RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread fergus
If it helps anybody, which it might not : in the entire Cygwin provision there are I think a dozen *.lnk files. I found that 5 of them induced objections from Norton ("invalid shortcuts"). As was pointed out to me on this list, this is a Windows/Norton glitch, not a Cygwin glitch ... but it bugged

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Pierre Muller
At 08:15 02/05/2002 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: >No problems, but is all the following expected behaviour? Having >uncompressed the new .dll and copied it to /bin: > >1. had to make /proc using mkdir /proc > >2. ls -al / doesn't actually show /proc > >3. ls -al /proc shows (something like) > >dr-

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache-1.3.24-3

2002-05-02 Thread Stipe Tolj
I've updated the version of apache in release/apache to 1.3.24-3. Changes to the previous release: * This release includes a patched behaviour for the detach daemon mode (1.3.24-2), where httpd detaches from the calling parent process if invoked without any flags. This is the normal behaviour o

Re[4]: trouble again downloading.

2002-05-02 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello Dave, I can neither confirm, nor deny this behaviour. I've tried hard to reproduce it but to no avail :( I'll take a look at the source code this night - hopefully I'll see something :) The disturbing thing about your issue is that no one (except you) has reported this behaviour. Usually wh

RE: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/or signal()

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Beach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:16 AM > > > > thread - lock > > thread - state=run > > thread - signal > > main - lock > > main - test state (passes) > > calls pthread_cond_wait(). Doh. I need some real serious sle

Re: using pine to run links to view url's

2002-05-02 Thread Mark Cooke
On 1 May 2002, Eduardo Chappa spoke unto us wif: > *** Mark Cooke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: > > :) I know this may be off topic, but I've selected links as my web brower > :) in pine (using the full path - /usr/bin/links), but when I go to view a > :) url from pine, it just returns that it

RE: mc

2002-05-02 Thread Emre Turkay
Thanx, it worked. But I also needed to add the --with-slang option. $ ./configure --with-ncurses --with-included-gettext --with-slang $ make $ make install > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Frank Schmitt > Sent: Wednesday, May 01,

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Chris January
> >No problems, but is all the following expected behaviour? Having > >uncompressed the new .dll and copied it to /bin: > > > >1. had to make /proc using mkdir /proc Yes, same way you have to mkdir /cygdrive if you want it to show up in a directory listing I'm afraid. > > > >2. ls -al / doesn't

RE: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/or signal()

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
Michael, that patch I included in my last email fixed the problem, and didn't introduce any regressions as far as I could tell, so I've checked it in. If you build yourself a cygwin dll, or grab the next snapshot to be generated, it will be fixed. Jason - -this- bug may be the one that

RE: libiconv

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Gerrit P. Haase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:16 AM > > Come on Charles, > > you have a complete version of libiconv, ready for upload, > what should the volunteer do? Repackage it to install in > /usr instead of /usr/local

RE: 'redownload' aka download again and setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Ronald Landheer
> Please write back (to me or the list, your choice) whether you use the > DELIBERATE 'download again' functionality of setup.exe or not. > And if so, how often and for what purpose. I don't, ever. Ciao, Ronald -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

RE: New version of setup - prerelease available

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Alan Dobkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 3:54 AM > When I run this new version (2.216) and select "Install from > Local Directory", as soon as setup gets to the "Progress" > window (before > listing any available packages), t

Re: cron and UNC files

2002-05-02 Thread Max Bowsher
Haven't done this myself. I don't know. It looks like a user rights problem, but I couldn't get it to work either. Maybe someone else on cygwin@ will know. Max. Mike Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I can see what the problem is but when I try to start cron as a specific > user I get a

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: apache-1.3.24-3

2002-05-02 Thread Paul Stodghill
apache-1.3.24-3 still suffers from the rebase problem that I posted about a few days ago. quimby$ apachectl start /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd started quimby$ cat /var/log/apache/error_log [Thu May 2 08:38:23 2002] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of prev

RE: Setup.exe problem?

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Paul G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Setup.exe problem? > > > Hi folks, > > Not sure if this is correct mailing list. It is. > Tried using latest version of setup.ex

mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
Hi all, I got a problem when running mv : i have the directory abc and want to rename it as Abc (or something that changes the capitalisation only). I get the following result : $ mv abc Abc mv: cannot create directory `Abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/abc/ab

Re: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/or signal()

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Beach
On Thursday 02 May 2002 21:28, Robert Collins wrote: > Michael, > that patch I included in my last email fixed the problem, and > didn't introduce any regressions as far as I could tell, so I've checked > it in. If you build yourself a cygwin dll, or grab the next snapshot to > be generated,

Mathematical Functions

2002-05-02 Thread Paul Dilip K NPRI
While using g77 compiler to compile fortran routines I got error message regarding COSD, ACOSD, SIND, ASIND etc. which are used with the angles in degrees, rather in radian. These are available with windows Compaq Fortran, also in UNIX. Are they available in CYGWIN with different names? Als

Compiling/running code that used to work okay!

2002-05-02 Thread Rick Hellicar (QMP)
Hi all, I'm modifying some old code I last compiled in October 2000. The code uses a 3rd-party DLL, which comes with an import library. It used to link without fuss against that import library and run perfectly. I've moved on to cygwin_1.3.10, gcc version 2.95.3-5, and I now get a host of "un

Re: 1.1.3 and upwards: apparent bug with pthread_cond_wait() and/orsignal()

2002-05-02 Thread Jason Tishler
Rob, On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:28:54PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > Jason - -this- bug may be the one that killed python. Could you retest > with a new dll when you have a few free moments? Bingo! This one is finally squashed! I am running the Python test_threadedtempfile regression test in

Re: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Elmar Haneke
Gianni Mariani schrieb:: > I have some reasons to suspect that http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is > infected with a virus that Norton and McAfree don't scan. well, > sometimes they say it's Cles or Wez or somthing. > This is the md5 of the setup.exe I downloaded. > > 616c0f35c0abf14d00a82a7bea1f

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:04 AM 5/2/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:17 PM > >>To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: using Windows links > >>>An interesting side effect: I

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 03:23 AM 5/2/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If it helps anybody, which it might not : in the entire Cygwin provision >there are I think a dozen *.lnk files. I found that 5 of them induced >objections from Norton ("invalid shortcuts"). As was pointed out to me on >this list, this is a Windows/N

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Mellman Thomas
>>> >>Just because it isn't recognized as a Cygwin symbolic link >>> >>doesn't mean it >>> >>doesn't exist as a file as far as Cygwin is concerned. >>> >>> >>> >>>The thing is, the Windows-created Shortcut is called >>Desktop.lnk and I'm trying to create simply Desktop. There >>is NO file call

Re: mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:22 AM 5/2/2002, Sylvain Petreolle wrote: >Hi all, > >I got a problem when running mv : > >i have the directory abc and want to rename >it as Abc (or something that changes the >capitalisation only). > >I get the following result : > >$ mv abc Abc >mv: cannot create directory >`Abc/abc/abc/ab

Re: Problems starting apache, DLL base address conflicts?

2002-05-02 Thread Stipe Tolj
"S. L." wrote: > > > Based upon Jason's pointers, I used the following command to rebase the > > apache dll's, and now it seems to work, > > > [...] > > So this must lead to conclusion that the method of using of the "third > party" ld.exe (the one with auto-import that Stipe recommends -- and a

Re: Compiling/running code that used to work okay!

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:14 AM 5/2/2002, Rick Hellicar (QMP) wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm modifying some old code I last compiled in October 2000. The code uses a >3rd-party DLL, which >comes with an import library. It used to link without fuss against that import >library and run perfectly. > >I've moved on to cygwin_1

CVS and binary mounts

2002-05-02 Thread Lapo Luchini
I think current port of CVS-1.1 does have a little problem with CVS/* files being read in binary mode... e.g. if CVS/Root has \r\n it prints "cannot access cvsroot\rCVSROOT" (you can read only "CVSROOTces cvsroot" as it overwrite the line itself). This is of course not a serious problem as an occa

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:53 AM 5/2/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: > >>> >>Just because it isn't recognized as a Cygwin symbolic link > >>> >>doesn't mean it > >>> >>doesn't exist as a file as far as Cygwin is concerned. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>The thing is, the Windows-created Shortcut is called > >>Desktop.lnk and I'

Re: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Edge
Mellman Thomas wrote in on Thu, 2 May 2002 16:53:06 +0200: > There's no h.lnk here. > Is this just a question of having the right frame-of-mind? Yes there is. In the same way that the Windows shell always hides the ".lnk" suffix, cygwin1.dll hide

RE: Resource temporarily unavailable - bash fails but works with old versions

2002-05-02 Thread Satya Nemana
Sorry. Please ignore this as a false alarm. Here is an update. It does not occur anymore even with my new cygwin path and got fixed as follows. I could isolate this problem by getting rid of .profile which was same as .bashrc. My bash script is too big to be emailed. I could not spend time to

Re: support for multicast socket

2002-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 07:14:46PM -0400, Yang-hua Chu wrote: > I'm porting a network protocol (about 50K lines of code) developed in > UNIX into cygwin, and I ran into problems when I want to open a > multicast socket. It's not implemented. > If multicast > socket is not currently implemented

Re: Mathematical Functions

2002-05-02 Thread tprince
> While using g77 compiler to compile fortran routines I got error message regarding COSD, ACOSD, SIND, ASIND etc. which are used with the angles in degrees, rather in radian. These are available with windows Compaq Fortran, also in UNIX. Are they available in CYGWIN with different names? > Also

make

2002-05-02 Thread Tim Orr
Ok, I'm new to this list. I was using cygwin a few months ago and changed computers... I just installed cygwin on my new computer but can not get make to be recognized. I keep getting this message: bash: make: command not found bash: gcc: command not found obviously gcc was when I tried to co

Re: make

2002-05-02 Thread Arek \(James Potts\)
Did you install gcc and make when you installed Cygwin? They're no longer installed by default, you have to tell the installer you want them. James Potts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Original Message - From: "Tim Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 10:

Re: Resource temporarily unavailable - bash fails but works with old versions

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 2 May 2002 11:29:03 -0400 Satya Nemana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. Please ignore this as a false alarm. Here is an update. It does > not occur anymore even with my new cygwin path and got fixed as follows. > I could isolate this problem by getting rid of .profile which was same >

Re: make

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 02 May 2002 15:40:43 + Tim Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'm new to this list. I was using cygwin a few months ago and changed > computers... I just installed cygwin on my new computer but can not get make > to be recognized. I keep getting this message: > bash: make: comma

Re: Patch: Re: Bug in stat()?

2002-05-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 04:54:18PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > [...] > 2002-04-30 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * path.cc (hash_path_name): Improve hash function strength. > > $ diff -u path.cc.bak path.cc > --- path.cc.bak Tue Apr 30 16:32:52 2002 > +++ path.cc

automake tests reveal other bugs... cp.exe and libtool

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
So I was building automake-1.6.1 and ran its self tests, which uncovered bugs in libtool-devel-20020316 and in cp.exe. I'll report the libtool bug to that list as well, but the cp.exe bug needs fixin'... Two unexpected failures: pr300-ltlib (libtool bug) subobj9 (cp.exe bug -- or c

Re: using pine to run links to view url's

2002-05-02 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** Mark Cooke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote today: :) > Could you please post the way that you set links as your browser. I :) > will find a solution for you. Also, have you read :) > /usr/doc/Cygwin/pine-4.11-1.README? The solution may be in there. I :) > am working on expanding that document. Pl

Re: Mathematical Functions

2002-05-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Mr. Paul, [ This is entirely non-Cygwin-specific. ] Apart from the FORTRAN business, about which I know nothing... If you're running the ordinary BASH-in-a-console-window Cygwin, which is the default for a Cygwin installation when you launch using the "Cygwin Icon" on the desktop or in the St

Re: make

2002-05-02 Thread Tim Orr
To Arek and Michael, That is exactly what I did not do. I thought I had selected all of the packages to install... works great now! thank you both, tim >From: Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Tim Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Winston Gutkowski
Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the situation. Thanks Winston Gutkowski > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Elmar Haneke > Sent

How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

2002-05-02 Thread Vsevolod Buzinov
Hello all! Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? Thanks! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Virus results

2002-05-02 Thread Keen Wayne A Contr AFRL/MNGG
My computer here at work is required to do a daily scan with Norton. They also push updates when I log in in the morning. I have seen no hits of this kind. After the first post a few days ago, I also did a full scan with up-to-date Norton at home, where I run Cygwin also. Again, no virus was de

"Legacy" Installation of XFree86/Cygwin vs. Setup.exe XFree86 Packages

2002-05-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, [ This message duplicates one with identical content (below this paragraph) to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so please don't redirect this message to that list. ] I installed XFree86/Cygwin via the "semi-manual" procedure that predates the release of Setup.exe packages. I want to know how I should

Re: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 2 May 2002 11:04:06 -0700 Winston Gutkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone confirm or deny this? Both products mentioned are reputable virus > checkers, so it would be nice to get some official feedback on the situation. To date, every alarm about setup.exe has been either an i

Re: How do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin?

2002-05-02 Thread Cliff Hones
> Please tell me how do you pronounce GCC and Cygwin? Here in England we say: Jee Sea Sea and SIG-win Across the pond, and in the antipodes, it could well be different, though :-). -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://

RE: New version of setup - prerelease available

2002-05-02 Thread Alan Dobkin
--On Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:41 PM +1000 Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, can you build setup from the -src tarball, > and run it under gdb? If it crashes then, you can type\ > > 'bt full' > and send me or the list the output. I haven't tried compiling the source yet, but usin

automake error

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Labhard
Just downloaded and replaced my cygwin1.dll with the latest containing /proc feature (cool!). But now automake does not work. So I did a complete setup of cygwin. Still automake does not work. Replaced the cygwin1.dll with the previous one. Automake works. Replaced it again with the newest.

Re: using pine to run links to view url's

2002-05-02 Thread Eduardo Chappa
*** On Thu, 2 May 2002 I wrote: :) try "/usr/bin/links _URL_", including the quotes. Does that work? Are you :) using bash as your shell? Just for the record in the archives, the additional symptom is that the original poster is using the bash shell and the problem is that the bash shell does no

Color Output with Printf

2002-05-02 Thread Westley Weimer
A few weeks ago I asked if it was possible to build a binary with cygwin that does not required cygwin1.dll. I got back three different answers: (1) "try searching the mailing list archives for -mno-cygwin" (2) "You can't" (3) "Read the FAQ entry" Thanks to everyone who took the time

Re: rfp: libiconv

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles schrieb: [...] > Determine which patches should be sent on to Bruno Haible for inclusion > in the upstream version. Advocate their adoption on that list. Monitor > that list for information that may affect the cygwin port. That is easy...(monitoring), the other point, we both tried t

Re: The updatedb script is not included when binary package is installed

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
john schrieb: > I hope the title explains the problem in full. http://62.138.63.18/cywgin/findutils/ Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: FW: Can you offer enscript.cfg file for cygwin?

2002-05-02 Thread Dave McLaughlin
Thank you very much -- that did it for me. I didn't try the first form, but the second form worked just fine. This enabled me to send my output to a shared network printer. Dave Charles Wilson wrote: > > Try this > $ export PRINTER=computerprintername > (or maybe) > $ export PRINT

Re: advise on using fetchmail

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jason schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:09:44PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: >> fetchmail -u mark >> >> results in this error all the time: >> >> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed >> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to >> /usr/local/bin/procmail -d %T > I have never

Re: Color Output with Printf

2002-05-02 Thread Sam Edge
Westley Weimer wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 2 May 2002 14:41:24 -0700 (PDT): > Clearly it is possible to get red text in a dos prompt window: cygwin does > it somehow. My personal theory is that the normal cygwin version is doing > some special setup before main is called that causes stdo

Re: proftpd/fetchmail?was trouble downloading.

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
dave schrieb: > Hello, > For some reason this time i had to select all the individual packages > and it started working, go figure. > I was very pleased to see apache 1.3.24 in cygwin now, great job! Does > anyone know what's happening if anything with fetchmail or proftpd getting > them

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher schrieb: [...] > Once you've done all that you'll be able to amaze yourself by typing: > ls /proc > or > ls /proc/registry [...] > Have fun. Yes, that is fantastic;) $ ls /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/GNU/XMail/ MAIL_ROOT $ ls /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACH

RE: Not to alarm anyone - but possible virus on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
There is no virus in setup.exe as distributed by Cygwin. I think there's been enough reports on this list to confirm that this is the case. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street

RE: Macsyma

2002-05-02 Thread Billinghurst, David (CRTS)
Bill, The maxima code is in a state of flux at present, and I'm not prepared to support a binary. Once there is a new release of maxima I may reconsider. It isn't too hard to build from source. There are recipes in the maxima mailing list available from http://www.ma.utexas.edu/maxima.html,

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Chris & Chris, Cool! Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 21:58 2002-05-01, you wrote: >A couple of months ago Chris January submitted some significant new >functionality to cygwin which I've finally gotten around to merging into >

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Chris January
> Chris & Chris, > > Cool! > > Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complaining they typed rm -rf /proc/regi

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:14:52AM +0100, Chris January wrote: >> Chris & Chris, >> >> Cool! >> >> Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? >I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". >The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other >someone will p

CVS creates permanent files

2002-05-02 Thread Michael Labhard
While using CVS in cygwin it created a CVS repository file that cannot be deleted from cygwin _or_from_Windows! Windows complains when one attempts to delete it that the disk may be write-protected or full (it is not)! Permissions on the file are 444 but chmod does not work because "permission de

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 08:30 PM 5/2/2002, you wrote: >On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:14:52AM +0100, Chris January wrote: > >> Chris & Chris, > >> > >> Cool! > >> > >> Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? > >I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". > >The problem with this is that it is inevit

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Chris January
> If you do have problems, report them *here*. Don't send me private > email. Don't send email to ChrisJ. Don't send mail to cygwin-apps, > cygwin-announce, or cygwin-developers (unless you actually are > subscribed and want to talk about the implementation). If you think the > code should be

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 03:16:43AM +0100, Chris January wrote: >I see you have made the fhandler_virtual, etc. functions use vanilla >path_conv instead of normalized_path or whatever I called it >originally. Yes. This is consistent with all of the other fhandler functions. >This relies on path

need pointers to documentation

2002-05-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On my Unix and Linux systems I use a backup manager called "amanda" which works across my lan to a single unix tape host. For backing up windows clients amanda works well with Samba, but I don't :) So I've compiled the amanda client under cygwin and am using it to backup my single w2k box. Now

Re: need pointers to documentation

2002-05-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:09:20PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On my Unix and Linux systems I use a backup manager called "amanda" >which works across my lan to a single unix tape host. > >For backing up windows clients amanda works well with Samba, >but I don't :) So I've compiled the amanda clie

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Chris January wrote: >>Chris & Chris, >> >>Cool! >> >>Is the registry as reflected in /proc/registry writable? >> > I'm torn between writing "no", and "no, not yet". > The problem with this is that it is inevitable that at some point or other > someone will post to the cygwin mailing list complai

RE: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
> -Original Message- > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:46 PM > That might work --- but I'd make it auto-reset after every > atomic write. > So, you have to say >$ cat '1' > /proc/registry/.writeable > > $ > >$ cat /proc/re

How to set system PATH for cygwin on nt?

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Bodenstab
My background is Unix and I'm *very* new with NT... so this has, I'm sure, a very simple solution. Trying to get inetd to work, the doc's say to set the system PATH. How? What file contains the settings? Somehow, NT pickeds up the PATH I had in my autoexec.bat when I open a DOS window... but th

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: > Two things: if /proc/registry isn't writable, cating 1 to > /proc/registry/.writeable won't work - without special case code. I'd > suggest /proc/sysopts/fs/registry/writeable. > > Two, why not have two options: > writeable > nextwrite > > one is persistent (until all

Re: problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

2002-05-02 Thread Dave Bodenstab
David Starks-Browning wrote: > > This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the > archives. I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that > enabling ntsec solved the problem for me. But there are lots of > things to check, like the correctness of your /etc/passwd and >

Re: problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:44:50 -0500 Dave Bodenstab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Starks-Browning wrote: > > > > This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the > > archives. I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that > > enabling ntsec solved the problem for me.

Re: How to set system PATH for cygwin on nt?

2002-05-02 Thread Michael A Chase
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:26:43 -0500 Dave Bodenstab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My background is Unix and I'm *very* new with NT... so this has, > I'm sure, a very simple solution. > > Trying to get inetd to work, the doc's say to set the system PATH. > How? What file contains the settings? Som

rebase (a) solution (?)[was: Problems starting apache, DLL base address conflicts?]

2002-05-02 Thread S . L .
Stipe, [...] > > Any hope to shorten this last method ?! > > Yep, do we (package contributors) have to rebase packages before > tarballing them, or what's the standard way to do it? [...] No, I didn't mean that. What I was thinking, was if rebase couldn't actually be included in cygwin distro, a

Re: mv problem

2002-05-02 Thread Sylvain Petreolle
> Hm, I don't see that here: > > #mv abc Abc > mv: cannot move `abc' to a subdirectory of itself, > `Abc/abc' > > What version of Cygwin and mv are you using? What > does the directory > structure of "abc" look like? > > As you can see, you cannot rename file differing > only by case. This i

Re: New snapshot with significant new functionality

2002-05-02 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi Cool feature. 08:31am [507]> cat /proc/uptime 3728.83 08:31am [506]> cat < /proc/uptime Boom, cat stack dumbs. Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

RE: using Windows links

2002-05-02 Thread Mellman Thomas
>>-Original Message- >>From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:14 PM >>To: Mellman Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: using Windows links >> >> >>At 10:53 AM 5/2/2002, Mellman Thomas wrote: >>> >>> >>Just because it isn't recog