Re: sshd not working properly

2024-09-04 Thread Andy Wood via Cygwin
-R" for 'other_user', as suggested by the subject of the post, fixed the problems for me. It looks like sshd isn't handling a login failure properly. Andy. On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 7:57 PM Jim McNamara via Cygwin wrote: > > >>This looks like a bug. Can anyone hel

sshd not working properly

2024-09-03 Thread Andy Wood via Cygwin
ion not implemented This looks like a bug. Can anyone help? Is there a work-around? Thanks, Andy. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: procps-ng 4.0.1-1

2022-11-09 Thread Andy Koppe
On Wed, 9 Nov 2022 at 18:06, Achim Gratz wrote: > > Andy Koppe writes: > Hmm. The man page exists and gets built (albeit as ps.1), but not > installed apparently. I'll have to check why that is happening and if > it's a bug or just some missing configuration. > &

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: procps-ng 4.0.1-1

2022-11-07 Thread Andy Koppe
1) manpage has gone missing, although there is a procps(3) for the libproc API now. I gather libproc has been rolled into the procps-ng package? It still pulls in libprocps8 at version 3.3.17-1 as a dependency, but I guess that's due to a setup.exe limitation? Regards, Andy -- Problem

Re: [mintty] Suppress a key completely

2022-07-12 Thread Andy Koppe
pace combination for switching keyboards, but I expect you've tried that. Regards, Andy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.1

2022-04-24 Thread Andy Koppe
ng >* Support longer multi-char keyboard input (a.k.a. "ligatures" in > Windows) (#1155). > > Configuration (contributed by Andy Koppe) >* ANSI colour specification accepts foreground ; background values > (#1151). >* Tuned themes helmholtz (default) and

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 3.6.0

2022-03-26 Thread Andy Koppe
themes helmholtz and luminous (contributed by Andy Koppe). >* Setting helmholtz theme as default colour scheme. > > Window handling >* Reflow terminal lines when resizing terminal width (#82, #219, > mintty/wsltty#154). > > Terminal features >* Tweak pending auto-

Re: Closing the Command Prompt using the "x" button doesn't update shell history file

2022-03-24 Thread Andy Koppe
dler (DWORD type) > { > sig_send (NULL, SIGHUP); > saw_close = true; > + Sleep (100); > return FALSE; > } >if (!saw_close && type == CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT) Rather than have a timeout, how about just sending SIGHUP first time

Re: xterm (or x11) pastes are highlighted

2022-03-18 Thread Andy Koppe
On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 07:23, n952162 wrote: > > Am 18.03.2022 um 00:22 schrieb Andy Koppe: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 20:32, René Berber wrote: > >> On 3/17/2022 1:03 PM, n952162 wrote: > >> > >>> Does anyone know how I can disable the highlighting that o

Re: xterm (or x11) pastes are highlighted

2022-03-17 Thread Andy Koppe
-char keyboard input. But yep, sometimes it can go wonky, in particular when the bracketing mode for some reason is left on for an application that doesn't expect it. For readline, it can be disabled in ~/.inputrc: set enable-bracketed-paste off Regards, Andy -- Problem reports:

gdb symbolic link bug

2021-11-19 Thread Carter, Mark Andrew (Andy) via Cygwin
Gdb will not run an executable when it is a symbolic link in the post Cygwin release 3.1.5 form. As seen below I am currently running Cygwin 3.1.7. I have confirmed this is due to the change of the "ln -s" implementation. Links created by Cygwin 2.8 and 3.1.0 work with this gdb version, and l

Re: Lighttpd and Perl

2021-10-06 Thread Andy Romens via Cygwin
Hi again, Thanks for the pro tip. I am trying to register with the lighttpd forum, but the activation email has yet to make it to my inbox. Any tips? Thanks, -Andy > On Sep 30, 2021, at 4:28 PM, gs-cygwin@gluelogic.com wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:07:24AM +0000, Andy R

Lighttpd and Perl

2021-09-30 Thread Andy Romens via Cygwin
been banging my head on this problem for a few days now, so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Andy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info

Re: Questions on how to upgrade Apache

2021-04-08 Thread Andy Romens via Cygwin
Is there something else Cygwin provides that I should use instead of Apache? Sorry for the elementary questions, I’m still quite new to this :) Thanks, -Andy On Apr 8, 2021, at 8:33 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:  On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 10:02, Andy Romens via Cygwin mailto:cygwin

Questions on how to upgrade Apache

2021-04-08 Thread Andy Romens via Cygwin
will get released soon-ish for Apache? Background info, we are running Cygwin on a Windows 2012 Server. Anything else, please let me know and I will investigate. Thank you in advance, -Andy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq

Questions on how to upgrade Apache

2021-04-06 Thread Andy Romens via Cygwin
to do this or if an updated package will get released soon-ish for Apache? Thank you in advance, -Andy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https

Questions on how to upgrade Apache

2021-04-06 Thread Andy Romens via Cygwin
released soon-ish for Apache? Thank you in advance, -Andy -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: libgccjit

2021-03-14 Thread Andy Moreton via Cygwin
On Sun 14 Mar 2021, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andy Moreton via Cygwin writes: >> The build scripts for Mingw64 in the MSYS2 distro are here: >> >> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gcc > > Ah, OK. Thanks. > >> The PKGBUILD file is th

Re: libgccjit

2021-03-14 Thread Andy Moreton via Cygwin
On Sun 14 Mar 2021, Achim Gratz wrote: > Jonathan Yong via Cygwin writes: >> Thanks for trying. >> Does injecting dlfcn.h work? > > The include is not used because it is tied to --enable-plugins. Plugins > do not work because the configury determines that shared objects do not > work. If I manua

Re: Any chance of updating the ocaml package?

2019-11-28 Thread Andy Li
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:15 PM David Allsopp wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2019, at 15:09, Andy Li wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > The ocaml package is a bit dated. > > The currently packaged version is 4.04.2, released Jun 23, 2017. > > The latest ocaml versio

Any chance of updating the ocaml package?

2019-11-28 Thread Andy Li
Hi, The ocaml package is a bit dated. The currently packaged version is 4.04.2, released Jun 23, 2017. The latest ocaml version is 4.09.0, released Sep 18, 2019. It would be great to have it updated. Best, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

RE: Join command fails to output fields on input file with DOS line endings.

2019-07-23 Thread Andy Hall
> On 7/22/2019 12:59 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 7/22/2019 12:50 PM, Andy Hall wrote: > > This behavior of join surprised me: > > > > $ join -1 3 <(echo a b col3 c d | unix2dos) <(echo col3 f2 f3 f4 f5) > > f2 f3 f4 f5 > > > > Join parses the inp

Join command fails to output fields on input file with DOS line endings.

2019-07-22 Thread Andy Hall
This behavior of join surprised me: $ join -1 3 <(echo a b col3 c d | unix2dos) <(echo col3 f2 f3 f4 f5) f2 f3 f4 f5 Join parses the input line well enough to execute the join, but the presence of the DOS line endings suppresses the output of fields from the first input. Compare with $ join

Re: Update libgc?

2019-03-29 Thread Andy Li
eam even made a PR to my cygport file > a few days ago: https://github.com/andyli/libgc-cygwin/pull/7 > I'm checking with him about backward compatibility. I've just uploaded libgc 8.0.4-1. Best, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Update libgc?

2019-03-29 Thread Andy Li
hat. Upstream even made a PR to my cygport file a few days ago: https://github.com/andyli/libgc-cygwin/pull/7 I'm checking with him about backward compatibility. Best, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documen

Failure notice

2019-03-02 Thread Andy Perkins
 3 [main] zip2john 4752 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.  Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com ver 14  images.zip->File 13-11-2015 09 04 06.jpeg PKZIP Encr: cmplen=2310085, decmplen=2315422, crc=4B8B28CB ver 14  images.zip->File 13-11-

Problem with John the Ripper

2019-03-01 Thread Andy Perkins
I've been trying to use your program but got the following error which the program asked me to report to you. 0 [main] zip2john 3956 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer.  Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com ver 14  images.zip->File 13-1

Re: cygwin 3.0.1-1 breaks my sshd install

2019-02-20 Thread Andy Moreton
On Wed 20 Feb 2019, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 20 21:01, Houder wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:53:09, scowles at ckhb dot org wrote: >> > >> > i can confirm the same behaviours on a 3.0.0 system. i've done several >> > checks >> > and have been unable to find the source of the problem.

Re: cygwin.com is down

2018-12-13 Thread Andy Li
I did use downforeveryoneorjustme to check before posting here, and it was down. But I can see that it is up again now. Thanks anyway :) Best, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com

cygwin.com is down

2018-12-13 Thread Andy Li
Looks like the website is down :( Best, Andy -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.4

2018-11-13 Thread Andy Hall
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com On Behalf Of Thomas > Wolff > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 12:08 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.4 > > Am 12.11.2018 um 22:50 schrieb Andrey Repin: > > Greetings, Thomas Wolff! > > > >>

openmpi 3.1.2 missing mpicxx

2018-09-13 Thread Andy May
possible to reinstate the mpicxx wrapper? Many thanks, Andy -- 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: strtod ("nan") returns negative NaN

2018-08-14 Thread Andy Moreton
On Tue 14 Aug 2018, Steven Penny wrote: > a number can be positive or negative. as "NaN" is by definition not a number, > it cannot be positive or negative, it is simply itself, something anathema to > a number. The C standard disagrees with you [ISO:IEC 9899:2011, section 5.2.4.2.2]: "An impleme

Re: Documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe

2018-08-13 Thread Andy Moreton
On Mon 13 Aug 2018, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 12 19:53, cyg Simple wrote: >> The documentation for cygwin-console-helper.exe is missing, not even a >> --help function. > > cygwin-console-helper.exe is not for the user to use, so why add > user docs? It is helpful to users to have a --help

Re: compiler-rt has an extra spurious file?

2018-07-06 Thread Andy Moreton
On Fri 06 Jul 2018, cyg Simple wrote: > On 7/5/2018 5:33 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This file is placed at the root of the Cygwin tree when the compiler-rt >> package gets installed: >> llvm-objdump.exe.stackdump >> >> Is that really necessary? > > An indicatio

How portable (relocatable) is a Cygwin installation?

2018-05-09 Thread Andy Li
in a Cygwin installation somewhere that may need to be updated when relocating? Is there any registry entry or env var required for a Cygwin installation to work? Best regards, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Problem with Ocaml dllunix.so, flexdll error: cannot relocate, target is too far

2018-05-03 Thread Andy Li
rkaround can be found in https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2017-04/msg00003.html Best, Andy -- 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: Missing dependencies for opam package

2018-01-15 Thread Andy Li
gt; curl (or wget, if preferred) > gcc-core > make > m4 > rsync > git > mercurial > ocaml Thanks for the detailed explanation! I've just added those in the opam 1.2.2-2 package. Best regards, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: lftp 4.8.0-1

2017-10-11 Thread Andy Li
> lftp 4.7.8-1 is now available in test. Please try that and let me know if it > fixes the problem for you. I'll continue to work on packaging 4.8.2. I confirm lftp 4.7.8-1 works as expected. Thank you! Best regards, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Cygwin Docker image

2017-10-08 Thread Andy Li
'Verifying install ...'; \ Start-Process "C:/cygwin64/bin/cygcheck.exe" -NoNewWindow -Wait -PassThru -ArgumentList @('-c'); \ \ Write-Host 'Complete.'; CMD ["C:/cygwin64/bin/bash.exe"] To build it, run docker build -t

Re: lftp 4.8.0-1

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Li
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Andy Li wrote: > > >> Still getting this, but have since paid a bit more attention to the >> output, >> and I'm seeing: >> >> assertion "ptr(x.heap_index)==&x" failed: file >> "/home/ASchu

Re: lftp 4.8.0-1

2017-09-27 Thread Andy Li
: > void xheap::remove(xheap::node&) [with T = Timer] I've just got the same error when running cygport upload in x86. Interestingly, there was no error when I did the same in x86_64. Downgrading lftp to the previous version (4.7.7-1) "fixed" the cygport upload. Best, A

Re: Mercurial update needed for security fixes

2017-09-25 Thread Andy Moreton
On Mon 18 Sep 2017, Ken Brown wrote: > On 9/18/2017 11:27 AM, Andy Moreton wrote: >> On Thu 17 Aug 2017, Andy Moreton wrote: >> >> Ping? >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Can the mercurial maintainer please update to upstream Hg 4.3.1, to get >>> t

Re: Unable to use Cygwin RCS commands in Windows Emacs

2017-09-22 Thread Andy Moreton
On Wed 20 Sep 2017, Heinz Werner Kramski-Grote wrote: > At some point in history, /usr/bin/co, /usr/bin/ci, /usr/bin/rlog etc. turned > from .exe into shell scripts, which are now wrappers for the main program > /usr/bin/rcs.exe. > > However, these shell scripts can not be called directly from

Re: Mercurial update needed for security fixes

2017-09-18 Thread Andy Moreton
On Thu 17 Aug 2017, Andy Moreton wrote: Ping? > Hi, > > Can the mercurial maintainer please update to upstream Hg 4.3.1, to get > the fixes for CVE-2017-1000115 and CVE-2017-1000116. > > Thanks, > > AndyM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

Mercurial update needed for security fixes

2017-08-17 Thread Andy Moreton
Hi, Can the mercurial maintainer please update to upstream Hg 4.3.1, to get the fixes for CVE-2017-1000115 and CVE-2017-1000116. Thanks, AndyM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: libgc: problem with 7.6.0-1 version

2017-07-10 Thread Andy Li
wgc/issues Best regards, Andy -- 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

Bash seg faulting?

2017-06-02 Thread Andy Hall
Here is some more information The sequence: Andy@Andy-Work ~ $ export OFFICE_BIN="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16" $ strace "$OFFICE_BIN"/Wordconv.exe -oice -nme "Post-Install.doc" "Post-Install.docx" >strace.out Segmentation

RE: Bash seg faulting?

2017-06-02 Thread Andy Hall
On 1 June Doug Henderson wrote: > > On 1 June 2017 at 18:01, Andy Hall wrote: > > > > Here is a strange one. I have two scripts, conv.sh and conv.bat that do > > the same thing: scan the current directory for > > .doc files and convert them to .docx fi

Bash seg faulting?

2017-06-01 Thread Andy Hall
ordconv.exe -oice -nme "$doc" "${doc}x" When conv.bat is run in the same directory, the conversions work and I don't get any seg faults (or they are not being reported!) E.g. $ conv.bat "converting: Post-Install.doc" "converting: Post-InstallB.doc" &

camlp4o Fatal error: cannot load shared library dllunix

2017-05-05 Thread Andy Li
ly, camlp4o works correctly in my 32-bit Cygwin, but not 64-bit one. I wonder if anyone can reproduce the problem, or it's just my machine's issue? Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http

Re: Updated: hwloc 1.11.6-1

2017-02-26 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sun 26 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 26/02/2017 10:32, Andy Moreton wrote: >> On Sun 26 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >>> On 25/02/2017 23:07, Andy Moreton wrote: >>>> On Sat 25 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ver

Re: Updated: hwloc 1.11.6-1

2017-02-26 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sun 26 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: > On 25/02/2017 23:07, Andy Moreton wrote: >> On Sat 25 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: >> >>> Version 1.11.6-1 of packages >>> >>> hwloc >>> libhwloc-devel >>> libhwloc5 >>> &g

Re: Updated: hwloc 1.11.6-1

2017-02-25 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sat 25 Feb 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Version 1.11.6-1 of packages > > hwloc > libhwloc-devel > libhwloc5 > > are available in the Cygwin distribution: This appears not to contain the hwloc(7) man page, mentioned in lstopo(1). Can this be added ? AndyM -- Problem reports:

RE: unzip, find broken by auto handling of .exe file extension

2016-09-12 Thread Andy Hall
> From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > Stephen Anderson > Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 4:31 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: unzip, find broken by auto handling of .exe file extension > > > > On Sep 12, 2016, at 4:53 PM, Marco Atzeri wrote:

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-12 Thread Andy Moreton
On Tue 12 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > Thanks it worked. After configure --with-w32 and build, I tried to > invoke (w32notify-add-watch), but it seems it is still not available. > Any other tricks to apply? Because I want to add a new build-in lisp > function for Emacs for Windows, so I think it wou

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-07 Thread Andy Moreton
On Thu 07 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > So I should execute "config --with-w32" inside a cygwin environment? > > > Xi Shen > about.me/davidshen As I said in my previous message, read INSTALL.REPO in the emacs repo, and follow the instructions it contains. Use "./configure --with-w32" if you want a

Re: How to build Emacs in Cygwin environment?

2016-07-05 Thread Andy Moreton
On Tue 05 Jul 2016, Xi Shen wrote: > Hi, > > I want to make some code change to Emacs for Windows, but first I need > to setup the build environment. > > I got the Emacs git repo, and tried "config msdos", but I got > "permission denied" error. If I execute "cmd" from Cygwin bash, I can > execute

Re: lint kills _Noreturn

2016-05-29 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sun 29 May 2016, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/29/2016 12:56 PM, Andy Moreton wrote: >> On Sun 29 May 2016, Ken Brown wrote: >> >>> If lint is defined, then /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h defines _Noreturn as a >>> macro >>> that expands to nothing. Is

Re: lint kills _Noreturn

2016-05-29 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sun 29 May 2016, Ken Brown wrote: > If lint is defined, then /usr/include/sys/cdefs.h defines _Noreturn as a macro > that expands to nothing. Is this intentional? > > Simple test case: > > $ cat test.h > #define lint 1 > #include > _Noreturn void foo (void); > > $ gcc -E test.h | grep foo >

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-19 Thread andy
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > On Windows it's not sufficient to be admin to have all admin access. > Applications have to request certain privileges explicitely and many > native tools on Windows just don't do that, so they fail. The > Cygwin DLL requests these privilieges for Cygwin exe

Re: Security update needed for mercurial

2016-04-19 Thread Andy Moreton
On Sat 02 Apr 2016, Andy Moreton wrote: > Hi, > > The current package is for mercurial 3.5.1, but upstream have released > 3.7.3 as a security release, with fixes for: > > CVE-2016-3630 Mercurial: remote code execution in binary delta decoding > CVE-2016-3068 Mercurial: arb

Re: Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-18 Thread andy
Erik Soderquist gmail.com> writes: > As administrator is the Windows counterpart to root, yes, I would > expect this behavior when starting a mintty session as administrator OK. I wasn't sure because, depending on what machine I'm using, Windows 7 sometimes doesn't allow administrator to access

Admin can access all files in nonadmin user cygwin file tree

2016-04-17 Thread andy
When I open a mintty terminal as administrator, I am able to access all the files in the file tree rooted at ~nonAdminUserAccount, even though that directory & all subdirectories have mode bits drwx--+. Is this to be expected? I'm using Windows 7 and "cygcheck -cd" shows version 2.2.1-1 for t

Updated package needed for mercurial 3.7.3 security update

2016-04-02 Thread Andy Moreton
Hi, The current package is for mercurial 3.5.1, but upstream have released 3.7.3 as a security release, with fixes for: CVE-2016-3630 Mercurial: remote code execution in binary delta decoding CVE-2016-3068 Mercurial: arbitrary code execution with Git subrepos CVE-2016-3069 Mercurial: arbitrary co

RE: Simple .cmd file works under Cygwin but not Window's cmd interpreter.

2016-03-07 Thread Andy Hall
ry puzzled, Andy Hall > Greetings, Andy Hall! > > > This is a puzzle that I have not been able to sort out despite trying all > > sorts of variations. Basically, I maintain a bunch of Crystal Reports based > > on Crystal reports XI R2. Sorry, I have no choice there. > >

Simple .cmd file works under Cygwin but not Window's cmd interpreter.

2016-03-05 Thread Andy Hall
registry setting. I am at a loss,   Does anybody have an idea?   BTW, I would have expected the reverse to be the case:  works in Windows but not Cygwin.  Andy Hall -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

RE: getaddrinfo fails with EAI_NODATA for some valid hosts with A records

2016-01-13 Thread Andy Hall
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > Brian Inglis > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:14 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: getaddrinfo fails with EAI_NODATA for some valid hosts with A > records > > Corinna Vins

RE: getaddrinfo fails with EAI_NODATA for some valid hosts with A records

2016-01-08 Thread Andy Hall
. > > > > utcd.org doesn't resolve for me. So getaddrinfo has no info to get. > > Why then does it work on Linux? > nslookup works for me: Win7 64-bit $ nslookup leapsecond.utcd.org Non-authoritative answer: Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1 Name:leapsecond.u

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

2015-06-24 Thread Andy Hall
anted behavior on Windows. Just FYI. > > -- > Larry > I think Denis is saying Excel hangs even if it doesn't require user interaction. I.e. it runs some macros and exits. On Win7 Pro, I was able to run the following .vbs script via the task scheduler and have it run the "

RE: Unable to run excel via cron

2015-06-17 Thread Andy Hall
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of > Kiehl, Horst > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 8:10 AM > To: Kertz, Denis (D)** CTR **; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Unable to run excel via cron > > (Trying to remove TOFU to make the

Re: make android device file system visible as unix path

2015-02-21 Thread Andy
V.99 seznam.cz> writes: >On 14.2.2015 4:25, andy wrote: >> It doesn't have a drive letter in Windows Explorer. The name is >> simply "Moto G". When I "ls /cygdrive", I see on the c-drive. I >> think that the handset's visibility to Wi

Re: make android device file system visible as unix path

2015-02-14 Thread Andy
Eliot Moss cs.umass.edu> writes: >On 2/14/2015 1:03 PM, Andy wrote: >> Why would such a person want to access the handset via a unix path? >> Android doesn't have a native Notes app, and if I simply use its >> text editor, that's one more app I can avoid instal

Re: make android device file system visible as unix path

2015-02-14 Thread Andy
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: My Moto G connects to the laptop via USB, and can be seen using Windows Explorer. Is there a way to make it visible as a Unix path? /cygdrive does not show it. >>> >>> Are you including the drive letter? If it’s the G: drive in >>> Windows Explorer

Re: make android device file system visible as unix path

2015-02-13 Thread andy
Warren Young etr-usa.com> writes: > > > On Feb 13, 2015, at 7:20 PM, andy gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My Moto G connects to the laptop via USB, and can be seen using Windows > > Explorer. Is there a way to make it visible as a Unix path? /cygdrive does > &

make android device file system visible as unix path

2015-02-13 Thread andy
My Moto G connects to the laptop via USB, and can be seen using Windows Explorer. Is there a way to make it visible as a Unix path? /cygdrive does not show it. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://c

RE: Odd ezmlm warning messages from this list

2015-01-29 Thread Andy Hall
I sometimes get these as well. My e-mail address is @ comcast net. So it's a problem contacting the Comcast mail servers, but it should be recoverable. Andy Hall Fixpertise Consulting > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] O

Re: Access package release notes B4/without installing

2014-09-30 Thread Andy
Andrey Repin yandex.ru> writes: > Download the archive[s] without installing. Alternatively, dig > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce I think I'll use the cygwin-announce URL. I want to avoid any possibility of disturbing my packages until I actually want to install. Thanks. -- Problem rep

Access package release notes B4/without installing

2014-09-30 Thread Andy
Is there a way to access the release notes of a new package *before* or *without* actually installing or updating? For example, bash-4.1.14-7 (but also in general). Thanks. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

How vulnerable are bash users to shellshock bug?

2014-09-28 Thread Andy
According to http://www.vox.com/2014/9/25/6843949/the-bash-bug-explained, shellshock is exploited when someone submits commands in place of parameter data to a server, which then tries to shove the info into an environment variable by a bash invocation. I (and I suspect many people) only use bas

1.7.29: Incorrect output from the "file" command

2014-04-30 Thread Andy Leung
In the 1.7.29 version of cygwin, the "file" command (5.18) outputs the following:   PNG image data72 72 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced While in previous versions, the "file" command actually outputs for the same file:   PNG image data, 72 x 72, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced $ file --

Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin

2014-04-19 Thread Andy
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > HTH, Corinna Indeed it does. Thanks. -- 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: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

2014-04-18 Thread Andy
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: >On 04/18/2014 06:36 PM, Andy wrote: >> I'm curious about the circumstance that allows a file that is >> readable and executable by all to invisible to cygwin. Just >> something to be aware of when using cygwin, that some mecha

Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

2014-04-18 Thread Andy
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: >On 04/18/2014 04:06 PM, Andy wrote: >> The real question (I should have emphasized this in my original >> post) is how a file can be invisible to cygwin, but not to Windows >> explorer or the DOS shell. It's a general questi

Re: dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

2014-04-18 Thread Andy
Christopher Faylor cygwin.com> writes: >On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:35:28AM +, Andy wrote: >>I'm using telnet to log in to my modem for certain actions that >>can't be done via its web interface. The thread at >>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg001

dos telnet.exe not showing up with cygwin "ls"

2014-04-17 Thread Andy
I'm using telnet to log in to my modem for certain actions that can't be done via its web interface. The thread at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00124.html indicates that telnet is normally in Inetutils, and if I don't see Inetutils when running the cygwin Setup.exe, I should try anot

RE: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

2014-03-03 Thread Andy Hall
> On Mar 2 14:20, Frank Fesevur wrote: > > 2014-02-28 22:08 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > > That's not really a problem but a case of "it is as it is". To get the > > > user and group info, Cygwin has to contact the DC and/or GC and then > > > runs into a timeout. Right now, the LDAP timeout

RE: Little cygpath improvement request

2014-02-16 Thread Andy Hall
> > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote > > if [ ! -z "$2" ] ; then NATIVE="$(cygpath -ml "$2")" ; fi > > That might better be written as this > > [ "$2" ] && NATIVE=$(cygpath -ml "$2") > > You do not need the extra quotes when setting a variable in thi

Cygwin for Windows 2000

2013-11-11 Thread Stonham, Andy
Hi I see that from release 1.7.19 Windows 2000 is no longer supported. Is there anywhere I can download release 1.7.17 from, as I still have Winodws 2000 servers I need to put Cygwin on in order to monitor them with Oracle products Regards Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com

shell-init: error retrieving current directory

2013-08-16 Thread Andy Koppe
win\bin' is put into the shortcut's otherwise empty 'Start In' field. (But they stay if 'C:\' is put there instead.) They also go away if the cygdrive prefix is changed to anything but the root directory. I couldn't reproduce the issue with a 32-bit install. Regard

Re: Redirecting cat and paste to file gives garbage

2013-08-08 Thread Andy Koppe
nto the > terminal... and then I had a brain cramp and didn't add that to the STC: > > $ echo reading > /dev/clipboard > # press [shift]+[insert] here... > $ echo > reading > > Still a mintty bug? Don't think so. Mintty has no idea what it's p

Telnet in latest Cygwin

2013-08-07 Thread Andy Davidson
Hi, I have the latest Cygwin, setup is v2.819 (64 bit). I want to install telnet but the inetutils package isn't in the installer any more. It doesn't seem to be in the last version I installed around a month ago. Any clues ? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: BLODA extension: console interoperability

2013-07-25 Thread Andy Koppe
yone know a way to do this? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mintty-discuss/NKXaYjF8jqk Andy -- 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: pty issue causes 'screen' to hang when run from mintty as detached

2013-06-14 Thread Andy Koppe
ame behaviour as the OP, but also reproduced it in rxvt and xterm, so not a mintty issue. Since it works in a console, the Cygwin pty layer has to be the main suspect, unless screen has specfic code for Cygwin consoles or ptys? Andy -- 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: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories

2013-05-20 Thread Andy Hall
trary to Corrina’s posting at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html, the underlying OS must effectively evaluate a path from left to right. Otherwise it cannot locate the file in questions. Now the OS may optimize this in a number of ways, but in the end, the resulting optimization has

Re: Setup.exe - pending view does not show all pending packages

2013-05-17 Thread Andy Koppe
ges (they would be upgraded as a newer version is > available). I'd guess you used the search box to find the new package, and didn't clear it afterwards, so the Pending view was still being filtered by your search term. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

Re: 64-bit toolchain questions

2013-05-17 Thread Andy Koppe
, but it prints > nothing. What's wrong ? You need a 64-bit Cygwin install to run it in. Well, actually just the 64-bit cygwin1.dll in case of "Hello World". Unfortunately you don't get an error message in case of a missing DLL. ftp://cygwin.com/pub/cygwin/64bit/setup64.exe (

Re: What comes with Cygwin?

2013-05-14 Thread Andy Koppe
, > ipc-utils, libgcc1, libreadline7, login, man, mintty, rebase, run, > sed, tar, terminfo, tzcode, vim-minimal, which, zlib0 I think there are additional ones that get pulled in as dependencies of the Base packages. One that I'm aware of is cygutils, which is pulled in

Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Andy Koppe
On 14 May 2013 01:23, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 13 May 2013 22:35, Adrian H wrote: >> > I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze >> > mintty. When I tried to kill the process d

Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

2013-05-13 Thread Andy Koppe
erminal to do that to the > process, but I don't think it should be doing that. > > Any idea what's happening? http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-04/msg00362.html Andy -- 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

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