Re: Installing in root (was Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article)

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
linda w wrote: > Perhaps he has read that many developers and users on this list > use "C:\" as the root diretory and have no problems. I had the > impression that the advice to install into a subdirectory was more > of a Covering One's Behind (COB?) when presenting cygwin as a commercial > solut

Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread acidblue
I'm using the following syntax: cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' I get a " No such file or directory" message. cygwin on WinXP installed to C:/ I get this message no matter which directory I try to cd into. Driving me nuts Please help. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

RE: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Please post output of mount -p acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: > I'm using the following syntax: > cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' > I get a " No such file or directory" message. > cygwin on WinXP installed to C:/ > > I get this message no matter which directory I

Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 17:22, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 22:28:32 -0500 (EST) > Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The best way to second such requests is with a patch. Remember, > > . :-) > > Where would I find the code to setup.exe? > >

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: > Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have >> run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. >> Previously, I had problems within minutes. > > Go, you! Someone s

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would > introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 is > released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent. > Please could I mention a minor but

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 09:31, J?rg Schaible wrote: > Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreading problems. I have > >> run three invocations of the scripts for four days without a hiccup. > >> Previously, I had pr

Re: svn on apache on Cygwin?

2005-02-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Steve Kelem wrote: Does anyone have a pointer on how to build apache on Cygwin so that it supports svn? I'm working on it, but it's still at the "trailblazing" stage, rather than the "guidebooks available" stage. Use svnserve instead. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscri

Re: RFE: enhance setup.exe to used cached mirrors file

2005-02-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:30:45 +0100 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html Got it. Thanks. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +-

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread acidblue
Sure thing: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mount -p Prefix Type Flags /cygdrive system binmode [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ - Original Message - From: "Jörg Schaible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:26 AM Subject: RE: Can't cd into director

Possible bug

2005-02-08 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
try this : $ AUTOHEADER="autoheader`echo "$AUTOCONF" | sed 's/.*autoconf//'`" $ test -x $AUTOHEADER $ echo $? the result in cygwin is 1 but the result in fedora is 0 this is not enabling me to cross compile tvtime -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: Possible bug

2005-02-08 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
oops in fedora its 1 code in tvtime boot strap thats failing - test -x "$AUTOHEADER" || AUTOHEADER="autoheader`echo "$AUTOCONF" | sed 's/.*autoconf//'`" && AUTOHEADER=`type -p "$AUTOHEADER"` || { echo `basename $0`: GNU Autoco

Re: Possible bug

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote: > code in tvtime boot strap thats failing > - > test -x "$AUTOHEADER" || > AUTOHEADER="autoheader`echo "$AUTOCONF" | sed 's/.*autoconf//'`" && > AUTOHEADER=`type -p "$AUTOHEADER"` || > { > echo `basen

Re: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:17:52AM +0100, Volker Bandke wrote: Which system configuration did you use to recreate the problem? I got enough donations to purchase the following: Motherboard: ASUS P4P800SE Memory: 1G CPU: CPU P4/3.0EGHz 800M 478P/1MB HT RT HD: Samsung 1

Re: perl winpid?

2005-02-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:17:32PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Reini Urban wrote: I feel quite stupid now, but found nothing simple. How to get the winpid from the current process in cygwin's perl? We will check out there

Re: perl & Win32 lib support

2005-02-08 Thread Reini Urban
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 06:42:21PM -0800, linda w wrote: I thought there had been a fix in the works for this problem -- I wanted to write a program using cygwin perl to access/modify the Registry. When I load the Win32 package from cpan and try building it, I get a

RE: tee piping to head gives error message

2005-02-08 Thread John Chatelle
Don't break head. We won't want "Argument list too long" when piping a stream to head. -- Original Message --- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (To: cygwin-cygwin.com Sent: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:49:49 -0500 Subject: RE: tee piping to head gives error message > At Monday, February 07, 2

cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Lannoye Xavier
Hi I've just run an setup to add some fonctionalities (cron) to my cygwin install, but it crashed at the end of the configuration process with the following message "the procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the dynamic link library cygwin1.dll" Now, wathever I try to rin I'v

Re: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Lannoye Xavier wrote: > I've just run an setup to add some fonctionalities (cron) to my cygwin > install, but it crashed at the end of the configuration process with > the following message > > "the procedure entry point _impure_ptr could not be located in the > dynamic link library cygwin1.dll"

RE: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lannoye Xavier > Sent: 08 February 2005 13:20 > Hi > > I've just run an setup to add some fonctionalities (cron) to my cygwin > install, but it crashed at the end of the configuration process with > the following message > > "the pro

Re: Possible bug

2005-02-08 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
but the below code in tvtime bootstrap works fine -- test -x "$AUTOCONF" || AUTOCONF=`type -p autoconf2.50` || AUTOCONF=`type -p autoconf` || { echo `basename $0`: cannot find GNU Autoconf 1>&2 && exi

RE: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jörg Schaible wrote: > acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: > > > I'm using the following syntax: > > cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' > > I get a " No such file or directory" message. > > cygwin on WinXP installed to C:/ > > > > I get this message no ma

Re: tee piping to head gives error message (also with snapshot 20050206)

2005-02-08 Thread Christian Weinberger
Here's > a test on a file with 4207 lines in it. > > dk mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt | tee tmp2.txt | head -4100 > /dev/nu > ll > tee: write error > dk mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt | tee tmp2.txt | head -4100 > /dev/nu > ll > dk mace /artimi/firmware> cat diffs.txt | te

RE: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lannoye Xavier > Sent: 08 February 2005 13:40 > Hi > > here you have a syscheck log Let's take a look Path: C:\oracle\ora90\bin C:\oracle\ora90\Apache\Perl\5.00503\bin\mswin32-x86 Ah. A version of Perl. And not Act

RE: hyperthreading fix, try #1

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: 08 February 2005 08:48 > On Feb 8 09:31, J?rg Schaible wrote: > > Brian Gallew wrote on Monday, February 07, 2005 2:18 PM: > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > >> Fixing that seems to have fixed my hyperthreadi

RE: Installing in root (was Re: Linux Journal Cygwin article)

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: 08 February 2005 08:12 > linda w wrote: > > > Perhaps he has read that many developers and users on this list > > use "C:\" as the root diretory and have no problems. I had the > > impression that the advice to

Re: perl winpid?

2005-02-08 Thread Reini Urban
Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:17:32PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Reini Urban wrote: I feel quite stupid now, but found nothing simple. How to get the winpid from the current process in cygwin's perl?

Re: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Lannoye Xavier
here you have the output for dir /w its quite huge I've put the cygwin path in top of my PATH var. but still the same problem regards On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:37:23 -, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lannoye Xavier > > Sen

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread Jonathan Arnold
acidblue wrote: acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: I'm using the following syntax: cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' I get a " No such file or directory" message. cygwin on WinXP installed to C:/ I get this message no matter which directory I try to cd into. Driving me nuts

RE: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Lannoye Xavier > Sent: 08 February 2005 14:50 > here you have the output for dir /w > its quite huge Directory of C:\oracle\ora90\Apache\Perl\5.00503\bin\mswin32-x86 [.] [..] a2p.exe perl.dll per

Read the reports before you trade

2005-02-08 Thread Richard
Test message -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Couldn't create signal pipe - User permission problem? (IIS6/Win2003)

2005-02-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear List, I am seeking advice regarding the permissions it necessary for a windows system user to have in order to successfully execute a binary that uses cygwin1.dll. The binary in question is mkisofs.exe as supplied with the cdrtools-2.01-win32-bin package. The package is supplied with cygwin1

Re: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Lannoye Xavier
I've tried what you said, cleaned my PATH var (using control panel, ...) but it doesn't work. still the same problem I ran a new IExporer window, to make sure it takes the new path values. I could do a full uninstall of cygwin, and install a clean one, but that looks so terrible;-( thks On

Re: perl winpid?

2005-02-08 Thread Reini Urban
Reini Urban schrieb: Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:17:32PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Reini Urban wrote: I feel quite stupid now, but found nothing simple. How to get the winpid from the current proce

Re: Using PWD

2005-02-08 Thread Arthur I Schwarz
Well, you got me all enthused, sigh :-(. Which requires a path. The objective (here) is not to put the scripts on a path because they are transient and using PATH would be overkill. So: ./ Which does indeed provide a path ('.'). But so does dirname $0. source scripts/ Which can't fi

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Phil Betts
On Tuesday, February 08, 2005 6:14 AM Rizwan Kassim wrote (sort of): > I haven't been able to find out how to do the following: > I'd like to accelerate my car using the left pedal and find some > other way of stopping it (maybe the pedal on the right). > > Anyone know how to do this? > > Cheers,

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 11:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: > > Further coreutils-5.3.0 debugging turned up more POSIX bugs in cygwin: > > > > defines struct passwd with the pw_uid and pw_gid members as ints, > > although POSIX requires uid_t and gid_t. > > http://www.opengroup

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:42:11PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >I have attached a patch to newlib this time. Thinking about that >for a while, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't make sense to build >old 32 bit versions of Cygwin with recent newlib versions. So I'm >opting for having a clean pwd.h

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 12:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:42:11PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I have attached a patch to newlib this time. Thinking about that > >for a while, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't make sense to build > >old 32 bit versions of Cygwin with recent newlib

Re: Can't cd into directory

2005-02-08 Thread Jonathan Arnold
(Please reply to the mailing list, not me directly). acidblue wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "acidblue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:26 AM Subject: Re: Can't cd into directory acidblue wrote: acidblue wrote on Tu

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Johnston
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 2 11:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 1 20:58, Erik Blake wrote: Further coreutils-5.3.0 debugging turned up more POSIX bugs in cygwin: defines struct passwd with the pw_uid and pw_gid members as ints, although POSIX requires uid_t and gid_t. http://www.opengrou

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-08 Thread Jeff Johnston
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 8 12:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 06:42:11PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have attached a patch to newlib this time. Thinking about that for a while, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't make sense to build old 32 bit versions of Cygwin with

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts > Sent: 08 February 2005 17:09 > The selection model used by rxvt is standard throughout the X11 world. It's insane. Unless you have the precision muscular control skills of a world-class gymnast, a mouse always moves

Re: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Dave Korn wrote: The selection model used by rxvt is standard throughout the X11 world. It's insane. And it's not necessarily standard either. For example, Konsole on SuSE does not auto select. Unless you have the precision muscular control skills of a world-class gymnast, a mouse always moves a

Re: perl & Win32 lib support

2005-02-08 Thread linda w
There must be something else involved or I've messed something else up: > perl -v This is perl, v5.8.6 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int ... I seem to have 5.8.6 installed. Is there anything else I should look at. I probably have something else messed up somewhere. :-/ Sigh. -linda Yit

Problem with alarm() not functioning twice in one program.

2005-02-08 Thread Max Bowsher
The following program produces the output: Begin Done Begin ...and then hangs. Can anyone help me understand why? Thankyou, Max. #include #include #include #include jmp_buf timer; void alarm_handler(int dummy) { longjmp(timer, 1); } void speedtest(void) { fprintf(stderr, "Begin\n"); signal(

Re: Problem with alarm() not functioning twice in one program.

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: > The following program produces the output: > > Begin > Done > Begin > ...and then hangs. > > Can anyone help me understand why? > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00598.html -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulati

Re: Problem with alarm() not functioning twice in one program.

2005-02-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: The following program produces the output: Begin Done Begin ...and then hangs. Can anyone help me understand why? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00598.html Ah, OK. So are you saying "SIGALRM has been entered, but has not returned,

Changing root path from /ecos-c/ to /

2005-02-08 Thread Bruce Hampton
Hi, I'm using Cygwin. I wish to change the default path for C: from /ecos-c/ to /. When I type "mount" in cygwin, I get the following: C:\PFARM\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /ecos-c type user (textmode) c: on / type user (textmode) e: on /cygdrive/e type user (textmode,noumount) f: on

Re: several more bugs found by coreutils

2005-02-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 8 14:17, Jeff Johnston wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I have attached a patch to newlib this time. Thinking about that > >for a while, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't make sense to build > >old 32 bit versions of Cygwin with recent newlib versions. So I'm > >opting for having a clean

Re: Problem with alarm() not functioning twice in one program.

2005-02-08 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> The following program produces the output: > >> > >> Begin > >> Done > >> Begin > >> ...and then hangs. > >> > >> Can anyone help me understand why? > >> > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/20

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts >> Sent: 08 February 2005 17:09 > > It's insane. not really -- works exceptionally well for me, much better than keyboard shortcuts for my use. > Unless you have the precision muscular control skills

Re: Problem with alarm() not functioning twice in one program.

2005-02-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Max Bowsher wrote: The following program produces the output: Begin Done Begin ...and then hangs. Can anyone help me understand why? http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00598.html Ah, OK. So are yo

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Reid Thompson
Dave Korn wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts >> Sent: 08 February 2005 17:09 > >> The selection model used by rxvt is standard throughout the X11 >> world. > http://seth.positivism.org/man.cgi/rxvt there are hyperlinks in the above page that refer

bug in setup.exe?

2005-02-08 Thread Swenson, Eric
I've run into the following situation on several machines now, at multiple times -- each with different versions of cygwin (so I'm not following the bug reporting procedure as I think the version information provided by cygcheck isn't really relevant and as I'm currently in a non-cygwin-working sta

Re: tee piping to head gives error message

2005-02-08 Thread Eric Blake
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID niaid.nih.gov> writes: > > > > Given that the purpose of head is to print the first few lines of a > > file, it kind of makes sense to me that it would close the file after > > it's read them rather than keeping the input file open and manually > > reading-and-disca

[PATCH] Re: perl winpid?

2005-02-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:48:01PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: > Gerrit P. Haase schrieb: > >Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >>On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:17:32PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: > >>>Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: > On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Reini Urban wrote: > > >I feel quite stupid n

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Reid Thompson
> copy with left mouse button, select_and_paste at same time > into new window via middle mouse button/scroll wheel. or, copy with left mouse button, select new window with right mouse button(rather than left), paste with middle button/scroller reid -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

ClamAV update

2005-02-08 Thread Tony Hain
I realize there have been disk problems lately, but how long should it normally take for the ClamAV utility to be updated? FreshClam has been screaming in the logs for 2 weeks now about needing an update, and there have been 2 version updates in that time: -- Rec

Re: [PATCH] Re: perl winpid?

2005-02-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:46:41PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > How does this look? > > --- README.cygwin.orig2003-08-19 07:37:00.0 -0700 > +++ README.cygwin 2005-02-08 11:47:03.38288 -0800 Sorry for the inconsistent directory levels; those should have been per

Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Bogosian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy all, I've searched through the archives on this, but I've come up empty, so I figured I'd ask I'm trying to execute a cygwin-ignorant Windows binary from a bash script. However, the DLLs required to load this binary are not in the system-

Re: Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Bogosian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Incidentally, I have already thought of doing something like this: # ... Path="$(cygpath -pw "${PATH}");$(cygpath -pw "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}")" export Path exec "${0}.bat" "${Path}" ${1+"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"} Where "${0}.bat" may be something like: set Path=

Re: bug in setup.exe?

2005-02-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Swenson, Eric wrote: > I've run into the following situation on several machines now, at multiple > times -- each with different versions of cygwin (so I'm not following the > bug reporting procedure as I think the version information provided by > cygcheck isn't really relevan

Re: Changing root path from /ecos-c/ to /

2005-02-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:20 AM 2/7/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm using Cygwin. I wish to change the default path for C: from /ecos-c/ to /. > >When I type "mount" in cygwin, I get the following: > >C:\PFARM\cygwin on / type system (binmode) >c: on /ecos-c type user (textmode) >c: on / type user (textmode) >e: on /cygd

Re: Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....

2005-02-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matthew Bogosian wrote: > Howdy all, > > I've searched through the archives on this, but I've come up empty, so I > figured I'd ask > > I'm trying to execute a cygwin-ignorant Windows binary from a bash script. > However, the DLLs required to load this binary are not in the

RE: bug in setup.exe?

2005-02-08 Thread Swenson, Eric
Thanks, Igor. Would another possible solution be to have setup special case *only* the cygwin-dll package? Have it run all the pre-remove scripts first, then if the cygwin-dll package needs updating, do that, and then do the rest? Then, packages that have a dependency on cygwin1.dll in their scr

RE: bug in setup.exe?

2005-02-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Eric, Please make sure your mailer honors the Reply-To: field. I set it for a reason. Thanks. I've also reformatted your top-posted message. Top-posting is rather annoying -- if you can possibly avoid it, please do. On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Swenson, Eric wrote: > > -Original Message- > >

Re: perl & Win32 lib support

2005-02-08 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 12:04:51PM -0800, linda w wrote: > There must be something else involved or I've messed something else up: > > > perl -v > This is perl, v5.8.6 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int > ... > >I seem to have 5.8.6 installed. Is there anything else I should > look at.

Re: Changing root path from /ecos-c/ to /

2005-02-08 Thread Shane Tolmie
Hi Larry, Well, I wish it were that simple. That command doesnt work - it needs the Win32 file system to basic utilities like ls, etc. When eCos is installed, it somehow makes c: mount on /ecos-c, it previously was /. We're trying to find a way to put it back. Shane. Larry Hall wrote: At 12:20

Re: Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....

2005-02-08 Thread Matthew Bogosian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, I could have *sworn* I tried that before and it didn't work, but I tried it again, and it seems to be exactly what I wanted/hoped for. Ugh...sorry for the unnecessary traffic and thanks for the quick response! -- Matt On Feb 8, 2005, a

Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /

2005-02-08 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 8 07:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent remarks ("I have an idea about how to fix the race but it would introduce a destabilizing change that I'd rather not chance before 1.5.13 is released") suggest that an updated cygwin1.dll might be imminent. Please could I ment

Help with deleting Cygwin shortcuts

2005-02-08 Thread Ivan Lenev
Hello! Can someone help me with deleting all the files from the \Cygwin directory? I was able to delete about 99% of the files in the directories, but some files stated that they cannot be deleted because "Access is Denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected." I tried everything f

Re: Help with deleting Cygwin shortcuts

2005-02-08 Thread Peter Rehley
On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Ivan Lenev wrote: Hello! Can someone help me with deleting all the files from the \Cygwin directory? I was able to delete about 99% of the files in the directories, but some files stated that they cannot be deleted because "Access is Denied. Make sure the disk is not ful

Re: Re: Help with deleting Cygwin shortcuts

2005-02-08 Thread Ivan Lenev
I'm pretty sure that I have full access since I'm the only user, and I don't see a "Security/Permissions" Tab in the properties of any of my files. I'm running WinXP Home, and no file sharing. -Ivan Lenev On Tue Feb 8 18:51 , Peter Rehley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:23

strange cp behavior with (coreutils 5.2.1)

2005-02-08 Thread Jane Doe
$ net use shiva /u:shiva\\administrator $ cp //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h . cp: cannot open `//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h.exe' for reading: No such file or directory $ net use shiva /d $ net use shiva /u:develop\\dkaa $ cp -v //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h . `//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h' -> `./eqg

Re: Changing root path from /ecos-c/ to /

2005-02-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:13 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote: >Hi Larry, > >Well, I wish it were that simple. That command doesnt work - it needs the >Win32 file system to basic utilities like ls, etc. Huh? 'umount' is a command that doesn't rely on any other command. It's a separate executable. See 'man umount' for more

Re: strange cp behavior with (coreutils 5.2.1)

2005-02-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:15 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote: >$ net use shiva /u:shiva\\administrator >$ cp //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h . >cp: cannot open `//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h.exe' for >reading: No such file or directory >$ net use shiva /d >$ net use shiva /u:develop\\dkaa >$ cp -v //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h

Re: strange cp behavior with (coreutils 5.2.1)

2005-02-08 Thread Jane Doe
--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:15 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote: > >$ net use shiva /u:shiva\\administrator > >$ cp //shiva/c\$/cvsmq/eqgame.h . > >cp: cannot open `//shiva/c$/cvsmq/eqgame.h.exe' for > >reading: No such file or directory > >$ net use shiva /d > >$ net use

RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior

2005-02-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:25 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: RXVT copy/paste behavior > > > -Original Message- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Phil Betts > >

Re: Changing root path from /ecos-c/ to /

2005-02-08 Thread Shane Tolmie
Hi Larry, Tried it again, and it worked this time. Had to restart the shell. Thanks for your help. Shane. Larry Hall wrote: At 07:13 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote: Hi Larry, Well, I wish it were that simple. That command doesnt work - it needs the Win32 file system to basic utilities like ls, etc. Huh?

sshd "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" until restarted

2005-02-08 Thread David Christensen
Cygwin: I recently rebuilt my XP Pro SP2 workstation and re-installed Cygwin. I noticed that when the machine is booted, sshd is unresponsive until I manually stop and restart it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date Tue Feb 8 21:02:53 PST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh localhost ssh_exchange_identificatio

Re: Help with deleting Cygwin shortcuts

2005-02-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Ivan Lenev wrote: I'm pretty sure that I have full access since I'm the only user, and I don't see a "Security/Permissions" Tab in the properties of any of my files. I'm running WinXP Home, and no file sharing. XP Home sucks, get a book about XP where is described how to tweak security settings

New user on Cygwin

2005-02-08 Thread BIGONI STEFANO
Good morning, I'm Stefano Bigoni, System Admin of University of Ferrara (Italy). I installed yesterday CygWin on a Windows XP Professional Platform. I've been searching on help the procedure to set-up a sftp external new user, but I can't find any information about it. Could you help me, please?

Re: cygwin1.dll crash

2005-02-08 Thread Lannoye Xavier
hi again the problem is solved (blushing...) I rebooted my computer, and now everything works fine again thanks for your time;-/ On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:06:34 +0100, Lannoye Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried what you said, cleaned my PATH var (using control panel, ...) > b

cygwin digest format

2005-02-08 Thread Gorden Jemwa
Could the digest format be changed into a single message format containing all the messages instead of a single message with other messages embeddded as attachments? I don't know what others think but IMO its easier to read browse through a single message than opening individual attachment, unl