RE: changing bash window title

The cygwin FAQ has a section on the CYGWIN environment variable: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html It includes the (no)strip_title and (no)title options. You could also try the suggestions from section 6.3 of the Bash Prompt HOWTO: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/xte

RE: SSH users cannot see SMB mounted network drives

First of all, you might want to check out the excellent cygwin + ssh mailing list here: List Information: http://tech.erdelynet.com/mailman/listinfo/ssh-l/ List Archives:http://archive.erdelynet.com/ssh-l/ This issue has been beaten to death over there. The end result is this: if you want SSH

RE: User names with spaces

Yes. Cygwin only really cares about the SSID. Say my local administrator account is 'Administrator' with an SSID of S-1-5-21-11-11-11-500. However, I want cygwin to call it 'root' and call it's home directory 'admin'. So the line in /etc/passwd would look like this: root::50

RE: download the older version of openssh

Installing the older version does make a difference. I am using the installers from http://lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows/ on remote systems. Using the 20030512 build which includes sshd version 3.6.1p1-1 led to the problems described previously. Reverting to the 20030203 build (ssh 3.5p1-3) immediat

RE: rxvt shortcut problem (bash, XP, memory, heap, Win32 error 487)

What are the contents of your shortcut? I point to this batch file: @echo off C: cd \cygwin\bin rxvt.exe -bg white -fg black -fn "Lucida Console-12" -ls -sl 9000 -rv -geometry 110x49 -sb -si -sk -sr -sw -e bash --login -i Which works fine. I briefly see a command window and then the RXVT term

RE: Backing up Cygwin

Did you also back up and restore the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions" registry key? -Jason > -Original Message- > From: Luciano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Backing up Cygwin > > > Suppose I back up my entire Cygwin

RE: Spammers watching this user forum

The archives already show email addresses slightly obfuscated by replacing the '@' with 'at' and the '.' with 'dot' and adding spaces. -Jason -Original Message- From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spammers

RE: Cygwin vs: Windoze services for Unix

I used to have a universal subscription to MSDN (until I switched departments) and I was able to test Windows Services for Unix and the (at the time) separate Interix subsystem. They do what they are supposed to do, but cygwin does a whole lot more. I found the cygwin project to be actively devel

a /moderated/ mailing list would be nice

Can people please stop sending emails about SPAM and return to the regularly scheduled CYGWIN emails??? -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Problem call a cygwin command from a dos batch file

My /etc/profile (the default one with cygwin) contains this: export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH" which implies that the behavior you are seeing is to be expected (if you have the same /etc/profile). See what happens when I add the '--logon' postfix to 'bash'. Microsoft Windows 2000 [

RE: Take 2: Testers for new ssh-*-config scripts wanted!

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Take 2: Testers for new ssh-*-config scripts wanted! [--] > However, I have still a problem. Does anybo

RE: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Waltman > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: problem with lftp 2.6.8-1 postinstall script > > I don't know if anyone else has run into this, but thought

RE: Plus sign '+' in file permissions

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Mahar > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Plus sign '+' in file permissions > > > To what does the plus sign '+' refer at the end of the list of file >

RE: ssh ProxyCommand - connect.exe

Is SSH running on port 80 on yahoo.com? You are asking 'connect.exe' to use 'surf.proxy.com' as your SOCKS proxy server to connect via SSH to 'www.yahoo.com' on port 80. The 'SOCKS' port defaults to 1080 since you didn't specify one. -Jason I am not sure where you downloaded connect.exe from, b

RE: ssh ProxyCommand - connect.exe

I am able to exactly reproduce your problem and I do not know why. Because I have always used the ProxyCommand method described on the website. By creating a ~/.ssh/config file and using the guidelines to add this: [file] Host * ProxyCommand connect -S socks.local.net:1080 %h %p [/file] I can just

Servers Alive product now supports OpenSSH running on Cygwin

I've been working with Woodstone tech support for the Servers Alive system monitoring software (http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/) trying to get their Remote PS Com add-on (designed for SSH on *nix) to work with Cygwin + OpenSSH. After about a week, they were able to get a version working with it.

RE: RE : How can i really uninstall completly cygwin from Windows XP Pro ???

If you are a command-line junkie, you should have a Windows command called cacls that would also work. Something like: C:\>cd cygwin C:\cygwin>cacls * /T /E /G Flo:F > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Sunday,

RE: Problems w/make under Cygwin bash shell

Since you upgraded from an ancient version of Cygwin, following the directions in http://cygwin.com/problems.html is imperative. Please attach what it asks for so the group can help you out. It could be as simple as a package that did not get updated... > -Original Message- > From: cygwi

RE: Where is emacs & vi in Cygwin

Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html That would be monumentally helpful. Especially this part: Run cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out and include that file as an attachment in your report. Please do not compress the output. Just attach it as a straight text file so that it can be

RE: good top program for Cygwin

pslist from the pstools suite from Sysinternals. http://www.sysinternals.com/ When you give it the -s switch, it behaves like top... sort of. -Jason > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com > [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Simon > Sent: Tuesday,

RE: Strange group name

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com > [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:46 AM > To: Julian C H Stevens > Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com > Subject: Re: Strange group name > > > On Wed, 18 Fe

RE: vi and cygwin

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish, but try this command-line option with vim. -+- man vim -+- -C Compatible. Set the 'compatible' option. This will make Vim behave mostly like Vi, even though a .vimrc file exists. > -Original

RE: tar and open files

For a DLL, does just unregistering the DLL do what you need? I mean, running 'regsvr32 /u ', put new file in place, run 'regsvr32 '? -Jason > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com > [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: Frida

RE: python and cygwin

Cygwin aims to do both. It provides *nix tools running on Windows from a DLL implemented POSIX environment. Or something like that. There are other places to get some of the GNU tools ported to Win32 without the cygwin1.dll requirement. However, you do not get the full benefits of a robust and

RE: cygwin 1.5.7 "make"

... hence the name. But the issue was not with your question. It was with not following the proper procedure for reporting problems. The link provided, http://cygwin.com/problems.html, explains what you need to supply to the list to make sure the other members can provide you with the most relev

RE: perl 5.8.2's localtime reports gmtime

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com > [mailto: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Keith Bainbridge > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 6:35 PM > To: The Cygwin Mailing List > Subject: Re: perl 5.8.2's localtime reports gmtime > > > Steve Kelem wrote: > >

RE: Sysinternals Process Explorer & a Cygwin Process' DLLs?

Yes I see this problem, too. I am using Process Explorer 8.32 on Windows 2000 Pro. It also causes the CPU utilization of the cygwin process to jump to nearly 100%. ListDLLs, the command-line version of that feature, exhibits the same behavior. -Jason > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL

RE: Bash tries to connect to the internet

Joel wrote: > Why is it trying to access a DNS anyways? Is there any way to stop it > from doing this? > > Thanks > > Joel What is your bash prompt (PS1) set to? If you have '\h' in it, it will try to put your host name there and it has to look it up before it can display it. -Jason --

RE: applying command shell properties to cygwin.bat

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn >Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:11 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: applying command shell properties to cygwin.bat > > >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of jam

RE: co-linux

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pinhas Krengel >Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:51 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: co-linux > > >I have just read about beta release of co-linux (linux on windows). Is this >product going to kill cygwi

RE: Problem with perl distro?

> Peter M Aarestad said [-snip-] > Now, every single time I read in a line, I get this warning > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > ./genguimapdoc.pl line 60, line n. > > However, I do NOT get this warning using ActiveState Perl, > and the script works fine! Is th

RE: Problem with perl distro?

> Peter M Aarestad said [-snip-] > perl -w works fine for ActivePerl - no warnings. Plus, my > script uses the "warnings" and "strict" pragmas. [-/snip-] Peter, Can you provide a simple but complete script and data source that recreate your error? I don't know what the data you are parsing is su

RE: Problem with perl distro?

> Igor Pechtchanski said > Peter, > > $screen was uninitialized. Changing it to 'my $screen = ""' > eliminates > the warnings in the simpler script. > Igor > -- Igor, Great job! This seems to fix it under Cygwin perl 5.8.0-5, but I still get errors using ActiveState Perl for Windows.

RE: no longer administrator, can't mkdir /foo

You may need to get permission to temporarily logon as a local admin and then change the owner of all of the directories under cygwin. As almost all of my directories and files seem to be owned by admins.mkgroup. See if you can change the ownership to the Power User group or something else that yo

RE: Install problem

> >WAG: Do you have a firewall running? and > (BTW, what does WAG stand for?) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ wtf wag wag: Wild-Assed Guess. Usually correct for certain people -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docume

RE: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin?

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:05 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Is there a 'ping' in cygwin? [- snip -] > Now do I bother writing something to rename all .EXE to lower >

RE: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jared Ingersoll > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:33 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: bash- Removing Line feeds (Carriage returns) from data > > > Hello, > > I'm currently using cygwin (upd

Making 'su' work under a cygwin bash shell

I have had only moderate success getting su.exe from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit working as a drop-in for the unix 'su' command. The version of su.exe that I am using is one that is not yet publicly available, but the issues still remain (I had to get the newer version to fix another issue I was

What environment variables are needed under Cygwin?

This may be a stupid question; but I can't find a good list of common environment variables for most applications to work. I am not talking about the CYGWIN variable. That variable is very well documented throughout this list and on the Cygwin site documentation. I mean variables like HTTP_proxy

RE: Which Linux after CyGwin?

On Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:52 AM, zzapper wrote > Hi, > > In fact I want to keep Win32/Cygwin on my primary PC, but would like > to install a dual boot Linux on my old PC. Mandrake & Fedora seem to > be the most popular according to http://distrowatch.com/ > > Any opinions > > zzapper (vi

RE: Can I launch a graphical windows app from within a cygwin ssh session

On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:12 PM, Mark Stuhr wrote [--cut some stuff--] > launch a windows app that should run on that remote (or host, can > never keep that syntax straight) box. (In other words a server runs > an app most of the time, but not as a service. That app needs > restarting for w

RE: sshd login problems

On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:55 PM, Martin Magnusson wrote [--- cut ---] > Connection to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx closed. [--- cut ---] > / martin If you have privilege separation enabled, try disabled it. You can do it easily by using regedit (disclaimer: back up your registry first). HKEY_LOCAL_MAC

RE: Can I launch a graphical windows app from within a cygwin ssh session

On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:55 PM, Mark Stuhr wrote [--- cut ---] > "Gerrit P. Haase" <> on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 > at 3:38 PM -0800 wrote: [--- cut ---] >>> restarting for whatever reason and I'm on the road. I can dial in >>> with my pocketpc and get an ssh session going to that server,

RE: ls /dev/*

On Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:32 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote [--- cut ---] > To me, a disk drive IS a device. YMMV! :-) [--- cut ---] Wouldn't the 'device' listings need to be more like the 'Volume' listings below (as opposed to the drive letters)? \\.\Volume{a58472f0-b0cd-11d8-aba8-806d6172696f

RE: Suggesting an application

If you install winpcap (http://winpcap.polito.it/), you can use windump (http://windump.polito.it/). If it is in your PATH while you are running a cygwin shell, you can run it from there. You can ssh into a system running cygwin's OpenSSH server and run windump (assuming you installed it on the r

RE: Command boxes popping up

On Monday, December 13, 2004 9:39 AM, [DELETED] wrote > Hi Dave, > > No, I have no problems with graphical applications. > > My scripts run a variety of commands, mostly cygwin, > but some applications run in a DOS shell. > > To elaborate, I run bash, and inside this shell I start ActiveState

Re: looking for shell program to retrieve property info from windows files

I did something similar in perl. #!/usr/bin/perl # Version 1.0 # - It does what it does. use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex); use Win32::File; use Win32::File::VersionInfo; use Win32::FileTime; $fname = $ARGV[0]; print "\nFile: $fname"; if (! -e $fname) { print "\n\nI cannot find your file.";

Re: sshd on windows

There are several. You can purchase a Windows SSH server from F-Secure or SSH Corporation. The servers support SSH2 and SFTP. I haven't looked at the F-Secure version in a long time, but the SSH Corporation version supports PKI in addition to user name / password. If you google for 'ssh server

Keeping cygwin updated on remote systems

I have about 20 systems that are either behind firewalls that I don't control or hardened so that my only access to them is via SSH. I am using OpenSSH installed with the Cygwin setup.exe program and configured with the included scripts. I also tunnel VNC through SSH to get a remote desktop when

Re: Keeping cygwin updated on remote systems

wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > > > > I also tunnel VNC through SSH to get a remote desktop when necessary. > > > > > > My problem is: how do I keep these systems updated since my only > > > access is through the comp

RE: Can run.exe be packaged separately from X?

Check the properties of your shortcut. On the 'Shortcut' tab look at the entry in the 'Run:' field. It should say 'Normal window' but probably says 'Minimized'. -Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Mastronarde Sent: Thursday, Jun

RE: Carriage Returns

>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Kramer >Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 11:33 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Carriage Returns > > >To whom it may concern: > >I have a real problem with the way that cygwin/cygwin's version of perl >h

RE: Carriage Returns

; From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of DePriest, Jason R. > > > Oops! You quoted the list address uncensored three times, included a >disallowed disclaimer, and didn't spot that no amount of cygcheck output is >going to give us any clue why Mr. Kramer is complaining about the fact th

OT (WAY) RE: Carriage Returns

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com [mailto: cygwin-owner at >>> cygwin dot com] On Behalf Of Dave Korn Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 >>>

RE: Accessing Cygwin from a LAN PC

zzapper wrote: > Sorry bet this is a Cygwin chestnut. > > I would like to access CygWin on my PC from other PCs on our LAN. > > I guess VNC , but which flavour? Other solutions? > > zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) > -- > > vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?"

RE: Setting up cygwin so other users can run processes on my computer

Rajiv Chopra wrote: > I'm a bit of a novice to cygwin, but after installing it on my PC, I > was very pleased with the ability to compile my C++ code with g++ and > get faster runtimes than on our SUN servers at work. > > What I would like to do is enable another colleague to run processes > on my

RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")

On Friday, July 09, 2004 10:39 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:27:55AM +0100, William Blunn wrote: >> I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't >> hard. > >> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> Finally, you (

RE: problem typing the letter a

On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:33 PM, Sid Subr wrote > > any information would be helpful > I agree. Can you please follow the guidelines from => > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html You'll need to type the command "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out", which doesn't require

RE: Accessing Property Sheets

On Thursday, July 29, 2004 7:31 AM, Igor Pechtchanski wrote > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, George wrote: > >> I keep running up against situations where I require access to the >> property sheet for a folder/file to perform a settings change I can't >> accomplish otherwise. > > Exactly which properties

RE: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:45 AM, Robin Bowes wrote > On Tue, August 3, 2004 16:19, Andrew DeFaria said: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> >>> And you would do that rather than use the tool designed for >>> providing >>> the information, because...? >> >> To answer the question: "Which packa

RE: how to check what cygwin packages are installed on the system ?

On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:39 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:58:48AM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: >> On Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:45 AM, Robin Bowes wrote >> >>> On Tue, August 3, 2004 16:19, Andrew DeFaria said: >&

RE: My info command has stopped working some time

On Friday, August 06, 2004 5:59 PM, zzapper wrote > On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 21:02:01 +0100, wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I can do >> >>> info --help >> >> but typing >> >>> info >> or >>> info >> brings >> >> info: dir: No such file or directory >> >> Havn't needed info for a while so don't know when

Re: updated bash to latest 3.1.17(8)-release; startup has errors now

r/lf or two somewhere and I must root them out and destroy them. Thanks. -Jason On 10/2/06, Tristen Hayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:53:42PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >> "DePriest, Jason R." wrote: >>>

Re: updated bash to latest 3.1.17(8)-release; startup has errors now

On 10/3/06, mwoehlke <> wrote: DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > This google search was pretty much worthless when I ran it before I > sent my message in: > bash "command not found" site:cygwin.com inurl:ml If you've STFLA'd, it is good to mention this when aski

Re: SSH: Cygwin->Linux is slow

On 10/9/06, ppmoore <> wrote: Yes, I do. Thanks, I'll try it out. Paul Brett Serkez-2 wrote: > > >> that the time between typing a letter and viewing >> the response is of the order of 1-2 seconds. > > Are you running anit-virus software? Do you have active virus > scanning turned on? If

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

On 10/10/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote: Hi, I still have problems with ssh-agent/ssh-add when I install McAfee. Browsing over the internet didn't yield a working solution. Before I could stop McAfee and it would work but with the latest version of McAfee (version 10?) disabling McAfee doesn't make any

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

On 10/11/06, Tim Beuman <> wrote: Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Anyway, I tried to disable all McAfee options (Virus Protection, Spyware protection, SystemGuard Protection, Script scanning and email)

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Hmm, yup, I bet that's it. See (1) for another example (note: I am also using Thunderbird). So, perhaps the question is why Jason complained in the first place, since this seems to be archive policy (and no one has complained at *me* for doing the same thing). Probably just overlooking "that's how

Re: Cygwin as non-adminstrator

On 10/11/06, Tim Largy <> wrote: After installing and running Cygwin (on Windows XP Professional) as an administrator, I tried to run it as an ordinary user (no administrative rights) and ran into permission problems. When I installed Cygwin, I made sure to select the option to make Cygwin availa

Re: showing cookies and other "Temporary Internet Files"

On 10/20/06, Mike Marchywka <> wrote: Hi, ls -al didn't turn up anything here: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files but yet it is loaded with cookes and stuff. How do I list these? Thanks. I'm fairly certain that the stuff you see in that director

Re: environment variables not propagating when i log in via sshd

On 10/20/06, John Owens <> wrote: How can I make my system environment variables appear when I ssh through sshd? Thanks - JDO What if you use the option to set environment variables when you install the service with cygrunsrv? --env VAR=VALUE You can use this option multiple times (up to 2

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

On 10/25/06, Teggy P Veerapen <> wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out how to connect to a remote ssh server (in fact to my home pc which is hosting cygwin/sshd server) with the standard ssh client coming with cygwin and I need to go through my company proxy. ... I have done some search on t

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

On 10/24/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: I'm not sure everyone is paying full attention here. again. Reformatted. The entry just defines TOFU: Text Over, Full-quote Under (or, in the original German, "Text Oben, Fullquote Unten"). A combination of top posti

Re: 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin

On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as guidelines in . Care to offer a patch The "submitting a patch" guidelines seem to refer to program patches... since this is only an HTML update, here i

Re: Installing packages from cygwin Command Line

On 10/25/06, JZA <> wrote: Hi everyone, well I have been looking into Cygwin, and I want to know if there is a command line tool to install some of this packages. setup.exe has some command-line switches you can use to sort of automate things. Command Line Options: -D --download

Problem reporting (was 1.5.21-1: CIFS symlinks on network share break Cygwin)

On 10/25/06, DePriest, Jason R. <> wrote: On 10/25/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > Certainly this and quoting raw email addresses could be offered as > guidelines in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. Care to offer a > patch The "submitting a patch"

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

On 10/25/06, Wynfield Henman <> wrote: I don't know about corkscrew, but some variation of the below which I use may be helpful to you. Regards, Darel Henman -- # Example: ## Get connect (small yet good)

Re: How to go through a company proxy with ssh ?

On 10/26/06, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <> wrote: Brett Serkez wrote: > While this is being addressed as a technical issue, the proxy server > is presumably used to implement company policy. While you will likely > succeed in circumventing the proxy server, will this put you in > violation of compan

Re: sh files

On 10/30/06, dubcek <> wrote: Thanks Eric. Unfortunately, your remedy did not work. As I mentioned in my original mail, all my .sh files were made under unix. But I tried d2u anyway (you never know), but I got the same result. What does a hex view of your shell script say the line ending are?

Re: Reboot vs. Restart Windows

On 10/30/06, Benjamin Madore <> wrote:hat you wanted. BTW, can one say they restarted Cygwin without restarting windows? Does that make sense? No, this does not make sense. If you had services installed via cygrunsrv and they were running, you could stop / start them and call that restarting

Re: Cygwin NTFS permission listing oddness.

On 11/2/06, Linda Walsh <> wrote: You somewhat answered my question, indirectly. I wasn't aware windows had a "group" security descriptor in addition to the user-owner-creator field. Where does it store the information? Dave Roth has a pretty good description of the various ACLs that Windows us

3PP source code question (IANAL)

Are 3PPs that bundle an old version of cygwin1.dll required in any way to provide the source code of their app so that I can recompile it with a modern version of cygwin1.dll? I have used Foundstone's (now part of McAfee) free tools (found here http://www.foundstone.com/resources/freetools.htm) f

Re: 3PP source code question (IANAL)

On 11/7/06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you can confirm that all these tools are actually linked against the Cygwin DLL itself, then sure, why not? If you don't get a reply or a negative reply, please keep us informed. Is this good enough? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/Tools/Foundstone/bin $ c

Re: Possible Cygwin1.dll problem

On 11/8/06, root wrote: Hi dear Igor, Thank you for your patience! Everithink works fine now that I've followed you advice - after using setup.exe. I thought it will start downloading and installing again, but actually it just told me "there's nothing to install" and created necessary mount poi

Re: CASE error in script file

On 11/8/06, Doug wrote: Hello, I am using Cygwin 1.5.21(0.156/4/2).I try to run the shell script called test.sh but i always get the following error '/test.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `in '/test.sh: line 1: `case $1 in I am using Cygwin 1.5.21(0.156/4/2), too! I just ope

unable to remove hard link

I did some unfortunate experimenting with compiling different versions of Sleuthkit and Autopsy (http://www.sleuthkit.org) before they officially started supporting cygwin. Autopsy wipes out your PATH when it runs to make sure you are using the correct version of the utilities. This also means,

Re: unable to remove hard link

On 11/9/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > Is there some way I can make the original cygz.dll forget all about a > couple of its hard links because ls still shows it has 3 total instead > of 1 like every other single dll. From your cygcheck.out: Warnin

Re: Windows environment variables in ssh sessions with privilege seperation

On 11/15/06, Sean Morgan wrote: I have cygwin sshd installed using privilege separation but find that when connected via ssh that neither the windows system nor user variables are present in the bash shell as they are when cygwin is run in a command shell from the Windows desktop. I always add

Re: getting rcp or scp to work on a home wireless network

On 12/1/06, Charles D. Russell wrote: - - - - - - - - >8 - - - - - - - - - - Is there something else to configure? - - - - - - - - - - - 8< - - - - - - - Maybe? - - - - - - - - >8 - - - - - - - - - - Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html - - - - - - - - - - - 8< - - - - - -

Re: Setting vim to nocompatible by default in Cygwin

On 12/5/06, Carles Cufi wrote: Fair enough. I have to say that it can be a bit confusing for people who are used to standard Linux distributions and Mac OS X when they start using Cygwin, but I understand your point. Thanks! Carles It was indeed confusing to me when I started using Cygwin

Re: vi / vim command

On 12/6/06, Shahed wrote: Dear All, I am a new user of cygwin to practice the linux/unix commands in the window. But i am unable to use the vi or vim command. I downloaded the vim-7.0.tar file. Now what should i do as there is no exe file Can anyone please help me? Best regards, Shahed

Re: cygstart getting The specified file was not found

On 12/11/06, ERIC HO wrote: I was able to use Windows Explorer to open the file by double clicking the file. I was able to use cygstart open the file with full path. The problem is with all file type. I can do a cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/ with no problem. The result from: strace cygstar

Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)

On 12/14/06, Brian Dessent wrote: Shankar Unni wrote: > > The manifest route is pretty simple, you just create an .xml file, then > > refer to it in a resource file, and then windres does the rest. > > But in cases like this, we really *don't* want to run with elevated > privileges - if I'm "in

Re: "/bin/bash: permission denied" using Cygwin ssh/sshd under WinXP 2003 x64: resolved

On 12/13/06, Brian Kasper wrote: I've been having terrible problems getting Cygwin ssh/sshd to work under the x64 version of WinXP 2003 SP1. First Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html (attach cygcheck -s -v -r output) Did you install sshd with the ssh-host-config script?

Re: "/bin/bash: permission denied" using Cygwin ssh/sshd under WinXP 2003 x64: resolved

On 12/14/06, Brian Kasper wrote: Jason -- Thanks for replying. I've attached the output of "cygcheck -s -v -r". Frustratingly, it appears that after a reboot (required because my company pushed some updates to my system), ssh to localhost no longer works. If I stop the sshd service, start a

Re: Cygwin 1.5.22 - everything crashes, windows exception

On 12/18/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I believe Outpost has been implicated before when these kinds of problems pop up. Not sure about Avast. You can check the email archives for details. If these are recent changes (or at least different than the last time when you didn't have these problem

Re: cygwn uname

On 12/18/06, hyrogen wrote: Hi There, Im trying to get started using the open source search engine nutch and im trying to connect to is through cygwn to start indexing my site. However Im getting this error: line 15: syntax error near unexpected token `in line 15: `case "`uname`" in I found

Re: Problems installing/uninstalling

On 12/26/06, Paul Thompson wrote: I have had recently considerable problems both installing and uninstalling cygwin. XP-pro box Version: 2.510.2.2 1st try - downloaded all updates, and install from local disk Install stops dead and does not proceed at /etc/postinstall/01bash.bat After this,

Re: How to access directly an scsi device?

On 1/1/07, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: Hello, how can I access directly an scsi device under cygwin, pls? I don't mean such an node Tape0 or so. MfG... Pierre Bernhardt -- The Cygwin User's Guide rocks! http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: CR/LF problems after upgrade

On 1/5/07, fschmidt wrote: Okay, how can I set SHELLOPTS before invoking bash? I tried it in the /etc/profile but that didn't work. -- You admit to not understanding or wanting to understand Unix. What about Windows? It took me less than 60 seconds to figure this one out. Create a new Win

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