Re: update/reinstall openssh problem

2007-12-03 Thread Tim Freedom
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:19:48 -0500, "Larry Hall" wrote: > On 11/26/2007, Tim Freedom wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:18:19 -0400, "Larry Hall" wrote: > > > > Tim Freedom wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi - I'm trying to upgrade my currently installed openssh > > > > (version 4.6p1-1) yet whenever I selec

On shutdown

2007-12-03 Thread phiroc
Hello, I would like to delete files when the Cygwin Server is shut down. Is there a way in cygwin to trap the shutdown event? (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or clicking on the Cygwin Exit Button). Many thanks. phiroc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

gvim $ORG where ORG=/cygdrive/w/dir/x.txt expands dir to $dir ?

2007-12-03 Thread Finof
Hi, I use bash on a vista machine wich links to samba on a linux server My scipts are in a bin-map on the linux server environment variable PROGS = /cygdrive/l/progs environment variable ORG= /cygdrive/l/progs/programma.txt command: ls -l $ORGshows:-rw-r--r-- ... /cygdrive/l/dir/p

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: typespeed-0.6.4-1

2007-12-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Version 0.6.4-1 of typespeed has been uploaded. Typespeed gives your fingers' cps (total and correct), typoratio and some points to compare with your friends. Typespeed's idea is ripped from ztspeed (a dos game made by Zorlim). Idea of the game should be clear to anyone: just type and type it fast

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: pngcrush 1.6.4-1 -- Optimize PNG image files

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush License : GPL An optimizer for PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files. Its main purpose is to reduce the size of the PNG IDAT data stream by trying various compression levels and PNG filter methods. It also can b

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: chewmail 1.2-1 -- mail archiver for various mailbox formats

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://packages.debian.org/chewmail License : GPL-2 A Perl-based mail archiver. It uses Mail::Box so supports any mailbox format it does. It can filter messages into mbox's based on the message's date and other criteria. CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEA

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: snownews-1.5.7-1 - Text mode RSS/RDF newsreader

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews License : GPL Program is similar to similar to what lynx is for web-browsing. Supports RSS 1.0 feeds that comply with the W3C RDF specification and also supports Radio Userland's RSS 0.91 and 2.0 versions. I

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: bool 0.2.1 -- Utility for matching boolean queries in text or html files

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/bool License : GPL A utility for finding files that match a boolean expression. It supports AND, OR and NOT as well as the NEAR operator for locating two expressions within a short distance from each other. The program

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: grepmail 5.3033-1 -- search mailboxes for mail matching an expression

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grepmail License : GPL Look for mail messages containing a pattern, and print the resulting messages. Usage is very similar to grep. It can handle compressed mailbox files, and can search the header or body of email

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: abook 0.5.6-1 -- text-based ncurses address book application

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/abook/ License : GPL A text-based ncurses address book application. It provides many different fields of user info. Abook is designed for use with mutt, but can be used independently. CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE =

Can cygwin bypass windows file permissions?

2007-12-03 Thread wrbach
Hello! I have made a file test.txt in d:temp and removed all Windows permissions from it. Consequently, I cannot access the file from Windows Explorer or cmd.exe. However, if I try the following from a cygwin bash I get the contents of the file $cat /cygdrive/d/temp/test.txt How can cygwin byp

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: ifile 1.3.8-1 -- a spam filter capable of learning

2007-12-03 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/ifile License : GPL A text filter that uses machine learning to classify texts into groups. ifile works great as a spam filter. The text is classified by a simple statistical method called Naive Bayes, which bas

Re: Can cygwin bypass windows file permissions?

2007-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 3 14:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello! > > I have made a file test.txt in d:temp and removed all Windows permissions > from it. > Consequently, I cannot access the file from Windows Explorer or cmd.exe. > > However, if I try the following from a cygwin bash I get the contents of the

Problem suspending Cygwin-based GDB from Eclipse/CDT (and some findings)

2007-12-03 Thread Stefan Bylund
Hi, We have a source code debug solution based on Eclipse / CDT / GDB / GCC / Cygwin DLL. We are using Eclipse 3.2.2 / CDT 3.1.2 / GDB 6.3 / GCC 3.4.4 / Cygwin DLL 1.5.19-4 (cygwin1.dll). Until now, we have only supported Windows XP but recently we were forced to upgrade to a newer version o

From James Adamati

2007-12-03 Thread James Adamati
Hi, How are you doing today? My name is James Adamati I live in London and work in a financial institution here in United Kingdom. There is a potential transaction relating to a dormant account of one of our deceased customers, which I would like us to handle the fund actualization together. Se

Re: cp.exe chunk size

2007-12-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, skelker wrote: > Is there a reason that cp.exe uses 8KB chunk sizes to copy files? This > behavior leads to very fragmented files, especially when copying large > files. In addition to what Eric said about posix_fallocate, Cygwin 1.5.25 should use a 64kb chunk size. -- Bri

Re: Problem suspending Cygwin-based GDB from Eclipse/CDT (and some findings)

2007-12-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Dec 3 16:04, Stefan Bylund wrote: > I looked at the cygwin change list from 1.5.19-4 to 1.5.20-1 > (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg0.html) and noticed > the following signal-related changes: > > * cgf: When sending signals, assume that any code which is not directly > ass

Re: Problem suspending Cygwin-based GDB from Eclipse/CDT (and some findings)

2007-12-03 Thread Stefan Bylund
Hi again, I got a response on my cross-post to the CDT mailing list from Doug Schaefer, the CDT lead, where he said that the SIGINT handling in Cygwin changed sometime last year and that there are newer builds of CDT 3.2.1 that has adapted to the new of handling SIGINTs in Cygwin. I tried it

Re: end of file characters

2007-12-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-12-02, Peter Klavins wrote: > > Another question... When I'm editing a file that has the ^Ms do I > > leave them alone, or delete them? Will I be able to go back and forth > > and > > use vi via cygwin, and notepad/textpad via windows without harming the > > file? > > In general, you

1.5.25-3: Problem with pinfo

2007-12-03 Thread David Rothenberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm having a problem with pinfo under 1.5.25-3. The problem is not there with 1.5.24-2. - From a Windows cmd shell, I start bash with "bash -li". Then, I run "pinfo rxvt". pinfo just dies with the message "Hangup". I see the following in the cmd she

Re: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave

2007-12-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: > > >> I am trying to compile a package called "meep" by means of cygwin. > > >> While running the configure command I get an error as: > > >> > > >> ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found > > > > > >Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI progra

"su: user root does not exist"

2007-12-03 Thread asadollahbaik a. (aa306)
Hi all, I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I couldnt understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. Would somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming from and how can I solve it?! Regards, Asa, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: "su: user root does not exist"

2007-12-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 12/3/07, asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I couldnt > understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. > Would somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming from > and how can I solve it?! > > Re

Re: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave

2007-12-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: I am trying to compile a package called "meep" by means of cygwin. While running the configure command I get an error as: ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI program) to

RE: user root does not exist"

2007-12-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote on Monday, December 03, 2007 1:26 PM: > Hi all, > > I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I > couldnt understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. Would > somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming > from and how c

RE: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave

2007-12-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 03 December 2007 18:25, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: > I am trying to compile a package called "meep" by means of cygwin. > While running the configure command I get an error as: > > ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found Guess #

Re: script for installing cygwin?

2007-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > jameshanley39 wrote: > > I would like to be able to install cygwin with all the packages I > > want automatically, without having to select them all. > > > > > > (reason is actually because when things go wrong i would like to > > uninstall and reinstall cygwin, and

Re: script for installing cygwin?

2007-12-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
jameshanley39 wrote: But I just wanted to have what I want installed automatically Not having to go through all the things if i wanted to remove and then install / "reinstall" cygwin. i checked the cygwin FAQ , since before I had only looked at the cygwin user manual. The solution for me i

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Re: end of file characters

2007-12-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-12-03, Ren Berber wrote: > Gary Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > Except that WordPad always writes CR-LF at the ends of lines, even > > if the original file had only LF line endings.[snip] > > "always" is not true, WordPad distinguishes between text and DOS text as > anybody can see in the fil

1.6e format.com hangs through ssh

2007-12-03 Thread srp010
On Cygwin 1.6e on Windows 2003 Server EE format.com hangs formatting a Veritas Volume when performed through ssh connection. Format can be interrupted without issue but no progress is made after format asks "Proceed with Format (Y/N)?". strace of the pid also hangs. Here is output of the cm

Re: end of file characters

2007-12-03 Thread René Berber
Gary Johnson wrote: [snip] > Except that WordPad always writes CR-LF at the ends of lines, even > if the original file had only LF line endings.[snip] "always" is not true, WordPad distinguishes between text and DOS text as anybody can see in the file types offered when using Save as... -- René

Re: 1.6e format.com hangs through ssh

2007-12-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
srp010 wrote: On Cygwin 1.6e on Windows 2003 Server EE format.com hangs formatting a There is no "Cygwin 1.6e". The current Cygwin DLL package version is 1.5.24. This package's version is typically the one reported if there's reason to suspect that the issue may be part of the POSIX emulatio

cygwin and squid - RLIMIT_NOFILE

2007-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$squid a)squid does not bind to a port b)ps shows it sits around for a while, then goes. maybe creating 2 instances. $squid -N it gives this error.. and terminates, does not do funny business with duplicate processes. but does not run at all better with the -N though, it displays an error and

Re: 1.6e format.com hangs through ssh

2007-12-03 Thread Robert Pendell
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: srp010 wrote: On Cygwin 1.6e on Windows 2003 Server EE format.com hangs formatting a There is no "Cygwin 1.6e". The current Cygwin DLL package version is 1.5.24. This package's version is typically the one reported if there's reason to suspect that the issue may b

Re: 1.5.24 format.com hangs through ssh

2007-12-03 Thread srp
Thanks Larry. Version Updated. 1.5.24 is correct. You WAG wrong however. Once the Volume has been formated in a native Cygwin window I can format successfully via SSH and all output is displayed. With a newly created tiny volume the hang last in excess of an hour and should complete in sec

Re: cygwin and squid - RLIMIT_NOFILE

2007-12-03 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/3/2007 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] $ squid -N FATAL: setrlimit: RLIMIT_NOFILE: (24) Too many open files This is a classic error described a few times on the mailing list. So.. has anybody managed this?!!! and how?! Is there any reason not to use the Windows-native squid bin

RE: 1.5.25-3: Problem with pinfo

2007-12-03 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
David Rothenberger wrote on Monday, December 03, 2007 12:36 PM: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > I'm having a problem with pinfo under 1.5.25-3. The problem is not > there with 1.5.24-2. > > - From a Windows cmd shell, I start bash with "bash -li". Then, I run > "pinfo rx

Re: 1.5.25-3: Problem with pinfo

2007-12-03 Thread David Rothenberger
On 12/3/2007 3:27 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: David Rothenberger wrote on Monday, December 03, 2007 12:36 PM: I'm having a problem with pinfo under 1.5.25-3. The problem is not there with 1.5.24-2. - From a Windows cmd shell, I start bash with "bash -li". Then, I run "pinfo r

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel-1.2-1: Internationalized domain name library

2007-12-03 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Hi The packages `libidn/libidn11/libidn-devel' are now available with the Cygwin distribution: o http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ (Homepage) o http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode

Re: cygwin and squid - RLIMIT_NOFILE

2007-12-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Rothenberger wrote: > On 12/3/2007 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > $ squid -N > > FATAL: setrlimit: RLIMIT_NOFILE: (24) Too many open files > > > > This is a classic error described a few times on the mailing list. > > > > So.. > > has anybody managed this?!!! > > and how?!

Re: 1.5.24 format.com hangs through ssh

2007-12-03 Thread Robert Pendell
srp wrote: Thanks Larry. Version Updated. 1.5.24 is correct. You WAG wrong however. Once the Volume has been formated in a native Cygwin window I can format successfully via SSH and all output is displayed. With a newly created tiny volume the hang last in excess of an hour and should co

Re: cygwin and squid - RLIMIT_NOFILE

2007-12-03 Thread Václav Haisman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 4.12.2007 4:40: > David Rothenberger wrote: > >> On 12/3/2007 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [snip] >>> $ squid -N >>> FATAL: setrlimit: RLIMIT_NOFILE: (24) Too many open files >>> >>> This is a classic error described a few times on the mailing list. >>> >>> So