Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

> I would tend to agree except this config worked with Apache for Windows. which does not mean that Apache for Cygwin acts the same way as the native Win32 counterpart. I'm not sure if you can use network resource location that way as you can in Apache for Windows. I would guess not. Stipe [EMA

Re: *** unable to allocate heap, heap_chunk_size 0, Win32 error 0

First of all, sorry, but I didn't know how to post a reply, since I'm registered on the mailinglist in digestmode. As I've told before we're collecting information on a dominoserver every 10 minutes by running a bash script (cygwin) scheduled by Windows Scheduler (Splinterware). We noticed that

FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

All, Relates to http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01821.html These are the cygcheck files gziped and non-full setup files gziped _ Alan Miles ICQ#: 171006836 More ways to contact me: http://wwp.icq.com/171006836 _

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: docbook-xsl-1.62.3-1

I've updated the docbook-xsl package to version 1.62.3-1. docbook-xsl package contains XSL stylesheets for the DocBook XML DTD created by Norman Walsh and others. Note: This package is independent on the cygwin kernel, so it should work with both 1.3.x and 1.5.x cygwin kernel series. To update

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Files in /etc missing after new install

Hi all, I just installed cygwin (Setup.exe v2.415). The installation went fine, no errors, but all the files that should have been created during the postinstall step are missing. There is no /etc/profile, no /etc/passwd, no /etc/group and so on. Can anybody help me to fix this? I already reinstal

Re: Convert Cygwin shortcuts to Unix symlinks ?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 03:09:06PM -0300, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Anybody know how (better if recursively) ? I extracted a > tarball under Cygwin and later copied it to a Linux partition. > Obviously all Cygwin shortcuts created at extract time are > copied, breaking it. tar it up on one m

Re: Hello and cygwin quesiton

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Yap on ExactGeom wrote: > Dear Igor, > > How are you? I noticed that you are an active developer of cygwin. > I really liked this platform and our Core Library is developed > on this mainly. I have a question: > > In my recent (June) installation of cygwin, there was an ann

Re: munmap bug test program

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:11AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: > This test program highlights the recent munmap problem addressed by Corinna. > It works with the updated mmap, and with linux, fails on cygwin with the prior mmap. What "updated" mmap are you talking about, your's or the one in CVS?

g++-2 causes a segmentation fault

Hi, I have an application that segfaults when I run it, if its compiled with gcc2 (2.95.3-10), but will run fine it its compiled with gcc (3.3.1-2). If I uninstall gcc 3.3.1-2, and install gcc 2.95.3-5 (from my archive of old set-ups) then the application will run fine, regardless of whether i

Re: Files in /etc missing after new install

>From a bash prompt /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done extension then postinstall wasn't called. If they don't exist then you didn't install the base-files package. J. On Tue, 30 Sep 20

Re: Files in /etc missing after new install

Also /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh.done which comes from the "base-passwd" package. Igor On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, John Morrison wrote: > From a bash prompt > /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done > /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done > > should create them, if the files don't ex

RE: Files in /etc missing after new install

If I run /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done from bash promt I get the following error messages: /bin/uname: not found /bin/cygpath: not found Unknown system type ; exiting PATH is set to /bin:/usr/bin and "ls /bin" shows that uname.exe and cygpath.exe exist there. All files in /etc/postins

RE: Files in /etc missing after new install

Reiner, Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at , especially the bit about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr". Igor On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, BUEHL,REINER (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote: > If I run /etc/po

Re: Files in /etc missing after new install

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:09:06AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at >, especially the bit about attaching (as >an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr". This is good advice but isn't

RE: Files in /etc missing after new install

/etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done worked, both other scripts mentioned had errors: /bin/uname: not found /bin/cygpath: not found Unknown system type ; exiting and /bin/mkpasswd: not found /bin/mkgroup: not found Even though all files exist in /bin (with .exe ending). It seems to be a

Re: Files in /etc missing after new install

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 11:09:06AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >Please read and follow the problem reporting guidelines at > >, especially the bit about attaching (as > >an uncompressed text *attachment*) the o

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp

Igor, Thank you for the help. I tried to follow your instruction, but no luck to get it work. 1. cron_diagnosis.sh does not find any problem. 2. the cygcheck is attached. 3. The only error message I got is: $ cygrunsrv --start cron cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 e

Changed: perl-5.8.1 debugging version available

Hello, After I learned now that ftp.cpan.org is a distributed server, you may use these URLs to get it from your local mirror: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/CHECKSUMS ftp://ftp.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/perl_debug-5.8.1-2.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GE/GERRIT/perl_de

RE: Files in /etc missing after new install

Reiner, Yes, it certainly does look like a permission issue (as I guessed in my reply to CGF -- I should learn to read all the messages in the thread before replying). Since you said you've already reinstalled a couple of times, and, at a guess, are willing to do so again if needed, as the simple

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp

Chunyu, Does the Windows event log contain any clues? Cron from the command line wouldn't start a service -- it'll start the application itself... Which should be enough to ascertain whether your crontab works. The instructions for getting a system-owned shell can easily be found by searching Go

CVS tag for 1.5.5-1

Is there a tag or a specific date I can check out of CVS to get the source that was used to build cygwin 1.5.5-1? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp

Igor, windows event log does contain something, but I can't understand them. "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be abl

Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension

At 06:02 PM 9/29/2003, Matt Swift you wrote: >>> "L" == Larry wrote: > >L> 'ln' and 'mkshortcut' have different behavior for a reason. See >L> . >L> The difference is why 'mkshortcut' exists. Otherwise, we'd just have >

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp

Chunyu, The main part of the event is "cron : PID 3248 : `cron' service stopped.", so this is not quite what you're looking for. Are there other events from cron around that time in the event log? Did you look at the system log, or the application one? Google allows you to restrict the search t

Re: CVS tag for 1.5.5-1

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Jeff Baker wrote: > Is there a tag or a specific date I can check out of CVS to get the source > that was used to build cygwin 1.5.5-1? Do you Google: ? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/

How does the windows specific aspects of nice work?

I did a search online and found the following message (but no reply to it). Does anyone know the particulars about nice? If it still works as they describe (with 2 non-normal priorities), does anyone know when it will allow the full range of window supported priorities? * From: "Thomas Ch

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp

Igor, This is a error in the application one: "The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( cron ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag t

Re: How does the windows specific aspects of nice work?

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Jason House wrote: > I did a search online and found the following message (but no reply to > it). Does anyone know the particulars about nice? If it still works as > they describe (with 2 non-normal priorities), does anyone know when it > will allow the full range of window

Re: How does the windows specific aspects of nice work?

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Jason House wrote: > > > I did a search online and found the following message (but no reply to > > it). Does anyone know the particulars about nice? If it still works as > > they describe (with 2 non-normal priorities), does a

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp

Chunyu, Do you Google: ? As for the "at" problem, you need to escape the backslashes when you're running it from a bash shell. So, either use $ at /interactive 12:19 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash' --l

Re: gcc-3.2: gcc driver doesn't pick up crt0.a from /usr/lib

This is a followup to my "gcc-3.2: gcc driver doesn't pick up crt0.a from /usr/lib" message. I have found that configure sets GCC_FOR_TARGET to the cross-compiler I use in the root Makefile. GCC_FOR_TARGET = i686-pc-cygwin-gcc Then gcc/Makefile is using it to create the spec file specs: xgcc$

Re: gcc-3.2: gcc driver doesn't pick up crt0.a from /usr/lib

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:48:15AM -0700, Doru Carastan wrote: >This is a followup to my "gcc-3.2: gcc driver doesn't pick up crt0.a >from /usr/lib" message. > >I have found that configure sets GCC_FOR_TARGET to the cross-compiler I >use in the root Makefile. > >GCC_FOR_TARGET = i686-pc-cygwin-gc

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp, final solution!

Igor, This link you gave me is the final solution. I experienced exactly the same problem as Andrew described. To make the life easier for the other followers: 1. Need to set the mode of cygwin1.dll $ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.dll 2. Need to create another directory $ mkdir /etc/cron.d Also make i

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp, final solution!

Chunyu, Just to close on the "at" issue. You were getting "invalid command" because you needed to put the time *before* the "/interactive". Another problem was that you needed to add the ".exe" to "bash". So, a command that just worked for me (from bash) was: at 14:51 /interactive 'c:\cygwin\b

How install a older version of cygwin

Hi all, Anyone know if is it possible to install a older version of cygwin (cygwin-1.3.22-1) with setup.exe? I know that in setup.ini there is the list of all the "coerent" packages anyone know if is it possible to donwload the setup.ini for cygwin-1.3.22-1? thanks in advance Fabio Tesser -- Uns

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp, final solution!

Igor, Thank you for giving me the final solution for this problem too. Yes. It works now. I appreciate all the help. Chunyu Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Chunyu, Just to close on the "at" issue. You were getting "invalid command" because you needed to put the time *before* the "/interactive". Anot

Re: How install a older version of cygwin

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Fabio Tesser wrote: > Hi all, > Anyone know if is it possible to install a older version of cygwin > (cygwin-1.3.22-1) with setup.exe? > I know that in setup.ini there is the list of all the "coerent" packages > anyone know if is it possible to donwload the setup.ini for > cyg

To create a SYSTEM-owned bash prompt (RE: problem of cron in cygwin xp)

Feel free to include the attached script wherever it "fits". /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E -- UTC+01, DST -> UTC+02 -- --END OF MESSAGE-- sysbash Description: Binary data -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: openssl-0.9.7b-1, openssl-devel-0.9.7b-1

I've updated the version of OpenSSL to 0.9.7c-1. This also includes the openssl-devel package. This is a bugfix and security update. The Cygwin version matches the official source tree except for a minor tweak in the top level Makefile. ==

Re: How install a older version of cygwin

> Anyone know if is it possible to install a older version > of cygwin (cygwin-1.3.22-1) with setup.exe? As it happens I did keep just about the last version of setup.ini (cygwin-1.3.22-1) before the official move to what I guess was 1.5.2-1. The timestamp is 1062247815 which is, dunno, mid-August

Re: ln and mkshortcut inconsistent in handling of .exe extension

>> "L" == Larry wrote: L> If you want/need a Windows-style shortcut with all the L> semantics that implies, use 'mkshortuct'. Is that the point L> you were missing? I am not asking for "all the semantics", just the ones that are documented (user guide 3.5) to exist for all Cygwin sy

SSH connection close when _any_ user logs out of W2K

Hello, I've noticed on a recent installation of OpenSSH under cygwin (followed http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html) that users connected to the server via SSH have their connections closed if any Windows user logs out of the desktop. The SSHD daemon still functions, it just closes a

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

S. L. wrote: [...] # Secure addbug form AuthName "permission to add a bug" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users Require valid-user However that fails to work. [...] An "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive, must also be placed. E.g. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

Stipe Tolj wrote: I would tend to agree except this config worked with Apache for Windows. which does not mean that Apache for Cygwin acts the same way as the native Win32 counterpart. I'm not sure if you can use network resource location that way as you can in Apache for Windows. I would guess

home directory not created in cygwin installation

I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the /home/$USER directory ($USER means the user name I use to log onto my computer). The

Re: problem of cron in cygwin xp, final solution!

Chunyu Liu wrote: Igor, This link you gave me is the final solution. I experienced exactly the same problem as Andrew described. BTDT! Glad my troubles helped you get cron working. To make the life easier for the other followers: 1. Need to set the mode of cygwin1.dll $ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Stipe Tolj wrote: > > >> I would tend to agree except this config worked with Apache for Windows. > > > > which does not mean that Apache for Cygwin acts the same way as the > > native Win32 counterpart. > > > > I'm not sure if you can use network resou

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > Besides I recreated a bare environment and copied my stuff from the > server to /var/www/htdocs/addbug with the same error. at least you're the first reporting this kind of behaviour. Did you try to use the httpd.conf.dist "distribution configuration"? Stipe [EMAIL PR

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote: > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not start in the > /home/$USER directory ($USER means the use

Re: SSH connection close when _any_ user logs out of W2K

At 05:23 PM 9/30/2003, Matthew Hilty you wrote: >Hello, >I've noticed on a recent installation of OpenSSH under cygwin >(followed http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html) that users >connected to the server via SSH have their connections closed if any >Windows user logs out of the deskt

Re: Future of OpenGL package

Brian Ford wrote: ... >Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use >1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly >before using them. You wouldn't be able to simply call the functions as >when developing for UNIX. > A lot of the functionallity

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andre Bleau wrote: > ... > Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use > 1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly > before using them. You wouldn't be able to simply call the functions as > w

FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

All, This is attempt 4 - I cannot seem to get the attachment there, since I get: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sources.redhat.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. <[EMAIL PROT

Re: FW: XFree86-bin-icons .. believe cygwin xfree86 a "red" herring ... this is I believe a cygwin problem

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Alan Miles wrote: > All, > > This is attempt 4 - I cannot seem to get the attachment there, since I get: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 5 bytes > (#5.2.3) You can place the files somewhere on the web and post a

Re:munmap bug test program

>On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:06:11AM +0800, peter garrone wrote: >> This test program highlights the recent munmap problem addressed by Corinna. >> It works with the updated mmap, and with linux, fails on cygwin with the prior mmap. > >What "updated" mmap are you talking about, your's or the one in

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, Could this be a text vs. binary issue? I'm grasping at straws here... It's good that you've moved everything to the local disk - it helps to eliminate as many variables as possible. Did you get an authenticated access webpage (.html, as opposed to a CGI script)

Re: munmap bug test program

I said this test program works with both my own and corinna's fix, but in fact I have only actually tested it with corinna's fix, since I discarded my own. -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outbla

Re: Future of OpenGL package (Earnie, please read this)

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andre Bleau wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Andre Bleau wrote: > > > > > ... > > > Even, with 1.4 headers, you would sill need to jump through hoops to use > > > 1.4 functionality. You will still need to load the functions dynamicaly > > > before us

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > Could this be a text vs. binary issue? I'm grasping at straws here... > > It's good that you've moved everything to the local disk - it helps to > > eliminate as many variables as possible. Did you get an a

Postinstall hangs with bash

I've overwritten sh.exe with bash.exe With this setting cygpath hangs in myPostinstall.sh: ROOT=$(cygpath -w /) It is interesting. Using sh it is ok. Bert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Hello and cygwin quesiton

Dear Igor, Nice to hear from you, and thanks for the clarification! I understand your explanation of the difference between gvim and vim. But there is still a mystery. In my previous installation of cygwin, no such problems arise. The difference is that my previous system was Windows 2000 and my

Re: Perl - trying to install libwin32

Howdy, I'm also seeing the same problem as Paul when trying to compile libwin32-0.191 (patched) on cygwin. This is with both gcc 3.3.1 and gcc 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) . Any suggestions? Here's what "make" is giving me (with gcc 3.2): make[1]: Entering directory `/home/owensc/dev/libwin32-0

Re: Hello and cygwin quesiton

Chee, Well, there are people on this list who are more versed in Windows permissions issues than I, and hopefully they'll intervene and either confirm or refute my answer. If I had to guess, I'd say this has to do with inheritable permissions -- if a directory has an execute permission and the fl

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, Perhaps you could try playing with the permissions on the .htaccess file to see if you can reproduce the problem in your local directory. If you manage to do that, you could see if this is a "smbntsec" issue. Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local cas

Re: Perl - trying to install libwin32

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 04:57, Charles Owens wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm also seeing the same problem as Paul when trying to compile > libwin32-0.191 (patched) on cygwin. This is with both gcc 3.3.1 and gcc > 3.2 20020927 (prerelease) . As a followup to my last message, The reason that I wanted lib