Re: sundry & using rootfs as cygwin-root

I have found that giving cygwin its own partition and setting / to the root of the volume gives the best of all worlds for me. I have also used systems with a LETTER:/cygwin and experienced no unexpected or inconvenient behaviour. Cheers Don Sharp Max Bowsher wrote: linda w wrote: Since some

tar reports octal value 63747150716 is out of time_t range

is out of time_t range;\ assuming two's complement I have attached my cygcheck.out Cheers Don Sharp Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Aug 19 11:25:57 2004 Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: G:\usr\local\bin G:\\bin

Re: setup shows categories not packages in partial view

Silly me! That will teach me to run setup at full screen in future. The default edge cuts off the package column. Sorry for the noise Cheers Don Sharp Don Sharp wrote: > > Hi Everyone > > Have I missed something? I am running setup and when I look at the Full > or Partial vi

setup shows categories not packages in partial view

nyone else seeing this effect? Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: stty under cygwin

ot;. You're telling stty to take any > standard input it requires from the serial port. That's not going to work. > > #4: Haven't you ever heard of the "--help" option, or the "man" or "info" > utilities? Repeat after me: > > stty -

Re: Keypress anomaly: maybe locality specific

I can confirm Fergus' results with bash and show below that sh is free from the fault. G:\>\bin\sh $ echo £ £ $ 789£ 789£: not found $ I attach my cygcheck.out Cheers Don Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Windows XP. The anomaly happens in Cygwin 1.5.6 and 1.5.5 and maybe e

Re: cygcheck -c gives an Application Error

kage Information Package VersionStatus texinfo 4.2-4 OK No crash. It's definitely our friend textutils. Examining the output from the zcat piped through less shows that second and subsequent lines begin "^@", which is the likely cause of the problem. Removing the nulls allows "cygcheck -cv" to succeed. Thank you very much for your help in locating the source of the problem. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: cygcheck -c gives an Application Error

See inline comments below Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Don Sharp wrote: > > > I ran cygcheck -c this morning and the result, copied from the screen, > > is attached in cygfail.out. It resulted in an Application Error popup > > reporting >

cygcheck -c gives an Application Error

reported by cygcheck -s -r -v whose output is attached in cygcheck.out. Cheers Don Sharp$ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus _update-info-dir00223-1OK ash 20031007-1 OK astyle 1.15.3-3

Re: Info versus Man

Try pinfo. If it doesn't find an info page it'll look for a man page. HTH Don Sharp Brian Dessent wrote: > > zzapper wrote: > > > > Hi Ya All > > > > Is INFO just a viewer for Man Pages, or does it have it's own > > database? > > > &

Re: cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

Thanks to everyone that replied pointing out that it was /dev/null that I needed NOT /dev/zero. Thanks again Don Sharp "Peter J. Acklam" wrote: > > Don Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I carried out the following sequence of commands > > > >

cp /dev/zero filename creates large files

has grown to a considerable size in a short time. Can anyone else reproduce this? Attaching cygcheck.log Cheers Don Sharp cygcheck.log Description: application/unknown-content-type-txtfile -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://

Re: need help

is your cygwin / then mkdir /tmp may be an easier choice. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Question regarding problem during uninstall using setup.exe

Hi Alan Bear in mind that some of the mount points might include Cygwin packages. For instance my /usr/X11R6 is mounted from a separate partition for space reasons. So it couldn't be unmounted and still be updated. Cheers Don Sharp Alan Miles wrote: > > Rob, > > Sorry it

Re: Ideas re problem reporting

ve to > keep reeling off the spiel about attaching them? > As one of those that have inadvertently inlined their cygcheck.out I would appreciate finding out how to dissuade Netscape 4.78 from inlining text attachments. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

ls -l gets the dates wrong on CD

FAT partitions. Cheers Don Sharp Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Jul 15 16:17:23 2003 Windows NT Ver 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 6 Path: G:\usr\local\bin G:\\bin n:\X11R6\bin G:\bin j:\mksnt t:\java\jdk\j2sdk1.4.1_01

Re: make from cvs file

ou are already in ~/src/minion. If you do ls do you see the makefile? Try just typing make HTH Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?

Hi Steve It is almost certain that you have MS Windows paths prior to cygwin/bin in your PATH and so you are picking up MS' find rather than the Cygwin find. Try which find HTH Don Sharp Steve wrote: > > Hi; > > I am on windows 2000 with cygwin. > > My apologies

Re: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump

> connect to address 128.57.32.9: Connection refused > > I probably need some Cygwin service to run to service the request, but which > one? > "inetd" is the service you need. Remember to read /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README HTH Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: non network install

My Documents\temp\Cygwin\release. The path should be to the directory containing release. In your case "My Documents\temp\Cygwin" HTH Don Sharp > Even this gave the same errors as I originally posted. It was then we > decided to make t

Re: non network install

the nominated local package directory is :\ HTH Don Sharp B Thomas wrote: > > Hi, > Thank you for responding. > > But it doesn't seem like I have some thing missing , here is the listing > of my top level CD-ROM directory : > > directory - > total 11

Re: sshd, ftpd telnetd starts, but says incorrect passwd

Are you running the inetd daemon to start ftpd and telnetd? If you aren't make sure you look at /usr/doc/Cygwin/inetutils-1.3.2.README. I run ftpd and telnetd all the time via inetd. Ensure your /etc/passwd and /etc/group are up to date. HTH Don Sharp "Malghan, Ravi" wrote: >

Re: testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

Dear Cygwinners Thanks to David, Elfyn and Chris for replying. The correspondence has led me to finding the rule in my firewall which was blocking the ICMP echo reply request from sources.redhat.com. Access has been restored. Thanks again Don Sharp Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri,

Re: testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:44:47PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote: > > > > > >Elfyn McBratney wrote: > >> > >> > This is a somewhat off topic item. > >> > I have been trying for the last three weeks to update my c

Re: testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

rs of blueyonder.co.uk), > > had any trouble reaching sources.redhat.com? Until recently I have had no > > difficulties updating. > > Well I use blueyonder broadband, BT ADSL and B... Freeserve dial-up. > I have no problems connecting from either service to s.r

testing accessibility to sources.redhat.com

n the USA and then falls down a black hole. MY ISP says it's not his problem because he's passed the packets onward. Has anyone else, (particularly customers of blueyonder.co.uk), had any trouble reaching sources.redhat.com? Until recently I have had no difficulties updating.

Re: how to be "superuser" on W98 ?

e existence of /usr/bin and /usr/lib but the mount points don't have to be real directories. HTH Don Sharp > Even though I know that W98 has problem with security. > > the result of "ls /" is : > > bin cygwin.bat cygwin.ico etc home lib sbin tmp usr var > >

Re: GCC 2.96 for new cygwin?

are that the upgrade will have left 2.95 available as gcc-2. I can't say for sure because I explicitly acquired both versions some while ago. > 2.) Or how could I reinstall my old version from cygwin (installed about > 8 months ago) where the gcc was 2.95 ?? > HTH Don Sharp --

Re: No /dev Files for Tape Backup to Use?

now because I use it quite frequently, albeit to refer to a DAT drive rather than a DLT. Try mt -f /dev/st0 status If you get a reasonable status report you are in business. See the Cygwin User Guide which should have a section on special device names. HTH Don Sharp -- Unsubscrib

Re: rxvt, stty and login

section of login code that's responsible. It's not clear why you are using login when you already have an rxvt window. I believe it isn't intended as a way of doing an "su username" but for use by telnetd etc. If I don't type login in an rxvt window I don't run i

Re: pico and nano: number of lines displayed

me -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 DON 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-07 13:57 i686 unknown Seems you might have a flaky installation. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: pico and nano: number of lines displayed

me -a CYGWIN_NT-4.0 DON 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-07 13:57 i686 unknown Seems you might have a flaky installation. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

Is it possible that cmd.exe (and command.com) redirections and pipes are not acceptable whereas bash.exe uses Cygwin implemented redirections? Cheers Don Sharp Barry Buchbinder wrote: > > It's definitly cygwin's gawk doing it. > > C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\gawk -f t <

Updated rxvt-2.7.2-13 disturbs vim's colours

soon happened again while editing with vim. Normal command line behaviour is OK. Reverting to the previous 2.7.2-12 lets me edit in peace. Just thought I better mention it! Cheers Don Sharp Steve O wrote: > > Hi, > > rxvt is a replacement for the Windows command window. >

problems if dot in front of bash CDPATH

h/avalon/src/src/comms/if Now remove "." from the front of the CDPATH $ export CDPATH=/dosh/avalon/src/src:/dost/avalon/src $ cd dbase/.. /dosh/avalon/src/src Doesn't happen on the Unix systems I have access to. Is this unexpected behaviour for bash? Cheers Don Sharp Cygwin Win9

Re: Cygrunsrv and backups

ou know? > Sorry no. I suspect its a hardware capability. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Cygrunsrv and backups

"Craveiro, Marco" wrote: > > "Don Sharp" wrote: > > > > anyway, there's just one thing i dont understand on your script: > > > > > > mt -f /dev/nst0 tell > > > > > > why do you need this? > > > &g

Re: Cygrunsrv and backups

ounts of tape devices. For a while now they have been automatically available as /dev/[n]st[01..] if present on the system. Look it up in the archives around early to mid-November last year. Cheers Don Sharp > cheers! > > -Original Message- > > From: Don Sharp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] &

Re: Cygrunsrv and backups

roblems in the pass with streaming tapes when I haven't include them. Hope that helps Don Sharp "Craveiro, Marco" wrote: > > Huh, before I starting getting flamed, may I just add that there is plenty > of documentation about ssh and cron on the mailing list, I just made the

Re: IO Redirection

dependend of the file > > or source selected. That is, "&>>file" appends both. > > > > Why is that not obvious ? > > This is why: > > Robert Mark Bram@DIJONG ~ > $ ls > errors script1 script2 temp > > Robert Mark Bram@DIJONG

Re: Telneting/ftping to cygwin

til I click OK on the pop-up, at which point it exits. running cygcheck I get $ cygcheck -r -s -v > /tmp/cyg.txt cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 1005 but the output seems OK otherwise and appears below Cheers Don Sharp Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Curren

Re: cygpath doubles backslashes

Lapo Luchini wrote: > > > $ mount > > G:\\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) > > G:\\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) > > >From this it seems that is a setup.exe issue: you probably installed in > G:\ and it didn't strip last backslach... Lapo

cygpath doubles backslashes

e,noumount) e: on /cygdrive/e type system (binmode,noumount) k: on /cygdrive/k type system (binmode,noumount) l: on /cygdrive/l type system (binmode,noumount) All software latest available yesterday Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: at + bash

system (binmode,noumount) l: on /cygdrive/l type system (binmode,noumount) > /tmp is created by setup.exe. > > cgf Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

setup-2002-01-27-1.exe clips text

Using setup-2002-01-27-1.exe I have noticed that the text in the selection dialog is clipped. i.e. there appear to be ~3 pixels missing from the top of the displayed text on my 1280x1024 display. Haven't seen it reported so I thought I'd mention it. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubs

Re: named colour list

C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll C:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll C:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll C:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.dll C:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.dll Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug repo

Re: Again Undefined Reference to WinMain

Recently, while trying to compile bcpp, I had exactly that message. My hair was becoming scarcer by the minute until I saw that I had a missing module. Adding the missing module to the link and lo and behold everything was fine! Hope that helps Don Sharp Prashant Kharche wrote: > >

Re: No stderr output

ng like > runme 1>&2 > filename > I tried all sorts of combinations and didn't get it to work :( > > Any suggestions for bringing stderr back from the dead? > Thanks. > For Bourne style shells I use runme > filename 2>&1 This redirects stdout first and

Linux tar expects to exec /etc/rmt

Hi Folks Just wanted to log the fact that I had to copy /sbin/rmt.exe to /etc so that my remote tar from a Linux (Mandrake) box could find the right executable. Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

Re: ftp can't set uid

Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:14:08PM +0000, Don Sharp wrote: > > I found the following message during a google search, but no resolution. > > www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-05/msg01199.html > > Today I stopped inetd, removed as servic

ftp can't set uid

everything. Any joy making ftp work anyone? Cheers Don Sharp -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/