1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab

Hi there, This is my first installation of cygwin, and I'm not very familiar with W2000 (server or otherwise). Using ssh from a remote machine I log onto a Windows 2000 server which is running a freshly installed cygwin. The recommended settings were used in the installation and in addition to t

RE: 1.5.19: tar runs normally from command line but terminates early when run from crontab

Hi Eric, Charles, Thanks for the help guys, that got me going in the right direction. On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to G.W. Haywood on 6/19/2006 3:53 AM: > > > When run from the command line the job works ... and when run from > &

RE: copying and pasting in the terminal window?

Hi there, On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > ... The main trick is (or at least used to be) getting your delete, > home, end, etc keys working right, and I can send you my magical > .initrc to take care of that post-haste. Please cc me on that one, huh? Or better, post it to the

Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions

Hi all, On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 Eli Zaretskii wrote: Subject: Re: .exe.stackdump and core dump files questions > > On Nov 23 22:07, Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > > > > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > > > Yes. It's called "cat". > > > > > > Do you think to be fun? or that a sequence of HEX charac

RE: cron jobs quit after 1 minute

Hi there, On 29 November 2006 21:08, Andrew Louie wrote: > I want to set up a cron job [...] the script can take a long time to > finish, as it does many different tasks. > > The problem is that after about 1 minute, the script will just stop You might find that it's trying to send you mail, and

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

Hi there, On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Only the GUI is crippled in XP Home. From the comand line > everything works fine. I had been under the impression that XP Home would not permit the machine to join a Windows Active Directory domain. Is that wrong? Is this simply a featur

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

Hi there, http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#internet-setup says "Unfortunately setup.exe does not yet support unattended installs." but http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli seems to imply that it does, via the '-q' switch. Which is correct? -- 73, Ged. -- Pro

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

Hi there, On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 09:17:24AM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > Which is correct? > > If only there was some way to tell... I think you should seek professional help. -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports:

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

Hello again, On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 several of us wrote: > > 73, > > Ged. > > Now I'm confused. Is that your high-score, your shoe size, or your age? It's a relic from the days of morse code; just over my weight, and half my IQ; and uncomfortably close to my age. > BTW, if you run "setup.exe --he

Re: missing setup command line arguments in the FAQ.

Hello again, On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 we variously wrote: > > That's not correct (*): > > Well strictly it is, since I said what would happen if you ran it, and not > what would happen if you _didn't_ run it (for whatever reason that might > happen to be)! Damn. Aced. 15-love. > [da...@ubique ~]$

Re: 1.7.1: /usr/bin/more.exe

Hi there, On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Peter Koch a ?rit : > > > Running 1.7.1 on Windows 2008 R2 i experience problems with more.exe > > (which is a copy of less.exe). > > > > historically, less isn't more, but more than more, but not more ! You could try most: http://www.jedso

Re: what's the problem of my cygwin installation?

Hi there, On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 Larry Hall wrote: > Make sure you use the 'setup.exe' from cygwin.com. > The current version is 2.680. It's long seemed to me that there's a case for changing the name of this file. On the average Windows box it is not unusual to see several files called 'setup.exe

Re: what's the problem of my cygwin installation?

Hello again, On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 some of us wrote: > [snip] this is discussed regularly... and: > And, how, exactly, would changing the name of setup.exe to something > else cause a DECREASE in traffic? It seems the answer to that question is apparent. But I do get the message that the name of

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

Hi there, On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: > These both work: > > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy! > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy! This could work too: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.1-1.exe :) -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

Hello yet again, On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> These both work: > >> > >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_aw

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

Hi there, Fifteen messages on this subject and counting. How long would it take just to install a temporary symlink for the guy? Something like cygwin-setup-1.7-2010.03.14.exe :) -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/f

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

Hi there, On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 cgf wrote: > I wasn't always mean. I just got that way after the 63rd repeat "Why > don't you just" suggestion. I had a friend who ran a corner shop. One of his favourite lines was "I'm sick of telling people that there's no demand for that." I bought most of his

Re: cygwin Digest 16 Mar 2010 19:15:45 -0000 Issue 6926

Hi there, On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 cygwin-digest-h...@cygwin.com wrote: > > Perhaps the MD5 and/or SHA1 checksums for the current setup.exe should > > be published (and updated every time there's a new release) next to > > the download link (like Apache does, for example) > > It is however a very high

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

Hi there, On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 cgf wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:45:47AM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 Csaba Raduly wrote: > >>>Perhaps the MD5 and/or SHA1 checksums for the current setup.exe should > >>>be published (and updated every ti

Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe

Hi there, On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 Steven Monai wrote: > > On 2010/03/17 6:54 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > Oh. Are we still talking about this? I drifted off. > > Somebody please wake me when all of this tempest in a bikeshed is over. > > I don't understand the reason for the dismissive attitu

Re: The Cygwin Mount Table

Hi there, On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table [Extract name="using.html"] The Cygwin Mount Table [snip] The Cygwin DLL supports user specific fstab files. These are stored in the directory /etc/fstab.d and the name of the file is

Re: cygwin Digest 19 Apr 2010 23:07:23 -0000 Issue 6989

Hi there, On Tue, 19 Apr 2010 Charles Wilson wrote: > On 4/19/2010 9:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > any chance we can get a new tcp_wrappers package? ... > > Err... Oops. :):):):):):):):):):):):):):) > ... Has something broken your local DNS ... http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocol

Re: rsync 3.0.4 over ssh hanging on cygwin 1.7

Hi there, On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 Fred Kemp wrote: > ... Unfortunately our data files are frequently in the 3-4Gb range > so it sounds like SFU is unlikely to be an option either. > > Would like to persist with cygwin as we use it for some of our > proteomics tools. I guess I'll have to ditch the sec

Re: Cygwin package manager

Hi there, On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 Chris Cormie wrote: > I am working on a Cygwin package manager with an interface > resembling apt-get. This is the package that I've been dreaming of for years! > It would be great if some folks tried out the initial release and > provided me with some feedback. I

gzip --rsyncable patch

Hi there, The version of gzip packaged with cygwin doesn't accept --rsyncable. I grabbed the latest version of RR's old patch from http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/gzip.rsync.patch2 and hacked it until it applied cleanly with 'patch -p1 -l' in the source directory of gzip-1.3.12. If anyone is interest

Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell?

Hi there, On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thomas Walker wrote: > > > ... I did a decent amount of looking through mailing lists but > > couldn't find anything relevant. Been there too. :) > > ... want to be able to add new features ... and would like to be > > able to easily update c

Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell?

Hi there, Thanks, all, for the responses. On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > rdesktop to connect to their Windows 2000 server and I'm not _very_ > > careful how I close down the rdesktop session then the server crashes. > > I've never seen this happen at all. By definition, any user ap

Re: cygwin Digest 29 Sep 2008 12:11:21 -0000 Issue 6148

Hi there, On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Need your help. would pay 200pound. > 144743 by: COLINCE MARK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you just put the word 'trustworthy' in your anti-spam rules with something like a 100 point score you could stop a lot of this. -- 73, Ged. -- Un

Re: Apologies for multiple messages

Hi there, On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 Herb Maeder wrote: > Apologies to the list for getting the same message sent over and over The only time this ever happened in my experience was when a client company called me in to look at an installation of a product called 'Infinite Interchange'. This was kind

Re: Problem with daylight saving time, off by one hour

Hi there, 175712 by: "Frank Farance" 175717 by: Corinna Vinschen 175719 by: "Frank Farance" 175720 by: Corinna Vinschen 175721 by: "Frank Farance" 175722 by: Corinna Vinschen 175725 by: Earnie Boyd 175728 by: "Frank Farance" What are the filesystems involved? VFAT anywhere? -- 73, Ged. --

Re: Mirror Problems.

Hi there, On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 Andy Koppe wrote: > pps: Mailing list admins, is there really any need for the digest option? I know you didn't ask me, but _I_ think there is. -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: Owner/Group showing up as "??????????" on some Windows files despite mkpasswd/mkgroup

Hi there, On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 Larry Hall wrote: > See this link for more details: > > Thank you very much for that link. (It would have saved me much time if I'd seen it a couple of weeks ago... :) -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports