Re: A walking "bug" on Cygwin home page

2013-08-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
n concerning malware more seriously. If you actually take the time to look at cygwin.org it appears that either the developer of that website has an extremely weird sense of humor or else that website has been hacked into and defaced. Which? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomi

Re: Home directory issue

2013-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
printenv |grep HOME ) was not set. So there is likely some other reason (which may or may not be related to a Wine bug) that I got the same symptoms as the OP. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of V

Re: Home directory issue

2013-07-08 Thread Alan W. Irwin
e, and cygwin/wine levels.) Are there any other environment variables that should be set as well before running setup.exe for a fresh install? Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victo

Re: Failure with fork() (Cygwin on Wine install now sort of works)

2013-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-05 16:48-0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:11:10PM -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2013-07-04 13:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So if the consensus here after looking at the setup_install.out results is that cygwin on Wine is more or less installed properly

Re: Failure with fork() (Cygwin on Wine install now sort of works)

2013-07-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-07-04 13:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: So if the consensus here after looking at the setup_install.out results is that cygwin on Wine is more or less installed properly from these results (except for the rename issue above which I can fix by doing that rename manually as suggested by the

Re: Failure with fork() (Cygwin on Wine install now sort of works)

2013-07-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Note, my original message to this list with plain cygcheck.out attached (as requested on the problems page) bounced for some reason so I am trying a compressed version of cygcheck.out this time. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Phy

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
platform is Microsoft or Wine. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 23:42-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I am getting absolutely nowhere. A script run by setup.exe in the latter part of the install steps appears to hang now with or without updating cygwin1.dll to the fork-fixed version. I got this result for two versions of wine which I have heavily

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
ipt hang (which is a big if), then I think it is time for someone with a lot more wine and cygwin expertise than me to take over here to attempt to try and figure out a way to run setup.exe on Wine with fork-fixed cygwin1.dll overwriting the buggy version. Alan __ Alan W. I

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 15:56-0500 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 2013-06-27 15:33, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I think you keep assuming I have some version of Cygwin already installed when that is not the case. It is the last stage of the initial attempt at installation using setup.exe that fails on Wine due

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 21:13+0200 marco atzeri wrote: Il 6/27/2013 9:01 PM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto: I have now found the snapshots page, and the latest one contains 013-06-18 Christopher Faylor * dcrt0.cc (child_info_fork::alloc_stack): Don't subtract 4096 from stack pointer since get

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 21:00+0200 marco atzeri wrote: Il 6/27/2013 8:35 PM, Alan W. Irwin ha scritto: Are there daily snapshot builds of the CVS version I could access? daily not, but on reasonable schedule (aka when Corinna or Christopher release one) http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ just wait for the

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-06-27 11:35-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: The only Windows platform available to me is Wine. And I have no Cygwin on Wine experience at this stage because this fork bug shut me out. But now that it is fixed in CVS, how do I get access to the fixed version of setup.exe? Are there daily

Re: Failure with fork()

2013-06-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
accessible with MinGW/MSYS/Wine so I hope I will only need hints to get started with (a) building the CVS version of Cygwin with the fork fix, and (b) building and testing software for the Cygwin on Wine platform. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affili

Background process with Cygwin

2009-04-06 Thread Jeff Irwin
I have been beating my head on a wall for two weeks and have googled til my fingers bled. I am running windows server 2003 with cygwin. I am attempting to get a bash script to continue to run in cygwin even after I have logged out. I have tried several different tactics. The most recent and

RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-10 Thread Irwin, Doug
...snip... > If the user ID is created with lower-cased letters, it will be stored > and reported in lower-cased letters. At least that is how the Windows > 2003 Active Directory where I work expresses its user IDs. ...snip... U-huh. Just played around in the GUI and that seems to be true. I rec

RE: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

2007-01-09 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi all, My first constructive post to this group outside of my inane question asking... > TDavid Smiley wrote: > > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has > > my username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". > > As David said, that's because you created your usern

RE: Read not honouring "-r"?

2006-09-20 Thread Irwin, Doug
ubject: RE: Read not honouring "-r"? Doug Irwin wrote: > One would expect a "read -r fs t2 t3" to process this without > attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit > working... And I can't seem to find any doco on doing that in Cygwin. &g

RE: Read not honouring "-r"?

2006-09-18 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi Larry, Sorry about the double post - the mailserver reported that it had (a) stripped the attachments and (b) blocked the post. It obviously lied. If you call it with pdksh instead you should get: / 200 200 200 200 200 200 sr/bin 200 200 usr/lib 200 200 So it sounds pdksh related. Cygch

Read not honouring "-r"?

2006-09-18 Thread Irwin, Doug
All, I am working on a script which monitors mounts for free space. It does this by reading from a config file (surprise) consisting of mount, threshold, threshold. One would expect a "read -r fs t2 t3" to process this without attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit worki

Read not honouring "-r"?

2006-09-18 Thread Irwin, Doug
All, I am working on a script which monitors mounts for free space. It does this by reading from a config file (surprise) consisting of mount, threshold, threshold. One would expect a "read -r fs t2 t3" to process this without attempting to expand slashes. But I can't seem to get this bit worki

RE: 1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

2006-08-27 Thread Irwin, Doug
nlbxq' |dc -Original Message----- From: Irwin, Doug Sent: Thursday, 10 August 2006 8:28 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: 1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k). Hi Larry, > Nope. You were right. I was conveniently looking at another > cygche

RE: 1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

2006-08-09 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi Larry, > Nope. You were right. I was conveniently looking at another > cygcheck.out. > I hate when that happens. LOL! NP! In my role as DBA that happens frequently... To me! :D > There's nothing obvious from the configuration. I assume that only > HA\sybase has cron jobs running or have

RE: 1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

2006-08-08 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi Larry, > Looks like you sent the cygcheck output for ZIGGY rather than > server2... > > -- > Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com > RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office > 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX > Holli

1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

2006-08-07 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi All, I hate difficult-to-reproduce issues :( It makes accurate reporting difficult... We have a crontab which runs scripts that check whether a DBMS is accessible, doesn't have inappropriate locks in certain DBs, dumps databases, etc. During the time database dumps are running some of our sc

RE: Re: 1.5.18-1: syslogd and cron message issue (XP/2000).

2006-04-02 Thread Irwin, Doug
with! Thanks again and best regards, Doug Irwin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of René Berber > Sent: Sunday, 2 April 2006 14:37 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: 1.5.18-1: syslogd and cron message issue (X

1.5.18-1: syslogd and cron message issue (XP/2000).

2006-03-30 Thread Irwin, Doug
ery useful information I haven't been able to resolve this specific issue. I have attached the standard cygcheck.out, in case that's of any use. Thanks in advance to anyone who is able to make suggestions or give advice. Best regards, Doug Irwin cygcheck.out Description: cygcheck.ou

RE: Problem with syslogd and cron...

2006-03-26 Thread Irwin, Doug
Pop. Any thoughts? Anyone? -doug > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Irwin, Doug > Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:57 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Problem with syslogd and cron... > > Hi all, &

Problem with syslogd and cron...

2006-03-22 Thread Irwin, Doug
Hi all, I have the following... In the crontab: 1-59 * * * * /echo_the_date.ksh >> /echo_the_date.log In /echo_the_date.ksh: #ksh /bin/date In /etc/syslog.conf: *.*;cron.none /var/log/messages My question is, why do I still get this logged into /var/log/messages? Mar 23 16:52:00 DOUG /USR/S

g77, iargc, getarg don't work for shared linking on Cygwin

2005-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
t our Cygwin platform use to static library builds of PLplot, but that restrics PLplot in a number of other ways (e.g., are python and java interfaces require shared linking). Alan __ Alan W. Irwin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 Astronomical research affiliation

Re: bash page fault on Win98SE when running non-Cygwin programs

2005-06-18 Thread irwin
bvious, this is a Windows 98/Me bug, not a Cygwin bug. >That hardly matters, since we still have to deal with it, but I thought >I should mention this fact in the interests of full disclosure. A Windows bug? I'm shocked. Shocked! /Irwin Meisels irwinm at rogers dot com -- Unsubscrib

bash page fault on Win98SE when running non-Cygwin programs

2005-06-09 Thread irwin
each time I quit the current one. I can sometimes start up another bash and kill the first one, but in most cases, the machine locks up and I have to reset it. However, cygcheck works OK (output follows). Has anyone else seen this? /Irwin Meisels irwinm at rogers do

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