Re: Rebase All command.....

On 4/21/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YHBT ! YHBT is not there on that page :) ~ash -- Ashwin N http://ash.webhop.net/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docum

Re: does not work : change /cygdrive to / (Attn: documentation patch)

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:27:55AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 22 12:09, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:25:26PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > I have attached a patch to the documentation that clarifies these two > > > locations. > > > > In addition to

Re: cygrunsrv

On Apr 25 07:10, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > In testing out my keychain service on a new XP system, I was thinking about > all of the questions > that have shown up on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list in the past about launching > a > service from a user-id other than SYSTEM. And...I was wondering

beginner's questions

Hi, 1) I want to know if some software is installed in my cygwin. "whereis" and "urpmi" does not work. So how can i do this? 2) No login is required before connection. Am i root by default? If there is a tutorial answering this kind of questions please let me know. Thank you __

Re: system() fails on pristine Windows systems

Brian Dessent wrote: > system() is just a wrapper around spawnvp(). If spawn() isn't what you > want then neither is system(). spawn() does not necessarily replace the > current process (_P_OVERLAY), it can also start and optionally wait for > a subprocess (_P_WAIT, _P_NOWAIT, _P_DETACH). Excell

RE: beginner's questions

Original Message >From: community help >Sent: 26 April 2005 12:21 > Hi, > > 1) I want to know if some software is installed in my > cygwin. "whereis" and "urpmi" does not work. So how > can i do this? To find if any cygwin package contains a particular program, go to http://cygwin.co

To Larry Hall

Dear Larry Hall, Thanks for your answers to my questions.I asked 2 questions and you answered both of them quickly and with a good explanation. Sometimes,the work is too easy to do,but if you haven't got the necessary knowledge about it or don't know what to do,it becomes an important problem fo

Re: beginner's questions

> 1) I want to know if some software is installed in my > cygwin. "whereis" and "urpmi" does not work. So how > can i do this? > > 2) No login is required before connection. Am i root > by default? > 1) "urpmi" is a specifc wrapper on rpm that is used in Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) Linux system

Locking file in cygwin

Hi, I am new to cygwin (and win32 programming in general), so if the answer to my question is covered somewhere else, please point me in the right direction. While porting one of my c++ libraries to cygwin, I stumbled over this: Calling fcntl (fd, F_GETLK, ...) returns ENOSYS (function not imple

RE: Locking file in cygwin

Original Message >From: Vladislav Grinchenko >Sent: 26 April 2005 14:22 > While porting one of my c++ libraries to cygwin, I stumbled over this: > > Calling fcntl (fd, F_GETLK, ...) returns ENOSYS (function not > implemented). > > I searched the archive and couldn't find anything approp

Re: Hello, and installation question

Hi Jesper, If I follow the instructions on the line you provided below, and burn a CD with that custom installation, what do users have left to do to get a working installation on their machine? Just copying from the inst CD to a local drive would not suffice, would it? H. Jesper Vad Kristens

Re: create installation using installed.db

Brian, I guess you are referring to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwin&m=110538795118459&w=2 I'll give that a whack. If I follow the instructions from that posting, and burn a CD with that custom installation, what do users have left to do to get a working installation on their machine? Just

Re: To Larry Hall

At 08:02 AM 4/26/2005, you wrote: >Dear Larry Hall, > >Thanks for your answers to my questions.I asked 2 >questions and you answered both of them quickly and >with a good explanation. > >Sometimes,the work is too easy to do,but if you >haven't got the necessary knowledge about it or don't >know wh

Re: Rebase All command.....

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Ashwin N wrote: > On 4/21/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YHBT ! > > YHBT is not there on that page :) And won't be. . Igor P.S. For most of these, Google is the best option, anyway.

RE: Rebase Your All commands are belong to us.....

Original Message >From: Ashwin N >Sent: 26 April 2005 08:17 > On 4/21/05, Dave Korn wrote: ^^ Ash, http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR, thanks! > [...] >> http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YHBT ! > > YHBT is not there on that pag

Re: Hello, and installation question

Ugh. Top posting. Reformatted. On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Hans Horn wrote: > Jesper Vad Kristensen wrote: > > Mills wrote: > > > >> My question: I need to install Cygwin on systems with no net access > >> and am having problems building a CD fileset from which to install on > >> other machines. > >

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.16-1

I've made a new version of the Cygwin DLL and associated utilities available for download. As usual, a list of what has changed is below. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run se

Re: Hello, and installation question

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > [snip] > (but beware -- the -X flag is not faithfully reproduced by "mount -m"). Ok, strike this one. The rest still applies, though. :-D Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_

installation

Hello ! I was installing the full package of cygwin,65% of it had been finished,at that time computer because of a outer reason restarted so connection cut off. What will I do? start istallation from the zero position,from the beginning?That is,redownload first 65% of full packages and then the

Problem with 'cvs login'

All, Any ideas on whether or not this is a cygwin cvs.exe issue? Here's the error, I've included what I think is relevant below: $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/usr/local/cvsroot CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: readin

Problem in installing DBD::Pg Driver on Cygwin

$ make rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.dll LD_RUN_PATH="" ld2 -s -L/usr/local/lib Pg.o dbdimp.o quote.o types.o -o blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.d ll /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/CORE/libperl.dll.a -L/usr/lib -lpq gcc -shared -o Pg.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libPg.dll.a -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-a

Re: installation

At 02:48 PM 4/26/2005, you wrote: >Hello ! >I was installing the full package of cygwin,65% of it >had been finished,at that time computer because of a >outer reason restarted so connection cut off. > >What will I do? > >start istallation from the zero position,from the >beginning?That is,redownl

Re: ioperm - ioperm.sys is not installed.

Tony Richardson evansville.edu> writes: > > "Simon" wrote > > Hello, > > > > Trying to get JTAG working, but am getting parport open error. My IOPERM > > output says ioperm is not installed. There is no man page > > for ioperm. Can anyone point me in the right direction for getting ioperm > > in

Re: JTAG 0.5.1 or 0.4 on

> Is there anything that one needs to configure in Windows to help enable > parallel port access cygwin? Is there a need for "DOS printing support" to be turned on or anything. Used ioperm -i to install the driver. Now everything works fine! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#

Re: Locking file in cygwin

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:21:40 -0400, Vladislav Grinchenko wrote: > > In short, this happens when I try to handle PID file locking to preclude > multiple instances of the same program simultaneously running on a > host. > > If there is a more preferable way of handling this task in cygwin/win32, > I

Re: Rebase All command.....

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:46:45 +0530, Ashwin N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On 4/21/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | [...] | > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YHBT ! | | YHBT is not there on that page :) YHBT - You Have Been Trolled -- DavidPostill -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.

Re: Rebase All command.....

DavidPostill wrote: > On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:46:45 +0530, Ashwin N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | On 4/21/05, Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | [...] > | > http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YHBT ! > | > | YHBT is not there on that page :) > > YHBT - You Have Been Trolled Or, here in the UK,

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

"Rancier, Jeff" wrote: > |passenv = PATH I don't know if this applies in your situation, but if xinetd is stripping SYSTEMROOT from the child process' environment, then all socket functions in that process will fail. I think recent versions of the cygwin1.dll have measures to prevent thi

RE: Problem with 'cvs login'

Instead of PATH? Thanks for the reply, BTW. -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 5:43 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with 'cvs login' "Rancier, Jeff" wrote: > |passenv = PATH I don't know if this applies

Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

Hi, I have seen a few references to this in the mailing list, but no solutions were evident. I'm building a new machine, (windows media laptop XP Pro/media center addition 2005). Everything is up to date. I had compiled the newest version of mplayer and all was well until I added KDE yesterd

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

"Rancier, Jeff" wrote: (please don't TOP QUOTE) > > I don't know if this applies in your situation, but if xinetd is stripping > > SYSTEMROOT from the child process' environment, then all socket functions in > > that process will fail. I think recent versions of the cygwin1.dll have > > measures

RE: Problem with 'cvs login'

Thanks Brian, That resolved that issue, as far as I can tell, now I'm getting the following: $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/usr/local/cvsroot CVS password: cvs login: authorization failed: server jrancier rejected access

Re: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

At 05:47 PM 4/26/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > >I have seen a few references to this in the mailing list, but no >solutions were evident. > >I'm building a new machine, (windows media laptop XP Pro/media center >addition 2005). Everything is up to date. I had compiled the newest >version of mplayer

RE: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

I did use rebaseall -T /usr/local/bin But I've always been a bit hazy as to what the proper format for rebaseall was -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:14 PM To: Bruce Dobrin; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Any fix to cygheap

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

"Rancier, Jeff" wrote: > That resolved that issue, as far as I can tell, now I'm getting the > following: > > $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login > Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/usr/local/cvsroot > CVS password: > cvs login: authorization failed: server jr

Re: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > I did use rebaseall -T /usr/local/bin > > But I've always been a bit hazy as to what the proper format for > rebaseall was That won't work. The argument to -T is a filename of a file containing a list of additional files to rebase, one per line. It can also take '-'

RE: Problem with 'cvs login'

I want to provide access to the respository remotely and for other users. No, while reading the FAQ, I was under the impression it would be created the first time, just use mkpasswd? Didn't know all that, that's for the info. Jeff -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

"Rancier, Jeff" wrote: > > I want to provide access to the respository remotely and for other users. > No, while reading the FAQ, I was under the impression it would be created > the first time, just use mkpasswd? Didn't know all that, that's for the > info. If you are providing write (commit)

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:43:06PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >"Rancier, Jeff" wrote: > >> |passenv = PATH > >I don't know if this applies in your situation, but if xinetd is >stripping SYSTEMROOT from the child process' environment, then all >socket functions in that process will fail. I

Re: RFC: Fix partial NaN-parsing problem [was RE: sscanf problem]

Hello, I have noticed, that, while parsing {a float_value immediately followed by 'n' or 'N'} with the "%f%c" format, the sscanf function of cygwin-1.5.16-1 behaves differently from the scanf function of cygwin-1.5.14-1. Until cygwin-1.5.14-1 (included), 'n' matches %c, while with cygwin-1.5.15-1

RE: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

OK, that seems to have worked. I've only used it alone or rebase for specific files before. I generated a file from a find of all dll's under /usr and /lib ( then removed the cygwin1.dll from the list). Can I assume the redundancy of hitting most of these 2 times will not have any adverse effec

RE: Problem with 'cvs login'

Although I still can't login with my login (I found an old .cvspass for which I knew the password). BTW can someone point me a utility to create one which will work for CVS. When I try to change my passwd for bash, via passwd, it declares I'm not a valid user, although I'm in /etc/passwd). I rem

tetex 3.0.0-x problems

Last April 1st I wrote this message on cygwin-xfree mailing list: "I tried to install tex/latex 3.0.0-1 (last version), but I did not succeed. The setup, when arrives at /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh , I think something wrong it happens, since I waited for more than 30 minutes (with Pentium 4)

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

Brian Dessent wrote: [snip] > If you are providing write (commit) access then you should not use > pserver, it sends passwords in plaintext. Use ssh. It's even simpler > to setup because sshd uses the built in windows user accounts, whereas > CVS pserver requires you to maintain a seperate set of

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

René Berber wrote: > But the point is: is Cygwin's port of CVS different than the regular CVS we > use > under UNIX? The difference being that under Cygwin you must create your own > repository password file (I use cvsadmin, a separate program, to do that BTW). The CVS that is packaged with Cyg

Re: Any fix to cygheap_fixup_in_child failure after rebaseall?

Bruce Dobrin wrote: > OK, that seems to have worked. I've only used it alone or rebase for > specific files before. I generated a file from a find of all dll's > under /usr and /lib ( then removed the cygwin1.dll from the list). Can > I assume the redundancy of hitting most of these 2 times wi

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

Christopher Faylor wrote: > If that really does fix the problem then something is broken in CYGWIN. > > Corinna fixed things so that this should no longer be a problem: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-11/msg00014.html I tested this here and I can confirm that SYSTEMROOT in

Re: tetex 3.0.0-x problems

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, m. z. wrote: > Last April 1st I wrote this message on cygwin-xfree mailing list: > > "I tried to install tex/latex 3.0.0-1 (last version), but I did not succeed. > The setup, when arrives at /etc/postinstall/post-texmf.sh , I think something > wrong it happens, since I waited