Setup.exe: resets /home symlink to directory when run

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Leigh
Hello everyone, Apologizes if my question is addressed somewhere. I'm new to Cygwin and I'm uncertain how to research this question further, so I would like to turn to this list for help. In my Cygwin installation I've deleted the /home directory and created a symlink in its place that links to t

Re: Setup.exe: resets /home symlink to directory when run

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Leigh
Ah, that's brilliant. It works great now, thanks so much! Best, Alex On 22/04/2010 10:42, Alex Leigh wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Apologizes if my question is addressed somewhere. It cropped up just recently on this very list! http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/threads.ht

Is 256 colors possible with cmd.exe?

2010-04-22 Thread Alex Leigh
Hi everyone, I've been using mintty with Cygwin but I'm finding myself running Windows console programs that don't work with mintty, and it's sometimes a hassle to juggle two terminal programs. I would like to try to switch back to the cmd.exe based Cygwin shell, and I can live without things like

Re: Cygwin visual brand

2010-05-11 Thread Alex Leigh
Why not just use the "cyg-" prefix, like the cygstart and cygpath tools already do? Something like "cygsetup", "cygpackage", "cygpackman", etc. I think these both communicate clearly the purpose of the program and are short to type. Alex On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Klaus Grue wrote: > On Mon

DHCP and resolv.conf

2010-06-27 Thread Alex Leigh
Hi, Apologies if this has been asked before, but is it possible to have /etc/resolv.conf in Cygwin to be automatically updated with nameservers obtained using DHCP from Windows networking? Thanks. Alex -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin

Re: DHCP and resolv.conf

2010-06-27 Thread Alex Leigh
PI for accessing the required information. Alex On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Huang Bambo wrote: > It's not possible. > DHCP is handled by Windows, not by cygwin. > > 2010/6/27 Alex Leigh >> >> Hi, >> >> Apologies if this has been asked before, b

Re: DHCP and resolv.conf

2010-06-27 Thread Alex Leigh
ant delay from it. > > Steven > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:49, Alex Leigh <> wrote: >> >> It's not possible to do it with a Windows service that updates >> resolv.conf whenever a new DHCP lease is obtained, or, if that's not >> possible, a cronjo

Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 on cygcrypt-0.dll

2010-07-04 Thread Alex Leigh
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 7/4/2010 1:01 AM, Alex Leigh wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been getting some STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION errors when running >> bash and some xwin programs, and after some searching I'm trying t

Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 on cygcrypt-0.dll

2010-07-04 Thread Alex Leigh
2010/7/4 Václav Haisman: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Alex Leigh wrote, On 4.7.2010 9:20: >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> On 7/4/2010 1:01 AM, Alex Leigh wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >&

Re: Rebaseall fails with error 6 on cygcrypt-0.dll

2010-07-04 Thread Alex Leigh
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 7/4/2010 3:20 AM, Alex Leigh wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> >>> On 7/4/2010 1:01 AM, Alex Leigh wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>

Re: Need to uninstall many packages, how?

2010-07-21 Thread Alex Leigh
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Brad De Vries wrote: > > After several minutes of downloading, verifying, installing, > configuring, post-installing, etc. I realized that it installed a lot > of X and Gnome related packages.  Now I want to remove them all > because I don't want them.  However, whe