Re: OT: to be "nice", or not...

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:42:04PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > Scenario: > I launch a task at normal priority (nice-ness 0) > When this task has finished I wish to be paged... > > In other words; > Question: Can I have one task be postponed while another one >

Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:27:11PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: > Oh, OK. I didn't know that this was a restatement of that problem > (). Did you try > running tar on the affected systems with strace? Perhaps a comparison > of the output from a mach

Re: grep = * vs grep = * > foo

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:27:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:23:05PM -0700, Sheryl McKeown wrote: > >grepping and redircting the output to a file > >causes a process loop that has to be killed > > > >17:17 0 [C:\Development\test] > >.grep = * > delme > > > >17:

Re: Fw: problem with ls and similar commands in tcsh

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 04:19:01PM -0500, mike parks wrote: > igor, > > - Original Message - > From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "mike parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 3:30 PM > Subject: Re: Fw: problem with ls and si

Re: ssh-host-config suggestion (was: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-1)

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:10:26PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > - could `chown' be modified to complain if it fails to do the work it > > was supposed to do? It seems that the exit status is 0, and besides > > that the script simply does not care about the exit status of chown. > > T

Re: ssh-host-config suggestion (was: Re: Updated: OpenSSH-3.5p1-1)

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:01:59PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:52:00PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:10:26PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The chown(2) syscall > > > returns intentionally always 0 if an

Re: cat crashes with ctrl-backslash

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:08:59AM +0100, Huijing Zhou wrote: > Call cat with no parameter, press Ctrl-Backslash (or Ctrl-# with German > keyboard), cat will crash. I can reproduce this crash 100% with the > current version (2.0.21) of textutils and different versions of Cygwin. > Not surprisin

Re: Return codes and pipelines

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 02:21:45PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Rolf, > > One posting is enough, really. > > There is no guaranteed or specified parent child relationship between the > processes in a pipeline. This means that you cannot predict which process's > status will be the one retur

Re: Return codes and pipelines

is getting different results > for this command between Linux and Cygwin? > > (false | true) && echo true || echo false > > Rolf, which shells are you using on Linux and Cygwin? And what results? > At 20:53 2003-01-12, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >On Sun,

Re: Unicode files

At 21:18 2003-01-12, Clancy Malcolm wrote: >Can cygwin programs like grep process a unicode file? > >I have a Windows 2000 backup log file which seems to be a unicode file. >When I cat the file under cygwin it displays with spaces between every >second character: e.g. > >ÿ_B a c k u p S t a t u s

Re: idea for a new project, libntcmd

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 06:24:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:09:43PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: > >>Really? Or would it simply delay them learning the knowledge to > >>function in an environment that does not make specific allowances for > >>them? > > > >Well,

SFU

Please don't shoot. I may have a requirement to add MicroSoft's "Services For UNIX 3.0" (SFU) to a Windows 2K Pro system that already has cygwin installed. I'm familiar with cygwin, never touched SFU. Has anyone one on the list attempted the same and had any positive or negative experiences with

Re: SFU

t; > -Original Message- > > From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sun, January 26, 2003 3:15 PM > > To: cygwin; Jon LaBadie > > Subject: Re: SFU > > > > > > > Has anyone one on the list attempted the same and had any > >

Re: The humble and other editing keys

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:31:38PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > Elfyn McBratney wrote on 14 Feb 2003 18:18:47 - > > In bash you can add the following > > > > # DEL key in bash > > "\e[3~": delete-char > > > > to your ~/.inputrc or your /etc/inputrc file to get a functioning DEL > > ke. >

need pointers to documentation

On my Unix and Linux systems I use a backup manager called "amanda" which works across my lan to a single unix tape host. For backing up windows clients amanda works well with Samba, but I don't :) So I've compiled the amanda client under cygwin and am using it to backup my single w2k box. Now

Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 02:06:36PM -0400, Harig, Mark A. wrote: > > > It's the "do not choose" portion of this solution that I hope setup.exe > would avoid because it isn't paying attention to Murphy's Law. The way > setup.exe runs now there are (at least) two possible sources of errors: > >