posgresql
Hi guys, I am trying to install posgresql on cygwin. I have installed postgesql and cygipc. Did the following steps 1. $ ipc-daemon 2. $ mkdir /whatever/path/pgsql 3. $ initdb -D /whatever/path/pgsql 4. $ pg_ctl -D /whatever/path/pgsql -o -i start 5. $ createdb testdb But step 3 fails in the end. Can anyone help Kind Regards, Loyiso Tyira Networks Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd Office: +27 (0)11 266 5843 Mobile: +27 (0)73 368 3966 Fax: +27 (0)11 266 6854 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: www.bcx.co.za NOTICES: 1. This message and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender at Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd immediately. Any unauthorised use, alteration or dissemination is prohibited. 2. Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd accepts no liability whatsoever for any loss whether it be direct, indirect or consequential, arising from information made available and actions resulting there from. 3. Please note that Business Connexion only binds itself by way of signed agreements. 'Signed' refers to a hand-written signature, excluding any signature appended by 'electronic communication' as defined in the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, no. 25 of 2002. 4. Directors: P.A. Watt, L.B. Mophatlane, A.C. Farthing (British), B. Sithole, I. Mophatlane, M.W. Schoeman. 5. Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd Company Registration Number: 1993/003683/07 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 November 2004 10:52 AM To: Loyiso Tyira - BCX - Networks Subject: WELCOME to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Acknowledgment: I have added the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the cygwin-apps mailing list. Welcome to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please save this message so that you know the address you are subscribed under, in case you later want to unsubscribe or change your subscription address. --- Administrative commands for the cygwin-apps list --- I can handle administrative requests automatically. Please do not send them to the list address! Instead, send your message to the correct command address: To subscribe to the list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove your address from the list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Similar addresses exist for the digest list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456 , mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are always returned as sets of 100, max 2000 per request, so you'll actually get 100-499. To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345, send an empty message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The messages do not really need to be empty, but I will ignore their content. Only the ADDRESS you send to is important. You can start a subscription for an alternate address, for example [EMAIL PROTECTED], just add a hyphen and your address (with '=' instead of '@') after the command word: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To stop subscription for this address, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In both cases, I'll send a confirmation message to that address. When you receive it, simply reply to it to complete your subscription. If despite following these instructions, you do not get the desired results, please contact my owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please be patient, my owner is a lot slower than I am ;-) --- Enclosed is a copy of the request I received. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 6278 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2004 08:51:57 - Received: from unknown (HELO femid01.africa.enterprise.root) (196.29.130.201) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Nov 2004 08:51:57 - Received: from exmid06.africa.enterprise.root ([172.21.31.152]) by femid01.africa.enterprise.root with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:52:53 +0200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6556.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: confirm subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:52:52 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: confirm subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thread-Index: AcTFcDlS6IiMvCTXThmtlsZU/LxSFQAABljw From: Loyiso Tyira - BCX - Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ygwin.com Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Nov 2004 08:52:53.0220 (UTC) FILETIME=[555A3240:01C4C570] Kind Regards, Loyiso Tyira Network Engineer Networks Business Connexion (Pty) Ltd Office:
Re: posgresql
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:58:55AM +0200, Loyiso Tyira - BCX - Networks wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to install posgresql on cygwin. I have installed postgesql and cygipc. Did the following steps 1. $ ipc-daemon 2. $ mkdir /whatever/path/pgsql 3. $ initdb -D /whatever/path/pgsql 4. $ pg_ctl -D /whatever/path/pgsql -o -i start 5. $ createdb testdb But step 3 fails in the end. Can anyone help Please use the cygwin mailing list for this type of thing. This is not a tech support mailing list.
Mozilla port for cygwin help needed
Hi, please contact me if you are interested to help porting Mozilla to Cygwin/X. Gerrit -- =^..^=
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote: The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. However, selecting only the xorg-x11-base package would install only: selecting the xorg-x11-base package would select all other required x11 packages too and install them. /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-6.8.1.0.README /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh You may want to add something like this after the paragraph quoted above: Once you have installed the 'xorg-x11-base' package, open your /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-version_number.README file and install (via setup) the package dependencies listed there. If selecting of dependencies is not working then it's a problem with the cygwin installer and should be reported to the cygwin mailing list. In any case, any hints on why installing xorg fails? I've not seen this before. All packages I've uploaded are tested including a simple install test on a clean host. Everything was fine. The messages from the cygwin mailinglist indicate a problem with setup.exe and not with the packages. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello Cygwin/XFree gurus, I've installed cygwin on a WinXP SP2 machine and setup looped forever up to the point when it was post-installing the xorg applications. I got 99% done. This issue has been discussed last week only as started by these 2 separate threads of messages: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00214.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html However, the issue has not been resolved. Then, I uninstalled everything and re-installed cygwin any *without* selecting anything from the X11 category. All went well! Then, I just thought of installing the X apps manually. The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. However, selecting only the xorg-x11-base package would install only: /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-6.8.1.0.README /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh Thus, it would probably be better to update the main page such that it wouldn't be misleading. (Other users might think only xorg-X11-base should be installed since that is what the website says.) The README file contains the needed package dependencies so once could follow from that. However, not everyone reads the README. You may want to add something like this after the paragraph quoted above: Once you have installed the 'xorg-x11-base' package, open your /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-version_number.README file and install (via setup) the package dependencies listed there. In any case, any hints on why installing xorg fails? Please include me on the cc since I do not subscribe to the cygwin/xfree list. Thanks! Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph Don't install Xorg. that is what Hanu told me.
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Don't install Xorg. that is what Hanu told me. Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 I just wanted to add that I am having the exact same installation packages. For me, without the X11 packages cygwin is useless. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Daniel Newhouse wrote: --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 I just wanted to add that I am having the exact same installation packages. For me, without the X11 packages cygwin is useless. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Bobby
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged Alex, I think the problem is with setup. Because when setup gets to the fontserver, where 4 people are complaining so far, it stalls on a readme file. I'll try it again. Wish me luck. And I will take you up on your offer, once Cygwin is installed with xorg, to help you improve it. Sorry for the insult, but under Harolld, he would have everything tested on different machines and configurations. I'm running Windows XP professional with Service Pack #2. Find out what the others are using.
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged Alex, I think the problem is with setup. Because when setup gets to the fontserver, where 4 people are complaining so far, it stalls on a readme file. It works fine for me. Just tried it. You've been reading the cygwin mailing list long enough to know that you have not provided the slightest shred of useful data Bobby, either provide useful information or just shut up. Telling everyone what you are going to do or not going to do and insulting people is totally unproductive. Do me a favor and don't even respond to this email. Either provide some details or just be quiet. Useful details might be, for example, ps -ef output. cgf
Running startx from cygwin shell
Hei ! I get fatal error when running startx. It says a fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/x will now exit (Release:6.8.10-1) XWin was started with the following command-line: x:0-multiwindow-clipboard. I am very grateful for help. Truly, Elin Aronsen
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either. Get Harold Hunt back here to fix this. The current maintainers have no idea what they are doing. Provide me with useful information and I'll take a look. As I've said it was working for me until last week. I've not received any useful data which may help tracking this down. Maybe you'll find a solution then it's all good. If not then stop insulting me or do it better. bye ago, enraged Alex, I think the problem is with setup. Because when setup gets to the fontserver, where 4 people are complaining so far, it stalls on a readme file. It works fine for me. Just tried it. You've been reading the cygwin mailing list long enough to know that you have not provided the slightest shred of useful data Bobby, either provide useful information or just shut up. Telling everyone what you are going to do or not going to do and insulting people is totally unproductive. Do me a favor and don't even respond to this email. Either provide some details or just be quiet. Useful details might be, for example, ps -ef output. cgf OK Chris, here it is. The full report. Complete down to the readme file that it is hanging at. Cygwin setup is at 97% it says install xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0-2 /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-fscl-6.8.1.0.README its in a contiuous loop, not gettiing past this point.
Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only
Thank you all for the replies. I'm sorry but it seems that I wasn't cc'd for all messages (I mentioned I'm not part of the Cygwin/XFree ML). So, I just replied to my original message. (Sorry if this breaks the thread.) So, I've just checked the ML website and read up to the one of Bobby Mc Nulty's message on 09 Nov 2004: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00031.html In any case, I am not able to replicate the problem now since I'm on Win2K SP4. The problem only appears to be on WinXP SP2. I'm sorry I'm not providing anything useful (e.g. No ps -ef nor cygcheck output) since I won't be able to get hold of the WinXP SP2 machine now. I'll probably be able to do it, but off-line. The post last 04 Nov 2004, http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00167.html, says that xorg stalled via setup on a WinXP SP2. I don't know if there's a correlation. In any case, the issue with setup is that it doesn't install the dependencies of xorg-base. I installed cygwin without the X and afterwards, installed xorg-base (since that is what the Cygwin/XFree site says). However, only the script files get installed. (I'll post a message to the cygwin-list). I got everything working after installing (via setup) the dependencies listed on the xorg README file. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello Cygwin/XFree gurus, I've installed cygwin on a WinXP SP2 machine and setup looped forever up to the point when it was post-installing the xorg applications. I got 99% done. This issue has been discussed last week only as started by these 2 separate threads of messages: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00214.html http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html However, the issue has not been resolved. Then, I uninstalled everything and re-installed cygwin any *without* selecting anything from the X11 category. All went well! Then, I just thought of installing the X apps manually. The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to your installation by downloading the latest setup.exe, running setup, and selecting the 'xorg-x11-base' package from the 'X11' category. However, selecting only the xorg-x11-base package would install only: /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-6.8.1.0.README /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.csh /etc/profile.d/00xorg-x11-base.sh Thus, it would probably be better to update the main page such that it wouldn't be misleading. (Other users might think only xorg-X11-base should be installed since that is what the website says.) The README file contains the needed package dependencies so once could follow from that. However, not everyone reads the README. You may want to add something like this after the paragraph quoted above: Once you have installed the 'xorg-x11-base' package, open your /usr/X11R6/share/doc/Cygwin/xorg-x11-base-version_number.README file and install (via setup) the package dependencies listed there. In any case, any hints on why installing xorg fails? Please include me on the cc since I do not subscribe to the cygwin/xfree list. Thanks! Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base
Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html (6 Nov 2004) So, I reinstalled cygwin without the X, and went to the Cygwin/Xfree website to see how to install X. The site says that we just need to install xorg-base and we will have X working. However, installing xorg-base installs a couple of script files and a README. I read the README and installed (via setup, ofcourse :) )the packages listed as dependencies. *All worked well now.* :) However, isn't setup suppose to do this? I posted this problem on the cygwin-xfree mailing list and someone hinted that since setup doesn't install dependencies, this could be a setup problem (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00022.html) Is this an X or a setup problem? (I'm at a loss so I posted to cygwin and cygwin-xfree). Please advise on where to post. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
Re: on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base
Sorry. I should've mentioned at the beginning of the mail that I'm just cross posting to cygwin-xfree for FYI (since I've discussed this already yesterday.). The mail was intended for the cygwin ML but I cc'd cygwin-xfree for FYI. Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html (6 Nov 2004) So, I reinstalled cygwin without the X, and went to the Cygwin/Xfree website to see how to install X. The site says that we just need to install xorg-base and we will have X working. However, installing xorg-base installs a couple of script files and a README. I read the README and installed (via setup, ofcourse :) )the packages listed as dependencies. *All worked well now.* :) However, isn't setup suppose to do this? I posted this problem on the cygwin-xfree mailing list and someone hinted that since setup doesn't install dependencies, this could be a setup problem (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00022.html) Is this an X or a setup problem? (I'm at a loss so I posted to cygwin and cygwin-xfree). Please advise on where to post. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph
src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winnt.h
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-08 10:08:14 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winnt.h Log message: * include/winnt.h (GetCurrentFiber): Support -masm=intel. (GetFiberData): Likewise. (NtCurrentTeb): Likewise. Patches: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/w32api/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=srcr1=1.613r2=1.614 http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/w32api/include/winnt.h.diff?cvsroot=srcr1=1.88r2=1.89
Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download
If this isn't the problem, my WAG is that you have a version of 'cygwin1.dll' already on your system, due to some previous install or some other software that uses Cygwin surrepticously. If this is true, remove all copies of 'cygwin1.dll' from your system and follow the uninstall directions here: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 If none of this describes your installation and/or helps, please follow the instructions at the uninstall link above, rerun 'setup.exe' as Install from Internet, and *attach* the 'setup.log' file (assuming this time things don't just work for you). Your WAG was totally right. I had some Acrobat plugin called PDFmerge that had an old copy of cygwin1.dll in a 'hidden' folder that didn't turn up on previous searches for 'cygwin'. Deleted it, re-installed and everything's working great now. Thanks SO much, i'm so happy to be able to use Cygwin now. Sorry it was such a half-baked problem. -- 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: Cron under Cygwin/Windows XP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm attempting to run: $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (cron/myCron installed on Fri Nov 5 14:08:06 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) * * * * * echo 'Boo from cron' but it doesn't run... Just out of curiosity, how do You know it doesn't run? I would try something like date /tmp/cron.test and have a look into that file. matthias -- 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/
getloadavg(3)
Anyone saw a implementation similar to getloadavg() on windows? At least uptime, top, emacs, xemacs and make use the noop on windows, and some other apps defined their private loadavg() function app-specific, which we cannot use. I cannot believe that no-one created a similar function for windows yet. At least sound and gaming need that for sure. And the Win API provides similar beasts for sure, they just have to be wrapped up. I don't want to port the whole sysstat package, no iowait stats, just a basic getloadavg() for the CPU business would be fine. http://www.wilsonmar.com/1perfmon.htm#TaskManager The load average (LA) is the average number of processes (the sum of the run queue length and the number of jobs currently running) that are ready to run, but are waiting for access to a busy CPU. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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: Cron malfunction after date change
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:37:12 +0100 Jacek Trzmiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cygwin1.dll 1.5.11-1, win2ksp4+patches Cron is a separate package, that was updated on 20th, October, to correct a problem where cron would endlessly sleep after a time/date change. Do you have the latest version? -- Xavier Nodet They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, 1759. -- 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: Cron malfunction after date change
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:38:24 -0500 Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I've always restarted cron after a date change There exist a version of Cron that is supposed to handle date changes. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00966.html -- Xavier Nodet They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, 1759. -- 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/
FW: URGENT HELP: Please route me to TCP/SOCKET implentation part of the source code of cygwin1.dll
Dear Experts, I need a urgent help from you ALL.. Can any one guide/route me to the TCP/SOCKET implementation part of the source of cygwin1.dll? TO be more specific, I want to know how cygwin source code is utilizing the winsock2.dll in an efficient way?? You must be curious to know, why Iam doing this??? Right? Let me explain, I need to establish a socket communication, which has NO-DELAY (or less than 10ms)... I tried on Windows, using MSVC and Ws2_32.lib. I was never able to meet the required delay...but when I wrote the same program compiled using gcc on cygwin, I was able to achieve NO-DELAY.. This is driving me crazy FRom the cygwin FAQ list, I saw the tips written by Alastair on How do I link against `cygwin1.dll' with Visual Studio? I have successfully built the libs cygwin1.lib and my_crt0.lib following the instructions.. But not able to use the socket APIS PLEASE HELP ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED Thanks in advance, Nagamani ** The information contained in this email and any attachments is likely to be confidential and legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient named above only. Any copying, dissemination, disclosure of or use of this email or its attachments unless authorised by us is prohibited, except that you may forward this email and/or attachments to a third party on a strict need to know basis. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the email or by calling +91-80-22297030. Please then delete this email and any full or partial copies of it. You as the intended recipient must be aware and accept that emailis not a totally secure communications medium. Although we have taken all reasonable steps to make sure this email and any attachments are free from viruses, we do not (to the extent permitted by law) accept any liability whatsoever for any virus infection and/or compromise of security caused by this email and any attachment. No contract may be formed or documents served by you on or with us by this email or any attachments unless expressly agreed otherwise by us. Any views expressed in this email or attachments by an individual are not necessarily those of UbiNetics India (Private) Limited. ** -- 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: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
Based on the above statements, it seems you don't understand the differences in the security model between Unix-based platforms and Windows NT-based platforms. Why is this the answer that's always offered whenever someone asks this question? Some of us do know what we are talking about. Does anyone know how to create a superuser account in Cygwin please. Thanks, Olumide -- 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: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is not straight forward for some applications. It is even worse when it comes to WIndows 9x than with Windows NT where as 9x has no security model of its own (that I am aware about). The passwd and group files are there for compatibility and allows some applications to work. At least that is my understanding. I think sshd and such use them. On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 12:03:20 +, Olumide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the above statements, it seems you don't understand the differences in the security model between Unix-based platforms and Windows NT-based platforms. Why is this the answer that's always offered whenever someone asks this question? Some of us do know what we are talking about. Does anyone know how to create a superuser account in Cygwin please. Thanks, Olumide -- 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/ -- Robert Pendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is not straight forward for some applications. It is even worse when it comes to WIndows 9x than with Windows NT where as 9x has no security model of its own (that I am aware about). The passwd and group files are there for compatibility and allows some applications to work. At least that is my understanding. Thanks Robert. I'm on WindowsXP and I'm trying to run sudo (http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/) what do you think I should do. -- 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: Cron malfunction after date change
Xavier Nodet wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:37:12 +0100 Jacek Trzmiel wrote: cygwin1.dll 1.5.11-1, win2ksp4+patches Cron is a separate package, that was updated on 20th, October, to correct a problem where cron would endlessly sleep after a time/date change. Do you have the latest version? Yes. $ cygcheck -srv | grep cron cron3.0.1-13 $ ll /usr/sbin/ | grep cron -rwxrwxrwx1 sc0rpUsers 25088 Oct 20 14:07 cron.exe -- Jacek. -- 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: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
I don't think it will be possible to do a straight forward port for sudo to cygwin. Even by creating a user called root. This will pretty much require a direct modification of code enclosed in 'if def's ' thoughout. Redefining what it considers to be an administrator from user id 0 to user id 544. This of course was already mentioned by Larry Hall and I thnk he is right in terms what should be done. The su program in cygwin doesn't actually work at all (it only compiles). That one does a similar function but it does it per session where you invoke su and have you run as root for a while. It fails to function for the same reason that sudo won't function out of the box. Good luck on getting it to work. Maybe you can get cygwin added to the supported platforms list on the website. Also I would highly suggest looking at the links that Larry Hall supplied in his post which are these. http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SETUID http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SWITCH They have useful information that can aid in getting sudo to work fully. On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 13:16:36 +, Olumide [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is not straight forward for some applications. It is even worse when it comes to WIndows 9x than with Windows NT where as 9x has no security model of its own (that I am aware about). The passwd and group files are there for compatibility and allows some applications to work. At least that is my understanding. Thanks Robert. I'm on WindowsXP and I'm trying to run sudo (http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/) what do you think I should do. -- 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/ -- Robert Pendell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin
Olumide schrieb: You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is not straight forward for some applications. It is even worse when it comes to WIndows 9x than with Windows NT where as 9x has no security model of its own (that I am aware about). The passwd and group files are there for compatibility and allows some applications to work. At least that is my understanding. Thanks Robert. I'm on WindowsXP and I'm trying to run sudo (http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/) what do you think I should do. You obviosuly don't know what you are talking about: 1. There's no superuser on cygwin. root is usually SYSTEM on windows. 2. You are trying to use the completely wrong sudo package. There exist sudo packages for windows, but not for cygwin. Search the web for sudo for windows, cmdasuser, runuser or just use runas, but don't try to use the unix sudo package. This is not ported yet. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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: Cron under Cygwin/Windows XP
$ cron_diagnose.sh cron_diagnose.sh 1.3 Please run version 1.7 of this diagnostic script. It fixes some problems that were in the earlier versions, and detects some error conditions that the earlier versions did not. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html P.S., Please reply directly to this mailing list and not to me. Also, please do not include my email address in the reply. -- 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: Cron malfunction after date change
cron.log, crontab.txt and cygcheck.txt attached. Stopping and starting cron is workaround that does resume correct cron behaviour, up until next date change. I've been able to reproduce this (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00153.html) problem also on WinXP with slightly older cygwin1.dll version: 1.5.11-snapshot-20040720-12:03:09. I concur. It appears to be a bug in cron, or Cygwin's version of cron. Can anyone point to some documentation which states that cron is supposed to gracefully handle date changes? Personally, I've always restarted cron after a date change since I've noticed behavior like this on linux in the past. If that has been fixed, however, that would be an interesting data point for linux (off-topic) and cygwin (on-topic). The original problem (cron is not running over the course of a 24-hour date change) is not a Cygwin-specific problem, i.e., Cygwin's cron appears to work when asked to perform a task once a day at a specified time. I wrote a simple cron table entry 1 1 * * * /usr/bin/date /tmp/date.txt 'cron' ran this task for me for the past three days without errors or intervention. I do not know whether the secondary problem (cron fails to run without a restart if there has been a date change outside of the normal clock) is cron specific or Cygwin specific. --- -- 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 won't unpack the download
At 03:43 AM 11/8/2004, you wrote: If this isn't the problem, my WAG is that you have a version of 'cygwin1.dll' already on your system, due to some previous install or some other software that uses Cygwin surrepticously. If this is true, remove all copies of 'cygwin1.dll' from your system and follow the uninstall directions here: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19 If none of this describes your installation and/or helps, please follow the instructions at the uninstall link above, rerun 'setup.exe' as Install from Internet, and *attach* the 'setup.log' file (assuming this time things don't just work for you). Your WAG was totally right. I had some Acrobat plugin called PDFmerge that had an old copy of cygwin1.dll in a 'hidden' folder that didn't turn up on previous searches for 'cygwin'. Deleted it, re-installed and everything's working great now. Thanks SO much, i'm so happy to be able to use Cygwin now. Sorry it was such a half-baked problem. Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem to spot. It's nice that Cygwin is as popular as it is but it's a shame that this popularity can cause these kinds of conflicts. It would be interesting to know from where you got PDFmerge and whether source for it and the Cygwin DLL are available for it. If not, then at least this version of PDFmerge is not GPL compliant, which warrants contacting the author/distributor. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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 Cron - Cannot Switch user context
All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is Cannot Switch user Context. Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock -- 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 Cron - Cannot Switch user context
Please run this diagnostic script. It will attempt to locate many types of common problems with cron on cygwin. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html Please read the output of the script carefully. If it finds problems, it suggests possible fixes, and it will also recommend steps to take if it is unable to detect any problems P.S., Please reply directly to this mailing list and not to me. Also, please do not include my email address in the reply. -- 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/
setting $HOME variable
Ive been trying to set the home variable. i want home to be c:\cygwin\home\ ive tried setting this in the .bat files and in .bashrc but it doesnt work. If i type echo $HOME i get this /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/UserName Ive read that its in /etc/passwd where it actually looks for the home directory, but what do you chage? How can i set it so when i start the bash its starts in the right directory? Any help will be appreciated! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2
Reid said: Doug Poland wrote: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.0.0... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file *** config.log for the exact error that occured. This usually *** means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: *** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you *** have the GTK+ development headers installed. The latest *** version of GTK+ is always available at http://www.gtk.org/. gnome-config: not found is a big hint. Indeed http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00226.html Thanks for the pointer. I read this thread but am not quite sure what the solution is. I ran the command: host$ cygcheck -c gtk2-x11 Presumably, that verifies that I do have the necessary package installed. In fact, my system returns: Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus gtk2-x11 2.4.11-1 OK So I have GTK 2.0 package installed. The OP goes on to ask how to correctly set his pkg-config path, the response being: $ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig So I host$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig and try configure again but get the same result as before. Is there more to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH that I need? Is there documentation somewhere that will tell me what I should set it to? Thanks for your patience and assistance. -- Regards, Doug -- 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 won't unpack the download
Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem to spot. It's nice that Cygwin is as popular as it is but it's a shame that this popularity can cause these kinds of conflicts. It would be interesting to know from where you got PDFmerge and whether source for it and the Cygwin DLL are available for it. If not, then at least this version of PDFmerge is not GPL compliant, which warrants contacting the author/distributor. I don't see a source for it but here is the author's download site: http://web.hku.hk/~kangsg/freeware/ -- 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: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2
Doug Poland schrieb: Reid said: Doug Poland wrote: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.0.0... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file *** config.log for the exact error that occured. This usually *** means GTK+ is incorrectly installed. configure: error: *** GTK+ 2.0 is required to build Gaim; please make sure you *** have the GTK+ development headers installed. The latest *** version of GTK+ is always available at http://www.gtk.org/. gnome-config: not found is a big hint. Indeed http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00226.html Thanks for the pointer. I read this thread but am not quite sure what the solution is. I ran the command: host$ cygcheck -c gtk2-x11 Presumably, that verifies that I do have the necessary package installed. In fact, my system returns: Cygwin Package Information Package VersionStatus gtk2-x11 2.4.11-1 OK So I have GTK 2.0 package installed. The OP goes on to ask how to correctly set his pkg-config path, the response being: $ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig I thought /usr/lib/pkgconfig is our default $PKG_CONFIG_PATH path. At least gtk and gnome put their stuff in there. $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig only carry a view X libs. -- Reini Urban http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/ -- 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 Cron - Cannot Switch user context
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Rebstock, Roland wrote: All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is Cannot Switch user Context. Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock Win2k3's SYSTEM account by default doesn't have all the rights necessary to switch user contexts. One (rather non-obvious, IMO) place to find some details on this is /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README. This information (verbatim from the above README, from Important note for Windows 2003 Server users to Increase quota) should really be part of http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-SWITCH. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse... -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- 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: Win32::API perl module
For what its worth, here is the binary install I am using. Its working nicely via setup.exe. I just pasted this at the bottom of my setup.exe @ perl-Win32API sdesc: :API perl module compile for perl 5.8.2 ldesc: Win32::API perl module compile for perl 5.8.2 category: misc requires: perl version: 0.42-1 install: release/perl/perl-Win32API/perl-Win32API-0.42-1.tar.bz2 41047 3042c5bc313a37c4b1da641369211965 I've atached the .tar.bz directly to this message - its not that big, hope its OK. But note it will probably only work for perl v5.8.2. Reini Urban wrote: Jason Pearce schrieb: This worked a treat Reini, thanks very much for your help. I need this on several machines at work, so I will package it up in a tar.bz2 for use with setup.exe. Once tested I'll post it back here. Well packaging is easy, but IMHO not before enabling W32 Callbacks. Otherwise I would have proposed it by myself. But if people want it without callbacks I could propose it. BTW: I'd rather prefer pmoore's FFI or the C-DynaLib-0.55, which work like a charm with w32 and cdecl callbacks and don't use such a horrible and MSVC-only aldo-style hack. Or any other libffi or ffcall based FFI solution, which can be used for Win32::API callbacks. perl-Win32API-0.42-1.tar.bz2 Description: BZip2 compressed data -- 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: Win32::API perl module
Jason Pearce wrote: For what its worth, here is the binary install I am using. Its working nicely via setup.exe. I just pasted this at the bottom of my setup.exe Would you also send me a patchfile with all changes you finally used to build the module, please? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- 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: JNI call crashes the JVM
Lapo Luchini wrote: Actualyl the way the JNI works it doesn't permit to load *ANY* DLL that depends on another DLL, that leads to a crash. That is absolutely untrue. We routinely load DLLs that are linked against other DLLs (on many different OSes), and everything gets loaded just fine. Even the Java VM depends on this (e.g. fontmanager.dll on Windows (loaded via System.loadLibrary()) depends on Winspool.dll, which is not a dependency of either java.exe or jvm.dll). Perhaps *you* had some corrupted DLL or SO setup, and ran into trouble.. -- 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: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Poland wrote: | Thanks for the pointer. I read this thread but am not quite sure what | the solution is. I ran the command: | | host$ cygcheck -c gtk2-x11 What are the results of 'cygcheck -c gtk2-x11-devel'? | So I | | host$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig | | and try configure again but get the same result as before. Is there | more to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH that I need? Is there documentation | somewhere that will tell me what I should set it to? This is unnecessary; the built-in default (/usr/lib/pkgconfig) is where most .pc files should be (including gtk+-2.0.pc), and /usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig is added to PKG_CONFIG_PATH automatically with the xorg-x11-devel package. | Thanks for your patience and assistance. Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBj9GIpiWmPGlmQSMRAidHAJ9M1zwPbDWZM2HprHMkPW+7aKqBRACg6NEx m4kM/bzvp6Hc7cfOXqcEvuw= =hywv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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: setting $HOME variable
Michael wrote: Ive been trying to set the home variable. i want home to be c:\cygwin\home\ ive tried setting this in the .bat files and in .bashrc but it doesnt work. If i type echo $HOME i get this /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/UserName Ive read that its in /etc/passwd where it actually looks for the home directory, but what do you chage? How can i set it so when i start the bash its starts in the right directory? Any help will be appreciated! In /etc/passwd find the entry for your userid and the next to the last field is your home directory. Change this to be /home/your_user_id_here where your_user_id_here is your user id. This will set the $HOME variable to be /home/your_user_id_here, which is probably what you want rather than c:\cygwin\home. If you have the default mounts done and have installed to the default location of c:\cygwin, then this will be the preferred (tm) location. -- Mark -- 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 won't unpack the download
At 01:20 PM 11/8/2004, you wrote: Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem to spot. It's nice that Cygwin is as popular as it is but it's a shame that this popularity can cause these kinds of conflicts. It would be interesting to know from where you got PDFmerge and whether source for it and the Cygwin DLL are available for it. If not, then at least this version of PDFmerge is not GPL compliant, which warrants contacting the author/distributor. I don't see a source for it but here is the author's download site: http://web.hku.hk/~kangsg/freeware/ Thanks. I'll follow up with the author. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
A request for package announcers
Would it be possible to include a description of what the package actually is, in the email announcement? Even if it's very short. Often you can't tell from the package name alone. 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 Cron - Cannot Switch user context
All, even after creating another user with Administrator or System like priveledges and modifying the local security policy per the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.Readme file. I cannot locate the Increase Quota in the Sec Policy but all others were applied. I still continue to get the error message Cannot Switch User Context. Any help would be appreciated. -Original Message- From: Rebstock, Roland Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is Cannot Switch user Context. Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock -- 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/
More Info - Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context
All, I have found that the Increase Quotas Sec Policy has changed to Increase quotas policy has changed to Adjust memory quotas for a process but even adding my user to this as well still does not resolve the issue. Roland Rebstock -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rebstock, Roland Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 7:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context All, even after creating another user with Administrator or System like priveledges and modifying the local security policy per the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.Readme file. I cannot locate the Increase Quota in the Sec Policy but all others were applied. I still continue to get the error message Cannot Switch User Context. Any help would be appreciated. -Original Message- From: Rebstock, Roland Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is Cannot Switch user Context. Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock -- 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/ -- 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/
on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base
Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00253.html (6 Nov 2004) So, I reinstalled cygwin without the X, and went to the Cygwin/Xfree website to see how to install X. The site says that we just need to install xorg-base and we will have X working. However, installing xorg-base installs a couple of script files and a README. I read the README and installed (via setup, ofcourse :) )the packages listed as dependencies. *All worked well now.* :) However, isn't setup suppose to do this? I posted this problem on the cygwin-xfree mailing list and someone hinted that since setup doesn't install dependencies, this could be a setup problem (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-11/msg00022.html) Is this an X or a setup problem? (I'm at a loss so I posted to cygwin and cygwin-xfree). Please advise on where to post. Thanks! Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph -- 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: Win32::API perl module
I just compiled what Reini posted, it compiled out of the box for me. http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.41-cygwin.patch = http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.42.tar.gz I actually just used the .tar.gz, and didn't even bother runing the patch. Jason Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Jason Pearce wrote: For what its worth, here is the binary install I am using. Its working nicely via setup.exe. I just pasted this at the bottom of my setup.exe Would you also send me a patchfile with all changes you finally used to build the module, please? Gerrit -- 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/
