Re: cygwin and tape backup

2005-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 9 21:08, Manny Kaiser wrote: > resent in plain text > > On 6/9/05, Manny Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a win2k client with a SCSI card connected to a Quantum l200 tape > > loader - dlt7000 tape drive with a 8 slot robot. > > > > I made a backup of data on

Re: automatic generation of resolv.conf

2005-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 9 15:25, Brian Dessent wrote: > Ross Boulet wrote: > > I recently downloaded and compiled dig from the bind > > website. [...] > > Since that functionality already exists, your best bet would be to > either a) use the win32 port b) patch dig to include that functionality > when compiling

Re: ./config

2005-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 9 17:31, Brian Dessent wrote: > alex hardy wrote: > > > Every time I use the ./config comand it does not work. > > Huh? This is way too vague to answer. > > 1. "./config" is not a standard command, do you mean "./configure"? Sounds like the OpenSSL config which is really called config

Re: cygwin.bat fails with "WFMO failed waiting for cygthread 'WnetGetResourceInformation'

2005-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 6 11:39, Tim Hart wrote: > All, > > My XP machine is currently unable to connect to my Windows domain before > logging in. Windows uses cached information to accept my domain login. I then > VPN to my domain, and life is good. > > If my VPN connection is established, then Cygwin works j

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

2005-06-10 Thread Roy Wiseman
Hi Igor, >>> Also, as your cygcheck output shows, you are in a domain. It's quite possible that the domain controller really is taking more than 30 minutes to return the set of users and groups (for large domains). Yes, as you say, I can see the output from tee and it shows that this will take f

Re: Re: Error piping data through a cygwin command using rsh (write system call fail)

2005-06-10 Thread Johnny B. Goode
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:18:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Did you try gzip -c ? Hi Corinna. I've just tried adding the -c option; it does not change anything. Actually, I believe the -c option is default for gzip when no filenames are given as parameters. Also, the data leaves gzip without problem

Bug in chere

2005-06-10 Thread Nils Jeppe
Hi guys, chere adds a "bash here" context menu just fine. However: 1) You have to click on a folder icon, clicking in a folder that's open does not work 2) It opens the shell not in the folder you clicked on, but in the parent folder I do not subscribe to the mailing list (too high volume),

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Roy Wiseman >Sent: 09 June 2005 22:05 > (can't say I liked the insult much Dave, but my > mistake was accidental you know. Maybe it's a Scottish > thing that we treat people with respect until they > disrespect us, I guess we don't think we should have > to put up

My Spacebar is OK!

2005-06-10 Thread Alireza Ghasemi
Hello, Thanks to all of you for your attention to my humble spacebar key.The fact is that , I don't have much experience in writing formal English letters.So please excuse me for mistakes which may happen.The culprit is me not my keyboard! But another question is that I tried to compile allegro but

ssh localhost date # no startup files read: ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc}

2005-06-10 Thread Tom Rodman
Larry: Thanks for taking the time to reply, and thanks for the (~/.bash_login) suggestion. Below are two tests cases for "ssh localhost date". The Linux test shows that ~/.bashrc is read. The Cygwin case shows none of ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc} are read. Doesn't this seem lik

RE: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

2005-06-10 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
I wrote: >> [...] If a disclaimer is all that you want, I'm sure you/I can get >> it. In fact, as long as they know about the uncopyrighted code and >> don't do anything about it, they've given up rights to it. Christopher Faylor wrote: > And you prove that they don't know anything about it by...

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:00:31PM +0430, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: >Hello, >Thanks to all of you for your attention to my humble spacebar key.The fact >is that , I don't have much experience in writing formal English letters.So >please excuse me for mistakes which may happen.The culprit is me not my

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

2005-06-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:56 AM 6/10/2005, you wrote: Did you run "mkpasswd -c -l", like I told you? > >yep, do you mean -c or -d here ? I've done both, -d is >taking forever to resolve, -c does resolve, but I >still get the same incorrect logon when i do -c with >mkpasswd and mkgroup. > >the commands are running

Re: Bug in chere

2005-06-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:47 AM 6/10/2005, you wrote: >Hi guys, > >chere adds a "bash here" context menu just fine. However: > >1) You have to click on a folder icon, clicking in a folder that's open does >not work I'm not sure what you mean by this. "bash here" is added to *folder* context menus. You have to do

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

2005-06-10 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Larry Hall >Sent: 10 June 2005 14:55 > At 04:56 AM 6/10/2005, you wrote: > Did you run "mkpasswd -c -l", like I told you? >> >> yep, do you mean -c or -d here ? I've done both, -d is >> taking forever to resolve, -c does resolve, but I >> still get the same inc

RE: passwd & group file problems ?

2005-06-10 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:12 AM 6/10/2005, you wrote: >Original Message >>From: Larry Hall >>Sent: 10 June 2005 14:55 > >> At 04:56 AM 6/10/2005, you wrote: >> Did you run "mkpasswd -c -l", like I told you? >>> >>> yep, do you mean -c or -d here ? I've done both, -d is >>> taking forever to resolve, -c do

mcedit stackdumps

2005-06-10 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Hi For a few months now I've been suffering from mcedit internal error. Every once in a while, without any reason, mcedit stackdumps during exit procedure (after pressing F10 or double ESC). I got this error with 1.5.16, then with 1.5.17 snapshots, and now with 1.5.17 as well. I haven't tried curr

Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
A long time ago, in a Cygwin release prior to B20.1, someone made the decision to use "ash" as the standard /bin/sh for Cygwin. The sole reason for doing this was that ash was faster than bash. Later, at one point, I implemented a sorta-wannabe version of vfork, and commissioned one of the people

Re: mcedit stackdumps

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:47:37PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: >Hi > >For a few months now I've been suffering from mcedit internal error. Every >once in a while, without any reason, mcedit stackdumps during exit >procedure (after pressing F10 or double ESC). I got this error with >1.5.16, then

mkdtemp() is not declared

2005-06-10 Thread Sam Steingold
mkdtemp appears to be present (found by configure) but not declared: calls.c:1490: error: `mkdtemp' undeclared (first use this function) $ grep -r mkdtemp /usr/include/ /usr/include/cygwin/version.h: 129: Export mkdtemp. grep: warning: /usr/include/X11/X11: recursive directory loop $ -- Sa

Re: mcedit stackdumps

2005-06-10 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Christopher Faylor wrote: > >$ cat mc.exe.stackdump > >Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610CA032 > > This is indicative of a malloc corruption problem. It is probably a problem > with mcedit itself, not cygwin. OK, I sent the report to mc mailing list. I hope they will know what to do a

Re: mcedit stackdumps (Pavel please comment?)

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:19:25PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> >$ cat mc.exe.stackdump >> >Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610CA032 >> >>This is indicative of a malloc corruption problem. It is probably a >>problem with mcedit itself, not cygwin. > >OK,

Re: mcedit stackdumps (Pavel please comment?)

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:25:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >- This is problem is usually caused by free()ing the same block of memory >twice. Sigh. To restate in English: "This problem is usually caused by free()ing the same block of memory twice." cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: mcedit stackdumps

2005-06-10 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >$ cat mc.exe.stackdump > > >Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610CA032 > > > > This is indicative of a malloc corruption problem. It is probably a > problem > > with mcedit itself, not cygwin. > > OK,

ri dumps core

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Kelem
I tried running "ri File", and got the following messages: C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so to same address as parent(0x37) != 0x276 C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.s

Re: ri dumps core

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:26:42AM -0700, Steve Kelem wrote: >I tried running "ri File", and got the following messages: > >C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap >C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so to same address as >parent(0x37) != 0x276 >C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (263

ОТГ: Re: mcedit stackdumps (Pavel please comme nt?)

2005-06-10 Thread ptsekov
I read the mailing list every day. MC on Cygwin does not lack a maintainer. I'll try my best to solve this issue. -- оригин. съобщ. -- Тема: Re: mcedit stackdumps (Pavel please comment?) От: Christopher Faylor Two things: - It would be nice if the mc maintainer would comment on this. P

ssh localhost date # no startup files read: ~/{.bash_profile,.bash_login,.profile,.bashrc}

2005-06-10 Thread Tom Rodman
starting new thread, trying for attention :-> old thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00306.html Larry: THANKS for taking the time to reply, and thanks for the (~/.bash_login) suggestion. Below are two tests cases for "ssh localhost date". The Linux test shows that ~/.bash

Re: Re: Error piping data through a cygwin command using rsh (write system call fail)

2005-06-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 10 11:06, Johnny B. Goode wrote: > Also, the data leaves gzip without problems when piped through the pipeline > program, and the pipeline program then gets the error instead, which > indicates to me, that the error is not in the gzip program. It must be in > the system code behind the write

clean up download directory?

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Kelem
After having used the Cygwin download program (which is FANTASTIC!), I've noticed that I end up with redundant copies of the software. There are multiple versions of a piece of software in a directory, e.g., /release/binutils/binutils-20050520-1.tar.bz2 /release/binutils/binutils-20050608-2.ta

Re: Multi Threaded programs deadlock doing simple I/O operations

2005-06-10 Thread Mark Pizzolato
On Thursday, June 09, 2005 at 6:12 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote: On Thursday, June 09, 2005 at 3:35 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:43:59PM -0700, Mark Pizzolato wrote: > >There is a serious problem for multi threaded programs doing simple I/O > >operations in cygwin (open,

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Configuring wxWindows from cvs, on a 3.4GHz P4: Sh = Ash: real3m55.351s user5m8.610s sys 1m53.240s Sh = Bash: real3m41.850s user5m6.220s sys 1m53.426s Looks like the time has come. -- Gary R. Van Sickle > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailt

Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: So, in conversation with Corinna, I think that we're starting to lean towards making /bin/sh == bash sometime soon. Excellent idea. And it even seems to handle the automatic switch to POSIX mode correctly when called "sh.exe". Talking of which, how good is "pdksh"

RE: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
PS: I was as surprised as the Gentle Reader was at the closeness of these results, so I repeated this test several times. I made absolutely sure I was running the sh I thought I was running, and the results are 100% repeatable; there is simply no real difference in speed between shells. So the c

Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 04:35:05PM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>So, in conversation with Corinna, I think that we're starting to lean >>towards making /bin/sh == bash sometime soon. > >Excellent idea. And it even seems to handle the automatic switch to >POSIX mode correc

Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 06:13:31PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >Configuring wxWindows from cvs, on a 3.4GHz P4: > >Sh = Ash: >real3m55.351s >user5m8.610s >sys 1m53.240s > >Sh = Bash: >real3m41.850s >user5m6.220s >sys 1m53.426s > >Looks like the time has come. Wow. I n

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: catgets

2005-06-10 Thread Bryan Henderson
The catgets package is now available in the Cygwin distribution. Catgets is a programming library for issuing messages via a message catalog so a program can speak multiple languages. The library contains the X/Open standard catgets(), catopen(), and catclose() calls. The package also includes t

Re: Making /bin/sh == bash. Has the time come?

2005-06-10 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: Wow. I never expected that bash would actually be faster. I would appreciate getting a few more benchmarks for other packages. If this holds out then moving to bash is a no-brainer. FWIW, there has been a concerted effort in libtool-2.0 to replace fork/exec'ed subp

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-10 Thread Beman Dawes
"Jaeho Shin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I'm having problem with accessing files that have Unicode in their >filenames. > >... The Boost Filesystem library (www.boost.org/libs/filesystem) release version does not currently support Unicode or other wide-characte

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:08:30PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote: >I've been in contact with Newlib people working on the problem in, which is >where the problem needs to be solved. They really need encouragement that >people do care about wide character support, and that not having it is a >black ey

Re: clean up download directory?

2005-06-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Steve Kelem wrote: After having used the Cygwin download program (which is FANTASTIC!), I've noticed that I end up with redundant copies of the software. There are multiple versions of a piece of software in a directory, e.g., /release/binutils/binutils-20050520-1.tar.bz2 /release/binutils/binu

Re: ri dumps core

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Kelem
Christopher Faylor said the following on 6/10/2005 10:34 AM: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:26:42AM -0700, Steve Kelem wrote: I tried running "ri File", and got the following messages: C:\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe (2636): *** unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\ruby\1.8\i386-cygwin\syck.so to same address

Re: My Spacebar is OK!

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:53:26AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:00:31PM +0430, Alireza Ghasemi wrote: >>Hello, >>Thanks to all of you for your attention to my humble spacebar key.The fact >>is that , I don't have much experience in writing formal English letters.So >

Negative stats from rsync with 20050610 snapshot

2005-06-10 Thread David Rothenberger
rsync has started reported negative statistics with the 20050610 snapshot and a DLL I built from CVS HEAD today using gcc 3.4.4 and the latest gcc-mingw release. Interestingly (to me, at least), it works correctly with CVS HEAD built today using gcc 3.3.3 and the previous gcc-mingw release

Re: Re :Re: apache start problem

2005-06-10 Thread Gene Smith
Brian Dessent wrote, On 06/07/2005 06:58 AM: Alireza Ghasemi wrote: 1.I have never tried to create any username in Cygwin (Because I don't know how!).Also,I haven't given any username to apache.just I typed "apachectl start".How can I create a username in cygwin? 2.I have a very weak dial-up i

Re: ri dumps core

2005-06-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Steve Kelem wrote: > Okay. I ran rebase. Then I get the same problem. I just noticed that ruby uses .so for the name of its dynamic modules, but I think the rebaseall script only looks for .dll. Make a list of all the .so files in the ruby package and pass that to rebaseall with the -T flag, o

Re: bash page fault on Win98SE when running non-Cygwin programs

2005-06-10 Thread Jacek Piskozub
irwin at bongo wrote: When running some non-Cygwin programs from bash (seems to be mostly a problem with 16-bit programs, but also some 32-bit programs), bash gets an invalid page fault in KERNEL32.DLL and pops up a fault dialog. I have seen the same problem with WindowsME for at least a mont