Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. > By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and Xclients etc., our developers > can > 1. use our own Windows base PC to emulate a UNIX-like environment to do the > development; > 2. use the X server

Re: SSH on Cygwin Immediate Drops Connections

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 14:08, Larry Hall wrote: > At 01:50 PM 9/8/2004, you wrote: > >Mark Eret cs.colorado.edu> writes: > > > >> ... > >> I have looked at these lists and tried all the solutions. I've added '-r' > >> to the sshd startup command. > >> ... > > > >I just wanted to chip in that I have tried th

Re: cygserver - Postgres hung

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 21:15, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:17:48PM -0400, Jean-Pierre Pelletier wrote: > > Another option would be to force PostgreSQL 7.4.5 to use cygipc > > (instead of cygserver) Is that possible? > > Yes, you can always build from source yourself. Yeah, sounds like a g

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 22:37, Alder wrote: > as a service. This step seemed successful as the Windows Event Viewer > lists it as 'CYGWIN cygserver' and describes it as 'Cygwin shared memory > manager'. This description, however, is suspiciously like the one I The cygserver-config script does not add this

Re: cygserver - Postgres hung

2004-09-09 Thread Reini Urban
Jean-Pierre Pelletier schrieb: I downloaded the developpement's cygwin1.dll and will try it this afternoon. Is that the only file to replace ? yes. and you'll need to restart cygserver. If this doesn't work, we will have to go back to PostgreSQL 7.4.2 of 2004-03-08 which appears to be the latest P

RE: SSH on Cygwin Immediate Drops Connections

2004-09-09 Thread Mark Eret
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 1:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SSH on Cygwin Immediate Drops Connections > > > On Sep 8 14:08, Larry Hall wrote: > > At 01:50 PM 9/8

Re: filesystem encoding

2004-09-09 Thread Colin JN Breame
Arturus Magi wrote: Windows Explorer is Unicode 3.0 compliant on the NT line (I have several files that use a mixture of English, Japanese, and Chinese in the filename and various description fields), and the 9x line can be made partially Unicode-aware. I don't think the em hyphen is a valid c

How do I define a key binding for copy-to-clipboard?

2004-09-09 Thread David Tombs
Hello All, I'm a Windows user trying to install and configure cygwin. Thus far I've managed to install bash and, mostly, configure it to my preferences. However, there is one thing missing. I want to use the clipboard to transfer text to and from Windows, with the same key bindings, viz Ctrl-C for

Re: [OT] RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated cygwin Package: procmail-3.22-10

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 8 11:31, Brian Ford wrote: > No, now we continually have to explain why you can't install said > x86 Linux binary/package and run it under our Linux emulator. Heck, you > can't even *compile* said Linux firewall/router/proxy server etc. under > our Linux emulator. Doesn't sound like much

Re: SSH on Cygwin Immediate Drops Connections

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 9 02:22, Mark Eret wrote: > I am already running 1.5.11 and OpenSSH 3.9p1. I'm running with the options > "-D -d -d -d". This is the debugging output I get. Unfortunately the rest of the debug output is in your event log. If you want all debug output in your console, you have to use the

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 9 03:00, Bas van Gompel wrote: > Possibly. However MS might also make NULL be an alias to NUL in the > future, or just treat NULL like any other handle. Very unlikely. NULL and INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE are returned randomly in the Win32 API to indicate an invalid handle. > : nudge our legal

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 9 11:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 9 03:00, Bas van Gompel wrote: > > Possibly. However MS might also make NULL be an alias to NUL in the > > future, or just treat NULL like any other handle. > > Very unlikely. NULL and INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE are returned randomly in the > Win32 API

reading from tape device on windows 2000

2004-09-09 Thread hs
Hi! I am having problems while reading from dds tape device. I use the same procedure that works on knoppix linux live distro. I am setting block size mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 10240 and then try to read from the device with cat cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar and I get a message like cat: /dev/nst0: Bad addr

Re: reading from tape device on windows 2000

2004-09-09 Thread hs
sorry for answering by myself, the problem is solved without using cat but instead using tar to unpack tar archive directly from /dev/st0 On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:51:14 +0200, hs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! I am having problems while reading from dds tape device. I use the same procedure that wo

Re: reading from tape device on windows 2000

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 9 12:51, hs wrote: > I am having problems while reading from dds tape device. > I use the same procedure that works on knoppix linux live distro. > > I am setting block size > mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 10240 > and then try to read from the device with cat > cat /dev/nst0 > file.tar > and I get

Re: cygserver - Postgres hung

2004-09-09 Thread Jason Tishler
Corinna, On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:59:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 8 21:15, Jason Tishler wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:17:48PM -0400, Jean-Pierre Pelletier wrote: > > > Another option would be to force PostgreSQL 7.4.5 to use cygipc > > > (instead of cygserver) Is that p

Re: What is this

2004-09-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Phil Betts wrote: > > > Suppose that "test" was an acronym for "Trash Entire System > > Thoroughly", and suppose that it ignored the command line. Oops! There > > goes your C: drive! > > I thought that was WINDOWS' job! :-) Hey, WINDOWS is usually thoro

Re: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Paul J. Ghosh wrote: > Thank you to all who have replied. Enclosed find the following: > > - contents of crontab for user cdaapp - simple task to be executed > every minute for testing Looks ok, but see below for permissions issues. > - error encountered

Re: How do I define a key binding for copy-to-clipboard?

2004-09-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, David Tombs wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm a Windows user trying to install and configure cygwin. Thus far I've > managed to install bash and, mostly, configure it to my preferences. > However, there is one thing missing. I want to use the clipboard to > transfer text to and from

rsync + xp sp2 failing

2004-09-09 Thread Joel
Situation -- * Latest release of cygwin (1.5.11-1), rsync (2.6.2-2), openssh (3.9p1-1) * Windows XP SP2, fully patched as of 9/9/2004 Problem Attempting to mirror linux file system to my Windows XP NTFS file system using command: C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe --delete --progress -rtvz -

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:00:53AM +0200, Bas van Gompel wrote: >The fact that INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE != NULL, made me think NULL might >be a valid handle value elsewhere. NULL is never a valid handle. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

Cygwin's libtool, passing .def file name to gcc during linking

2004-09-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I'm trying to port an application to Cygwin that uses libtool to drive compilation/linking. This application needs to be linked with a ".def" file during the linking stage, i.e. (formatted to make it readable) /bin/bash ./libtool --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -o libplugin.la -

Re: can't open file for writing

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:01:26PM +0800, jashy wrote: >From: Christopher Faylor >Subject: Re: can't open file for writing >Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 21:29:58 -0400 > >> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:33:34PM -0700, C Schreiner wrote: >> >Bingo, this fixed it. Thanks to all who helped. >> >> Wow. Upgrad

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. >> By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and Xclients etc., our developers >> can >> 1. use our own Windows base PC to emulate a

Re: Cygwin's libtool, passing .def file name to gcc during linking

2004-09-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Ha, who'd have thought... I found it. I can use '--export-symbols plugin.def' for this. Even though the plugin.def doesn't contain exports, but imports... (this is a plugin library that invokes functions contained in the executable that loads the library...) Maarten Maarten Boekhold wrote: Hi,

RE: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Reid Thompson
that's a dead url -- http://cygwin.com/licensing.html Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own >>> applications. By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib

RE: Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues

2004-09-09 Thread Anna Goldberg
Attached is the cygcheck when run by service_cron. Also, when we run the tasks as service_cron via command line the only error we're seeing is: cron : PID 2112 : (cdaapp) CAN'T OPEN (tabs/cdaapp), but if we're try starting the cron service we still get the error: cron : PID 3784 : starting servi

perl DBI 1.43 on winxp -- make test problems

2004-09-09 Thread Paul Galbraith
I'm trying to build perl DBI-1.43 under cygwin on win xp. 'make test' returns the following output, and hangs at the t/10examp line. Does anyone know what could be causing the error with 05thrclone or the hang at 10examp? If I change the "#!perl -Tw" line in t/10examp.t to simply "#!perl -w"

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, you must also make the source code available when you make binaries available. If I develop an app and do not wish to have a requirement to install Cygwin I would use MingW, right? In that case is my a

bash script doesn't wait for commands to complete

2004-09-09 Thread Dolton Tony AB
I have a problem whereby a bash script doesn't wait for foreground commands to complete. The script in question kicks off a number of background processes, and processes their results as they complete. A simplified version which exhibits the problem is attached as scr.sh. The number of background

Re: cygserver - Postgres hung

2004-09-09 Thread Reini Urban
Jean-Pierre Pelletier schrieb: We have the same problem with the latest developpement's cygwin1.dll 1.5.12S of 2004-09-07. Does somebody know how to get cygwin packages for PostgreSQL 7.4.1 or 7.4? I have only been able to find 7.4.3 and 7.4.5. Another option would be to force PostgreSQL 7.4.5 to u

change in rsync behaviour -- textmode problem?

2004-09-09 Thread Henry S. Thompson
Every month or so I rsync a from a large HTML-structured mail archive (UN*X resident) to my PC. Up until a few months ago, this worked as expected, with only new files getting copied. More recently (no, sorry, I can't be more precise), I started getting everything every time. The target location

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:10:33AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, >>you must also make the source code available when you make binaries >>available. > >If I develop an app and do not wish to have a r

Re: bash script doesn't wait for commands to complete

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 04:20:19PM +0100, Dolton Tony AB wrote: >I have a problem whereby a bash script doesn't wait for foreground commands >to complete. The script in question kicks off a number of background >processes, and processes their results as they complete. > >A simplified version which

CTRL-C kills "ssh -X"

2004-09-09 Thread Rob S.i.k.l.o.s
Hi All, When I connect to any machine using "ssh -X", so that X display is automatically tunelled over the ssh connection, hitting CTRL-C at any time kills the ssh process, which outputs "Killed by signal 2." This does not happen if I omit the "-X" when running ssh. Cygcheck output attached. Tha

RE: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:10 AM 9/9/2004, Reid Thompson wrote: >that's a dead url -- http://cygwin.com/licensing.html WFFM. >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. > >> By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and Xclients etc., our developers >

Crontab issue

2004-09-09 Thread Simon . Basyuk
Hello, I would greatly appreciate if you can help me with the Cygwin Crontab issue: 1. I have no problem with Crontab running cp from local to local; 2. I have no problem with running cp from other server to local, from command line: $ cp -p "/cygdrive/j/Move To Fileshare/bmf70.mdb" "/cygdrive/

RE: Crontab issue

2004-09-09 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Simon.Basyuk > Sent: 09 September 2004 19:07 > 1. I have no problem with Crontab running cp from local to local; > > 2. I have no problem with running cp from other server to local, from > command line: > $ cp -p "/cygdrive/j/Move To

RE: Crontab issue

2004-09-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:21 PM 9/9/2004, you wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Simon.Basyuk >> Sent: 09 September 2004 19:07 > >> 1. I have no problem with Crontab running cp from local to local; >> >> 2. I have no problem with running cp from other server to local, from >> comm

crosscompiling lmbench-3.0-a4 for PPC on cygwin - the first shot ...

2004-09-09 Thread Alexander Povolotsky
Dan Kegel wrote: Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for replying ! > > I have not downloaded the lmbench source code yet - but > let me clarify - from your answer - I assume in the lmbench there > will be some means (in the makefile or configure file) to set cross- > compiling (I am u

RE: Crontab issue

2004-09-09 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall > Sent: 09 September 2004 19:29 > One can alternatively open up the access of the share to > "Everyone". This > may be preferable if cron is being run for more than one user. [Answers phone, cradles receiver under one ear...] What? Sorry,

Re: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Byrnes
This patch looks right to me. create_selectable_pipe is the only place where CreateNamedPipe is used, so it should completely fix the problem. Sorry I missed this ... I don't have a win95 system to use for testing. -- Bob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Proble

Re: rsync + xp sp2 failing

2004-09-09 Thread Bob Byrnes
On Sep 9, 9:36am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel) wrote: -- Subject: rsync + xp sp2 failing > > Failed to dup/close : Socket operation on non-socket > rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14)@ > /home/lapo/package/tmp/rsync-2.6.2/pipe.c(73) > -- End of excerpt from Joel The rsync code in pipe.c looks l

1.5.11-1: sftp performance problem

2004-09-09 Thread Peter Siebold
I updated to the newest version of cygwin dll on 9/7/4 and after sftp suffered performance issues when issuing a get on a large file. File transfers now stall and do not complete. After downgrading to version of 1.5.10-3 of cygwin sftp then it works fine. Both configurations used openssh 3.9p1-1

[PATCH] /etc/profile fixes

2004-09-09 Thread Tero Niemela
I have to proposals for /etc/profile of latest Cygwin: 1) Shut up 'tr' which produces error message at least with zsh ('zsh' doesn't match to [:upper:]). 2) Set same default settings for zsh as for ksh. Thanks. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-Sc

does anyone have cron working on windows 2003 server?

2004-09-09 Thread Paul J. Ghosh
There is an active thread started already titled 'Cygwin Cron on Windows 2003 Server Issues' addressing the challenges that are arising with our efforts. So far the challenges still remain. However, we were curious to know if anyone has cron working on Windows 2003 server. If yes, then there is

Re: rsync + xp sp2 failing

2004-09-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 9 17:21, Joel wrote: > Bob Byrnes wrote: > >If you can reproduce this using strace, the last hundred lines or so > >of the strace output might be enlightening. > > Here's the strace output: ...which is rather interesting. As you already noticed, this doesn't happen before installing SP2.

fhandler_base::dup failed error after upgrade to 1.5.11-1

2004-09-09 Thread Matthew Moss
I ran into a problem after installing updates. I removed cygwin and reinstalled and now have a fresh installation of 1.5.11-1 using setup.exe 2.427. I tried the following command in bash: > tidy contrib.html > con.html Which gave the following error: 479975353 [main] bash 4024 fhandler_base::du

Re: fhandler_base::dup failed error after upgrade to 1.5.11-1

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:16:22PM -0400, Matthew Moss wrote: >I ran into a problem after installing updates. I removed cygwin and >reinstalled and now have a fresh installation of 1.5.11-1 using >setup.exe 2.427. > >I tried the following command in bash: > >> tidy contrib.html > con.html > >Which

Re: ssh-host-config bug?

2004-09-09 Thread luke . kendall
On 8 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I noted recently that the user "system" seems to have vanished. > > > > > Likewise the user and the group SYSTEM no longer seem to exist. > > > > as evidenced by: > > > > $ chown system xxx > > chown: `system': invalid user > > That

Re: cygserver service won't start

2004-09-09 Thread Alder
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 8 22:37, Alder wrote: as a service. This step seemed successful as the Windows Event Viewer lists it as 'CYGWIN cygserver' and describes it as 'Cygwin shared memory manager'. This description, however, is suspiciously like the one I The cygserver-config script

Re: rsync + xp sp2 failing

2004-09-09 Thread joellists
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:09:29 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote > On Sep 9 17:21, Joel wrote: > > Bob Byrnes wrote: > > >If you can reproduce this using strace, the last hundred lines or so > > >of the strace output might be enlightening. > > > > Here's the strace output: > > ...which is rather inter

RE: win95 pipe problems -- report + testcase + patch

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
[snip] > > : nudge our legal department again. > > > > I'll be waiting. (This will give me more time to test > readdir_r, once > > I decide how to keep accesses separate.) > > Sic. I think you mean "Ditto" there Corinna. "Sic" is used when you're quoting something that's erroneous or misspell

Perl module download ?

2004-09-09 Thread Ramneek Singh
I need clarification on which modules I need for using perl on cygwin. I only see perl-libwin32 under system category. Is that all that's required ? Its not included in default package. I can select it, but is there something else Related to perl somewhere else. I don't see it, but I may have miss

OT: RE: filesystem encoding

2004-09-09 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Hmm...interesting. Not entirely sure what the implications > of what you are saying are (as I don't really understand codepages). > > Does a codepage represent a character with 16 bits? or 8? > Could you recommend a book or a URL on the subject? Maybe I > should look at this when I have mo

Re: ssh-host-config bug?

2004-09-09 Thread luke . kendall
On 8 Sep, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > That's the problem. I don't know how it disappeared from your /etc/passwd, > but `mkpasswd -l' always creates an entry for the user system. Just readd > it. Thanks, again Corinna. After the mkpasswd -l and mkgroup -l, and a bit of poking about, I found

Cygwin 1.5.11: execv doesn't set argv[0] on Windows programs

2004-09-09 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Hi, I'm getting the following behavior consistently: $ bash -c 'exec -a java -h' 2>&1 | egrep 'options?]' Usage: java.exe [-options] class [args...] or java.exe [-jar] [-options] jarfile [args...] $ but $ bash -c 'exec -a bash --help' 2>&1 | egrep 'options?]' Usage: [GNU lon

ERB in Ruby1.8 in Cygwin Install

2004-09-09 Thread Dosu Mahat
I have reinstalled Cygwin, selecting Ruby from the optional packages list. In Cygwin, the Ruby package lists ERB as one of it's components, however upon installing I get Ruby with other features like Rexml, Runit etc but no ERB. I get errors in Ruby when trying to invoke ERB. Can any one sugge