Re: Question about moving cygwin to another dirve

2004-08-17 Thread Fergus Daly
> Change the mount information in the registry Or, if you are nervy about editing your registry, 1. It looks as though your mount points are still located on c: not g:? At the bash prompt you could try mount just to see what the mount points are. If still c:/.. then try mount -

Re: Question about moving cygwin to another dirve

2004-08-17 Thread Nicolas Roche
Another solution is to use the cygwin mount command in order to change the location of / Nico -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cy

Re: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 09:06, Peter Milliken wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write large files across multiple floppies using tar. I am > using tar 1.13.25 and it writes to the first diskette but then stops - no > prompt for the next disk or anything. > > I searched the archives and found the following: > [..

Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?

2004-08-17 Thread fergus
Near to this office there is a machine that is partitioned to run Windows from its H: drive and this is its default startup mode. It has a C: drive and may even have a C:\WINDOWS\ directory, but both are irrelevant to daily running. Please can you remind me what Cygwin "expects" and/or "requires"

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: procmail-3.22-9

2004-08-17 Thread Jason Tishler
Volker, On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 11:52:25PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Jason Tishler writes: > > > New News: > > === > > I have updated the version of procmail to 3.22-9. The tarballs > > should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. > > The package is still using the

updatedb -> no 'find'

2004-08-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
Sharing my experiences - i.e. "for the archives" $ updatedb /usr/bin/find: /: No such file or directory Most other things worked... This was caused by: $ echo $CYGWIN notitle glob check_case:strict server=1 $ mount | grep 'on / ' C:\Program\Cygwin on / type system (binmode) $ cd / $ CMD.EXE

RE: fltk compilation error

2004-08-17 Thread Reid Thompson
Ken Dibble wrote: > I am unable to determince what the error is, not knowing > anything about > gcc, fltk or fltk-config > > the following command produces a gui executable (at least for this > trivial example) which prints "Hello World" to the console when Open > is > selected from the > File me

mkisofs and non-US characters

2004-08-17 Thread xerces8
Hi! I tried the binary of mkisofs from http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/t/tplank/ and encountered problems ( running Windows 2003 Server Enterprise edition ) with non-US chatacters in filenames ( see below ) The binary maintainer ( Thomas Plank, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) said : > > Is that a mkisofs or

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: procmail-3.22-9

2004-08-17 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Jason Tishler writes: >> By the way is it possible to remove the empty catX directories from >> your packages ? > I can, but would prefer not to (at least in the past). man use to cache > compressed, formatted man pages in the catX directories -- now it seems > to no lo

Saving history under tcsh

2004-08-17 Thread Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Hello, I've edited my ~/.cshrc file to have the following commands set history = 1000 set savehist A .history file is created upon logout but it contains no history (i.e. it has zero bytes)! What am I missing? My /cygwin.bat file invokes tcsh upon startup like so: tcsh -l Andres Corrada-Emman

Firewall on cygwin

2004-08-17 Thread Maurício
Hi, Does anyone uses/knows of a firewall that runs under cygwin? Thanks, Maurício -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: Saving history under tcsh

2004-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 10:30, Andres Corrada-Emmanuel wrote: > Hello, > > I've edited my ~/.cshrc file to have the following commands > > set history = 1000 > set savehist > > A .history file is created upon logout but it contains no history (i.e. > it has zero bytes)! What am I missing? Try e.g. set sav

1.5.10-3 + mt 2.3 scsi tape problems

2004-08-17 Thread Pim Zandbergen
I'm using a cygwin script as a wrapper around ntbackup on a number of servers, running windows 2000 and 2003 server. Basically, the script does mt -f /dev/st0 status dd if=labelfile of=/dev/st0 ntbackup [ lots of options ] mt -f /dev/st0 offline After doing cygwin updates, backups started failing.

Re: 1.5.10-3 + mt 2.3 scsi tape problems

2004-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 17 17:42, Pim Zandbergen wrote: > I'm using a cygwin script as a wrapper around ntbackup on a number > of servers, running windows 2000 and 2003 server. > > Basically, the script does > > mt -f /dev/st0 status > dd if=labelfile of=/dev/st0 > ntbackup [ lots of options ] > mt -f /dev/st0 o

Re: Apache CGI Scripts - Network layer permission denied

2004-08-17 Thread Shane
On 13 Aug 2004 at 17:32, Peter Flanigan wrote: > When I run CGI scripts from Apache I'm getting permission denied > errors. > > use Net::protoent; > my $p = getprotobyname(shift || 'tcp'); > > if (defined $p) { > printf("proto for %s is %d, aliases are %s\n", > $p->name, $p->proto, "@

Re: Question about moving cygwin to another dirve

2004-08-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:48 PM 8/16/2004, you wrote: >On Aug 16, 2004, at 9:43 PM, Yihu Li wrote: > >>Dear all, >> >>My c drive does not have enough space, so I just copyed the whole folder of cygwin >>to another drive and expect to run it there. It worked but the problem is that the >>default folder is still unde

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: procmail-3.22-9

2004-08-17 Thread Jason Tishler
Volker, On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 04:21:46PM +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Jason Tishler writes: > > >> By the way is it possible to remove the empty catX directories from > >> your packages ? > > > I can, but would prefer not to (at least in the past). man use to > > cache compressed, fo

Re: Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?

2004-08-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:39 AM 8/17/2004, you wrote: >Near to this office there is a machine that is partitioned to run Windows >from its H: drive and this is its default startup mode. > >It has a C: drive and may even have a C:\WINDOWS\ directory, but both are >irrelevant to daily running. > >Please can you remind m

Re: Question about moving cygwin to another dirve

2004-08-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Peter Rehley wrote: > On Aug 16, 2004, at 9:43 PM, Yihu Li wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > My c drive does not have enough space, so I just copyed the whole > > folder of cygwin to another drive and expect to run it there. It > > worked but the problem is that the default f

RE: Firewall on cygwin

2004-08-17 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Maurício > Sent: 17 August 2004 15:45 >Hi, > >Does anyone uses/knows of a firewall that runs under cygwin? > >Thanks, >Maurício Can't be done. Cygwin runs entirely in user mode; it has no ability to run applicati

Re: compile error with mysql 4.1.2-alpha

2004-08-17 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit schrieb: > cygwin wrote: >> I downloaded mysql 4.0.20 source (not the win version). It fails to >> compile with the following error: >> = >> if gcc -DDEFAULT_BASEDIR=\"/usr/local\" -DDATADIR="\"/usr/local/var\"" >>

RE: updatedb -> no 'find'

2004-08-17 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen > Sent: 17 August 2004 13:18 > Sharing my experiences - i.e. "for the archives" Well, just out of curiousity > $ CMD.EXE > Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] > (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp

Re: mkisofs and non-US characters

2004-08-17 Thread Reini Urban
xerces8 schrieb: So I'm here. Is there any UTF/Unicode support in cygwin, to make mkisofs work ? no, there's none (yet). -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

[BUG] Interaction problems

2004-08-17 Thread David A. Cobb
I'm seeing this behavior consistently. If I run my browser ( or, possibly, some other network application ) before trying to launch my Cygwin console, the login shell freezes the machine so totally my only recourse is to press the reset (panic!) button. So far, it hasn't messed up the filesystem.

Re: mcedit start slowly lately

2004-08-17 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > I'm experiencing somewhat strange behaviour of mcedit. It's been a week > that before it's started, my HDD is working a lot, for about 1 second. It > doesn't matter whether I want to edit some old file or just launch the > editor with "$ mcedit". Wher

Re: mcedit start slowly lately

2004-08-17 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> I'm experiencing somewhat strange behaviour of mcedit. It's been a week >> that before it's started, my HDD is working a lot, for about 1 second. It >> doesn't matter whether I want to edit some old file or just launch the >> editor with "$ mcedit". > > Where do you start mc

Re: RXVT man pages

2004-08-17 Thread Paul Galbraith
Thanks, Chris, actually I did see that one. I guess my real purpose in writing was to (hopefully) prod the package maintainer to fix the manpage :-), rather than everyone else having to do it. Chris Taylor wrote: On Mon, August 16, 2004 9:52 pm, Paul Galbraith said: Larry Hall wrote: C'est la v

RE: Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?

2004-08-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. Larry Hall, wrote: > At 05:39 AM 8/17/2004, you wrote: -zNIPz here and there- >> I know we can install Cygwin wherever we like (default c:\Cygwin\ >> but it could be c:\MyOS\ or g:\Cygwin\ or even, after overcoming an >> objection, the root directory g:\). But has Cygwin it

RE: updatedb -> no 'find'

2004-08-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hannu E K Nevalainen >> Sent: 17 August 2004 13:18 > >> Sharing my experiences - i.e. "for the archives" > > Well, just out of curiousity > >> $ CMD.EXE >> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] >

Re: Backticks hang with dynamic antivirus scanning

2004-08-17 Thread geneSmith
Marco Moreno wrote, On 2/20/2004 11:46 PM: I recently upgraded cygwin to the latest version and now I'm having Command's dynamic antivirus protection conflict with Cygwin so that it hangs whenever it encounters backticks in a shell script (e.g. /etc/profile). Configuring the antivirus to ignore c:

RE: [BUG] Interaction problems

2004-08-17 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" scribbled on : > MY CYGCHECK OUTPUT exceeds my mail host's size limit (5Mb) and the > zipped version is refused by your server. Heh!? 5M, that's awesome! See below. What is in there? The list accepts <100K and *.gz > Anyway, I'm up-to-date as of 2004-08-12. I generally mak

setup.exe Parse Errors

2004-08-17 Thread Dai Itasaka
Using setup.exe version 2.427, I get: (B (B(null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING (B(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?) (B(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest setup?) (B(null) line 1537: unrecognized li

Re: setup.exe Parse Errors

2004-08-17 Thread CyberZombie
That line has a comma in the "requires:" area. Part of the e2fsimage (Bpackage. (B (BDai Itasaka wrote: (B (B>Using setup.exe version 2.427, I get: (B> (B>(null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING (B>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have the latest se

Re: setup.exe Parse Errors

2004-08-17 Thread Max Bowsher
CyberZombie wrote: (B> That line has a comma in the "requires:" area. Part of the e2fsimage (B> package. (B (BFixed on sourceware, it'll take a while to replicate to the mirrors. (B (BMax. (B (B (B (B> Dai Itasaka wrote: (B> (B>> Using setup.exe version 2.427, I get: (B>> (B>> (null

Re: setup.exe Parse Errors

2004-08-17 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
CyberZombie wrote: >That line has a comma in the "requires:" area. Part of the e2fsimage >package. > >Dai Itasaka wrote: > > > >>Using setup.exe version 2.427, I get: >> >>(null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING >>(null) line 1537: unrecognized line 1537 (do you have

RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Milliken
[...] > It's a bug in the Cygwin DLL. > > > If it's not currently available, what are my options? :-) > > Install a developers snapshot of Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/) > or wait for the 1.5.11 release which is due VSN. > > > Corinna [...] That certainly did the trick - thanks :-) Sorr

RE: Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?

2004-08-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:32 PM 8/17/2004, Hannu wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] i.e. Larry Hall, wrote: >> At 05:39 AM 8/17/2004, you wrote: > >-zNIPz here and there- >>> I know we can install Cygwin wherever we like (default c:\Cygwin\ >>> but it could be c:\MyOS\ or g:\Cygwin\ or even, after overcoming an >>> objection,

Re: cygglut-3.dll: W32.Magistr.B FOUND

2004-08-17 Thread Miroslav Rovis
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Miroslav wrote: Yesterday we ran setup.exe and downloaded X-Cygwin. Followed direction in the FAQ about virus unlikely to be there. But this package, from at least three different mirrors shows up the same with clamav: freeglut-2.2.0-1.tar.bz2 (honestly we don't know at t

Re: cygglut-3.dll: W32.Magistr.B FOUND

2004-08-17 Thread Miroslav Rovis
Arturus Magi wrote: Miroslav Rovis wrote: Yesterday we ran setup.exe and downloaded X-Cygwin. Followed direction in the FAQ about virus unlikely to be there. But this package, from at least three different mirrors shows up the same with clamav: freeglut-2.2.0-1.tar.bz2 (honestly we don't know at

Re: cygglut-3.dll: W32.Magistr.B FOUND

2004-08-17 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Miroslav Rovis wrote: Arturus Magi wrote: Miroslav Rovis wrote: Yesterday we ran setup.exe and downloaded X-Cygwin. Followed direction in the FAQ about virus unlikely to be there. But this package, from at least three different mirrors shows up the same with clamav: freeglut-2.2.0-1.tar.bz2 (hon

Setup broken

2004-08-17 Thread Peter Flanigan
Whilst trying to regress Cygwin to avoid bugs in the current release I get (null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING when setup.exe tries parsing setup.ini Anyone know know what it means and how to fix it? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: Can I install Cygwin if I have a C: drive but run Windows from H:\WINDOWS\?

2004-08-17 Thread Robert Pendell
Just so that everyone is aware, there should be no issues with the current release in this matter. It works perfectly fine here. I have a C Drive, Main system drive is H: with the OS install at H:\Windows, and I installed Cygwin to I:\root\cygwin. On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:09:53 -0400, Larry Hall <

Re: Setup broken

2004-08-17 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Peter Flanigan wrote: Whilst trying to regress Cygwin to avoid bugs in the current release I get (null) line 1537: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting STRING when setup.exe tries parsing setup.ini Anyone know know what it means and how to fix it? Try again. Use mirrors.rcn.net. It was worki

Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew DeFaria
I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp! So like a good little boy I decided to read the readme for cron again before asking here. Trouble is I have no cron readme! I rem

cygwin-perl: matching behaves weird

2004-08-17 Thread V . MIRCEVSKI
Now, this may be old news for many of you, but I'm new to cygwin, so please don't shoot. I'd be happy if someone would post me a link to the solution. I'm doing quite strightforward matching using regular expressions in perl (as you can see below) and the code used to work just fine on the Activ

Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:39 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote: >I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my >own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp! So >like a good little boy I decided to read the readme for cron again before asking >here. Tr

Re: Cron problem/Documentation and Setup

2004-08-17 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:38 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote >At 09:39 PM 8/17/2004, you wrote: >>I'm having a problem with cron in this new environment. I cannot execute any of my >>own scripts in my ~/bin. I was also having problems executing even things in /tmp! >>So like a good little boy I decided to read the readme fo

RE: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar

2004-08-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Peter Milliken wrote: > Next step is I would like to backup some very large files to DVD. I have > some video files (>13GByte) that I would like to backup across multiple DVD > discs (-R or -RW - whichever works :-)). > > Has anybody used a DVD burner as a backup mechanism an

Re: cygwin-perl: matching behaves weird

2004-08-17 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, V.MIRCEVSKI wrote: > Now, this may be old news for many of you, but I'm new to cygwin, so > please don't shoot. I'd be happy if someone would post me a link to the > solution. > > I'm doing quite strightforward matching using regular expressions in > perl (as you can see b

setup: current: repeated offer of same update

2004-08-17 Thread fergus
setup (setup-timestamp: 1092781231) currently repeatedly offers an update of libopenldap from 2-15-2.2.15-1 to 2.2.15-1 even after acceptance and installation. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

RE: cygwin-perl: matching behaves weird

2004-08-17 Thread Wardman_Michael
I wonder if the "/s" on the end is getting a newline problem somewhere? This might explain the Windows vs. Cygwin behaviour, as they can be configured to have different line endings. I've had to modify a lot of scripts to run under Cygwin by adding: | tr -d '\r' -Original Message- F