Re: /var/log/wtmp problem

2005-09-12 Thread René Berber
Jurgen Defurne wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone explain for what /var/log/wtmp is used ? > > It seems that this file grows very quickly in our Cygwin environment, and > I > want to find out which programs write to this file. /var/log/wtmp gets > an update almost every two seconds here. > > We do

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: bzr 0.0.7 -- Next-generation distributed GNU Arch compatible version control.

2005-09-12 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Home page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzr/ License : GPL Next-generation distributed GNU Arch compatible version control. Distributed version control system that is powerful, friendly, and scalable implemented in Python. - Just one .bzr directory at

Re: /var/log/wtmp problem

2005-09-12 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Do you happen to know from which package 'last' is part ? I will need to build this program myself, because I am unable to upgrade my Cygwin environment and install the package (due to operational constraints). Thanks for the info, Jurgen. René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAI

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Re: /var/log/wtmp problem

2005-09-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 12 10:13, Jurgen Defurne wrote: > Do you happen to know from which package 'last' is part ? http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=last.exe Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DO

Re: Python 2.4.1 locking bug. (was: Re: rebaseall failure?)

2005-09-12 Thread Jason Tishler
Doug, On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:51:00PM -0400, Douglas Philips wrote: > On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:02 PM, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > >On the other hand, I verified at the time that the semaphore solution > >worked under Cygwin Python, so I wouldn't expect it to be a problem > >even if the cha

postgres 7.4.5 access violation

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Hunt
Hi there, I'm really hoping that someone can help with this one, as I've been battling with it for a few hours now. I'm getting an access violation when running postmaster. I've done an initdb and all is well there. I've got the latest of all that I need to run postgres as of 12.Sep. 200

guile package problem

2005-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
Since I am now the sharutils maintainer, I wanted to try building sharutils from CVS. But bootstrapping a fresh checkout requires autogen, so I gave a try at compiling autogen-5.7.2. Compilation failed because guile-1.6.7-1 has a broken /usr/lib/libguile.la, generated by libtool 1.5.10 (it refere

Re: /var/log/wtmp problem

2005-09-12 Thread René Berber
Jurgen Defurne wrote: > Do you happen to know from which package 'last' is part ? > > I will need to build this program myself, because I am unable > to upgrade my Cygwin environment and install the package > (due to operational constraints). > > Thanks for the info, Like Corinna wrote or (if yo

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:29 AM 9/12/2005, you wrote: >I've seen a bunch of similar posts online but I don't see any fixes or >resolutions. When ever I try to recursively delete a directory, I get >the following error: > >$ rm -rfv endorsed >removed `endorsed/xalan.jar' >removed `endorsed/xercesImpl.jar' >removed `en

Re: guile package problem

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Dessent
Eric Blake wrote: > Since I am now the sharutils maintainer, I wanted to try building > sharutils from CVS. But bootstrapping a fresh checkout requires > autogen, so I gave a try at compiling autogen-5.7.2. Compilation > failed because guile-1.6.7-1 has a broken /usr/lib/libguile.la, > generated

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-12 Thread James R. Phillips
Isn't this issue a potential problem with any multitasking OS ? If there is a windows-specific feature to this issue, I am not aware of it. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwi

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-12 Thread Brian Dessent
"James R. Phillips" wrote: > Isn't this issue a potential problem with any multitasking OS ? If there is a > windows-specific feature to this issue, I am not aware of it. In *nix, you can successfully unlink an open file. Its directory entry will be removed but its inode will remain until all o

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:37:11AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >In windows, a file cannot be deleted until all outstanding file handles >are closed. I think there is an option you can give to the system to >tell it to delete the file for you when all handles are closed, but >this still does not al

RE: Setup 2.510.2.2 failure

2005-09-12 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message >From: Arthur I Schwarz >Sent: 12 September 2005 18:48 >> Cygwin Setup: > Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception > Thread: DialogProc > Type: 9Exception > Message: Package validation failure for file: > //C:\Documents and Settings\ra07220\My > Documents\root\cygwin/d

Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-12 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default. I meant "if the user chooses 'DOS'" (not the global default). I.e. don't ever mount c:\cygwin as text, even if the user asks for DOS.

Re: setup.exe feature request (text mounts)

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:19:43AM -0700, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Cygwin already uses the default settings that we want it to use so, if this >>is implemented, we wouldn't want to make it the default. > >I meant "if the user chooses 'DOS'" (not the global default). I.e. d

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-12 Thread James R. Phillips
Brian Dessent wrote: >Any programs still using the file will continue to do so >obliviously, until the last open handle is closed at which point the >inode is deleted and the file is actually gone. This allows the system >to e.g. replace in-use libraries and then just restart any services that >w

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: bzr 0.0.7 -- Next-generation distributed GNU Arch compatible version control.

2005-09-12 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Jari Aalto writes: > PACKAGE DESCRIPTION > === > Home page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzr/ > License : GPL > Next-generation distributed GNU Arch compatible version control. Why do you repackage the binary package in the source package ? tar -tvjf

Re: rm problem: Directory not empty

2005-09-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 02:29 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: >I've also seen badly behaving windows programs, which refuse to "let go" of a >directory once they have used a file in it, until the program is explicitly >closed. This is most annoying, as you have to keep closing program windows >until suddenly you guess right,

Is tar -cjf deterministic?

2005-09-12 Thread James R. Phillips
I've noticed more than once that when I recreate a bzip2'ed tar archive on cygwin, the file length is slightly different. Yet it expands into the same directory tree (as determined by recursive diff). Is there something nondeterministic about tar and bzip2 on cygwin? If so, is it unique to cygwi

Re: Is tar -cjf deterministic?

2005-09-12 Thread Eric Blake
> I've noticed more than once that when I recreate a bzip2'ed tar archive on > cygwin, the file length is slightly different. Yet it expands into the same > directory tree (as determined by recursive diff). > > Is there something nondeterministic about tar and bzip2 on cygwin? If so, is > it uni

Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set

2005-09-12 Thread Hommersom, Fred
My startup of cygwin is a .bat file with contents call bigsetup.bat set HOME=C:\Data\locations\tc50_custy00 c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i The file bigsetup.bat contains a huge amount environment variables. For a medium number (~ 600) everything works fine For a larger number the output is: bash

testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot. The snapshot that is currently available should be very close to an official release of cygwin version 1.5.19. Please report success or failure to this thread. Please don't change the subject. Please don't start a new discuss

Re: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

2005-09-12 Thread Max Kaehn
cygwin1-20050912.dll: Success. -- 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/

Re: Bash login breaks if too many environment variables are set

2005-09-12 Thread Reid Thompson
Hommersom, Fred wrote: My startup of cygwin is a .bat file with contents call bigsetup.bat set HOME=C:\Data\locations\tc50_custy00 c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i The file bigsetup.bat contains a huge amount environment variables. For a medium number (~ 600) everything works fine For a larger nu

Re: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

2005-09-12 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 03:57:27PM -0700, Max Kaehn wrote: >cygwin1-20050912.dll: Success. Thank you. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Alt key is interpreted as ESC

2005-09-12 Thread Michael Smus
Hello list, I am having problem with passing Alt key as a Meta key in rxvt terminal emulator. My use case is: - run rxvt locally under cygwin - rlogin to unix host - run emacs in terminal window. - issue Alt-Backspace I am expecting emacs executing command backward-kill-word, but instead it execu

Help with PPPd on Cygwin

2005-09-12 Thread Enc Company Japan Co., Ltd.
This message is about how to compile PPPd for Cygwin. Well I saw the follow message about how to do it, but I don't understand at all. Can anyone help me step by step about how to do that? Is really important for me. Thanks a lot. Old message: -- > Hi all, > > Sorry if this has been covered on thi

ssh finds previous home directory

2005-09-12 Thread Poor Yorick
In control panel I changed my $HOME environment variable tonight to , fired up cygwin, and typed ssh @. I received this error: Could not create directory '/.ssh'. Could someone please explain? -- Poor Yorick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

2005-09-12 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Please report success or failure to this thread. Please don't change > the subject. Please don't start a new discussion. > > If you think you've found an error, please indicate whether this is a > regression from 1.5.18. We're probably not going to be fixing anythin

Re: ssh finds previous home directory

2005-09-12 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:44 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: >In control panel I changed my $HOME environment variable tonight to directory>, fired up cygwin, and typed ssh @. I received this >error: > >Could not create directory '/.ssh'. > >Could someone please explain? Sure. It's simple. 'ssh' doesn't use $HOME to fig

RE: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release

2005-09-12 Thread Karl M
Looks good on 2000 Professional and XP Professional. Thanks, ...Karl From: Christopher Faylor Subject: testers needed prior to 1.5.19 release Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:27:27 -0400 I'm asking, once again, for people to test the latest cygwin snapshot. The snapshot that is currently available s