Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: sysvinit-2.86-2: A System-V Init Clone

2008-04-01 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > However, the new package doesn't have a post-install script at all. I > wonder if you shouldn't: This was my intention. > (1) remove the explicit csih_enable_color from init-config Will go for (1). The explicit use of init-config is mentioned in the

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {freeglut/libglut3/libglut-devel}-2.4.0-1: Open Source GLUT implementation

2008-04-01 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Volker Zell writes: > Hi > New versions of 'freeglut/libglut3/libglut-devel' have been uploaded to a server near you. > Cygwin NEWS: > > o Maintainer change > o Switched to cygport build framework > o Package split in main, library and devel pa

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf}-0.2.8.4-2: Windows Metafile library

2008-04-01 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Volker Zell writes: > Hi > New versions of 'libwmf/libwmf027/libwmf-devel/libwmf-doc/gdk-pixbuf2-wmf' have been > uploaded to a server near you. By the way, I noticed the following error in /var/log/setup.log.full: 2008/03/29 15:58:11 running: D:\\bin\bash.exe -c /etc/pos

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {bzip2/libbz2_1/libbz2-devel}-1.0.5-2

2008-04-01 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Charles Wilson writes: > bzip2 provides the bzip2.exe / bunzip2.exe executables, a > patent-unencumbered but highly effective compression tool. > CHANGES: > * Update to new upstream release > addresses security issues CAN-2005-1260, CAN-2005-0953 http://cygwin.com/ml

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {gmp/libgmp3/libgmp-devel}-4.2.2-1

2008-04-01 Thread David Billinghurst
Version 4.2.2-1 of gmp/libgmp3/libgmp-devel have been uploaded. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://swox.com/gmp License : GNU LGPL GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There i

Re: ssh-host-config found in 4.9p1 is broken

2008-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 31 15:01, Ehab Teima wrote: > Hi, > > ssh-host-config found in 4.9p1 is broken. Running the script dies with the > message "Unexpected end of file at line 624". By inspecting the code, I found > that there is an non-closed if near line 191. There is an open if that was > never closed.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {mpfr/libmpfr1/libmpfr-devel}-2.3.1-1

2008-04-01 Thread David Billinghurst
Version 2.3.1-1 of mpfr/libmpfr1/libmpfr-devel have been uploaded. PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://www.mpfr.org License : GNU LGPL 2.1 or later The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with exact rounding (also called correct ro

using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
According to http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html: Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths, where directory delimiters may be either forward or back slashes. UNC pathnames (starting with two slashes and a network name) are also supported. However, this doesn't seem to

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 5:59 AM: | According to http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html: | | Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths, where directory | delimiters may be either forward or back slashes. UNC path

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Eric Blake schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 5:59 AM: | According to http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html: | | Cygwin supports both Win32- and POSIX-style paths, where directory | delimiters may be either forward or b

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:15 AM: | In Windows, path can have only up to 260 characters. In Windows, the ASCII functions can only handle up to 260 characters. But the Unicode functions handle more. You may be interested in trying

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:34 AM: | Nope, they are not supported in snapshots; drive snapshots are nothing | different than a normal drive (I assume you're talking about VSS / | shadow copy snapshots for the whole drive, i.e. snapsh

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 1 06:43, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:34 AM: > | Nope, they are not supported in snapshots; drive snapshots are nothing > | different than a normal drive (I assume you're talking about VSS / > | shadow

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Eric Blake schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:34 AM: | Nope, they are not supported in snapshots; drive snapshots are nothing | different than a normal drive (I assume you're talking about VSS / | shadow copy snapshots for the who

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: On Apr 1 06:43, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:34 AM: | Nope, they are not supported in snapshots; drive snapshots are nothing | different than a normal drive (I assume you're talking about

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Eric Blake schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Tomasz Chmielewski on 4/1/2008 6:15 AM: | In Windows, path can have only up to 260 characters. In Windows, the ASCII functions can only handle up to 260 characters. But the Unicode functions handle more. You may be

Re: Building perl-5.10.0

2008-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Eric, On Mar 23 20:28, Eric Blake wrote: > POSIX also states that chmod(2) is > supposed to disable any ACLs that allow alternate access. How long did you know that this is wrong in Cygwin? I was really surprised to read that. Maybe you told me already and I ignored it. One of the Cygwin p

Re: Building perl-5.10.0

2008-04-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 1 15:21, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Mar 23 20:28, Eric Blake wrote: > > POSIX also states that chmod(2) is > > supposed to disable any ACLs that allow alternate access. > > How long did you know that this is wrong in Cygwin? I was really > surprised to read that. Maybe

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo $NUM; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > | > | will run indefinitely, > > because it doesn't fork Correct; that's what I was trying to demonstrate. > | $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > | > | Hangs pretty quickly, > > because it f

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 01 April 2008 14:47: > > > $ NUM=1; while true ; do echo `echo $NUM` ; NUM=$(( $NUM + 1 )); done > > > > > > Hangs pretty quickly, > > > > because it forks a huge number of processes, and each fork is likely to > > be tripped up by a BLODA > > As I understand it

Re: ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares

2008-04-01 Thread Greg Chicares
On 2008-04-01 13:31Z, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > >> Permissions 0644 for '/home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open. Try this: chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares

2008-04-01 Thread Public Mailing Lists
Hi guys, I got a Linux home directory. On Windows, this directory imported as Windows share, and I mount it under Cygwin. This way, I can use all my Linux settings dot-files, and I don't see the Windows path name mess that much. Ssh (OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007) on Cygwin refus

Re: Cygwin problems under Vista (please reply to Vinod)

2008-04-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 04/01/2008, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote: I have to polish my English writing as good as you have wriiten. :-) Your English is much better than my (non-existant) Japanese so I have no cause to complain. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc.

Re: ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares

2008-04-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Greg Chicares wrote: On 2008-04-01 13:31Z, Public Mailing Lists wrote: Permissions 0644 for '/home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open. Try this: chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa If that doesn't work (after the chmod try an ls -l to verify the mod) then it could be that your home directory is being share

RE: ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew DeFaria wrote on 01 April 2008 16:11: > Greg Chicares wrote: > > On 2008-04-01 13:31Z, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > > > > Permissions 0644 for '/home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open. > > Try this: > > chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa > If that doesn't work (after the chmod try an ls -l to verify

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Popper, Samuel (US SSA)
> > Is there anything else that could contribute to BLODA? > > Yes, absolutely anything that hooks or injects into processes. Try > using > procexp to get a list of DLLs from the stuck bash processes, and let us > know > what's there. Here's my list of candidate BLODA .dll's from procexp: AcLu

SMTP

2008-04-01 Thread Diego Costa
Hello all, On cygwin is possible to send e-mails per script ? There´s any SMTP protocol on it? How do i configure ?. Thanks guys -- Diego -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cyg

Re: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread David Johnstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: |> I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the | postinstall |> always hangs somewhere, in different scripts at different places. Sounds like the classic symptoms of http://cy

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 19:14: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > According to Popper, Samuel (US SSA) on 3/31/2008 2:48 PM: > > > > I've tried to install cygwin now about 7 or 8 times but the > > > > postinstall always hangs somewhere, in different scrip

Re: SMTP

2008-04-01 Thread Troy Bull
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Diego Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > On cygwin is possible to send e-mails per script ? > > There´s any SMTP protocol on it? How do i configure ?. > > Thanks guys > > -- > Diego > I think you could use the package ssmtp, and or the email pa

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
Popper, Samuel (US SSA) wrote on 01 April 2008 16:53: > Here's my list of candidate BLODA .dll's from procexp: > They all appear to be from cygwin or right from Windows Yes, I think you're right about that, so I doubt any of them is related. > (I can send the desciption/version number inform

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: cdrkit 1.1.7.1-1 -- genisoimage, icedax, wodim

2008-04-01 Thread Christian Franke
The cdrkit suite is now part of the cygwin distribution. http://cdrkit.org/ cdrkit is a suite of programs for recording CDs and DVDs, blanking CD-RW media, creating ISO filesystem images, extracting audio CD data, and more. The programs were originally derived from several sources, most notably

RE: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
David Johnstone wrote on 01 April 2008 20:03: > Thanks, here are the outputs. > Actually I do have a logitech webcam, but couldn't find any > running processes I could > associate with it. In the Registry run section is an entry for > C:\Programme\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe boot > but I can

Re: postinstall hang

2008-04-01 Thread David Johnstone
Thanks, here are the outputs. Actually I do have a logitech webcam, but couldn't find any running processes I could associate with it. In the Registry run section is an entry for C:\Programme\Logitech\Video\ManifestEngine.exe boot but I can't see that in the task manager, or anything started by it

Re: lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap....

2008-04-01 Thread James Abley
On 28/03/2008, S A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's the really strange part: > > if I do an strace on my application, then my signal handler > gets invoked correctly!! Can't explain this. c.f. Heisenbug [1]. It's common enough, but very annoying. Gives you another avenue to explore though.

Embedded packaging of cygwin without installation

2008-04-01 Thread Hans Kaiser
Hello list, I was searching for a packaging option of cygwin without an installation. The requirements are: - possibility of a copy/zip-deployment (no install) - no changes on existing preinstalled cygwin installation The first step was successful with http://www.cygwineasy.tk. But it destroyed

Re: lost SIGTERM signal handler and winpcap....

2008-04-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
James Abley wrote: On 28/03/2008, S A wrote: Here's the really strange part: if I do an strace on my application, then my signal handler gets invoked correctly!! Can't explain this. c.f. Heisenbug [1]. It's common enough, but very annoying. Gives you another avenue to explore though. What

Re: using rsync with Win32/UNC pathnames?

2008-04-01 Thread James Abley
On 01/04/2008, Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Corinna Vinschen schrieb: > > > On Apr 1 06:43, Eric Blake wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > > > > That's right, but. > > > > > > The problem is that long path names are supported by the sna

Snapshot cygwin-inst-20080327 regression in ls (permissions?)

2008-04-01 Thread James Abley
Hi, I was testing this snapshot as part of my exploration into how long path name support is coming on, specifically for rsync. It seems to be going very well; thanks for all the improvements. I did notice a couple of things: $ ls -l ~ ls: cannot access /cygdrive/c/Users/jabley/Application Data:

Problem running setup using an internal mirror

2008-04-01 Thread Spilker, Rob
I'm trying to install cygwin on a number of workstations and want to make it as automated as possible. The LAN does not have direct internet access, so I setup an internal mirror containing only the few packages we're interested in. I tried running setup -q --root c:\cygwin --site http://internal

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {bzip2/libbz2_1/libbz2-devel}-1.0.5-2

2008-04-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/msg00488.html tar tvf bzip2-1.0.5-2.tar.bz: usr/bin/ usr/bin/bunzip2.exe usr/bin/bzcat.exe usr/bin/bzcmp usr/bin/bzdiff usr/bin/bzegrep usr/bin/bzfgrep usr/bin/bzgrep usr/bin/bzip2.exe usr/bin/bzip2recover.exe usr/bin/bzless usr/bin/b

Re: Building perl-5.10.0

2008-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 4/1/2008 7:44 AM: | Erm... hang on. I just tested this on Linux: | | | This looks like what we do on Cygwin, too. Then we're in good company :) In other words, no need to go changing things to be different than Linu