Re: Errors building the FAQ/User's Guide (Attn: xmlto maintainer)?

On 1/11/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > Hi, > > I believe I'm up-to-date with xmlto and DocBook on Cygwin. Still, I was > unable to build either the user's guide or the FAQ from sources. Part of > the problem was a bug in doctool.c (for which I'll send a patch to > cygwin-patches shortly). However,

Re: Errors building the FAQ/User's Guide (Attn: xmlto maintainer)?

On 1/12/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > I build everything but the PDFs on Cygwin. Is your issue related to > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2005-10/msg00065.html > > I.e., you have docbook-xml42 installed? It might

Re: "Bad system call" error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)

On 1/13/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: > > > /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad system call > > > "$PGPATH"/postgres > > > > Did you read /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/postgresql-8.0.4.README? > > I wonder if th

Re: [PATCH] Proposed clarification of the snapshot installation FAQ

On 1/13/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > It would be nice to have a sample batch file that automated > > the cygwin1.dll replacement, too. > > I've prettied up a batch file I use for installing cygwin-inst-* > snapshots, and added stuff to handle spacey pathnames and inetd (which > AIUI isn't

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

On 1/18/06, Cliff Hones wrote: > It's rather a long time since I tried building my own cygwin from CVS. With > the new release out, I thought I'd give it a try, as I imagine HEAD is very > close to 1.5.19-2. I followed the instructions in the FAQ: > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html

Re: Downloading Cygwin under Linux ....

On 1/20/06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > $ cyg-apt install lilypond > to install: > libXft1 libXft2 ghostscript-base libreadline6 findutils xorg-x11-bin pcre > pango-runtime libncurses8 glib2-runtime pcre-doc libintl fontconfig > xorg-x11-base xorg-x11-fnts openssl097 python xterm X-startup-scr

Re: Please assist with details regarding uninstalling [Attn FAQ maintainer]

On 1/23/06, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Brian Dessent on 1/22/2006 8:56 PM: > > > >>A. How do I tell what services I have installed? > > > Nevertheless, the command "cygrunsrv -L" should give you a list of all > > installed Cygwin services. (Note that this -L functionality of > > cygrunsrv d

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

On 1/20/06, Brian Dessent wrote: > Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > > gcc make binutils cocom dejagnu > > gcc depends on binutils, so there's no need to list it as requirement. > Perl is used in the build process as well. > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-0

Re: help with cygwin uninstall (RTFM'd unsuccessfully)

On 1/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Banibrata Dutta wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Having RTFM'd the FAQ & User's Guide, doing this post. > > > > I want to uninstall Cygwin completely (and then intend to do a fresh > > install). So here are questions :- > > > > 1) How to find out what are the Cygwin

Re: Please assist with details regarding uninstalling [Attn FAQ maintainer]

On 1/23/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 1/23/06, Eric Blake wrote: > > We need to get the ideas from this thread into the FAQ on uninstalling > > cygwin. Also, add a mention that inetd is a potential cygwin service - > > since it can run without the assistance of cy

Re: clean_setup.pl website disappeared ? does anyine have the latest and greates clean_setup.pl version?

On 1/21/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Cliff Hones wrote: > > > Urs Rau wrote: > > > So, if anybody does have version 1.0700 (or newer) please let me know. > > > > I have a copy, which I shall mail you. > > > > Is there any interest in putting this somewhere more permanent? > > L

Re: multi user environment security due shared memory

On 12/2/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 2 13:43, andrea wrote: > > What is the current status of the following security threats and how > > would you rate security when running sshd in a multi user environment. > > > > -Code execution in the context of an other user > > -Denial of service b

Re: "Bad system call" error FAQ alert? (Was Re: Fatal error when trying to initialise PostgreSQL in cygwin)

On 1/13/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/13/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Jan 13 12:44, Adrian Maier wrote: > > > > /usr/bin/initdb: line 564: 3312 Bad syste

Re: Please assist with details regarding uninstalling [Attn FAQ maintainer]

On 1/25/06, Reini Urban wrote: > postgresql is of the same kind as inetd. > In the recommended way the service is run via cygrunsrv, but a few > people might also have installed the cygwin version via pg_ctl as > service starter. > Mentioning it after apache would help a bit. > > => > "sshd, cron,

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

On 1/26/06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 26 13:44, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:12:07AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >On Jan 25 20:41, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > >>I've added this info to > > >

Re: Building Cygwin from CVS

On 1/26/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > OK, the full text of winsup/README is now: > > THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR > IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED > WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS

Re: Native letters in Cygwin zsh

On 1/27/06, Wojciech Pietron wrote: > After a few hours spent in 'bindkey', 'stty' and similar stuff I am not > very familiar with, I found out that after running a command 'setopt nozle' > I am able to produce all Polish letters. Of course, I loose all > functionality associated with 'Zsh Line Edi

Re: where is SCP

On 1/30/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:01:04PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > >Igor Peshansky wrote: > >>Exactly where were you trying to search for it? The answer to most > >>queries of "where is program foo" is the Cygwin package search page at > >>

Re: Chinese file names are displayed as '??' when 'ls'

On 2/3/06, LiuYan wrote: > Hi all: > > When I using 'ls' to list the files in a directory, the chinese file names are > becomes '??'. Do the hints in the Cygwin FAQ about Unicode help? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.unicode -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscr

Re: Need Help with Setting Up Local Mirror/Custom Package

On 2/27/06, Michael Banks wrote: > Has anyone on this list set up a local mirror with a custom package? Yes. > We're releasing a commercial solution soon that depends on a few command-line > utilities like grep (we're not using the cygwin.dll at all), and don't want > our Windows users worrying

Re: Creating a custom Cygwin package server

On 3/19/06, Norton Allen wrote: > The documentation here: > > http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html > > suggests it might be possible to set up a custom Cygwin > package server to install a custom app, but it also says > the necessary tools are not available. Just be aware that you

Re: Cygwin: Where is the Help Guide

On 3/25/06, George wrote: > FWIW, I'd like to think that expanding the contents of the Cygwin man > pages ('man cygwin' and 'man intro') to provide the above information as > well as offer an overview of Cygwin-specific tools, etc. would go a long > way. Wow, someone actually read that page I wrot

Re: Automated Setup

On 3/24/06, Capaci, Christopher wrote: > I'm trying to automate the setup of cygwin so that the same exact setup > is reproducible on many different machines. I found some command line > arguments to setup.exe that should help. -q runs through the whole > process without any input. To use that I'll

Re: Why only 1 cygwin1.dll?

On 3/25/06, Lev Bishop wrote: > We do already have FAQs for "Why not install in C:\?" and "Why the > weird directory structure?". There is a FAQ for "How do I compile a > Win32 executable that doesn't use Cygwin?" but it doesn't specifically > mention that discussion of the binaries doesn't belon

Re: Locales with wrong umlauts

On 3/26/06, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > > On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, A. Alper Atici wrote: > > > > > try the following: > > > set OUTPUT_CHARSET=iso-8859-1 > > Instead of putting it simply in some FAQ couldn't Cygwin define that env var > correctly "by default"? (after all the system *knows* which charset i

Re: [FAQ alert] RE: segfault on memory intensive programs

On 3/30/06, Dave Korn wrote: > As to the FAQ entry, it really needs a little alteration. Ping JDF! > > It should make clear that those parameters are in bytes. The example of a > 4k stack and 1k heap is a bit unrealistic and it might be more productive to > show people how to make exes with /

Re: [FAQ alert] RE: segfault on memory intensive programs

On 4/1/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On 3/30/06, Dave Korn wrote: > > As to the FAQ entry, it really needs a little alteration. Ping JDF! > > > > It should make clear that those parameters are in bytes. The example of a > > 4k stack and 1k heap is a bit unrea

Re: Update for the "Why doesn't chmod work?" section of the FAQ?

On 3/2/06, Christopher Faylor wrote: > The current FAQ has this entry: > > 4.15. Why doesn't chmod work? I checked in this, but didn't update the website: The most common case is that your /etc/passwd or /etc/group files are not properly set up. If ls -l shows a group of mkpasswd or mk

Re: [FAQ ALERT] Win32_Winsock depracated...

On 5/30/06, Dave Korn wrote: ... for quite some time now; here's an update to the related faq entry. Thanks, it's great to get patches like this. It's updated now: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.api.html#faq.api.winsock -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

Re: Automated Cygwin install.

On 5/27/06, Jarl Friis wrote: Would it be an idea to have my question on the cygwin FAQ. I had resisted this since it didn't really come up all that often and setup.exe is really only designed to be interactive, but it's been coming up... frequently: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.se

Re: FAQ update suggestion: uninstall

On 7/23/06, Robert Pendell wrote: Testing wrote: > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all > > Would it be valuable to add this to the FAQ entry? > That won't work for those on XP Home. In order to access the Security tab you have to boot into safe mode. OK, I'll add that i

Re: Undifined reference to _WinMain@16 (Attn: FAQ maintainer)

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:51:27 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC91 > > This won't work with gcj. You need to pass a "--main" flag, e.g., > > gcj --main=Hello Hello.java > > Would it be possible to add this to the above

Re: Problem regarding CYGWIN (FAQ alert)

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:31:41 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @David: This is a pretty frequently asked question, but I couldn't find > the exact FAQ entry for it. Perhaps we could add a 'Where is "make" > ("gcc", "vi", etc)' heading to the above FAQ entry? Done. --

Re: Crontab issue

On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:29:16 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > Access to network shares seems to come up allot in the context of Cygwin > services. Maybe it would be good to add something to the FAQ on this. > What do you think Joshua? See how this does: Some Cygwin services normally run as the SYS

Re: BUG in /etc/pinforc (Attn: pinfo maintainer)

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:52:17 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Every time I run pinfo, I get the following message: > > Security warning: Unable to get GID of group called: nobody > > Looking in /etc/pinforc, I see > > SAFE-USER=nobody > SAFE-GROUP=nobody > > AFAIK, "nobody" is not a sta

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:25:06 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > David, this is definitely an FAQ, but there is nothing in the FAQ about > services (other than the "how do I install snapshots" entry). Should we > add something along the lines: > > Why don't my services work? > > Most Wi

Re: cygserver won't start (FAQ alert)

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:43:26 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > Umm, a couple of minor nits. First off, I think mentioning the option of > re-running setup.exe and selecting "Install For All Users" would be > helpful to those who don't like rando

Re: Request for a version/ revision/ release number for the whole Cygwin release/ distribution

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:31:26 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Per the Cygwin FAQ (http://cygwin.com/faq.html): > > "If you are looking for the version number for the whole Cygwin > release, there is none. Each package in the Cygwin release has its own > version. The packages in Cygwin are

Re: compilig error: storage size of `st' isn't known (FAQ alert)

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:13:46 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What needs to be done in Cygwin to see "struct stat" ? > > There is no stat64 in cygwin. Use stat. > > This. Is a recording. > > I guess it should be a FAQ. Well, OK, it will be. -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: Add requirement for SYSTEMROOT to FAQ?

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:37:07 -0400, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a snapshot up there now which contains Corinna's workaround for > this problem. We both came up with very similar solutions to the > problem. So that means it just has to be perfect. > > Please try out th

Re: Windows logins with spaces

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 14:58:12 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:48:05AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >You are absolutely right. Substitute text has already been proposed, > >see the thread > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2003-q1/msg00315.htm

Re: Missing DocBook XML DTD

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 02:52:39 +0100, Marcel Telka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 01:29:14PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Jani Tiainen wrote: > > >Actually in my installation I have no /usr/share/xml/docbook-4.1.2, > > >instead I have usr/share docbook-xml42, and under /usr/

Re: Setup Documentation

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:39:49 -0800, Arthur I Schwarz wrote: > Sometime in the last several months there was a posting telling where the > Setup documentation can be found. I can't find the posting (sigh). > Can anyone tell me if there is and whe

FAQ and User's Guide update

Just so everyone knows, I've made some long overdue updates to the Cygwin FAQ and User's Guide, including the PDF version: Hopefully sometime before the end of the year I'll find the time to do an update to cygwin-doc, too. --

more Cygwin

ars and find the thought of a poorly built one ludicrous. Anyway, thanks for your positive remarks about Cygwin, Joshua Daniel Franklin p.s. I haven't used it, but if you ever do another comparison you might include UWIN, which I believe does use ksh by default: <http://www.research.att.

Re: What depends on less and what man depends on.

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 08:13:34 +0100 (MET), Bas van Gompel wrote: > Sometimes one wants to know what depends on a package or vice versa. > > To find out, using the local setup.inis, I wrote following script. > It uses make to recursively find and display all dependencies in > either direction. Buzz

Re: Suggestions

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:22:14 -0600 (CST), Rodrigo de Salvo Braz wrote: > I would like to suggest that the words "Keep", "Prev", "Curr" and "Exp" be > changed in the Cygwin Setup. I believe they are too abbreviated when there > is room for clearer words. But, more importantly, I believe that the > ch

Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed)

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:24 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:00:08PM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote: > >Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 13:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >>Keep in mind that this only happens if / isn't mounted -> back to > >>undocumented behaviour. > > > >Well

documentation update

I've updated the documentation build in the Cygwin CVS and for the first time you can build the Cygwin documentation using packaged tools. You need to have the docbook-xml42, docbook-xsl, and xmlto packages installed. I will be preparing a new release cygwin-doc in the next few days. Unless th

Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed)

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:02:41 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > In absence of such a mount, Cygwin maps / to the root of the current > Windows working directory (e.g. H:\ or \\computer\share) > > [this is the long standing behavior, see > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-08/msg00016.html] Thanks

Re: Cygwin package management

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:18:18 -0800 (PST), Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > I'd like to suggest that you all look at www.pkgsrc.org. Looks like that URL is dead (DNS squatting?), try: It does look interesting. Sounds similar to Gentoo's eme

Re: cygwin-doc packaging problem?

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:56:09 -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > $ cygcheck -f /usr/share/doc/cygwin-doc-1.3/html/cygwin-ug-net/are-free.html > cygwin-doc-1.3-7 > cygwin-doc-1.3-7 > > Looks like most or all the files under cygwin-ug-net/ are in the tarball > twice. Thanks, I'd noticed this as

[ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin-doc-1.4-1 released

An updated version of cygwin-doc is now available. It includes Cygwin and newlib documentation in formats such as man, texinfo, HTML, and PDF. This is a normal incremental release with a few minor changes: --the plain-text version of the FAQ has been removed in favor of the HTML version and to

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:54:16 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > My write-in candidate: > [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional in the extreme > and can only result in embarassment and trouble. As a Christian, I agree with Gary. :) I actually think it's an upstream bug. The li

Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.

> >> [x] Not offended. Clean it up anyway. It's unprofessional in the > >> extreme and can only result in embarassment and trouble. > > > > As a Christian, I agree with Gary. :) > > > As an atheist I always wonder why christians can "turn the other cheek" > but cannot seem to muster how to turn the

Re: Argument list too long [FAQ Possibility]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:46:37 -0500, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > Seems like this is asked about often enough to be in the FAQ. We try not to include general Unix questions in the FAQ. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 08:12:31PM +0100, David Dindorp wrote: > >Tracking it down with GDB to cygwin_split_path() : 0x61073e06 was easy. > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:04:55 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > Since cygwin isn't built with debugging symbols, the symbols that you do > see in gdb are ba

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:24:03 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > However, oops, this means that the advice of using a snapshot shouldn't > go into the FAQ since this isn't a permanent arrangement. Well, how about this then: I may have found a bug in Cygwin, how can I debug it (the symbols in gdb

Re: putting cygwin *installation* on CD

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:33:07 -0500, Chad J McQuinn wrote: > I'm try to put a cygwin installation (not the installer; a full-blown > installation) on CD. The basic idea is that I want to set up cygwin, > put it on CD, and then by means of a batch file, have that CD act as a > portable cygwin install

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs (FAQ alert)

> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:51:38 -0500 (EST), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > | Should we, perhaps, provide a small 'uninstall' script, maybe in > | /usr/sbin, that would perform a umount and then use regtool to remove the > | registry key? It could even be a .bat, which will enable it to delete all >

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

OK the three FAQs beginning at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC102 now read: How do I build Cygwin on my own? First, you need to get the Cygwin source. Ideally, you should check out what you need from CVS (http://cygwin.com/cvs.html). This is the preferred method for acquiring the sources. Oth

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:36:00AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >To build a debugging version of the Cygwin DLL, you will need to follow > >the instructions at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC102, adding the > >`--enable-debugging' option to `../configure&

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

> >How about a FAQ entry along the following lines: > > > >How do I save, restore, delete, or modify the Cygwin information stored > >in the registry? > > > >Currently Cygwin stores its mount table information in the registry. It > >is recommended that you use the 'mount' and 'umount' commands to

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:42:15PM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >Yep, I missed that. It's gone, but with the other FAQ additions it moved: > > > >http://cygwin.com/faq/faq0.html#SEC104 On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:46:41 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >

Re: 1.5.12-1: documentation bug in lib[cm].texinfo

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:18:31 -0500 (GMT-05:00), Steve Munson wrote: > From the info dir file in /usr/share/info, you can't get to the info > files for libc or libm, because their entries are wrong. The file > cygwin-1.5.12-1/newlib/libc/libc.texinfo in the source distribution > for cygwin-1.5.12-1

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

> On Jan 25 09:08, Steven Read wrote: > > Really I did read the FAQ. By the way > > could I persuade you to release the API in PDF format?) You can easily create your own PDF from the DocBook XML files (available in CVS or the cygwin-doc src package) on linux with a command like: xmlto pdf cygw

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 +0100, David Dindorp wrote: > How about adding a line in the FAQ to the "how to build cygwin" (104) > entry > stating that the "configure ; make" mentioned does produce a Cygwin with > all > debugging symbols? > > And the link in the FAQ is wrong: > > "How can I debug

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:36:50 -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:29:29 +0100, David Dindorp wrote: > > And the link in the FAQ is wrong: > > > > "How can I debug cygwin" (entry 105) says: > > > > "To build a debugging

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

Larry Hall wrote: > At 02:10 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote: > >I will be adding > >doc to the webpage talking about the perils of downgrading, but in truth > >this subject should be noted in the normal FAQ concerning reverting to > >the previous version as well. > > The Cygwin FAQ doesn't seem to be the

Re: User's guide update

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:26:26 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Here is a suggested replacement text for the "Switching User Context" section. Thanks Pierre. I've added it with minor changes: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-switch (By the way, if you ever feel like committing ch

Re: missing man pages?

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:42:19 -0800, Mathew Yeates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked everywhere and I can't find a complete set of manpages. In > particular, I want stat.3 or fstat.3. Are these available? Where can I > get them? I'm afraid we don't have Cygwin man pages for a lot of the stan

Re: cygwin SFTP utilities? and another question

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:58:06 + (UTC), Christopher Thomas wrote: > Also, because of my lack of knowledge in this enviromnet, I have no idea what > I can do with cygwin. I find traversing the realm os cygwin.com very hard as > most of it is way over my head. > > Is there some "beginners" inform

Re: Packages question

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:37:36 +, Christopher Benson-Manica wrote: > I'm trying to figure out which Cygwin packages correspond to the > sgml-common and xml-common Redhat packages. Does the OpenSP package > encompass both of these packages, or do I need to install some > additional packages? Th

Re: cygpath -m (and -w) sometimes emits multi-line names

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:42:45 -, Dave Korn wrote: > Original Message > >From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Raul Miller > > Both the man page and the usage information on cygpath indicate > > that it only accepts a single file name argument. These should > > probably be updated. > > A fa

Re: cygpath -m (and -w) sometimes emits multi-line names

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:26:18 -, Dave Korn wrote: > Original Message > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > Sent: 23 February 2005 14:25 > > >> 2) What's with the CDATA section ? > > > > A CDATA section is for enclosing te

Re: linking WXVTK with CYGWIN (Attn: stale FAQ entry)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:33:22 -0500 (EST), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Does help (actually, the part > about libm is out of date[*], but the missing main() still applies). So it no longer matters where you put the -lm? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwi

Re: linking WXVTK with CYGWIN (Attn: stale FAQ entry)

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:58:27 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:31:33AM -0800, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:33:22 -0500 (EST), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> Does <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC94> help (actually,

somewhat handy search page

I've seen a few posts mention the using Google's advanced search features to search the Cygwin website. I do this all the time and got a little tired of typing the same things a lot, so I made the attached HTML page. It also includes some JavaScript code I've messed around with to use Google's "d

Re: ifconfig

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:38:05 -0800 (PST), Auteria Wally Winzer Jr. wrote: > Where can I find the pre-existing/bundled Cygwin > package that has the tool "ifconfig"? Since ifconfig is specific to linux, you won't find it in Cygwin. Use Windows tools like ipconfig instead. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: rxvt problem: Prompt doesn't look very nice [FAQ alert]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:33:54 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > Also, check out the generic build script, it automates several of the > steps in Chuck's email as listed in the FAQ (can we get FAQ 88 updated to > add a link to the latest version of the GBS?). It is covered in more > detail near the end of

Re: No /dev/parport0

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:07:46 +0100 (MET), Mary Cuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I´m trying the whole time to get my /dev directory work. > There is no /dev/parport0, so I tried to install one with > mknod /dev/parport0 c 99 0 > but it doesn´t help. > > I need it for programming my ATmega16 micro

Re: does not work : change /cygdrive to / (Attn: documentation patch)

On 4/20/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 19 23:25, Brian Dessent wrote: > > I have attached a patch to the documentation that clarifies these two > > locations. I ask that those that know more about Cygwin than I review > > the change to make sure I didn't say anything misleading. > > > Looks

Re: create installation using installed.db

On 4/24/05, Hans Horn wrote: > I'd like to create a distribution media that allows my group to do custom > offline installations of cygwin. > I want this distribution to contain EXACTLY what is currently installed on a > master machine, plus ALL the corresponding src packages. Sounds like you want

Re: [htdocs PATCH] Ping Igor! [was RE: Rebase All command.....]

On 4/27/05, Dave Korn wrote: > >> It occurs to me that a lot of people don't know how to PCYM* if it > >> doesn't already support such functionality, so I suddenly thought we > >> should add another couple of lines to the OLOCA entry mentioning > >> quotefix. Igor? > > Good point. It would be

Re: create installation using installed.db

On 4/25/05, Hans Horn wrote: > Could you explain in a little more detail how I'd use mount for this and > what that batch file is meant to contain. You particularly want 'mount -m': -m, --mount-commands write mount commands to replace user and system mount poi

Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument

On 5/6/05, Jørgen Havsberg Seland wrote: > This problem is (often) due to the command-line being to long for the > windows execution model. To circumvent this, mount the path of the > executable using the -X switch. For instance, use I don't mind adding an FAQ, it looks like it's been asked few ti

Re: Solution, possible FAQ entry: make problem: execvp: /bin/sh: Illegal Argument

; On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:11:39PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >I don't mind adding an FAQ, it looks like it's been asked few times. Any > >problem with replacing this ancient entry about MAKE_MODE (which is > >covered in the User's Guide)? > > > &g

Re: i18n: readdir API implementation

On 5/7/05, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Primarily, I am interested in the rationale behind using the ASCII > variants of the w32api system calls, FindFirstFileA and FindNextFileA, > as opposed to using the wide-character variants FindFirstFileW and > FindNextFileW. I believe the reason is simply that t

Re: sshd "owned by root" error

On 5/9/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 6 16:42, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:41:55PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >On Fri, 6 May 2005, Ordal, Peter wrote: > > >>This has been discussed several places before, I know. Still, I had a > > >>different experience

Re: Updated: tetex-3.0.0-3 - now missing texi2html which is *mandatory* for Cygwin DLL build

On 5/11/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:01:38AM +0800, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > >Shaddy Baddah wrote: > >> It seems that texi2html has dropped out/moved out of the binary package. > >> Is this deliberate? Where should I look for it now? > > > >Sorry if this seems like impat

Re: [patch] update documentation Was: cygwin-host-setup does not install sshd

On 5/18/05, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Alright. I am not sure how to push out the new version to the web site, > > > so someone else will have to do that (or tell me what to do - check in > > > the .html files into the website CVS or something?) > > > > Yep. cvs -d :e

Re: Updated: coreutils-5.3.0-6 [FAQ alert]

On 5/27/05, Eric Blake wrote: > Therefore, http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC45 is out of date, and we > need a FAQ update. It is now possible to do `mkdir -p > //MACHINE/Share/path/to/new/dir' and everything just works fine! However, > `mkdir -p machine\\share\\path' fails, because coreu

Re: Unicode in filenames support? (FAQ update needed)

On 6/7/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > >Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>Not that I know of. We're discussing to convert Cygwin's path handling > >>to use Unicode for a while now, but it will take time. Don't expect > >>this

Re: Re[5]: Visual Studio linking

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:38:21 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time), Alastair Growcott wrote: > To all those who said it couldn't be done...I've done it :) I'll update the FAQ with this info. Including cgf's link to the GNU website. :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: script command

> The point was that your original message had 1 line of signal > and 29 lines of noise. Um, the original email had a different person's name, different email address, and different company disclaimer. The only similarities are that it's in the same thread and has a long disclaimer. A recent arti

Re: ps command showing unknown flags

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:55:53 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski > According to the "ps.cc" source (which, at the moment, seems to be the > best documentation for the status column) Thanks Igor. The official documentation is now being updated to include this information... -- Unsubscribe info: h

Re: Problems wtih flie permissions.

> Well, attrib does work from cmd.exe as well as from within cygwin. Weird. Did it work with older versions of cygwin or coreutils, or is this the first time you tried it? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: Mispelling in Cygwin FAQ

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:52:58 +0900, Jacob Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While waiting for your excellent program to install its packages I > was browsing through your FAQ and came upon a mispelling at > > http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC82 > > where "priveledge" should be "privil

Re: Help, How can I use gcc to compile into dll file?

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:20:34 +0800, rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I use gcc to compile into dll file? Please at least look at the User's Guide before posting this high-volume mailing list: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/dll.html Also note this is does not appear to be a Cygwin-sp

Re: installing cygwin on private lan

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:29:38 +, wrote: > So is there a Linux version of setup.exe and if not, how do I populate > the Linux filesystem from which the DOS box will install Cygwin? What you want is your own Cygwin package server, so that you can run setup.exe on your Windows (I assume that's wha

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