how to update

2012-08-02 Thread J.V.
I want cygwin to silently run the package manager and update my system everytime I login. I have over 100 vm's that I use for various things and it is quite the hassle to update every component in the system on each launch so am looking for solutions or ideas on how to automatically update thi

cron issues (logon failure)

2012-06-08 Thread J.V.
When I run: $cygrunsrv --start cron I get: cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069: The service did not stat due to a logon failure. I think I have done everything correctly when I ran : $cron-config and I have everything installed correctly. I also tried:

How to run cygwin on boot

2012-04-05 Thread J.V.
I need to run a .bat file on startup that will launch a cygwin bash script. I can put the .bat file in the folder "startup" to connect some network drives and then I want to launch a bash script. Can this be done? thanks J.V. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problem

cygwin very slow under virtual box (productivity hit)

2011-11-04 Thread J.V.
I have Windows XP Pro x32 in a VM with the latest version of cygwin installed. When I open a cygwin bash shell, and type '$ls' it just sits there forever. Any other command I type is freakishly slow. How do I get this to run faster under a vm environment. I am not sure why it is taking so l

cygwin on virtual box vm

2011-11-04 Thread J.V.
I have Windows XP Pro x32 in a VM with the latest version of cygwin installed. When I open a cygwin bash shell, and type '$ls' it just sits there forever. Any other command I type is freakishly slow. How do I get this to run faster under a vm environment. I am not sure why it is taking so l

how to run a .bat or .cmd file from bash prompt

2011-09-16 Thread J.V.
he dos cmd prompt and execute a .bat file and then return to my bash shell. I do not know if this is possible, have tried many things, but nothing works. thanks J.V. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

how to open only 1 window when running rxvt.exe

2011-09-16 Thread J.V.
st get the one rxvt.exe window? and not the black window that pops up with it? I know this is possible with just the Cygwin.bat script. I copied that and in there put my rxvt.exe command. thanks J.V. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygw

wtf? rxvt.exe

2011-09-16 Thread J.V.
ll my aliases / paths - .bash_profile settings), that would be just fantastic. J.V. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: 36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands

2011-09-16 Thread J.V.
This did the trick, thanks: Uninstalling: git-completion (bash completion would not un-install without uninstalling this as well) bash completion both uninstalled and I have a fast ls and made my VM usable again. thanks! J.V. On 9/15/2011 11:50 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote: On 16/09

36 seconds to do /usr/bin/ls, mkdir and other commands

2011-09-15 Thread J.V.
it? The host machine is a quad core with 8GB ram, only one VM running at a time (1GB & 16GB disk with plenty of space). Everything else is super zippy except for cygwin. J.V. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documenta

how to get into dos mode & run .bat or .cmd file

2011-08-17 Thread J.V.
I want a bash / shell script that I can run that will go into dos mode, and from there run a .bat or a .cmd script automatically. After much googl'ing and experimenting, I cannot quite get it to run a dos shell and run a .bat or .cmd. any help would be appreciated. J.V. -- Problem re

Using cygwin to install grub

2011-08-11 Thread J.V.
Is it possible to install grub on a windows partition using grub? If so how is this done? I have followed instructions found on the web and it fails. the grub scripts point to the wrong paths on cygwin. Who packages this for cygwin and can I speak with them? J.V. -- Problem reports

/etc/fstab

2011-08-10 Thread J.V.
put in the file. The documentation makes me think. Please do not make me think. Is there a reason this does not come by default? Is cygwin installed on non windows systems like Linux? jeez, why is this so complicated? Why am I forced to think about crap like this? J.V. -- Problem reports

Using cygwin to install grub on windows 7 (does not work)

2011-07-08 Thread J.V.
ed, this has been extremely frustrating. J.V. -- 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: grub install with cygwin

2011-07-07 Thread J.V.
. am willing to help make the changes if someone can get me started. thanks J.V. On 6/30/2011 11:09 AM, Christian Franke wrote: J.V. wrote: I have two disks in my box that are non linux. On one disk is found Windows 7 and am having issues installing grub that comes with cygwin. How can I c

grub install with cygwin

2011-06-29 Thread J.V.
there are a number of other things I am having issues with that deal with the packaging and execution of grub. I have tried installing grub using a Linux distro (CentOS) but this is not possible (as per their list). Also the grub list cannot help because this is a cygwin specific issue. J.V