Re: Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-04 Thread Marcos Lorenzo de Santiago
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your description makes it sound very much as though one or both of the > following has occurred: > > 1. You put the file setup.exe and the directory release/ directly under d:/. > For reasons described at > http://cygwin.

RE: file permissions for /cygdrive/c

2002-10-04 Thread Vince Hoffman
the easiest way to fix your first problem is to change your primary group and thus the group that owns files you create. This is the 4th field in the /etc/passwd file. Note here. my primary group is 10512 (domain administrators) while the Administrator default group is 513 (none.) Vince.Hoffman:u

authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Christoffer Walther
Hello, I am used to a UNIX environment, I want to setup an ftp server on my windows 2000 ws. However, I get 'login incorrect' when I attempt to log in to the ftp server. There seems to be no encrypted passwords in /etc/passwd, exactly how do cygwin/ftpd do authentication? I added the test user in

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-04 Thread Uwe Mayer
Dear Sir, Due to the high frequency of spam e-mail received from *@*.ru this domain has been denied e-mail access to this account. Your message has been deleted from the server. Yours Uwe Mayer - This e-mail has been created automatically Date: Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 Time: 11:2

syslog

2002-10-04 Thread Christoffer Walther
Where is the syslog daemon? Christoffer. -- 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: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-04 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Due to the high frequency of spam e-mail > received from *@*.ru this domain > has been denied e-mail access to this > account. Your message has been deleted from > the server. woah - thats harsh... blocking an entire country. Gareth -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscrib

Re[2]: file permissions for /cygdrive/c

2002-10-04 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hallo Vince, Friday, October 4, 2002, 10:47:30 AM, you wrote: VH> the easiest way to fix your first problem is to change your primary group VH> and thus the group that owns files you create. VH> This is the 4th field in the /etc/passwd file. VH> Note here. my primary group is 10512 (domain admin

Re: authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote: > Hello, I am used to a UNIX environment, I want to setup an ftp server on > my windows 2000 ws. However, I get 'login incorrect' when I attempt to > log in to the ftp server. There seems to be no encrypted passwords in /etc/passwd, > exactly how do

Re: syslog

2002-10-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer Walther wrote: > Where is the syslog daemon? > There is no syslog daemon in Cygwin. The Cygwin POSIX emulation layer takes care about syslog requests. On NT like systems it logs to the event manager, on Win9x and ME a file is created in the root of drive C:.

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-04 Thread Gareth Pearce
> Due to the high frequency of spam e-mail > received from *@hotmail.com this domain > has been denied e-mail access to this > account. Your message has been deleted from > the server. umm ... why should posters have to put up with peoples auto kill messages - its a mailing list :P Ofcourse - i

Problems building cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Stephen Reindl
Hi, I detected a problem compiling cygwin with gcc 3.2. gcc 3.2 always tries to put /usr/include/w32api/ to the system search path. Fix: Provide -mno-win32 to the make command line. I want to know if this is a new 'feature' of 3.2? In this cas I will provide a patch for buiding cygwin. Regards

Re: Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine I did read the entire message. Twice. So? What are you confused about? Your problem makes sense. I did the same thing here. And then found myself updating the current installation, many different times. I expect I'll keep updating it, during the entire time it is installe

Programming / Software Development

2002-10-04 Thread Annet Communications
Our company is interested in establishing an alliance with individuals, software development houses, systems integrators, internet companies and other service providers for whom we can become quality reliable expert and cost-effective "development resource". From business analysis and consu

Re: authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Christoffer Walther wrote: > Hello, I am used to a UNIX environment, I want to setup an ftp server > on my windows 2000 ws. However, I get 'login incorrect' when I > attempt to log in to the ftp server. There seems to be no encrypted > passwords in /etc/passwd, exactly how do cygwin/ftpd do > auth

Re: authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Christoffer Walther
Hi and thanks for the reply. I have the same problem with sshd, 'permission denied', it would be great if I could just edit the /etc/passwd file manually and the sshd would look up the password there, can it be done this way? Christoffer Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Christoffer

Re: authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Max Bowsher
Christoffer Walther wrote: > Hi and thanks for the reply. I have the same problem with > sshd, 'permission denied', it would be great if I could just > edit the /etc/passwd file manually and the sshd would > look up the password there, can it be done this way? No. You do need to set CYGWIN=ntsec

Re: authentication in cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Christoffer Walther
Hi Max, I installed it via the 'ssh-host-config' script. In the w2000 'event log' I get 'wrong password' message from sshd, however I added the user in the user-manager with the corresponding password. I dont know what password scheme w2000 uses, I can just add users. Christoffer Max Bowsher w

cygwin service

2002-10-04 Thread Christoffer Walther
I can see the sshd runs as 'service' even when I close the shell window, thats nice. I wanted to do the same with apache, I did: '/sbin/cygrunsrv -I apache -p /usr/sbin/apachectl -a start' However, when I do: '/bin/cygrunsrv -S apache', I get : ".. error startign service, QueryServiceStatus: wi

Re: Setup can't install from local drive?

2002-10-04 Thread Iain McCracken
Thank you. This sounds as if it is exactly what is wrong. It is W98/SE that goes barf on me; W2k on another machine takes the CD install without a peep. W98/SE also pukes all over quite a few products that run just fine for W95 and W2k... Go figure. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROT

Localize Problem

2002-10-04 Thread Max Yang
/* Eggdrop 1.6.12 Cygwin 1.3.12 Win2000 pro Chinese(Complex) Version */ My bot has problem in showing Chinese(complex) How do i slove it? Maybe I need some "Localize Guide" Any informations are

Re: cygwin service

2002-10-04 Thread vince
try 'cygrunsrv -I apache -p /usr/sbin/apachectl start -k' as thats what works for me. - Original Message - From: "Christoffer Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:58 PM Subject: cygwin service > > I c

RE: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com

2002-10-04 Thread Barry Buchbinder
I get the same problems under under win95cmd.exe. It fails with redirection but not reading input from a file: C:\> c:\cygwin\bin\gawk -f t < autoexec.bat gawk: t:3: fatal: file `-' is a directory Running under strace and back under command.com I get the following: C:\> type t | c:\cygwi

Re: cygwin service

2002-10-04 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hallo Christoffer, Friday, October 4, 2002, 1:58:28 PM, you wrote: CW> I can see the sshd runs as 'service' even when I close the CW> shell window, thats nice. I wanted to do the same with apache, CW> I did: '/sbin/cygrunsrv -I apache -p /usr/sbin/apachectl -a start' CW> However, when I do: '/

Re[4]: file permissions for /cygdrive/c

2002-10-04 Thread Uwe Mayer
Hallo Vince, Friday, October 4, 2002, 12:48:58 PM, you wrote: VH> ahh i missread, sorry i shouldnt try and answer questions before my 3rd VH> coffee. VH> changing ownership to another administrator shouldnt make any difference, VH> but i would have though not giving everyone at least read access

sound driver emulation on cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread edward
Folks, Our system initially runs on Linux with OSS sound driver supported, we get it compiled on cygwin, now OSS driver is useless since we are sitting on Windows with cygwin layer, so we think about we can use Windows sound driver (our sound card is AC'97). Now my question is how to make cygwin

Re: Bypassing cygwin's signal handling

2002-10-04 Thread Allen Leung
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:27:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Allen, > > Actually, the first thing to try should probably be > > #include > #include > > ... > exception_list el; > cygwin_internal(CW_INIT_EXCEPTIONS, &el); >

Tk?

2002-10-04 Thread Steve Landry
I searched the internet and your mailing list archives before I decided to bother any of you with this. If I want to run or write Perl/Tk apps that run as Windows apps (not in the X environment), can I do that w/Cygwin Perl or do I need to run ActiveState as well? I use cygwin mostly to emulat

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cygwin crontab

2002-10-04 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Hi Corinna, I'm having trouble with cygwin crontab. Basically, I'm trying to run a cygwin perl script that does some scp from windows using windows putty-scp to linux and solaris boxes. I've tested the cygwin perl script with putty-scp and it works well, but not with cron. I'm not sure if the fol

Re: sound driver emulation on cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Norman Vine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Our system initially runs on Linux with OSS sound driver > supported, we get it compiled on cygwin, now OSS driver > is useless since we are sitting on Windows with cygwin > layer, so we think about we can use Windows sound driver > (our sound card is AC'97). Now my

Problems with find -exec somecommand | tosomeother command

2002-10-04 Thread Sheryl McKeown
Hello, I'm attempting to find the number of lines in each file of a source directory. Using bash, I'm using the following command: find . -name "*.frm" -exec cat -n {} | tail -n1 \; but it returns the error cfind: missing argument to `-exec' tail: ;: No such file or directory I've tried vari

undefined reference to `__getreent'

2002-10-04 Thread Saturn Wagon
I am compiling a program using CYGWIN tools and am getting an undefined reference that I do not know how to resolve. Here is an example of the error: parse_l.o(.text+0xc8d):parse_l.c: undefined reference to `__getreent' Here is the link command that fails: /usr/bin/gcc -o pcb.exe -O2 -fno-streng

RE: Tk?

2002-10-04 Thread Tiller, Jason
Hi, Steve, :) Wow, I get to post to the Cygwin list! Rare! :) > From: Steve Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > If I want to run or write Perl/Tk apps that run as Windows > apps (not in > the X environment), can I do that w/Cygwin Perl or do I need to run > ActiveState as well? Gerrit P. H

Re: Problems with find -exec somecommand | tosomeother command

2002-10-04 Thread Randall R Schulz
Sheryl, [ Non-Cygwin-specific ] Here's how I'd do this: find . -name "*.frm" -exec wc -l {} \; The result looks something like this (I changed the ".frm" suffix to ".java" for the purpose of finding some files on my system): 1114 ./DeferredUpdateKB.java 295 ./Definitor.ja

Re: Problems with find -exec somecommand | tosomeother command

2002-10-04 Thread Sheryl McKeown
Hi Randall, Thanks for the explanation and the working version. Best, Sheryl --- Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sheryl, > > [ Non-Cygwin-specific ] > > > Here's how I'd do this: > > find . -name "*.frm" -exec wc -l {} ; > > > The result looks something like this

RE: cygwin crontab

2002-10-04 Thread Harig, Mark A.
After installing the service (using the '-I' option), you need to start the service using the '-S' option. Debug one problem at a time. Instead of trying to get your perl script to work via 'cron', try to get the 'date' command to work, for example: * * * * * /usr/bin/date >> /tmp/date.txt

RE: I have no name

2002-10-04 Thread Harig, Mark A.
Try installing the 'base-files' and 'base-passwd' packages using setup.exe. Among other things, these will set up your password/group entries and create a /etc/profile that defines some environment variables for you. These two packages are listed in the 'Base' category. > -Original Message-

RE: Problems with find -exec somecommand | tosomeother command

2002-10-04 Thread Barry Buchbinder
Assuming none of the files have any spaces in their names, the following would be faster (and works). wc -l `find . -name \*.frm -print` - Barry -Original Message- From: Sheryl McKeown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:39 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Prob

Executing Perl from the Cygwin command line

2002-10-04 Thread Peter Desjardins
Does anyone know how to configure Cygwin to execute Perl code from the command line? I installed Cygwin on Windows 2000. It works very well. I also have ActivePerl installed. It works well too. If I type perl -e 'print "Hello World";' on the Cygwin command line, the response is "bash: perl:

RE: cygwin crontab

2002-10-04 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Hi, I did the following to start the server. cygrunsrv -S cron And I see it running: admin@TMLA-SRAMACHAND /tmp $ ps -ef|grep cron SYSTEM20842068 ? 13:49:45 /usr/sbin/cron Also tried checking the below date example in crontab. Still not running. Stopped and started again, but still

rxvt hangs when using ftp

2002-10-04 Thread Michael Scott
Hello, I downloaded the lastest complete install today. When I use ftp within an rxvt window, it prompts for the username, then hangs before asking for the password. Everything works OK when not used within the rxvt window (i.e the DOS-prompt lookalike). My guess is that some weird control char

RE: cygwin crontab

2002-10-04 Thread Harig, Mark A.
It's also important to get the permissions of the /var/cron/ and /var/cron/tabs/ directories set correctly. As the file /usr/doc/Cygwin/cron.README says, there is a 'postinstall' script that should have set these for you, but they may have been changed to incorrect settings: $ chmod 1777 /var

RE: cygwin crontab

2002-10-04 Thread Harig, Mark A.
One other thing might also be necessary... After you have set the directories' permissions, shut down the cron service and restart it. $ cygrunsrv -E cron $ cygrunsrv -S cron If you want to be really sure, then shut down the service, uninstall it, reinstall it, and restart it. > -Origi

RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS ....

2002-10-04 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Hi Mark, I rebooted my machine and now cron is working. Thanks, Smithesh. -Original Message- From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:42 PM To: Smithesh Ramachandran; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin crontab After installing the service (us

RE: cygwin crontab

2002-10-04 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Thanks Much. The date stuff did work. Now need to work with the scp stuff. Thanks again, Smithesh. -Original Message- From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:37 PM To: Smithesh Ramachandran; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin crontab One other

RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS ....

2002-10-04 Thread Harig, Mark A.
You'll likely also want to install the Cygwin ssmtp package so that cron can send you email when it has problems or other information to report. > -Original Message- > From: Smithesh Ramachandran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 5:38 PM > To: Harig, Mark A.; [E

RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS ....

2002-10-04 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Cool. Will get ssmtp also. Thanks. Smithesh. -Original Message- From: Harig, Mark A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 2:41 PM To: Smithesh Ramachandran; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: cygwin crontab -- IT WORKS You'll likely also want to install the Cygwi

Re: rxvt hangs when using ftp

2002-10-04 Thread Steve O
> When I use ftp within an rxvt window, it prompts for the > username, then hangs before asking for the password. Please use /usr/bin/ftp instead of the Windows version. Thanks, -steve -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/

RE: Executing Perl from the Cygwin command line

2002-10-04 Thread Harig, Mark A.
What is the setting of your PATH environment variable? $ echo $PATH Does it include the directory that contains your perl binaries? You can set your PATH (and other bash shell environment variables) in your .profile (aka, ~/.profile) so that it will be set each time you start a bash shell.

General Question - support for Windows DDKs, specifically SPTI

2002-10-04 Thread Jack Woychowski
Hi folks - hope I'm not wasting anybody's bandwith here, but I've spent quite some time trapsing through docs and archives and source code and haven't come up with a lot of answers and just a little insight. (If yer busy, you may want to skip to the end - between here and there simply lies a verbo

RE: rxvt hangs when using ftp

2002-10-04 Thread Jelks Cabaniss
Steve O wrote: > > When I use ftp within an rxvt window, it prompts for the > > username, then hangs before asking for the password. > > Please use /usr/bin/ftp instead of the Windows version. I was just going to say ... ftp works fine with rxvt here. Didn't realize some people would be usin

executing perl from command line (cygwin)

2002-10-04 Thread Smithesh Ramachandran
Hi Peter, Like Mark said cygwin perl is a much better option. I use it quite often. I think you still can execute active perl or any windows executable on Cygwin. Make sure you are escaping '\' by '/' on the directory paths. For e.g., if you are trying to execute something on your windows at

Porting software from Red Hat Linux to Cygwin

2002-10-04 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Obviously people are actively porting software from the library of software, that was written for Linux, to Cygwin. On this list, several people have mention the rpm program. Was it a successful build? And does it work? And where can I obtain a copy? Also, what about the