Re: activestate perl on cygwin

On 1/9/07, Brian Dessent wrote: moka at hol dot gr wrote: > > But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs > that are intended for unix? Essentially, yes. Just run CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and type "install Foo::Bar" just as you would on any unix system. You do

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

On 1/9/07, Shankar Unni wrote: TDavid Smiley wrote: > I am new to Cygwin. I noticed that the $USER environment variable has my > username in upper-case. So it is "DSMILEY". As David said, that's because you created your username in ALL UPPERCASE when setting up the user on Windows. The only

Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

On 1/9/07, David Smiley wrote: I forgot to add, I log into a windows domain and so I can't set the case. Perhaps this issue only relates to windows domain logins. Maybe they are case insensitive because when I log into the domain, I ALWAYS specify it in lower case. I don't think I've ever see

Re: Re: username should be lower-case for $USER

First - On 1/9/07, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > $USER is a Windows environment variable and Cygwin doesn't change it. > It just reports what Windows says. Not true. $USER is actually a shell variable, and is (re)set by the shell (b

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

On 1/10/07, Kevin T Cella wrote: Offer an alternative. As I mentioned in my original post, I got this script online. In using it I found it was not sufficient, I started this thread in the hopes that someone would provide me with a better wrapper script. Instead I got a bunch of replies about ho

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

On 1/10/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: some dude wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: > ... >>> I don't actually install through cygwin, but use the ppm installer >>> from Activestate. >> Why people would want to use a proprietary Perl with a proprietary >> installer is beyond me. Let me ask you a question

Re: activestate perl on cygwin

On 1/11/07, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kevin T Cella wrote: > [snip] > I'm asking for the short term solution. > > > Answers were provided to you. Apparently they don't tickle your fancy. > > People have commented on that wrapper script that you posted. I still > > don't see wha

Re: Can't start cron daemon in Cygwin 1.5.23 under WinXP SP2

On 1/25/07, Steve Rowley wrote: >Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:23:19 - >From: "Dave Korn" > >Seems like you don't have a valid /etc/groups file. You should fix that first. My /etc/group file was made by: >$ mkgroup -lc >/etc/group Here are its current contents; if you can spot anything wr

Re: [Fwd: CYGWIN "notty" (enthought solution?)]

On 1/31/07, John F Burkhart wrote: [ - - - - - - - - cut - - - - - - - - ] the situation. Could someone perhaps explicitly sate how to set Cygwin=notty? [ - - - - - - - -/cut - - - - - - - - ] Create a Windows environment variable (might want to use SYSTEM environment variable and not just a U

Re: closing SSH session leaves a zombie bash process

On 1/30/07, Patrick Herbst wrote: i just noticed this today after i updated my base cygwin yesterday. if i use putty to establish a ssh session and just hit the X to close (instead of typing 'exit'), the server leaves a copy of bash running till i go in an manually end process. i've tried reins

Re: How to list/detect any "non-cygwin" apps in /bin

On 2/6/07, zzapper wrote: Tim Prince wrote in news:: > I may not be catching your intent; why not sort by .dll dependencies? I want to find out what non-cygwin apps I will have to manually install on my new PC > why not sort by .dll dependencies How? -- zzapper http://successtheory.com/tip

Re: pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: > When I get some time I'll redo those patches against the latest cygwin > version. In the meantime, if netscreen provides a sysctl > net.inet.tcp.ackonpush or some way to disable delayed acks, then that > might help you. Or you could t

Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

On 2/12/07, Matthew Woehlke wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: > I have no idea what this Daemon tools thing is. Hooks into the file > system. Gee that's beginning to sound like a root-kit! Last I checked, it is a program to allow you to mount CD images as "real drives". Since it is supposed to make

Re: pasting into an ssh connection painfully slow... sometimes

On 2/8/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: > On 2/8/07, Lev Bishop wrote: > > > When I get some time I'll redo those patches against the latest cygwin > > version. In the meantime, if netscreen provides a sysctl > > net.inet.tcp.ackonpush o

Re: Slow compile issue with cygwin make since v1.5.17

On 2/15/07, Dan Shumuk wrote: Hi there, We have been having a problem with using v1.5.24 of cygwin since cygwin.dll v1.5.17. Installing the lastest version of cygwin causes our autogenerated slickedit make files to compile very slowly in cygwin. Upon further investigation we found the CPU time

Re: Installation does not complain, but no vi

On 2/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas what could be wrong when you install cygwin and can even do startxwin to start an x-server, but you have no vi although you have cat, ls ,... etc? You didn't install the vim package? vi is not installed by default; you'll have to select it

Re: 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)

On 2/20/07, Jeff2007 wrote: Hi, I'm trying to access files for reading via the / directive, i.e. vi /usr/foo.txt However, this will not open foo.txt, vi creates a new file in the current directory instead. I can cd to the /usr directory and open the file with vi usr.txt. I'm using vi as an exa

Re: 1.5.24 unable to access files via root / (forward slash)

On 2/20/07, Jeff2007 wrote: Hi, I'm trying to access files for reading via the / directive, i.e. vi /usr/foo.txt However, this will not open foo.txt, vi creates a new file in the current directory instead. I can cd to the /usr directory and open the file with vi usr.txt. I'm using vi as an exa

Re: sshd timestamp logging

On 2/26/07, Andrew Louie wrote: I am able to to get sshd to output logs to /var/logs/sshd.log but all the entires do not have time stamps. A search of google yields no useful information on how to enable timestamps, i guess timestamps are just supposed to be attached by default, but that does no

Re: sshd timestamp logging

On 2/26/07, Andrew Louie wrote: > On 2/26/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I installed syslog-ng as a service with cygrunsrv and I have sshd log to that. > It keeps time stamps. > Liek this: > Feb 26 12:13:31 srvc sshd: PID 1552: Connection from 172.21.128.39 port 5248 > Fe

Re: script problem

On 3/2/07, Asher Vilensky wrote: Ok, good point. You convinced me. Gone is X. One annoying thing I've noticed is that the backspace button doesn't work in vi. It produces '^?' character. Can somebody remind me how to set this right in .vimrc or whatever? I've been away from Unix/Linux for a

Re: script problem

On 3/2/07, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: On 3/2/07, Asher Vilensky wrote: > Ok, good point. You convinced me. Gone is X. > One annoying thing I've noticed is that the backspace button doesn't > work in vi. It produces '^?' character. Can somebody remind me how to

Re: script problem

On 3/2/07, Asher Vilensky wrote: Thanks. These were already set in .vimrc. And, they don't work in rxvt, but do work in an xterm. :-( Meanwhile, I found out I ***have to*** use XWin since I'm displaying X applications on my XP. So I'm back to the very original question: How to automaticall

Re: Win2k + Cygwin + Rsync + OpenSSH = hang

On 3/2/07, Justin Zipperle wrote: I've tested pulling from other Linux servers and rsync still hangs. I have also been unable to push from the Windows server to any Linux server - rsync on the Windows box hangs. Since all of these Linux machines work fine rsyncing to and from other Linux machi

Re: sshd: can't mount samba shares

On 3/5/07, David Abrahams on Mon Mar 05 2007, Corinna Vinschen writes: > On Mar 5 08:43, David Abrahams wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen writes: > > > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR OK, it took me an hour to figure out how to do that on Gnus. If you're going to ask everyone to do that

Re: Making sftp and ssh work on cygwin

On 3/7/07, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Try adding -v or -vv to get some information about the protocol exchange, > > and where it's stopping. You can probably also get some information from > > the ssh server logs. > > > > Thanks for your quick answer, Andrew. I didn't g

Re: Impossible to start sshd service on windows server 2003

On 3/9/07, Bertrand Gourraud wrote: Hello, Since a recent windows update of my windows 2003 server, my sshd service does not start anymore. When I try to start the service "cygrunsrv -S sshd" I get the following error: cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: StartService: Win32 error 1069: The s

Re: Accessing remote PC (ssh?)

On 3/15/07, Charles D. Russell wrote: *"Larry Hall wrote: .ssh/known_hosts on dell03 contains explicit IP addresses for both dell03 and sony06 that are no longer current. Move this file out of the way and try ssh again. __ Success! That's all

Re: scp doesn't copy - neither returns an error message

On 3/29/07, Thomas Wiedmann wrote: > Search the package list for the 'rebase' package. Meanwhile I found and downloaded the package rebase-2.4-1.tar.bz2, decompressed it and saved the files in the relevant subdirectories of C:\Programme\OpenSSH. Trying to run rebaseall I've got a message like "

Re: Is there any way to highlight to cut and past in cygwin?

On 3/29/07, Kevin Markle wrote: Dave Korn wrote : > On 29 March 2007 19:43, Jeff Hawk wrote: > >>> -Original Message- >>> From: On Behalf >>> Of Dave Korn >>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:37 AM >>> Subject: RE: Is there any way to highlight to cut and past in cygwin? >>> >>> On 29

Re: perl problem with cygwin path

On 4/5/07, Mike R Brown wrote: Dave, Activestate perl is not installed on that box. The first thing I checked for. The only Perl is installed /use/bin/perl. A 'which perl' also confirms that. Another thing I did to confirm this is rename the perl.exe under /usr/bin/ and copy the p

Re: Renaming gotcha under FAT file system

On 4/6/07, wrote: My Bash script renames file and folders from regular expression patterns found in a preset file. The patterns allow for complex renaming, yet sometimes it just converts the file name to title case. The script produces a separate file for executing the rename commands. printf

Re: ln -s exe magic (coreutils 6.7-2)

On 4/9/07, Eric Blake wrote: [ cut out lots of useful information to save space ] Will your proposed changes in coreutils fix the following problem I just discovered today? Create a symbolic link ln -s /usr/bin/foo /foo where /usr/bin/foo is really usr/bin/foo.exe ls -l /foo returns foo -> /us

Re: CHMOD appears to work, but something fails silently.

On 4/19/07, The Gavitron wrote: Hi Everyone, < - - - - - - cut - - - - - - - > Is there anything I have overlooked? Maybe this is a known 'feature' of chmod over CIFS? Regards, -G Yes. Please follow the instruction here Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html to attac

Re: CHMOD appears to work, but something fails silently.

On 4/19/07, The Gavitron wrote: On 4/19/07, The Gavitron wrote: > On 4/19/07, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Yes. See 'smbntsec' here: > > > > > > Larry's answer solved it! I set the CYGWIN environment variable to 'smbntsec', started a

Re: A Utility that creates .SFV (Simple File Verify)

[ -- cut lots of stuff -- ] As mentioned in the previous post, I have never compiled any application under cygwin. So a learning curve exists for me, thus these questions come to mind. According to the cksfv page, a comment mentions compiling the source for use under Windows, yet I am not famil

Re: Trademark rights and copyright for "Cygwin" and logo.

[ - - words - - ] Try these http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/ http://www.uspto.gov/index.html (I didn't find anything under Cygwin or RedHat and the stuff I found searching for Cygnus was not related to this project at all). Also, http://www.registeringatrademark.com/trademark-law-basics.

Re: Adding to a windows zip file without zip.exe

On 5/16/07, Chadwick <> wrote: Cygwin is currently installed on over a hundred windows 2003 servers, and is used to do some admin tasks as well as to pull files from the servers on a daily basis via ssh. One of the files pulled from each server is a windows ZIP file. I want to add an extra fi

Re: IDE for cygwin

vim with compatibality turned off? On 5/24/07, Acmeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello i want to develop an application in wxwidgets, compiled with cygwin, and i need a good ide. Could u give me some suggestions? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem rep

Re: File Permissions on Vista [could be "how to deal with UAC"?]

On 5/29/07, morgan gangwere wrote: - cut out Arnaud's information and Morgan's PGP header / footer - Cant we make setup.exe check if its Vista? i mean, its an environment variable! UAC does some odd things to user access and permissions. Just a thought, Morgan Gangwere http://blogs.msdn.c

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

On 6/6/07, Dave wrote: Brian Dessent wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Mmm, because for a blind person this is a very basic package? > > Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that most Cygwin users are blind. Last I heard, setup.exe was not particularly friendly wrt screen readers (cf. package select

Re: replicating my cygwin install on a different machine

On 6/6/07, Jerome Fong wrote: Hi There, I was wondering if there was a way to save and duplicate my cygwin installation so I can replicate it on a different machine. The idea is, I have scripts and programs developed and tested on my cygwin install. I want to be able to deploy everything that

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8

On 6/16/07, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, (I was busy this week) Christopher Faylor, le Fri 08 Jun 2007 16:10:16 -0400, a écrit : > Cygwin isn't just a bunch of nifty programs clumped together for the > delight and enjoyment of windows users. It's whole purpose in life is > to provide implementa

Re: mysql.so: Permission denied (Ruby under Cygwin)

On 6/19/07, Ronald Fischer wrote: > Well, Cygwin Ports has MySQL client and server packages so you can use > that if you want. But how do I get at it from Ruby? It doesn't seem to be in the Cygwin Ruby package (at least not under the name 'mysql'), and there seems to be no additional MySq

Re: cygrunsrv -S sshd fails not started

On 6/21/07, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, gga wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: >> >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >>> $ cygrunsrv -S sshd >>> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error >>> 1062: >>> The service has not b

Re: Cygwin installation on Windows Server 2003

On 6/22/07, DGFM-dfmsdev5b-Andrew Clark wrote: Hi, Can anyone please confirm whether Cygwin 2.510.2.2 should be installed on Windows Server 2003 only as a LOCAL ADMIN account, NOT a ADMIN USER or DOMAIN ADMIN account ? I have no idea what Cygwin 2.510.2.2 is. Additionally, is anyone aware

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

On 6/24/07, Vidiot wrote: Larry Hall responded: >'setup.exe' will only remove files when uninstalling or upgrading. It won't >remove configuration files that have been modified. Also, if the "user >files" in question were not installed by Cygwin, they will not be touched. Thanks. >> Also, w

suggestion for FAQ update

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.firewall 26. What firewall should I use with Cygwin? We have had good reports about Kerio Personal Firewall, ZoneLabs Integrity Desktop, and the built-in firewall in Windows XP. Other well-known products including ZoneAlarm and Norton Internet Securi

Re: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

On 7/13/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: Dave Korn > > Let me repeat myself: > > >> If you aren't > >> logged into the domain >^^ > > Logging into the local machine and logging into the domain > are two different > things. When you are not logged in to the doma

Re: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

On 7/18/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: DePriest, Jason R. > On 7/13/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > "runas /netonly /user:machine2\userB" followed by "mkpasswd -d > > machine2 -u userB": fails > > > > If the server is stand alone,

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

On 7/31/07, sun wrote: > my cygwin man pages are mixed with error characters (such as �c). > this is the result of 'man ls', please help to locate the problem. > --- > LS(1)U

Re: Request for running a test application

On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can > get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached > test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. > > Just please don't send informat

Re: Request for running a test application

On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can > get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached > test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. > > Just please don't send informat

Re: Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess

On 8/6/07, jason.stott wrote: > > Hello, > > We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user > Citrix server environment. > > One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted > each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after ru

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

On 8/6/07, Joel Rubin wrote: > The PDF's in question are part of pump and dump spam via botnets so I > see no legal or ethical reason to respect any expressed desire of the > author as to how they may be used. > > I googled that XPDF didn't respect the no copy/no print flags in PDF's > but the ver

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

On 8/6/07, Steve Holden wrote: > Joel Rubin wrote: > > pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* > > comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. > > > > > > Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files > > being spammed just a few lines

Re: openssh not reporting the correct errorlevel

On 8/28/07, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT)) > > Here are the command sequence I ran on Windows 2003 x86 SP2 servers (delhi > > is the hostname) > > C:\>ssh delhi net > > The syntax of this command is: > > > > NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FIL

Re: setup.exe not available?

On 9/6/07, Yu Namba wrote: > I need to install OpenSSL, but when I click on the link to download/run > setup.exe, the file seems unavailable and I get the "The page cannot be > displayed" page. Can you please look into this? > > -- When I click on the link, it works just fine for me. http://cygwi

Re: sftp removing writable bit

On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) > >> Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not > >> necessarily against the idea of "well go out and get a working copy > >> of these programs" but often clients

Re: sftp removing writable bit

On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - > Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp > server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an - - - - - cut - - - - - vi /etc/sshd_config uncomment line: Subsystem sftp

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

On 9/14/07, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as > possible) on Cygwin and Linux. > > A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting > output to the null device, or bit-bucket. > > If I write the fo

Re: sftp removing writable bit

On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not > > > > that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; > > seems like a compelling reason if you are going

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

On 9/14/07, Sam Snitman <> wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by > "however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. > > That's definitely not right" > > Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can > you please elaborate what mounts are and about how > to/r

Re: 1.5.24-2 question about using echo on remote node.

On 9/17/07, Prakash Babu <> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to run the following command using cygwin > on a remote node using ssh. > > /bin/sh -c 'echo Number=\"1234567\" >> /tmp/file1' > > The command executes successfully but the file has > content Number=1234567(double quotes missing) ins

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

On 9/17/07, SQueeZe <> wrote: > > Hi All > I am trying to connect to my home computer from work and I have to use the > work HTTP proxy on port 443 in order to do so. I have done this using PuTTY > just fine so I know there is nothing wrong with my setup. I have downloaded > the windows binary of

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

On 9/19/07, Eric Blake <> wrote: > Scalzott, Todd <> writes: > > > > > I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did > > update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the > > problem. > > There's no such thing as CORE in the cygwin distribution; you meant co

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

On 9/19/07, James Adams wrote: > - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - > bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out > 69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 > bash: fork: Permission denied - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - cygcheck is a Windows program so you can r

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

On 9/20/07, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...which isn't that tricky. In the Disk Management tool (for instance > right click "My Computer" -> "Manage" to get there via the "Computer > Management" admin tool) disks are numbered "Disk 0", "Disk 1", etc. > This order corresponds wi

Re: What Environment Variables should i set up?

On 9/23/07, yaojiaxing <> wrote: > i installed Cygwin,and wanted to compile programs in eclipse , > so what Environment Variables should i set up.Where to get > information about Environment Variables that i should > set up. > Thanks a lot! > For Cygwin programming questions, see if the FAQ is an

Re: OpenSSH and user environment: Maybe not initialized correctly

On 9/25/07, Frank <> wrote: > Hi, > > I am experiencing some trouble with OpenSSH under Cygwin. > Details on my Cygwin installation can be found in the attached > outputs of "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" on the > machines in the zipped attachment. > [I tried to send with attachment, but obviou

Re: Home directory

On 10/3/07, Gmane User wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: > > > >> Brian Dessent writes: > >>> Gmane User wrote: > >>> > it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software > systems have cumulative release notes with each new rele

Founstone Labs (now part of McAfee) violates GPL or not?

Foundstone Labs has a few free tools they release that are compiled against the cygwin1.dll. The free tools are: pasco (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/pasco.htm) galleta (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/galleta.htm) rifiuti (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/p

Re: Links and O/S shell

On 10/9/07, Joel Rubin wrote: > I ran links from cmd, started to download a file in the background and > ran an O/S shell. Later, when I could see that the download was long > finished, I exited the O/S shell and, instead of returning to links, > the whole console box disappeared, leaving the ghos

Re: Users connected to my computer using Cygwin

On 10/9/07, Daniel Noll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess that works, as long as you only care about the users logged on through > the SSH server. If I open a clean bash session and type "who" it doesn't > even show myself. > > Daniel > I guess you don't have CYGWIN=TTY in your environment (

stupid question about user/groups shown with ls -l and ls -ln

If I run ls -l from /cygdrive/c it shows pagefile.sys as --1 1595523072 Oct 12 10:43 pagefile.sys I hate seeing the little '?' in my ls output. Normally, I just do ls -ln and look up what user name and group the SSIDs match with. However, with pagefile.sys you ge

Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

On 10/15/07, jxt <> wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - > Now, as to the original question about shared folders being created by > cygwin on vista, it appears that a solution is in hand, though I have not > yet tested it in my envrionment. Indeed I had tried some googling, and > even searching the archi

Re: is there a "urlencode" utility somewhere?

On 10/17/07, Mike Marchywka wrote: > Hi, > I found out that sometime during my reinstall process I lost something > called > "urlencode" Any idea where this is, or if it is even part of cygwin? I've > been > all through setup and google but no luck. > > This is supposed to read from stdin and outp

Re: is there a "urlencode" utility somewhere?

ackages > according to cygcheck but that probably reflects the problem with /usr being > a link. I didn't want to do a complete reinstall and setup the links just > for > one script. > > Thanks. > > >From: "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > &

Re: OpenSSH for windows issue

On 10/17/07, Mick Ken wrote: > Friends, > I am trying to install SSH on a Windows 2003 server since last 3 days > and still no luck. > > I have tried literally everything and searched 100s of google pages > but I am getting this error.I would greatly appreciate if someone can > help me resolve th

Re: cygrunsrv: Error stopping a service: OpenService: Win32 error 1060:

On 10/18/07, Dao, Phuong wrote: > Hi, > > I get this error when trying to start the sshd service, does anyone has > a clue of the problem? > Thanks a lot > > C:\cygwin\bin>cygrunsrv -S sshd > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error > 1062: > The service has not been s

Re: CYGWIN sshd staying in 'Starting' status

On 10/19/07, Sam Snitman wrote: > Thanks for your reply Rene, > > In reading the > $CYGWIN/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README file, It > mentions that the substitute account should have the > following user rights: > > Create a token object > Logon as a service > Replace a process level token > I

Re: Problem with Cygwin Include Files

On 10/23/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 17:59, Larry Adams wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The problem is that /usr/include/cygwin/icmp.h is blank and needs to be > > "non-blank". > > - - - - words . . . - - - - > > It doesn't contain anything for a couple of reasons. > > - For ICMP you need

Re: copying a million tiny files?

On Nov 1, 2007 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > --- Erich Dollansky ha scritto: > > > if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any > > networking stuff on this > > plattform. It should be there since the first hard > > disks have been there. > > Not so old. > I think only from MSDOS 5.0 > > Regar

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +) > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > > fulfill a certain purpose? > > apropos > >

Re: PStree on cygwin

On Nov 4, 2007 9:00 PM, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to find the pstree package in Cygwin setup list but it was not > included. Does Cygwin community yet to deploy pstree / no plan to > release it? > > I found it useful when I did demo of forked process for certain PID

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

On 11/6/07, Dave Korn <> wrote: > On 06 November 2007 16:21, Brian Mathis wrote: > > > I must say with respect that if there are problems porting from > > Activestate to linux/unix, that's a problem with the programmer who > > wrote the code, not Perl. There's no reason that code that's general >

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

On Nov 7, 2007 9:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - > No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, > how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cost? And how much was Cygwin's again? - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - This is to avoid people assum

Re: end of file characters

On Dec 1, 2007 3:07 PM, Erik Weibust wrote: > I went with the defaults when installing cygwin. Which means I used > the recommended unix/binary line feed setting. It sounded like that > means I get no line-ending translation done by cygwin, which is fine. > > So I open a .bat file and see a bu

Re: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave

On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: > > >> I am trying to compile a package called "meep" by means of cygwin. > > >> While running the configure command I get an error as: > > >> > > >> ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found > > > > > >Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI progra

Re: "su: user root does not exist"

On 12/3/07, asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I couldnt > understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. > Would somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming from > and how can I solve it?! > > Re

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

On Jan 17, 2008 9:38 PM, <> wrote: > The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that > appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code > does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this > correct? Cygwin has both ps and procps available. The

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

On Jan 30, 2008 6:57 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: > > > > paul.hermeneutic wrote: > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html > > > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd > > > I appreciate the links, but I already know how to set up an SSH server. I > was actually interested

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: > > Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the > past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things. > > Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right > question... > > I am talking about h

Re: setup.exe link down

On Feb 5, 2008 1:20 PM, Christopher Stack wrote: > hi all, > > the setup.exe (install or update now!) link is currently not working > and hasn't been since at least 10a yesterday (01/04/08). i > consistently get a peer reset page instead. i've tried this from > multiple locations, so i don't thi

Re: Unable to get Setup to work...

On Feb 8, 2008 11:29 PM, Mel Rosso-Llopart <> wrote: > Every attempt to get setup to work has failed. Either I get an empty > directory tree for cygwin on my C: drive or setup aborts with the tradition > XP failure window to send a message to Microsoft. Some interesting > symptoms: > 1) Dr. Watso

Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan <> wrote: > Jerry D. Hedden cpan.org> writes: > > > > > > my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button. > > Pressing the left and right mouse buttons at the same time has the same > effect. > > > > > I read that somewhere earlier and tried itdoesn't

Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Suan <> wrote: > > DePriest, Jason R. gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan <> wrote: > > > Jerry D. Hedden cpan.org> writes: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: >>> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you >>> will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid >>> running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. >> >> It

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lee Maschmeyer <> wrote: >> To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygw > 0/tty2W0(2)$ echo $PATH > /home/lmaschm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/c/WINDOWS > /system32:/c/

Re: Executing ready compiled C program using bash shell

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jasmit Kaur <> wrote: > I have recently downloaded cygwin. I am trying to run a ready compiled > C binary program using bash shell...I get the following error...cannot > execute binary file - any suggestions? > > Thanks > Jasmit > > -- First, welcome to Cygwin. Se

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