Re: Utility to get IP address of the machine

2006-01-04 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Alex Vinokur wrote: What is Cygwin utility to get IP address of the machine? Here's another way to get the IP of your machine, from outside your network. ruby -ropen-uri -e "URI.parse('http://www.whatismyip.com').read =~ /((\d+\.?){4})/; puts $&" -- J Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Postmaster core dumps

2005-08-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Christopher Faylor wrote: This should be fixed in today's snapshot. Thank you. I can confirm that the postgres is working with latest snapshot. -- J Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documen

Re: setup.exe filename

2005-08-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Bill Priest wrote: I typically save cygwin's setup.exe to my Desktop as I update cygwin quite often; however, I've found that this interferes with some other (admittedly buggy and lame install programs). It isn't a big deal to rename setup.exe to cygwin_setup.exe (or your favorite) or to do save

Re: bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client (FAQ alert)

2005-08-03 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Corinna Vinschen wrote: http://cygwin.com/problems.html I've already done gone and did that. I'm happy on existing configuration. I withdraw my casual observation. -- J Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: bug report: abort in g++ 3.4.4 generated DLL & client (FAQ alert)

2005-08-03 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Stein Somers wrote: In short, cygwin 1.5.17-1 good, 1.5.18-1 bad. As Gerrit wrote from the start. Just as a point of strange coincidence, "cygwin 1.5.17-1 good, 1.5.18-1 bad" seems to be the case with the recent Python and Postgres problems reported as well. Also both appear on the surfac

Re: Need to download / install a SPECIFIC version of Cygwin (1.5.11)

2005-07-25 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Patrick McVey wrote: Where can someone find the specific version - 1.5.11 ? Well there's the Cygwin time machine here: http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/index.html#cygwintimemachine If anything is broken though you are on your own. -- J Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Postgres not working anymore

2005-07-13 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: Some additional info: I tried to start it the other way... [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/postgresql $ /usr/bin/pg_ctl -D /var/postgresql/data -l logfile start pg_ctl: Another postmaster may be running. Trying to start postmaster anyway. postmaster successfully started [EMAIL

Re: Postgres not working anymore

2005-07-13 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jon A. Lambert wrote: I dunno. I still cannot execute initdb script with latest coreutils. Or is this some sort of bash/ash problem? [snip] /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 484 Bad system call "$PGPATH"/postgres -boot -x0 $TEST_OPT

Re: Ruby is broken in fresh cygwin install

2005-07-13 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Myles wrote: If you do a fresh install of Cygwin and include the ruby parser (I can't remember if it's there by default), ruby does not work. You get a really obscure error msg having something to do with "ubygems". To make it work, you have to unsetenv RUBYOPT Took me a long time to figure tha

Re: Postgres not working anymore

2005-07-13 Thread Jon A. Lambert
I dunno. I still cannot execute initdb script with latest coreutils. Or is this some sort of bash/ash problem? cygcheck output attached and initdb script is pristine. -- $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "jlambert".

Re: coreutils-5.3.0-8: lost *.exe

2005-07-12 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Dave Korn wrote: From: fergus Why did you do it? That point being, "If it aint broke, don't fix it". You asked what was the best thing you could have done or could do in future to avoid this kind of problem; my answer is this: If you aren't under some pressing and *urgent* need to upgra

Re: Postgres not working anymore

2005-07-12 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Eric Blake wrote: Oops - it is certainly the same coreutils bug, and I am polishing my patch for it. I'm putting even more priority on getting coreutils-5.3.0-8 out the door. (Hey, at least since I am sharing code between cp, mv, and ln, all my work over the weekend to get ln working has alrea

Re: Postgres not working anymore

2005-07-11 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Eric Blake wrote: Oops - it is certainly the same coreutils bug, and I am polishing my patch for it. I'm putting even more priority on getting coreutils-5.3.0-8 out the door. (Hey, at least since I am sharing code between cp, mv, and ln, all my work over the weekend to get ln working has alre

Re: Unwanted .exe appended to symlinks

2005-07-11 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Eric Blake wrote: Confirmed. Unfortunately, this is a side effect of my improvements to ln to unify the cygwin-specific .exe code which tries to determine when the original file exists as just "file" vs. "file.exe". See line 560 of postgres initdb script. cp /dev/null "$PGDATA"/pos

Postgres not working anymore

2005-07-11 Thread Jon A. Lambert
I just noticed Postgres stopped working on my installation. That is postmaster starts up and immediately stops running. I definately had a working installation on July 2. In any event I decided to login to postgres id and recreate the initial database $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data The files

Apache/Subversion/Bindings

2005-07-11 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Are there any plans to package: mod_dav_svn mod_authz_svn mod_fastcgi Ruby subversion bindings Perl subversion bings I've attempted to compile these myself but am totally clueless as to how to get libtool to generate working .dlls or .so files. --- J Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: gcc-3.4.4-1

2005-07-11 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Driver packages available for Cygwin: Ada gcc-ada / gcc-mingw-ada Cgcc-core / gcc-mingw-core C++ gcc-g++ / gcc-mingw-g++ Dgcc-gdc / gcc-mingw-gdc Fortran gcc-g77 / gcc-mingw-g77 Java gcc-java / gcc-mingw-java ObjC g

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: Jon A. Lambert wrote: What happened to my tilde? It looks like it points to /home instead of /home/jlambert How do I fix this? I would add that if I telnet or ssh in to my cygwin shell everything is fine and my ~/.bash_profile is invoked correctly and cd ~ does take me

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: What happened to my tilde? It looks like it points to /home instead of /home/jlambert How do I fix this? I would add that if I telnet or ssh in to my cygwin shell everything is fine and my ~/.bash_profile is invoked correctly and cd ~ does take me to the right user

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-3.0-7

2005-07-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Eric Blake wrote: A new release of bash, 3.0-7, is available, replacing 2.05b-17. I just installed bash 3.0-7 and immediately noticed my colors where gone and my delete key no longer worked. Anyways I'm a bit clueless but it seems something wierd is happening to ~ I can verify my profile i

Re: Unable to delete a number of directories...

2005-02-16 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Evan Platt wrote: This is XP home, which I don't believe has folder ownership? It does but it just doesn't have the gui tools to manipulate it. You can see the ownership information from explorer by selecting owner from the choose details option. To change ownership you have to download cacls.e

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Paolo Gesmundo wrote: Thanks for the responses. So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a way that the default shell is bash? I have no clue, and I am not suggesting you do this but what would be the affect of... cp bash.exe sh.exe Besides the initial installation and

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Paolo Gesmundo wrote: Thanks for the responses. So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a way that the default shell is bash? I have no clue, and I am not suggesting you do this but what would be the affect of... cp bash.exe sh.exe Besides the initial installation a

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-27 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Peter A. Castro wrote: I'd still like to archive it. If you can stabalize your ftp host I'll pull it. Alternatively, I can setup an incoming dir on my machine if you'd prefer to push from your end. Well three people have pulled it off in the last 10 hours and it looked like it took them 15 to 20

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-27 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Peter A. Castro wrote: Hmm... How complete is it? Did you pull all the source packages as well? Did you keep the setup.ini with it? What about the setup.exe itself? It's everything except the "split" downloads so 28.8k modem users will just have to bite the bullet. Oddly enough it comes with a b

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-26 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Peter A. Castro wrote: might find it useful or interesting. Unfortinately, it only goes back to April of 2002, though I actually have package versions going back further, but not the setup.ini to go with them. You didn't mention the b20/20.1 release. If you and anyone doesn't have it and wants i

Re: vim problem (win xp): Cygwin seems unable to move the input cursor to arbitrary positions.

2005-01-11 Thread Jon A. Lambert
anamtharon wrote: Revised solution (version 2). New cygwin.bat file: @echo off set SHELL=sh set HOME=c:\cygwin\home\anamtharon set TERM=cygwin ... Now that's it. Not quite it! Rational can also add these to your environment: TERMCAP=C:\PROGRA~1\RATIONAL\RATION~1\NUTCROOT\etc\termcap TERMINFO=C:\PRO

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for providing the profanity at all? Hello? Anybody? Apparently some distros have split off the package into parts like fortune - the program with no data fortune-min - the quotes fortune-off - the stuff that'd ma

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Mike wrote: I would have been better informed about the nature of the package. How eloquent. Try 'man fortune'. man fortune doesn't work until after you've already downloaded and installed the offensive material on your machine. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.)

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Mike wrote: Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune (fortune -o) before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then what's the problem? @ fortune sdesc: "Print a random, hopefully interesting, adage" category: Games requires: cygwin The problem is that it doesn't inform the u

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-07 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Brian Bruns wrote: As grown adults, who are capable of making our own decisions, we need to not let our religious views, or personal views for that matter, impede on others who have their own views. How dare you try to force that point of view on us! That's moral recusrion. -- Unsubscribe in

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Raye Raskin wrote: The problem seems simple to me. A filthy Limerick is not a Fortune. The program is misnamed. Call it something else or just put fortunes in it. alias limerick="fortune -o" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.c

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-06 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: I made no effort to find Cygwinized profanity. I stumbled across a program named "fortune" one day, which I was told printed out corny sayings etc, and installed it. Then I forgot about it. Then, some time later, I was told that what I thought was a program written with

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apr(-util) 0.9.5-1

2005-01-02 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Max Bowsher wrote: APR and APR-util, portability and miscellaneous utility libraries, have been updated in the Cygwin net distribution to version 0.9.5-1. This is a minor upgrade from the 0.9.5 development version bundled with apache 2.0.52 to the real 0.9.5 release, which has, at last, occurred.

Re: Stackdump trace - problem and patch

2005-01-02 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 03:54:23AM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote: my application. I tried various means of examining and setting the registers in the stack to get to a frame that was within my app. I have read the various messages on the list describing how to get to

Re: Stackdump trace - problem and patch

2005-01-01 Thread Jon A. Lambert
From: "Jon A. Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- environ.cc.orig 2005-01-01 03:15:33.913185600 -0500 +++ environ.cc 2005-01-01 03:16:55.670747200 -0500 + int tracesize = strtol (buf, NULL, 0); Sorry I diffed in the wrong dir, that should be.. tracesize = strtol (buf, NULL, 0); --

Stackdump trace - problem and patch

2005-01-01 Thread Jon A. Lambert
boo thestack.init (ebp, 1, !isexception); /* Initialize from the input CONTEXT */ small_printf ("Stack trace:\r\nFrame Function Args\r\n"); - for (i = 0; i < 16 && thestack++; i++) + for (i = 0; i < tracesize && thestack++; i++) { small_prin

Another autotools wrapper problem and fix

2004-12-05 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Okay this one is picking at gnits, but autoheader 1.9 will always issue a warning message when you ask it to produce warning message because the authoheader wrapper passes --warning= and -W as --warning=,blah,blah and -W,blah,blah instead of --warning=blah,blah and -Wblah,blah. Here's another p

Autotools wrapper problem and fix

2004-12-05 Thread Jon A. Lambert
I'm having trouble invoking the wrapper scripts for aclocal. Here's my session log... --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyApp $ aclocal --force aclocal: invalid option --force Try `aclocal --help' for more information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/MyApp $ aclocal --version aclocal

Re: httpd-2.0.52 (Apache2) testers wanted / maintainer searched

2004-11-29 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: Change the permissions on this directory as the script creates it under my id $ chmod o+w apache2 That should be the log directory $ chmod o+w /var/log/apache2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

Re: httpd-2.0.52 (Apache2) testers wanted / maintainer searched

2004-11-29 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Jon A. Lambert wrote: Jon A. Lambert wrote: But now how do I run this build-script and from where? Sorry some additional information of what I tried [snip] [EMAIL PROTECTED] /oem-install $ ./httpd-2.0.52-1.sh <--- doesn't se

Re: httpd-2.0.52 (Apache2) testers wanted / maintainer searched

2004-11-29 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Jon A. Lambert wrote: But now how do I run this build-script and from where? Sorry some additional information of what I tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] /oem-install/httpd-2.0.52 $ ../httpd-2.0.52-1.sh Cannot find original package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /oem-install/httpd-2.0.52 $ cd .. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: httpd-2.0.52 (Apache2) testers wanted / maintainer searched

2004-11-29 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Hi, I just wanted to know if it is possible and if it is running and the answer is: *yes*. I have Apache2 compiled with a shared core and shared modules, I offer a full patch and script so you can do the same with just running the buildscript against the patched sources. I

Re: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

2004-07-09 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"Jon A. Lambert" wrote: > Yeah it appears in RFC1885 Sorry that's RFC 1855 -- 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: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

2004-07-09 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"William Blunn" wrote: > There is a phrase that goes: > > "Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send" > > Now this is just a phrase, and by itself does not have significance. Yeah it appears in RFC1885 as "Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive.",

Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 ...

2004-06-26 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Mark Jaffe wrote: > Yes, I understand the issue. However, one of the processes is > supporting ssh which is the ONLY way I have of reaching this machine at > all. Stopping the sshd will end my session. > Run it from the machine you used to install XP and Cygwin then. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: 1.5.10 release?

2004-03-28 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"E. Weddington" wrote: > Just wondering, is there a tentative release schedule for cygwin 1.5.10? Say, > sometime within the next week? > Who cares about 1.5.10? Wait for 1.5.11. I've been watching this project for a long time and I can tell you with absolute certainty that even numbered rele

Re: ddate: Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 1st day of Discord in the YOLD 3170

2004-03-15 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"Igor Pechtchanski" wrote: > > 'fortune'; 'wtf'; 'espdiff' from patchutils. None are Cygwin-specific. What about the western romance novel someone has been adding to in spawn.cc? ;-) -- J. Lambert. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

Re: Java hello world link error

2003-12-21 Thread Jon A. Lambert
mauro zallocco wrote: > $ gcj Test.java > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.1/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > cannot > find -liconv > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > You probably need to install one or both of these: $ cygcheck -c | grep iconv libiconv1.9.1-3

Re: Java hello world link error

2003-12-21 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"mauro zallocco" wrote: > > with the following command: > g++ Test.java > gcj --main=Test Test.java See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ -- J. Lambert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

2003-12-05 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"Christopher Faylor" wrote: > Does MicroCross provide source code for the cygwin > they provide? > > I'm sure this has come up before but I'd like to hear from anyone who has > purchased something recently. > http://www.microcross.com/html/copying_rights.html "Microcross provides customers sour

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

2003-12-05 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: > > I encounter the problem while installing a tool running on Cygwin, that > comes from MicroCross (www.microcross.com) XTools > The tool installs all important things and the bash setup file to /usr/bin. > Right. They are the ones creating a physical c:\cygwin\usr\bin

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

2003-12-05 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"Jörg Schaible" wrote: > Jon A. Lambert wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:03 PM: >>"Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >>> Thank for the answers >>> >>> Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount >>> po

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

2003-12-04 Thread Jon A. Lambert
"Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: > Thank for the answers > > Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount point and > /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin directory ? > Sometime i am too much curious !? > > Nguyen I'm stumped as I can't think of any use. Why d

Re: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ?

2003-07-28 Thread Jon A. Lambert
From: "Carlo Florendo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Jonathan Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: Source code for binaries offered at http://thinstall.com/ ? > > > Hello Max, > > > > This is a good point. I have the source downloaded and in backups somewhere > > around here - so it can be l

Re: dumper.exe zero-length core files

2003-03-17 Thread Jon A. Lambert
I have the same problem. - Original Message - From: "Mike Bresnahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 1:15 AM Subject: dumper.exe zero-length core files > I'm having troubles getting dumper.exe to work. I always get a zero-length > core file. I

Re: cygwin as an acronym? (Was Re: Official List of cygwin Acronyms)

2003-03-03 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Greg Matheson wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > "To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion" > > Am I slow? I just realized where the name Cygnus came from. > cyGNUs. Get it? > > Playing on the idea of ugly ducklings, swans and ugly > stepsisters, wh

Re: GPL Violation

2003-03-01 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:35 AM Subject: Re: GPL Violation > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:36:04PM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote: > >If you provide download links to where one can download the software > >does that not satisfy the following license p

Re: GPL Violation

2003-02-28 Thread Jon A. Lambert
If you provide download links to where one can download the software does that not satisfy the following license provision? "If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the s

Re: Dumper.exe problems

2003-02-27 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:02:24PM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote: > >Does dumper.exe work? > > > >I am unable to get the dumper utility to produce a core dump. > >I have read the FAQ, the webpages and searched the mailing lists. > > >

Can someone please answer this question I've posted repeatedly even if it is just to say slag off

2003-02-26 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Does dumper.exe work? I am unable to get the dumper utility to produce a core dump. I have read the FAQ, the webpages and searched the mailing lists. My cygwin.bat startup file contains the following: set CYGWIN=error_start=c:\cygwin\bin\dumper.bat My dumper.bat file contains the following:

Fw: DUMPER.EXE - Problem getting it working!

2003-02-23 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Sorry I forgot to attach cygcheck -s output - this post has it - Original Message - From: "Jon A. Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 11:18 PM Subject: DUMPER.EXE - Problem getting it working! > I am unable to

DUMPER.EXE - Problem getting it working!

2003-02-23 Thread Jon A. Lambert
I am unable to get the dumper utility to produce a core dump. I have read the FAQ, the webpages and searched the mailing lists. My cygwin.bat startup file contains the following: set CYGWIN=error_start=c:\cygwin\bin\dumper.bat My dumper.bat file contains the following: dumper.exe -d %1 %2 %3

Unable to produce core dumps

2003-02-18 Thread Jon A. Lambert
I am unable to get the dumper utility to produce a core dump. My cygwin.bat startup file contains the following: set CYGWIN=error_start=c:\cygwin\bin\dumper.bat My dumper.bat file contains the following: dumper.exe -d %1 %2 %3 pause The program in question was compiled with the gcc -g option: