RE: line endings, file path names

The notion of an OS-dependent 'native' text file format is fundamentally rotten; you all seem to agree on this. The fact that this legacy has crept into standards is all for the worse, and really not much help; you will anyway always have to manage the character encoding of text files. Whether

How can I create root user?

Hello! I'm new at using cygwin. I need to have user with root privileges to execute a daemon, but I have discovered I don't have root user, however I do have a group called root. There isn't any user assigned to this group, so I don't really have any user with those privileges. I have a us

Re: How can I create root user?

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, MORENO CANTADOR, PATRICIA wrote: >I'm new at using cygwin. I need to have user with root privileges to > execute a daemon, but I have discovered I don't have root user, however > I do have a group called root. There isn't any user assigned to this > group, so I don't really

Apache (for win) running bash script: ls

Hi All, When running a bash script under Apache 2.0.55 for Windows, are there any restrictions about accessing the file system? My first test is to do an ls and report the results: echo -e "Content-type: text/html\n\n" echo "" echo "" echo "" echo "pwd: `pwd`" echo "ls: `ls`" echo "ls .: `ls .`"

Re: Apache (for win) running bash script: ls

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 12:30:05, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > > When running a bash script under Apache 2.0.55 for Windows, are there any > restrictions about accessing the file system? My first test is to do an ls and > report the results: I think this subject is off-topic here. It is not related to Cyg

RE: Apache (for win) running bash script: ls

On 07 August 2006 13:30, Robert Mark Bram wrote: > When running a bash script under Apache 2.0.55 for Windows, are there any > restrictions about accessing the file system? My first test is to do an ls > and report the results: > > echo -e "Content-type: text/html\n\n" > echo "" > echo "" > echo

Unable to check out subversion projects

I can't seem to check out subversion projects via http using the cygwin svn. Whenever I try, I get the following error: $ svn --version svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776) compiled Jul 14 2006, 22:16:08 ... $ svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk vendor/rails svn: PROPFIND request failed o

CreateFileMapping Problem

hi, we have cygwin installed on a development windows server. os is windows server 2003 standard r2 x64, and users are logging in through opensshd and rdesktop. we're encountering this problem: 2 [main] bash (4544) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** Cre

Re: installer: select packages: text background color

Daniel Convissor wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 06:46:52PM +, Eric Blake wrote: This bug was also reported about a year ago, and fixed about a year ago. Great, thanks. See http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/ for a snapshot with the fix incorporated, and then join the crusade to get the sn

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: monotone-0.28-1

Version 0.28-1 of monotone has been uploaded. monotone is a free distributed version control system. it provides a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. it understands history-sensitive merging, li

Re: CreateFileMapping Problem

On 08/07/2006, a.heider wrote: we have cygwin installed on a development windows server. os is windows server 2003 standard r2 x64, and users are logging in through opensshd and rdesktop. we're encountering this problem: 2 [main] bash (4544) C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe: *** fatal error - C:\cygwin\b

Re: CreateFileMapping Problem

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:26:30PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Try updating your Cygwin package to the latest. Also "cygcheck -s" output would be useful here. See: http://cygwin.com/problems.html for more details. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Unable to check out subversion projects

Michael Artz wrote: I can't seem to check out subversion projects via http using the cygwin svn. Whenever I try, I get the following error: $ svn --version svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776) compiled Jul 14 2006, 22:16:08 ... $ svn co http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/trunk vendor/rails svn: PROP

Re: installer: select packages: text background color

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: > Daniel Convissor wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 06:46:52PM +, Eric Blake wrote: > > > This bug was also reported about a year ago, and fixed about a year > > > ago. > > > > Great, thanks. > [snip] > > However, be aware that the most recent build I've t

Re: How can I create root user?

Hi, I'm doing a project in which I'm trying to establish a connection between a client (Linux) and a server (Windows), in whom I need to execute the daemon to connect. For execution of my program I need to be root. Thanks. Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, M

Re: installer: select packages: text background color

Igor Peshansky wrote: On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, mwoehlke wrote: Daniel Convissor wrote: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 06:46:52PM +, Eric Blake wrote: This bug was also reported about a year ago, and fixed about a year ago. Great, thanks. [snip] However, be aware that the most recent build I've trie

Re: How can I create root user?

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:39:29, MORENO CANTADOR, PATRICIA wrote: > > I'm doing a project in which I'm trying to establish a connection > between a client (Linux) and a server (Windows), in whom I need to > execute the daemon to connect. For execution of my program I need to be > root. This is no

I18 support in cygwin

Hi, I am using a Windows 2000 Chinese client to test my Perl script. Does cygwin support I18 ? Because my tests are failing at mkdir() api call saying that invalid argument passed .The argument passed is a name containing special characters. Can you please help me ou

Linux to Windows Rsync Permission Problems

I've had this problem for some time now, and just getting around to doing something about it. I'll keep the description as brief as possible. I'm rsyncing from a linux server to a Windows XP machine's firewire drive via SSH\cygwin\rsync. The linux server pushs with the following command. /

Re: Linux to Windows Rsync Permission Problems

Jimmy McMillan wrote: I've had this problem for some time now, and just getting around to doing something about it. I'll keep the description as brief as possible. I'm rsyncing from a linux server to a Windows XP machine's firewire drive via SSH\cygwin\rsync. The linux server pushs with the

Re: I18 support in cygwin

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using a Windows 2000 Chinese client to test my Perl script. Does cygwin support I18 ? Because my tests are failing at mkdir() api call saying that invalid argument passed .The argument passed is a name containing special characters.

Re: I18 support in cygwin

Hi, Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Mon 07 Aug 2006 15:37:10 -0400, a écrit : > Oh, there's a duplicate set meta-flag on entry in the proposed .inputrc file. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: Linux to Windows Rsync Permission Problems

Matt, Thank, but I'd rather determine a way to preserve the perms by using some type of ACL\UID exchange. That way I don't have to doctor up all the perms again if I have to restore from a backup. It seems that root\administrator have been mapped, hence the reason I can read root owned files

Re: crashes with various programs

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:49:56PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: >Since the latest round of updates with cygwin1.dll, I've been having >various programs crash regularly (daily, sometimes several times per day). >Lot of times my xterm windows just exit. Here is an example of a >non-X program, /usr/bi

[DOC PATCH] - was Re: I18 support in cygwin

Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, Larry Hall (Cygwin), le Mon 07 Aug 2006 15:37:10 -0400, a écrit : Oh, there's a duplicate set meta-flag on entry in the proposed .inputrc file. So there is. Hm. Oh well. Joshua, here's a patch, if y

Re: GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

Volker Quetschke schrieb: Max Bowsher wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: When running 'gpg --refresh-keys', the second updated key results in: gpg: renaming `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' to `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.gpg~' failed: Permission denied gpg: error writing keyring `/home/max/.gnupg/pubring.g

Problems with Clamav-0.88.3-3 ?

I want to flag that after updating to 0.88.3-3 version, $ freshclam ERROR: Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf I have installed clamav-0.88.3-3 libclamav1-0.88.3-3 libclamav-devel-0.88.3-3 With previous versions of Clamav, freshclam worked fine. Cheers, Angelo. -

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: clamav-0.88.3-3

Due to another packaging errors detected by Volker Zell I've updated clamav to 0.88.3-3, and split the packages into libclamav1 and libclamav-devel. 0.88.3-2 overwrote the two etc/*.conf files and put the init.d script into /etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd/clamd. About: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus too

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mathomatic-12.5.22-1

I've updated the version of mathomatic to 12.6.0 Features include perfected simplification and a new "fraction" command. See http://mathomatic.orgserve.de/changes.txt Cygwin changes: - version mathomatic-12.6.0-1 - fixed HTMLDOCS and DOCS removed doc specifics install from makefile.cygwi

Re: Linux to Windows Rsync Permission Problems

(ugh, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU... no fake meat for me, please!) Jimmy McMillan wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Jimmy McMillan wrote: I've had this problem for some time now, and just getting around to doing something about it. I'll keep the description as brief as possible. I'm rsyncing fro

Re: GnuPG bug: --refresh-keys

Reini Urban wrote: Did you get gpg-agent working? My private gnupg-1.9.20-1 fails. I used the stable release, not the development branch. Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Problems with Clamav-0.88.3-3 ?

Angelo Graziosi wrote: I want to flag that after updating to 0.88.3-3 version, $ freshclam ERROR: Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf I have installed clamav-0.88.3-3 libclamav1-0.88.3-3 libclamav-devel-0.88.3-3 With previous versions of Clamav, freshclam worked fine.

Re: cygwin, Coda and symbolic links

Is there some reason why you aren't just using cygwin's symlink() function? Reverse engineering and mimicking cygwin's symlinks seems to be a pretty fragile way of writing an application which will play nicely with cygwin. What if we change the way symlinks are written at some point? Yeah, I

Re: Problems with Clamav-0.88.3-3 ?

Angelo Graziosi schrieb: I want to flag that after updating to 0.88.3-3 version, $ freshclam ERROR: Can't parse the config file /etc/clamd.conf Larry is right. -2 caused the problems, which led to the removal of the said files. Please copy them from /etc/defaults/etc/ and define your nearest

[ANNOUNCEMENT] clisp-2.39-2 released

I've released a minor package update for clisp-2.39 ./configure --fsstnd=redhat --with-dynamic-ffi \ --with-module=rawsock --with-module=dirkey \ --with-module=bindings/win32 --with-module=berkeley-db \ --with-module=pcre --with-module=postgresql \ --with-module=

Re: crashes with various programs

Christopher: I followed your instructions and got: GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditio

Re: crashes with various programs

Lester Ingber wrote: +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Christopher Faylor Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:10:38 -0400 Subject: Re: crashes with various programs On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:49:56PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: Since the latest round of updates with cygwin

Re: crashes with various programs

I don't think so: % ls -l /bin/cygwin1.dbg -rwxrwxrwx 1 ingber None 9753672 Aug 2 20:50 /bin/cygwin1.dbg* A DOS window pops up when the crash occurs, and I just cut and pasted the info. Lester +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Date:

RE: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash

Shane: > Thank you for the tip. Actually I am using Visual Source Safe as the > Source Management tool. > I was considering the use of CVS, but decided against at the last > moment because most of the fellow developers including me, had been > using VSS for a considerable amount of time, and felt

Re: crashes with various programs

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:35:00PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: >Christopher: > >I followed your instructions and got: > >GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) >Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are >wel

1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

Hi All, I hate difficult-to-reproduce issues :( It makes accurate reporting difficult... We have a crontab which runs scripts that check whether a DBMS is accessible, doesn't have inappropriate locks in certain DBs, dumps databases, etc. During the time database dumps are running some of our sc

Re: crashes with various programs

Christopher: Typing "continue" didn't do anything -- it just hung. Here is the output with "thread 1" typing "t": GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to

Re: crashes with various programs

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 07:42:33PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: >Christopher: > >Typing "continue" didn't do anything -- it just hung. > >Here is the output with "thread 1" typing "t": Sorry. I meant "bt". cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: 1.5.18-1: incorrect cron "script not found" message (Win2k).

Irwin, Doug wrote: Hi All, I hate difficult-to-reproduce issues :( It makes accurate reporting difficult... We have a crontab which runs scripts that check whether a DBMS is accessible, doesn't have inappropriate locks in certain DBs, dumps databases, etc. During the time database dumps are r

Re: crashes with various programs

Christopher: I guess I'm lucky -- it keeps crashing so I can get the results :): GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copie

Re: crashes with various programs

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:07:55PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: >Christopher: > >I guess I'm lucky -- it keeps crashing so I can get the results :): > >GNU gdb 6.5.50.20060706-cvs (cygwin-special) >Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Pu

Re: crashes with various programs

Christopher: As I replied to Larry in a previous posting in this thread: % ls -l /bin/cygwin1.dbg -rwxrwxrwx 1 ingber None 9753672 Aug 2 20:50 /bin/cygwin1.dbg* I followed your instructions: I downloaded the latest src from snapshots and simply placed this file under /bin/. I got out of cygwin

Re: crashes with various programs

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:43:55PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: >Christopher: > >As I replied to Larry in a previous posting in this thread: >% ls -l /bin/cygwin1.dbg >-rwxrwxrwx 1 ingber None 9753672 Aug 2 20:50 /bin/cygwin1.dbg* >I followed your instructions: I downloaded the latest src from sn

Re: crashes with various programs

Christopher: My cygwin.bat file is 8< top cut -> bottom ->8 @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin tcsh -l 8< bottom cut <- top ->8 So, I assume that the proper place for setenv CYGWIN "error_start

Re: crashes with various programs

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:21:32PM -0700, Lester Ingber wrote: >Christopher: > >My cygwin.bat file is >8< top cut -> bottom ->8 >@echo off > >C: >chdir C:\cygwin\bin > >tcsh -l >8< bottom cut <- top ->8-