Remote operation of programs

I am looking for a tool to operate programs that are already running on Windows, from a script / program. I would like to have a script / program that will be run before I leave the office, and that will instruct outlook to synchronize and then shutdown, and after that "hibernate" the computer.

Re: More: Recent increase in size

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fergus [snip] ... but maybe there's some huge directory come into being? I mean (sorry to bang on) has /bin/ always contained ~1700 files at 269M; and /lib/ ~500 files at 164M? (I'

Serial programming - Writing bytes in a blocking mode - Problem with tcdrain() ?

Hi, I'm trying to use the serial port with Cygwin, and here is my problem: I can successfully write on the line, but I need to switch the RTS and DTR lines just AFTER the last byte is written in the line. I put the bytes that I want in the line with the command Write and I wait for the last byte

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

Thank you, Christopher. The problem has been resolved after upgrading Cygwin to 1.5.16. Regards, Jayant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:22 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help !!! - P

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

Corinna: Thank you for all your help. The problem has been resolved after upgrading Cygwin to 1.5.16. Thanks. Best regards, Jayant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:09 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.co

RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remote Desktop session with non-admin privileges

Julian and Larry: Thanks for your help. The problem has been resolved after upgrading the Cygwin to 1.5.16. Thanks. Best regards, Jayant -Original Message- From: Moghe, Jayant Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:04 AM To: Cygwin List Subject: RE: Help !!! - Problem running Cygwin in Remo

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/15/2005 9:40 AM: > On my Debian Linux bash shell, the backspace key kills > the current character ("backward-delete-char" function > in .inputrc) and my ctrl-H key simply moves the cursor > left ("backward-char" func

Re: can not compile cscope on cygwin

Hmmm. Did you rerun configure after you installed bison and flex? I think you need to reconfigure to let make know that those tools are now available, and which flavor is there. On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:13:06 + (UTC), Arvind wrote: >Mark Paulus mci.com> writes: >> >> I just tried this, an

Re: Path problems with trailing dot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Stefan Schuerger on 5/15/2005 4:41 PM: > bash: test./test2: No such file or directory > > The trailing dot disappears and cannot be used in paths. This seems to > be a DOS legacy of either NTFS or Windows. Yes - Windows strips all traili

Re: Path problems with trailing dot

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:53:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >According to Stefan Schuerger on 5/15/2005 4:41 PM: >> bash: test./test2: No such file or directory >> >> The trailing dot disappears and cannot be used in paths. This seems to >> be a DO

Re: Please test latest snapshot

Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > We would like to release 1.5.17 soon. > > Please try the latest snapshot, 2005-May-13, from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > Additional to a couple of bugfixes there's also a new feature which needs a > bit of testing. You can now list servers in the m

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

--- Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Backspace IS control-H, and you must live with it > (or else submit a patch that creates a new terminal > type, perhaps called > cygwin-bs, with different key-mappings and new > termcap/terminfo database > entries, and a way for the user to select which o

man-1.5p-1

Hi Perhaps this recycles an old annoucement for (1.5o) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg01621.html However, it seems that this said version (1.5p) erroneously "restored" two lines in /usr/share/misc/man.conf > Unrecognized line in config file (ignored) > KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkor

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 07:41:21AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I'm surprised that cygwin does not, because every linux/unix system >I've used easily distinguished between the two. Ah, but linux doesn't subscribe to our philosophy of maximum surprise for the end user - MSFTEU. cgf -- Unsubsc

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Anyways, isn't there a terminal type for use with > cygwin that will differentiate between BACKSPACE and > ^H? > > I'm surprised that cygwin does not, because every > linux/unix system I've used easily distinguished > between the two. As Eric said, if you're using a

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

> --- Eric Blake wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR > Anyways, isn't there a terminal type for use with > cygwin that will differentiate between BACKSPACE and > ^H? Yes, the post I pointed you to shows that both rxvt and xterm terminals can be configured under cygwin, by using t

Stale NFS file handle

Mounting from a Solaris box to a Windows 2003 server running Cygwin NFS >From solaris, run command mount -f nfs servername:/cygdrive/e/mnt/test /mnt/dev (/mnt/dev already exists) Receive error on solaris box mfs mount: mount: /mnt/dev: Stale NFS file handle mountd.log: mountd[4360] 05/16/105 10:

Re: cygrunsrv V1.01, Feb 27 2005

On May 16 14:29, Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] wrote: > Hi, >I've got a problem, in that I am using cygrunsrv to run squid (compiled > with cywin), and occasionally the squid.exe process dies, but cygrunsrv but > keeps running. I need cygrunsrv to either terminate, so that the service > config

Re: Please test latest snapshot

On May 16 14:36, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > We would like to release 1.5.17 soon. > > > > Please try the latest snapshot, 2005-May-13, from > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ > > > > Additional to a couple of bugfixes there's also a new feature which need

Re: How to separate backspace and control-J functions?

On May 16 07:56, Brian Dessent wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > > Anyways, isn't there a terminal type for use with > > cygwin that will differentiate between BACKSPACE and > > ^H? > > > > I'm surprised that cygwin does not, because every > > linux/unix system I've used easily distinguishe

CygWin on WinE

I readed somewhere in Internet thats is any way to run CygWin applications like bash on WinE. How can I do it? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: tcsh-6.14.00-3

I've updated the version of tcsh to 6.14.00-3. This fixes a package bug in the Cygwin tcsh package. Otherwise, just enjoy the release message from 6.14.00-2 again: This is a Cygwin bugfix release. It fixes the handling of two leading slashes in tcsh on Cygwin, so that double slash network paths

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygrunsrv-1.0.2-1

I have updated cygrunsrv to version 1.0.2-1. This is a bugfix release. When a service process stops unexpectedly due to a received signal, cygrunsrv 1.0.1 accidentally didn't inform the system that the service has stopped. The result was an unresponsive cygrunsrv and a service control manager wh

Re: CygWin on WinE

At 10:16 AM 5/15/2005, you wrote: >I readed somewhere in Internet thats is any way to run CygWin >applications like bash on WinE. How can I do it? Perhaps you should look at how to run Wine first. Then it might be more obvious to you how you would run Cygwin. That is, unless you're having a spec

Eric van Rongen is afwezig / on leave

Ik ben afwezig vanaf 13-05-2005 en ik ben niet eerder terug dan 17-05-2005. I'm away from the office and will not be back until Tuesday May 16. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: ht

RE: can not compile cscope on cygwin

I remember having similar problems with 15.5, but cvs version was ok. Now, I haven't tried to build cscope recently, but the last time I tried, the cvs version was building (and working) just fine. Did you try cvs? Vladica -Original Message- From: Arvind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More: Recent increase in size

At 02:39 AM 5/16/2005, you wrote: >> ... but maybe there's some huge directory come into being? > >I mean (sorry to bang on) has /bin/ always contained ~1700 files at 269M; >and /lib/ ~500 files at 164M? (I've only noticed because I'm looking.) Sounds like a job for (regal trumpets sound) - The C

RE: More: Recent increase in size

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fergus Tut-tut... ... > [snip] > > > ... but maybe there's some huge directory come into being? > > > >

Re: Stale NFS file handle

Update, I am able to mount a filesystem if it is in the cygwin root ie: /nfstest but if it's a directory in another place ie: /cygdrive/e/mnt/test it doesn't work and is now responding with mount: :/cygdrive/e/mnt/test failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory Here's what mount

Re: Patch for cygutils: make cygstart behave better under mount -X

Michael Schaap wrote: Hi, Attached is a patch to fix cygstart behaviour when running under "mount -X". Cygstart now ensures that the Windows environment is synchronized with the Cygwin one. (For more details, see the recent thread: "Fixing strace and cygcheck so that they work with mount -X") Chuc

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygutils-1.2.8-1

The cygutils package has been updated to 1.2.8. This is a bugfix release. o Changes from version 1.2.7-1 - cygstart.exe: improve operation with 'mount -X' (Michael Schaap) - dump.exe: bugfix for mingw compatibility (Kees Zeelenberg) Charles Wilson To update your installation, click on the "In

RE: More: Recent increase in size

> -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski [snip] > > On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of fergus > > Tut-tut... ... >

Re: Base-files 3.4-1: Problems for users with Non-Admin. priv

I want to call again your attention on the fact that when /etc/profile sets chmod 1777 /tmp the simple user (NOT Admin. priv) receives chmod: changing permissions of `/tmp': Permission denied even if he starts the standard bash-shell without the XServer activated! i.e. the problem rema

RE: Please test latest snapshot

[snip uberslow network traverse] > > I don't know if there is a reasonable way to speed this up, > because you want to ensure that //machine exists before > allowing `cd //machine' to succeed, but don't want to go > stat'ing every machine on the network when doing a readdir() on //. > I can

Re: Patch for cygutils: make cygstart behave better under mount -X

On 16-May-2005 22:59, Charles Wilson wrote: > Michael Schaap wrote: > >> >> Chuck, can you, at your convenience, apply this patch and release a new >> version of cygutils? > > > Look for 1.2.8 on a mirror near you. Thanks for the patch. > Thanks! – Michael -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

1.5.16 tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem

With the latest tetex build, I can't get *tex to use its format files: 516$ latex aleph.tex This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. ---! /cygdrive/c/home/mcdougar/.texmf/var/web2c/latex.fmt was written by tex (Fa

sshd and cygwin1.dll

Hi, I have a similar problem with Bruno Paulet (http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01450.html). The problem is that I have the following error message box when starting sshd (using net start or cygrunsrv -S sshd) "pthread_atfork no found in cygwin1.dll" as Bruno had. From the above threa

Re: sshd and cygwin1.dll

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:47:01PM -0700, B Aswin wrote: >Hi, > >I have a similar problem with Bruno Paulet >(http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01450.html). > >The problem is that I have the following error message >box when starting sshd (using net start or cygrunsrv >-S sshd) >"pthread_

cygwin-host-setup does not install sshd

when i run net start sshd i get a syntax error and it complains it cant find specified path. i have the enviormnet var's set under my computer--> properties, and i added cygwin\bin to the path i've done this before and it worked, this is a new cygwin install it doesnt ask me to compile the ssh

Re: cygwin-host-setup does not install sshd

admin wrote: > when i run net start sshd i get a syntax error and it complains it cant find > specified path. Could you be any more vague? What does the error say exactly? What does the event log say? What does /var/log/sshd.log say? > it doesnt ask me to compile the sshd binary and it doesn

Re: cygwin-host-setup does not install sshd

>admin wrote: > >> when i run net start sshd i get a syntax error and it complains it cant find >> specified path. > >Could you be any more vague? What does the error say exactly? What >does the event log say? What does /var/log/sshd.log say? sorry, should have known better: -

Control-C now propagates to child processes

Here is a behavior that I believe began with the cygwin updates of 2005-05-16. I launch a cygwin command window running the bash shell. From there, I run "startxwin.sh." Yes, this is a X11 launcher, but please bear with me. I think this is a core cygwin issue, not a cygwin/X11 issue. As a r