows...
I just spent several hours getting a program to run as a service on
Windows XP. I created a user account that only belongs to the "Users"
group. I created my service to run in this account. But the serv
My issues concern porting a Linux application to cygwin. I read
http://cygwin.com/faq/ but I did not find answers. If there is another
resource I should read, please advise.
The application is "dnrd," published on SourceForge For security
reasons, dnrd
1. Insists that its config files be ow
"minicom" under cygwin. However, when minicom
launches, it tries to access /dev/ttyS1, which is not provided by
cygwin.
Would someone suggest a program that is suitable, or a program that
might be portable to cygwin. I am willing to do a bit of work on
this.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Unix
shell account. The BSD Unix shell account uses the "cygwin" termcap
entry that is found in the /etc/termcap file published by cygwin.com.
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other user has stated that tin (the news reader) complains
"tin: Terminal must have clear to end-of-screen (cd)
I suspect that these issues are related. Can the termcap entry for
cygwin be improved? Or is this truly a limitation of the cygwin box?
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sions thereof) I have installed. It would be
very tedious if I had to pick and choose all the packages I want,
again.
Thanks for any suggestions!
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