RE: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

> FYI, once /etc/passwd and /etc/group exist, they will not be automatically > recreated by setup. Igor et al wrt post install scripts... :) Would it be unreasonable to have some scripts which are _never_ renamed to .done? Doing that to the /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh script would have ca

RE: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

> From: John Morrison > > > > > FYI, once /etc/passwd and /etc/group exist, they will not be > automatically > > recreated by setup. > > > > Igor et al wrt post install scripts... :) > > Would it be unreasonable to have some scripts which >

RE: Re-setup & cygintl-[12].dll

> Any particular reason why this > is any better than already having mkpasswd and mkgroup there? Na, just ignore me - brains turning to mush! Must get away from computers... must have a holiday...!!! J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: ht

RE: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

You didn't say whether you wanted it for a script or exe, for a script... cygpath -w -p / works for me :) J. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of John Dallaway > Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2003 6:33 pm > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Det

RE: Aliases no longer defined?

> From: Peter Davis > > What should it be? I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows, > for the benefit of emacs, etc. I've done this for years, so it seems > to be unrelated to the current problem. In fact, I just checked, and > the results of these commands are the same on my old Win2000

RE: Aliases no longer defined?

> From: John Morrison > > From: Peter Davis > > > > What should it be? I explicitly set HOME to be C:\home in Windows, > > for the benefit of emacs, etc. I've done this for years, so it seems > > to be unrelated to the current problem. In fact, I just

RE: 1.3.22: TMPDIR Initialization

> From: Thorsten Kampe > > > > Is there a global/system wide postinstall script? > > There is no "cygwin.sh.done" in "/etc/postinstall". Sorry, I *totally* over looked this thread... I just read back on the thread... From: Robert Collins > Setup doesn't set any special permissions. It sets a g

[UPDATE] base-files

Hi All, * Changed base-files-mketc.sh as per request. * Added some information wrt setting path * Added some information wrt how $HOME is deduced (thanks Pierre A. Humblet) * Fixed /etc/skel copy routine (thanks Vince Hoffman) base-files/setup.hint sdesc: "A set of important system configuratio

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: base-files

base-files has been updated to version 1.3-1. This release includes these changes: * Changed base-files-mketc.sh as per request. * Added some information wrt setting path * Added some information wrt how $HOME is deduced (thanks Pierre A. Humblet) * Fixed /etc/skel copy routine (thanks Vince Hof

RE: win32 dia and HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% fix

> From: Soren A. > > this isn't a BUG in Cygwin, this is a FEATURE. I personally *want* > Cygwin to honor my setting of $HOME (%HOME%) because I keep my user dir > files outside the Cygwin fs hierarchy (makes my life easier if I decide a > total wipe-and-reinstall of my Cygwin installation is neces

RE: Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

> From: Alan Miles > > All, > > I have a file called /etc/skel/a/b/c/d.txt, /etc/skel/e/f.txt > > Under Linux (and I certainly believe the same is true for UNIX), anything, > directory(s), file(s) etc put in /etc/skel > gets put into the user's home directory when the sys admin creates the > accoun

RE: Help on Scripts

> From: Amer Baig > > This is first time I am using this mailing list, so please direct me to > right list if I am putting it on wrong place. I am IT professional > working in a telecom sector. > > I have installed Cygwin on Windows Xp. I have file in a folder with > names like PPD.20030116.0298,

Re: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int tow2k as kolesnia?

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote: > >Does anybody know why cygwin shows my name as "Administrator" however i am > >logged in w2k as user kolesnia? This user has administrator rights in w2k. > >Alexey. > > I'm going to poi

RE: Why cygwin says Administrator@KOLESNIA when I am logged int to w2k as kolesnia?

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: John Morrison [mailto:john@;morrison.mine.nu] > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: > > > At 05:58 AM 10/31/2002, Alexey Kolesnikov wrote: > > > >Doe

RE: cvs can't parse its arguments -- known issue?

I've had this - a while ago I think. Try calling cvs with it's full path... $ /bin/cvs ... J. > -Original Message- > From: Matt Armstrong > > I'm seeing some very odd behavior from cvs and I wonder if others are > seeing it too. > > No matter what args I pass it, cvs tells me it is an

Re: New setup.exe beta.

Congratulations to all :) I've tried it and a couple of collegues (I ran the net installation they ran local). Nobody found anything wrong. There was, however, one suggestion; they liked the progress for MD5 but they wanted an overall progress in addition to one for each package (and they wanted

Re: New setup.exe beta.

On 26 Nov 2002, Robert Collins wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 00:26, John Morrison wrote: > > Congratulations to all :) > > > > I've tried it and a couple of collegues (I > > ran the net installation they ran local). Nobody > > found anything wrong. There

RE: New setup.exe beta.

> From: Robert Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 01:33, John Morrison wrote: > > Can't you get the number of files from setup.ini? > > Not if there isn't one, which is still (grudglingly) supported. > Also, for *any* sort of accuracy, how

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.0.6-1

> From: Peter A. Castro > > Some additions for Cygwin: > - Added a default /etc/zprofile. If you already have a custom > /etc/zprofile, please save yours some place before installing. I think it would have been better for you to have a /etc/zprofile.default and a /etc/postinstall/zprofile.sh

RE: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

> From: Joseph Marcel > > I've run into this problem as well on Windows 2000 after my > upgrade yesterday. Upgrade or clean install? > I'm getting around it by unsetting HOME in /etc/profile (as the first > line), so /etc/profile will do what it has been doing in the past > (important for 1st

RE: HOME set to / [Was: cygwin-1.3.16-1]

> From: Chris Game > > In an earlier post, John Morrison wrote: > > [...] > > The way this is set has changed and *should* work ootb with a clean > > installation. > > > > The easiest way (I believe) atm is to... > > > > $ cp /etc/group

RE: defaults

> From: Christopher Faylor > >The other would be to get people to use it ;) > > > >Well, that's my mental thoughts on paper(?!). Any comments? > >would it be worth doing? > > Here's how _update-info-dir does it: Thanks :) So - do you... 1) Think it's worth it 2) Think the _way_ I'm proposing is

RE: defaults

> From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:56:03PM -, Morrison, John wrote: > > You'd probably want something like: setup.hint: sdesc: "Conditionally move default files to proper location" category: _PostInstallLast requires: ash findutils fileutils sed sh-utils autodep: etc/de

RE: Cygwin Reinstall Failiure

> From: Arthur I Schwarz > [1] How do I know what I should have and should not have listed in the > setup.exe package list? Is there any documentation on the required > packages? You shouldn't (I believe) have any choice with base, it should aways be installed. As for what else you have selected,

RE: Info - cygwin articel in german linux magazine

> From: Christopher Faylor > >See > http://www.linux-magazin.de/Artikel/ausgabe/2002/12/cygwin/cygwin.html for > >further informations. > I *believe* (not reading German ;) that the same article is also in the English edition. J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

RE: Request for bashhere.inf

> From: Bruce Eckel Hi, nice to see you somewhere other than the Apache FOP list ;) > I use the "bash prompt here" tool all the time, but I've had to > rely on some rather transient versions, and sometimes self-hacked > approaches. It's not something I usually use, but... > I was hoping that yo

RE: Burning cygwin distribution CDs

> From: Max Bowsher > Laurynas Biveinis wrote: > >>> However > >>> this is not exactly what I need - I have to burn all the 1GB stuff > >>> to CDs. > >> > >> Why? You do realize that that includes multiple versions of just > >> about every package? > > > > Yes, I do. In fact, if I was creating such

RE: Start up tcsh window?

Edit your cygwin.bat file? @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin tcsh start tcsh for me. Doesn't log me in, but... I don't use tcsh. J. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Peter Davis > Sent: Saturday, 4 January 2003 1:10 pm > To: [EMAIL

FAO: cfg: defaults

> From: Christopher Faylor > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 12:56:03PM -, Morrison, John wrote: > > You'd probably want something like: setup.hint: sdesc: "Conditionally move default files to proper location" category: _PostInstallLast requires: ash findutils fileutils sed sh-utils autodep: etc/def

Re: FAO: cfg: defaults

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > John, > > At 08:50 2003-01-04, John Morrison wrote: > >... > > > >Please find for you perusal and review... (long links, will wrap!) > > Why don't you enclose all URLs in email within angle brackets instead

RE: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

Why not have two links on the page... 1) Cygwin Setup 2) Cygwin Package Maintainer both of which are symb-links to setup.exe ;) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.

Re: An apology...

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Stephen Ford wrote: > <<..Not everyone here uses a sparkly gui app (oex) so not everyone will have > > access to a news-reader..>> > > But if you've got win95 or Win98 you've got OEx. It's so easy. What you're > telling me is there are people out there with electric windows and

Linux Format

Just thought you might like to know that Linux Format (uk version) issue 38 (March) has a *full* (binary AND source!) set of packages on it's DVD. It looks to have been cut a couple of months ago, but even so! J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Distributed Compilation

Have you folks seen/tried this... "distcc is a program to distribute compilation of C or C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local compile, is simple to install and use, and is often two or more times fa

Is this OK with the GPL?

New Windows Installers * Safely install Cygwin with its environment automatically configured for Windows OS machines. * The Uninstaller features cleanup of registry settings and environment variables. * All toolsuites are cons

Re: Is this OK with the GPL?

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:48:02PM -0000, John Morrison wrote: > > > ><http://www.microcross.com/Products/Upgrade/upgrade.html> > > > > > >New Windows Installers > >* Safely install Cygwin with its

RE: Cygwin from read-only drive

Ivanov Pavel wrote > > Hello, > I am trying to start the cygwin from network read-only shared > drive. I can not edit any files in the drive and I can not add > the login name and password in cygwin configuration files. Could you get your network admin to add them once for all users and just upd

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: distcc

distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is often two or more times faster than a local compile. distcc does not req

RE: Setup hangs in postinstall

(Sorry I've not quoted people, I've lost track of who wrote what... also, I re-arranged the email slightly.) process hangs on two postinstall scripts; base-files-mketc.sh base-files-mketc does use uname, base-files-profile.sh base-files-profile does not... I then try to ru

RE: Setup Failures on XP

> From: Joaquin > > Does anyone know the cygwin start up process. I am trying to see if I > can somehow get it to work. I have a broken installation, and I don't > know what to do. > > Windoze created accounts with a space in it (not really my choice), so I > wonder if this install is messed up

RE: snapshot cygwin1-20031212.dll.bz2

> From: Igor Pechtchanski LOL :) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Install error

> From: Yoska KOUAKOU > > Hi, > > I tried several times to setup cygwin environnement by clicking on the > "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. > > But each time, i did it, the response was the same:"FW-1 at > zfwsrv:Access denied". Are you behinde a firewall? > May yo

RE: cygwin bash profile / Windows ME

Thanks Sandro, I've made a slight change to your suggestion, > From: Sandro Bonazzola > > Under Windows ME the 'uname -s' command reports: "CYGWIN_ME-4.90". > The /etc/profile file says: > CYGWIN_9?-* | CYGWIN_ME-*) PRINTER="`regtool -q get '\config\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print

RE: text editor for cygwin

Vim and emac are both available via the cygwin setup program. J. > From: Christopher Spears > > I installed cygwin with the shells package on my > computer with Windows 2000. However, I discovered > that I don't have vi or vim. Is there a way to > download one of these (or a different) text ed

RE: PRINTER variable not exported in /etc/profile was: Printing under Cygwin on W2K

> From: Igor Pechtchanski > > On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Olaf Föllinger wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 01:39:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Chris Carlson wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > So, what is the proper method for printing under cygwin? > > > > > > Either "lpr" or,

Re: newer bintuils

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > --- Alan Hourihane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Alan Hourihane" wrote in message > > amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:amnb7e$7k5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Anyone know when the new binutils will be out with Egor's > > > fixes for auto-import

RE: How is Cygwin's version stamp (currently 1.3.12-2) determined?

A change in the cygwin dll. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > > About three or four weeks ago, I downloaded and installed Cygwin > 1.3.12-2. Today, I re-ran setup.exe, and it downloaded several newer > packages, yet the Web site still claims that this is Cygwin 1.3

RE: Shell Details?

> From: Rory Filer > > Hi Cygwin Hi Rory > I've just installed Cygwin on my machine today Welcome to the wonderful world :) > after downloading it from your site today and > the shell is asking me to write to you. You mean: "Sorry, this shell has no default setup. Please contact [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Various shell problems

> From: Dr.D.J.Picton Hi :) Thanks for the feedback, > 1. I downloaded the new version of base-files (2.0-2) today. I > note that the > new config files now go into the /etc/defaults directory, which is a good > idea! Been that way for a while... but thanks for noticing :) > Although it does

RE: 'system cannot find the file specified' when starting bash

> From: Tero Saarni > > Bash starts successfully but the error msg is a little bit annoying. > It seems the reason is that Cygwin assumes I have printers in the > system. /etc/profile runs regtool which prints the above error > message if key cannot be found: > > `regtool get '\user\Software\Micr

RE: Your username or group hasn't been setup correctly.

Update to the latest base-files (2.1-1) then start cygwin and cp /etc/defaults/etc/profile /etc/profile J. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Matt Raible > Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2003 8:25 pm > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Y

Re: AW: [PATCH] package base-files: fix no global set of profile.d settings

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Ralf Habacker wrote: > Hi Igor, > > >This has already been reported (and should be fixed in the next release of > >base-files). You should be able to find the relevant messages in the > >cygwin-apps archives. FYI, your patch is not space-in-filename-friendly. > > thanks for t

[update] base-files (was: RE: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution)

> Subject: RE: /etc/profile - futile try to predict order of execution AFAIK /etc/profile *never* tried to predict/guarentee order of execution. If packages made an assumption, well you know the saying. > - `/bin/find /etc/profile.d -iname '*.sh' -type f` > + `/bin/find /etc/profile.

Re: Files in /etc missing after new install

>From a bash prompt /etc/postinstall/base-files-mketc.sh.done /etc/postinstall/base-files-profile.sh.done should create them, if the files don't exist with a .done extension then postinstall wasn't called. If they don't exist then you didn't install the base-files package. J. On Tue, 30 Sep 20

Re: home directory not created in cygwin installation

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ji-Wei Wu wrote: > > > I downloaded and installed the latest cygwin today on my computer. I > > followed all defaults during installation (in c:\cygwin). After that, I > > started a cygwin bash shell but found that it did not s

RE: Domain Users

> From: Pierre A. Humblet > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:55:18PM -0400, Boris Mayer-St-Onge wrote: > > > > 2- Is it possible to install a older version of cygwin (we have all the > > file of version 1.3.22-1 except the setup.exe). When we try to install > > cygwin with the setup.exe from the web pag

Re: default PATH

On Sat, February 11, 2006 8:41 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: > We're > just trying go figure out if removing the ;; translation will affect > many people. We're not looking to add things to the PATH. > > There is a tradeoff here and I don't believe that we really know what > the implications are.

Re: default PATH

On Sun, February 12, 2006 11:58 am, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 12 08:44, John Morrison wrote: >> On Sat, February 11, 2006 8:41 pm, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > We're >> > just trying go figure out if removing the ;; translation will affect >> &g

Re: [INFO] Adding 'cygwin here' to Windows Explorer

>>>But, regardless, I don't see any reason to debate this. I would like a >>>package and would appreciate it if someone would provide one. If changes are required to support this functionality in /etc/profile (or any of the other startup scripts) just let me know. J. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: 'which' command does not expand '~' in path (base-files update needed)

Sorry, I've not been following this thread (until the brackets appeared in the subject!). Just my two penny worth; I've just pulled, ./configure[d] and make[d] the GNU which application (it built OOTB). It correctly checks ~/bin. Would it be worth considering using this version of which? What a

Re: 'which' command does not expand '~' in path (base-files update needed)

cgf wrote: > Dropping the quotes from the original example will just cause > everything to work correctly everywhere. > > John Morrison, would you mind doing this, please? Hi cgf, As I said, I wasn't following this thread for a while, so here are the changes I'll do (I'

Re: 'which' command does not expand '~' in path (base-files update needed)

> cgf wrote: >> Dropping the quotes from the original example will just cause >> everything to work correctly everywhere. >> >> John Morrison, would you mind doing this, please? > > Hi cgf, > > As I said, I wasn't following this thread for a while,

Re: Setup.hint for base-passwd is incorrect (setup.exe question)

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:04:56AM -0500, Doug Wyatt wrote: >>I've just investigated an anomaly with the base-passwd package, >>which turns out to be an incorrect setup.hint file in the repository. >> >>repository base-passwd directories contain >> >>base-passwd-2.0-1.tar.bz2 30-Nov-2003 07

Re: automatic completion

> Hi, > > I'm using the latest version of Cygwin in Windows XP. If I open a new > Cygwin Bash shell, and then just press the "&" key and then the TAB key, > the Cygwin Bash shell window freezes. > > Has anybody else experienced this ? Works well here - just took a moment or two to find the 4767 po

Re: Shiny Icon

> Nick wrote: >> Hey all. I made this shiny 32-bit 48x48 icon for Win XP, which you're >> free >> to >> use if you like that kind of thing. I just found that with the rest of >> my >> desktop being high-colour with drop shadows, that the Cygwin icon looked >> a >> bit >> plain. Have fun. >> >> http

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: base-files

Changes: 3.1-3 * Change cd ${HOME} functionality for CHERE - Dave Kilroy 3.1-2 * Fix for zsh/ksh - Tero Niemela Please direct all comments and questions to the cygwin list. J. ** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look

Re: EOF after spaces in /etc/profile in base-files version 3.1-3

> > Shouldn't the "EOF" line from the section of /etc/profile shown below > be > "EOF" (at column 0)? I get a syntax error from "sh" and "bash" if it is > left at column 4. The ash man page says "<<-" strips TABS from the > here-document, not spaces - and even that may not apply to the EOF li

Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under my > "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). However, > the /etc/profile setup which tries to only create the warning message > about running mkpasswd and mkgroup once can't deal with a HOME environmen

Re: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 07:33:02PM -0000, John Morrison wrote: >>> I have just set up Cygwin, and noticed that my default home was under >>> my >>> "Documents and Settings" directory (not yet having run mkpasswd). >>> However, >>> the

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> Hi John, Hi :) > John Morrison wrote on Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:08 AM: >> >> I did consider changing /etc/postinstall/passwd-grp.sh so that >> instead of running >> >> /bin/mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd >> >> it does >> >>

RE: Patch to /etc/profile to deal with $HOME with a space

> Hi John, > > John Morrison wrote on Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:32 PM: >>> mkpasswd.exe -l -c | sed 's/cygdrive\/.*Documents and Settings/home/' >>> > /etc/passwd >>> >>> This is nonsense. "Documents and Settings" is l

RE: latest Cygwin1.dll

> I have made it available for you at http://please.get.a/clue lol - you could at least have put it somewhere that resolves ;) J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com

Re: Installation problem on win XP SP2

Try installing base-files which you somehow must have deselected... :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: file globbing

> I've recently noticed a problem with Cygwin ls. I did a quick search of > the archives, but didn't get any hits. Has anyone else seen this? > Try: ls -dl ../tcl[7-9]* > Result on Linux: ../tcl ../tcl8 > Result on Cygwin: ../tcl8 > > That is, on Cygwin tcl[7-9]* does not match tcl. I think it s

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

On Mon, February 28, 2005 12:19 pm, Stephan Petersen said: > > Hi Gerrit, > > thanks for your and all the others' replies. > >> - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path >> mounted in binmode: >> >> mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan >>

Re: (RESOLVED) Re: Installing Perl modules with "perl -MCPAN -e shell; " fails with "02packages.details.txt.gz does not contain a Line-Count header"

On Tue, March 1, 2005 2:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > >> If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force >> ~/.cpan >> to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of >> mounts). I'd advocate putting i

Re: Change to /etc/profile (Attn: base-files maintainer)

On Fri, April 1, 2005 5:06 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Webb Roberts wrote: > >> I would suggest a small change to /etc/profile. >> >> /etc/profile is being run by bash, which has pretty substantial filename >> expansion. For example, >> >> echo [a-z]ib >> >> Will respond

Re: base-files patch (atn: Eric Blake)

On Fri, March 25, 2005 8:26 pm, Eric Blake said: > True enough. And that points out another bug - echo "$0" may fail if $0 > starts with -, it should be echo -- "$0". Isn't portable shell > programming fun? Sorry that this has taken so long, but I'm just getting around to adding all the fixes em

Re: Strange-Dangerous behaviour in Cygwin [ATTN base-file maintainer]

On Tue, May 10, 2005 6:25 pm, Corinna Vinschen said: > On May 10 11:18, Warren Young wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> >Can anybody tell me what the `stty erase' setting is good for in >> >/etc/profile? I'm using tcsh, so I'm not bothered by this stuff... >> >> This is fine as long are you'r

Re: Base-files: error in /etc/skel/.inputrc, plus more sample code

On Wed, May 18, 2005 8:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > John, > > There is an error in /etc/skel/.inputrc: AFAIK, some readline > implementations require a space after the colon for key bindings. Thanks Igor, all fixed :) I'll release a new version in a few days (working an overtime project at th

Re: Base-files: error in /etc/skel/.inputrc, plus more sample code

On Wed, May 18, 2005 10:15 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, John Morrison wrote: > >> On Wed, May 18, 2005 8:47 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: >> > John, >> > >> > There is an error in /etc/skel/.inputrc: AFAIK, some readline >> > imp

OT: signatures (RE: script command)

> From: Brian Dessent > > What ever happened to the internet where netiquette actually meant > anything? You know, that whole thing about keeping signatures to less > than 4 lines x 72 chars, not quoting entire messages, not sending HTML > email to public lists, and so on? Unfortunately I have a

RE: Problem with sys.executable solved

> From: John P. Rouillard > > The permissions on python2.3 were mode 000. This allowed python to > run, but didn't allow it to do other things like resolve its own > name. chmod 755 /usr/bin/python2.3.exe fixed the sys.executable problem. $ python -V Python 2.3.4 $ ls -liash /usr/bin/python2.3.e

RE: cygwin installer

> From: Hemal Pandya > > Great information. I vote this be added to install doc. I wouldn't - folks appear to have enough difficulties as it is without adding ways 'around' setup.exe (I know, for the power/advanced user it is a technique, but...). There's also the little problems like ensuring

Re: PS1 overwrites attempt to change title, settitle in bash or rxvt title

Hi Brian, Patches gladly evaluated ;) J. > > This message is more for just getting into the archives to help any > newbies like me in the future. I was trying to set the title of my cygwin > and rxvt windows and was not having any luck. I followed the instructions > to echo something like: > >

Re: [PATCH] /etc/profile fixes

Hi Tero Thanks for the comments, more inline... > I have to proposals for /etc/profile of latest Cygwin: > > 1) Shut up 'tr' which produces error message at least > with zsh ('zsh' doesn't match to [:upper:]). It's better to fix than to silence. Putting quotes around the [:xxx:] strings stops z

Re: emacs problem results from bad $HOME value

Sarah wrote: > Solved the problem with emacs flaking out. The default values for $HOME > and $home set up in the default .login file were wrong. Hi Sarah, What .login file? (what shell come to that?) > Commented out > the lines that set them and hardcoded the correct location. Pretty You mig

Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile

> One solution is to remove /etc/skel/.bash_profile after the installs > (maybe even in your own site-specific postinstall script). I don't know > if the base-files postinstall script will re-create that file, though -- > if it does, it needs to be fixed. The base-files postinstall script will at

Re: /usr/man before /usr/share/man in MANPATH (Attn: man maintainer)

On Fri, June 24, 2005 3:41 pm, Igor Pechtchanski said: > Hi, > > Since the FHS mandates that man pages go into /usr/share/man, shouldn't it > precede /usr/man in the MANPATH? I ran into this issue because I had kept > a backup copy of the old rxvt man page (the one with YODLTAGSTART, etc), > and,

Re: The perils of editing .bashrc (Attn: base-files maintainer)

On Fri, July 8, 2005 1:12 am, Igor Pechtchanski said: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Rex Eastbourne wrote: > >> Is it advisable to edit one's .bashrc? I'd like to put in a bunch of >> customizations, aliases, etc., but I'm intimidated by the message >> saying that my .bashrc will not be updated by setup.exe

base-file MANPATH and INFOPATH changes. Attn: Charles Wilson.

Charles, I've changed the default MANPATH and INFOPATHs, they no longer reference any autotool locations directly as per a conversation with Igor Pechtchanski and Brian Dessent titled "/usr/man before /usr/share/man in MANPATH (Attn: man maintainer)". I hope this doesn't cause any problems, pleas

Re: base-file MANPATH and INFOPATH changes. Attn: Charles Wilson.

On Sun, July 10, 2005 5:36 pm, Charles Wilson said: > John Morrison wrote: >> I've changed the default MANPATH and INFOPATHs, they no longer reference >> any autotool locations directly as per a conversation with Igor >> Pechtchanski and Brian Dessent titled "/u

Cygwin UTF-8

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell me if it's possible and if it is - what I need to do? *please*? *grin*. Thanks, J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: Cygwin UTF-8

On Mon, August 22, 2005 7:36 pm, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Morrison wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm trying to get Cygwin to run as utf-8 and failing. Can anyone tell >> me >> if it's possible and if it is - what I need

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On Thu, October 12, 2006 12:54 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I think it is needed. At least the base-files-mketc.sh postinstall > script creates paths which point outside the Cygwin root, so it either > needs to reference cygdrive paths, or use DOS paths. Using cygdrives > paths is preferable,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On Thu, October 12, 2006 2:41 pm, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, John Morrison wrote: > >> On Thu, October 12, 2006 12:54 pm, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > >> > I think it is needed. At least the base-files-mketc.sh postinstall >> > script creat

Re: cygwin.com seems to be gone

Works for me... http://cygwin.com/ yep http://www.cygwin.com/ yep http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=run.exe yep - 7 matches Does the IP address work for you? PING cygwin.com (209.132.176.174) 56(84) bytes of data. J. On Thu, December 28, 2006 2:50 pm, Buchbinder, Barry \(NIH/NIA

Re: setting cygwin PATH

On Mon, April 30, 2007 6:24 pm, Fungazid wrote: > Hello to you the cygwin people, > > I'm working with cygwin. > I added a directory "/home/T-COFFEE/bin/" to PATH by: > > export PATH=/home/T-COFFEE/bin:`printenv PATH` $PATH is easier than the `printenv PATH` bit :) > I typed it in the cygwin comm

Re: setting cygwin PATH

On Mon, April 30, 2007 6:53 pm, Fungazid wrote: > --- John Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, April 30, 2007 6:24 pm, Fungazid wrote: >> > Hello to you the cygwin people, >> > >> > I'm working with cygwin. >> > I added a directo

RE: CD doesn't work in script

> SCHLING wrote on Thursday, May 03, 2007 12:18 PM: >> >> I have successfully installed Cygwin on XP SP2, and would like to run >> a script which includes a change directory command (cd \etc.) Could it be as simple as not escaping the 'e'? Try cd /etc rather than cd \etc J. -- Unsubscribe info

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