RE: 1.7.13/1.7.14: Issue with command prompt not returning when forking process

2012-05-05 Thread Rob Burgers
Hi, The issue I'm raising in here may be related to this post: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00081.html It is the first time I read that something may have changed in this area. This is to me unexpected and it caused us quite some debugging to find out as the relation between the updat

Re: 1.7.14-2: bash not accepting "~" (tilde) from keyboard in Console (WIN7)

2012-05-05 Thread Csaba Raduly
Hi Chris, On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Chris Brouwer wrote: > Hello, > > I have just installed Cygwin 1.17.14-2 using the setup.exe. > > I use Console (portable; from Portableapp.Com) as my entry to bash. I > created an extra tab definition for Console, which starts cygwin.bat. Works > as exp

Re: 1.7.13/1.7.14: Issue with command prompt not returning when forking process

2012-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 10:05, Rob Burgers wrote: > Hi, > > The issue I'm raising in here may be related to this post: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00081.html > It is the first time I read that something may have changed in this area. > This is to me unexpected and it caused us quite some debuggin

Re: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?

2012-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 09:23, Fedin Pavel wrote: > On 05.05.2012 7:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > >I'm at a loss as to why it's looking in the root directory. > > Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is > empty for my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by > manually setting

Re: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?

2012-05-05 Thread Thomas Wolff
Am 05.05.2012 07:23, schrieb Fedin Pavel: On 05.05.2012 7:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: I'm at a loss as to why it's looking in the root directory. Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is empty for my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by manually setting

Re: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?

2012-05-05 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 5 May 2012 01:23, Fedin Pavel wrote: >  Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is empty for > my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by manually setting the > right path in /etc/passwd. That fixed it, thanks! On 5 May 2012 04:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Ind

Re: 'cmd /C start cmd' no longer non-blocking (base-cygwin 3.1-1), but used to work (in base-cygwin 3.0-1)

2012-05-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Petrisor Eddy-Marian-B36037! > I am using at work cygwin on various machines (XP and Windows 7) and made > several scripts that use gnu utilities from cygwin. One of those is a script > that starts in paralel instances of cmd various parts of a build system > through a sh script that in

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-05 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com! Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am looking for. Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9? You have to answer it for yourself. Do your program write any critical sta

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-05 Thread marco atzeri
On 5/6/2012 12:08 AM, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com! Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am looking for. Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9? You have to ans

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-05 Thread eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com
Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:45 -0700, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Alright if I download and compile it can I just mv gdb.exe into /bin and overwrite gdb.exe? use ./configure --prefix=/ make make install and it should end up in the right place Yea all I did was get

RE: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?

2012-05-05 Thread Karl M
> Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 10:55:56 +0200 > From: corinna > To: cygwin > Subject: Re: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory? > > If you run mkpasswd with the -c option to generate an entry for the > current user, and if $HOME is set at the time, then mkpasswd misses to > print the value of $HOM

RE: find.exe vs. cmd.exe dir command vs. filesystem object in vbs script

2012-05-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Cary Lewis sent the following at Friday, April 27, 2012 10:29 AM >I have a system that makes use of a number of directories which contain >hundreds of thousands of files. > >The sheer number of files in the directories makes it very difficult to >do simple things using cygwin. > >For example the fi

How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-05 Thread Marilo
I don't have a background in C.. I want to compile this program for Cygwin.. http://netcat.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/netcat/?view=tar I know cygwin has a netcat package installed, but I think this one on sourceforge might be more up to date. I've heard for example that the one on sourceforge

RE: 'cmd /C start cmd' no longer non-blocking (base-cygwin 3.1-1), but used to work (in base-cygwin 3.0-1)

2012-05-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Andrey Repin sent the following at Saturday, May 05, 2012 7:31 AM > On 5/4/2012 3:43 PM, Petrisor Eddy-Marian-B36037 wrote: >> I am using at work cygwin on various machines (XP and Windows 7) and made >> several scripts that use gnu utilities from cygwin. One of those is a script >> that starts in

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-05 Thread René Berber
On 5/5/2012 5:40 PM, Marilo wrote: [snip] But I see no "configure" file, and when I try to run INSTALL I get a syntax error. So i'm wondering if maybe i'm going the wrong way about it. You read the files README, and INSTALL, follow the instructions there. -- René Berber -- Problem reports:

Setup cannot execute install scripts

2012-05-05 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I have a problem with cygwin setup.exe. Every time I run setup and the setup upgrades something, the setup is trying to run scripts at the end. These scripts fail (it happens after almost every upgrade of some package). The file /var/log/setup.log.full contains these error messages: 2012/05

Re:

2012-05-05 Thread Trey Greer
Jack gmail.com> writes: > > Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > > > > > Another (easier) thing you could do is try various snapshots between > > versions 1.7.10 and 1.7.11 of cygwin1.dll and pinpoint exactly when the > > problem first occurred. > > > > Ken > > > > > > Sadly, even the oldes

Re: "Inappropriate ioctl for device" problem using latest cygwin as a shell within native (non-cygwin) GnuEmac

2012-05-05 Thread Trey Greer
Ken Brown cornell.edu> writes: > > On 3/11/2012 3:42 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > > On 3/11/2012 3:19 PM, Jack Profit wrote: > >> After upgrading my cygwin environment this morning to version > >> 1.7.11-1, I am no longer able to use cygwin bash as a shell within > >> native GnuEmacs (Windows). > >> >

Re: Short gdb question.

2012-05-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 7:31 PM, eric_justin_allan wrote: > Reid Thompson wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:45 -0700, eric_justin_al...@cfl.rr.com wrote: >>> >>> Alright if I download and compile it can I just mv gdb.exe into /bin >>> and >>> overwrite gdb.exe? >>> >> use >> ./configure --prefix

Re: Question about kill

2012-05-05 Thread Earnie Boyd
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:18 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > On 5/6/2012 12:08 AM, eric_justin_allan wrote: >> Why can't I top post? >> > > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html See also http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU And also trimming the quote is always good. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-05 Thread Marilo
--- On Sat, 5/5/12, René Berber wrote: > From: René Berber > Subject: Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin? > To: cygwin mailing list > Date: Saturday, 5 May, 2012, 23:54 > On 5/5/2012 5:40 PM, Marilo wrote: > > [snip] > > But I see no "configure" file, and when I try to run > INSTALL I

Re: How do I build this program for Cygwin?

2012-05-05 Thread René Berber
On 5/5/2012 10:59 PM, Marilo wrote: [snip] $ autoconf-2.13 autoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory You followed the wrong instructions. -- René Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http