2015-03-24 21:42 GMT+01:00 Chloe:
> Cygwin Git always thinks files are changed even when they aren't. After a
> commit with a Windows Git, Cygwin Git shows files as modified.
> [snip]
> $ git diff .project
> diff --git a/.project b/.project
> old mode 100644
> new mode 100755
Apart from the file m
Hi,
I'm experiencing a problem with multitail. It always gives a segmentation fault.
$ multitail --version
--*- multitail 6.3 (C) 2003-2014 by folk...@vanheusden.com -*--
The following problem occured:
-
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I see this behavior on all my
2015-04-10 22:38 GMT+02:00 Andrew DeFaria:
>> $ man 5 crontab
>>
>> See @reboot
>>
>> Never used it but I assume it will run after cron service is started.
>
> I haven't used it either, but I saw it there. Makes you wonder what would
> happen if you simply restarted the service or stopped it and th
2015-04-13 17:19 GMT+02:00 Yaakov Selkowitz:
> The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * vim-7.4.692-1
> * vim-common-7.4.692-1
> * vim-minimal-7.4.692-1
> * xxd-7.4.692-1
> * gvim-7.4.692-1
>
> Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the
>
2015-04-23 11:04 GMT+02:00 Dr. Volker Zell:
> > Subject: Re: multitail segfaults
> > I also have this problem when I use multitail.
>
> > $ multitail --version
> > --*- multitail 6.3 (C) 2003-2014 by folk...@vanheusden.com -*--
>
> > The following problem occured:
> > -
2015-06-01 10:36 GMT+02:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> On May 31 23:15, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> As a contributor to mintty, some sent me a notice discussing the move to
>> github
>> (http://www.reddit.com/r/cygwin/comments/37vgwi/what_happened_to_minttys_maintainer_andy_kopp/)
>> and now there is already a
2015-06-04 8:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff:
> I have acquired that account meanwhile but apparently it cannot be turned
> into an org. account, rather it would need to be attached to a separate org.
> account (weird policy).
Does this help?
https://help.github.com/articles/converting-a-user-into-an-or
Hi,
I have a annoying problem with rsyncd running as a service using
cygsunsrv. When I reboot the server running Win2008R2 the service is
not properly stopped. Therefore the .pid file stays in /var/run and
when the server starts again, the rsync daemon not started because it
finds a .pid file.
Wh
2012/2/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> Did you check your log? Do you see any of these messages? If not,
> I assume that the shutdown kills the service process so fast that it
> has no chance for the cleanup. Which is kind of weird in case of
> preshutdown, given that you're supposed to have 3 minutes, a
2012/2/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> Something else occured to me. You didn't specify a pidfile on the
> cygrunsrv -I command line, so rsyncd will be run by cygrunsrv without
> a pidfile. So, where is the pidfile coming from? Does rsync create
> it by itself in daemon mode? I just tried this and the a
2012/2/21 Corinna Vinschen:
> I tested that now and found that the preshutdown control message was
> never sent to cygrunsrv's service handler function.
>
> [snip]
>
> I just uploaded a new cygrunsrv version with this fix.
Whow!!!
That is a quick fix. Thanks a lot. Very much appreciated!
I will u
2012/2/21 Frank Fesevur:
> I will update the cygrunsrv tomorrow and reboot that server tomorrow
> evening and let you know.
Tested it and it works as expected with the preshutdown flag. Thanks
again for the fix.
Regards,
Frank
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2012/2/26 Jari Aalto:
>
> PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
> ===
>
> Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cloc
> License : GPL
>
> Count physical lines of source code in the given files (may be
> archives such as compressed tarballs or zip files) and/or
> recursively below the given directori
2015-08-26 15:42 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin:
> And since Vista+ doesn't have support for 16-bit subsystem, I need XP VM to
> compile my projects.
AFAIK the 16-bit subsystem has nothing to do with XP vs Vista+. It has
to do with 32-bit OS vs 64-bit OS. Have you tried a 32 bit Win7 (or
maybe even a 32-b
Hi,
I am unable to install a gem:
# gem install gollum
ERROR: Loading command: install (LoadError)
No such process - /usr/lib/ruby/2.2.0/openssl.so
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError)
undefined method `invoke_with_build_args' for nil:NilClass
When I try "gem update" the
Hi,
A while ago we upgraded our Ubuntu server to 12.04LTS and it now runs
rsync 3.0.9. We use rsnapshot (and thus rsync) to backup a part of our
Windows server. There is a default cygwin rsyncd running on that
Windows server (not cwRsync).
After this upgrade we always get a lot of these errors in
2013/2/17 Matthias Meyer:
> I would like to patch and compile rsync.
Why do you want to patch rsync?
Is it related my question of some days ago?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-02/msg00021.html
Regards,
Frank
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Hi,
I noticed that the cygwin reboot works different then the reboot
command on my (debian based) Linux machines. The cygwin reboot
requires a time on the command line while the reboot on Linux doesn't
accept a time and reboots immediately.
Is there a reason why this is? I can create a patch, if
The message below never made it through to the list, according to
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-03/>, probably because of the
attached file.
What is the best way to share the code I've written for the shutdown package???
Regards,
Frank
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2013/3/20 Larry Hall (Cygwin):
> Did you get a bounce message? Did it describe the problem?
Nope, never saw a bounce.
> Assuming there was no bounce, I'd suggest trying again. The Cygwin site was
> getting an upgrade over the last few days and was less "capable" than usual
> as a result.
Here
2013/3/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> After applying your changes you can then generate your patch via
> `cvs diff -up', ideally combined with a description of your changes.
I have attached a tarball with the patch against the cvs. It also
includes a changelog.
> I like the idea to get man pages, btw...
2013/3/21 Anthony Geoghegan:
> Nice work, Frank. I took a quick look at the man pages. The only improvement
> I'd suggest is that the first sentence of the Description for reboot.8 would
> read better by adding "the user" like so:
>
> Change
> "These programs allow to reboot, halt, poweroff, hibern
2013/3/22 Thorsten Kampe:
>> > And does anybody ever use that reason thing on the windows shutdown?
>> I know it is used by server versions of Windows. When you request
>> shutdown/reboot you must enter a reason, and it is logged in system logs
>> (don't know exactly where, i guess you can find thi
2013/3/23 Anthony Geoghegan:
> I thought about it for a while myself before posting but I concluded your
> choice was a good one: the usefulness of -h for hibernate probably
> outweighed the benefits of retaining compatibility with a more traditional
> (BSD) Unix shutdown. I checked to see if POSIX
2013/3/23 David T-G:
> % This would still conflict with the -H of the ones above, but I have no
> % problem with it. Anyone against changing hibernate to -H?
>
> What about 'b' for hi'b'ernate?
That was my original suggestion, but Anthony liked the -H better.
I have given it a thought over the we
2013/3/25 Earnie Boyd:
>> I have given it a thought over the weekend and since the -H conflicts
>> with -H of the Linux shutdown commands, I think I prefer the -b as
>> short for hibernate.
>
> To me -b sounds like 'b;inary how about -s for 's'leep since sleep is
> synonymous with hibernate.
-s is
Hi,
I want convert some documention I wrote to DocBook, but first I want
to have my environment setup correctly. So I installed all the docbook
packages and created a book.xml from the sample at
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/book.html and did some minor
changes.
This document validates prope
2013/4/12 Paul Allen:
>> "1D6C2" is not a character number in the document character set
>
> I'd put money on that being unicode character "mathematical bold small
> alpha". What windoze code page are you using? One that can handle
> utf-8 or not.
I created my book.xml with a simple copy-paste.
2013/4/12 Markus Hoenicka:
> I have never used the docbook2pdf tool, but these messages indicate that it
> attempts to transform an XML document using Jade and the DocBook DSSSL
> stylesheets. While you may be able to get this to work with a little effort,
> I'd recommend to use an XSLT-based toolc
2013/4/12 Markus Hoenicka:
> In order to set up your XML toolchain, please peruse the excellent
> instructions here:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/
I will leave docbook2pdf for what it is and dig into the XSL stuff.
Many new stuff to learn ;-)
Still a bit surprised though that docbook2pd
2013/5/17 Gary Johnson wrote:
> This is not a bug. See Yaakov's announcement in the list on May 12,
> "[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.3.943-1". He explains that the
> packaging scheme has been changed and that /usr/bin/vi is now Vim
> compiled with the "small" feature set. The "small" feature set
Hi Corinna,
Since nobody made real objections about changing the short flag for
hibernate from -h to -b to make room for -h for halt [1], I created a
patch to change the shutdown program. The patch was created back in
March, but with all your work being done on cygwin64, your holiday and
myself be
2013/5/20 Jeffrey Altman:
> I believe it is very important that the Cygwin shutdown not alter the
> meaning of command line parameters such that they are different from the
> Windows native version. The various options are already too confusing
> to remember. Typing the right option value into w
2013/5/21 Corinna Vinschen:
> I'm a bit reluctant as of the backward compatibility breakage. What
> if somebody uses shutdown in a script? You know, starting a backup
> in the evening and the last action of the script is to hibernate the
> machine or something like that...
That's why I sent my e
2013/5/21 Corinna Vinschen:
> Uhm... I would prefer if we had the cygwin-specific tools in a single
> repository, if it's not asked too much. I'm sure we could add git
> access as well, if it's not already available.
I can continue to use CVS, no problem. No need to use git, just for
the sake of
2013/5/22 Corinna Vinschen:
> After that, checking out the project is done using
>
> $ cvs -d :ext:@sourceware.org:/cvs/cygwin-apps co shutdown
The code is in CVS.
Since this is my first package and it uses the CVS I have a question
about the next steps.
If I understand things correctly, these
A new version of the Cygwin shutdown 1.10-1 has been released and can
be found at a server near you.
BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY NOTE
===
Cygwin shutdown gives a POSIX/Linux-like shutdown experience and tries
to mimic the common Linux shutdown command line options as much as
pos
2013/6/9 Corinna Vinschen:
> So vi complains about extended vim features in ~/.vimrc. The workaround
> is to have a shell alias vi->vim or a matching symlink in a bin directory
> preceeding /usr/bin in $PATH.
I suggested a proper solution, but there was no response yet:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwi
2013/6/9 Andrey Repin:
> 3. Now, if you Ctrl+C, the console hangs.
> If you let it sit down and think a bit, the iterrupt will be delivered to ping
> and it get out of the lockup.
>
> Going to grab a snapshot and see if it affect anything.
I ran into the same problem today, grabbed the latest snap
2013/6/11 Yaakov (Cygwin/X):
> This is an update to last week's upstream patchset, with the following
> packaging changes:
>
> * The 'vi' binary now uses ~/.virc and /etc/virc instead of vimrc to avoid
> errors with configuration options not supported by 'vi'.
>
> * gvim on x86_64 uses the GTK+ int
2013/6/17 Shaun Fielder:
> We're so used to vi === vim [fully featured] on Cygwin. At the very least -
> when the full "vim" package is installed 'vi' should use it.
> At the moment, I'm having to get everyone here to uninstall vim-minimal and
> manually setup a sym-link (or alias) to get back to t
2013/6/18 Csaba Raduly:
>> If I have the full-featured vim installed, then I expect vi ==
>> full_featured_vim. This is how it has always been.
>>
>> I guess I'll just have to resign myself to creating an alias (vi=vim) on
>> every install...
>
> Maybe there should be a "vi-as-vim" package which co
2013/6/19 Adam Dinwoodie:
> I'm not sure who the current maintainer is, or how to find out,
This is the list of all packages and their maintainers.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-pkg-maint
Not sure where to find a link to this on the cygwin site though.
Regards,
Frank
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2013/8/20 Corinna Vinschen:
> This bug is present since 2004 and nobody noticed it. I guess that
> means there aren't many people out there actually partitioning their
> tape drives...
FYI: we use cygwin tar on a daily base to backup one server to
LTO2-tapes, but I have never partitio
Hi,
I recently transferred my shutdown repo from my personal github
acoount to the cygwin organization.
Could anybody with the right permissions rename the repo to just "shutdown"?
Regards,
Frank
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2016-08-12 6:04 GMT+02:00 Brent:
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>How about mintty -w max or -w full instead?
>
> Thanks, I am going to try that tomorrow.
I'm not use, but I think Thomas meant that as a possible yet to be
written command line option.
Regards,
Frank
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2016-08-23 1:29 GMT+02:00 Thomas Wolff:
> I have also uploaded mintty 2.5.0 as a test release with the following
> change:
>
> * Revise DPI handling (#470; #492, #487); always consider individual
> monitor DPI.
>
> Note that this release introduces a slightly incompatible change in mintty.
> The
Hi Dave,
I have a suggestion for chere. It would be really nice if the Cygwin
icon/logo would be shown in front of the menu entry.
Right now I only have one "Bash Prompt Here" menu item, but other bash
implementations (MSYS2, Windows Git) also have a chere-like feature.
They add there icon in fro
2016-09-20 18:42 GMT+02:00 Yaakov Selkowitz:
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * vim-7.4.2367-1
Any specific reason why you didn't upgrade to the new 8.0 release?
Regards,
Frank
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2016-12-20 21:44 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen:
> * The next release of OpenSSH will remove support for running sshd(8)
>with privilege separation disabled.
Just noticed this.
Not sure what that means for Cygwin ssh servers.
I think I did the right thing when I installed ssh on my servers back
Hi,
I've just updated the version of shutdown to v2.0-1 and it can be
found at a server near you.
FULL CHANGELOG (since shutdown-1.10-1)
==
* Added --install to install Windows Updates during shutdown/reboot.
The InitiateShutdown() Windows API call is used
2017-01-16 18:52 GMT+01:00 Achim Gratz:
> There is a build or packaging error somewhere with the 64bit version:
> the shutdown.exe delivered with the x86_64 package is in fact a 32bit
> executable that refuses to work in 64bit Cygwin. Can you please correct
> and re-release the package?
Thanks fo
Hi,
I've just updated the version of shutdown to v2.0-2 and it can be found at
a server near you.
This release fixes a build issue in the package. The 64-bit package actually
contained a 32-bit shutdown.exe
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-01/msg00194.html
FULL CHANGELOG (since shutdown-1.10-1)
2017-10-23 14:38 GMT+02:00 KARL BOTTS:
> Does anybody have any concrete experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux
> (hence WSL) on the same machine, alongside Cygwin?
I'm using them both without much problems (on Creator Update, not on
Fall Creator Update yet). I use them only for the command l
2017-11-27 7:39 GMT+01:00 Yaakov Selkowitz:
> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> * python2-alabaster-0.7.10-1
> * python2-babel-2.5.1-1
> * python2-imagesize-0.7.1-1
> * python2-jinja2-2.9.6-1
> * python2-pytz-2017.3-1
> * python2-snowballstemmer-1.2.1-1
> * p
2018-03-20 23:52 GMT+01:00 KARL BOTTS:
> Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" to
> Cygwin?
Depends on how you define "relationship". Tony summed it up very nicely.
> I have no intention to use GFW myself: I use Cygwin git. But now other people
> around here are dis
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