File losing ownership
I have a file such that: $ ls -l test -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrators None 6 Mar 9 17:00 test I open it and save in emacs. $ ls -l test -rw-r--r-- 1 colin None 7 Mar 9 17:00 test Is this a bug? -- Colin -- 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/
apt-rpm port
AFAIK, rpm has been ported for a long time. Has anyone looked into porting Conectiva's apt-rpm? -- Colin -- 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/
Listing services
Hello, Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on the system? Cheers, -- 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/
sshd error log and sshd_config
Hi, I've been having a few problems with sshd on win2k3. I'm not using privilege separation and it's running as the local system account (as I don't need key authentication). It runs but doesn't appear to listen. So, I decided to check to see what the log files said. I install sshd with the following: $ cygrunsrv -I sshd -d CYGWIN sshd -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a -e -D -e CYGWIN=ntsec tty --stdout /var/log/sshd.out.log --stderr /var/log/sshd.err.log I've added the -e argument for sshd, although this may not be necessary. So, I would expect to see something (anything!) after starting in either sshd.out.log or sshd.err.log. However, they are empty. Adding 'LogLevel VERBOSE' has no effect. Infact, I can add complete garbage to sshd_config and sshd continues to start asif nothing had happend. And not work. Any help would be appreciated. -- Colin JN Breame -- 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/
What is aux???!
Try this: $ mkdir aux mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory $ cat aux (hangs) $ ./aux (hangs) $ ls aux aux $ rm aux $ Yours bemused, -- Colin -- 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: What is aux???!
Larry Hall wrote: At 10:43 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote: Try this: $ mkdir aux mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory $ cat aux (hangs) $ ./aux (hangs) $ ls aux aux $ rm aux $ Yours bemused, -- Colin Welcome to Windows. You should try googling for things like this. It has come up before not surprisingly: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00370.html Says here http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00373.html that: Starting with version 1.5.0, Cygwin provides a special managed mount mode that encodes, among other things, special names (including aux) so that they can be used in Cygwin. Is this something I can activate ?? -- Colin -- 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: What is aux???!
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:52:35PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Colin JN Breame wrote: Try this: $ mkdir aux mkdir: `aux' exists but is not a directory $ cat aux (hangs) $ ./aux ^^^ Given the subject, I especially like this one... :-) It seems like this aux has gored a number of people on the cygwin list over the years... cgf This doesn't seem to work either: $ gcc aux :D -- Colin -- 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: Filename limits
Shankar Unni wrote: The Unicode versions of several functions permit a maximum path length of 32,767 characters, composed of components up to 255 characters in length. To specify such a path, use the \\?\ prefix. For example, \\?\D:\path. To specify such a UNC path, use the \\?\UNC\ prefix. For example, \\?\UNC\server\share. Note that these prefixes are not used as part of the path itself. They indicate that the path should be passed to the system with minimal modification. An implication of this is that you cannot use forward slashes to represent path separators or a period to represent the current directory. If I have understood the documentation correctly, using the Unicode version of file functions (e.g. CreateFileW) and prepending \\?\ allows 32k character path limit. It would be possible to change all instances of CreateFile, MoveFile, DeleteFile, etc. to CreateFileW, MoveFileW, etc. and create a function that converted the win32 path into a unicode version (possibly something like path_conv.get_nt_native_path()). The one drawback I can see is with compatibility: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp wrote: *Windows Me/98/95: **CreateFileW* is supported by the Microsoft Layer for Unicode. To use this, you must add certain files to your application, as outlined in Microsoft Layer for Unicode on Windows 95/98/Me Systems http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/mslu/winprog/microsoft_layer_for_unicode_on_windows_95_98_me_systems.asp. The best solution would to select either CreateFileA or CreateFileW at runtime, depending upon the system it is being run on. However, what would happen if CreateFileW was linked (but not called) on a non-Unicode enabled win 95/98/Me system? I noticed in fhandler.cc there is a reference to NtCreateFile, which according to msdn, is XP and 2000 only. What happens on a win95 machine? This would be a /real benefit/ if cygwin supported longer path names. -- Colin -- 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/
Status of nl_langinfo and CODESET
I've been investigating the dreaded Can't recode string error in subversion. This error occurs when a string contains characters that cannot be converted into the equivalent characters in the users locale. It seems that nl_langinfo always returns US-ASCII (at least on my system), even if LC_CTYPE is set or the locale is something else entirely. Looking at the archive indicates that cygwin doesn't have proper locale support. Does anyone know what would be required to give cygwin proper locale support? Colin -- 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/
Filename limits
As I understand, relative paths in windows suffer from a 255 character limit (or something like that). However, I have heard rumour that absolute paths in windows are limited to 32k characters. Would it not solve the problem of the File name too long errors if paths were first converted to their absolute form? Colin -- 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/
windows specific code
Where does the windows specific code live for libc? e.g. newlib/libc/stdio/fopen.c: fopen calls _open_r newlib/libc/reent/openr.c: _open_r calls _open where does _open live? Colin -- 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: filesystem encoding
Arturus Magi wrote: Windows Explorer is Unicode 3.0 compliant on the NT line (I have several files that use a mixture of English, Japanese, and Chinese in the filename and various description fields), and the 9x line can be made partially Unicode-aware. I don't think the em hyphen is a valid character on any Windows or ISO codepage (other than the Unicode project mirror standard (I want to say it's ISO-11350, but I'm fairly certain that's not right)). Hmm...interesting. Not entirely sure what the implications of what you are saying are (as I don't really understand codepages). Does a codepage represent a character with 16 bits? or 8? Could you recommend a book or a URL on the subject? Maybe I should look at this when I have more time (I'm in the middle of a move). Thanks -- 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/
filesystem encoding
Hello, Could anyone direct me to some documentation about how cygwin decodes filenames (e.g. with ls) Thanks ps. cygwin is cool -- 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: filesystem encoding
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Any names that can't be so mapped are rejected as invalid, and are displayed with '?'s by ls. Switching to the correct language allows accessing those names. HmmmI have a file that, through windows explorer contains a (long) hypen, but through cywin (ls), the character comes out as a ?. Any ideas? -- 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/
setup
Is there a way of installing packages on the command line? -- 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/
Locking down cygwin for security
Hello, Is it possible to disabled certain features to make cygwin secure over ssh such that the logged in user cannot: - cd into any /cygdrive drives - mount any local or UNC drives but still: - access a system wide mount to a local drive ??? Thanks, Colin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Why umount -A is a really bad idea
Christopher Faylor wrote: I have had a modification to mount waiting in the wings for a while now which foregos the use of the registry entirely but I can't convince myself that, if I implement it, the mailing list won't be filled with the moans of people who now have to do a mount -a -t ntfs (or whatever) every time they reboot. Any chance I can get a copy of this patch? I was thinking about maybe porting the filesystem readers from grub to cygwin, so that I can read my linux partition from cygwin. Colin -- 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/
BUG: mv on a mounted network drive
Take a look at this output, 'cos it ain't right $ pwd /mnt/devserver_e/temp $ mount c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) \\devserver\dev_e_drive on /mnt/devserver_e type system (binmode) c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /mnt/c type system (binmode) e: on /mnt/e type system (binmode) $ mkdir temp $ ls temp $ mv * temp mv: cannot create directory `temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp/temp': Invalid argument temp now contains a subdirectory called temp which contains a subdirectory called temp... This doesn't seem to happen on local mounts. -- 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/
Gnome for cygwin
Is there a Gnome port (2.6) to cygwin? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Why umount -A is a really bad idea
Or even at a break with tradition; cygmappath and cygunmappath. Doctor Bill wrote: It seems like there is endless confusions with cygwin mount's because the name of the command is the same as the Unix mount command, and some of the command line options are similar. Has anyone given serious consideration to renaming the command to something like, cygmount? Bill On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:48:38 +0200, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Pechtchanski schrieb: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Mike wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Colin JN Breame wrote: I tried this once, just to see what would happen. I then spent the next hour restoring the mount points. I've learnt a valuable lesson... Why would a 'mount -a' not work after your 'umount -a' to restore the mounts? Mike Because Cygwin's mounts aren't the same as Unix mounts. The mount and umount commands on Cygwin modify the mount table directly, so that a umount really is permanent. However (and this concerns the OP, too), you can save the mount table as the output of mount -m, which you can later use to restore the mounts. not really. I used to do that quite often, but since /bin and /usr/bin are not known to cygwin anymore after umount -a (and not in the path) I came with this workaround. #!/bin/sh # save mounts BIN=`cygpath -w /bin | sed 's||/|g'` mount -m | sed s|^mount|$BIN/mount| | tee savemounts umount -a # nano or $EDITOR will not work now to fix savemounts! # restore .. savemounts it will look like f:/cygnus/bin/mount now. This will be found, on NT at least. For those unfortunate enough to have done a umount -a without saving the mounts via mount -m, the minimum necessary mounts for Cygwin to work are mount -sbc /cygdrive mount -fsb c:/cygwin / mount -fsb c:/cygwin/bin /usr/bin mount -fsb c:/cygwin/lib /usr/lib (that is provided that you installed Cygwin in c:/cygwin). -- 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/ -- 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/
sshd privilege separation problem
Hi, I've been running sshd and it recently stopped working. I'm not sure whether I did anything to it, but I've managed to track down the problem. If I use privilege separation (ssh-host-config), as soon as I type the password in, the message Connection to localhost closed. is displayed. However, if I don't use privilege separation, everything works as it should. I've tried syncing the groups and passwd files with no success. This one is puzzling me; any ideas? -- 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/
Why umount -A is a really bad idea
I tried this once, just to see what would happen. I then spent the next hour restoring the mount points. I've learnt a valuable lesson... -- 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/
