On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote:
I have installed cygwin on many systems. One thing that has always
bugged me is that I have to muck around with the uid and gid in the
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files in order to get things working.
The mkpasswd and mkgroup commands don'
Weird or what.
My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
M:\>dir /ad
Volume in drive M has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 4B6B-CC15
Directory of M:\
01/03/2010 08:39 Recycled
05/02/2010
On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> Weird or what.
>
> My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
>
> M:\>dir /ad
> Volume in drive M has no label.
> Volume Serial Number is 4B6B-CC15
>
> Directory of M:\
>
>
.. just to confirm. Booting from a Linux live CD, and with Cygwin [1.7]
located on a mobile drive mounted at /m, I get
~> ls -al /m
total 635088
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 0 2010-03-
On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
> > [...]
>
> Oh boy. I didn't even know that NT allows that.
>
> That's two bugs in on
On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
> > > [...]
> >
> > Oh boy. I didn't ev
Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 12:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna
Vinschen:
> Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path?
Done. I'm quite sorry for the trouble - would however like to note
that all my packages always had the leading dot. Just checked my
guile p
On Mar 1 13:34, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 12:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna
> Vinschen:
>
> > Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path?
>
> Done.
Thank you.
> I'm quite sorry for the trouble - would however like to note
> that
On Mar 1 13:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> > > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> > > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory name
Hi Dave,
On Fri 26/02/2010 22:45 Dave wrote:
> As a last gasp effort, please try the attached (modified)
> reproduce.sh script. It uses an empty user Subversion
> configuration directory, just to rule that out. Please also
> move /etc/subversion out of the way before running it. There
> are co
On 03/01/2010 02:27 AM, Paul McFerrin wrote:
Sometime within the past 1-2 years, the format of symbolic links must
have changed. I keep finding broken links in my web pages. The directory
bit is still set but the System attribute is not set anymore.
If it is true that symbolic links did change,
According to Paul McFerrin on 3/1/2010 12:27 AM:
> Sometime within the past 1-2 years, the format of symbolic links must
> have changed. I keep finding broken links in my web pages. The
> directory bit is still set but the System attribute is not set anymore.
The release of cygwin 1.7.1 changed
Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna
Vinschen:
> Oops. That was never really correct. Already in the old Cygwin 1.5
> setup.exe the leading dot path ignored the /usr/bin and /usr/lib
> mounts to /bin and /lib.
Ouch. I did experience weird things at times, but al
On Mar 1 14:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 1 13:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote:
> > > > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a
> > >
On Mar 1 15:17, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna
> Vinschen:
>
> > Oops. That was never really correct. Already in the old Cygwin 1.5
> > setup.exe the leading dot path ignored the /usr/bin and /usr/lib
> > mounts to /bin and /lib.
Hello,
here are the facts about our mirror:
* URL of mirror: http://artfiles.org/cygwin.org
* URL of mirror: ftp://artfiles.org/cygwin.org
* Hosting institution, country and city where the mirror is located:
Artfiles New Media GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
* Contact email address: mir...@artfiles.org
*
>> On Windows XP I can't reproduce it either. Hmm.
Windows XP SP3 is what I'm using.
>> Are you sure the directory name is really "."?
Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as
dir ". "
rename ". " "mydir"
etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing:
ls -al /
According to Andreas Worbs on 3/1/2010 7:46 AM:
> Hello,
> here are the facts about our mirror:
Thanks, but you used the wrong email address. According to
http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html, you should have contacted sourcemaster@,
not cyg...@.
--
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682
L
On Mar 1 15:24, Fergus wrote:
> >> On Windows XP I can't reproduce it either. Hmm.
>
> Windows XP SP3 is what I'm using.
>
> >> Are you sure the directory name is really "."?
>
> Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as
>
> dir ". "
> rename ". " "mydir"
>
> etc all to no av
On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote:
...
>> Are you sure the directory name is really "."?
Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as
dir ". "
rename ". " "mydir"
etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing:
ls -al /m
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Ja
On 26.02.2010 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote:
Thomas Wolff wrote:
In general, a GUI application started in the background, like a terminal,
should detach itself from its parent process so that it survives if the
parent is terminated.
Says who?
Common practice in Unix/Linux/X environments. An
On 3/1/2010 5:43 AM, Alan Burn wrote:
Hi Dave,
On Fri 26/02/2010 22:45 Dave wrote:
As a last gasp effort, please try the attached (modified)
reproduce.sh script. It uses an empty user Subversion
configuration directory, just to rule that out. Please also
move /etc/subversion out of the way befo
perl has been updated to 5.10.1-3 to fix the Cwd issue with 5.10.1-2.
No binaries have been changed, besides some vendor_perl upgrades. See below.
It has been successfully tested with 700 CPAN modules.
Changes since the last perl-5.10.1-2:
- added "CYG25 use same image-base when exchanging privli
I can find no direct information on this problem anywhere, so now I'm
writing you. My computer is an Intel Pentium(R) 4, 3.4 Ghz and 1GB
RAM. The OS is MS Windows XP 2002, SP2. I've been happily running
Cygwin for 8 years, and it looks like it's time to upgrade to Cygwin
1.7.
I suddenly cannot
Wes Barris wrote:
On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote:
I have installed cygwin on many systems.
...
a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks
as the owner and group fields like this:
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 2010-01-10 17:13 Projects
If yo
On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote:
> What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n'
> option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case
> both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
> files accordingly so that my directory listing look
Hello
I'm currently trying to iron out a few problems with my installation
that have come to light having just installed most of the Cygwin qt4
(4.5.3-1) packages. I shall want to ask what my options on for
repairing what appears to be a broken installation, assuming that my
analysis is correct.
On 01/03/2010 18:18, chethc...@oplink wrote:
> One irritating note: There is no way I can figure out to get
> setup.exe tell me what version of Cygwin it thinks it's installing.
> How can I verify that the current setup program on the Cygwin web page
> is for 1.7 and not 1.5?
If it's "setup.ex
On 01/03/2010 19:36, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 ... 392653 2010-01-31 00:57 cyggcc_s-sjlj-1.dll
That's not one of ours at all. You can leave it, delete it, or move it
aside; it won't be referenced by any of the cygwin system stuff.
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 ... 54744 2010-01-31 00:
On 01/03/2010 20:32, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 01/03/2010 19:36, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>
>>-rwxr-xr-x 1 ... 392653 2010-01-31 00:57 cyggcc_s-sjlj-1.dll
>
> That's not one of ours at all. You can leave it, delete it, or move it
> aside; it won't be referenced by any of the cygwin system stuff
> As to the main problem, hmmm. Maybe if you could run it under GDB
> we might get a better look at the error.
You mean run setup.exe under GDB? Will try it shortly, but:
> I was going to suggest you try a snapshot of setup.exe with debug
> information, but something appears to be wrong with th
On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethc...@oplink wrote:
> First, using my browser to get to http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst, I get
> a "not found on this server" error. I think this file might be
> elsewhere.
Absolutely not, no way. You have a very serious network problem. Probably
a bad proxy server. E
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:39:31PM -0600, chethc...@oplink.net wrote:
>> As to the main problem, hmmm. Maybe if you could run it under GDB
>> we might get a better look at the error.
>
>You mean run setup.exe under GDB? Will try it shortly, but:
>
>> I was going to suggest you try a snapshot of s
On 01/03/2010 20:39, chethc...@oplink wrote:
[ missed one thing in my earlier response: ]
> Does setup.exe use wget?
Nope, that was the point; try and factor setup.exe out of the equation and
see if your problem is with that or in the network.
cheers,
DaveK
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Problem reports:
Dave Korn writes:
> On 01/03/2010 20:32, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 01/03/2010 19:36, Paul Bibbings wrote:
>>
>>>-rwxr-xr-x 1 ... 392653 2010-01-31 00:57 cyggcc_s-sjlj-1.dll
>>
>> That's not one of ours at all. You can leave it, delete it, or move it
>> aside; it won't be referenced by an
It is fine that you removed the patch.
Since svk is no longer maintained, I switched
to use git instead and am quite happy with it.
Glad you've made changes to make rebasing less
necessary!
Thanks -- Eliot Moss
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: ht
>> I'm seeing an "Permission denied" failure when using chmod on a mapped
>> network drive. The problem doesn't occur on the local drive and if I use a
>> Windows-style backslash in the name, it works?!
>>
>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 EHOLMBER-XP 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 i686 Cygwin
>>
>> $ echo $C
Pavel Kudrna wrote:
Wes Barris wrote:
On 03/01/2010 12:05 AM, Wes Barris wrote:
I have installed cygwin on many systems.
...
a long listing of my home directory shows a bunch of '?' question marks
as the owner and group fields like this:
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 2010-01-10
Dave Korn wrote:
On 01/03/2010 05:05, Wes Barris wrote:
What I normally end up doing is to list the directory with the '-n'
option that shows me the uid and gid information (in this case
both are 4294967295. I manually edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files accordingly so that my directory
Hi All,
I have upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3)
2009-12-07 11:48) and am having trouble running a windows commands
that I use a lot as part of Cygwin. For example, when I use taskkill I
get:
/c/WINDOWS/system32/taskkill.exe: error while loading shared
libraries: ?: cannot op
[Moving this reply to the cygwin list from cygwin-apps, where I'm not
subscribed and so can't post, since it was only on the -apps list due to an
autocomplete bug by the original poster in the first place.]
Reini Urban writes:
> 2010/3/1 Samuel Thibault:
> >
> > Apparently this one is valid and ha
I have a file that doesn't have owner and group and hence I can not
delete it. Could somebody let me know how to delete it?
off...@office-pc /tmp
$ ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 2009-11-28 10:12 foo.sh
off...@office-pc /tmp
$ chown office foo.sh
chown: changing ownership of `foo.sh'
With every Cygwin session I have two windows opened: One CONSOLE and
the other a miscelanious windon running rxvt. When I want to shut down
Cygwin and it's web servers, I just exit the console window. When I
exit the console window, every process gets terminated with SIGHUP. No
exceptions g
On 3/1/2010 10:48 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
I have a file that doesn't have owner and group and hence I can not
delete it. Could somebody let me know how to delete it?
off...@office-pc /tmp
$ ll
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 2009-11-28 10:12 foo.sh
off...@office-pc /tmp
$ chown office foo.s
On 2010/03/01 7:51 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote:
[...]
> Is there a reason [for cron] to catch SIGHUP?
cron, like many UNIX daemon programs, interprets SIGHUP as a signal to
close and reopen its log file. This is typically used to facilitate log
file rotation. It is quite unlikely that cron's maintaine
I'm trying to find a solution for my files being listed with ''
as the owner and group:
-rw-r--r-- 1 137894 2010-02-25 11:34 1536.gff
The following page partially addresses this:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
It says that:
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Hi,cygwin,
I am sorry for trouble you.Because I cannot access web except using email,I
need a copy of linux framebuffer capture code,like "fbgrab",who can reply a
copy of code such as "fbgrab" or others you know to me.Thanks for your help.
Best Regards,
phil song
2010-03-02
--
On 03/01/2010 09:57 PM, Wes Barris wrote:
I'm trying to find a solution for my files being listed with ''
as the owner and group:
-rw-r--r-- 1 137894 2010-02-25 11:34 1536.gff
The following page partially addresses this:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.htm
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 02:49:00PM +0800, phil song wrote:
>I am sorry for trouble you.Because I cannot access web except using
>email,I need a copy of linux framebuffer capture code,like "fbgrab",who
>can reply a copy of code such as "fbgrab" or others you know to
>me.
Sorry about your web access
Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes:
>
> False alarm. The code is already doing the right thing, AFAICS.
>
This bug is biting me all the time in the current Cygwin release. Could you
please consider releasing a 1.7.1-2 with this fix if 1.7.2 is far off in time.
Perhaps this bug is causing a lo
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