RE: "Permission denied" on /usr/bin/sh when running gmake with multiple jobs

2009-10-30 Thread John Daintree
Hi Corinna, I was using a "gmake" not the cygwin "make", and that was generating the windows path. I've moved over to the cygwin supplied make and fixed up all the relevant environment variables. No windows paths anymore but I'm still getting the permission problem. None of the scripts are create

Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Ron de Bruijn
Hi, I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin slow. What I would like the installer to do is to download from all mirrors in parall

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote: >I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download >packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror >I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin slow. >What I would like the

Console Window remains open after startxwin.bat & xterm 1.7, W7x64

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Huwe
Hello, I just upgraded to Windows 7 Professional 64bit, and I installed Cygwin 1.7. When I run startxwin.bat, the server starts, but the console window does not disappear. When I then open xterms (from windows, not from a window in the Xserver), they each open from a console window that doesn't

Re: Console Window remains open after startxwin.bat & xterm 1.7, W7x64

2009-10-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/30/2009 09:15 AM, Paul Huwe wrote: Hello, I just upgraded to Windows 7 Professional 64bit, and I installed Cygwin 1.7. When I run startxwin.bat, the server starts, but the console window does not disappear. When I then open xterms (from windows, not from a window in the Xserver), they each

'ssh-host-config' fails to complete when 'sshd_server' is domain account

2009-10-30 Thread Rado S
Moin, I install for cygwin 1.5.25-15 openssh 5.1p1-10 on windowsXP as service with privilege separation. I have 'sshd_server' account in domain in groups 'Administrators, Domain-accounts and PasswordDropDeny'. (no idea what the last group is needed for, any clue?) When I create /etc/passwd per 'm

Re: Howto set default text file type to DOS/Text under release 1.7 BETA

2009-10-30 Thread paul . hermeneutic
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 00:36, Eric Backus wrote: > Niels Hallenberg gmail.com> writes: > >> I have a lot of scripts that >> won't run under bash as long as the extra CR's are not removed. I know Python has implemented a universal line ending scheme. Perhaps that could work here. -- Problem re

Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives

2009-10-30 Thread John Daintree
Hello all, I've got a number of drives mounted from  SAMBA machine (which is running linux).  My local machine is running Cygwin 1.7 on Windows 7 x64. Here's (some of) my mount output: //devt/users/johnd on /j type smbfs (binary,notexec,user) C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/

Re: Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives

2009-10-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/30/2009 11:46 AM, John Daintree wrote: on the SAMBA machine my UID is 208, so I figured I'd just need to change the above to: johnd:unused:208:513:U-johnd-PC\johnd,S-1-5-21-2127453718-491543372-28458100 30-208:/home/johnd:/bin/bash ^^^ Don't change your SID. You can change your UID

Re: Howto set default text file type to DOS/Text under release 1.7 BETA

2009-10-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:41:08AM -0500, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote: >On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 00:36, Eric Backus wrote: >>Niels Hallenberg gmail.com> writes: >> >>>I have a lot of scripts that won't run under bash as long as the extra >>>CR's are not removed. I know > >Python has implemen

RE: Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives

2009-10-30 Thread John Daintree
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com] > Sent: 30 October 2009 16:00 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Incorrect names for file owners on mapped samba drives > > On 10/30/2009 11:46 AM, John Daintree wrote: > > on the SAMBA machine m

Re: Cygwin 1.7, who version 7.0 does not respond with a value

2009-10-30 Thread Eric Backus
Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: > On 10/28/2009 10:04 AM, Larry W. Virden wrote: > > when I type the who command within a Cygwin window, only an empty line > > is returned. > > > > ... > > > > It looks, to me, as if perhaps we are missing some setup that results in > > entries being writt

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Paul McFerrin
Don't you mean, "Stand in line? :) Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote: I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror I selected only gives about 3

Redirecting stdin under gdb

2009-10-30 Thread Joe Crepeau
Has the problem with redirecting stdin under gdb been fixed?  The most recent posting I can find is from 1999 and it was a known problem then. The problem is when you start up gdb and then type the following: run < input where "input" is an input file located in the current directory.  gdb just

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Cormie
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote: I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin sl

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:28:34PM +1100, Chris Cormie wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of >> running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. >http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ >(Command line installer project.) > >Do

Re: email package dependency (openssl) not automatically installed

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Cormie
Steven Monai wrote: Hello folks, I installed a fresh Cygwin 1.7 beta, and added the 'email' package. Then, I ran the following to send myself a test message: $ echo "Test message" | email --subject="Test" \ --smtp-server="smtp.at.my.isp" --from-name="Steven Monai" \ --from-addr="steve+cyg...@m

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Ralph Hempel
Chris Cormie wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ (Command line installer project.) Doesn't handle RPMs, only Cygwin packages. Does h

Re: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Cormie
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:28:34PM +1100, Chris Cormie wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/ (Command line ins