Re: Setup hangs repetedly

s linked clusters. I have had virtually no problem with setup since I started scanning my hard drives more frequently and eliminating said clusters. Just an idea to look at. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

Wget ignores robot.txt entry

Using the latest of things Cygwin, I downloaded some stuff with wget from to peruse off-line and noticed a problem I can't explain: The file has the entries: User-agent: * Disallow: /snapshots/ Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /cgi2-bin/ so wget

Re: Wget ignores robot.txt entry

t;. Wget supports this method of robot exclusion in addition to the usual /robots.txt exclusion. " Perhaps there is a counterpart to the above, i.e., that's being involked and someone from Redhat could check into and rule this out. Thanks (and still puzzled)! Lowell Anderson Rand

Re: Changing jobs

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 01:17:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this mean you'll be getting out of the house some? Maybe some fresh air will help the termperament (so that now CGF wont' be synonymous with mean?) :^) I get out of the house plenty now. I have a

Re: Cygwin logo

Brian Dessent wrote: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: Can anyone work an otter or a hippo into the logo? ;-) ;-) ;-) For what it's worth when I made this back in April I first had to make the basic logo . This

Curious about cygcheck -s' comment on vi

terol free or "Not found: elephants". :-) Just curious. Regards, L Anderson -- 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/

Error on http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html ?

ild instructions are included in the FAQ under "How do I build Cygwin on my own?". Regards L Anderson -- 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/

Nominally, how long to build cygwin/bash debug versions?

2MB memory, lots disk space, and Windows 98SE. Thanks, L Anderson -- 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/

Where is CYGREADLINE6.DLL?

o far, no brass ring. Thanks much L Anderson -- 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: Where is CYGREADLINE6.DLL?

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:39:00AM -0700, L Anderson wrote: I would greatly appreciate someone telling me the package that contains CYGREADLINE6.DLL. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygreadline6.dll Doh! I knew that--the obvious sometimes

Inconsistency in find ... -name ...

c doesn't? Based on my reading of find and bash documentation, perhaps I missed the explanation. Also, I rhetorically ask, why does $ find /home/lowella -type f -name '*.txt' work but ls '*.txt' doesn't? Thanks, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: ssh and SYSTEM

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:50:26PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running WinXP SP2 I installed openssh and followed the instructions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html on how to install. Nicholas Fong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the person respon

Re: ssh and SYSTEM

Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:50:26PM -0400, McGraw, Robert P. wrote: I am running WinXP SP2 I installed openssh and followed the instructions at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html on how

Bad Link in Cygwin Mirrors Page

rces.redhat.com/cygwin/ or rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ works as does changing them all to: ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/cygwin/ Regards, L Anderson -- Uns

Re: Bad Link in Cygwin Mirrors Page--changed but why rsync dropped?

L Anderson wrote: On the Cygwin mirrors page "http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html";, under "North America: Palo Alto", the link locations are as follows: Now: "locations were as follows:" ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ http://mirrors

Wget incorrectly mirroring some web site directories and files.

When I use 'wget' to mirror some web sites, I notice a peculiar behavior I'm unable to find described in the mail archives or with google. To wit(using MSWindows directory notation): If a web site has something like the following stored on 'host': ... root\a\u.html root\

Re: Wget incorrectly mirroring some web site directories and files.

Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: Is it a bug/feature in 'wget'; i.e., 'wget' handles the '\' not as a directory thingy but as part of the file name thus converting things like 'x\y' to 'x%5Cy' or is it caused by some other part of cygwin?

Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

From time to time, as even now, someone asks a question on how to download Cygwin for installing, locally, on any number of machines, burning a CD/DVD, etc. The canonical answer seems to be to use Cygwin's Setup. If "Setup" doesn't run on your system of choice (e.g. FreeBSD, GNU/Linux...), th

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: I use rsync to maintain a local Cygwin release mirror so I can use Setup to locally install anything from Cygwin release on a number of PCs on my network. I do too but without the script part. I just have a line in my crontab: 00 10,22 * * * rsync -rlt

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I discover it and change the --

Re: Problem with 'cvs login'

Meritorious Service (GLAFMS) to none other than cg(PR)f aka cfprg aka cfPaulReveref aka The dead of night no less! (Even still, I can hear the clopety clop of the keyboard as night settles over the "puter".) Sincerely, thanks cg(PR)f for all you do. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscrib

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

em binmode However, mount -p | sed -nr '2s/([^ ].*) +\S+ +\S+/\1/p' does the trick. Regards, L Anderson -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote: Is there a way to find out in a bash script the cygdrive prefix? I thought something simple like mount -p|tail -1|cut

Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:47:52PM -0700, L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:36:16PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:23:00AM -0700, Linda W wrote: Is there a way to find out in a bash script the

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

s.php?group_id=78332 for source and later versions than found on foundstone. L Anderson -- 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: Bash doesn't launch the applications directly.

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Dave Steenburgh wrote: Well, now I understand why I occasionally see more instances of bash in the task manager than I was expecting. However, now I have to ask why the shim doesn't appear [plainly] with ps: 4540 1

Re: sed 4.2.1-1 locks files on windows

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Feb 21 11:58, cygwin@munub.e4ward.com wrote: see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9368783/cygwin-bash-sed-locks-my-files When I change files in cygwin bash with the sed command, the file gets locked. Reproduce: Open cmd and cd to non-user directory

Setup shows ? instead of size for some packages

Call me slow to notice but I'm seeing more packages appearing with size ? mark in the "View" window when I run cygwin setup. Also, I notice that most, if not all the packages, seem to be related to source or libraries. I've read the setup documentation, googled, and searched the mail list but

gdb dies debugging fortran program

esn't consistently die in the same place--it seems to be related to where the breakpoint is set. However, it seems to more consistently die just after line 11 where the GOTO 20 is. My system is XP Pro SP3 with Cygwin DLL version 1.7.16 Is this a bug in gdb or am I doing something wrong

Re: gdb dies debugging fortran program

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:59:35PM -0700, L Anderson wrote: I trying to use gdb to debug a fortran program compiled with gfortran but gdb inconsistently dies in the process. I have written a small fortran program that exhibits the problem. The test program is

Re: gdb dies debugging fortran program

L Anderson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:59:35PM -0700, L Anderson wrote: I trying to use gdb to debug a fortran program compiled with gfortran but gdb inconsistently dies in the process. I have written a small fortran program that exhibits the problem. The test

getfacl seems to list wrong permissions for Group

In directory /cygwin/bin of my cygwin installation, $ ls -l //yields: [snip] -rwxr-xr-x 1 lowella Administrators 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe and $ ls -ln //yields [snip] -rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 544 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe and $ stat -c '%A %a %n' * //yields: [snip] -rwxr-xr-x 75

Re: /etc/profile

Achim Gratz wrote: Christopher Faylor writes: I'll just reiterate what Daniel said again: We can't make things like cmd or notepad stop working. That would be a disaster. Yes, and nobody proposed otherwise. I wasn't really following the discussion, and don't really want to check stuff out i

Re: default terminal (was: Re: "can't create master tty" errors)

Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 May 2010 17:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't remember responding to the original message so, if I didn't, I apologize. No worries. Thanks, as always, for your amazing support of mintty. I wonder if it's time to just make it the default for the cygwin terminal, k

Re: default terminal (was: Re: "can't create master tty" errors)

Andy Koppe wrote: On 31 May 2010 22:40, L Anderson wrote: I really like mintty. However, even though it has the option to 'copy on select' it requires a right click and paste to insert selected text into the window. Middle-click pastes by default, and you can change the right-click

Re: default terminal

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:55:09PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: Lowell Anderson wrote: May I express my sincere appreciation and a big THANK YOU to Andy and everyone else involved for your hard work and dedication in providing mintty. Thanks, my pleasure. Bit embarrassed

getopt -- just a nit

This is just a small nit that, I suppose, is for the maintainer of 'getopt'. In "/usr/share/getopt", resides the file: 'getopt-parse.bash'. Line 9 of that file is: '# ./parse.bash -a par1 'another arg' --c-long 'wow!*\?' -cmore -b " very long"' which, in a moment of haste, led me to think

Please add 'AVG Internet Security 2011' to the BLODA list (and cygport also :-) ).

While trying to diagnose another problem, I decided to build the 'coreutils' package so I could check a few things out. I followed the 'coreutils' build instructions...'cygport coreutils-8.8-1 all' and things went swimmingly up to the point where the messages displayed read: ...

Re: Please add 'AVG Internet Security 2011' to the BLODA list (and cygport also :-) ).

Vincent Rivière wrote: L Anderson wrote: This may be just a case of pilot error that I can't see because, surely, others must have encountered this situation before. I can't say for sure, but recently I had big suspicions about AVG and directories. I have an MFC testsuite for som

Re: Please add 'AVG Internet Security 2011' to the BLODA list (and cygport also :-) ).

Eric Blake wrote: On 02/06/2011 09:40 PM, L Anderson wrote: In regards to the aforementioned while loop in 'conftest.c'--the logic of it being run for every invocation of a 'coreutils' build escapes me. I can see running it once per OS, outside of the build process, to deter

Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

I'm trying to build coreutils and I've run into a problem that has me puzzled. I'd greatly appreciate any ideas or pointers on what might be causing the problem and steps I could take to figure it out. The problem is repeatable, stopping at the exact same place. I'm running 'XpProSp3', 'cygcheck

Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe--Solved

L Anderson wrote: I'm trying to build coreutils and I've run into a problem that has me puzzled. I'd greatly appreciate any ideas or pointers on what might be causing the problem and steps I could take to figure it out. The problem is repeatable, stopping at the exact same plac

Re: Coreutils' Build Fails After Linking rm.exe

Eric Blake wrote: On 02/15/2011 12:58 AM, L Anderson wrote: 3rd--I ran 'cygport coreutils-8.10-1 compile', which appeared to work ok until it exited with a "make error" as shown by the following last few lines of the output: All those steps match what I do when building

echo $(cygcheck...) oddity

Could the following signal a possible string buffering problem? Both: cygcheck /bin/sh.exe and echo "$(cygcheck /bin/sh.exe)" yield the same output: E:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe E:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\KERNEL32.dll C:\WINDOWS\sys

mutt cygcheck status "Incomplete"

I have been unsuccessful getting 'mutt' to install without always showing "Incomplete". Using 'setup', neither "re-install" nor "delete/install" fixes the problem. I install from my local directory which I keep current using rsync. My '.../release/mutt' folder shows: drw-rw-rw-2 --- 2010

Re: mutt cygcheck status "Incomplete"

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/16/2011 3:29 PM, L Anderson wrote: I have been unsuccessful getting 'mutt' to install without always showing "Incomplete". Using 'setup', neither "re-install" nor "delete/install" fixes the problem. I install

Re: mutt cygcheck status "Incomplete"

L Anderson wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/16/2011 3:29 PM, L Anderson wrote: I have been unsuccessful getting 'mutt' to install without always showing "Incomplete". Using 'setup', neither "re-install" nor "delete/install" fixes the

Rsync Mirrors Have Disappeared from Cygwin Mirrors Page

For many years I have used rsync to mirror cygwin/release from various rsync mirrors listed on Cygwin's mirror page. Over time, the number of rsync mirrors listed has slowly gotten smaller until, alas, now there are no more listed. Does this mean: There are no longer sites willing to

Re: Rsync Mirrors Have Disappeared from Cygwin Mirrors Page

L Anderson wrote: For many years I have used rsync to mirror cygwin/release from various rsync mirrors listed on Cygwin's mirror page. Over time, the number of rsync mirrors listed has slowly gotten smaller until, alas, now there are no more listed. Does this mean: There are no longer

Re: Rsync Mirrors Have Disappeared from Cygwin Mirrors Page

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 02:52:39PM -0800, L Anderson wrote: L Anderson wrote: For many years I have used rsync to mirror cygwin/release from various rsync mirrors listed on Cygwin's mirror page. Over time, the number of rsync mirrors listed has slowly gotten sm