Re: Setup failure: mount error

2004-10-13 Thread luke
27;s search command. Unfortunately, it's still failing. Are there any other places in the registry that Cygwin data is kept? Right now I'll try again, this time deleting both known keys, deleting all the download files, deleting the 300kb of installed Cygwin files, rebooting, and starting

Re: Setup failure: mount error

2004-10-13 Thread luke
luke wrote: Dave Korn wrote: That's what I thought. My problem was in trusting the Registry's search command. Actually, the search is relative to whatever key you have selected. So, to search the whole registry you have to select the root. Unfortunately, it's still failing. Are

Re: Setup failure: mount error

2004-10-13 Thread luke
luke wrote: luke wrote: At the moment, it looks like I'm going to have to scrub Windows and re-install it. I suppose before that, I can try installing from our stable mirror. Perhaps the Cygwin on the mirror site is badly buggy (despite all MD5 checksums being correct). I got the iden

Re: Setup failure: mount error

2004-10-14 Thread luke
luke wrote: [...] I'll let people know how I get on. Plan: first the FS check, then I'll try installing a stable known to work Cygwin, then I'll scrub and reinstall W2K, then I'll give up and try another PC. Well, since I know the MD5 checksums are correct on both our

Re: Setup failure: mount error

2004-10-14 Thread luke
where I keep various helper Cygwin scripts (like the .bat to drive the install via setup). Perhaps that somehow got run by setup or by one of the post-install scripts instead of some (internal) Cygwin command called "cyg"? I can test both theories by trying to reproduce the pro

Re: Setup failures during mirrored install

2003-05-30 Thread luke . kendall
ttach to a thread? > > > > Or do you simply say "thread apply all where" ? > > > > luke > > The debugging snapshot is available at <http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/>. > Just run gdb, attach to the Cygwin PID, and use "info threa

Download from internet = 1Mb?!

2003-06-17 Thread luke . kendall
rnet", and burn that. Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I think all it does is download setup.exe). My other d:\temp\cygwin directory (left over after a real install), is over 200Mb, so I'm very confused about what's going on. luke -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

2003-06-26 Thread luke . kendall
o modified our local /etc/profile.d/cisra.sh to automatically do this for you, since drives you normally map do show up (as "Unavailable") in a "net use". For me, it worked well. For someone else, it doesn't. Me: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .../luke; slogin doyle [EMA

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

2003-06-26 Thread luke . kendall
tion of Cygwin into the setup of a new PC when it's configured by SysAdmin. They know to restrict their choices to either C:\cygwin or D:\cygwin. I also modify our startx.bat script to hard-wire in the correct location during our post-install stuff. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

2003-06-26 Thread luke . kendall
ow. Even knowing a Subject line to search for in the archive would be fine. luke PS: Apologies for not following up on this staright away. I only just found the reply, because I only recently (partly) worked out what caused all list mail to me from Cygwin to be dumped to /dev/null, startin

Mail to cygwin generating subscription requests

2003-06-26 Thread luke . kendall
a mailing list gateway or something going on? I'll include examples below. luke From: Yahoo!Groups Subject: Please confirm your request to join kde-nl Date: 27 Jun 2003 02:41:03 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED], We hav

Re: Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

2003-06-27 Thread luke . kendall
On 27 Jun, Max Bowsher wrote: > > Me: > > > > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .../luke; slogin doyle > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > Last login: Fri Jun 27 10:10:13 2003 from nevin.research.canon.com.au > ... > > >

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

2003-06-27 Thread luke . kendall
learn still more from that: > By far the best way to download and maintain an installation set is Michael > Chase's clean_setup. > > http://www.home.ix.netcom.com/~mchase/zip/ luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Binaries via Line or by rebuilding?

2003-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
rceforge.net/>). It looks like development of Line stopped in 2001, at an alpha version. Was that because it's more normal for people to simply port a program by building from source under Cygwin? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Ideas re problem reporting

2003-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
hat asked the questions you want answered, and ran cygcheck etc. (basically, automating as much of the http://cygwin.com/problems.html procedure as far as possible), might be worthwhile. If people think it's a good idea, I might have a go at one this weekend. luke -- Unsubscribe info:

Permission problems with recent Cygwin

2003-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
-+ 2 desmolej Domain U0 Jul 10 08:29 preremove -rwx--1 desmolej Domain U 2034 Jul 10 08:29 profile drwx--+ 2 desmolej Domain U0 Jul 10 08:37 profile.d -rwxr-xr-x1 desmolej Domain U 1519 Jul 10 08:29 profile.ksh Is this happening to anyone else? luke

Re: Ideas re problem reporting

2003-07-16 Thread luke . kendall
whether it had just completed a full, or a default, or some intermediate install - there would be nothing to stop a naughty user from faking the same entry manually? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Document

Re: Windows home path

2003-07-16 Thread luke . kendall
was C:\Documents and Settings\username. Since our post-install encourages people to use d:\home and overrides the initial default setting, that dealt with the problem, and I don't think I can provide any more clues. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Windows home path

2003-07-16 Thread luke . kendall
swd to create an /etc/passwd that contains an entry for you, then Cygwin will choose C:\Documents and Settings\username as the HOME for the username. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentatio

Re: Permission problems with recent Cygwin

2003-07-22 Thread luke . kendall
o # use the --login argument. # if [ -x "$SHELL" -a "$CYGWIN" != "" -a -z "$STARTX" -a -z "$DISPLAY" ] then exec $SHELL fi Anyway, logging in directly winds up with ntsec *not* set; specifically, CYGWIN is set to nobinmode. An

How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-22 Thread luke . kendall
On 23 Jul, I wrote: > I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the above, I was thinking "ntsec turned on" means $CYGWIN includes the word "ntsec". But I think I've just realised that isn't true, is

spaces in group names

2003-07-22 Thread luke . kendall
I notice that Windows allows spaces in group names, unlike Unix, so the output of the "groups" command can't be processed reliably under Windows. Any suggestions? : /home/luke ; id uid=11021(luke) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=12919(adaytum),10513(Domain Users),13876(MS_Visu

Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

2003-07-24 Thread luke . kendall
A -n "tcshw" -a '-l' /usr/bin/tcsh.exe Or just right click on the cywgin icon's properties and change the shell it runs, if you want to hack. Or change the shell for your account, in /etc/passwd I think. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#u

Who's who of packagers?

2003-07-29 Thread luke . kendall
Cygwin. Hence my wondering. luke -- 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: Who's who of packagers?

2003-07-29 Thread luke . kendall
On 30 Jul, Elfyn McBratney replied to: > > How does one check who the maintainer of a package is; e.g. to make > > sure it is not oneself? > > One doesn't. Fine. [WM stuff] > Well, it's not you. :-) Unless you have taken over the reigns from >

Tip: making extra Cygwin shortcuts

2003-07-30 Thread luke . kendall
normal way. E.g.: mkshortcut -A -P -n "Cygwin/Xwindows" /startx.bat luke -- 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: Re: how to make cygwin run under shells other than bash

2003-07-31 Thread luke . kendall
to reconfigure cygwin to start up > > in other shells? > > $ mkshortcut -D -A -n "tcshw" -a '-l' /usr/bin/tcsh.exe > > Or just right click on the cywgin icon's properties and change the shell > it runs, if you want to hack. Or change the shell

touch run from DOS: time wrong

2002-10-23 Thread luke . kendall
xx to have a file modification time of 8:15am instead of 9:15am. NB: In Sydney Australia this weekend, we'll be setting our clocks forward one hour. Might be relevant. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?

2002-11-07 Thread luke . kendall
o notice that if you do a test -x /usr/bin/vi that now fails; I believe it used to succeed. CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DOYLE 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-06 22:41 i686 unknown cygcheck output attached. luke Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Nov 08 16:13:32 2002 Windows XP Prof

Re: vi won't execute - symlink semantics changed?

2002-11-14 Thread luke . kendall
I checked both with 1.3.15-2 and can't reproduce it. Ah, I've found a partial answer. Although I installed Cygwin from my account (luke), some files appear to be owned by the sysadmin person who initially set the PC up (robs). He may also have done an install of the default Cygwin stu

enscript + lprng = cygthread::detach message?

2003-02-27 Thread Bakken, Luke
rent about my setup. Just wondering how I could go about tracing why this happens. Thanks Luke Here is the top output of cygcheck: Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Feb 27 06:56:17 2003 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Path: C:\cyg\usr

RE: Printing from cygwin?

2003-02-28 Thread Bakken, Luke
/configure --with-userid=18 --with-groupid=18 --disable-setuid Let me know if you have any problems. Luke > -Original Message- > From: Rick Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Printing from cy

RE: Process hang(100% CPU Usage) when concurrent calling select(),cygwin1.5.5-1 WinXP/Win2000

2003-11-11 Thread Bakken, Luke
files from /foo in it - not fixed Thanks! Luke -- 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: using rsync in a sceduled script

2003-11-14 Thread Bakken, Luke
ork perfectly with cygwin in some situations. Search the archives for more info. I installed the latest dll snapshot and it seemed to resolve some of the hanging issues I've seen. Luke -- 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: KSH on Win2000

2004-01-21 Thread Bakken, Luke
> -Original Message- > > Does CYGWIN have the full ISO POSIX compatible version of KSH 93? > www.kornshell.com. You have to install it yourself -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

RE: What kind of executable is zcat? Crashes from cmd.exe

2004-02-12 Thread Bakken, Luke
> Jamshid Afshar wrote: > > I just installed Cygwin. What kind of executable is > zcat.exe? It doesn't > > show up when I "dir c:\cygwin\bin\zc*" (only zcmp), but I > see it's 19 > > bytes in Explorer. It works fine within bash, but I want > UNIX utilities I > > can use in the regular Windows Co

perl_construct segfaults under cygwin

2004-03-15 Thread Luke Diamand
myself, since I haven't worked out how to downgrade to anything newer than cygwin perl 5.6. Thanks in advance Luke Diamand **Legal Disclaimer** "This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended rec

cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

2004-03-15 Thread luke . kendall
Re-sending this since the Cygwin list says any cross-post means you're a spammer. :-( I will now post to the cvs list and warn people not to Reply-All or they may be marked as spammers too. :-( luke -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cvs pr

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

2004-03-15 Thread luke . kendall
gt; If you are not a "spammer", we apologize for the inconvenience. > You can add yourself to the cygwin.com "global allow list" > by sending email *from*the*blocked*email*address* to: as meaning it (now) thought I was not subscribed, that I now had a blocked email addre

Re: perl_construct segfaults under cygwin

2004-03-16 Thread Luke Diamand
In case anyone else is ever stuck trying to figure this out, the answer is to RTFM. It turns out that in perl5.8.? you need to add a call to: PERL_SYS_INIT3(&argc,&argv,&env) before you do anything else with perl. This is documented in the Perl embed man page. Luke Diamand wrote

Re: cvs problem under cygwin, cvs documentation

2004-03-16 Thread luke . kendall
too painful. You get the same problem if you mix cvs operations from different OS-es (different in how they treat line endings). We never check-in source from one OS that was checked out from another, for that reason. I assume that's what you're referring to? BTW, does anyone know

strace cvs stops at /dev/tty read

2004-03-16 Thread luke . kendall
Does Cygwin's cvs ignore your PATH setting, and directly use the Windows rsh.exe? Behaviour of /usr/bin/cvs seems to indicate it may be so. I can't rename rsh.exe to test this since XP "repairs" rsh.exe. I can't find out which rsh it's running since strace cvs fails: when it asks for a password,

RE: strace cvs stops at /dev/tty read

2004-03-17 Thread luke . kendall
sh > may do what you want. Interesting. Changing CVS_RSH from /bin/ssh to /usr/bin/rsh does indeed fix the problem. Thanks, Bill. All the problems occur if you use Cygwin's ssh instead of rsh (strace stopping, read failing, cvs response of ok\r). luke -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Parallel Port LPRng

2002-02-27 Thread Luke Bakken
As far as I know, without a /dev/lpt of some sort it won't work with Cygwin for parallel printers. I hope you can get a net card! On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Walter Garcia-Fontes wrote: > I've been trying to install Bakkens LPRng port. I can't print to a printer > attached to the parallel port of my s

RE: Is ksh available on cygwin

2002-02-27 Thread Luke Bakken
pdksh compiles ootb and is pretty much the same as ksh. this won't work the same as AT&T korn shell: print 'hey' | read a; print $a but it probably won't matter. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Sanjay Gupta wrote: > Thanks for information. > > I have some Oracle monitoring scripts that have been written

Re: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands whichaccept filename as parameter

2002-03-04 Thread Luke Bakken
/bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character. It's a rather limited shell. try this: :set shell=/bin/bash Luke On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > Hey, there! :) > > I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth > reporting it

regtool problem

2002-05-06 Thread luke . kendall
hink the man page would be greatly helped if the terms key and value in regtool's context were carefully defined. BTW, where is the source code for regtool? I guessed it might have been in sh-utils or cyg-utils or even pkgconfig, but it isn't. Is there a way to find the package that a p

Re: regtool problem

2002-05-06 Thread luke . kendall
can be in different places in the registry, is a pain if you have to walk the registry tree to try to find it. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

RE: regtool problem

2002-05-07 Thread luke . kendall
e an automated script! Is there an undocumented command line option that can force it to dump out the registry in text format? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cyg

Promoting rxvt (non-X11)

2002-09-22 Thread luke . kendall
at covers everything except rxvt windows started from the command line. Does anyone know why rxvt has this ^H vs ^? behaviour, and xterm doesn't? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Setup-uninstall problems

2002-09-22 Thread luke . kendall
load fresh copies of the programs you're trying to uninstall seems quite bizarre! Did I do something wrong, or is there a bug in setup? I used a fresh setup.exe that I downloaded on Sept 21st. I've copied the contents of /usr/X11R6/bin back from another machine, but any other damage i

Re: Promoting rxvt (non-X11)

2002-09-23 Thread luke . kendall
s the sequence Esc [ 3 ~ The reboot means that Backspace in cat -tvu now no longer appears, so it did make some difference. Not that this seems to be causing me any problems, it's just curious. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

Questions about Cygwin packaging

2002-09-23 Thread luke . kendall
they used in some automated process, or are they just rough guides for humans to see? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Questions about Cygwin packaging

2002-09-24 Thread luke . kendall
on, I could make changes and submit them for approval, too? Regards, luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Mysterious delays in command execution

2002-09-24 Thread luke . kendall
drive/x/bin:/cygdrive/x/bin/script://samba/script:/usr/X11R6/bin 121 12318 [main] rxvt 3388 environ_init: 0xA010890: PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH [...] luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http

Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

2002-09-24 Thread luke . kendall
I've been doing things like creating template files, finding where Cygwin is installed via Cygpath, and modifying the template with sed and copying it to the appropriate user desktop directory. I don't suppose there's an existing command for doing this? luke -- Unsubscribe

Re: Is there a command for creating shortcuts on the desktop?

2002-09-25 Thread luke . kendall
ng it to the appropriate user desktop directory. > > > > I don't suppose there's an existing command for doing this? > > man mkshortcut Just read the man page - thanks, Michael, that sounds perfect! luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-

Building the GNU cgicc library...

2003-08-14 Thread Bakken, Luke
to `__GLOBAL__D__ZN5cgicc17HTTPContentHeaderC2ERKSs' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [test.cgi.exe] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/lukeb/cgicc-3.2.2/demo' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 -- However, when I set CXX=g++-2 (gcc 2.95.3-10), everything b

Setup.exe seems to hang

2003-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
cks behind ...) Anyway, any suggestion about setup.exe just going busy? We're going to try installing the Default stuff, then run it again and see if we can choose to install everything after that. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Setup.exe seems to hang

2003-09-01 Thread luke . kendall
hich was probably why I had the idea for the workaround we tried. Has some change to setup in a recent snapshot targeted the problem? Regards, luke -- 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: Setup.exe seems to hang

2003-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
old 09-Mar-2003 11:08 180k setup.ini 30-Aug-2003 22:50 213k When was the last version of setup.exe released? luke -- 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: Setup.exe seems to hang

2003-09-02 Thread luke . kendall
The slow steps in the setup process seemed to speed up by about a factor of over 10, at a rough guess! luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

RE: Strange cygpath/Perl 5.8 interaction?

2003-09-03 Thread Bakken, Luke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cygpath -w /c/temp | xxd 000: 633a 5c74 656d 700a c:\temp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ echo "\"`cygpath -w /c/temp`\"" | xxd 000: 2263 3a5c 7465 6d70 220a "c:\temp". [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ perl -e'$a=`cygpath -w /c/temp`;print "\"$a\""'

Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-17 Thread luke . kendall
...tar.bz2 file. E.g. we have a local mirror on our intranet: http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/ and the user added " http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/"; and got an error complaining about not being able to find the file /u/mirror/cygwin/setup.tar.bz2. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

Re: Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-18 Thread luke . kendall
son it confuses is that when you look manually, using a browser or something, you can see that the file is there, check permissions okay, etc. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

ssh-keygen and slogin oddity

2003-09-19 Thread luke . kendall
thout asking me for anything. Now, I used Cygwin's ssh-keygen (-t dsa) to generate a ~/.ssh/id_dsa and .pub pair. The id_dsa file starts off: -BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY- Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,A40CC4090416489F Which generates this error in slogin: : /home/luke ; s

RE: Cygwin setup stopped @99%

2003-10-12 Thread luke . kendall
ee86-bin-icons.sh 4) Type: ps ax 5) Find the line that shows "cygpath", and get the leftmost number. 6) Type: kill -9 "that-number" 7) Click back on the Cygwin setup window and wait for it to continue, completing the installation process. luk

Re: Updated: cygutils-1.1.4-2

2003-10-21 Thread luke . kendall
On 9 Aug, Charles Wilson wrote: > o mkshortcut supports a new -w/--workingdir option. The man page for mkshortcut needs to be updated to reflect this good new option. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.

Be careful of network drives under /cygdrive

2003-10-21 Thread luke . kendall
/ -xdev is a good option to remember. In fact it's a good reason not to use the -R option on chown etc., and instead to do find / -xdev -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ... (AFAIK, you can't stop chmod, chown, etc., running across the network if you use -R and start at /.) luke -- Unsubs

Re: Updated Cygwin package: bash-2.05b-16

2003-10-23 Thread luke . kendall
n/sh) suffer from the same problem? Might this explain why /etc/XFree86-bin-icons.sh often hangs the install when it does the backtic cygpath and has to be killed? luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html D

rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

2003-10-23 Thread Bakken, Luke
); + /* msleep(20); */ io_flush(); } I hope this can be of help to someone! Luke cygcheck -s output: Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Oct 23 19:05:06 2003 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 Path: C:\cyg\usr

cygcheck as body or attachment (was RE: rsync hang .... )

2003-10-23 Thread Bakken, Luke
> > I'm just a user and follower of cygwin, but it amazes me how > > many people put > > the output of > > > > > cygcheck -s output: > > > > or cygcheck -svr in the body of their email instead of as an > > attachment when > > every stinking email has > > > http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >

RE: rsync local dir copy hang - solved for me

2003-10-24 Thread Bakken, Luke
For instance, if there is nothing to do since the sources and targets are in sync, it'll hang. If the source dir doesn't exist, it still hangs. I'm now going to see if I can isolate the heart of the problem with a simple program that forks and sleeps in the same fashion as with rsync

rsync as server on cygwin

2002-01-25 Thread Luke Bakken
use chroot = false I have read issues concering "socketpairs" and have tried compiling the latest version with and without them with the same results. I also have rsync in the services file. Just wondering if anyone has gotten it to work with just bare rsync transfers! Thank

Virtual Timers / Clock unsupported?

2002-02-02 Thread Luke-Jr
I'm experiencing 3 bugs with a server that works perfectly fine when I = run it under Linux. 1. The timezone name/initials are reported as being available (to = 'configure') but when the server tries to get/create the initials, it = ends up blank... 2. I am running the server in a Eastern Time env

Re: cygrunsrv does not start sshd in 1 out of 40 installs

2002-02-12 Thread Luke Bakken
I specifically remember someone mentioning the "Browser" service Good Luck! On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Lassi A. Tuura wrote: > This could be due to service start-up delays. There was discussion on > this in last October or thereabouts: exactly what other services sshd > should depend on to start re

Re: Updated: libungif-4.1.4-1

2005-11-09 Thread Luke Kendall
mpression code. Are there still countries left, in which this patent has not yet expired? luke -- 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/

An interesting tidbit

2005-11-14 Thread Luke Kendall
Cygwin has certainly grown in leaps and bounds thanks to the hard work of the developers, and all the numerous contributors and porters. I chanced to notice that a download I had from July 2001 was 175MB, a download from March 2005 was 2.5GB! luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

new to cygwin

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. I'm new to cygwin. I have a few questions to start with. Can I change the font in the default command shell window? How do I find out which fonts are available under cygwin (eg. I'd like to change the fonts that I use in vi) Thanks. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info:

newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. I'm wondering: I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root directory? Thanks. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: newbie question chdir

2005-12-18 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:48:53PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: I'm wondering: I've installed cygwin in c:\foo\bar\. Now when I open a shell, I can't cd back to C:\ Is there a way to or do I have to install everything in the root directory

vim under cygwin

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
b However, none of these work right. Can someone advise me on the term settings for windows XP/cygwin or point me to an appropriate resource. Thanks. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Doc

Re: vim under cygwin

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi Igor. Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I'm a vi user :-) I recently started using cygwin, so forgive me if this is an obvious one. I want to use vi under cygwin but I'm having trouble with terminal settings. apparently these are th

Re: vim under cygwin

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
t with TERM=cygwin with no problems. Could you let me know what your settings are when you do :set Thanks. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/do

Re: vim under cygwin

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi Igor Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I'm a vi user :-) I recently started using cygwin, so forgive me if this is an obvious one. I want to use vi

pager and virtual desktops

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. My next question on cygwin is to do with pagers and virtual desktops. On my regular linux boxes, I run virtual desktops using a pager to switch between them. Is this possible under cygwin? Thanks. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

.bashrc question

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
shrc ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile /etc/profile, but can't get the alias to 'take'. How do I do it? The documentation tells me clearly .bashrc but I think because I'm using rxvt there's a snag. Thanks for any help. Kind regards. -- Luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: .bashrc question

2005-12-19 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi Jim. Jim Roberts wrote: On 12/20/05, Luke Vanderfluit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have been trying to get an alias to work. I start my bash shell from cygwin.bat with the following command: bash --login -i -c 'rxvt -geometry 80x29 -sb -sl 1 -bg Black -f

fenv.h and friends

2006-01-13 Thread Luke Stras
inition in /usr/lib/mingw/libminwex.a), but something tells me that linking a MinGW runtime library into an otherwise-Cygwin program will cause more problems than it'll solve. Any ideas as to what I can do to solve this? Has anyone else successfully built a Cygwin NumPy? Thanks for all the h

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2006-02-09 Thread Luke Kendall
I would welcome a short sentence describing what they actually are! luke -- 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/

Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-09-29 Thread luke . kendall
16/4/2) 2004-05-25 22:07 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin Have I misunderstood? luke -- 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: Cygwin df -l option has wrong sense?

2004-09-30 Thread luke . kendall
he mount point. And I hereby confess that I don't actually know the system call used to determine the filesystem type. > P.S. The mount type fix is still on my TODO list :-( Aren't TODO lists wonderful? :-) luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

A good way to test if Cygwin isn't installed?

2004-09-30 Thread luke . kendall
orm that test? It seems good to me. I'm working my way towards a shell script that installs or upgrades Cygwin on a machine that may or may not have Cygwin installed, and do all our local post-install stuff (which is a lot of stuff), and also test that at least the major packag

Mirror site goodness

2004-09-30 Thread luke . kendall
use it? Anyway, I'm sharing the updated script (appended below), in case it's of use to others. Perhaps it should really be called cygmd5chk BTW, the reason for creating two files is because I believe cmd.exe is so dumb it has no way to distinguish between an empty file and one that's

Shell script ignores $PATH?!

2004-10-04 Thread luke . kendall
You'll see that the interactive shell is PID 3540, but since the /usr/bin/sh script's parent PID is 3540, somehow it started a shell that wasn't in $PATH, instead of one that was! Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. D:\home\luke>s

Re: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-04 Thread luke . kendall
#x27;s cvs gives us messages of the form $ /usr/bin/cvs update 2>&1 | cat -tvu Enter passphrase for key /home/luke/.ssh/id_dsa: cvs update: warning: unrecognized response `ok^M from cvs server using either the :pserver: or the external client-server via rsh methods. Anyway, in your case

RE: A good way to test if cygwin isn't installed?

2004-10-05 Thread luke . kendall
/", ("cygpath /" surely must use the mount info?), so I trust this is equivalent - and simpler for a script! As I mentioned, when I performed the experiment on a PC with Cygwin not installed, the output from "cygpath -w /" consisted of just a single backslash, which is an

Re: Shell script ignores $PATH?!

2004-10-05 Thread luke . kendall
, and the PATH simply doesn't come into it. luke -- 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: How to prepend a directory to the PATH to accommodate CVSNT?

2004-10-05 Thread luke . kendall
this if $HOME was created by Cygwin "mkdir" instead of by Windows Explorer, due to some mysterious access permissions problem. BTW, I use .profile because it's usable regardless of what (Bourne-like) shell you use. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#uns

Re: Shell script ignores $PATH?!

2004-10-05 Thread luke . kendall
n/perl" or "#!/usr/bin/perl" and back again, and for other interpreters, is quite large. Seems like an obvious long-standing missing Unix feature. (Apologies for the off-topic rant.) luke -- 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/

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