Ownership/permissions of files on an external disk drive used with several PCs

Hi, My question is how to best manage ownership/permission on an external disk drive. I'm using an external drive with different PCs, and/or different accounts and groups. I would like that all files created or modified on any PC/account is readable AND modifiable from any other PC/account (f

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Apr 26 15:22, Ren? Berber wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > [snip] > > tcsh is the default shell on FreeBSD which is the "recieving" > > end in this test yes but I'm a little confused how the shell > > could effect the results of rsync? FreeBSD to FreeBSD for FreeBSD > > to Windows SFU doesnt ha

Re: Cygwin 1.5.19 Windows 2003 / croned shells stay hung

On Apr 26 21:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since we installed on Windows 2003 (SP1 or not) few weeks ago, the same > problem > came back. So I got my own croned job garbage collector that avoid having 50 > bash.exe/sh.exe and cron.exe in the air after one month of execution. > > I browse for a l

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Doyle Rhynard wrote: > Did you have much trouble building gcc-3.4.4-1? I have been trying off > and on for several weeks to get it to build with no > errors. Interestingly, the --enable-fully-dynamic-string is set by > default in the build script. I have followed these steps: _

Re: Ownership/permissions of files on an external disk drive used with several PCs

On Apr 27 09:51, Olivier Renaud wrote: > Hi, > > My question is how to best manage ownership/permission on an external > disk drive. > I'm using an external drive with different PCs, and/or different > accounts and groups. I would like that all files created or modified on > any PC/account is r

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Apr 26 17:19, Christopher Faylor wrote: > You've mentioned that the first failing snapshot was 2006-03-13 so I'm > working under the impression that your report was accurate. > > Neither Corinna nor I have been able to duplicate this hang. I'm running the cron job every 5 minutes overnight and

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Eric Blake wrote: [...] Another set of tests is to use the experimental coreutils-5.94-5. Doing/bin/pwd inside a directory on the strange filesystem stress tests d_ino (I already know that on ClearCase (MVFS), /bin/pwd fails inside of versioned directories, such as ccase/foo@@/main/, since ClearC

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

The "rsync hangs" problem is not actually a new one. We had these reports already ages ago. However, *nobody* so far having that problem seem to be willing to actually debug this problem and track it down. Grrr. Corinna, maybe, the amount of files has to be increased in order to provoke

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

Corinna, > The "rsync hangs" problem is not actually a new one. We had > these reports already ages ago. However, *nobody* so far having that > problem seem to be willing to actually debug this problem and track it > down. Grrr. This is exactly fair, several individuals did their best to d

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

> Doesn't even run once for me. Creating all the files over ssh works fine > but the rsync invocation fails with > > > (Client) Protocol versions: remote=1919251285, negotiated=29 > protocol version mismatch -- is your she

cygrunsrv and windows update problem on W2K SP4

Hello, A few months ago someone reported (subj=Windows update vs. cygrunsrv) that windows update and cygrunsrv fails when trying to update multimedia programs on windows (MP, iTunes, etc). cygrunsrv uses nearly all cpu. With cygrunsrv 1.15-1 and cygwin 1.5.19-4, I still have the problem. A workar

liboil package inclusion

I was wondering if the liboil package could be considered for inclusion in cygwin. I have verified that version 0.3.8 compiles and installs correctly on cygwin 1.5.19 http://liboil.freedesktop.org/ Thanks, __ Eric -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

RE: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On 27 April 2006 10:45, Brett Serkez wrote: > >> Doesn't even run once for me. Creating all the files over ssh works fine >> but the rsync invocation fails with >> >> >> (Client) Protocol versions: remote=1919251285, neg

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

> If there is something I can do in order to narrow down the problem, > please let me know. This issue has already been discussed on the rsync > list (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2957) and Wayne from > the rsync project was quite sure about what he called the "Cygwin's > pipe-data bu

RE: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

On 27 April 2006 06:46, Doyle Rhynard wrote: > Did you have much trouble building gcc-3.4.4-1? I have been trying off > and on for several weeks to get it to build with no errors. > Interestingly, the --enable-fully-dynamic-string is set by default in > the build script. Building gcc on cygwin

RE: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On 26 April 2006 20:21, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: > In this case, I used the full 20060426 snapshot and generated some stuck > processes. The output from 'ps' showed the following: > > PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND > 2944 11332 29292? 78809

RE: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On 26 April 2006 20:34, Steven Hartland wrote: > Interestingly if I try to get a thread dump using > sysinternals process explorer the rsync process goes > mad using all available cpu. > That's a known issue, and one which I'd like to try and work on, but it's really complex. It's a side-eff

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

- Original Message - From: "Dave Korn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That's a known issue, and one which I'd like to try and work on ... Unfortunately it doesn't seem possible to set a breakpoint on that function in either windbg or gdb, so it looks very much like I'm gonna hafta break out the fu

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Dave Korn wrote: The bash script that does the build will not even run due an error with an extra "&& )" into the install2 option. There is also a problem with a libstdc++ Makefile that might be caused by an error in bash, itself. This sounds like an error in your configure arguments getting

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

> > Another set of tests is to use the experimental coreutils-5.94-5. > > Doing/bin/pwd inside a directory on the strange filesystem stress tests > > d_ino (I already know that on ClearCase (MVFS), /bin/pwd fails inside of > > versioned directories, such as ccase/foo@@/main/, since ClearCase refuse

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

On 27-Apr-2006, Angelo Graziosi wrote: | In the Cygwin distribution there are packages like Octave that are | incompatible with gcc-3.4.4-1, yet. Octave on Cygwin would also be helped if libstdc++ were built as a DLL. Has there been any progress on that? Is there anyone else who is interested i

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Eric Blake wrote: Another set of tests is to use the experimental coreutils-5.94-5. Doing/bin/pwd inside a directory on the strange filesystem stress tests d_ino (I already know that on ClearCase (MVFS), /bin/pwd fails inside of versioned directories, such as ccase/foo@@/main/, since ClearCase re

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Apr 25 00:42, Charles Wilson wrote: I'll take a look at this w.r.t clearcase. How exactly should I test -- what am I looking for? Just a little app that compares dirent.d_ino and stat.st_ino for a specified file on the strange filesystem? Thanks for the offer. C

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Danilo Turina alcatel.it> writes: > > No, sorry: I'm not using a snapshot. I thought you intended to say that > /bin/pwd would have failed also with the current version. Here's the behavior I see in a dynamic view, under 5.94-5: $ /bin/pwd /cygdrive/l/Implementation $ cd script@@/main/ $ pwd

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Charles Wilson cwilson.fastmail.fm> writes: > > Nope, it was very consistent and did not change over time. One oddity is > that if you access a file (in a particular view (MVFS-speak for branch, > more or less)) via the 'multi-view' mount > > /cygdrive/m/my_view/my_VOB/some-path-to/some-file

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Dave Korn wrote: On 26 April 2006 20:21, Jerry D. Hedden wrote: In this case, I used the full 20060426 snapshot and generated some stuck processes. The output from 'ps' showed the following: PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 2944 11332 29292

Can not run telnet?

Hi, I have cygwin installed on my Dell laptop with Windows XP, it works great. But today I find a strange thing, I can not start telnet. In cygwin, after I run command, "telnet myMachine", it quietly returns, nothing happens. Then I go to DOS window and run the same command, it works fin

GNUS and cygwin

I am using GNUS to read my news but also wanted to use it to send mail and messages to news groups. The problem is that I want to use gmail for sending and recieving. For this reason I installed cygwin with the ssl and gnutls (gmail requires tls) packages (+defaults) but it still doesn't work. GNU

Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:38:27PM +0200, Danilo Turina wrote: >No, sorry: I'm not using a snapshot. I thought you intended to say that >/bin/pwd would have failed also with the current version. Then please choose another thread to discuss any issues not involved with the Cygwin snapshot. cgf -

Re: "Ghost" processes on Cygwin

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:12:31PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: I'm seeing something funny. While trying to build a large program on Cygwin using cl.exe (i.e. I am building a non-Cygwin app; just using Cygwin to drive 'make'), every now and then, cl.exe hangs. Before you te

RE: Can not run telnet?

On 27 April 2006 16:13, lin q wrote: > Hi, > I have cygwin installed on my Dell laptop with Windows XP, it works great. > But today I find a strange thing, I can not start telnet. > > In cygwin, after I run command, "telnet myMachine", it quietly returns, > nothing happens. > > Then I go

Re: GNUS and cygwin

Anders Jakobsson writes: > > I am using GNUS to read my news but also wanted to use it to send mail and > messages to news groups. The problem is that I want to use gmail for sending > and recieving. For this reason I installed cygwin with the ssl and gnutls > (gmail requires tls) packages (+d

Xnest Cygwin package?

Is Xnest available in Cygwin? I see some reference to it in mailing lists but, cannot see a package. -- Neil Watson | Gentoo Linux System Administrator| Uptime 3 days http://watson-wilson.ca | 2.6.11.4 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ x 2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: GNUS and cygwin

On 27 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anders Jakobsson writes: > > > >> >> I am using GNUS to read my news but also wanted to use it to send >> mail and messages to news groups. The problem is that I want to use >> gmail for sending and recieving. For this reason I installed cygwin >> with th

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Apr 27 11:21, Peter Keitler wrote: > > > The "rsync hangs" problem is not actually a new one. We had > >these reports already ages ago. However, *nobody* so far having that > >problem seem to be willing to actually debug this problem and track it > >down. Grrr. > > Corinna, > > maybe, th

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Apr 27 07:50, Brett Serkez wrote: > > If there is something I can do in order to narrow down the problem, > > please let me know. This issue has already been discussed on the rsync > > list (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2957) and Wayne from > > the rsync project was quite sure abou

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Apr 27 05:35, Brett Serkez wrote: > Corinna, > > > > The "rsync hangs" problem is not actually a new one. We had > > these reports already ages ago. However, *nobody* so far having that > > problem seem to be willing to actually debug this problem and track it > > down. Grrr. > > This i

Re: cygrunsrv and windows update problem on W2K SP4 (gdb bt with cygwin1-20060426.dll)

Hi ! I've attached some backtraces with cygwin1-20060426.dll and cygwin1-20060426.gdb: when cygrunsrv is locked, I attach gdb to it. Hope this helps... BTW, does anyone know how to see which thread is looping ? Any windows system monitor with threads support ? -- Ludovic DROLEZ

Error on /bin/sh -login: "cannot remove /bin/sh.exe: Permission denied"

I just updated my cygwin install. on running /bin/sh -login, I got the following message: /bin/cp: cannot remove `/bin/sh.exe': Permission denied Looks like the error is coming out of /etc/profile.d/00bash.sh: the part where it's trying to update /bin/sh.exe via a copy in the midst of running

Re: liboil package inclusion

Eric Moret wrote: I was wondering if the liboil package could be considered for inclusion in cygwin. I have verified that version 0.3.8 compiles and installs correctly on cygwin 1.5.19 http://liboil.freedesktop.org/ Packages are included when someone volunteers to maintain it. See

Re: GNUS and cygwin

Adrian Lanz writes: > > It works for me. The solution was: > > - disable McAfee's on-access scan > > - as this is no solution on a permanent basis, do: > > - open "VirusScan console" > - open "access protection properties" > - edit "prevent mass mailing worms from sending mails" > - ad

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygrunsrv-1.16-1

I have updated cygrunsrv to version 1.16-1. This is a bugfix release. cygrunsrv 1.14 introduced the following problem: If a service has been installed with the cygrunsrv -i/--interactive option, the service process couldn't be stopped anymore using "net stop" or "cygrunsrv -E". Instead it had to

Re: Error on /bin/sh -login: "cannot remove /bin/sh.exe: Permission denied"

Webb Roberts gtri.gatech.edu> writes: > > I just updated my cygwin install. > > on running /bin/sh -login, I got the following message: > > /bin/cp: cannot remove `/bin/sh.exe': Permission denied Not the nicest thing to have a random error message appear on stdout during a login, especially i

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Apr 27 11:21, Peter Keitler wrote: The "rsync hangs" problem is not actually a new one. We had these reports already ages ago. However, *nobody* so far having that problem seem to be willing to actually debug this problem and track it down. Grrr. Corinna, maybe, the amount

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:04:50PM +0200, Peter Keitler wrote: >corinna wrote: >>On Apr 27 11:21, Peter Keitler wrote: >>I did and I could reproduce it. Thanks for the testcase. The fix I >>applied looks certainly wierd, but it works for me. Would you mind to >>give the next snapshot a try which

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> maybe, the amount of files has to be increased in order to provoke the error. I have run my script with only 100 instead of 300 files and it works. Maybe, you can give it a try. I did and I could reproduce it. Thanks

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:41:17PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Corinna Vinschen" > >>>maybe, the amount of files has to be increased in order to provoke the >>>error. I have run my script with only 100 instead of 300 files and it >>>works. Maybe, you can g

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" Would it help the base rsync case do you think Corinna? Should I try the snapshot here to check, if so what's the snapshot indent and where's the best place to obtain it from, not used snapshots before but if it would help you guys test wort

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Christopher Faylor" >>>Would it help the base rsync case do you think Corinna? Should I try >>>the snapshot here to check, if so what's the snapshot indent and where's >>>the best place to obtain

Cygwin build error

I ran into the following problem building the latest cygwin snapshot: configure: loading cache .././config.cache configure: error: `CFLAGS' has changed since the previous run: configure: former value: -O2 -g -O2 configure: current value: -O2 -g -O2 configure: error: changes in the environm

Re: rsync over ssh hang issue understood

- Original Message - From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version *should* reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Charles Wilson wrote: > The whole point of the cygwin packaging system is that SUPPOSEDLY, if > you use the packaged script, you can rebuild the package exactly as the > official distributed one was built As I have written (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-04/msg00822.html), I used the packaged

Re: Error on /bin/sh -login: "cannot remove /bin/sh.exe: Permission denied"

I will also try to clean up the profile script to short-circuit when you are running /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash One thing you might do is to have the /etc/profile.d sh-update-script delete itself once it's run satisfactorily. I guess what got me on this was that there was a zombie /bin/sh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: (experimental) tcsh-6.14.00-6

I've uploaded an experimental version of tcsh, version 6.14.00-6. This version is supposed to fix problems which are a result of the textmode handling in the Cygwin version of tcsh. Right now, up to version 6.14.00-5, Cygwin's tcsh reads all input in textmode, thus converting \r\n for all input f

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Doyle Rhynard wrote: > Did you have much trouble building gcc-3.4.4-1? I have been trying off > and on for several weeks to get it to build with no errors. > Interestingly, the --enable-fully-dynamic-string is set by default in > the build script. I just want to remind everyone that using --enabl

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Dave Korn wrote: > This sounds like an error in your configure arguments getting transcribed > into the generated makefiles to me. It's not an extra '&& )', it's something > missing between the '&&' and the ')' that's the real problem, and that > probably happened because a shell variable used

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:00:05PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >-mno-cygwin ought to work fine from the stock FSF sources I'm told >(provided of course that you build it twice, once as i686-pc-cygwin and >then again as i686-pc-mingw and install them to the same prefix.) I would hope that it does b

Variable read error? Multiple spaces

Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space example is seen for 3 spaces as well. Is this an error? If so, does anyone know a work-around? Th

Re: Variable read error? Multiple spaces

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:08:38PM -0700, Siddhartha Shivshankar wrote: >Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing >multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen > >in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space >example is seen for 3 spaces as w

Re: Variable read error? Multiple spaces

Siddhartha Shivshankar yahoo.com> writes: > > Hi. After I try to read the contents of a file containing > multiple spaces into a bash variable, only one space is seen > > in the variable. Output similar to the following 2 space > example is seen for 3 spaces as well. Is this an err

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Brian Dessent wrote: > In the PR there is a patch that is reported to fix the problem without > the full performance hit, so that would be preferable to use rather than > the 20-ton hammer May you give some more details? Where is the patch? How to build applying that? Thanks, Angelo

RE: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

> From: Angelo Graziosi > > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > In the PR there is a patch that is reported to fix the > problem without > > the full performance hit, so that would be preferable to > use rather than > > the 20-ton hammer > > > May you give some more details? > > Where is the patch?

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Angelo Graziosi wrote: > May you give some more details? > Where is the patch? It is attached to the PR, see comment #11 or . > How to build applying that? Like any other patch, apply to the source an

Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin

Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin -- Herb Martin -- 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: Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin

Herb Martin wrote: > Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here. I use the win32 native version of BIND9 for this and it works great. It's not really running "on Cygwin", but I don't see what that has to do with anything. Brian --

Re: Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin

Herb Martin wrote: > Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin Like Brian said, bind works fine, either compiled under Cygwin or the binary distributed by ISC. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Re: Fixing the state of C++ in Cygwin

Brian Dessent wrote: I just want to remind everyone that using --enable-fully-dynamic-string will incur a somewhat significant performance hit, and it's the reason this hasn't been set as the default for Cygwin. In the PR there is a patch that is reported to fix the problem without the full per

Re: Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:22:26PM -0500, Ren? Berber wrote: >Herb Martin wrote: > >> Suggestions for caching only DNS server to run on CygWin > >Like Brian said, bind works fine, either compiled under Cygwin or the binary >distributed by ISC. And, moreover complete sentences which frame well-form

Re: Variable read error? Multiple spaces

Thanks Chris, Eric, quoting the variable worked. Eric Blake writes: >It is an error on your part for not quoting properly. But this >is not cygwin-specific, so I would advise getting a good >tutorial on shell programming and reading it (the web has >plenty of resources, google is your friend)

Re: Good day

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Can't see file change in an NFS mounted directory

Recently, I installed Cygwin NFS Server on my Windows XP Pro PC. I succeeded in mounting an exported directory from my Linux PC, but its contents are not updated unless I make a file on the directory. NFS Server (Windows PC) NFS Client (Linux PC) --- -