Re: Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe cannot install into UNC paths...

2024-05-27 Thread Andrey Repin via Cygwin
Greetings, Roland Mainz! > I tried to install Cygwin on a network share using the UNC path name Very. Bad. Idea. > (e.g. \\derfwnb4966_ipv4@2049\nfs4\storagetek\cygwintest001\), but got > this response: "The install directory must be absolute, with both a > drive letter and leading slash, like C

Re: Cygwin setup-x86_64.exe cannot install into UNC paths...

2024-05-27 Thread Roland Mainz via Cygwin
On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 1:11 PM Roland Mainz wrote: > I tried to install Cygwin on a network share using the UNC path name > (e.g. \\derfwnb4966_ipv4@2049\nfs4\storagetek\cygwintest001\), but got > this response: "The install directory must be absolute, with both a > drive letter and leading slash

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-09 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin
Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: On 12/9/2022 3:39 AM, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote: On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: > No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the > power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or > something), t

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-09 Thread Dan Harkless via Cygwin
On 12/9/2022 3:39 AM, Oskar Skog via Cygwin wrote: On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: > No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the > power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or > something), to have false positives on VirusT

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-09 Thread Oskar Skog via Cygwin
On 2022-12-07 23:54, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote: No.  It's normal and common for software like Cygwin, which has the power to be used maliciously (as opposed to, say, a Minesweeper game or something), to have false positives on VirusTotal for a handful of vendors.  I've never heard of Secur

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-07 Thread Bill Stewart via Cygwin
On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:21 AM Sylwester Rutkowski wrote: The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at > https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection > > Can this be resolved somehow? This is, of course, a false positive. The

Re: Cygwin setup reporter as malware

2022-12-07 Thread Dan Harkless via Cygwin
On 12/7/2022 8:20 AM, Sylwester Rutkowski via Cygwin wrote:Hi, The setup-x86_64.exe is reported as malicious at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/edd0a64dc65087ffe453ca94b267169b39458a983b29ac31320fcaa983d0f97e/detection Can this be resolved somehow? No.  It's normal and common for software

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-12 Thread Jon Turney
On 12/01/2022 16:03, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: Please try: https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.915.x86_64.exe https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.915.x86.exe That's working (for cmd as well), thanks! Great! Thanks for reporting this problem and testing my several attempts

RE: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-12 Thread David Allsopp
Jon Turney wrote: > On 09/01/2022 09:35, David Allsopp wrote: > > Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: > >>> Jon Turney wrote: > On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > > Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or > > CYGWIN=winsymlinks:na

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-10 Thread Jon Turney
On 09/01/2022 09:35, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A d

RE: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-09 Thread David Allsopp
Jon Turney wrote: > On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: > > Jon Turney wrote: > >> On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > >>> Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or > >>> CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. > >>> A default install has

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-07 Thread Jon Turney
On 06/01/2022 16:45, David Allsopp wrote: Jon Turney wrote: On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A default install has these faulty ones: /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem -

RE: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-06 Thread David Allsopp
Jon Turney wrote: > On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: > > Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or > > CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. > > A default install has these faulty ones: > > > > /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem -> > > \??\/etc\pki\ca-tru

Re: Cygwin setup writing incorrect symlinks for native

2022-01-06 Thread Jon Turney
On 06/01/2022 10:46, David Allsopp wrote: Running Cygwin setup 2.912 with --symlink-type native (or CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native) is not correctly translating all symlinks. A default install has these faulty ones: /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem -> \??\/etc\pki\ca-trust\extracted\pem\tls-ca-bundle.pem /etc/p

Re: cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?

2021-10-01 Thread Jon Turney
On 22/09/2021 02:50, Richard Beels via Cygwin wrote: At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's keyboard and said: If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D Adding -Y does

Re: cygwin setup version 2.909 not installing (silent mode) - bug or user error?

2021-09-21 Thread Richard Beels via Cygwin
At 9/21/2021 at 12:28, Shakespearean monkeys danced on Jason Pyeron's keyboard and said: If the last execution of the setup used download only and the setup is used with -q and without either -D or -L it still defaults to -D Adding -Y does not change the behavior either. Workaround was to l

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-23 Thread My Name via Cygwin
P.S. Now I too need to correct my previous email to the list. What *really* did, which worked around the issue for me, was the more conservative "chmod u+w". On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 6:07 AM My Name wrote: > I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue. > Thanks for s

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-23 Thread My Name via Cygwin
I tried chmod a+w in the meantime and confirmed it works around the issue. Thanks for suggesting it. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 2:01 AM Henry S. Thompson wrote: > Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > > > My Name via Cygwin writes: > > > >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-23 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin writes: > My Name via Cygwin writes: > >> Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a >> directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: > > No, the file is correct. The following worked for me: > > > chmod a+x

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-22 Thread Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin
My Name via Cygwin writes: > Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a > directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: No, the file is correct. The following worked for me: > chmod a+x /etc/xml/catalog > /etc/postinstall/fontconfig_d

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-22 Thread My Name via Cygwin
BTW, Cygwin Setup 64 showed me that error message at the end of installing this set of Cygwin packages: python27, bzr, emacs-w32, aspell, aspell-en, octave. On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:13 PM My Name wrote: > Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a > directory; so I'

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-21 Thread My Name via Cygwin
Thank you, but I find catalog already present, as a file rather than a directory; so I'll hold off unless you say mkdir is really what I should do: = $ cat /etc/xml/catalog http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/release/1.0/catalog.dtd";> $ = On Sun, Ju

Re: Cygwin Setup says, "could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving // add command failed". Am I safe to ignore it?

2020-06-21 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
On 22.06.2020 04:48, My Name via Cygwin wrote: [image: CygwinSetup64ErrorMessage-000.png] /var/log/setup: === ... 2020/06/21 17:21:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.exe --norc --noprofile "/etc/postinstall/fontconfig_dtd.sh" could not open /etc/xml/catalog for saving

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Re: Cygwin setup signing public key update

2020-06-07 Thread Jon Turney
On 13/03/2020 16:34, Jon Turney wrote: On 13/03/2020 16:13, Jon Turney wrote: This is an announcement of an update to the key used to sign (i) Cygwin setup executables, and (ii) the (compressed) setup.ini package manifest. If you just run setup, and update it when it tells you to update it, no

Re: Cygwin setup error

2020-04-21 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2020-04-21 12:33, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > Am 21.04.2020 um 18:08 schrieb Antonio Cesar Rosa: >> I do not think so. See the output from Virustotal: >> 2431de4597a2162f3e1d60af90f638b41677265b07cc66fcb0231fdde452c841 >> setup-x86_64.exe 1.29 MB 2020-04-21 00:31:19 UTC >> Size >> 15 hours

Re: Cygwin setup error

2020-04-21 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
Am 21.04.2020 um 18:08 schrieb Antonio Cesar Rosa: Hello, I do not think so. See the output from Virustotal: 2431de4597a2162f3e1d60af90f638b41677265b07cc66fcb0231fdde452c841 setup-x86_64.exe 1.29 MB 2020-04-21 00:31:19 UTC Size 15 hours ago 64bits direct-cpu-clock-access overlay peexe runtime-

Re: Cygwin setup error

2020-04-21 Thread Marco Atzeri via Cygwin
Am 21.04.2020 um 17:29 schrieb Antonio Cesar Rosa via Cygwin: Good afternoon, I am trying to run setup for Windows 7 X64 server, setup_x86-64.exe file but my AVG anti-virus blocked the file said it contains IDP.Generic issue. Could you tell me if this issue is already reported for you and what

Re: Cygwin Setup Changelog

2018-09-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 14.09.2018 um 11:13 schrieb WST CI: Is there somewhere that I can get a public changelog of the updates to cygwin-setup-x86_64.exe, etc? I want to save on support hours by only updating this file when there is a security update, however I can't seem to find a public changelog. https://c

Re: Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

2018-08-29 Thread Jon Turney
On 23/08/2018 17:39, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/23/2018 11:59 AM, Kptain wrote:   Hi all,   When I try to use Cygwin setup by specifying list of package to download, all of them are ignored.   I'm using -P option line this:   setup-x86_64_2.893.exe -v -d -N -n -D -B -g -A -a x86_64 -p http://app

Re: Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

2018-08-24 Thread Kptain
Ok thanks for your help. It works correctly by removing spaces. -- Sent from: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Cygwin-list-f3.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Uns

Re: Cygwin setup (x86_64 - v2.893) : listed of packages selected ignored

2018-08-23 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/23/2018 11:59 AM, Kptain wrote: Hi all, When I try to use Cygwin setup by specifying list of package to download, all of them are ignored. I'm using -P option line this: setup-x86_64_2.893.exe -v -d -N -n -D -B -g -A -a x86_64 -p http://appgw.fcomp.com:80 -P a2ps ,attr ,base-cygwi

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709

2018-08-17 Thread Marco Atzeri
cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709 Am 14.08.2018 um 14:26 schrieb Senden, Ruediger: Hello The executed command line inside a .VBE program is Errorcode is -1 cmd.exe /c d2u.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT && rcp SOURCEFILE.DAT USER-at-SERVER:DISKNAME:[D

Re: Cygwin Setup 2.893 on Windows 10 Version 1709

2018-08-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 14.08.2018 um 14:26 schrieb Senden, Ruediger: Hello The executed command line inside a .VBE program is Errorcode is -1 cmd.exe /c d2u.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT && rcp SOURCEFILE.DAT USER-at-SERVER:DISKNAME:[DIRECTORY]TARGETFILE.DAT && u2d.exe -f -q -k SOURCEFILE.DAT 2>1>3 Er

Re: Cygwin Setup Version

2018-02-03 Thread Jon Turney
On 02/02/2018 14:01, Juergen Ernst Guenther wrote: Hello, sorry for bothering you. Firstly, do not send me personal email. Please read http://cygwin.com/problems.html#personal-email, particularly the section starting "Shouldn't I just send email to straight to a Cygwin developer or package

Re: cygwin setup failed in windows 10

2017-08-20 Thread Beau Kissinger
can anybody help? On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Beau Kissinger wrote: > Hi there, > I found my cygwin x86_64 setup suddenly cannot work in win10, but > x64 version works fine. > > It reports: > Fatal error: Unexpected windows message 13 received too early in > window initialization. >

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 20 12:19, OwN-3m-All wrote: > > I'm afraid you will probably have to build setup from source to debug > > further > > I tried that, but it wouldn't compile on my Ubuntu instance. It > appears it's supposed to be compiled on Windows? If that's the case, > I have no idea how. I downloaded

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-20 Thread OwN-3m-All
> I'm afraid you will probably have to build setup from source to debug further I tried that, but it wouldn't compile on my Ubuntu instance. It appears it's supposed to be compiled on Windows? If that's the case, I have no idea how. I downloaded and installed mingw64 on my Windows machine, but

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-20 Thread Achim Gratz
OwN-3m-All writes: > See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only > sometimes... sometimes it works): > > https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png Since setup.exe isn't using that runtime library, I suggest you're at the receiving end of some BLODA. I've seen things

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-20 Thread Jon Turney
On 19/11/2016 01:48, OwN-3m-All wrote: I'm not running Windows Defender or any software for that matter on my test instance of Server 2008. I tried running GDB, but the setup executable doesn't have any debugging symbols. Is there a download link somewhere for the latest compiled cygwin setup t

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-18 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-18 18:48, OwN-3m-All wrote: I'm not running Windows Defender or any software for that matter on my test instance of Server 2008. There will be retail workstation components not installed on Server, and all bets are off for Enterprise Server: there will be components not installed and

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-18 Thread OwN-3m-All
I'm not running Windows Defender or any software for that matter on my test instance of Server 2008. I tried running GDB, but the setup executable doesn't have any debugging symbols. Is there a download link somewhere for the latest compiled cygwin setup that includes these symbols? GNU gdb (GDB

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-18 Thread OwN-3m-All
> What Windows version; is it an insider, Education or Enterprise > build? I'm testing on as many different operating systems as I can since I don't know what my users will be running. So far, I have it crashing randomly as shown in my screenshot on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise SP2 x86 and Wind

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-18 Thread Achim Gratz
OwN-3m-All writes: > That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the > mirrors or would know why one isn't working. The only way to thoroughly solve that problem is to provide your own mirror (which by definition you have control over). > I think a new command-line argument shou

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-17 23:10, OwN-3m-All wrote: See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only sometimes... sometimes it works): https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png The setup log only contains this: Starting cygwin install, version 2.876 User has backup/restore rights

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! > See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only > sometimes... sometimes it works): > https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png > The setup log only contains this: > Starting cygwin install, version 2.876 > User has backup/restore rights > io_

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! >> Setup gets its list from: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst > Thanks. > I'm guessing the installer only shows a few of them though instead of > all of them? It shows all of them. It's not like there's millions of them. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, Novembe

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! >> Just specify the mirror by hands. >> If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. > That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the > mirrors or would know why one isn't working. But you have control over the script that worki

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
See, this happens with the mirror I've provided in the setup (only sometimes... sometimes it works): https://s17.postimg.org/6xuvfaljz/setup_issue.png The setup log only contains this: Starting cygwin install, version 2.876 User has backup/restore rights io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
> Setup gets its list from: https://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst Thanks. I'm guessing the installer only shows a few of them though instead of all of them? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/d

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-17 21:06, OwN-3m-All wrote: Just specify the mirror by hands. If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the mirrors or would know why one isn't working. I think a new command-line argument sho

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread OwN-3m-All
> Just specify the mirror by hands. > If it doesn't work for some reason, find that reason and eliminate it. That's really not a good solution. I don't have control over the mirrors or would know why one isn't working. I think a new command-line argument should be added that makes Cygwin setup p

Re: Cygwin Setup - Choose Best Mirror Automatically for Automated / Silent Installs

2016-11-17 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! > I'm trying to automate this as best as possible, and the only way to > do so right now is to specify the mirror the setup utility uses by > using something similar to: > setup-x86_64.exe --site "http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/"; > --quiet-mode --root "C:\dir" --local-p

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-15 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, OwN-3m-All! > Thanks guys. That was it. I decided to remove the trailing slash for > my purposes. > set WD=%~dp0 > set WD=%WD:~0,-1% > It's working now! Alternatively, you could translate backslashes to regular slashes. Should work too. SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SET CWD=%CD:\=/%

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-14 Thread OwN-3m-All
Thanks guys. That was it. I decided to remove the trailing slash for my purposes. set WD=%~dp0 set WD=%WD:~0,-1% It's working now! On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: > On 2016-11-14 07:43, Gerrit Haase wrote: >> >> 2016-11-13 23:19 GMT+01:00 OwN-3m-All wrote: >>> >>> I'd li

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-14 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-11-14 07:43, Gerrit Haase wrote: 2016-11-13 23:19 GMT+01:00 OwN-3m-All wrote: I'd like to automate Cygwin installation, but I don't want to rule out the possibility that a path with a space will not be used. You'll get a warning from Setup: it is strongly recommended, to use a root pat

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-14 Thread Gerrit Haase
> Try adding a dot: > > set WD=%~dp0 > echo "%WD%." > "setup-x86_64.exe" --root "%WD%." --local-package-dir "%WD%." > pause or set WD=%~dp0. ... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.h

Re: Cygwin Setup Command-line Arguments - Paths with a Space Incorrectly Parsed

2016-11-14 Thread Gerrit Haase
2016-11-13 23:19 GMT+01:00 OwN-3m-All wrote: > cd "C:\test\with space" > set WD=%~dp0 > echo "%WD%cygTemp" > "setup-x86_64.exe" --root "%WD%" --local-package-dir "%WD%cygTemp" > pause > The problem is this trailing backslash in the directory name. D:\temp\Neuer Ordner\cygwinpkg>setup_script.bat

Re: Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror

2016-01-22 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Brian J. Krische! > I'm using a local LAN server to act as a cache of a cygwin package mirror. > I'm trying to have the Cygwin setup application use this local server > instead of one of the public mirrors. However, I'm having a bit of a > problem. It appears the cygwin setup applicatio

Re: Cygwin setup change directory permissions

2015-09-07 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 7 10:24, Max Polk wrote: > Cygwin setup keeps showing error about package unknown in file > inetutils-server.sh, so ran it manually and saw the actual problem: > > $ cd /etc/postinstall > $ ./inetutils-server.sh > *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. > *** Wa

Re: cygwin setup program questions

2014-11-13 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, t s! > just to check my understanding of the setup program, latest version 2.852 (64 > bit); > the options are install / re-install / un-install / default > my understanding is as follows; > choosing "install" creates a new installation of the selected cygwin > components Or upgrade.

Re: cygwin setup program questions

2014-11-13 Thread t s
just to check my understanding of the setup program, latest version 2.852 (64 bit); the options are install / re-install / un-install / default my understanding is as follows; choosing "install" creates a new installation of the selected cygwin components choosing "re-install" uninstalls t

Re: cygwin setup program questions

2014-11-12 Thread Achim Gratz
t s hotmail.com> writes: > What is the function of the "keep" / "cur" / "exp" radio buttons? It changes what the "Default" means: keep the installed packages, update to whatever the current version is or update to whatever the "experimental" or test version is. Regards, Achim. -- Problem repo

Re: cygwin setup program questions

2014-11-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 11/12/2014 3:28 AM, t s wrote: I have some elementary questions regarding the cygwin setup program. I ran the latest version 2.852 (64 bit). wrong mailing list. Use main one for these questions the options are install / re-install / un-install / default my understanding is as follows; c

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/13/2012 6:47 PM, Lord Laraby wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/13/2012 5:49 PM, Lord Laraby wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: D:\Programs\cygwin\etc\postinstall>autorebase.bat /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygper

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Lord Laraby
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 8/13/2012 5:49 PM, Lord Laraby wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: D:\Programs\cygwin\etc\postinstall>autorebase.bat /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll: skip

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/13/2012 5:49 PM, Lord Laraby wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: D:\Programs\cygwin\etc\postinstall>autorebase.bat /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll: skipped be cause nonexistent. This is just a warning, which you can ignore. See

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Lord Laraby
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: >> >> D:\Programs\cygwin\etc\postinstall>autorebase.bat >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll: >> skipped be >> cause nonexistent. > > > This is just a warning, which you can ignore. See > Ken Aye. That I see no

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/13/2012 9:28 AM, Lord Laraby wrote: That situation averted. I rebooted the PC into safe mode to try and make repairs. But, apparently, just rebooting made all the bad files and folders go away. However, I have a new problem with postinstall autorebase.bat ... It fails with exit code 1 - an

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Lord Laraby
That situation averted. I rebooted the PC into safe mode to try and make repairs. But, apparently, just rebooting made all the bad files and folders go away. However, I have a new problem with postinstall autorebase.bat ... It fails with exit code 1 - and prints that it can't find a dll. D:\Prog

Re: Cygwin Setup - Post Install Script Errors Unknown Package bash.sh exit code 1

2012-04-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Family Moreno wrote: > > From there it said to run: > > gcc hello.c > > But when I do I get an error on the terminal saying: > gcc: no file or directory found > gcc: no input file > Surely this wasn't the next step?! You must create a file called hello.c first. If

Re: cygwin setup download is blocked by OfficeScan

2012-02-26 Thread marco atzeri
On 2/27/2012 12:36 AM, wxie wrote: It said "it detect a web security policy violation" when I click the "setup" link. Cheers --Wei wrong list as it is not related to X and please always open a separate thread, do NOT reply to not related mail threads. I assume this is a OfficeScan or your co

Re: CYGWIN setup home directorys for users

2011-03-23 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Dale Harrison (Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:29:56 +) > When creating a user inside CYGWIN using "net user *username* /add", > could someone tell me the command that I can type to set the home > directory the user is to land into when the connect? Sorry, you got it completely wrong. You cannot add a u

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Andrey Repin wrote: > >> see "setup --help" > >> -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start > >> menu shortcuts > > This is only a band-aid. It does not change the fact that the program > > doesn't save the status of that checkbox from run to run.

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi; On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:37, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Jim Reisert AD1C! > >>> see "setup --help" > >>> -n --no-shortcuts     Disable creation of desktop and start >>>                              menu shortcuts > >> This is only a band-aid.  It does not change the fact that the prog

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Jim Reisert AD1C! >> see "setup --help" >> -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start >> menu shortcuts > This is only a band-aid. It does not change the fact that the program > doesn't save the status of that checkbox from run to run. W

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:16:37PM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> setup.exe, like many other installers, will always prompt you at the end >> on whether you want to create a desktop icon. > >I understand that. I don't think you do. setup.exe is not designed to reme

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Andy Koppe
On 24 August 2010 19:16, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > So, are the two check-box settings saved somewhere, and if so, where? No. It will helpfully untick the checkboxes if the shortcuts are already there. PTC, I presume. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Sorry, I'm not subscribed but reading on the web: Christopher Faylor wrote: > setup.exe, like many other installers, will always prompt you at the end > on whether you want to create a desktop icon. I understand that. So, are the two check-box settings saved somewhere, and if so, where? Because

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13:04AM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: >Is this a bug? No. >I noticed that there's no SETUP.INI file in the Cygwin directory >anymore, but there is an etc/setup/setup.rc file instead. There should never have been a setup.ini in the Cygwin directory. setup.ini is someth

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/24/2010 1:49 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Marco wrote: see "setup --help" -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start menu shortcuts This is only a band-aid. It does not change the fact that the program doesn't save the status of that chec

Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?

2010-08-24 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Marco wrote: > see "setup --help" > -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start > menu shortcuts This is only a band-aid. It does not change the fact that the program doesn't save the status of that checkbox from run to run. - Jim -- Jim Reisert A

Re: Cygwin Setup crashes Windows 2000 during preremove script libusb-win32 0.1.12.1-2

2009-07-09 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At 02:37 2009-07-10 +0200, you wrote: >At 00:08 2009-07-10 +0100, you wrote: >>> During Cygwin Setup noticed system crash, while setup screen displayed >>> something like: >>> Running preremove script libusb-win32 >>> Attempting to isolate the problem I told setup to keep the current version >>

Re: Cygwin Setup crashes Windows 2000 during preremove script libusb-win32 0.1.12.1-2

2009-07-09 Thread Arend-Jan Westhoff
At 00:08 2009-07-10 +0100, you wrote: >> During Cygwin Setup noticed system crash, while setup screen displayed >> something like: >> Running preremove script libusb-win32 >> Attempting to isolate the problem I told setup to keep the current version >> of libusb-win32 and setup installed every

Re: Cygwin Setup crashes Windows 2000 during preremove script libusb-win32 0.1.12.1-2

2009-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 07/09/2009, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: >> 3. Who drove Igor Peshansky away? (So we may lynch him and bring Igor >> back.) > > That would be me but I won't tell you my name or where to find me... > > Oh rats! Looks like I'm going to have to go hide with Igor. > But

Re: Cygwin Setup crashes Windows 2000 during preremove script libusb-win32 0.1.12.1-2

2009-07-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 07/09/2009, Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: 3. Who drove Igor Peshansky away? (So we may lynch him and bring Igor back.) That would be me but I won't tell you my name or where to find me... Oh rats! Looks like I'm going to have to go hide with Igor. But wait, where's Igor?... Now I'm really scr

Re: Cygwin Setup crashes Windows 2000 during preremove script libusb-win32 0.1.12.1-2

2009-07-09 Thread Dave Korn
Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > During Cygwin Setup noticed system crash, while setup screen displayed > something like: > Running preremove script libusb-win32 > Attempting to isolate the problem I told setup to keep the current version > of libusb-win32 and setup installed everything else appar

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 February 2008 12:06, Warren Young wrote: > Fix the text now, :) Fix0red! http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps-cvs/2008-q1/msg4.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repor

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Korn
On 21 February 2008 12:06, Warren Young wrote: > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> >> My point stands though: it would be a useful addition to have this >> user-selectable, as in some other file transfer programs. But my >> counterpoint also stands: no options dialog. > > I guessbut I don't see

Re: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-21 Thread Warren Young
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: My point stands though: it would be a useful addition to have this user-selectable, as in some other file transfer programs. But my counterpoint also stands: no options dialog. I guessbut I don't see why this is a blocking issue. Fix the text now, and put "opti

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-20 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Bill Meier > > Gary R. Van Sickle writes: > > > > > > From: Bill Meier > > > or maybe KB/s for kilobytes/sec ? > > > > > > > It should be an option, but that begs an "Options..." dialog, which > > doesn't exist. > > > > > Unfortunately I didn't express myself clearly in my origina

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 February 2008 15:16, Bill Meier wrote: > The numeric DLL rate shown by the Cygwin setup program is actually in units > of K Bytes/sec and thus either kB/s or KB/s should be used as the text > following the numeric rate. Wlll, if it's "in units of K Bytes/sec", the text should read "KB

Re: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Meier
Gary R. Van Sickle worldnet.att.net> writes: > > > From: Bill Meier > > or maybe KB/s for kilobytes/sec ? > > > > It should be an option, but that begs an "Options..." dialog, which doesn't > exist. > Unfortunately I didn't express myself clearly in my original message. The numeric DLL ra

RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ?

2008-02-18 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> From: Bill Meier > or maybe KB/s for kilobytes/sec ? > It should be an option, but that begs an "Options..." dialog, which doesn't exist. > > Bill Meier > -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pr

Re: Cygwin setup hangs in postinstall

2007-12-12 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:38:36 +0100, "Wernke zur Borg" wrote: (Corinna wrote:) >> Please don't send unsolicited strace output. Did you notice how big >> your mail is? > >Yes, I noticed it and I conciously decided to send it to prevent >responses asking for decent eviden

RE: Cygwin setup hangs in postinstall

2007-12-12 Thread Wernke zur Borg
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 12 December 2007 12:01 > Subject: Re: Cygwin setup hangs in postinstall > > On Dec 12 09:48, Wernke zur Borg wrote: > > > > The Cygwin Setup 2.573.2.2 hangs in the postinstall script > > /et

Re: Cygwin setup hangs in postinstall

2007-12-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 12 09:48, Wernke zur Borg wrote: > > The Cygwin Setup 2.573.2.2 hangs in the postinstall script > /etc/postinstall/00bash.sh. > > I found reports about such failures from 2003 but not recent ones. > > I should also add that I had installed and completely removed an earlier > version of C

RE: Cygwin setup on XP/Vista (UNIX/DOS compatibilty question)

2007-10-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 26 October 2007 19:21, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> A cool new network tool would be a RCP that runs D2U as a option. >> Does such a tool exist? > > > Don't know. But it's simple in principle to write a script that you invoke > to do what you want. Bog-standard ftp does text-mode transfe

Re: Cygwin setup on XP/Vista (UNIX/DOS compatibilty question)

2007-10-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Steve Richmond wrote: Is there a standard (read easy) way to bring over files and run D2U on each file? I'm guessing what you really mean is "automated". Not anything in Cygwin as far as I know. I just found a tool called RSYNC. Do you have experience with that? Why isn't RCP and FTP inc

RE: Cygwin setup on XP/Vista (UNIX/DOS compatibilty question)

2007-10-26 Thread Steve Richmond
s for your help! > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:28:38 -0600 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Cygwin setup on XP/Vista (UNIX/DOS compatibilty question) > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > htt

RE: Cygwin setup on XP/Vista (UNIX/DOS compatibilty question)

2007-09-24 Thread Bengt-Arne Fjellner
Steve Richmond wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I removed everything and completely re-installed Cygwin with > setup.exe using the UNIX > binary option. I 'set -o igncr' in .bashrc. 'set | grep SHELLOPTS' > show igncr is set. > Yet the problems of bash scripts failing with '\r' errors and the > resultant

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