RE: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)

2006-10-30 Thread Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3
> One thing to try would be temporarily adding a text mount for /etc and > seeing if it helps. Sorry, what exactly does it mean "to add a *text* mount"? Ronald -- Ronald Fischer (phone +49-89-63676431) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: using sshd as a non-administrator: minor issues and an aliasing question

2006-10-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 29 15:35, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > * eyalroz (Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:18:26 -0700 (PDT)) > > > > > 3. How do I add new username/password combinations other than my real > > > NT username and password? I want the sshd to only accept > > > myalias/t

Xemacs - can't close Internet Explorer; can't start twice XP programs

2006-10-30 Thread fly_in
I saw this topic in the mailing list and have the same problem using Xemacs and starting Adope twice or try to close the Internet Explorer if the Explorer-Window is over the Xemacs-Window and I try to open a HTML-file. After closing Xemacs the HTML-file open normally. Topic was: XEmacs under Cygwi

Re: Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

2006-10-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 29 15:55, Linda Walsh wrote: > I was messing with my theme libs and noted the following differences in > how CYGWIN displays the attributes and Groups: > -rwx--+ 1 Administrators None 214K Aug 7 2004 uxtheme.dll* > -rwxrwx---+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM 214K Aug 4 2004

RE: Install failing and leaving unusable system

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Korn
On 30 October 2006 04:34, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Julian Hall wrote: >> I'd suggest changing them so that the destination filename in the case >> of an abnormal exit is different (e.g. scriptName + ".failed"). A flag >> could then be set so that a dialog box is shown at the

Old favourite: Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

2006-10-30 Thread fergus
For compelling reasons I start bash through a .cmd file with contents {commandlist 1} {sequence of "mount" instuctions} :: next line is to confirm that these instructions have been implemented mount bash {commandlist 2} If during the bash session I

RE: cron disables dialog window

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin Cella
That worked perfectly, thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:48 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cron disables dialog window Kevin Cella wrote: > I have a script that runs and kic

Re: Old favourite: Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

2006-10-30 Thread Brian Dessent
fergus wrote: > If during the bash session I issue ctrl-C to interrupt something, then on > exiting bash the ctrl-C instruction seems to have been queued for use and I > am invited to "Terminate batch job (Y/N)?" before commencing the sequence at > {commandlist 2}. It's not that ^C got queued up,

Re: Old favourite: Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

2006-10-30 Thread Fergus Daly
>> .. but if your {commandlist 2} contains unmount commands >> then it would certainly appear in the bash session >> as though the mount commands had never happened, since >> they will have been unmounted by the time you get to do >> anything in bash. Exactly right. I thought there was somebody st

[Fwd: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.2-4]

2006-10-30 Thread Keith Christian
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.2-4, is now available for experimental use, replacing 3.2-3. Version 3.1-9 remains as the current version for now. PROMISING - for the first time since January, the completion works without duplicating th

RE: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)

2006-10-30 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote: > > One thing to try would be temporarily adding a text mount for /etc and > > seeing if it helps. > > Sorry, what exactly does it mean "to add a *text* mount"? Well, the non-abbreviated phrase would be "a text-mode mount". As to how to ad

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Maxwell
Sigh. I wasn't going to do this. But his flaming is so egregious... Andrew DeFaria wrote: Mike Maxwell wrote: Most of us don't look in the dictionary to find out what computer terms--or any other words--mean. I would guesstimate that you learned 99% of your vocabulary, computer or otherwise

Re: Cygwin broken after update (PATH problem?)

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 on 10/30/2006 1:09 AM: >> One thing to try would be temporarily adding a text mount for /etc and >> seeing if it helps. > > Sorry, what exactly does it mean "to add a *text* mount"? man mount, or http://cygw

Re: Old favourite: Terminate batch job (Y/N)?

2006-10-30 Thread Brian Dessent
Fergus Daly wrote: > A second solution offered in the archives is > > .. {as before} > set CYGWIN=tty > bash > .. {as before} > > and this certainly seems to work, in that (a) the invitation to > "Terminate .." no longer appears; and (b) the preceding {sequence of

cygwin@cygwin.com

2006-10-30 Thread sabine . petry
Hi, I couldn't find an answer to this problem in any of the documentation and FAQs: When I start the X server system and connect to another computer, I usually work with several terminal windows. I used to be able to bring a terminal window to the front by clicking on its frame. However, this d

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.3.1-1

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.1-1, is available, replacing 4.3.0-2 as current. NEWS: = This is a new development upstream release. Although it is still marked beta upstream, it has proven to be more reliable than the stable 4.2.x series on cygw

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Mike Maxwell wrote: That's not what I said, go back and re-read. Wait, I'll save you the trouble: I said that 99% of the words we know--not 99% of the people who know words--are our definitions that we infer from usage, rather than from looking them up. The second thing that shows me that yo

Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?

2006-10-30 Thread Lloyd Zusman
Igor Peshansky cs.nyu.edu> writes: > > On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > > > [ ... ] > > > > Because of cygpath, filenames such as .elinks/bookmarks and > > .fluxbox/fbrun_history are passed to xargs like this: > > .elinks\bookmarks and .fluxbox\fbrun_history. > > > > [ ... ] > > Indeed

Re: device drivers - general info

2006-10-30 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > George Locke wrote: > > On 10/25/06, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> > From: George Locke > >> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:48 PM > >> > > >> > I wish to create a C++ program that communicates with a > >> > windows device driver (for a PCI c

Re: Cygwin help!!!

2006-10-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:48:27PM -0800, anja_22 wrote: >UUPPSS, h??tte ich auch selbst drauf kommen k??nnen, naja manchmal eben nicht >...-) Danke dir f??r deine schnelle Antwort I think that's enough. This is an English list. Please use English here. I believe that there are German Cygwin su

[patch] One more cygport bug

2006-10-30 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hi! $ cygport .cygport deps doesn't report the dependencies. The attached patch fixes this for me. Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --- /usr/bin/cygport2006-10-19 23:58:07.001

RE: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

2006-10-30 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Igor Peshansky wrote on Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:48 PM: >> Note that --local-package-dir is a little broken; specifically, it >> gets overridden by whatever the user selected last time they ran >> setup.exe (at least, this was the case as of setup.exe version >> 2.510.2.2). The problem has been f

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-30 Thread Teggy P Veerapen
Great stuff Igor, Last time I was desperately looking for the msg num; now I know how to get it ... Thousand of thanks for that :) Cheers, Teggy Selon Igor Peshansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Teggy P Veerapen wrote: > > > [snip] > > ps: Apologies if this message is not atta

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

2006-10-30 Thread Teggy P Veerapen
Yes indeed, I was going through port 80 instead of port 443 thinking that both were processed in exactly the same way by the proxy. But when reading your website, I understood my error. Thanks for this small bit of information ... Small bit indeed but how useful it has been :) Cheers, Teggy Se

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Chris January
On 30/10/06, Andrew DeFaria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Maxwell wrote: > That's not what I said, go back and re-read. Wait, I'll save you the > trouble: I said that 99% of the words we know--not 99% of the people > who know words--are our definitions that we infer from usage, rather > than f

Re: Changing Windows "hidden" and "system" attributes?

2006-10-30 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Lloyd Zusman wrote: Thorsten Kampe thorstenkampe.de> writes: Yes, I know that I could put a wrapper script around attrib to apply cygpath to the argument, to name but one of several ways to solve this. In fact, I have already done this, thereby making my own cygwin-compliant analog to attrib. P

Re: sh files

2006-10-30 Thread dubcek
Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, your remedy did not work. As I mentioned in my original mail, all my .sh files were made under unix. But I tried d2u anyway (you never know), but I got the same result. Here is an example of one of my unsophisticated .sh files; it was intended to clean up after a latex

Re: sh files

2006-10-30 Thread Robert McKay
On 10/30/06, dubcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, your remedy did not work. As I mentioned in my original mail, all my .sh files were made under unix. But I tried d2u anyway (you never know), but I got the same result. Here is an example of one of my unsophisticated .sh

Re: sh files

2006-10-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/30/06, dubcek <> wrote: Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, your remedy did not work. As I mentioned in my original mail, all my .sh files were made under unix. But I tried d2u anyway (you never know), but I got the same result. What does a hex view of your shell script say the line ending are?

Re: sh files

2006-10-30 Thread Jean-Claude Gervais
Could be, but I would wager his problems stem from not having the current folder (dot) in his path... J On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 19:44 +, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > From: > DePriest, Jason R. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: > cygwin@cygwi

Re: [patch] One more cygport bug

2006-10-30 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Volker Quetschke on 10/30/2006 7:59 AM: > Hi! > > $ cygport .cygport deps > > doesn't report the dependencies. > > The attached patch fixes this for me. Duplicate of this: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00852.html and already f

Re: rxvt: Ctrl+C leaves child process of native processes

2006-10-30 Thread Shankar Unni
Christopher Faylor wrote: When I hit ^C, bash and cmd exit immediately leaving perl and the two java processes. Cygwin has no way of knowing what the children of non-cygwin subprocesses are. So, as you've found, if you don't use a Cygwin program, you won't get linux-like signal results. This

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Benjamin Madore
So as to add to the confusion... At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?) and a message stating "Restarting Windows..." would display on your screen. So, restarting was not necessarily

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 10/30/06, Benjamin Madore <> wrote:hat you wanted. BTW, can one say they restarted Cygwin without restarting windows? Does that make sense? No, this does not make sense. If you had services installed via cygrunsrv and they were running, you could stop / start them and call that restarting

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Joey Officer
What you are referring to was the 'soft' restart. If you held the SHIFT key (either I think) during a 'Shutdown -> Restart; it would restart only the windows software. This worked on all versions of windows through windows Me! ... It does not work on any current version of Windows, due to th

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Matt Wozniski
Having said that, there isn't an official way (that I'm aware of anyway) to restart windows without restarting the system itself. However, I do know a little trick that is supposed to be just as good. Open the task manager, and find 'explorer.exe' in the process list. Perform an end-task on thi

Re: Problem passing Windows path names from batch file to bash script

2006-10-30 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2006-10-28, Lev Bishop wrote: > On 10/28/06, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2006-10-28, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > > > From: Gary Johnson; Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:44 PM > > > > I am trying to pass Windows path names from a Windows batch file > > > > to a Cygwin bash script.

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

2006-10-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:54:00PM -0500, Benjamin Madore wrote: >So as to add to the confusion... > >At one point, and maybe still, you could "Restart Windows" without rebooting >your computer. If I recall correctly, it would drop to the subsystem (DOS?) >and a message stating "Restarting Windows.

cron 3.0.1-19 will not run shell scripts

2006-10-30 Thread John S.
Greetings, I hope this is an easy one. Problem: cron will not run any shell scripts. Description: As far as I can tell cron works fine, but cron will not run any shell scripts. The shell scripts work fine if invoked from the shell. $sh /home/phantom/backup_script/daily building file list .

RE: cron 3.0.1-19 will not run shell scripts

2006-10-30 Thread Harig, Mark
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John S. > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 5:04 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: cron 3.0.1-19 will not run shell scripts > > Greetings, > I hope this is an easy one. > > Problem: > cron w

RE: cron 3.0.1-19 will not run shell scripts

2006-10-30 Thread John S.
Mark- Sorry about that I am new to the mailing lists. > Please follow the instructions that cron_diagnose.sh > describes > after it can no longer find any additional problems > (you may > need to run it several times), and report to the > Cygwin list. > Someone there may have some idea what is

gzip bug

2006-10-30 Thread David L. Morgan
Hi All, I have uncovered a bug in the version of gzip currently shipping with cygwin (1.3.5-2). I have a binary file that was compressed with gzip 1.3.3 from around 820MB to around 260MB. If I gunzip the file using the default invocation: gunzip file.gz ... everything works fine. If I

Re: gzip bug

2006-10-30 Thread Brian Dessent
"David L. Morgan" wrote: > I have uncovered a bug in the version of gzip currently shipping with > cygwin (1.3.5-2). I have a binary file that was compressed with gzip 1.3.3 > from around 820MB to around 260MB. If I gunzip the file using the default > invocation: > > gunzip file.gz > >

Re: gzip bug

2006-10-30 Thread David L. Morgan
Sorry for the incomplete bug report. cygcheck output is attached. I am running BASH, and I tried TCSH to see if you are on the right track, and it behaves the same as BASH. Regards, David On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: > "David L. Morgan" wrote: > > >

Re: gzip bug

2006-10-30 Thread Brian Dessent
"David L. Morgan" wrote: > Sorry for the incomplete bug report. cygcheck output is attached. I am > running BASH, and I tried TCSH to see if you are on the right track, and it > behaves the same as BASH. But you are using textmode mounts, which I suspect is the problem. Perhaps the older gzip

Re: [patch] cygport

2006-10-30 Thread Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Wilson wrote: | The attached patch (+ two new files) enables cygport to build | "relocatable" packages using the framework devised by Bruno Haible -- if | the upstream source supports it. Currently, only libiconv and gettext | support this fe

Re: [patch] cygport

2006-10-30 Thread Charles Wilson
Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: | The attached patch (+ two new files) enables cygport to build | "relocatable" packages using the framework devised by Bruno Haible -- if | the upstream source supports it. Currently, only libiconv and gettext | support this feature (coincide