RE: Open bash at the current explorer directory?

2002-09-25 Thread Gunnar Boström
This works fine except that I get the windows short form of the directories in the CFH variable. I've tried filtering through cygpath but no luck. Any suggestion? :-? > -Original Message- > From: Frantisek Dufka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: den 18 september 2002 10:56 > To: [EMAI

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, I realized it's a symbolic link shortly after I sent the message. Ok. > However, something did go wrong with the installation. I ended up with > invalid symbolic links in /bin (e.g., /usr/bin/initex was a symbolic link > to "bin/tex.exe")

RE: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

2002-09-25 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Try this: ln -s /bin/bash.exe --target-directory=`cygpath -D` bash > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop? > >

Re: ada binary for cygwin

2002-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jason schrieb: > Hello, > With your permission, I can post the binaries to a not-so limited location, say... > http://web.mit.edu/~jalonso/gnat.html > Shall I do this? Yes, please. > Does anyone have a better idea? Announce it at cygwin.com then. I can also put it up at my server if you wa

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tetex suite 20020911-1

2002-09-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
The teTeX suite, a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible systems, has been updated to version 20020911-1. This is a bugfix release. Omega has been omitted from this release (as per upstream development, it will be back, next time). TeTex is split up and packaged in seven parts. Three packages

Cscript.exe no longer executable

2002-09-25 Thread jim . a . davidson
Sirs, I recently installed the latest version of OpenSSH on our W2K test system which ships with Cygwin1.dll V 1.3.12. I now find that we can no longer execute any VBS scripts from an SSH session as the cscript.exe gives an error: "The application could not be initialized correctly (0xc005) C

RE: Request:

2002-09-25 Thread Nenad Antic (EAB)
Hi, One solution could be to use the steps in this article: http://www.olemiss.edu/helpdesk/itnews/200111/win2000.html Regards, /Nenad > -Original Message- > From: venkatramana reddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subjec

(OT) RE: Request:

2002-09-25 Thread Vince Hoffman
I know this is off topic now but... Ive used the disk from http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ a few times on NT and 2K, not certain on XP although its meant to be the same as 2K. If you have idiots with local admin access its damm handy. -Original Message- From: Nenad Antic (EAB)

sevg using perl 5.8.0

2002-09-25 Thread Francis Upton
I had this same problem on 5.6.1 as well, and installed 5.8.0 hoping it would go away. I run a script that opens mysql and it gets a seg fault. Here is the script: #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use Getopt::Std; use DBI qw( :utils :sql_types ); my $dbh = DBI->connect( "dbi:mysql:logd

Re: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi Robert, > Right, well I'll happily run generate checksums of what I download, and > if the poster to here posts the expected checksums, in a gpg signed > message, then we can be fairly sure that whomever sent the email, > created the package files. > > Generating trust in a specific GPG signat

Re: sevg using perl 5.8.0

2002-09-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Francis schrieb: > I had this same problem on 5.6.1 as well, and installed 5.8.0 > hoping it would go away. > I run a script that opens mysql and it gets a seg fault. > Here is the script: What does 'cygcheck -svr' shows? I.e. make sure that there is only one cygwin1.dll in your system and wha

Re: sevg using perl 5.8.0

2002-09-25 Thread Francis Upton
Sorry to trouble you, false alarm, I found the problem. I had another version of Perl in my path. Francis At 04:31 09/25/02, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >Francis schrieb: > > > I had this same problem on 5.6.1 as well, and installed 5.8.0 > > hoping it would go away. > > > I run a script that opens

Re: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 21:27, Volker Quetschke wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Right, well I'll happily run generate checksums of what I download, and > > if the poster to here posts the expected checksums, in a gpg signed > > message, then we can be fairly sure that whomever sent the email, > > created t

Re: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! Sorry, replied to the wrong mailing list in the first place. > Hi Robert, > >> Right, well I'll happily run generate checksums of what I download, and >> if the poster to here posts the expected checksums, in a gpg signed >> message, then we can be fairly sure that whomever sent the email, >

Re: newer bintuils

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Hourihane
"Alan Hourihane" wrote in message amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Anyone know when the new binutils will be out with Egor's > fixes for auto-import of arrays ? Anyone know the expected ETA for this ? I think we need a new cygwin dll for this too first though

Re: newer bintuils

2002-09-25 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Alan Hourihane" wrote in message > amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Anyone know when the new binutils will be out with Egor's > > fixes for auto-import of arrays ? > > Anyone know the expected ETA for this ?

Tired with the Windows XP search Facility, Check this out

2002-09-25 Thread DoNotReply
http://www.findfilesxp.com This program is up to 100 times faster than the XP search, with much more functionality. It has many more features like multiple string searches (With replace options), and can prieview Movies, Pictures and ascii (Text) files, Can search selected drives and folders

Re: newer bintuils

2002-09-25 Thread John Morrison
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > --- Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Alan Hourihane" wrote in message > > amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Anyone know when the new binutils will be out with Egor's > > > fixes for auto-import

cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Ralf Hauser
Hi, The following problem occurred to me: 1) In my win2k, I set (a long) Java CLASSPATH 2) under cygwin I want to convert it (in my .tcshrc) an it fails. If I do it on the command line, it looks like the following: rhauser@PCGF590K:~> cygpath --unix "$CLASSPATH" ô??a? Admitted, the path is long:

cscript errors out from daemon

2002-09-25 Thread Brandon . Saxe
win2k cygwin 1.3.12-2 (See attached file: cygcheck.out) I am trying to run a bash script than in turn calls a vbscript from cron using cscript.exe. I get a dialog box displaying an error about cscript not being able to initialize. Application popup: cscript.exe - Application Error :

Re: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:49:16PM +0200, Ralf Hauser wrote: >Hi, > >The following problem occurred to me: > >1) In my win2k, I set (a long) Java CLASSPATH >2) under cygwin I want to convert it (in my .tcshrc) an it fails. If I do it >on the command line, it looks like the following: >rhauser@PCGF

Re: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ralf, You're trying to convert a PATH (or PATH-like) variable, not a single file or directory name. Include the "-p" option. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 08:49 2002-09-25, Ralf Hauser wrote: >Hi, > >The following problem occurred to me: > >1) In my win2k, I set (a long) Java CLASSP

RE: cscript errors out from daemon

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Vasaru
Brandon, I don't see the problem on my w2k system : ~$ssh dan@localhost . Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! ~$cscript.exe Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved. Usage: CScript scriptname.ext

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > However, something did go wrong with the installation. I ended up with > > invalid symbolic links in /bin (e.g., /usr/bin/initex was a symbolic link > > to "bin/tex.exe"). > > Yes, that is correct

Re: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
--- Ralf Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) is there a way to see an error-message from cygpath (a log file or some > way to see stderr if there is any of that)? > 2) I did a work-around with assembling the path again in my .tcshrc. This is > not convenient. Any better ideas...? My only thoug

RE: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Ralf Hauser
Thx! Unfortunately still only the same garbage in the mylog file. Apparently, no warning goes to stderr? > -Original Message- > From: Joshua Daniel Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mittwoch, 25. September 2002 18:44 > --- Ralf Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

RE: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ralf, In addition to the need to use "-p" in this case (which I mentioned earlier--you did see that message, didn't you?), you should quote your $CLASSPATH variable reference. You might want to scrutinize you scripts to make sure they're "space-tolerant." Many Unix-land scripts are written un

Re: bash window title - can I add hostname to it?

2002-09-25 Thread Francois de Campagnolle
- Original Message - From: "Zieg, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gord Wait'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:27 PM Subject: RE: bash window title - can I add hostname to it? > This does that for me: > > export PS1="\[\e]2;\h:\w\007\e[1;36m\]

Re: How to get GnuPG and EGD to work together under Cygwin?

2002-09-25 Thread Francis Litterio
Volker Quetschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Has anyone managed to get GnuPG and EGD (the Entropy Gathering Daemon -- > > http://egd.sourceforge.net/) to work together under Cygwin? > never tried ;-) but it should be possible. Did you read the annoncement > concerning gnupg 1.0.7-3? > > http

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > > That bug has just been fixed by the new release (20020911-1), that was > > uploaded yesterday just after you posted your message, so I assumed > > you already got the new release. Could you try up

RE: bash window title - can I add hostname to it?

2002-09-25 Thread Zieg, Mark
> > > to include hostname as well as the current directory it displays now. > > > > export PS1="\[\e]2;\h:\w\007\e[1;36m\]\h [\[\e[1;35m\]\w\[\e[1;36m\]] \u $ > > \[\e[1;33m\]" > > > > (Note that you need to have such a prompt on every computer you telnet to, > > as well -- they're the ones that s

How is Cygwin's version stamp (currently 1.3.12-2) determined?

2002-09-25 Thread Francis Litterio
About three or four weeks ago, I downloaded and installed Cygwin 1.3.12-2. Today, I re-ran setup.exe, and it downloaded several newer packages, yet the Web site still claims that this is Cygwin 1.3.12-2. What are the criteria for changing the Cygwin revision stamp? -- Francis Litterio [EMAIL PRO

RE: How is Cygwin's version stamp (currently 1.3.12-2) determined?

2002-09-25 Thread John Morrison
A change in the cygwin dll. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > > About three or four weeks ago, I downloaded and installed Cygwin > 1.3.12-2. Today, I re-ran setup.exe, and it downloaded several newer > packages, yet the Web site still claims that this is Cygwin 1.3

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated rxvt-2.7.2-14

2002-09-25 Thread Steve O
Hi, rxvt is a replacement for the Windows command window. This version fixes: - memory leak in -13 version that could cause Windows to run out of resources. Please update if you have version 2.7.2-13. Thanks for your patience. -steve --Install instructions-- To update your installation,

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, just upgraded to 20020911-1, and everything seems to work. > Thanks for all the help. Good to hear that. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lil

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok, just upgraded to 20020911-1, and everything seems to work. > > Thanks for all the help. > > Good to hear that. > Jan. Jan, There was a suspicious message printed while running the postinstall

Re: How is cygwin's version stamp (currently 1.3.12-2) determined?

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Francis Litterio wrote: >About three or four weeks ago, I downloaded and installed Cygwin >1.3.12-2. Today, I re-ran setup.exe, and it downloaded several newer >packages, yet the Web site still claims that this is Cygwin 1.3.12-2. > >What are the criteria

Cygwin and short windows filenames (Was RE: Open bash at the currentexplorer directory?)

2002-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Gunnar, You're right, this is a problem. Cygwin should be able to handle windows short form of directory names just as well as the long ones... For some reason it doesn't ('cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' results in "cd: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1: No such file or directory"). This is happening in most she

Re: How is Cygwin's version stamp (currently 1.3.12-2) determined?

2002-09-25 Thread Warren Young
Francis Litterio wrote: > > What are the criteria for changing the Cygwin revision stamp? The Cygwin DLL is analogous to the Linux kernel: its version number scheme is independent of the version number of the packages that run under it. You can upgrade packages independently of the Cygwin DLL

Re: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

2002-09-25 Thread Michael A Chase
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:41:14 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been doing things like creating template files, finding where > Cygwin is installed via Cygpath, and modifying the template with sed > and copying it to the appropriate user desktop directory. > > I don't suppose there's an

Re: cygwin and short windows filenames (Was RE: Open bash at the current explorer directory?)

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:33:01PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >You're right, this is a problem. Cygwin should be able to handle >windows short form of directory names just as well as the long ones... >For some reason it doesn't ('cd /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1' results in "cd: >/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1

RE: Open bash at the current explorer directory?

2002-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Gunnar, I assume your $CYGWIN contains "check_case:strict", since that is the setting in which the short paths won't work. They will work if $CYGWIN contains "check_case:adjust". So, you can use the following sequence in your .bashrc to get the correct form of the windows path: if [ -n "$CFH" ]

can't chmod files that I own

2002-09-25 Thread Jeff Perry
I have read the documentation on 'ntsec', but I still don't understand why I can't chmod files that I own. I noticed this when using cvs. For example: $cvs update cvs server: Updating . U blah.cpp cvs update: cannot change mode of ./blah.cpp: Invalid argument $ ls -l total 54 drwxrwxrwx2 Ad

Re: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

2002-09-25 Thread luke . kendall
On 25 Sep, Michael A Chase wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:41:14 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've been doing things like creating template files, finding where > > Cygwin is installed via Cygpath, and modifying the template with sed > > and copying it to the appropriate user desk

Re: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! >>So your ID from the keyservers is: FBD3EB8E, but your mail is signed from >>KeyID C2C97282. (I don't find this ID on the keyserver) >> >>So, who wrote this mail for you? ;-) > Me... I don't doubt that, but I get: $ gpg --search-keys [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: searching for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" f

Re: newer bintuils

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Hourihane
"Nicholas Wourms" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > --- Alan Hourihane wrote: > > "Alan Hourihane" wrote in message > > amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Anyone know when the new binutils will be out with Egor's > > > fixes fo

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, I upgraded my tetex just now (20020911) and the diagnostic that caught my attention was that the "readlink" command could not be found. If the post-install command output is logged, I cannot find it. Is it kept somewhere? The only lines in the files "setup.log" and "setup.log.full" in "/v

Re: Package review status

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:02:41AM +0200, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Hi! >>>So your ID from the keyservers is: FBD3EB8E, but your mail is signed from >>>KeyID C2C97282. (I don't find this ID on the keyserver) >>> >>>So, who wrote this mail for you? ;-) >>Me... >I don't doubt that, but I get: > >$ gp

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
This is probably due to the fact that usr/bin/readlink.exe and usr/man/man1/readlink.1 were included (erroneously, I guess) in the tetex-bin-20020530-3 distribution, instead of listing a dependency on cygutils. The new distrib corrects that problem, but uninstalling the old one resulted in losing

RE: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Joshua Daniel Franklin
Looks like you'll have to take Chris' advice and at least look at the cygpath source. Does it work with a shorter CLASSPATH? Oh, and follow Randy's advice about the --path option, too. --- Ralf Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thx! Unfortunately still only the same garbage in the mylog file.

Re: Lost /bin/latex?

2002-09-25 Thread Randall R Schulz
Igor, At 17:07 2002-09-25, you wrote: >This is probably due to the fact that usr/bin/readlink.exe and >usr/man/man1/readlink.1 were included (erroneously, I guess) in the >tetex-bin-20020530-3 distribution, instead of listing a dependency on >cygutils. The new distrib corrects that problem, but

Test 59 - please ignore

2002-09-25 Thread Michael B. Parker
Test - please ignore. --- I WILL FIRMLY 2ND Jonas Jensen's good suggestion (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-07/msg00206.html) for THE NEED TO MOVE DISCUSSIONS TO USENET, instead of, else in addition to, the present Mailing lists (www.cygwin.com/lists.html). --- -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Moving cygwin discussions to Usenet? (e.g., alt.os.cygwin)

2002-09-25 Thread Michael B. Parker
Regarding the thread "Moving to Usenet?" (www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-07/msg00275.html) (which I found by via www.google.com/search?q=site:cygwin.com+usenet to see who else also wanted discussions on Usenet): I WILL FIRMLY 2ND Jonas Jensen's good suggestion (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000

ftp and ncftp hangs: any ideas?

2002-09-25 Thread Rob Anderson
Newest version installed off the web today, previous version 6 mos ago did not have the problem. Symptom: ftp hangs after ls, or get, or put. It hangs AFTER completing the operation. (overrun?) Systems: Win 98 (cygwin) talking to Linux. Other: I thought it might be related to rxvt, so I

Re: cscript errors out from daemon

2002-09-25 Thread Brandon Saxe
Thanks for the help. I upgraded cygwin, but that didn't work. I then went to the windows update website and updated IE and Windows Script Host version went to 5.6 from 5.1. Now it works fine. Thanks again. Brandon - Original Message - From: "Dan Vasaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brandon S

newbie question

2002-09-25 Thread Ony S Darmawan
how to activate cron in cygwin? begin:vcard n:Darmawan;Ony Sixta tel;fax:+62 21 39836545 tel;work:+62 21 39836556 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.dagang2000.com org:PT. Indosatcom Adimarga;Development version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note:-\|/- adr;quoted-printable:;;Menara Kebo

Re: cvs cygwin1.dll

2002-09-25 Thread Guy Harrison
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 12:40:54 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:26:42AM +, Guy Harrison wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:35:53 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>Shame us non-developers can't get it "readonly". >>http

Help me : "ssh localhost" fail

2002-09-25 Thread lxl ch
hi, I followed every step in http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html to install cygwin. My OS is Win2K. See the operation below.(my words is insede []) [finnally.] >ssh localhost ssh:connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 22: connection refused [Then, I tried to remove sshd and add again. ] >cygru

Re: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread Ralf Hauser
Randall, Thanks, the "-p" option solved the problem. Rgds r. "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Ralf, > > You're trying to convert a PATH (or PATH-like) variable, not a single file > or directory name. Include the "-p" option.

RE: Open bash at the current explorer directory?

2002-09-25 Thread Gunnar Boström
I only have ntsec in $CYGWIN. I tried your advise below but "cygpath -w -l" returns garbage! The very first problem is that env CFH="%1" in the register inserts the short windows form. Is it possible to force windows to insert the long form? :-) > -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtch

RE: cygpath returns garbage if DOS/win2k input environment variable is too long?

2002-09-25 Thread "Schaible, Jörg"
Hi Ralf, > 1) In my win2k, I set (a long) Java CLASSPATH > 2) under cygwin I want to convert it (in my .tcshrc) an it > fails. If I do it > on the command line, it looks like the following: > rhauser@PCGF590K:~> cygpath --unix "$CLASSPATH" > ô??a? [...] > > My questions: > 1) is there a way to

Re: tail -f will not work with IIS generated log files

2002-09-25 Thread Michael B. Parker
Re: "Re: tail -f will not work with IIS generated log files" (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg01480.html) Well, the subject says it all. And the reason Robert C. gives (IIS pre-allocates a lot of buffer-space at the end of it's logs) would also explain why I get these odd errors: ta

Re: tail -f will not work with IIS generated log files

2002-09-25 Thread Matthew Smith
> Bit of bummer because getting "tail" to monitor IIS was the VERY reason I > downloaded and installed www.CyGWin.com . I'm wondering: > > 1) When might someone fix this? It will get fixed as soon as you submit a patch for it! Seriously. All of the cygwin people work on a volunteer basis. W