Small patch for the FAQ
On Friday 29 Aug 03, Elfyn McBratney writes: Index: how-programming.texinfo ... Index: how-resources.texinfo ... Index: what.texinfo ... Thank you for these Elfyn. Applied with just a few minor changes. Sorry for being so far behind. I'm trying to catch up now. If anyone has patches against winsup/doc/*.texinfo files for me, send them here (cygwin-patches) and I'll try to get to them at least once a week. It will be *quite* some time before I am able to wade through the main cygwin list and discover things for the FAQ on my own. But I should be able to apply patches on a fairly regular and timely basis, at least for a while. Thanks for your patience and understanding. Regards, David
Re: Small patch for the FAQ
When I started over as FAQ maintainer (sheesh -- *years* ago?) I was told that Changelog entries were not necessary for documentation, as long as the cvs commit messages were informative. (Perhaps this was only intended for the FAQ, and not the other documentation, I don't know.) Occasionally, someone will add a Changelog entry anyway. Hopefully this is out of habit, rather than to suggest a change in policy. I hope the policy hasn't changed, because I'm happy not maintaining a Changelog for the FAQ texinfo source, and I agree with the original opinion that it isn't necessary. Best wishes, David On Monday 1 Sep 03, Corinna Vinschen writes: Dig, dig, dig... hmm, I don't find the ChangeLog entry here... Corinna On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:18:14PM +0100, Elfyn McBratney wrote: Index: how-programming.texinfo ...
/usr/bin/su.exe in sh-utils always fails
On Monday 29 Sep 03, Matt Swift writes: The Cygwin FAQ says that there is no `su' command in recent versions of Cygwin, The sh-utils package, however, currently contains an `su' command, but it doesn't work. The shell transcript below illustrates the problem. You have to trust me that I offer the same password to `su' as I do to `ssh'. So the FAQ should point out that the su from sh-utils doesn't work, instead of saying that there is no su command. I'll update it. David -- 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/
winsup MAINTAINERS
Sorry for this blast from the past: On 13 Feb 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CVSROOT: /cvs/uberbaum Module name: winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-13 02:41:44 Modified files: . : ChangeLog Removed files: . : MAINTAINERS Log message: * MAINTAINERS: Remove out-of-date file. In that case you might wish to apply this patch to /src/MAINTAINERS, or instruct me to do it. Regards, David diff -u -r1.19 MAINTAINERS --- MAINTAINERS 3 May 2003 00:44:23 - 1.19 +++ MAINTAINERS 3 Aug 2003 22:02:12 - @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ cygwin: http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin Patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] General discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] - See also winsup/MAINTAINERS. expect/; config-ml.in; mpw-README; mpw-build.in; mpw-config.in; mpw-configure; mpw-install; setup.com; missing; makefile.vms; utils/;
chmod not working on Win98
On Saturday 8 Mar 03, Greg Matheson writes: When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be 600 on it is new. However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644 This is in the FAQ. David -- 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: libtool 20030216: problem recognizing import libraries
On Friday 7 Mar 03, Teun Burgers writes: I've found the culprit. I installed the perl LWP module which installs a HEAD script that fetches the header of an URL. On unix HEAD and head are different but on cygwin having both HEAD and head.exe along the path causes a problem... Would CYGWIN=check_case:strict solve that? David -- 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: gcc Core Dump
On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Max Bowsher writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie in programming under Cygwin, and I have a very basic problem with gcc: Any help is appreciated. OK, right mailing list this time, but, as I said in my previous reply, it works fine for me. So, you are going to have to try to debug it a bit more yourself. Ever used gdb? You could try: $ gdb prog3 (gdb) run (gdb) bt Klaus, Since it's not a bug in your code (it works for me too, at least as written), I suspect a problem with your gcc installation, or you're picking up the wrong gcc. What do: type -a gcc cygcheck gcc cygcheck -c gcc return and what does gcc -v -Wall prog3.c -o prog3 say? Regards, David -- 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: gcc Core Dump
On Thursday 6 Mar 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cygcheck -c gcc Cygwin Package Information Package Version gcc 3.2-1 Have you tried using setup to update the gcc package to the latest available? What does uname -a say? Regards, David -- 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: gcc Core Dump
On Thursday 6 Mar 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: uname -a says: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ZWG15-0274 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-06 22:41 i686 unknown ^^ This is rather old. I would upgrade the Cygwin package first. David -- 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/
Permission denied calling configure on Win95
On Thursday 6 Mar 03, karim Hamed-Abdelouahab writes: Hi, I've just installed cygwin (version 1.95) Huh? There is no such thing. Where did you get it? David -- 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: gcc Core Dump
just that the installation has crashed my bash installation (I had [EMAIL PROTECTED] before...) It crashed your bash installation? Poor choice of words. You mean your user name is not displayed properly. Look at the mkpasswd command (mkpasswd --help) and possibly regenerate your /etc/passwd file. Regards, David -- 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: Permission denied calling configure on Win95
On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Christopher Faylor writes: Before you do that, however, you might want to try this: cd / chmod -R a+r . chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib If you get errors from the a+x line above that's ok. This needs to get into the FAQ. But first I'd like to understand what's going on. Do we know why or whether it's read permission or execute permission or both? If just execute permission, assuming it's not already solved by changes to setup.exe, couldn't it be handled by mounting those directories as executable? Sorry, but I tend to skip stuff until it's becoming a FAQ, but by then the technical background is lost to me. (At least, harder to dig out and I have very little time for this.) Actually I asked Karim to send me ls -l /bin for example, privately, so I could look at this. Thanks, David -- 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/
undefined reference to `___w32_sharedptr_initialize'
On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Jean-Luc Vay writes: I have just updated cygwin on a Windows2000 pc and recompiled a code. At the linking phase, I now get the following error message: gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Wl,--export-all-symbols \ -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition \ -o warpC.dll warpC.o toppymodule.o envpymodule.o w3dpymodule.o f3dpymodule.o wxy pymodule.o fxypymodule.o wrzpymodule.o frzpymodule.o cirpymodule.o herpymodule.o chopymodule.o top.p.o env.p.o w3d.p.o f3d.p.o wxy.p.o fxy.p.o wrz.p.o frz.p.o c ir.p.o her.p.o cho.p.o pybasisC.o env.o frz.o wxy.o f3d.o fxy.o util.o w3d.o dto p.o f3d_mgrid.o f3d_conductors.o fxy_mgrid.o frz_mgrid.o dw3d.o dwrz.o fft.o top .o wrz.o cir.o her.o cho.o pmath_rng.o ranf.o initpgfortran.o \ -L/usr/local/LAPACK -llapack_CYGWIN -lblas_CYGWIN \ c:/cygwin/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Numeric*/*/*/*.o \ ^^ I could be wrong, but I wouldn't expect this to work. Use Cygwin (POSIX) paths to refer to object files on the gcc command line. Regards, David -- 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: Setup Download from Internet Question
On Thursday 27 Feb 03, BB writes: As a followup question, In order to create a CD to install from, would it be better to simply ftp the files from one of the mirror sites. Yes. What would the correct directory structure have to be for setup to install from the d:\cygwin-setup as a local source assuming d: was a cd? Would this be enough? d:\setup.exe d:\cygwin-setup\setup.ini d:\cygwin-setup\release\... Yes, if what you mean to convey is that you follow the full sub-directory structure under release. The tricky part is providing setup.exe with the right download path to get setup to pull things from the CD. Unless someone chimes in with the right answer, you might have to experiment a bit. Regards, David -- 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/
CD/DVD writers
On Wednesday 26 Feb 03, Maurício writes: Hi, Is it possible to write CD or DVDs using cygwin (obviously, giving that I have the appropriate equipment working under windows)? Try http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html. It might work. David -- 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: gcc problem with filename case insensitivity
On Monday 24 Feb 03, Elfyn McBratney writes: ... and I compile with gcc -Imy/include/dir sourcefile.c where String.h lives in my/include/dir. GCC uses my/include/dir/String.h to satisfy the string.h directive. I just tried this with check_case:strict in my CYGWIN environment variable, and that works. It finds /usr/include/string.h and my local include/String.h . Wow, that was it. Thank you very very much! Cheers, David -- 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: Cygwin crashes on .Net Server 2003 with Terminal Services enabled
On Tuesday 25 Feb 03, Thorsten Kampe writes: cygwin works like a charm on my .NET Standard Server 2003 RC2 with remote desktop enabled. I tried it myself and it is definitely Terminal Services that make Cygwin fail. In a few months there will be dozen of questions like Cygwin doesn't work on Windows Server 2003, because there won't be lots of changes from the Release Candidate to the actual release. I think it's reasonable to describe what we know about the Terminal Services in the FAQ. David -- 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/
ssh-add could not open connection
On Sunday 23 Feb 03, Matt writes: I am running cygwin on WinXP I am having trouble with ssh-agent not being able to establish the SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables. then when i go to run ssh-add it can't find the authentication agent. I know this is the problem becuase i manually executed the commands the ssh-agent is supposed to do automatically. however i did find that i needed to add set in front of the environment variable assignment. Have i messed spmething up when changing around permissions or what isn't this supposed to work in cygwin? results of ssh-agent: $ ssh-agent SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=284; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 284; You need to run eval `ssh-agent` instead of ssh-agent (not Cygwin-specific). Regards, David -- 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: ssh-add could not open connection
Please keep this on the list. On Monday 24 Feb 03, Matt writes: nope, sorry, i forgot to mention i tried that having seen it in posts. i tried it again and here's what i get $ eval 'ssh-agent' These are the wrong quotes. SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-HKmR3576/agent.3576; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; SSH_AGENT_PID=2312; export SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 2312; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ set | grep SSH SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CjVj1576/agent.1576 What about SSH_AGENT_PID? Your description of events has to be accurate or we won't be able to help you. David -- 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/
Cygwin crashes on .Net Server 2003 with Terminal Services enabled
On Monday 24 Feb 03, Christoph Hense writes: I try to use cygwin on a .Net Server 2003 RC2 with Terminal Services enabled. However none of the cygwin tools work. That's too bad... ... Does anyone have any idea? Please don't ask anyone to look at this until after .Net Server is formally released. Cygwin makes no attempt to work on un-released versions of Windows. Should the FAQ explicitly mention .Net release candidates? Thanks, David -- 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/
1.30 gcc cannot exec \'cc1\'
On Monday 24 Feb 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I am trying to compile ORCA (www.orcaware.com) under cygwin and get an error under configure. I have traced the error to gcc under cygwin. gcc -v --help gives: You've got a bit of learning to do if you think the Cygwin mailing list would be interested in the output of 'gcc -v --help'! Regards, David -- 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: upgrading broke cygwin?
On Monday 24 Feb 03, Val Schmidt writes: Yes, this has caused much trouble. I'm assuming I must create a new XP account to that of a single word username, and then change that in the cygwin passwd file. Would a reasonable procedure be something like the following: Did you read the FAQ? You just have give Cygwin a new userid, you don't have to change anything in XP. Also check the mailing list archives, there have been other recent discussions of this that have not (yet) been incorporated into the FAQ. Regards, David -- 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/
gcc problem with filename case insensitivity
Greetings,
I have a problem which I realise comes from Windows' being
case-insensitive with filenames. Even so, maybe someone here knows
how to solve it.
Suppose I have this source file:
#include string.h
#include String.h
int main() {
// some stuff
}
and I compile with gcc -Imy/include/dir sourcefile.c where
String.h lives in my/include/dir.
GCC uses my/include/dir/String.h to satisfy the string.h directive.
Is there any way to get GCC to check case when locating include files?
Interestingly, this used to work in B18! (Hahaha!)
Seriously, though, the B18 release announcement has this remark:
The conflict between String.h and string.h (and other such pairs of
header files) where you include one and get the other has been fixed.
(describing gcc in the release).
A Google search on filename case gcc site:cygwin.com turned up only
10 hits, and the B18 release announcement was one of them. :-)
Is there any possibility to get case-sensitive behavior from GCC in
this respect?
Thanks,
David
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problem with info files
Greetings package maintainers, I notice that _update-info-dir assumes that all info files worth indexing are of the form /usr/info/*.info. Unfortunately, there are 3 packages (if I count correctly) that do not follow this rule: emacs texinfo groff Are the maintainers of those packages aware of the problem? Can these packages be fixed? Alternatively, it might be possible to re-write /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh to catch these exceptional cases. Thanks for your attention. Regards, David
problem with info files
On Friday 21 Feb 03, David Starks-Browning writes: Greetings package maintainers, I notice that _update-info-dir assumes that all info files worth indexing are of the form /usr/info/*.info. Unfortunately, there are 3 packages (if I count correctly) that do not follow this rule: emacs texinfo groff Are the maintainers of those packages aware of the problem? Can these packages be fixed? Alternatively, it might be possible to re-write /etc/postinstall/update-info-dir.sh to catch these exceptional cases. Actually, the alternative is easy. At the expense of globbing everything in /usr/info, rather than just *.info (which was no problem on my PII-400 BTW), this appears to do the right thing for both variants of info pages: === --- update-info-dir.sh.orig 2002-03-31 20:14:58.0 +0100 +++ update-info-dir.sh 2003-02-21 18:12:48.0 + -1,9 +1,13 #!/bin/sh cd /usr/info -for f in *.info; do +for f in *; do case $f in *\**) ;; + *-?) + ;; + *-??) + ;; *) install-info --quiet $f dir || install-info --quiet --entry=* $$f ($f): $$f $$f dir === (It got my texinfo info working, anyway!) I don't see any documentation for the autodep setup hint, but I can guess that this is necessary too: === --- setup.hint.orig 2002-04-10 04:11:08.0 +0100 +++ setup.hint 2003-02-21 18:16:52.0 + -1,6 +1,6 sdesc: Generate info/dir file automatically category: PostInstallLast requires: texinfo ash -autodep: usr/info/.*\.info +autodep: usr/info/.* incver_ifdep: yes # verpat: (_update_info)(dir-\d+-\d+)(.*) === If you choose to use it, I hope it's trivial enough not to require an assignment. Thanks, David
toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends
On Friday 21 Feb 03, Rich DeFuria writes: Hello, I am (happily) running cygwin on a win2k box. During installation, I chose the DOS line end option; big mistake! Now I want to change the setting to UNIX line ends. How do I toggle that setting? BTW, I have read the cygwin FAQ section 4.3.3 How is the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled? but that is not explored there. DOS line endings correspond to the -t (text) option to mount. UNIX line endings correspond to the -b (binary) option to mount. Type mount to see your current mount table, and change them from text to binary. Regards, David -- 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/
1.3.20 most recent upgrades : rxvt creates 100% load on CPU
On Friday 21 Feb 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, list, I was experimenting with emacs, found out about C-h and Backspace problem, and then, in suggestion to found answers, I decided to try rxvt. rxvt seems to have a load problem, however. I haven't found anything in the mailing list archives either, and I just upgraded all my software this morning. When I start rxvt, the load of the CPU jumps to 100% and I do not seem to get a prompt. That is I can't see one, but I can type and execute commands. I looked at your cygcheck output and did not see the rxvt package. You might confirm this with cygcheck rxvt or cygcheck -c rxvt. Then use setup to install rxvt if necessary. Regards, David -- 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: toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends
On Friday 21 Feb 03, Igor Pechtchanski writes: You can re-run Setup and switch that setting (without installing any packages, just set all to Keep or Skip, unless you want to upgrade at the same time). I didn't think of that. I should add it to the FAQ. Thanks, David -- 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: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
On Monday 17 Feb 03, David Starks-Browning writes: On Saturday 15 Feb 03, andrew clarke writes: ... Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's described as a work-in-progress and seemingly a bit of a moving target. I'll see if I can make this sound less off-putting. This should be a bit better now. David -- 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: (fwd) non us keyboards and cygwin xfree86
On Thursday 6 Feb 03, Alexander Gottwald writes: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, J S wrote: Hi Tom, I tried that but got: $ xkbcomp -xkm -m gb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 /etc/X11/xkb/keymap/gb Error:Include file wrong type (expected KeyNames, got Keymap) Include file xfree86 ignored Abandoning keycodes file gb Why are still people working with this way? The keyboard is configurable in the config file /etc/X11/XF86Config. A sample config file can be found at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/XF86Config-4.bz2 But how do we use /etc/X11/XF86Config? I don't have one there already. I downloaded your sample, but there was a lot of other stuff besides the keyboard options. Is there a trick to getting it to work? I tried deleting everything in your sample except: Section InputDevice Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout gb EndSection (I'm trying to use a UK keyboard layout.) Did I delete too much? Note the FAQ (4.5) talks about this, but doesn't say anything about XF86Config. I also have no XF86Config man page. I use /usr/X11R6/bin/startx to start X. Thanks for your help! Regards, David
rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?
On Wednesday 19 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: Consistently when I shutdown Win2K I get a dialog asking to end an rxvt process: End Program: rxvt0510 Windows cannot end this program. It may need more time to complete an operation. ... End Now/Cancel I launch rxvt via an rxvt.lnk that contains the following as the Target: C:\cygwin\bin\rxvt.exe -e bash.exe -i I typically launch two instances of rxvt so that I can toggle from one to the other. Prior to shutdown, I type exit into each shell and the window closes. ... I use keychain and ssh-agent is still running. If I shut down ssh-agent with keychain -k prior to exiting the bash shells, then shutdown proceeds properly. Is there a way for keychain to launch ssh-agent such that it doesn't cause this hang? (caveat: I don't use Win2K and I don't use keychains, and I don't know precisely how keychains work. Presumably it just manages ssh-agent and ssh-add.) I don't know how to launch ssh-agent such that it doesn't cause this hang. But I do know how to kill ssh-agent automatically when you exit a shell. Just add: trap 'test -n $SSH_AGENT_PID eval `ssh-agent -k`' EXIT to your .bash_profile (or whatever). Actually, the test for $SSH_AGENT_PID should not be necessary, but on Win9x I had problems running 'ssh-agent -k' when there was no agent to kill. Maybe keychain users need to replace eval `ssh-agent -k` with keychain -k (but I'm just guessing). If *all* shells source that line, then you have the problem that the first one to exit will kill ssh-agent, and maybe you don't want that. You could put something a bit more sophisticated in your .bash_profile (or whatever) to identify a master shell, depending on your requirements. Killing ssh-agent when your shell exits is not a Cygwin-specific problem. (Though the need to kill ssh-agent before logging off or shutting down *is*.) Hope this helps. Regards, David -- 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: rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?
On Thursday 20 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: Thank you for the suggestion. David Starks-Browning wrote: On Wednesday 19 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: [snip] If *all* shells source that line, then you have the problem that the first one to exit will kill ssh-agent, and maybe you don't want that. You could put something a bit more sophisticated in your .bash_profile (or whatever) to identify a master shell, depending on your requirements. Unfortunately, this is exactly what keychain is for - to start the agent in one shell and then share access from many shells. I start up and shut down many rxvt/bash shells during the day without having to provide my passphrase. Stopping the agent with keychain is easy by just typing keychain -k. I forget to do that just about every time. Your exit trap function could be something that checks to see if it's the last rxvt window remaining, and if so, runs keychain -k. (I agree, this is a workaround. It would be nicer if ssh-agent would die quickly and quietly at Windows logout or shutdown. I don't know if that's possible.) Regards, David -- 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: GPL Violation
On Thursday 20 Feb 03, Frédéric L. W. Meunier writes: Corinna Vinschen wrote: I make cygwin1.dll.bz2 available so that people can run the static binaries. If you provide the Cygwin DLL in binary form, you must provide the sources of that version as well. Would a link to the latest version, say ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/release/cygwin-1.3.20-1-src.tar.bz2 suffice ? *Sigh* I realise the FAQ needs to address this. David -- 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/
Username with space in it
On Tuesday 18 Feb 03, David Rasmussen writes: My Windows user name is David Rasmussen. I've found that some things choke on the space in the user name, for example bootstrapping gcc. So I would like to use another name, david as my username. Can that be done? And how? Do you really need to change your user name? You probably just need to change your home directory. See what's currently done in /etc/profile. Set HOME to something else. Make sure you create that directory, and also edit /etc/passwd accordingly. Regards, David -- 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: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
On Saturday 15 Feb 03, andrew clarke writes: ... Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's described as a work-in-progress and seemingly a bit of a moving target. I'll see if I can make this sound less off-putting. But I also agree with Chris, that the people who read the FAQ are not the people messing up their installations by not using setup. Regards, David -- 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: cron and network drives
On Friday 14 Feb 03, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) writes: We need an entry in the FAQ about the inaccessiblity of network shares from Cygwin run services. FWIW, it's in the User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#NTSEC-RELEASE1.3.3 Igor Thanks Igor. I'll ask David if he can add this verbiage to the FAQ too. I'll look into it. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. David -- 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/
a2ps
On Monday 17 Feb 03, Ajay Simha writes:
hi,
I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error:
[asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure
...
checking for flex... no
checking for lex... no
checking for flex... ${SHELL} /tmp/a2ps-4.13/auxdir/missing --run flex
checking for yywrap in -ll... no
checking lex output file root... ${SHELL}: not found
configure: error: cannot find output from ${SHELL} /tmp/a2ps-4.13/auxdir/missing
--run flex; giving up
Did you install flex?
David
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Can't set mark in emacs
On Wednesday 12 Feb 03, Mike Robertson writes: I just installed cygwin on my NT 4.0 system. I have tried using the shell based emacs and am having some problems. First I couln't use the C-x C-c command to exit. I figured that out (CYGWIN=tty), but I am still having some problems with setting the mark. Both C-@ and C-SPC don't seem to work. If I use F1-k C-SPC it says I pressed SPC (no CTRL). If I use F1-k C-@ it doesn't respond at all. Have you tried it under rxvt? Might work a lot better. David -- 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/
cygdrive
On Wednesday 12 Feb 03, Maurício writes: Hi, Why can't we see /cygdrive with ls in /, and also can't see it using word completion in bash (i.e., typing cd /cyg and pressing tab)? Thanks, Maurício I guess this belongs in the FAQ. (It's not there already?) /cygrive is not really there in the sense that ls or bash need them to be for the actions you describe. It's an internal means to access unmounted drives. That's all. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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: I can't exit emacs
On Friday 7 Feb 03, Stephen Ford writes: Put 'set CYGWIN=tty' in cygwin.bat and now C-x C-c exits emacs. The 'M-x save-buffers-kill-emacs' works too, but C-h does not. Any further ideas? What do you want C-h to do? Use F1 for help. Regards, David -- 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: Mirrors list order is snafued - What is the order supposed tobe?
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Igor Pechtchanski writes: IMO, the best solution would be adding a sort by best bandwidth button or something similar to the mirror display. Then, setup can query all of the mirrors and put the closest one at top. It could save that order in some file locally, too. cgf Yep, and have a Re-ping button that the user could press to re-evaluate the bandwidth. This way, the only time it happens automatically is the first time setup is run, and after that it's under user control. If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping performance? Thanks, David
Re: Mirrors list order is snafued - What is the order supposedto be?
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, Lapo Luchini writes: David Starks-Browning wrote: If I may interject, I hope setup never does this automatically, not even the first time it runs. Can an arbitrary sort order be acceptable by default, unless the user wants to sort by ping performance? What harm can do a single 50-byte UDP packet when there is high probabiilty that a real connection needshundreds of big TCP packets just to download setup.bz2? Less harm than people using always the first mirror as they never re-order it, imho. OK, good point. As long as nothing *blocks* waiting for pings to finish, I guess I don't care if setup pings. Thanks, David
RE: SIGINT to bash behaves differently in rxvt as compared to console
On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Igor, Cheers - but I just tried that and it didn't have any effect. That variable is not set by default in either the console or rxvt. Bummer. Duncan. Did you set CYGWIN before starting *any* Cygwin programs? Put it in your system environment and reboot. David -Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 January 2003 19:25 To: Loveday,DAH,Duncan,YEE24 R Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SIGINT to bash behaves differently in rxvt as compared to console On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find on a Windows NT4 (SP6) platform with the latest versions (downloaded today) of cygwin1.dll, rxvt, bash etc that if I run a windows command script, say a.cmd, which in turn runs some other process (e.g. a pause), if I hit ^C then the behaviour is different in rxvt as compared to the cygwin console. In the console, the process being run by the command script is always interrupted and then sometimes the rest of the command script continues to execute but sometimes it says 'Terminate batch job (Y/N)' in which case if I answer 'Y' the whole command script stops. In rxvt, the ^C returns me to a prompt but the process being run is not interrupted and continues in the background. What I'd really like is for the ^C to consistently abort the whole command script. Has anyone come across this and/or is able to offer advice/solutions ? Duncan Duncan, You need to add tty to your CYGWIN environment variable. Read http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html for details. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- 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/ -- 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: Emacs Problem
Scott, You don't say anything about: - whether you mean emacs to an X display or emacs -nw aka emacs-nox - assuming the latter, whether in the standard Cygwin command window, or rxvt. I don't think you'll have this problem in rxvt (I don't). If a standard command window, does Randall's advice fix the problem? If so I'll add something to the FAQ. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) On Wednesday 15 Jan 03, Randall R Schulz writes: This is reaching the proportions of a FAQ: You need to include tty in your CYGWIN environment variable, lest the Cygwin tty driver commandeer the CTRL-C and send a SIGINT when it's typed. Randall Schulz -- 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: FAQ now misleads about cygcheck output
On Monday 2 Dec 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: I submitted a patch for this a while ago, but it didn't seem to make it into the FAQ... Any news on that? I haven't gotten to it yet, sorry. Perhaps tonight. Thanks, David -- 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/
FAQ now misleads about cygcheck output
On Sunday 1 Dec 02, Jason C. Johnston writes: For the Cygwin FAQ maintainer: Quoted from the FAQ under Posting Guidelines -- Details about your Cygwin setup, accomplished by pasting the output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r' into your message. (Do not send the output as a file attachment.) Right. Sorry, I'll fix that. Recent discussion suggests the advice is now obsolete. It may also be an idea to state that the now-desirable attachment should not be compressed. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
Newbie setup question
On Friday 29 Nov 02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My appologies for this simple question. Please let me know if this is the wrong place to ask, but I've been struggling with this for some time now... I'm trying to use GCC for Palm programming. I followed the Installing prc-tools on MS Windows with Cygwin instructions, What instructions are you talking about? The place to get prc-tools is http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/. You followed those instructions? If they are incorrect, report them to prc-tools project maintainer, not the cygwin mailing list. (Unless, of course, you can determine that you've found a Cygwin problem. But it doesn't sound like you are that far along yet.) Regards, David -- 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: ls problem
Carlo, Do you have any anti-virus software running? 'ls -l' has to open each file, and this typically triggers your AV software to scan it. Depending on your AV product, and how you have configured it, this might explain unusual delays. If you do have AV software running, try repeating the tests with it disabled, and report back. Thanks, David -- 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: cygwin release
On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: Thanks for the prompt response. I realized that he asked for a better window, that's why I tried searching for both. For the future, though, would sending a patch to winsup/doc/faq.texinfo instead make your job easier, or harder? Patches are always gratefully considered. But I've already added the FAQ entry Is there a better alternative to the standard console window?. Have a look, and if you think it needs improving, let me know. (Rather, let the list know.) Thanks, David -- 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/
ls problem
On Monday 18 Nov 02, Carlo Florendo writes: Hello, I've been using cygwin for 3 years now and last week, I downloaded the latest cygwin from one of the mirrors and everything in well except for one problem. I noticed that whenever I type 'ls -', the output gets delayed for a few seconds. This never happened to me using the old cygwin. There is a FAQ entry, Why is Cygwin suddenly *so* slow?. Maybe it describes your problem. Regards, David -- 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: cygwin release
On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Lapo Luchini wrote: Dennis Lubert wrote: just saw the new cygwin release, and since I don't know who to ask, I ask you ;) Is there any other shell, oder shell-like program I can use cygwin with ? I use is currently with the MS-DOS command-line, but I can't resize this, can't do copy/paste and so on... I would like to use it like a usual linux terminal... download rxvt package, it works also on native Win32 'nuff said Lapo Note to the FAQ maintainer: this seems to be an FAQ, and hard to search for in the archives (better shell turns up nothing, better window turns up lots of irrelevant matches). Although Dennis asks for a better shell, he means window. I may get something in the FAQ tonight, but if not, it'll be another week because I am travelling. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
Mirrors very slow?
On 16 Nov 02, Henry S. Thompson writes: Am I the only one who has found the mirrors very slow to get synced lately? None of the recently announcement packages are available at any of the mirrors I've checked, and over the last few weeks it's sometimes taken two or three days for things to appear. Generally speaking, there's nothing much Cygwin can do about mirrors. However, there is a check-mirrors script that runs every night. It checks a list of putative mirrors and those that are out of date don't make it to the verified mirrors list, which you can read at http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html, and which is checked by setup.exe when you run it. If mirrors are *very* out of date, but still make it to the verified list, there might be a problem with the check-mirrors script. I don't think check-mirrors is so strict that it will de-list mirrors which are just a couple of days behind. You just have to hunt around to find one that works well for you, if you need the very latest packages. Regards, David -- 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/
later w32api package required to build cygwin
Thanks Chris, your new gcc package makes it possible to build Cygwin from cvs, using Cygwin on Windows 98. VERY impressive. Nice work Cygwinners! Regards, David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, David Starks-Browning writes: Greetings, I've been attempting to build cygwin1.dll from within Cygwin. I checked out winsup from cvs, and am building in a separate directory. It fails because my installed /usr/include/w32api/winioctl.h (from the w32api-2.0-1 package) is out of date compared to that in cvs (winsup/w32api/include/winioctl.h). ... -- 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: Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this one is for you]
On Friday 15 Nov 02, Christopher Faylor writes: Note that there were multiple snapshots generated yesterday so if you grabbed one and it didn't work, it's worthwhile to grab the latest. Multiple versions dated 2002-11-14? Could that explain why Bill still sees the problem with his 2002-11-14 snapshot? David
emacs lockup w/ TERM = linux
On Friday 15 Nov 02, Bill Priest writes: I've tried this with the cygwin1-20021114.dll.bz2 snapshot as well as the net release. Are you sure that you're using the 2002-11-14 snapshot? Did you rename it to cygwin1.dll, replacing the previous one? Because that snapshot fixes all those problems for me. I've been using /usr/bin/emacs (X and no X) all day now with no problems at all. Thanks, David -- 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/
emacs lockup w/ TERM = linux
On Friday 15 Nov 02, Bill Priest writes: All, Another piece of the puzzle. if TERM = linux inside rxvt (windows version) then emacs hangs while loading the lisp files; status line freezes on Loading international/mule-cmds... OK, there is indeed something wierd going on with TERM=linux. Not as you describe, but the screen fills with ;2cl; (or something like that) and C-x C-c doesn't work. I can't attach with strace. This is Win98. I have no problems with TERM=cygwin or TERM=vt200, for example: TERM=cygwin emacs-nox -q TERM=vt200 emacs-nox -q But the default for rxvt is xterm. Why are you using linux? Have you tried using the default xterm? if TERM = cygwin inside rxvt (windows version) then emacs displays the first character on the far right. if TERM = vt200 inside rxvt (windows version) then emacs works correctly. TERM = linux used to work (I've been using it this way since Joe put up the first version). Regards, David -- 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/
Hey hey, I now have the emacs 100% cpu usage bug too [CGF, this oneis for you]
Harold, I identify the latest snapshot without the problem here: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00654.html Regards, David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Harold L Hunt II writes: I have seen plenty of reports that emacs is going into an infinite loop upon startup, but I have not been able to offer any solution to help people fix this problem. Well, now I have the same problem on my machine. This is obviously due to a bug in some new Cygwin package, and I am guessing that cygwin1.dll is most likely the culprit (as there have been no new XWin.exe nor emacs releases in quite some time). The problem showed up after I ran setup.exe on Monday, I believe... but I did not run emacs again until today. So, which release do we think caused this problem? I am running cygwin1.dll version 1.3.15-1 from November 7th.
later w32api package required to build cygwin
Greetings, I've been attempting to build cygwin1.dll from within Cygwin. I checked out winsup from cvs, and am building in a separate directory. It fails because my installed /usr/include/w32api/winioctl.h (from the w32api-2.0-1 package) is out of date compared to that in cvs (winsup/w32api/include/winioctl.h). Is there a good way to deal with this? It's easy enough for me to fix this one file, but I only spotted it because make failed completely. It's likely that there are other differences between my Cygwin installation and the winsup CVS, that might cause me to build cygwin1.dll incorrectly. Is there some way that #include winioctl.h (for example) can automatically look in .../winsup/w32api/include instead of the standard location /usr/include/w32api? Thanks very much. Regards, David -- 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/
patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)
Joe, Good work! This fixes the problem for me. I tried emacs.exe with X and was not able to get it to spin. Thanks very much! David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Joe Buehler writes: Would those people having a problem with the Cygwin emacs going into an infinite signal loop please try testing the new emacs binaries that can be found at the following location? http://68.98.180.124:3000/cygwin/emacs/ No guarantee that it will fix anything, but I have applied a patch that was necessary to fix a similar problem under a version of UNIX. If this fixes anything, I will release a new version of emacs for Cygwin. -- 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/
patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)
Uggh, no, sorry Joe, I got mixed up somehow. Your new executable is no different. I get the same spinning loops as before. Very occasionally, I am unable to get emacs to spin. In fact, when I thought you had fixed it, I was actually running the wrong (old) emacs.exe. Crazy coincidence that it would not fail the *one time* I mistakenly thought I was running your new test version. Crazy. These tests, in which both versions of emacs.exe spin, were with the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot (2002-11-13). Regards, David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, David Starks-Browning writes: Joe, Good work! This fixes the problem for me. I tried emacs.exe with X and was not able to get it to spin. Thanks very much! David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Joe Buehler writes: Would those people having a problem with the Cygwin emacs going into an infinite signal loop please try testing the new emacs binaries that can be found at the following location? http://68.98.180.124:3000/cygwin/emacs/ No guarantee that it will fix anything, but I have applied a patch that was necessary to fix a similar problem under a version of UNIX. If this fixes anything, I will release a new version of emacs for Cygwin. -- 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: patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)
On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Christopher Faylor writes: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:31:09AM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote: Would those people having a problem with the Cygwin emacs going into an infinite signal loop please try testing the new emacs binaries that can be found at the following location? http://68.98.180.124:3000/cygwin/emacs/ No guarantee that it will fix anything, but I have applied a patch that was necessary to fix a similar problem under a version of UNIX. If this fixes anything, I will release a new version of emacs for Cygwin. There is a new cygwin snapshot which *may* fix this behavior, too. Please try it. No, I tried it, it does not help. Regards, David -- 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: later w32api package required to build cygwin
On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-11/msg00045.html Actually, I'm not convinced this is correct. I'm investigating. Unfortunately each iteration takes quite a while on my lowly PII-300 laptop. Regards, David -- 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: Emacs in XWin is performing oddly
On Wednesday 13 Nov 02, Harold L Hunt II writes: Hmm... I am beginning to wonder if I built the last release with the munged binutils release that was only around for a day or two. That same release of binutils caused my class project code to segfault on startup everytime... updating to the latest bintuils cured the problem. Maybe I will make a new release soon... Harold Harold, I've been posting to the main cygwin list. I don't know about your segfaults, but the spinning described below is reproducible outside of X. Regards, David Artur Hefczyc wrote: I have installed all of the cygwin emacs packages and I now am experiencing problems with emacs with the X server. Launching emaces causes one of the following: 1) the application never displays its window (CPU utilization to 100%) 2) the application displays its window but it is unresponsive (CPU utilization to 100%)
Re: Emacs in XWin is performing oddly
On Wednesday 13 Nov 02, Harold L Hunt II writes: David, Excellent. I believe I can now punt this problem over to the emacs packagers. No, it's not just emacs, either. Hey, are you the emacs packager for Cygwin? No, just a grateful user. Regards, David
Not just X (Was: Cygwin Emacs-X uses 99% of cpu)
I also observe emacs spinning. I see it with both emacs and emacs-nox. I also see it on an old cygwin non-X build of xemacs-21.5. So it's not strictly related to X. (Except that it is very easily triggered by emacs + X.) I observe it in cygwin-1.3.15-1 and 1.3.15-2. It all goes away if I revert to cygwin-1.14-1. This is WinNT 4.0. With emacs-nox, I can trigger it by quickly and repeatedly calling a child process (stunnel, from VM, to get mail via SSL). It's the only way I can trip up emacs-nox. In normal usage (get mail occasionally, not quickly repeatedly), it's quite difficult to reproduce. (Happens only very rarely.) With emacs-nox, on WinNT 4.0, cygwin-1.3.15-2, here is the bit that repeats indefinitely: 222 553656862 [sig] emacs-nox 380 wait_sig: looping 222 553657084 [sig] emacs-nox 380 wait_sig: awake 220 553657304 [sig] emacs-nox 380 wait_sig: processing signal 20 219 553657523 [sig] emacs-nox 380 wait_sig: Got signal 20 223 553657746 [sig] emacs-nox 380 sig_handle: signal 20 219 553657965 [sig] emacs-nox 380 sig_handle: signal 20, about to call 0x200DFBFC 222 553658187 [sig] emacs-nox 380 setup_handler: suspending mainthread 285 553658472 [sig] emacs-nox 380 interruptible: pc 0x610BD706, h 0x6100, interruptible 1, testvalid 1 227 553658699 [sig] emacs-nox 380 interruptible: pc 0x610BD706, h 0x6100, interruptible 0, testvalid 0 238 553658937 [sig] emacs-nox 380 setup_handler: couldn't send signal 20 223 553659160 [sig] emacs-nox 380 setup_handler: ResumeThread returned 1 221 553659381 [sig] emacs-nox 380 setup_handler: returning 0 216 553659597 [sig] emacs-nox 380 sig_handle: returning 0 243 553659840 [sig] emacs-nox 380 proc_subproc: args: 3, 0 220 553660060 [sig] emacs-nox 380 proc_subproc: looking for processes to reap 218 553660278 [sig] emacs-nox 380 proc_subproc: finished processing terminated/stopped child 235 553660513 [sig] emacs-nox 380 proc_subproc: returning 1 Notice in this case it's signal 20 (SIGCHLD). When I repeat the exercise using emacs and X, it's signal 14 (SIGALRM), like others have reported. It spins before a window is even drawn. 228 107117477 [sig] emacs 402 wait_sig: looping 230 107117707 [sig] emacs 402 wait_sig: awake 220 107117927 [sig] emacs 402 wait_sig: processing signal 14 218 107118145 [sig] emacs 402 wait_sig: Got signal 14 215 107118360 [sig] emacs 402 sig_handle: signal 14 217 107118577 [sig] emacs 402 sig_handle: signal 14, about to call 0x201240A4 233 107118810 [sig] emacs 402 setup_handler: suspending mainthread 311 107119121 [sig] emacs 402 interruptible: pc 0x77F1D642, h 0x77F0, interruptible 1, testvalid 1 329 107119450 [sig] emacs 402 interruptible: pc 0x77F1D642, h 0x77F0, interruptible 0, testvalid 0 264 107119714 [sig] emacs 402 setup_handler: couldn't send signal 14 221 107119935 [sig] emacs 402 setup_handler: ResumeThread returned 1 219 107120154 [sig] emacs 402 setup_handler: returning 0 222 107120376 [sig] emacs 402 sig_handle: returning 0 Here's what it looks like with an old cygwin (non-X11) build of xemacs-21.5. It spins when a child terminates, such as exiting bash in a M-x shell buffer. The simple combination M-x shell + exit has no problem, but if I do M-x shell, then a few basic bash commands like cd's and ls's, then exit, it spins. Here is the repeating part: 228 92598188 [sig] xemacs 370 wait_sig: looping 230 92598418 [sig] xemacs 370 wait_sig: awake 225 92598643 [sig] xemacs 370 wait_sig: processing signal 20 231 92598874 [sig] xemacs 370 wait_sig: Got signal 20 221 92599095 [sig] xemacs 370 sig_handle: signal 20 224 92599319 [sig] xemacs 370 sig_handle: signal 20, about to call 0x4D7EE0 227 92599546 [sig] xemacs 370 setup_handler: suspending mainthread 325 92599871 [sig] xemacs 370 interruptible: pc 0x77F1D642, h 0x77F0, interruptible 1, testvalid 1 279 92600150 [sig] xemacs 370 interruptible: pc 0x77F1D642, h 0x77F0, interruptible 0, testvalid 0 257 92600407 [sig] xemacs 370 setup_handler: couldn't send signal 20 229 92600636 [sig] xemacs 370 setup_handler: ResumeThread returned 1 234 92600870 [sig] xemacs 370 setup_handler: returning 0 231 92601101 [sig] xemacs 370 sig_handle: returning 0 226 92601327 [sig] xemacs 370 proc_subproc: args: 3, 0 224 92601551 [sig] xemacs 370 proc_subproc: looking for processes to reap 233 92601784 [sig] xemacs 370 proc_subproc: finished processing terminated/stopped child 228 92602012 [sig] xemacs 370 proc_subproc: returning 1 Would it help if I tried snapshots between 1.3.14 and 1.3.15 to narrow it down? Thanks, David -- 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/
Not just X (Was: Cygwin Emacs-X uses 99% of cpu)
On Wednesday 13 Nov 02, David Starks-Browning writes: I also observe emacs spinning. I see it with both emacs and emacs-nox. I also see it on an old cygwin non-X build of xemacs-21.5. So it's not strictly related to X. (Except that it is very easily triggered by emacs + X.) I observe it in cygwin-1.3.15-1 and 1.3.15-2. It all goes away if I revert to cygwin-1.14-1. This is WinNT 4.0. ... Would it help if I tried snapshots between 1.3.14 and 1.3.15 to narrow it down? I find that this is the last snapshot without the problem: CYGWIN_NT-4.0 BRYCE 1.3.15s(0.62/3/2) 20021103 23:52:20 i686 unknown This snapshot exhibits the problem: CYGWIN_NT-4.0 BRYCE 1.3.16s(0.63/3/2) 20021106 21:24:12 i686 unknown (Although I'm quite ignorant about Cygwin internals, my money is on the sigproc.cc changes...) Hope this helps. Regards, David -- 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/
ssh-add fails on win98 w/ cygwin1.dll 1.3.14,15
Greetings, With cygwin-1.3.13 on Win98, these work great, and I use them all the time: bash$ eval `ssh-agent` bash$ ssh-add But since 1.3.14, and still with 1.3.15, ssh-add fails with: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. When I run ssh-add under strace, it dumps: bash$ strace -o trace-output ssh-add -l 79588 [main] ssh-add 382023 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 80807 [main] ssh-add 382023 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to SSH-ADD.EXE.stackdump Here is the stackdump: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=00401F70 eax=100C0288 ebx= ecx=CE0746D0 edx=00401F70 esi=0001 edi=00415F40 ebp=0074FDB8 esp=0074FD5C program=C:\CYGWIN\BIN\SSH-ADD.EXE cs=015F ds=0167 es=0167 fs=18E7 gs= ss=0167 Stack trace: Frame Function Args 0074FDB8 00401F70 (61007457, FFFE, 0020, 610C7958) 0074FE08 6100753D (, , BFFC9490, 0074FF68) 0074FE28 00414F02 (00401F70, 037F0500, 0074FF78, BFF8B537) 0074FE38 0040103C (, 817579FC, 0054, 2D687353) 0074FF78 BFF8B537 (81757C10, 817579FC, 0008, ) 1492178 [main] ssh-add 382023 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 1536314 [main] ssh-add 382023 handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state (probably corrupted stack) Trace output below (177 lines). Is there something else I can do? Thanks, David ** Program name: C:\CYGWIN\BIN\SSH-ADD.EXE (382023) App version: 1003.14, api: 0.62 DLL version: 1003.15, api: 0.63 DLL build:2002-11-06 22:41 OS version: Windows 98-4.10 Heap size:402653184 Date/Time:2002-11-07 22:53:00 ** 15944552 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0430: BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4 6455197 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0450: CMDLINE=WIN 6415838 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0460: COLORFGBG=15;default;0 6436481 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0480: COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm 6407121 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0498: COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM 6777798 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C04C0: CVS_RSH=ssh 7108508 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C04D0: DISPLAY=:0 7199227 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 getwinenv: can't set native for HOME= since no environ yet 6529879 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\home\starksb, no-keep-rel, no-add-slash) 362 10241 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 normalize_win32_path: C:\cygwin\home\starksb = normalize_win32_path (C:\cygwin\home\starksb) 368 10609 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /home/starksb = conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\home\starksb) 948 11557 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 win_env::add_cache: posix /home/starksb 338 11895 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 win_env::add_cache: native HOME=C:\cygwin\home\starksb 348 12243 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 posify: env var converted to HOME=/home/starksb 662 12905 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0500: HOME=/home/starksb 657 13562 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0648: HOMEDRIVE=C: 647 14209 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0660: HOMEPATH=\cygwin\home\starksb 644 14853 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0688: LESS=-X 642 15495 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0698: LESSCHARSET=latin1 645 16140 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C06B0: MAKE_MODE=unix 646 16786 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C06C8: MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man:/home/starksb/man 668 17454 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C04E0: OLDPWD=/home/starksb 667 18121 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 environ_init: 0x100C0700: PAGER=less 726 18847 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 getwinenv: can't set native for PATH= since no environ yet 670 19517 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\home\starksb\bin, keep-rel, no-add-slash) 442 19959 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 normalize_win32_path: C:\cygwin\home\starksb\bin = normalize_win32_path (C:\cygwin\home\starksb\bin) 358 20317 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /home/starksb/bin = conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\home\starksb\bin) 363 20680 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin, keep-rel, no-add-slash) 354 21034 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 normalize_win32_path: C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin = normalize_win32_path (C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin) 362 21396 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: /usr/local/bin = conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin) 361 21757 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 mount_info::conv_to_posix_path: conv_to_posix_path (C:\cygwin\bin, keep-rel, no-add-slash) 352 22109 [main] SSH-ADD 382023 normalize_win32_path: C:\cygwin\bin = normalize_win32_path (C:\cygwin\bin) 352 22461 [main] SSH-ADD 382023
Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program
On Wednesday 30 Oct 02, Janos Blazi writes: Now everything works. ... and I could compile my test.cpp. Congratulations. Now for the next lesson: don't call your test application test (or test.exe). You will probably have difficulty distinguishing it from the bash shell builtin test and /usr/bin/test. Regards, David -- 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: emacs on cygwin
On Wednesday 9 Oct 02, Christopher Faylor writes: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:10:31PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: I was looking at the FAQ and realized some questions need an update. I plan to do this. However, some of them I don't have the knowledge to frame a correct updated answer. One I particularly noticed was: Is there a Cygwin port of GNU Emacs? No. If you want NT Emacs to understand Cygwin paths, get cygwin-mount.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/elisp/index.html. If you want to run emacs -nw, say from a remote login shell, you can't. (The error is emacs: standard input is not a tty.) Instead, use a Cygwin version of XEmacs, from http://www.xemacs.org/. Using xemacs -nw from a remote shell works fine. To be exact, I know that there is now a Cygwin version of GNU Emacs, that XEmacs does not have a (setup.exe) Cygwin package, and that those URLs work. However, I don't the status of GNU Emacs or NT Emacs in a remote login shell. I haven't seen David Starks-Browning (FAQ maintainer) around lately but I suspect that he might be interested in fixing this. Indeed! I will certainly have to fix that question. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not know the status of using emacs -nw from a remote shell. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? Thanks, David -- 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: emacs on cygwin
On Thursday 10 Oct 02, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy writes: However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not know the status of using emacs -nw from a remote shell. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? I have installed Cygwin including the GNU-emacs package offered by cygwin-setup. I use the GNU-emacs both, with X11 and in terminal (emacs -nw) mode. No problems in local or remote (via ssh) execution. Works well in xterm (emacs -nw), direkt via X11 (emacs draws its own window) and in cygwin-terminal (cygwin.bat and emacs -nw). Thanks very much for this report. I'll try to update the FAQ tonight. Kind regards, David -- 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/
/etc/profile package maintainer (Was: problems with XFree)
On 25 Jul 02, in cygwin-xfree, Robert Collins writes: I've been trying for *ages* to get /etc/profile to be an external file. All' it needs is *someone* willing to be a package maintainer for it. Hardly an onerous role, yet no one seems willing to do it. As soon as someone emails me with their willingness, I can provide the relevant tarall immediately, and that person then can just add /usr/X11R6/bin to the path in /etc/profile. Rob, I'm willing to do this. It will be a few days before I can assemble the package, though. Thanks, David
/etc/profile package maintainer (Was: problems with XFree)
On 25 Jul 02, in cygwin-xfree, Robert Collins writes: I've been trying for *ages* to get /etc/profile to be an external file. All' it needs is *someone* willing to be a package maintainer for it. Hardly an onerous role, yet no one seems willing to do it. As soon as someone emails me with their willingness, I can provide the relevant tarall immediately, and that person then can just add /usr/X11R6/bin to the path in /etc/profile. Rob, I'm willing to do this. It will be a few days before I can assemble the package, though. Thanks, David
Installing problem
On Saturday 18 May 02, CiccioSPICE writes: Hi, a friend of mine has copied setup and every pachage on a CD, but I find a prolem during the installation. The list of avalaible package are empty and there is a messagenothing to install/update. My os is win 98. What can I do? Excuse me for my very bad english and thank you for your precious help. We can't see what's on the CD, and you don't tell us how you are trying to install it, so it's difficult to diagnose your problem. Perhaps your friend did not copy setup.ini properly. My advice is to have your friend exactly mirror one of the Cygwin mirrors, including setup.exe, setup.ini and the release directory, preserving the directory structure. Burn that on a CD. When running setup.exe, choose install from internet and give a custom URL of the form //HOST/CD where \\HOST\CD is the share name of your CD-ROM drive (which you'll have to assign if you haven't already). There may be other ways of doing this, especially with the latest setup, but this approach worked for me a few weeks ago. Regards, David -- 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/
two installs one works; one doesn't
On Thursday 16 May 02, Jim George writes: I have cygwin, cygwin-xfree, and postgres installed on two Win2K systems. The first is a W2K Professional on a Toshiba Laptop, the second is a W2K Advanced Server on a desktop. The first works like grease lightening, the second runs like a dog in xfree and postgres (indeed I can't even run initDB). Both have the same anti-virus software setup? I notice massive performance differences depending on which product I use and how it's configured. David -- 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/
Window Size
On Tuesday 14 May 02, Eric Ng writes: May I know how I can expand the cygwin window size? do i use the 'BASH' command or something else? Use rxvt. Regards, David -- 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: Cut and paste standard input and output
Is there a way to mount /dev so one can see everything that's available there? No. This should certainly be in the FAQ. I'll add it. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
FAQ Alert? (was Re: Problems in shm.cc from cvs)
On Monday 13 May 02, Jason Tishler writes: Jason Tishler has already suggested a possible cause for this problem: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00639.html Should the above become a FAQ? At least, until cygipc goes away? Yes, I suppose so. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
where's control-o?
On Monday 13 May 02, Tye Zdrojewski writes: Hello, It appears that control-o is not reaching the shell through either the console nor rxvt. It seems like it is being caught by Windows. This is in-and-of-itself not such a big deal. But if I'm using rxvt and hit control-o while in a telnet session, the rxvt window is *toast*. I did this by accident a few times, and lost a few telnet sessions, due to my frequent use of C-p and bad aim! This has been discussed in the mailing list archives. You should find a workaround there. I plan to add something to the FAQ about this. Regards, David -- 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/
F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.
On Thursday 9 May 02, Brad Morgan writes: I have a Cygwin (setup.exe version 2.194.2.15) full install on my Windows 2000 (SP2) desktop and on my (W2000) laptop computers. My anti-virus software is F-Secure Anti-virus 5.22. On both machines, if I run a Scan all Hard Disks I get a blue screen or a spontaneous reboot while scanning the C:\cygwin directory. Removing that directory eliminates the problem. Is there anything special about the cygwin directory structure that might cause this problem? Any specific file which might cause this problem? I find it useful to get reports like this to the mailing list. Now Cygwin users know to avoid F-Secure. However, the only people who can help you are F-Secure. Report the problem to them so they can fix their broken anti-virus software. mcnulty I happen to be shopping around for anti-virus software myself, which is why I'm grateful for this report. I had always found my-etrust to be reliable and problem-free, but I'm tired of receiving HTML-only email from them, something they only started doing a few months ago. *sigh* /mcnulty Cheers, David -- 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: gcc 2.95.3-5 inline patch [FAQ alert]
On Monday 6 May 02, Christopher Faylor writes: I'm not going to be issuing any new gcc releases until sometime after 3.1. I guess this needs to be a FAQ or something. OK. David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K
On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, John Vincent writes: I've discovered that I cannot successfully telnet into my Win 2K box using the cygwin inetd, there is also a problem with the ftp service. I've installed inetd as per instructions, and installed it as a service. When I use telnet to attempt to log in, everything goes OK until the point where a shell should be started, at that point I get a pop-up box appearing on my Win 2K screen with the title bash.exe - Application Error and the text The application failed to initialize properly (0xc022). Click on OK to terminate the application. When I click on OK my telnet session ends with the message Connection closed by foreign host. This has been discussed on the mailing list before, search the archives. I noticed it with cygwin-1.3.10 on NT4, and found that enabling ntsec solved the problem for me. But there are lots of things to check, like the correctness of your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, rights given to the inetd service account, execute permissions on the applications and cygwin1.dll, ... It's a mystery, to me, why it fails without ntsec but works with ntsec, all other things being the same. But I've stopped worrying about it, now that I use ntsec. Good luck. Report back if you have something new to add. Regards, David -- 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/
advise on using fetchmail
On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, Mark Cooke writes: Ive created a /etc/hosts and inserted the correct info, but I still get the error, It doesn't go in /etc/hosts. On NT, it goes in C:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc\HOSTS (or equivalent for your NT installation). Sorry, I know this belongs in the FAQ. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
Control-O not working in Pico When telneting
On Friday 26 Apr 02, Jeff Rozycki writes: When I telnet to a remote host (Cygwin/bash) and run Pico, Control-O (save contents but don't exit Pico) does not work. You leave out important details, like whether you use rxvt, or whether Cygwin is the local or remote system (or both). Others have reported problems with C-o in rxvt, though I myself have none. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00820.html and the thread containing it. This could end up in the FAQ, so I'm interested in whether it solves your problem too. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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: Control-O not working in Pico When telneting
On Friday 26 Apr 02, Jeff Rozycki writes: I'm running Cygwin locally (NT) only. I am not using rxvt (just tried rxvt though and it froze when I tried control-o to save a file while telneting) I type telnet from a bash shell. Then pico on a remote linux server... OK, interesting, but did you read the mail message I cited and try the workaround given there? ... Others have reported problems with C-o in rxvt, though I myself have none. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00820.html and the thread containing it. This could end up in the FAQ, so I'm interested in whether it solves your problem too. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?
On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Chris Metcalf writes: On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Chet Ramey wrote: Readline has a set of characters it uses as word delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that set to its tastes. Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which makes it convenient to complete colon-separated lists like $PATH. Since the colon breaks words, the only thing that gets passed to the filename completer is `/' and whatever follows it. Quoting the colon (the simplest thing to use is a backslash) causes readline to not consider it a word break character. In that case, it sounds like the right question to be asking is whether there is a user-visible knob that we can tweak to modify the set of characters which bash passes to readline as word break characters. Both : and seem like reasonable candidates to allow removing from the word-break list, with the obvious caveats about functionality that would no longer be supported within the shell: $PATH-type list modification and automatic hostname completion, respectively. Fair enough, but that would be an issue for bash, not Cygwin. Since it's probably only a source of confusion for Cygwin users, I'll add something to the Cygwin FAQ about this. Thanks Chet, for helping us out with the answer! Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
True Static Linking
On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Westley Weimer writes: I am using gcc under cygwin and I would like to ship hello.exe to a friend who does not have cygwin1.dll on his computer. ... (1) Is there a -static switch that statically links in cygwin1.dll? Read the FAQ entry Can I build a Cygwin program that does not require cygwin1.dll at runtime? (2) If not, how else can I solve this problem? Have them install Cygwin. If they only want the cygwin package from the Base category, they can de-select all the other packages that would otherwise be installed by default. Regards, David -- 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/
Control-O hangs rxvt
On Friday 12 Apr 02, Christopher Glaeser writes: Control-O in emacs via a telnet session hangs rxvt. Is there a way to remap Control-O so that it can be used in emacs to insert a new line? If not, is there a way to un-hang rxvt after using Contorl-O? I don't have any problem using C-o in emacs in rxvt. You'll have to solve the problem yourself or provide a lot more detail than what you supplied here. Regards, David -- 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: Bash shell extension ?
On Friday 12 Apr 02, Sam Edge writes: (Most of this is really nothing to do with cygwin - it's all standard Windows stuff.) REGEDIT4 ... But it is a Frequently Asked Question and I've been meaning to add something to the FAQ about it, so I appreciate that you went into such detail. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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/
can somebody show me an example Rxvt config file?
On Thursday 11 Apr 02, jinhyuk choi writes: I found rxvt works so cool. now It replaced stupid command.com but can not find any example Rxvt config file in doc directory. somebody can show me an example Rxvt configuration file? man rxvt David -- 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/
is it impossible to use 2000-like command.com on 98?
On Wednesday 10 Apr 02, jinhyuk choi writes: I use win98. I just wanna use cmd.exe like bash shell not command.com free scroll, cut and paste, input locale language, etc. Try rxvt. Regards, David -- 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/
question about local variables in bash for cygwin
On Monday 8 Apr 02, Evan Teran writes: Hello I have cygwin installed on my WinXP box and am loving it. However I just noticed today that when I tried to use the local keyword in my bash script it gives me the error local: not found. The script works on a RedHat box as expected so I would think that this is a cygwin/bash problem. Read the Cygwin FAQ entry Why doesn't my shell script work? David -- 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: cx-logos
On Friday 5 Apr 02, Nikolaus Bates-Haus writes: You're right. I missed the message when it came through; http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-02/msg00234.html Logo by Tucker McLean; I like it. Yes, this one is very good IMO. David
Re:bash script Q
Unless there is something Cygwin-specific to your question here, I would point out that this is off-topic for this list, and ask you to take your shell programming questions elsewhere. Thanks, David On Friday 5 Apr 02, Gupta, Sanjay writes: I assuming that I am reading all files from /tmp/ directory for File in /tmp/* do ## Check, if it is a File if [ -f $File ] ; then ## Yes, it is a file ## Get the basename and cut two characters TWOBYTES=`basename $File | cut -b1,2` if [ $TWOBYTES = %! ] ; then echo File Name Valid else echo File Name Not Valid fi else ## This is a directory ## I do not know what you want to do here , put your code here. fi done Hi, anyone point me to the best bash script option for checking the first 2 characters of all the files in a directory? logic of the script is for each file in directory test if the first 2 chars are %! print Filename valid if not print Filename not valid Does magic do something like this ? -- 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/ -- 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: ncftp current release won't run - missing CYGREADLINE5.DLL
On Thursday 4 Apr 02, Robert Collins writes: Sorry, but I ran the newest setup This Week (monday), and it broke my ftpd operation, (Can't set uid) and tossed out the cygreadline5.dll breaking ncftp.exe so I'm not spreading old information. One of the posters aimed me at the Faq which talks about how dll's can get deleted, and how to manually walk thru the installation and install separate packages in order to restore deleted dlls, which I then paraphrased and posted in reply to Robert Collins question. If setup.exe is now fixed, thats great, I guess the Faq needs to be updated. Yes, you're right. Someone will have to explain to me how the FAQ is wrong here. (Apologies if it's been stated. This thread has been difficult for me to follow, even after studying it in the list archives.) Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- 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: cygqwin with mingw32 question
On Saturday 30 Mar 02, Norman Vine writes: Since this question comes up quite frequently maybe we could add the following 'tip' to the faq Q) What preprocessor symbols does Cygwin define A) Use the tool Luke :-) % echo jnk.c % gcc -E -dM jnk.c % gcc -mno-cygwin -E -dM jnk.c % rm jnk.c Thanks, I will do that. David -- 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: cygqwin with mingw32 question
On Friday 29 Mar 02, Jonathan Wilson writes: I did see that but what I dont understand is if __CYGWIN__ is defined when -mno-cygwin is selected. Try it! Bet you would have learned faster than asking here! (Would have saved *me* some time, that's for sure...) I also need to know if cygwin GCC defines some specific flag that I can test for that identifies it as GCC. info cpp Hope this helps. David -- 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/
ntsec, ssh and cygwin
On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes: Hello everyone, I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem. I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a host without entering their password everytime. No problem i thought, deploy the public-key on the server and that should do it, but it won´t work. Well there's a bit more to it than that but we don't know if you did the steps or not. I don't think that ntsec is a prerequisite for using ssh-agent. I found it to be a prerequisite for logging in to my domain account, but that's another story. I´ve read some manual stuff and came to the conclusion that i should use the ntsec variable. I do this because i think the problem lies with the file-permissions on the ~/.ssh/id_rsa file (group and world readable). Well, no problem, set the variable, fire up cygwin and what happens ? Everything is messed up, can´t even write to my home-directory anymore. I think it´s because i´m a domain-user and not the local computer user. I reinstalled Cygwin several times and always ran into the same problem. (Domain user is not included in /etc/passwd ... only the local ones). So add it then. Use mkpasswd -d mkgroup -d to determine the right entries. David -- 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: bash: more: command not found
On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: David (Starks-Browning), would it be worthwhile to add the How do I find out what package utility XXX is in? to the FAQ? What packages should I download? is already there. David -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe update
On Monday 25 Mar 02, Cliff Hones writes: Despite having followed the various posts, I am still confused by the current status of setup.exe, and I doubt if I'm alone. Robert announced the new version on 19th March. I downloaded setup.exe shortly after (but didn't use it) and found I had got version 2.194.2.15. After a flurry of mails about -luser32 and problems with mountpoints and w32api, cgf announced on 21st March that setup.exe was being reverted until the problem was fixed. I just tried downloading setup.exe again and found I still got 2.194.2.15. We figured out how to work around the missing -luser32 problem by repacking a couple of packages. So it was no longer necessary to have pulled the latest setup. So it's back. David -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe update
On Monday 25 Mar 02, Gaethofs, Danny writes: Dear David, I earlier posted a mail of setup creating new menu entries in my install directory. I have looked at the setup version that was being used and found, just downloaded it today, version: 2.194.2.15, while I was under the impression using an other version. (huh?) Can somebody elaborate on which version we currently are? Can't you just download http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and run it? It should tell you what version it is. David -- 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/
