Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
lise cygwin, but if this is the case then you're already running a non-standard setup, and should know enough about it to avoid this problem. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled the madness of this worl

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Taylor
et up the mount points, there's no reason why you couldn't extend it to install sshd and any other services you wanted/needed... Hell, you could even wrap the entire thing in a .cmd/.bat script in order to automate it entirely.. (Assuming ssh-host-config and other similar scripts have a

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-14 Thread Chris Taylor
My response to those using on-access scanners on a corporate network is don't. Turn them off, disable floppy and usb stick usage, schedule regular scans of your server and machines out of working hours, and scan all incoming and outgoing email. If an outgoing email is infected, make sure that

Re: stat(2) triggers on-demand virus scan

2006-01-15 Thread Chris Taylor
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: [snip] I just wanted to make it clear that we aren't going to be making any special concessions to a product like a virus scanner which cause perfectly acceptable code to misbehave. If that is the case then it is a situation for the virus scanner to work out

Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Taylor
ns you want are -L, -q, and -l, which are Install from local directory, quiet installation (unattended), and local package directory, respectively. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled the madness of this worl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: w32api-3.6-1

2006-01-17 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
is available starting at this URL. Changes since 3.5-1: 2006-01-17 Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * include/w32api.h: Increment version to 3.6. * Makefile.in: Ditto. 2006-01-12 Danny Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * include/wincrypt.h (WINADVAPI): Add

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Manel Rodero wrote: Because your are bound by the laws of ntfs access control entrys. Having rights to write to a file doesn't mean you are allowed to change its owner. You need permissions to change the directory the files are in. And getting this right is easier in windows than in cygwin. Us

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: You want to try with the domain administrator account, not the local administrator. If you're logging on as administrator, and log on to is set to the domain, then you are already doing so and something most unusual is occuring - suggestive of an

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into this problem, as the OP has done

Re: Wich privileges required by ssh-host-config running user?

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Taylor
Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Chris Taylor wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Simplest workaround would be to always join the machine to the domain first and install cygwin second. And to install as the domain administrator, not the local admin, otherwise you run into

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.9-2

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
ormation on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Re: Standalone DirectX Package

2006-01-30 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
ve a bit of an issue with it. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org -- 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: Possible bug with mmap on XP?

2006-02-03 Thread Chris Taylor
at NT4 is likely to be NT_4.0, but this may have changed with the later service packs (doubtful though, in my opinion). I don't have an nt4 box to verify this with however. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security

Re: Corrupt xorg-x11-f100?

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Taylor
ocal package directory, into the mirror directory, and find the tarball for this package, then delete it. This will result in setup.exe trying to redownload it (it sounds like you had a corrupt archive to me). Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blan

Re: "rxvt -e bash" From Batch File

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Taylor
ow why my batch file doesn't source .bashrc and/or how I can get the batch file to source? I'm guessing I'm starting a login bash session, but I'm not certain... Try using rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i You can specify all manner of things there as well.. EG: black bg and gre

Re: "rxvt -e bash" From Batch File

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Taylor
bin/bash --login --rcfile /cygdrive/h/.bashrc -i Thus combining your current configuration with the way you want it to be... Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled the madness of this world into a slumber. Wa

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
: http://cygwin.com/problems.html It is asked that all reports of problems include this data, otherwise we have no information on which to base diagnosis on, or attempt to replicate the problem. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
that ;) Give setup the ability to run cygcheck, and have a problem-report submission section built into it. Give them email address and description fields, and it could send the mail for them, thus eliminating the lack of a cygcheck (to an extent anyway, not everyone would follow this, of c

Re: make: rm: command not found

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:25:47PM +, Chris Taylor wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:07:46PM -, Dave Korn wrote: On 10 February 2006 17:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:45:44AM -0800, JefV wrote: I

Re: gnu make causes reboot

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Taylor
able to use it at the same time). The BSOD error may give some indication as to the driver that is at fault. However you cannot rely on this - it may not show the driver that is actually causing the problem. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket o

Re: Bash Window Geometry

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Taylor
ing from a command prompt - it does, as long as you are in your cygwin bin directory.. Otherwise, in a batch file, yes you will need to prepend rxvt with C:\cygwin\bin\ , or whatever the path to the executable is. The same applies to if you just make a shortcut for it.. See the default cy

Re: G++ Missing libraries in cygwin

2006-02-14 Thread Chris Taylor
as /usr/lib You can check this by simply typing mount If this is the case, try: mount C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib It should be noted that if one mount is broken, there's a reasonable chance others are too, so send your cygcheck output anyway, as an *attachment*, to the list. Chris -- Spi

Re: regular user, bash cannot find /tmp

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Taylor
ithout this information, all you'll get is WAGs. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled the madness of this world into a slumber. Wake up! An eye is upon you, staring straight down and keenly through, seeing all

Re: cygheap base mismatch detected

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Taylor
Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote: Dave Korn writes: Unfortunately for me, (e) is impractical. It's not clear whether it is my source code or CygWin's that I need to fix, Have you actually *tried* this application of yours under Cygwin and discovered that it indeed *is* one of the rare ones that a

Re: postinstall scripts: .sh and .sh.done

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Taylor
uccessful completion afaik. If there's another .sh, then it also needs to be run. They should only be .sh if for some reason they didn't run correctly. Chris -- Spinning complacently in the darkness, covered and blinded by a blanket of little lives, false security has lulled th

Re: 1.5.19(0.150/4/2): missing device in /proc/partition after removing USB disk

2006-03-08 Thread Chris January
the > cygcheck output as well. This is a bug. The format_proc_partitions assumes that drives are numbered consecutively - which is not the case if you hot remove a drive. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: help needed for portable exes

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Hey, > What list is appropriate for discussing mingw? Probably the MinGW-users list. See the MinGW web site for details, http://www.mingw.org. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Problems with sshd

2006-03-27 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
annel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 debug2: channel 0: rcvd adjust 131072 Last login: Mon Mar 27 20:32:44 2006 from localhost Fanfare!!! You are successfully logged in to this server!!! Could this be related to the desktop interaction thats been enabled in 1.14? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe ht

Re: Problems with sshd

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
ust to see if I can confirm if it's an issue with cygrunsrv? I don't want to waste anyone's time barking up the wrong tree. Thanx! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Prob

Re: Problems with sshd

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
abbed it off mirrors.kernel.org and it did not solve the issue. Since the cygrunsrv upgrade and the LEAP driver install are the only 2 system changes I have made recently, I'm inclined to blame the LEAP driver. Since it seems that sshd may be a non-starter for me now, is there any other metho

Re: Problems with sshd

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
Me again, > Since it seems that sshd may be a non-starter for me now, is there any > other method I can use to switch between users? I've got rlogin up and running via inetd running under cygrunsrv. Thanx all! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com http://emerge

Re: Problems with sshd

2006-03-28 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
er running 'ssh-host-config'), or do I need to remove the sshd service then install it again adding the '--dep wltrysvc'? Thanx! Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Re: nice under tcsh does not register under top? [Attn top maintainer]

2006-04-04 Thread Chris January
value with no argument). In > tcsh, nice is a shell builtin, which defaults to +4 instead of +10, but my > testing shows that it works. It looks like top is not displaying nice > values properly. This isn't a problem with top but a missing feature of the /proc filesystem. Chris

Re: Cygwin backwards compatibility break with WinMain and GetCommandLine (was Re: WinMain() not getting cl...)

2006-04-11 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
It's semantics I suppose, but I think it would be easier to differentiate 1.5.x series from 1.6.x as opposed to stating relinking may be required against 1.5.20 and greater. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com http://emergedesktop.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: Windows 95 support ?

2006-04-21 Thread Chris January
95. > > MSVCRT.DLL or its variant has been available since Windows 3.1, AFAIK. > I'm sure you can find it somewhere. MSVCRT.DLL only comes as part of the base operating system install with Windows 95 OSR 2 or higher. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

Re: Windows 95 support ?

2006-04-21 Thread Chris January
On 21/04/06, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Chris January, le Fri 21 Apr 2006 08:51:07 +0100, a écrit : > > On 20/04/06, Christopher Faylor > > wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:42:14PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > >I tried to install cygwin on win95

cvs 1.12.x

2006-05-03 Thread Chris Velevitch
Is there a reason why cvs 1.12.x is not available from cygwin? Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group www.flashdev.org.au -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation

Re: cvs 1.12.x

2006-05-04 Thread Chris Velevitch
On 5/4/06, Richard Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a reason why cvs 1.12.x is not available from cygwin? http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.old-packages Who do I ask to discuss the possibility of getting cvs 1.12.x in? Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager

Re: cvs 1.12.x

2006-05-04 Thread Chris Velevitch
On 5/4/06, Richard Campbell wrote: Chris Velevitch wrote: > >On 5/4/06, Richard Campbell wrote: Please configure your mailer to not quote raw E-mail addresses in your replies (PCYMTNQREAIYR). I can't find that option in gmail. > Who do I ask to discuss the possibility of gett

Problems with ssh/scp/sftp on a dual core Dell Latitude D820

2006-05-26 Thread Chris Richardson
. Interestingly, scp/sftp/bitkeeper work ok (just a little slow) when running within virtual (VMware) Windows XP installation on the same machine. The only suggestion from dell was to reinstall the OS. Does anyone have a fix for this? Chris -- Enterprise POJO consulting - http

Re: Problems with ssh/scp/sftp on a dual core Dell Latitude D820

2006-05-26 Thread Chris Richardson
Dave Korn artimi.com> writes: > > On 26 May 2006 18:54, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >> Chris Richardson, le Fri 26 May 2006 06:22:32 -0700, a écrit : > >>> Does anyone have a fix for this? > >> > >> Dis

Re: chown & chown on /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA

2006-06-01 Thread Chris January
owner and permissions (and date?) to access the info under HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA. HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA is not a normal registry key and needs to be queried in a special way but Cygwin doesn't support this at present. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

python-2.4.3-1 problem with urllib2

2006-06-15 Thread Chris AtLee
o_open raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: This happens after a consistent number of requests on my machine. Cheers, Chris #!/usr/bin/python import urllib2, urllib, BaseHTTPServer, os, sys, signal class MyHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): data = &q

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mingw-runtime-3.10-1

2006-06-25 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
is available starting at this URL. Changes: 2006-06-25 Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Include/_mingw.h: Increment version to 3.10. * Makefile.in: Ditto. 2006-06-23 Danny Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * include/sys/time.h (struct timezone): Define.

Re: Change to Dwarf-2 debug info.

2006-07-02 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
I thought it was about time to change the default debug info for cygwin and mingw from stabs to dwarf2. Currently the default of stabs can be overriden by '-ggdb' (==use the best format for gdb) Will this break Dr. MinGW? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.blogspo

Re: Accessing network drive with ssh

2006-07-11 Thread Chris Taylor
David Greene wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: Searching the mailing list archives or looking into the FAQ would have been of some help. Rather than let this extremely unhelpful reply be the last word, I'll relate my experience. I'm sorry, but it's nearly impossible to do web searches on this t

bash filename completion character bug

2006-07-19 Thread Chris Croughton
pts. And bash is the standard...) Chris C -- 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 filename completion character bug

2006-07-20 Thread Chris Croughton
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:31:18 -0600, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Chris Croughton on 7/19/2006 10:48 PM: >> >> When I do filename completion with TAB I get an extra character on t

Re: How can I copy the configuration from one PC to another?

2006-07-23 Thread Chris Croughton
sorted (ssh for instance is sorted under 'O' for 'openssh'). Chris C -- 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: Top reports wrong memoryuse

2006-07-24 Thread Chris January
size. Chris -- 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: Why are Windows paths broken in make 3.81?

2006-07-25 Thread Chris Taylor
Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I guess that means there is nothing more to discuss. Agreed, except for the following. On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:53:19PM -0700, Joachim Achtzehnter wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Well, you *could* expect a fix if you provided enou

Re: 3.81 and windows paths

2006-07-28 Thread Chris Taylor
omething is wrong. And so on from there.. So even if the DOS #ifdef was enabled, we'd be back at the point of having patches to attempt to fix this behaviour. Unless there was some way of having two versions of make - one with this behaviour and one without, controlled by /etc/alternatives

RE: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Chris January
hes/2002-q2/msg00191.html It was due to be merged sometime around 1.3.12 but I think I and the maintainers forgot about it. Feel free to update the patch to latest CVS and re-submit it. Chris -- 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: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Chris January
> > * Chris January <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-03 09:08:44 +]: > > > >> > * Christopher Faylor > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-02 > 15:01:13 -0500]: > >> > > >> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingo

RE: ls /dev/*

2004-11-03 Thread Chris January
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:08:44AM -0000, Chris January wrote: > >> > * Christopher Faylor > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-02 > 15:01:13 -0500]: > >> > > >> > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:55:39PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: > >>

RE: FDISK support

2004-12-01 Thread Chris January
e available under setup because I didn't want to deal with people misusing fdisk and wiping their hard disk. You can compile fdisk yourself from sources (a few minor changes required). Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: htt

RE: [Bug Cygwin Applications/575] Unknown HZ value! message from procps commands

2004-12-05 Thread Chris January
the thread at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01110.html > > > > I get this too, on a single processor machine with W2k SP4 > > Interesting. For which cmdline exactly? > > "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" also please, since this is > the fi

RE: ls taking too long

2004-12-08 Thread Chris January
going to a plain dos window and "dir e*" is really fast. The cmd/dos window's filename filtering is done in the kernel, whereas Cygwin's is done in user mode so every file is processed. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem re

RE: ioctls.h not found

2004-12-09 Thread Chris January
> When I am compiling ZSNES in cygwin. > > asm/ioctls.h: No such file or directory > > Error. Please Help Me Did you sacrifice the goat? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwi

RE: [Bug Cygwin Applications/575] Unknown HZ value! message from procps commands

2004-12-13 Thread Chris January
> >>>>> Volker Zell writes: > > >>>>> Chris January writes: > >> In both cases what is the actual value of HZ you are seeing? > > > 01:02 AM [555]> w > > Unknown HZ value! (483) Assume 100. > > 08:34:05

Re: find crashes in /proc/registry

2004-12-14 Thread Chris Herborth
Chuck wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: | On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Chuck wrote: | |>I don't know if this has been reported before | | It has. | | The conclusion? | | Don't use find on /proc. ls -lR /proc works. :-) -- Chris Herborth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Never send a

RE: why is -L/usr/local/lib necessary?

2004-12-14 Thread Chris January
> why doesn't "gcc -lfoo" (ld) find /usr/local/lib/foo.dll? > what do I do to avoid this? Edit /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/specs Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Re: Setting $HOME for Windows

2004-12-23 Thread Chris Herborth
paces in the default $USERPROFILE? -- Chris Herborth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

Cygrunsrv and other random Cygwin apps, 100% CPU

2005-01-05 Thread Chris Wilson
So if someone could point me in the right direction, it'd be most appreciated. :-). I've attached my cygcheck.txt file with this email. Hopefully it clues one of the Cygwin-gurus into what my problem is. :-) Thanks much, -- Chris Wilson Cygwin Package Information Last do

Re: Cygrunsrv and other random Cygwin apps, 100% CPU

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Wilson
rything I was using prior this weekend's update, and this in-turn might help the incredible Cygwin programmers figure out what's changed since whatever that version may be, and now. Maybe? Sounds sensible anyways, though I only dabble in programming, so... :-) The search for a fix conti

Re: No color when using ls

2005-01-06 Thread Chris Wilson
DOMAINNAME" HISTIGNORE="[ ]*:&:bg:fg" HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` INPUTRC="$HOME/.inputrc" SHELL="/bin/bash" TERM="vt100" USERNAME="$USER" XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority" export BASH_ENV REMOTE_HOST DISPLAY DOMAINNAME FULLHOSTNAME HISTIGN

RE: EFS encrypted files & ssh

2005-01-07 Thread Chris January
using a password (e.g. because you are using RSA authenitcation) then the EFS key can't be decrypted and used. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cy

RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.

2005-01-12 Thread Clemson, Chris
[ ] Offended. Think about the children! [x] Not offended. Stop bothering me with your Puritanical values. [ ] Don't care. Can we go back to talking about how negative this list is now? -- The content of this e-mail is confidential, may contain privileged material and is intended s

RE: Multiple installations and 3PPs

2005-01-21 Thread Chris January
> Well, it was proposed once already, but nobody did the work: > > Get rid of the registry entries completly. Cygwin could use > something similar to /etc/fstab to manage its mount modes. And how do you know where / is mounted? Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://c

Re: is there a (cygwin?) method delivering the current version of windows?

2005-01-24 Thread Chris Herborth
. Any hint is appreciated. Thanks, You could probably dig it out of the registry, but 'uname -s' will give you something useful. On my XP Pro system, I get CYGWIN_NT-5.1 (XP is "Windows NT 5.1"), for example. -- Chris Herborth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Never send a monster to do

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated (in test): coreutils-5.3.0-2

2005-02-02 Thread Chris January
> Dates can be entered via integer counts of seconds since 1970 when > prefixed by `@'. For example, [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > represents > 1970-01-01 > 00:05:21 UTC. I think that example might be wrong... :) Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Bug in python's tempfile : returning wrong object type

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Herborth
he Windows-native Python 2.4 (Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32) gives the same result. I suspect the tempfile module's docs are misleading... it you look at the code, the returned object is an instance of tempfile._TemporaryFileWrapper. -- Chris H

Re: 1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account

2005-03-04 Thread Chris January
world (and it is presently the case) I should be able to do the same with cygwin semantics, right? Windows has traverse checking off by default. This means a user can access their home directory, for example, without being given access to to the parent directory or the root of the drive

disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Winne
I should know that if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but... In any case, seeing in installation that installing as user did not provide all functionality, I decided to reinstall as administrator. Following installation and relogging in as myself, my first sign of something fishy was an extra cygwi

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-08 Thread Chris Winne
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 8 09:38, Chris Winne wrote: > > > Also, out from standard error with cygcheck, I got > the > > following: > > > > cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() > failed: > > 5 > > c

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Winne
--- Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you can still reproduce the behaviour, please > drop "notraverse" > from the CYGWIN variable again and call `strace -o > mount.trace mount' > and send the bzip'd mount.trace file to this list. > (should be below > 6 or 7K). > It reproduces wi

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-11 Thread Chris Winne
quot;strace -o df2.trace df" after the above mount. I get the same stdout df as before, with a stderr output of: df: `/cygdrive/e': Permission denied Thanks, Chris Winne __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam pro

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-11 Thread Chris Winne
y when started manually through a dos window, while not when started by "clicking" on the cygwin icon. Hopefully you may find this information useful. Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseba

Re: disk not seen after adminstrative re-install

2005-03-11 Thread Chris Winne
ter a /cygwin/cygwin, cacls e: gives "access denied". 3) when I type "cmd" in the "run box", I can start \cygwin\cygwin within the resulting window, and everything seems as normal. Chris __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! S

Re: /proc/self/exename -> exe ? (Re: Retrieving name of executable)

2005-03-29 Thread Chris January
c/self/exe now, which has broken a lot of my programs... The old exename was a file containing the path, the new exe is a symlink pointing to the binary. This is how it's done on Linux. Maybe exename should be kept for backwards compatibility? Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Windows 2003 Domain Controller and Cygwin SSH Permission Problem

2005-03-31 Thread Chris Hesse
direction you can provide would be very appreciated. - Chris -- 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: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Chris January
Ashwin N wrote: Hi, I noticed that the icon for Cygwin on the website has changed from the green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait.... Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: Hippo icon!

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Herborth
Chris January wrote: I noticed that the icon for Cygwin on the website has changed from the green-n-black C to a roaring hippo. http://www.cygwin.com/hippo.jpg It's to shake off the impression that Cygwin is bloated and slow. No, wait Hippos are bloated and fast. And rather dang

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stow

2005-05-17 Thread Chris January
ygwin corrects this and emulates the Unix behavior, but Windows programs won't, and PATH searches for DLLs won't follow shortcuts either. Does stow have support for hard links at all? If not is that an easy thing to add in? Such an option would make stow more useful on Cygwin, IMHO. Chris

CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-18 Thread Clemson, Chris
th the file and the drive I am reading it with work fine. I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that it should recognise the format automatically. any ideas what I'm doing wrong? thanks, chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Clemson, Chris
> > I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that > it should recognise the format automatically. > > any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > Hard to say. Either it's not really a compatible cpio format (some > Solaris native format perhaps) or cpio doesn't recognize the format > autom

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-19 Thread Clemson, Chris
> > > Out of curiosity, what does `file > v240-disbox-v1-08-archive' print? > > > > hmm, I don't seem to have the file command. what package is it in? > > file doh! silly me - I was expecting it to be in a standard library. it would help if was looking at the full list of packages too! E:\>fil

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-20 Thread Clemson, Chris
> > > > both the file and the drive I am reading it with work fine. > > I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that > it should recognise the format automatically. > > any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > thanks, > > How did you get the file to your PC? Did you FTP it? Did > you

RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives

2005-05-20 Thread Clemson, Chris
> And just for the records, Solaris usually creates cpio > archives which are > compatible with Cygwin. The output of file shows: > I just tried it, out of curiosity. Both variations are readable by > GNU cpio. hmm, it must just not like flar archives. thanks for checking

Re: new setup for testing

2005-05-23 Thread Chris January
as the current usage is inconsistent. Also selecting any control (including "Hide Obsolete Packages") resets the listview. This should not happen as the user may have spent some considerable time expanding the tree and arranging the columns to find the items they want to change only t

Re: Problem with £ sign at Cygwin prompt.

2005-05-25 Thread Chris January
all of my language settings in Windows are configured for the UK. Anyone else noticed this? Yes - me too now you come to mention it... That means either this is a new bug or I've never typed a £ before at a Cygwin bash prompt. I wonder which it is? Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] testing cygwin-announce resender

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Faylor
I hate "test" email but I can't think of any other way to test this so here you go... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cyg

[ANNOUNCEMENT] another test of cygwin-announce resender

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Faylor
I hate "test" email but I can't think of any other way to test this so here you go... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cyg

Re: Unicode in filenames support?

2005-06-08 Thread Chris January
you can dig that up and see if you can get it working with the latest Cygwin code. Chris -- 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/

Installation problems

2004-06-08 Thread Chris Carlson
ing: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe -c /etc/postinstall/postinstall-lilypond.sh rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. Chris Carlson iStor Networks, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Docu

latex bug

2004-06-14 Thread Chris Jefferson
There appears to be a slightly annoying bug in latex (and tex) where they won't support filenames with spaces in. $latex a\ b.tex This is TeXk, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) %&-line parsing enabled. ! I can't find file `a'. <*> a b.tex Please type another input file name: $latex "a b.tex" Th

man pages formating

2004-06-16 Thread Chris W
When I view man pages it doesn't format them properly, instead it shows codes like ESC[1m . . . how do I fix this? -- Chris W Bring Back the HP 15C http://hp15c.org Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish Zone can help. http://thewishzone.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

bashrc

2004-06-16 Thread Chris W
Where do I put my .bashrc file so it reads my settings and alias commands? -- Chris W Bring Back the HP 15C http://hp15c.org Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish Zone can help. http://thewishzone.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: man pages formating

2004-06-16 Thread Chris W
Thanks. I looked and the file was named man.config.default. It had the write PAGER setting, so I just renamed it to man.config and all works great now. -- Chris W Bring Back the HP 15C http://hp15c.org Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish Zone can help. http://thewishzone.com -- Un

home directory.

2004-06-16 Thread Chris W
It seems that somewhere $HOME is getting set to /cygdrive/c. I want it to be /home/$USER like the /etc/profile would set it to if it wasn't already set to /cygdrive/c. So where do I change that? -- Chris W Bring Back the HP 15C http://hp15c.org Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish

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