install mgetty problem

2005-01-31 Thread Franky
Hi all, i'm trying to install mgetty in cygwin, however it's both fail on rpm or from source. does anyone sucess on it? thx a lot -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Why does cygwin1.dll use NtCreateFile() instead of CreateFile()

2005-01-31 Thread Dan Ch
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Brian Ford wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Dan Ch wrote: > > I noticed that cygwin-1.5.12-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc > > uses NtCreateFile() instead of CreateFile() on Windows NT based > > operating systems (NT, 2000, 2003, XP) for opening files. Why? I > > checked the archive

Re: Problem with 20050130 snapshot and ssh-agent

2005-01-31 Thread David Rothenberger
20050131 snapshot. Yup, that did it. Thanks! -- David Rothenbergerspammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF 2C5F C8E1 43DF B44F BA26 7F67 E734 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

SSH and COM

2005-01-31 Thread Miles Sabin
Hi folks, My apologies if this question turns out to be more a general Windows security issue than something cygwin and ssh specific, but cygwin/ssh is the context I'm seeing my problem in and I'm utterly baffled ... any insight would be most welcome. I'm attempting to launch a parallel applic

Re: Problem with 20050130 snapshot and ssh-agent

2005-01-31 Thread David Rothenberger
20050131 snapshot. Yup, that did it. Thanks! -- David Rothenbergerspammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF 2C5F C8E1 43DF B44F BA26 7F67 E734 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.h

problems with cygstart as .mailcap - how to use?

2005-01-31 Thread John Owens
(I asked this question in October and got no response ... would be happy if anyone on this list could help me out.) Greetings, I am running "Wanderlust" (an emacs mailer) under NT Emacs 21.3 on WinXP SP 1. WL uses the emacs-mime package, and within that package I can hit 'v' to launch an external

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-18

2005-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I have updated the version of cron on cygwin.com to 3.0.1-18. Thanks to Pierre Humblet for the following contribution: Small improvements to cron-config and export of CYGWIN=ntsec in postinstall script. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

2005-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 31 12:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon > > problem. > > Super. Tho, will fixing "the icon problem" also fix the behavior dichotomy > between Explorer and Open/Save dialogs (which I noted in my origi

exmh on Cygwin?

2005-01-31 Thread Jeff . Hodges
Does anyone have experience with installing "nmh" and "exmh" on Cygwin? Any major gotchas to watch out for? thanks, JeffH -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.ht

Re: odd behavior of symlinks on Win XP

2005-01-31 Thread Jeff . Hodges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There's a patch in current Cygwin CVS which should solve the icon > problem. Super. Tho, will fixing "the icon problem" also fix the behavior dichotomy between Explorer and Open/Save dialogs (which I noted in my original posting in this thread)? > If you want to use

Re: Problem with 20050130 snapshot and ssh-agent

2005-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
lem adding key... This should be fixed in the next refresh of the 20050131 snapshot. 20050130 and the previous 20050131 snapshot were broken in a couple of interesting ways. Look for this comment in the ChangeLog diffs to determine if this is the one to download: * smallprint.c (__rn): Regparm

Re: csh Shell

2005-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Alexis, It's usually not a good idea to address Cygwin-related questions to individual list members. By addressing the question to the main Cygwin mailing list, you get access to the combined expertise of many thousands of its members, as well as the benefits of web archiving. For your convenien

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [snip] > And please don't create TOFU(*)(**). > (*) top posting, full quote. > See http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=TOFU&Find=Find > (**) Hi Igor, can I get an entry in the acronym list now? ;-) You got it. If you can track dow

Re: problems interrupting cygcheck -c on 20050104 snapshot

2005-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:26PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:05:13PM -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:36:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> >Using the 20050104 snapshot, running cygcheck -c from b

Re: gdb: "run >z" does not work

2005-01-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:15:09AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >on linux: >$ gdb foo >(gdb) run > z >runs foo with stdout redirected to file z. > >on cygwin, "run > z" passes ">" and "z" as command line arguments to >"foo.exe". > >is this a known bug? Yes. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

gdb: "run >z" does not work

2005-01-31 Thread Sam Steingold
on linux: $ gdb foo (gdb) run > z runs foo with stdout redirected to file z. on cygwin, "run > z" passes ">" and "z" as command line arguments to "foo.exe". is this a known bug? thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-31 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 25 10:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:29:26AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: > > >Not perl, but procmail: > > > > > >:0 > > >* ^Sender: cygwin-announce-owner at cygwin dot com > > >{ > > >SUBJECT=`formail -c -xSubject:

Memory Problem and X-windows

2005-01-31 Thread Rustam Khayrutdinov
- Dear Cygwin Developers, With your help I have solved a problem of memory: MapViewOfFileEx(0x728, in_h 0x728) failed, Win32 error 6 I have used Wl,--stack,1 during link of my code written in Fortran and compiled with g77, but now there if another problem I can not get data into cod

Re: Why does cygwin1.dll use NtCreateFile() instead of CreateFile()

2005-01-31 Thread Brian Ford
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Dan Ch wrote: > I noticed that cygwin-1.5.12-1/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc > uses NtCreateFile() instead of CreateFile() on Windows NT based > operating systems (NT, 2000, 2003, XP) for opening files. Why? I > checked the archives for this mailing list and noted some activity

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 31 14:24, Paolo Gesmundo wrote: > Hi Corinna, > not sure what you mean with 'Shebang' http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shebang, second entry. And please don't create TOFU(*)(**). Corinna (*) top posting, full quote. See http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=TOFU

Re: customizing bash

2005-01-31 Thread Reini Urban
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I am a new cygwin user. I am not able to locate the .profile, .login .bashrc etc bash files, so I can use it to customize bash. I understand from various installation instruction that I red that the HOME env variable needs to be set for this. I followed the instruct

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Paolo Gesmundo
Hi Corinna, not sure what you mean with 'Shebang' Thanks Paolo - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script On Jan 31 12:50, Paolo Gesmundo wrote:

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 31 12:50, Paolo Gesmundo wrote: > Thanks for the responses. > > So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a > way that the default shell > is bash? It doesn't make sense to cover easily solvable problems in your shell script by changing sh to bash. You should

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Paolo Gesmundo wrote: Thanks for the responses. So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a way that the default shell is bash? I have no clue, and I am not suggesting you do this but what would be the affect of... cp bash.exe sh.exe Besides the initial installation and

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Jon A. Lambert
Paolo Gesmundo wrote: Thanks for the responses. So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a way that the default shell is bash? I have no clue, and I am not suggesting you do this but what would be the affect of... cp bash.exe sh.exe Besides the initial installation a

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Paolo Gesmundo
Thanks for the responses. So, in cygwin for Win XP, is it possible to set my environment in such a way that the default shell is bash? Thanks Paolo - Original Message - From: "Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:38 AM Subject: Re: Unable to properly e

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 10:50, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:29:26AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: > >Not perl, but procmail: > > > >:0 > >* ^Sender: cygwin-announce-owner at cygwin dot com > >{ > >SUBJECT=`formail -c -xSubject:` > >FROM0=`formail -X'From '` > >FROM1=`formail -X'F

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: zsh-4.2.3-1

2005-01-31 Thread Peter A. Castro
An updated version of zsh (zsh-4.2.3-1) has been released and should be at a mirror near you real soon. This release includes the following: - new base release version, which has some new features (see ChangeLog) and bug fixes. The base now includes most Cygwin code changes. http://www.fru

Re: /proc functionality; ls errors

2005-01-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 29 14:12, linda w wrote: > Had another Question regarding the /proc file system. If > I am in /proc (Cygwin Window, bash) and I type the > command "'ls' -l" I get: > /proc> 'ls' -l > ls: loadavg: Operation not permitted > [...] Should be fixed in current CVS. Corinna -- Corinna Vinsche

Re: Unable to properly execute a let statement from a shell script

2005-01-31 Thread Brian Dessent
Paolo Gesmundo wrote: > I know that I could modify a.sh by adding #!/bin/bash > at the top of the file but I would need to avoid this > otherwise I have to modify too many scripts > > Is there a way to run a.sh like in Case 1 and get the > proper result like in Case 2? It sounds like your script

Re: customizing bash

2005-01-31 Thread Jani Tiainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjoitti: Hi, I am a new cygwin user. I am not able to locate the .profile, .login .bashrc etc bash files, so I can use it to customize bash. I understand from various installation instruction that I red that the HOME env variable needs to be set for this. I followed the in