Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Sven Köhler
REGEDIT4 [...] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\CygwinHere\command] @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash -rcfile ~/.bashrc\"" can you think of any better way to start bash? the above creates two bash.exe in memory: one executing /etc/profile and the cd-command and

help on error when starting xWin

2002-10-20 Thread Pan
When I start xWindows in my laptop computer, this is the error message. c:\cygwin\usr\x11r6\bin\XWin.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x289) in child , cygheap, Win32 error 487 giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No s

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Andrew Ellerton
>> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash -rcfile >~/.bashrc\"" > >can you think of any better way to start bash? >the above creates two bash.exe in memory: >one executing /etc/profile and the cd-command >and one showing the prompt. The first shell executes a single li

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: expat-1.95.5-1

2002-10-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
expat-1.95.5-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags). CHANGES (since expat-1.95.4-1): - A

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Andrew Ellerton
Hi Gerrit Many thanks for your response. I didn't know about the CygwinPromptHere - I'd done a search before doing my quick-and-dirty solution but I didn't find anything. Thanks for letting me know about that. I had been concerned about the lack of configurability of the tool, but thought for

Problems with most recent snapshot

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I've noticed a strange hanging problem with the most recent 2002-10-19 and 2002-10-20 snapshots. Since I've been exhorting people to use snapshots, I thought I should let everyone know. I'll post another message when I've figured out what's going on. This is, of course, the standard hang where I

Re: vs and use of diff

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:39:23AM -0400, CBFalconer wrote: >Peter S Tillier wrote: >> [...] >> > BTW attacking this has shown up a couple of Cygwin glitches. >> > bash won't run a MSDOS .com file, even though it is in the path. >> >> You need to include the extensions for .com or .bat files to g

Problem with stat.st_blksize

2002-10-20 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
Hi, Some times ago, when I used the command 'du' to get the size of a directory, I got a value that was in accordance with the value given by Windows. However, it isn't the case anymore now; 'du' returns a size less than the files space usage. So I had a glance to the source code and I saw that t

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Andrew, Am Samstag, 19. Oktober 2002 um 12:50 schriebst du: > Hi All > I've noted on the lists in May this year discussion about > adding a Cygwin version of the "DosHere" power toy, and > there's also a "BashHere" version which is good. > I've done a simple version available in either a

Re: Fw: problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, mike parks wrote: > Igor, > > let me back up a little here. i am trying to setup my pc at home as a > work station. this is relatively new for me because in the past at > various jobs it was already done. > > so some of the things you ask about i am not certain, like the glob

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
Andrew, At 06:58 2002-10-20, Andrew Ellerton wrote: >> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash -rcfile ~/.bashrc\"" > >can you think of any better way to start bash? >the above creates two bash.exe in memory: >one executing /etc/profile and the cd-command >and one show

Re: cvs executes illegal instructions

2002-10-20 Thread Steve Kelem
CVSEDITOR is not set. EDITOR is set to "vi". which vi reports: /usr/bin/vi and invoking "vi" works. Steve Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Steve, When a 'cvs commit' is invoked without the -m option, an editor is started to create the message. Which editor is started is determined (in order of priori

Re: cvs executes illegal instructions

2002-10-20 Thread Steve Kelem
Getting rid of C:\PalmDev\pilrc-2.8\cygwin1.dll seems to have done the trick! Thanks for your help! Steve Michael A Chase wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:29:08 -0700 Steve Kelem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's the actual output: Thanks for any help you can give. Steve % which -a cvs -a:

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cvs-1.11.0-1 fails to build

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, I'm having a problem building cvs-1.11.0-1. GDBM_EXPORT is not picked up as a macro (which I assume it is, as it's used to declare functions), and this results in parse errors and gcc being generally unhappy. I'm attaching the exact error message. This is probably because I have gdbm-1.8.0-4

Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Jacob A
Hey there, I have a real weird problem with running the openssh client under X. When I connect to another machine via ssh, it prompts me for the password, and then the session is terminated just after I am logged in. unfortunately, I dont have root access on the machine I want to ssh to, so I can

Re: vs and use of diff

2002-10-20 Thread Peter S Tillier
- Original Message - From: "CBFalconer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:01 AM Subject: Re: vs and use of diff [...] > BTW attacking this has shown up a couple of Cygwin glitches. bash > won't run a MSDOS .com file, even though it is in the

bash -c

2002-10-20 Thread g frances
Hi, I'm new to cygwin and have a simple question. Tried to find the answer on the mailing list search archive, but no luck. I've just downloaded the lastest version of Cygwin on Windows 2000 Professional, SP2. When trying to invoke a command at the NT command prompt like the following: c:\cyg

Re: vs and use of diff

2002-10-20 Thread CBFalconer
Peter S Tillier wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "CBFalconer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 4:01 AM > Subject: Re: vs and use of diff > > [...] > > BTW attacking this has shown up a couple of Cygwin glitches. > > bash won't run

Failures in binutils 20021020 cvs trunk under cygwin

2002-10-20 Thread christian
tar 1.13.25-1 tcltk 20001125-1 termcap 20020930-1 terminfo5.2-3 texinfo 4.2-3 textutils 2.0.21-1 tiff3.5.7-1 t

Re: bash -c

2002-10-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
G, At 08:37 2002-10-20, g frances wrote: Hi, I'm new to cygwin and have a simple question. Tried to find the answer on the mailing list search archive, but no luck. I've just downloaded the lastest version of Cygwin on Windows 2000 Professional, SP2. When trying to invoke a command at the N

sshd: no remote connect possible

2002-10-20 Thread Christian R Molls
Hi everybody, I started using cygwin a couple of days ago, primarily to be able to access my windows system from work via ssh/sftp. I installed it to a FAT32 partiton, added openssh, configured the server as described in the howto at tech.erdelynet.com and everything worked out-of-the-box. I could

RE: Problems

2002-10-20 Thread Doug Whiting
Thanks. No offense taken, though I actually had searched through the gcc/chmod stuff fairly carefully, and nothing suggested there had worked. I finally just turned OFF the ntsec stuff (CYGWIN=nontsec), and that fixed the problem! It appears that there's a bug of some sort with either the new defa

Re: bash -c

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:55:53AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: >I'm not completely well-versed on this detail, but I'm under the impression >that the interpretation of "*" is different when a Cygwin command is >invoked directly from a Windows CMD.exe. (In a fully Cygwin context, the >shell it

Re: cvs-1.11.0-1 fails to build

2002-10-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm having a problem building cvs-1.11.0-1. GDBM_EXPORT is not >> picked up as a macro (which I assume it is, as it's used to declare >> functions), and this results in parse errors and gcc being generally >> unhappy. I'm attaching the exact error m

Re: cvs-1.11.0-1 fails to build

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm having a problem building cvs-1.11.0-1. GDBM_EXPORT is not > >> picked up as a macro (which I assume it is, as it's used to declare > >> functions), and this results in parse errors and gcc being gener

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:54:07PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > But I get to see two bash processes with different PID's in the > Taskmanager. However, 'ps -e' shows only one... See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-03/msg00791.html Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Randall, Am Sonntag, 20. Oktober 2002 um 17:13 schriebst du: > Andrew, > At 06:58 2002-10-20, Andrew Ellerton wrote: >> >> @="c:\\cygwin\\bin\\bash.exe --login -c \"cd '%1' ; exec /bin/bash >> -rcfile ~/.bashrc\"" >> > >> >can you think of any better way to start bash? >> >the above creat

Re: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Umm, how embarrassing... I got confused between OpenSSH and SSH Secure Shell. Apologies to all. Jay, ssh has a special mode where it forwards X requests over the ssh connection. It's called X forwarding, and is enabled by either the -X command line option or a special entry in ~/.ssh/config (I

Initializing and cygwin.bat

2002-10-20 Thread CBFalconer
As a new user I wanted to customize cygwin.bat to my system, which uses 4dos as the shell and only maintains command.com as an antique. W98 BTW. I found that various commands wouldn't work! The reason was that command.com was being called in the .pif file. I simply changed the .pif to specify "

aclocal wrapper fails because -x check fails (something to do with ntsec ?)

2002-10-20 Thread amores perros
Report of additional test: I logged in as Administrator, and still have the same problem aclocal: Can't open aclocal: No such file or directory $whoami Administrator $grep Administrator /etc/passwd Administrators:*:544:544:... Administrator:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:500:513:... $ls -l /usr/autotool

RE: Problems

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Doug Whiting wrote: > Thanks. No offense taken, though I actually had searched through the > gcc/chmod stuff fairly carefully, and nothing suggested there had worked. I > finally just turned OFF the ntsec stuff (CYGWIN=nontsec), and that fixed the > problem! It appears that t

Re: Cygwin Here power toy

2002-10-20 Thread Sven Köhler
But I get to see two bash processes with different PID's in the Taskmanager. However, 'ps -e' shows only one... perhaps it's some kind of "forked" but you should test this: open two win32-consoles my first console looks like this: C:\>mkdir t C:\>cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "cd /cygdrive/c/t; e

YA in the "try a snapshot" series (was Re: latest cvs fork problems)

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
I was able to duplicate Jason's mmap problem with his version of exim and, so, I think I was also able to fix it. The latest snapshot should solve this problem. The hanging problem that I mentioned previously seems to be gone, too... or, more likely, it will manifest itself 10 seconds after I se

Re: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Jacob A wrote: > Hey there, > > I have a real weird problem with running the openssh client under X. When > I connect to another machine via ssh, it prompts me for the password, and > then the session is terminated just after I am logged in. > > unfortunately, I dont have root

Re: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Jacob A
Thanx for the input! I believe "ssh -x" is the default behaviour, but even when I say -x I get the same symptoms. What really confuses me is that it all works like a charm if I run: $ ssh ...without starting X. (i.e click on the "cygwin icon" (C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat) -- and start an interactive

Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread amores perros
I made a list of some (trivial) fixes to the file http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html but I'm not sure to whom to send them (I tried following the up link to the top, but I'm not spotting a link for where to send corrections). If anyone would like them, I'd be happy to send them some

RE: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Gen Zhang
Try 'ssh -X'. With all capitalisations. Hope that helps. Genneth. -Original Message- From: Jacob A [mailto:jacob@;minpost.nu] Sent: 20 October 2002 21:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Openssh client under X Thanx for the input! I believe "ssh -x" is the default behaviour, but eve

RE: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Gareth Pearce
from the ssh manpage: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file. "Enables X11 forwarding". This is NOT what I want to do. I simply want to get a login session on the remote machine. This problem is really getting to me now.

RE: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Jay, I use ssh with X forwarding every day. I also use it without X forwarding when my DISPLAY is not set, and it works fine. Here's what you should try: >From a bash prompt in an xterm, $ unset DISPLAY $ ssh -v -x @ (notice the lowercase 'x'). If this doesn't work, please repo

Re: Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Perry, Run 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin login', type the password ("anoncvs"), then 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin checkout webpages'. This will give you the current set of cygwin webpages (including the one you want to fix). Make all the changes you want, then

Re: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Jacob A
ok. maybe my last post was somewhat unclear. What I want is to be able to run is: $ ssh user@host ...from an xterm window under cygwin/XFree86. Whenever I try that, it connects, and then disconnects right after I get connected. If I run ssh from cygwin without running X, it works like a charm.

Re: bash -c

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 03:10:45PM -0400, Scott Prive wrote: >> >Chris F.: Please do write that book! >>I'm negotiating as fast as I can. :-) > >Would it help if everyone politely asked the potential publisher "when" >they'll ever have a Cygwin book? :-) So far, I think everyone is convinced. I

RE: Openssh client under X

2002-10-20 Thread Jacob A
from the ssh manpage: -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file. "Enables X11 forwarding". This is NOT what I want to do. I simply want to get a login session on the remote machine. This problem is really getting to me now

Re: Fw: problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh

2002-10-20 Thread mike parks
Igor, > On the tcsh command line, type 'ls temp*' (no Enter), then press Ctrl-X > and then press '*'. This should expand to the three filenames below. If > it instead expands to 'temp\*', you probably have noglob set > Another way of checking whether noglob is set is 'set | grep noglob' at > th

Re: Problems with most recent snapshot

2002-10-20 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 11:01 AM 10/20/2002 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I've noticed a strange hanging problem with the most recent 2002-10-19 >and 2002-10-20 snapshots. Chris, On WinME I didn't noticed anything special yesterday (from cvs). Motivated by your e-mail I just updated cvs and rebuilt. Things seem

RE: bash -c

2002-10-20 Thread Scott Prive
> >Chris F.: Please do write that book! > > I'm negotiating as fast as I can. :-) > > cgf Would it help if everyone politely asked the potential publisher "when" they'll ever have a Cygwin book? ;-) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

[PATCH] Re: cvs-1.11.0-1 fails to build

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Max Bowsher wrote: > > > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I'm having a problem building cvs-1.11.0-1. GDBM_EXPORT is not > > >> picked up as a macro (which I assume it is, as it's used to declare > > >> functi

Re: drive letter translation under cygwin

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
Please check out the project web page for links to available information and ports: http://cygwin.com/ . If you don't see what you need there, then the cygwin mailing list is the best place to make observations or get questions answered. Information on the mailing list is available at the project

Re: Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:57:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Perry, > >Run 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin login', type the >password ("anoncvs"), then 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin >checkout webpages'. This will give you the current set of cygwin webpages >(

Re: Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:57:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Perry, > > > >Run 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin login', type the > >password ("anoncvs"), then 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin > >checkout webpages

Re: Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Well, it's after 11 p.m., but... *bows* Igor On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello from Gregg C Levine > Not quite, Igor take a bow. You win. I have been keeping count, and > Christopher you win second prize. > Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Oh my!" The Second Doctor's

Re: Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread Gregg C Levine
Hello from Gregg C Levine Not quite, Igor take a bow. You win. I have been keeping count, and Christopher you win second prize. Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh my!" The Second Doctor's nearly favorite phrase. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

Re: Where to send corrections for user's manual ?

2002-10-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:55:10PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 09:57:09PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >Perry, >> > >> >Run 'cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/cygwin login', type the >> >password ("anoncvs")

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