Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread William Sutton
I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a direct response and gratuitous insults. William Sutton On Fri, 1 May 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:52:21PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: From: Mark J. Reed Date: Wed, A

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
William Sutton On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM, William Sutton Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of condescending and insulting? Ahh. You must be new here. :) I've been using Cygwin for ~ 5 years and moni

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
n and accepted standards of doing things. Regards, William Sutton On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:52:27AM -0400, William Sutton wrote: That's a nice answer for a command that works, but, speaking for myself and a lot of other people who use cygwi

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
uld be fixed to include the proper information instead if either having users languish in ignorance or be told to use some other command. William Sutton On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11:29AM +0200, jurriaan wrote: If I run execute some sh -c "slee

Re: cron does not do anything

2009-04-21 Thread William Sutton
Did you check that your cron job line is formatted correctly? If your line is literally of the form /usr/bin/touch /tmp/abcd then it definitely won't run because it is incorrectly written. William Sutton On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: - Original Message -

Re: DOS programs under "screen"

2009-04-08 Thread William Sutton
I suppose you could always use the 'clear' command instead of cls. If you need cls specifically, you can alias it to clear. From the edit point of view, is this something you could accomplish with another command-line editor (say vim)? William Sutton On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, James Ca

Re: Strings command

2009-02-18 Thread William Sutton
I assume that $ which strings returns nothing? As far as I can tell, it's default in my environment at /usr/bin/strings. William Sutton On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Milko wrote: Hi I'am a new user Cygwin. I have a question for your, which pachages i must install for a strings comma

Re: programming API to determine whether in 'Cygwin environment'

2008-07-11 Thread William Sutton
ct it has at least $SHELL and/or $TERM. FWIW... William Sutton On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 10 22:32, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Thu, July 10, 2008 10:06 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:49:06PM -0700, Tony Last wrote: My console progr

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

2007-12-06 Thread William Sutton
the win32-specific modules for cygwin as well, so I'm not sure why you can't just invoke the script in your bash shell and have it run. William Sutton On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Michael Kairys wrote: DePriest, Jason R. gmail.com> writes: I have ActiveState Perl installed and cygwin perl.

Re: strange behavior with perl v 5.8.8

2007-09-27 Thread William Sutton
Nope, not a Cygwin specific issue. I get the same behavior at the same point on Gentoo perl 5.8.8 (x86 dual-Xeon), Debian Etch perl 5.8.8 (x86 P4), and SunOS 5.10 perl 5.8.4. William Sutton On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andrew Louie wrote: Hello, I've run into a strange adding problem with

Re: How to scroll up beyond the text in the cygwin window?

2007-07-30 Thread William Sutton
does it help if you do make check >make.log 2>&1 then look at make.log? -- William Sutton On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, mcbenus wrote: > > Hi Cygwin users, > I have a very basic question: Sometimes when I am running something with > cygwin the output text is so long, that

Re: hacked package on server

2007-07-16 Thread William Sutton
ad of simply aborting the install with a message that the server was compromised (was it? or is something else going on?), that a more useful option would be to allow the user to select a different mirror and continue the process. -- William Sutton [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-05/threads

Re: is perl braindead?

2007-06-23 Thread William Sutton
No...depends on where you run that script from. If you run it anywhere outside of /bozo, it doesn't have the full path, so -d fails. If you change your test to if ( -d "$ldir/$_" ) { print "This is directory: $_\n"; next; } then it works. -- William Su

Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro

2007-05-24 Thread William Sutton
Although if you do want the standard bash dotfiles (.bashrc, .bash_history, .bash_profile), just copy them from /etc/skel to your new user directory and set owner/group based on the new user owner/group. -- William Sutton On Thu, 24 May 2007, René Berber wrote: > Dan Miller wrote: >

Re: password authentication fails in cygwin openssh windows xp pro

2007-05-24 Thread William Sutton
just jumping in but... try ssh -vvv localhost >file 2>&1 to redirect STDERR to STDOUT in hopes of catching the output William (who is now stepping back out of the discussion) --snip-- > Rene, > > Thanks for taking the time to respond. > > I can't figure out how to get the output of ssh

Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems

2007-05-10 Thread William Sutton
I'm running Cygwin, Windows XP professiona 2002 SP2, and Norton AntiVirus (with the firewall turned off) without problems on an Intel Core2 Duo 2.13 GHz system. -- William Sutton On Thu, 10 May 2007, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:07:20AM -0400, Christophe

RE: Problem running Cygwin Apache2 as Windows XP service

2007-05-07 Thread William Sutton
IN apache" -p /usr/sbin/apachectl2 -a "start" > > (user set as the local 'William Sutton' user) > > Maybe the -i flag would help it behave more like it does from the > commandline. -i on what? I don't see that option from either cygrunsrv --h

Problem running Cygwin Apache2 as Windows XP service

2007-05-04 Thread William Sutton
- Software: - Windows XP Professional version 2002, SP 2 (Intel core 2 duo) - cygwin 1.5-24.2 - cygrunsrv 1.17-1 - apache2 2.2.3-1 Environment: - Windows user is 'William Sutton' - Cygwin user is 'william' (I changed the user and home directory in my cygwin /etc/passwd file for my