re: SETUP no categories listed

Can anyone help? my setup.exe no longer displays the list of category classes only the version numbers I have a complete cygwin installed I am still able to install updates and new packages - but can't select what I need ! I have tried installing fresh versions of the setup.exe program and us

Re: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

Aitken, Sean wrote: I have tried about anything. Does anyone know of any Win2K3 settings that would disallow certain acccounts from being worthy service runners? There is a policy that disallows all code running in kernel mode instead of user mode, is sshd running in kernel mode? If so it is a goo

Re: cygwin perl - accessing data from a Microsoft SQL Server via ODBC

Cary Lewis wrote: Is there a way to use Cygwin's Perl to access data from a remote SQL server via ODBC? I know there is Win32::ODBC which works with ActiveState, but I want to be able to it natively from within Cygwin (so that I can eventually do it from Linux) Any help or pointers would be appreci

Re: Anyone creating programs using the MySQL C api using Cygwin?

Mikael Åsberg wrote: Hello, I installed a native windows version of MySQL (4.1.18) and tried to compile a C program using the MySQL C API using GCC (version 3.3.3 cygwin special). The program compiles and links without any errors or warnings (maximum warning level, c99-mode) but segfaults near t

Re: update on hyperthreading system for cgf

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 19:58 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > This is still pretty far off from the goal but I would still appreciate > it if anyone could recommend a cheap system which demonstrates the > problem. So far, I don't recall anyone giving specific details about a > name brand compute

RE: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

Sean Aitken wrote: > I have been fighting a problem with trying to run SSHD on a Windows... I just spent several hours getting a program to run as a service on Windows XP. I created a user account that only belongs to the "Users" group. I created my service to run in this account. But the serv

Problem about running Apache on cygwin

I have installed Apache 2.0.52 in /usr/local/apache2. How can I browse web pages in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs with Internet Explorer? CCH _

Trying to pin cygwin crash bug; need a bit of help

Hi I need some information on how to debug Cygwin processes. We have a partially cygwin-based project, which are having some problems. The cygwin part of the project has some scripts running in a bash process. The scripts seem to run fine for a random amount of time. Sometimes it's mere minutes

RE: Problem about running Apache on cygwin

At Friday, January 14, 2005 5:29 AM, C u wrote: > I have installed Apache 2.0.52 in /usr/local/apache2. > How can I browse web pages in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs with Internet > Explorer? This is a Windows and IE question, so is really off-topic. But .. In Internet Explorer: File | Open

Re: Ported PING

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lino Miguel Martins Tinoco wrote: > I've managed to port and compile the original ping code and a version > with a bit more statistical info (with median and and .0 precision on > the percentage of lost packets). I've also a package that compiles and >

DLL's

Hello! I am compiling stuff on cygwin but with -mno-cygwin to make the produced software independent of cygwin itself. The DLL's that you can download from the setup of cygwin are all dependent of cygwin1.dll? I would like to use for example lcms that you can install directly over the network f

Help, cant run scripts in cygwin!

Isnt it enough to do "chmod u+x filename" to make the file executable in cygwin? Atleast I can't run my script files this way. Please help! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygw

RE: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

David, Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately, I have already added the user 'sshd_server' to the 'Log on as a service' policy. In fact, the new version of ssh_host_config seems to have done this for me. Thanks again! -Sean > I found that I had to launch the "group policy editor" gpedit.m

Re: DLL's

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 03:15:32PM +0100, Barthel, Mattias wrote: >I am compiling stuff on cygwin but with -mno-cygwin to make the >produced software independent of cygwin itself. > >The DLL's that you can download from the setup of cygwin are all >dependent of cygwin1.dll? Of course! >I would li

RE: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase > Sent: 14 January 2005 09:12 > To: Aitken, Sean > Aitken, Sean wrote: > > I have tried about anything. Does anyone know of any Win2K3 settings > > that would disallow certain acccounts from being worthy > service runn

RE: Help, cant run scripts in cygwin!

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Kristian Carlsson > Sent: 14 January 2005 14:00 > Isnt it enough to do "chmod u+x filename" to make the file > executable in cygwin? Well, yes. But if '.' isn't in your $PATH, then the shell won't find it if you just try to invoke

Re: Help, cant run scripts in cygwin!

Kristian Carlsson wrote: Isnt it enough to do "chmod u+x filename" to make the file executable in cygwin? Atleast I can't run my script files this way. Please help! What was your first indication that it failed? :-) Start here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- The beatings will continue until mo

RE: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

Thanks for the reply Dave, > Anyway, if running as SYSTEM it writes to > /var/log/sshd.log, but running as an > ordinary user it fails, then it's almost certainly the case > that sshd.log is > owned by SYSTEM user because it was first created by SYSTEM > user. If that's the > case "chmod a+

Re: bug in chown()

ing as much as possible first. > > However, in cygwin, chown() appears to have no effect whatsoever on the > > change time. (gid_t)0 is the 'root' group. I tested this on a WinXP > > I'm going to fix that. Thanks. I verified that the 20050114 snapshot fixed c

Multiple installations and 3PPs

Multiple installations of Cygwin clash, both over the registry name used for the mount table and the name of the shared memory region. This makes it difficult to have several versions for testing purposes, and causes problems with software from 3PPs. Has anybody considered using PSAPI to find the

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:50:03PM +, Adrian Cox wrote: >Multiple installations of Cygwin clash, both over the registry name >used for the mount table and the name of the shared memory region. >This makes it difficult to have several versions for testing purposes, >and causes problems with soft

ping command

Hi, I've installed full Cygwin but could not use "ping" command. Do you have this problem, or do you know how to correct this error? JK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

Re: ping command

Dr Jekyll wrote: Hi, I've installed full Cygwin but could not use "ping" command. Do you have this problem, or do you know how to correct this error? JK Again, what was your first indication that it failed? Start here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Happiness is merely the remission of pain. -

RE: Multiple installations and 3PPs

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor > Sent: 14 January 2005 17:16 > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:50:03PM +, Adrian Cox wrote: > >Multiple installations of Cygwin clash, both over the registry name > >used for the mount table and the name of the share

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:54:37PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor >> Sent: 14 January 2005 17:16 > >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:50:03PM +, Adrian Cox wrote: >> >Multiple installations of Cygwin clash, both over the re

snapshot 20050114 race

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Something between the stock 1.5.12-1 and the 20050114 snapshot introduced a data race on removing a directory shortly after being in it. I couldn't narrow it down to a repeatable testcase, but notice the difference between these two runs of a s

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:15 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 04:50:03PM +, Adrian Cox wrote: > >Multiple installations of Cygwin clash, both over the registry name > >used for the mount table and the name of the shared memory region. > >This makes it difficult to have

Re: DLL's

Barthel, Mattias wrote: Hello! I am compiling stuff on cygwin but with -mno-cygwin to make the produced software independent of cygwin itself. The DLL's that you can download from the setup of cygwin are all dependent of cygwin1.dll? There are two packages containing no-cygwin DLLs, mingw-zlib and

Re: bug in chown()

On Jan 14 16:33, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > On Jan 13 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > > > In trying to get the newly released coreutils 5.3.0 tarball working on > > > cygwin, I discovered that cygwin chown() has a bug. Background: > > Do you intend to take over maintainership of c

Re: snapshot 20050114 race

On Jan 14 11:04, Eric Blake wrote: > Something between the stock 1.5.12-1 and the 20050114 snapshot introduced > a data race on removing a directory shortly after being in it. I couldn't > narrow it down to a repeatable testcase, but notice the difference between > these two ru

RE: ping command

At Friday, January 14, 2005 12:50 PM, Dr Jekyll wrote: > Hi, > I've installed full Cygwin but could not use "ping" command. Do you > have this problem, or do you know how to correct this error? > JK Search for ping.exe on http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/ and you will see that pin

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:07:52PM +, Adrian Cox wrote: >On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:15 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >I don't understand why it is a goal to have only one version of >cygwin1.dll in use at a single time. I'd like to create separate >Cygwin universes, with no communication b

rsh can't access the net work drive

Hi, I have set up cygwin to be able to remote shell to it. In cygwin, I was able to do > ls "epic\\devspace-cm\\scripts" epic is the network file system. But whe I try to run the same command remotely, it failed to access the network share. Any idea how to fix it? > rsh deckard 'ls "epi

Re: rsh can't access the net work drive

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up cygwin to be able to remote shell to it. In cygwin, I was > able to do > > > ls "epic\\devspace-cm\\scripts" FYI, you can use forward slashes too, i.e., the following will work: ls //epic/devspace-cm/scripts (so no need to doubl

Retrieving name of executable

I think the name of the current executable is stored in myself->progname within cygwin1.dll. The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the executable. Is there a way for an application to obtain myself->program, other than resorting to raw win32 call to GetModuleFileName()? Earl

RE: Retrieving name of executable

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Earl Chew > Sent: 14 January 2005 18:39 > I think the name of the current executable is stored in > myself->progname within cygwin1.dll. > > The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the > executable. > > Is ther

Re: Retrieving name of executable

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:39:23AM -0800, Earl Chew wrote: >I think the name of the current executable is stored in myself->progname >within cygwin1.dll. > >The more easily accessible __progname returns the basename of the >executable. > >Is there a way for an application to obtain myself->program,

Re: snapshot 20050114 race

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:26:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 14 11:04, Eric Blake wrote: > > Something between the stock 1.5.12-1 and the 20050114 snapshot introduced > > a data race on removing a directory shortly after being in it. I couldn't > > narr

Re: snapshot 20050114 race

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:42:53AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:26:58PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jan 14 11:04, Eric Blake wrote: > > > Something between the stock 1.5.12-1 and the 20050114 snapshot introduced > > >

Re: rsh can't access the net work drive

Thanks for your suggestion. However, the problem seems to be the permission from rsh. I try the commmand on cygwin window without problem... > ls //epic/devspace-cm But if I run the command through remote shell. I got the access problem... > rsh deckard 'ls //epic/devspace-cm' ls: //epic/devspace

Re: rsh can't access the net work drive

Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have set up cygwin to be able to remote shell to it. In cygwin, I > > > was able to do > > > > > > > ls "epic\\devspace-cm

Re: rsh can't access the net work drive

Thanks, I didn't read the link... EDDIE Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Eddie Chan wrote: Hi, I have set up cygwin to be able to remote shell to it. In cygwin, I was able to do ls "\\\

Re: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:10:29AM -0600, Aitken, Sean wrote: > Thanks for the reply Dave, > > > Also, nobody's told Sean to take a look in the windows > > event log yet, and see > > if there was any sign of life there. > > The only thing that appears in the event log is the service failure >

WFM (Was: Re: Missing ntdll.dll export with perl 5.8.6 om Win9x)

Hi, Confirming that Perl 5.8.6-2 works for me on Windows Me. Thanks Gerrit! Jacek -- "Software will be protected not just by copyright, but by patents. This makes about as much sense as patenting jokes." Guardian, January 10, 2005 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

RE: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

Hi Pierre, > Have you tried running a really simple service under account > sshd_server, e.g. ones that simply executes /bin/env or > /bin/sleep 60 ? I created a test service, using 'sshd_server' as the runner. The program is /bin/env. It did the same thing. - No log file was created - The stat

jpeg 6b-11 wrjpegcom

Hello, I was planning on using wrjpegcom to add comments to a group of jpeg files. I use the command line: $ wrjpgcom.exe -replace -cfile yyy.txt e_school_1.jpg > yyy.jpg to add the text from yyy.txt as a comment to yyy.jpg. When I then use any other jpeg related program on the file yyy.jpg, I

odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

I've searched this list and googled and all, and can't find anything about this issue, so perhaps it's some cockpit error on my part. Anyways, here's the issue/question... cygwin symlinks (aka cygwin-created windows shortcuts) seem to work differently, and incorrectly, from the windows pers

RE: Problem running cygrunsrv with non SYSTEM accounts

At 04:57 PM 1/14/2005 -0600, Aitken, Sean wrote: > >I think this can be narrowed down into a general problem running >'cygrunsrv' on Windows Server 2003 under certain conditions. Since the >machine was setup by someone else, I'm gonna try and get more info >regarding security and policy configurati

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP SP2

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jeff.Hodges wrote: > I've searched this list and googled and all, and can't find anything > about this issue, so perhaps it's some cockpit error on my part. > Anyways, here's the issue/question... > > cygwin symlinks (aka cygwin-created windows shortcuts) seem to work > di

ORSA/Cygwin porting

Hi All, I'm the author of the ORSA tool for scientific grade Celestial Mechanics computations. We provide a graphical application for Linux/Mac/Win using the Qt library. I was wondering how difficult would it be to port it to the Cygwin platform. I hope this is not a silly question, since I'm not

Re: WFM (Was: Re: Missing ntdll.dll export with perl 5.8.6 om Win9x)

Jacek Piskozub wrote: Hi, Confirming that Perl 5.8.6-2 works for me on Windows Me. Thanks Gerrit! Thank you for confirming that it works ok now! Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: