Re: windows-to-windows openssh buffering issue
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/19/2011 4:36 AM, Nathan Ridge wrote: What I meant was, is it possible to write a different SSH server implementation for windows - perhaps a native one - that doesn't suffer from this problem? (And if so, do you know of one?) Or would all attempts at an SSH server implementation run into this issue? ptys are a means to an end. They are not a requirement to implement SSH or anything else for that matter, if that's what you're asking. I'm not aware of many other SSH implementations on Windows. MKS and SFU each have one. I haven't used them though. -- Larry Tectia (owner of the ssh.com URL) sells a product that isn't based on OpenSSH at all. It isn't free or open source so you'll have to give them money, but if you want to read up on it, here is their website: http://www.tectia.com/en/en.iw3 It's been years since I've used it. I used it before they changed their name to Tectia but I'm pretty sure it is still SSH under the hood. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Pining Cygwin in Windows 7?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: Try installing mintty, then launching C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe - (e.g. with the argument '-') as your pin. (I don't know much about W7, but at least you'd be starting an executable instead of a batch file). -- Chuck You don't need to create any special shortcut to launch it. Launching mintty from the shortcut that is added when you install it and then pinning the resultant box to the task bar works for me on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Network drives ssh access
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:49 PM -0400 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I've yet to get net use to work for me via cygwin. net use Z: \\W.X.Y.Z\Share password Use forward slash or escape the back-slashes. So, you'd try net use Z: //W.X.Y.Z/Share password or net use Z: W.X.Y.Z\\Share password Backslash is the escape character for bash. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Stern wrote: I had uninstalled the total cygwin package by deleting all the directories made for this software, because cygwin did not show in the list of installed programs in the Control Panel utility Programs Features in Windows 7 OS. After the deletions, only one directory and file were unable to be deleted, the file named nul in the directory dev . A popup window notified me of the problem but was not specific. After much brainstorming, I booted up into a LINUX environment, located the /my Cplus dir/dev/nul directory and file. Using the file manager, I was able to delete the items. I have read browsed much of the documentation, at the moment, that's possible and tried to be sure this issue hasn't been covered. I believe that is the case. I'm a retired NASA contractor. UNIX System Administrator for Real-Time Systems being one of my task, I hope this has given me enough knowledge to know when I need further assistance. I tried to subscribe to the cygwin.com mailing list. But the email returned with an unknown address error. I have recheck this address cygwin-subscr...@cygwin.com and still returns a failure notice. Thank You for your time for reading this and any assistance you may offer. Richard Stern http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all best steps to follow to completely remove it http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.dos-filenames brief mention of using special file names like AUX, COM, etc http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-dosdevices another mention of those special file names -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7
The directory D:\Cplus I created during setup. the \dev\ directory was created by the installation along with the file named nul. Is it possible that setup misnamed this file nul when it should have reflected the POSIX \dev\null WIN32 substitute? Also, in my last email I listed some errors which were cut form your reply, concerning abnormal exit: exit code=126 abnormal exit: exit code=127 What are these errors? I wouldn't bother you with this but I found no definitive answers while searching through the cygwin mail archives. In addition I need to resolve the problem I'm having with subscribing to the email message board. Is the following address correct? cygwin-subscr...@cygwin.com Regards... Richard See http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-04/msg01047.html for suggestions on why you are getting the abnormal exit codes. Also, this http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acygwin.com%20inurl%3Aml%2F%20abnormal%20exit I don't know why are having problems subscribing to the list. I don't know why you had the problem with /dev/nul -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote: On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Thanks. Without concrete advice that link doesn't do much. An average Joe has no idea what configuring means anyway, let alone being able to do such a change. For example, how do I do that in gmail? I am an advanced user, but can't find anything related in Settings. Regards, David In Gmail, I do it manually. It only takes a few seconds. However, I did just submit an enhancement request for an option to auto-obfuscate email addresses in forwards and replies. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Resizing problem
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote: I'd say offer tutorials and guides that include known issues. This is very common in other OS projects. Do some hand-holding on-line. Don't patronize people. And no, man pages are not suited for newbies as guides or tutorials. They're for pros who know what they're doing. I frequently learn almost everything I need to know about an application by using its man pages as well as its info doc if it has it. One of the finest moments in my introduction to *nix was when I discovered I could learn about any command by simply typing 'man command'. I'd love it if Windows had a similar feature. Not to be patronizing, but by definition, if someone knows what they are doing, they won't check out a man page anyway. If you want to know about Cygwin try the Cygwin User's Guide http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html. It has plain English explanations about how Cygwin works. There is also the FAQ http://cygwin.com/faq.html which may answer some of the whys or why nots that the UG skims over. I read the UG and FAQ a few times a month and I always find what I am looking for or learn something new. If you want to get deep into Cygwin's past, I'd suggest doing a custom Google search with 'site:cygwin.com/ml/cygwin' to search strictly the mailing list archives. Finally, if you *do* happen to find any tutorials about how to do things with Cygwin and they aren't on the cygwin.com website, they are probably outdated and are definitely not supported by the Cygwin core team. For example, I know there are several old tutorials on getting ssh to work with Cygwin. They are wrong. Oh, Cygwin specific bits of trivia about installed packages can be found in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin. Again, don't dis' the man page. Try 'man bash' or 'man grep' for examples of excellent man pages with examples and detailed explanations. If you have it installed, try 'man nmap'; the source of the man page is the same source used to build the online documentation. 'man' is one of the most useful commands there is. Please don't discount it as some esoteric, propeller head gizmo. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Monte Cabet wrote: I always hear some applications thrown out there that you should have to build software from source like gcc and vim, but is there a more complete list of what is required? I built up somewhat of a list for myself to track what I've installed, but there seems to be a lot of missing points. Some of the list is as follows (there is tons more, but this is what I feel this necessary as of now): ncureses libncurses-devel ncursesw libncursesw-devel make patchutils gcc gcc-mingw zip unzip xorg-server xinit inetutils (for telnet) openssh nano git cvs subversion ruby If I, and everybody else who needs, can get some help to atleast build some of the applications that everybody wishes that would be very beneficial! Thank you. That's going to vary from person to person and from package to package. For example, I don't use cvs or subversion most of the time because I am behind a proxy server that doesn't play nice. I just use wget, which isn't even on your list. Also, there are bison and flex and automake which make things easier. The dev package for openssl should be on your list, too. You have zip and unzip, but not gzip or bzip2 listed. Don't forget the gtk dev libraries. I have no idea why xorg-server or xinit would be required to build anything. If you are building X packages you'd need the libs for them, not the actual programs themselves. I never build non-native Cygwin apps from Cygwin, so I have no use for mingw stuff. If I want to build a Windows app, I use Visual Studio for it. But I agree with Larry. It depends on what sort of software you are going to be building. You could select every library and every development package presented by setup.exe. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: runas, su, sudo
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lukas Haase wrote: Hi, Is there any (working) way to change privileges in cygwin? Regards, Luke Try this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su It tells you to use s...@localhost but has a link to some mailing list archives that explain why su / sudo can't work properly. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ernest Mueller wrote: Michael, did you ever find a fix for this? I had to give up on cygwin on the Amazon 64-bit and instead cobbled together freesshd and random freewares. Larry or others - what's the right way to report this as a bug? I think working on newer 64-bit OSes is pretty important... And it should be trivial to reproduce since the Amazon instances are publicly available; nobody has to actually buy them expensive licenses... Thanks, Ernest It isn't all newer 64-bit OSes because I run Cygwin 1.7 on my Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS with no problems at all. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Mirrors
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tekerman Romanov wrote: Hi, I'm not able to find e-mail where I could ask Sourcemaster is also the place to send requests to be added to this list. Who is this sourcemaster? Thank you. Hello Tekerman, The mirror page on the site cygwin.com asks you to send a message to 'sourcemaster at this site'. If you put the name together with the domain, I think you get the email address you need to use. I am not putting it in this email because I don't want to be responsible for that address getting spammed. Thanks. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, philippe wrote: Jeremy Bopp a écrit : [...] However, if rxvt used to work for you under Cygwin 1.5, you might be able to make it happy again by changing your LANG setting to LANG=C. No, i don't know where to modify this option LANG :-) I highly recommend mintty. ok, mintty is distributed with cygwin and seems to be a nice terminal. I've search a little about mintty configuration, i understand that i've to move ~/.profile to ~/.minttyrc, but it's not sufficient to traduce in a mintty syntax my ~/.Xdefault or the command below : rxvt -fn -*-Courier-medium-r-*-18-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -geometry 90x30 -sr -bg #d5 -fg black -sl 8000 -termName rxvt -e /usr/bin/bash --login -i Do you know a good tutorial to configure mintty or can you help me! Thank's, Philippe. Hello Philippe. If you run mintty and click on the icon in the upper left, you will see that an 'Options' option is available. Most of what you want can be set up in there and it will be saved to your .minttyrc file automatically. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Using cron with network share
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it was always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now warns about using W32-style paths. If you're talking about using '\' as the path separator, yes, it is always preferable to use '/' instead. However, with Cygwin, there is no reason you cannot use '/' for UNC paths, just like you can with DOS-like paths that Cygwin typically permits (i.e. C:/local/directory). Thanks very much for the help. Glad I could help. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 I always use forward slashes for UNC paths in Cygwin. Typing 'ls //someserver/someshare' is much easier to look at than 'ls someserver\\someshare' don't you think? Although hitting the hidden admin shares does require a slash 'ls //someserver/ADMIN\$' -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Fortune and the fortune startrek command
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Alexander T wrote: Lets all say it together One more time Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it Close enough. Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would say so. I don't mind jokes and hints, but I must say that that is a pretty depreciative answer to someones positive and frankly quite cheerful question. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ken wrote: I was of the understanding that junctions were not supported over a CIFS share (my ultimate target; as with 1.5x). Perhaps you have information to the contrary? Since I have to manage the Win XP side for the foreseeable future, it appears that I will have to adopt another methodology to centrally manage these files due to the new 1.7x symlink implementation. That said, I still think Cygwin is GREAT! Thank you again, Ken I looked up some information on NTFS junction points. From Wikipedia: Junction points can only link to directories on a local volume; junction points to remote shares are unsupported. You could try Microsoft DFS which *does* support network mounts. You could also try fsutil to create a hard link to the /etc/group file (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788097%28WS.10%29.aspx). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: 'cp' utility bug when dest-name.exe file exist.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, risin...@nationwide.com wrote: I disagree. This seems to me to be adopting the Microsoft policy of doing the user's thinking for them: I don't care what they want - we know what's best for them. If a person wants to have foo and foo.exe in the same directory, that should be allowed. A few times getting tripped up by the wrong thing executing will be a good life lesson for the person, and teach about how different operating systems work to boot. Should I create foo as an executable, and foo.exe exists, then if I want to run foo.exe, I should have to call it out specifically. I can see this might cause some confusion should, unbeknownst to the user, foo.exe exists earlier in the path than foo, but that would become an education on how to use the PATH variable. This confusion arises from Cygwin's kowtowing to Microsoft's dubious idea of using extensions to control the handling of files. If you took away Cygwin's .exe extension handling and just relied on file permissions like Unix, then using Cygwin tools from a cmd.exe prompt would become problematic. Windows wants that .exe (or .bat or .cmd or .msi, etc) extension and doesn't give a whip if you chmod a file's permissions +x. Without an extension, Windows has no idea what to do with the file. That's fine if you never do anything with Cygwin commands outside of a Cygwin shell, but I don't think this is a globally desirable behaviour. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: command not found-For All Commands
I am very suspicious of anything that Windows 7 might suggest with respect to Cygwin. On what basis does Win 7 claim that Cygwin was not installed correctly, and how on earth can Win 7 hope to correct this for you? I would suggest un-installing Cygwin, then from Cygwin setup once again installing Cygwin, and then strenuously avoiding any suggestions from Win 7 that it knows better than Cygwin about Cygwins own installation. -- I think one of the reasons that Windows 7 is detecting a problem is because he ran a program called 'setup.exe' but it didn't create an entry in Add/Remove Programs. Just ignore it. Maybe there is something that could be added to the .manifest that would make the message never appear? I do not know. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: can't find documentation on cron command
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: I've delayed many months for installing the /usr/sbin/cron.exe command. Mainly due to lack of documentation. Are you saying that 'man cron' and 'man crontab' don't do anything for you? Install cron and you get man 1 cron man 5 crontab man 8 crontab -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Francis Litterio wrote: I notice that setfacl does not change the ACLs of a file when given a pathname starting with a drive letter (e.g., c:/temp/zzz), but it will work when given a UNIX-style pathname (e.g., /cygdrive/c/temp/zzz). Example below. Is this a known problem? -- Fran I'm pretty sure it is more of a feature than a problem. The path of c:/temp/zzz doesn't have any meaning in POSIX. I suppose we're lucky Cygwin supports that format for *any* actions. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter
But it used to work. I noticed this after updating to the latest release. If the drive-letter form of the pathname is not acceptable to the tool, it should complain, but (like most Cygwin utilities) it probably doesn't care about the syntax of the pathname, as long as open(2) accepts it. -- Fran According to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames, Cygwin supports both Win32 and POSIX file paths and they are translated internally on-the-fly as needed. It also specifically mentions this: POSIX operating systems (such as Linux) do not have the concept of drive letters. Instead, all absolute paths begin with a slash (instead of a drive letter such as c:) and all file systems appear as subdirectories (for example, you might buy a new disk and make it be the /disk2 directory). By the way, when you said updating to the latest release do you mean you upgraded a 1.5 installation to 1.7.1 or a 1.7.1 to some newer version of 1.7.1? I ask because 1.5 stored mount table information in the Windows registry and 1.7.x uses an /etc/fstab file which you can read about here http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table and here http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Wes Barris wrote: mkpasswd -d would return all of the domain users (we have thousands). However, I know that these files are not owned by anyone else. The files in question are coming from a samba share (mapped network drive) served from a Linux system. Isn't there a way so see the SID of a file? -- Wes Barris You can use ls -n to see the user unique part of the SID or use the Windows tool cacls to see the names in human readable format. Using cacls is easier. With ls -n you still have to reverse engineer the full SID and then use some other tool to convert it to a user or group name. Or use mkpasswd / mkgroup to dump the entire domain and grep it for the bit of SID you have. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Setup.exe does not work.
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Stafford wrote: All, I downloaded and ran setup.exe. I have Windows Vista x64. I get to the part that wants to pick a download site. None are listed, it should automatically find the sites for me. Anyways, I go back to your site, find a mirror then click on it. Example: http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/cygwin/cygwin/. I then copy from the address bar and past it into the setup.exe and click add. I am not typing it. I then click next. I get an error that says Unable to get setup.ini from http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/cygwin/cygwin/. I can access the mirror myself from my web browser. Why can't I get the full download and download it myself, then install it? This is probably a firewall issue or a setup glitch. Normally when a program wants access to the internet, my firewall triggers and asks me if I want to let the program through. This setup program seems to not even try to get to the internet. Does anyone have a resolution to this problem. For example, what needs to change on the firewall to let setup through? Chris -- Are you running setup as Administrator? -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Is it possible to use any of the cygwin programs without changing registry?
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM, breako wrote: Hi, so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on your file system and would also I presume update your registry. I'd like to do be able to run some simple cygwin programs such as grep and ls without having to run the set up and change my registry. I am wondering if this is possible. Thanks. All you need for ls and grep is the cygwin1.dll and the ls.exe and grep.exe files. Stick them somewhere in your path and you are golden. However if you just want the functionality of these programs without the whole cygwin environment, check out GnuWin32. Oh, don't run setup.exe to get the files for cygwin, just download them and extract them from the tarballs. If this is an administrative rights issue, you can run setup.exe and choose to install just for the current user. It will only update your user registry and not the local machine registry. It works without admin rights, but only works for the currently logged on user. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Missing documentation on bash
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: Folks: I'm still having problems getting these .bat files to work under MS scheduler. Okay, I have swore off .bat files and have installed cron. No more interactions between MS-DOS and Cygwin scripting. These scripts are totally cygwin scripting. I'm a happy camper!! As far as trying bash. I didn't. If you still want local bash documenation, 'info bash' is very detailed. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Questions regarding windows 7 installation
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Jerry Lowry wrote: I have installed Cygwin 1.7 twice on my windows 7 laptop. Each time it installs fine but when I try to run the X server it leaves three different X windows open as well as an Xterm itself. Is this the default behavior on 1.7? I really would like to get just the X icon in the task bar and nothing else until I start an Xterm. But even the Xterm opens two windows. Anyone have any ideas as to the problem I am seeing? -- Try modifying your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file I commented out the last line which had an 'exec xterm' in it and the xterm no longer runs automatically. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: Vista and CYGWIN telnet
2010/1/8 Gareth Payne gpa...@progress.com: Hi, SYSTEM 3304 1572 ? 20:04:40 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng ^ syslog-ng is running. Does anything show up in /var/log/messages? Also Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html What documentation did you follow to get sshd and inetd configured? Thanks. Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: The need for cygwin
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru wrote: Hi, I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like VirtualBox, Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to provide the linux in windows ? How is cygwin different from those and what are the advantages provided by cygwin ? What are the advantages provided by cygwin ? Cygwin is not an virtual machine, it is just an API emulator and some provided tools to use it. From http://cygwin.com/ What Is Cygwin? Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: # A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality. # A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel. What Isn't Cygwin? # Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows. # Cygwin is not a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality. Other people said it best, you can use cygwin natively on Windows without the need to install a driver, without the need to be an administrator to install it. Really, if you don't know how cygwin is useful, that means you probably don't need it. If virtual machines do what you want them to do, there is no need to try using cygwin. Personally, I started using cygwin years ago when I needed an SSH server that was free and would run on Windows. Since then, I've been able to use it to compile programs written for Linux on my Windows system and run them natively on Windows. Also, bash is 450% better than command.com and at least 275% better than cmd.exe. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Updating the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin
Does anyone on the list keep an eye on the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin? It is where you would expect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin for the English Wikipedia. It has the current version as 1.5.25-15 / 14 June 2008. Someone with a better understanding of the fundamental changes may want to update the entry to reflect the release of version 1.7. Thanks. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Front end suggestions for Cygwin?
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Rogelio wrote: Does anyone have any good front end suggestions for Cygwin? (I'm really spoiled by apps like PuTTY which automatically put whatever you select on the clipboard. Ideally, however, the app would have a few more features than something like PuTTY) -- If you like PuTTY, go with Mintty. It is available via setup.exe and is my terminal emulator of choice for cygwin. Also, if you run the openssh server (available via setup.exe), then you can use any ssh client as a front end for cygwin. Just connect to localhost and you'll have a fancy console with whatever client you normally use. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Executing ready compiled C program using bash shell
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jasmit Kaur wrote: I have recently downloaded cygwin. I am trying to run a ready compiled C binary program using bash shell...I get the following error...cannot execute binary file - any suggestions? Thanks Jasmit -- First, welcome to Cygwin. Second, please follow the guidelines here http://cygwin.com/problems.html when reporting an issue. Finally, what do you mean exactly by ready compiled C binary program? If it wasn't compiled using Cygwin, it won't run under Cygwin. You may need to take the source code and compile it using a Cygwin bash shell and the Cygwin gcc environment. From the Cygwin home page: What Isn't Cygwin? # Cygwin is not a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows. # Cygwin is not a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality. Thanks. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: 1.7 - what's the right way to start X?
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Fredrik Staxeng wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin X) writes: On 12/03/2009 04:07 PM, Fredrik Staxeng wrote: What is the recommended/preferred way to start X in 1.7? In 1.5 I used a modified version of startxwin.bat. And where do I put my .xinitrc/.xsession script? What about startxwin.bat doesn't work for you? There shouldn't be differences between 1.5 and 1.7 here. 1.7 makes some pretty significant changes on how 'mount' works. Basically, Cygwin 1.7 uses a real fstab file instead of a bunch of registry entries and 'mount' only creates temporary mounts. If you want a permanent mount, use the fstab file. In a little bit more detail, see below. From: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html - Mount points are no longer stored in the registry. Use /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab.d/$USER instead. Mount points created with mount(1) are only local to the current session and disappear when the last Cygwin process in the session exits. - Cygwin creates the mount points for /, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib automatically from it's own position on the disk. They don't have to be specified in /etc/fstab. This discusses the mount table in more detail: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table This is the help information for mount under 1.7: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount Thanks. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. It doesn't add, actually - it replaces it. You're wrong. The Cygwin DLL at startup translates the Windows PATH variable. And this line in /etc/profile adds to it: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH This is completely and totally true. To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygwin.bat, mintty, rxvt, whatever) and then launch a cmd.exe or powershell. Check the path in the bash prompt and you will see the cygwin stuff at the beginning of it. Check the path in the cmd.exe or powershell prompt which was run *after* the bash script updated the path and you will see that it does *not* include the cygwin paths. It doesn't override what you have set anywhere but in cygwin's magic space. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote: To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygw 0/tty2W0(2)$ echo $PATH /home/lmaschm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/c/WINDOWS /system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/WINDOWS/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0:/c/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft Sha red/Windows Live:/usr/lib/lapack 0/tty2W0(2)$ cmd Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. C:\cygwin-1.7\home\lmaschmpath path PATH=C:\cygwin-1.7\home\lmaschm\bin;C:\cygwin-1.7\usr\local\bin;C:\cygwin-1.7\bin;C:\cygwin-1.7\bin;C:\cygwin-1.7\usr\X11R6\bin;C:\P rogram Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\ WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\cygwin-1.7\lib\lapack C:\cygwin-1.7\home\lmaschmexit exit 0/tty2W0(2)$ of course if you run cmd from a bash prompt it will have the cygwin pre-pended path because it inherited it from its parent process ran mintty from start menu $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/cygdrive/c/Python26/:/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/ActiveState Komodo IDE 5/ ... etc ran cmd.exe from start menu C:\path PATH=C:\Python26\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ActiveState Komodo IDE 5\ ... etc no cygwin path even though the bash prompt with the cygwin pre-pended path is still open and still has the new (or rather, modified) path variable -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: psexec does not work under cygwin-X
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Hemal Pandya wrote: Hello, It seems psexec (from sysinternals) does not work correctly under cygwin-X. If I run it at the bash prompt in a command window it completes normally but from a rxvt or xterm window it stops after the first line of output from the remote process. I am trying to write some bash scripts that run some processes on remote machines. I would like for them to be run under X, though that's not an absolute requirement. Is there a work-around for this? Thanks in advance, - hemal How are you calling psexec? You can try something like this: cmd.exe /c C:\\sysinternals\\psexec.exe Instead of calling psexec directly. That would make it run under a cmd.exe prompt instead of directly under bash. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
Re: [1.7] su
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, wrote: Is su supposed to work? When I try from an unprivileged account I get: I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ and user guide. Here you are told that it doesn't work. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su Here you are told some other ways to do the thing you may want to do. http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview Good luck. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: 'ls' not finding owner/group of some files created by other user
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM, aputerguy wrote: This is a weird one. If I use a non-cygwin program such as 'edit' or 'ntemacs' to create a file under userA, say 'test', then when I list under user A, I get as expected: -rwxr--r--+ 1 userA None 0 2009-11-14 19:00 test* However, when I list under userB (who is non-privileged), I get: -rwxr--r--+ 1 0 2009-11-14 19:00 test* Does 'ls -n' show the UIDs under both users? -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Cygrunsrv behaviour triggers Anti-Virus Program
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/11/13 Jacob Jacobson: Output of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 11/13/2009 1:03:09 PM C:\WIN\CYGWIN\BIN\CYGRUNSRV.EXE Process is trying to inject into another process. This behavior is typical of some malicious programs (Invader) 11/13/2009 1:03:09 PM C:\WIN\CYGWIN\BIN\CYGRUNSRV.EXE Quarantine action is selected 11/13/2009 1:03:09 PM C:\WIN\CYGWIN\BIN\CYGRUNSRV.EXE Forced to terminate the process. 11/13/2009 1:03:09 PM C:\WIN\CYGWIN\BIN\CYGRUNSRV.EXE File quarantined. Output of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 Send that to Kaspersky. Cygwin isn't gonna be changed to work around that sort of crap. BLODA in full effect. It is designed to stop you running anything that behaves like forking, just in case what you were running wasn't meant to be doing that; therefore it is a crude and indiscriminate filter and must inevitably suffer false positives. The problem is that there's no easy way for a simple-minded computer program to tell the difference between suspicious process injecting itself into another, and legitimate user-directed application attempting to emulate posix fork semantics. It is unfortunate, but a lot of the things that Cygwin *has* to do are exactly like a lot of the things that some viruses do; hence we run up against the limits of heuristic behaviour blockers. cheers, DaveK -- The real question is whether or not Kaspersky will let you exclude specific processes from this sort of inspection. If so, just exclude cygrunsrv.exe. I routinely have to do this depending on what AV I am running. Heck, if I run the whole Comodo Security Suite, I get pages of prompts every time I run setup.exe and it changes files around. It's all hey, bash is trusted, but it is doing something it didn't do yesterday and it has a different checksum. Security is pain. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-64
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, Bugfixes: = - Fix a regression in cygserver which made it non-functional. Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. Hello. I just upgraded from -63 to -64, but cygserver still won't run on my system. Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\system32net start cygserver The CYGWIN cygserver service is starting. The CYGWIN cygserver service could not be started. The service did not report an error. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 3534. C:\Windows\system32net helpmsg 3534 The service did not report an error. My syslog shows that it worked last month, but doesn't work now. $ grep cygserver /var/log/messages Oct 12 20:46:06 UNFORTUNATE cygserver: PID 4300: cygserver: Initialization complete. Waiting for requests. Oct 12 20:46:07 UNFORTUNATE cygserver: PID 5756: `cygserver' service started Nov 10 10:47:15 UNFORTUNATE cygserver: PID 2832: `cygserver' service stopped, exit status: 127 Nov 10 10:50:40 UNFORTUNATE cygserver: PID 4352: `cygserver' service stopped, exit status: 127 Nov 10 10:58:09 UNFORTUNATE cygserver: PID 2576: `cygserver' service stopped, exit status: 127 Nov 10 11:16:50 UNFORTUNATE cygserver: PID 2732: `cygserver' service stopped, exit status: 127 cygcheck output attached thanks -Jason cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Finding junction points in cygwin
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:46 PM, aputerguy wrote: More generally, could someone point me to a single source that can accurately compare and contrast the following notions of links in cygwin/windoze: 1. Hard links (ln) 2. Soft links (ln -s) - Old style - New style 3. Windows shortcuts 4. Junctions created by junction.exe 5. Reparse points created by linkd.exe 6. Other types of reparse points? 5. Mount points created by cygwin mount 6. Mount points created by mountvol 7. Letter drives created by dosdev 8. Letter drives created using Administrative Tools computer management 9. Other types of mounting? I know that some of the above only work on files, some only on directories, some only on shares, etc. but there is a lot of overlap and a nice table would be very helpful. Personally, I'm sure I don't understand all the differences, subtleties, limitations, and when to use which one. I'm also left with the feeling that Microsoft just keeps throwing new flavors of links and mounts rather than going with a consistent approach but maybe I'm just biased to *nix. There is also the 'subst' command that lets you create a directory and point it to a drive. C:\subst /? Associates a path with a drive letter. SUBST [drive1: [drive2:]path] SUBST drive1: /D drive1:Specifies a virtual drive to which you want to assign a path. [drive2:]path Specifies a physical drive and path you want to assign to a virtual drive. /D Deletes a substituted (virtual) drive. Type SUBST with no parameters to display a list of current virtual drives. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Bash - IF Statement
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:10 PM, briglass111 wrote: What is wrong with you people? What is the desire to continue posting in this thread? I am a relatively inexperienced cygwin/unix user who had an honest question and you people got so chafed up by it. If you are so insulted or annoyed by my question, then find a mod or something and delete it, or move on with your happy and gleeful day. If anything, it provides some search terms for a future potential poster who goes down the same errant path of thinking the white space issue is cygwin-specific. -- Welcome to Cygwin! -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. I tried it with: $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test # file: /cygdrive/c/test # owner: meyer # group: Kein user::rwx user:Backup:--- group::r-x mask:rwx other:r-x default:user::rwx default:group::r-x default:other:r-x But nevertheless, user Backup can access the directory as well as the files in it. How to reach my goal? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic Use Windows utility 'cacls C:\Test /D Backup' instead of setfacls? -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer wrote: Hello, I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. I tried it with: $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test # file: /cygdrive/c/test # owner: meyer # group: Kein user::rwx user:Backup:--- group::r-x mask:rwx other:r-x default:user::rwx default:group::r-x default:other:r-x But nevertheless, user Backup can access the directory as well as the files in it. How to reach my goal? Thanks Matthias -- Don't Panic See if these user guide entries are helpful. For cygwin 1.5: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping For cygwin 1.7: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping I'm wondering if this applies since your example looks an awful lot like what is used in the user guides. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Combs wrote: I just now installed 1.7. Where *is* everything? bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. So, just how beta is 1.7. Alpha? Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more for me to install by hand? Oh, someone tell me how to find the version number of a cygwin, and I can tell you what mine is. (Looks like the most recent files in bin are 15june09, so pretty darned recent, my standard cygwin.) Oh, *roughly* when might 1.7 become the standard cygwin? A year or so? Thanks! David uname -a to find out what version of the cygwin1.dll you have For example: CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 INCONSPICUOUS 1.7.0(0.212/5/3) 2009-09-11 01:25 i686 Cygwin My version 1.7 /bin directory has ~ 1000 files in it. You probably just don't have all the packages installed you had for version 1.5. Thanks. -Jason -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Herb Maeder wrote: On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, Manning, Sid wrote: -= lots and lots of things snipped =- Has anyone else gotten Herb's message 5 times (so far)? Or is it just me? -Jason -- 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: install assumes.exe extension?
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel wrote: I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part about install as distributed with Cygwin. I'm building Lua, an MIT licensed scripting language. Part of the lua make install process calls install as follows: cd src install -p -m 0755 lua luac /usr/local/bin And sure enough, lua and luac show up in /usr/local/bin But they exist as src/lua.exe and src/luac.exe So the question is, is it install or the cygwin dll that assumes the exe extension on the file in the source dir and then removes it when installing it to the destination? Ralph PS. I'm willing to maintain a Lua (and significant libraries) port for distribution with Cygwin Does this help? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id318321 -Jason -- 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: dd, physical devices, Compact flash, Permission denied
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Krisitian Ivanov wrote: Hi, I have a problem restoring a image back to a new CF card. I am using the last Cygwin on Windows XP. I mounted the CF card : mount -s -b //./I: /dev/cflash See if this helps: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html -- 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: End of support for 9x
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Terry Dabbs wrote: It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that were written for those platforms and they will not upgrade, for reasons of their own. I hope there will be some spot out there that will keep the last compatible versions available. Terry Dabbs I am dumb. What is Windows 93? -Jason PS - vendors who will not upgrade, for reasons of their own. Yep. Been there only with Java. Have to keep three (going on four) version installed and make sure the right apps know which version to use. Yay! -- 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: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Wiedmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin? unzip Unfortunately the unzip command is not available in my Cygwin environment. If I try to call it, I get the following message: $ unzip Temp.zip bash: unzip: command not found How to get and integrate the unzip command for Cygwin? Thomas Wiedmann run setup, select unzip, and install it -- 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: wget and HTTP_PROXY question
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ronald Fischer wrote: I can't fetch anything from the web using wget (Connection timed out). My guess is that it has to do with the proxy settings, but: - my environment variable HTTP_PROXY is set, and - from a Windows command line (i.e. outside of Cygwin), tools (such as the package manager of ActiveState Perl) *can* use the proxy specified here, without problems. What can I do to get wget working? Ronald Try putting your preferences settings in a .wgetrc file. [file] http_proxy = proxy:port https_proxy = proxy:port proxy_user = user proxy_password = password [/file] -Jason -- 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: Can't configure sshd
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM, JR wrote: Thanks! I changed mirrors and setup downloaded a new version of openssh... The script ran fine after. Is there any known conflict between RealVNC server with encryption on and Cygwin/Openssh? After I got the sshd installed my RealVNC client stopped working. No. The ssh tunnel just sees the encrypted RealVNC traffic as data and slaps it own encryption on top of it. I am only assuming since I haven't done this with RealVNC, but I have with UltraVNC and I had no problem at all. I did have to configure the remote system to allow local connections since, from its point of view, it is local thanks to the ssh port forwarding. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Cygwin is saving my ass
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere wrote:
Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on
windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into
c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\
(where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the
file in a list of oh say 3 files.)
i _could_ impliment this in vb, but bash is faster.
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Any chance you could share your bash script? I have some perl scripts
that are similar, but a pure bash script would be even better.
-Jason
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Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Suan wrote: DePriest, Jason R. jrdepriest at gmail.com writes: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan wrote: Jerry D. Hedden jdhedden at cpan.org writes: my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button. Pressing the left and right mouse buttons at the same time has the same effect. I read that somewhere earlier and tried itdoesn't work though Can you send your cygcheck -s -v -r information? Using both buttons to simulate middle-click works for me in rxvt. -Jason Ok, here it is: From /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-20050409.README How to Insert/Paste: Use the middle mouse button, Shift-Insert, or Shift-Left-Click. If you have a two button mouse, check your control panel to see if the mouse can be configured to emulate a middle button by pressing both buttons simultaneously. Also, how do you start rxvt? What is your command-line? The only difference I see in our cygcheck output is that your TERM is 'xterm' and mine is 'rxvt-cygwin-native' which I set in the command-line to run rxvt in my batch file. rxvt -geometry 120x50 -bg black -fg white -fn Lucida ConsoleP-12 -sr -sl 5000 -tn rxvt-cygwin-native -e bash --login -i That's what I use. Also, other brighter minds probably have much better insight in to your problem but have not yet responded. -Jason -- 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: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan wrote: Jerry D. Hedden jdhedden at cpan.org writes: my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button. Pressing the left and right mouse buttons at the same time has the same effect. I read that somewhere earlier and tried itdoesn't work though Can you send your cygcheck -s -v -r information? Using both buttons to simulate middle-click works for me in rxvt. -Jason -- 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: Unable to get Setup to work...
On Feb 8, 2008 11:29 PM, Mel Rosso-Llopart wrote: Every attempt to get setup to work has failed. Either I get an empty directory tree for cygwin on my C: drive or setup aborts with the tradition XP failure window to send a message to Microsoft. Some interesting symptoms: 1) Dr. Watson also aborts after trying to dump the setup dump 2) When the screen comes up to show my locations from which to select my download, it is always blank I have downloaded and installed cygwin in the past, but his is a new computer, new configuration. Suggestions on what else to try would be appreciated. Mel If it is a new computer, did it come preinstalled with some sort of anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-malware, firewall suite (like from McAfee or Symantec)? If so, there could be a conflict there. Search the cygwin mailing list archives for details and examples. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup.exe link down
On Feb 5, 2008 1:20 PM, Christopher Stack wrote: hi all, the setup.exe (install or update now!) link is currently not working and hasn't been since at least 10a yesterday (01/04/08). i consistently get a peer reset page instead. i've tried this from multiple locations, so i don't think it's my side. cheers christopher -- Connection reset by peer? That implies that your systems are forcibly ending the connection. Firewall, HIPS, AV, or proxy maybe? -Jason -Jason -- 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: Running Cygwin in background.
On Jan 30, 2008 6:57 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: paul.hermeneutic wrote: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd I appreciate the links, but I already know how to set up an SSH server. I was actually interested in finding out how to run Cygwin as a background process so a window won't show up in the task bar. (See my original post for a description of what I am trying to do). Thanks, jrtayloriv -- Have you read: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README -- NOTICE: Reading this email message requires root privileges which you do not appear to possess. Sorry, dude. -- 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: Running Cygwin in background.
On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things. Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right question... I am talking about how to get Cygwin itself to run in the background. Once I start up the Cygwin shell, I am able to run SSH as a background service within Cygwin. But when I close the Cygwin shell, I loose the SSH server running within it. What I need is information on how to run ***CYGWIN*** as a background service, so that there is no Cygwin window open, but the services that are running in Cygwin (in this case sshd) are still there. Do I even need to run Cygwin for this? Can I just run cygwin's sshd from windows? CYGWIN is not a program to be run. You can just run sshd as a service and get what you want. If you ssh to your Cygwin sshd system, you can run a bash shell or whatever shell you want. CYGWIN isn't something you run, it's just a dll that does fancy translation of win32 calls to unixy calls and vice versa so recompiled unixy programs can work properly on a Windows system. That is probably oversimplifying it and I'm sure fifteen other people could point out how what I said is incorrect or misleading, but it should explain it well enough. I do know what the 'Run' menu is in Windows. I also found information about Cygserver in the online documentation -- is this what I need? Are you trying to tell me to use the Run menu with 'cygrunsrv.exe' ? Or are you telling me to run sshd from 'Run' menu? Cygserver and cygrunsrv.exe are two different things. You do not need Cygserver. If you run ssh-host-config it will create an sshd service using cygrunsrv.exe for you. Then you can just start it just like any other windows service. Once again, I'm really not at home in Windows, so let me know if I'm missing something. If I am not understanding something could you at least point me in the right direction for what I need to look up? Thanks, jrtayloriv -- -- 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: ps executable does not appear to match source
On Jan 17, 2008 9:38 PM, wrote: The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this correct? Cygwin has both ps and procps available. The ps in Cygwin has the advantage of showing Windows processes, too. The procps is just what you'd expect. -Jason -- NOTICE: Reading this email message requires root privileges which you do not appear to possess. Sorry, dude. -- 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: accessibility issues with setup.exe for cygwin
On Dec 15, 2007 10:26 AM, Nick Gawronski wrote: Hi, I am trying to install everything in the cygwin distrobution accept the X packages. I however use a screen reader as I am totally blind. The setup program is not the best accessible with any screen readers. I have also heard reports from other blind people who have had problems installing cygwin using this program. http://www.microsoft.com/enable has great information on how to make windows programs like setup.exe more accessible to everyone. It would really be nice if the setup program for cygwin was made more user friendly as with the current setup all I get is a base system and with that I can't do much. It would also be nice if an automatic updater was written for those of us who like to get the most updated packages and security updates. Hello Nick, I can't help you with making setup.exe more accessible, but I thought you'd like to know that when you run setup.exe and step through the defaults, it will automatically select the newest versions of any cygwin apps you have installed. So, if you ran setup.exe and installed a base system then ran setup.exe a month later without making any changes to the selections, it would update your applications for you. -Jason
Re: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave
On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: I am trying to compile a package called meep by means of cygwin. While running the configure command I get an error as: ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI program) to unpack .tar.gz files for Cygwin, because they mangle the line ends from LF to CRLF. Use tar xvzf meep-0.10.1.tar.gz in a bash shell instead. I run into this exact thing all the time and still forget to NOT use the Windows un-tar utility. I don't know why d2u doesn't work though, if it really is just a LF/CRLF problem. I can use the Windows tar functions for non-cygwin related items. Just not with cygwin. I have not experienced this problem using WinRAR. -Jason -- 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: su: user root does not exist
On 12/3/07, asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: Hi all, I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I couldnt understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. Would somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming from and how can I solve it?! Regards, Asa, Start here: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su -- 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: end of file characters
On Dec 1, 2007 3:07 PM, Erik Weibust wrote: I went with the defaults when installing cygwin. Which means I used the recommended unix/binary line feed setting. It sounded like that means I get no line-ending translation done by cygwin, which is fine. So I open a .bat file and see a bunch of ^Ms at the end of each line. Then I open a xml file and don't see them. I was expecting to see the ^Ms again as the xml file, just like the bat file, was created in a windows environment. Is this normal? deleted words Vi also doesn't show the ^M if it recognizes the file as [dos] and instead shows a little [dos] in the information line. -Jason -- 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: [GTG] Re: [ITP] lzma 4.43 -- Compression program using high 7z compress algorithm
On 11/8/07, Brian Dessent wrote:
Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
Jari Aalto writes:
Included in Debian stable
http://packages.debian.org/lzma
Builds fine and packaging looks good. GTG
There is a problem with the man page of this package. From the README,
it is lifted from the debian package. However, the debian package must
be a totally different version of lzma, because it does not correspond
at all to the one shipped here:
LZMA(1) LZMA(1)
NAME
lzma, unlzma, lzcat - LZMA compression and decompression tool
SYNOPSIS
lzma [-123456789cdefhkLqtvV] [-S suffix] [filenames ...]
unlzma [-cfhkLqtvV] [-S suffix] [filenames ...]
lzcat [-fhLqV] [filenames ...]
$ lzma --help
LZMA 4.43 Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Igor Pavlov 2006-06-04
Error: Incorrect command
Usage: LZMA e|d inputFile outputFile [switches...]
e: encode file
d: decode file
b: Benchmark
Switches
-a{N}: set compression mode - [0, 1], default: 1 (max)
-d{N}: set dictionary - [0,30], default: 23 (8MB)
-fb{N}: set number of fast bytes - [5, 273], default: 128
-mc{N}: set number of cycles for match finder
-lc{N}: set number of literal context bits - [0, 8], default: 3
-lp{N}: set number of literal pos bits - [0, 4], default: 0
-pb{N}: set number of pos bits - [0, 4], default: 2
-mf{MF_ID}: set Match Finder: [bt2, bt3, bt4, hc4], default: bt4
-eos: write End Of Stream marker
-si:read data from stdin
-so:write data to stdout
The man page talks about a version that has the same interface as gzip
and bzip2, however the binary that is in the package has a totally
different set of options -- it would actually be nice to have the debian
version instead of this.
Also, the manpage refers to unlzma and lzcat which are nonexistant.
Brian
It looks like this lzma is what Debian calls p7zip. p7zip gives you
the 7z command which has all these command-line options directly from
the 7-zip for Windows program.
The lzma package has the gzip-ish commands.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search lzma
lzma - Default and general compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip program
p7zip-full - 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio
-Jason
Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl
On Nov 7, 2007 9:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cost? And how much was Cygwin's again? - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - This is to avoid people assuming ActiveState Perl costs money and wondering how they can charge money for a perl release. ActiveState Perl costs no money to download and use. Sorry to take this even more off-topic. -Jason -- 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: Wish Setup would accept my Perl
On 11/6/07, Dave Korn wrote: On 06 November 2007 16:21, Brian Mathis wrote: I must say with respect that if there are problems porting from Activestate to linux/unix, that's a problem with the programmer who wrote the code, not Perl. There's no reason that code that's general in nature would not be portable. Does Activestate perl parse unix/posix style paths with a single common '/' filesystem root? If not, case closed I'd say. Not to mention ... ---from the AS perl docs--- - - - - cut wordy badness - - - - --end snip- IOW, Perl is not a write-once-run-anywhere language, and AS perl cannot be assumed to satisfy the requirements that any random cygwin package that requires perl may impose. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today So, to help the OP's: use your perl installation as it was intended. I have ActiveState Perl installed and cygwin perl. I also have ActiveState Python and cygwin python. I have no problems when I use each version in the appropriate environment. Simple scripts can be written that will run in both environments. Heck, some of the Win32 stuff has even been ported to cygwin (see setup.exe). I once, like you, wondered why I couldn't just have one installation of Perl or Python that works in either environment. Since I write scripts, not code, I assumed it was because it was just too hard to do and began to use each program in its appropriate place. Cygwin handles the pathing so I never have a problem with a cygwin bash prompt trying to call C:\Perl\bin\perl when I just use 'perl'. It checks /usr/bin/perl first. Use as intended. -Jason PS - I use PPM to manage perl modules for ActiveState Perl and cpan to manage modules for cygwin perl. PPM is super-Windows-centric. -- 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: PStree on cygwin
On Nov 4, 2007 9:00 PM, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote: Hi all, I tried to find the pstree package in Cygwin setup list but it was not included. Does Cygwin community yet to deploy pstree / no plan to release it? I found it useful when I did demo of forked process for certain PID (pstree -p pid) to the students in my class. Regards, najmi http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=pstree -- 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: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword
On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +) Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that fulfill a certain purpose? apropos If using that, don't forget to run /usr/sbin/makewhatis first [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ apropos editor editor: nothing appropriate [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /usr/sbin/makewhatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ apropos editor ed (1) - text editor psed (1) - a stream editor psed [s2p] (1) - a stream editor red [ed] (1) - text editor sed (1) - stream editor for filtering and transforming text vim (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor -Jason -- 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: copying a million tiny files?
On Nov 1, 2007 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: --- Erich Dollansky ha scritto: if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any networking stuff on this plattform. It should be there since the first hard disks have been there. Not so old. I think only from MSDOS 5.0 Regards Marco Continuing to completely derail this topic: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/06/47937.aspx#48022 xcopy is older than that -- 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: Problem with Cygwin Include Files
On 10/23/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 22 17:59, Larry Adams wrote: Hello, The problem is that /usr/include/cygwin/icmp.h is blank and needs to be non-blank. - - - - words . . . - - - - It doesn't contain anything for a couple of reasons. - For ICMP you need raw sockets, but raw sockets were never really supported in Cygwin. - Windows disallows non-admin users to use them which makes them somewhat less useful. - There are not a lot of complaints about this fact so I assume not many people really need it. And last but not least - Nobody contributed any code so far. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC http://cygwin.com/contrib.html Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat The perl Net::Ping module had a similar problem (see http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=42739 for details). These suggestions were implemented by the creation of the Win32::PingICMP module which taps icmp.dll to circumvent the you must be admin limitation. I have neither the ability nor the desire to look in to recreating in cygwin what icmp.dll and Win32::PingICMP do for Windows and perl. I'm just letting other folks know that it is probably possible and perhaps not that painful. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: CYGWIN sshd staying in 'Starting' status
On 10/19/07, Sam Snitman wrote: Thanks for your reply Rene, In reading the $CYGWIN/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README file, It mentions that the substitute account should have the following user rights: Create a token object Logon as a service Replace a process level token Increate Quota Where are these properties set? Thanks, Sam Running ssh-host-config creates the account and sets the appropriate rights and restrictions automatically. -Jason -- 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: is there a urlencode utility somewhere?
On 10/17/07, Mike Marchywka wrote: Hi, I found out that sometime during my reinstall process I lost something called urlencode Any idea where this is, or if it is even part of cygwin? I've been all through setup and google but no luck. This is supposed to read from stdin and output a urlencoded version but the only scripts I can find read from a file and don't take stdin by default. Thanks. This is all I could find: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=urlencode -- 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: is there a urlencode utility somewhere?
On 10/18/07, Mike Marchywka wrote: This is all I could find: Thanks - I'm pretty sure if didn't come from there but it may be part of postfix. I opened the google search to include linux and found the same script I had in a postfix zip file It turns out, however, that these scripts check for a command line parameter. When I removed the check, it ran just fine from stdiin. Obviously, things that just start working like this are a little disconcerting but I seem to be back up for now. I do have a lot of incomplete packages according to cygcheck but that probably reflects the problem with /usr being a link. I didn't want to do a complete reinstall and setup the links just for one script. Thanks. From: DePriest, Jason R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: is there a urlencode utility somewhere? Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:30:35 -0500 On 10/17/07, Mike Marchywka wrote: Hi, I found out that sometime during my reinstall process I lost something called urlencode Any idea where this is, or if it is even part of cygwin? I've been all through setup and google but no luck. This is supposed to read from stdin and output a urlencoded version but the only scripts I can find read from a file and don't take stdin by default. Thanks. This is all I could find: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=urlencode doing an apt-cache search urlencode on a Debian system throws these up: $ apt-cache search urlencode libapache-request-perl - Generic Apache Request Library libapache2-mod-apreq2 - generic Apache request library - Apache module libapache2-request-perl - generic Apache request library - Perl modules libapreq2 - generic Apache request library libapreq2-dev - generic Apache request library - development files libapreq2-doc - generic Apache request library - documentation so maybe you can get it from apache -Jason -- 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: OpenSSH for windows issue
On 10/17/07, Mick Ken wrote: Friends, I am trying to install SSH on a Windows 2003 server since last 3 days and still no luck. I have tried literally everything and searched 100s of google pages but I am getting this error.I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me resolve this. Here's the trace from the server end: E:\Program Files\OpenSSH\usr\sbinsshd -d - - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - - Not the ssh server installed from http://cygwin.com/setup.exe is it? Seriously, just run setup.exe and install the basics + the ssh server (openssh in the Net category). Run ssh-host-config, run ssh-user-config, it works. Takes care of creating a service account and giving the appropriate rights and appropriate limitations. Takes care of getting the permissions correct. Easy. Leave OpenSSH for Windows out of this if you want to use cygwin tools. If all you want is an SSH server that runs on Windows and gives you a cmd.exe prompt when you connect, then OpenSSH for Windows is for you and, of course, this is not where you would get support for it. -Jason -- 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: cygrunsrv: Error stopping a service: OpenService: Win32 error 1060:
On 10/18/07, Dao, Phuong wrote: Hi, I get this error when trying to start the sshd service, does anyone has a clue of the problem? Thanks a lot C:\cygwin\bincygrunsrv -S sshd cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started. Phuong Two things stand out from your cygcheck output. The first: DLL version: 1.5.19 My version is 1.5.24 The second thing is more important in this case: No Cygwin services found. Have you run ssh-host-config on this system? -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista
On 10/15/07, jxt wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - Now, as to the original question about shared folders being created by cygwin on vista, it appears that a solution is in hand, though I have not yet tested it in my envrionment. Indeed I had tried some googling, and even searching the archives of this list (using Nabble) before the post, but I guess I wasn't using to right search strings. I've had so many fights with vista, absolutely nothing surprises me when it behaves strangely. - - - - cut - - - - - - What was the solution? CYGWIN=nontsec? That's an odd solution because I thought that would mess up how cygwin manages permissions. From the User's Guide (no)ntsec - if set, use the NT security model to set UNIX-like permissions on files and processes. That implies that if this is NOT set that cygwin will NOT use the NT security model to set UNIX-like peremissions. So if you use CYGWIN=nontsec, you are losing some of the UNIX-ness of your cygwin enviroment. I still don't understand why Vista (which I do not have a copy of to test with) would assume that a new folder being created needed to be shared. I haven't found a way to display the shared status of a folder from a cygwin bash prompt. ls and getfacl can give me permission and ownership information, but not whether or not something is shared. You can always use the Microsoft net command (see: net help share). If I understand the problem, when you create a new directory inside a cygwin shell, the directory is automatically shared (with the little hand on the icon or whatever Vista uses to show that) and that this happens whether or not the parent directory is shared. Meaning, if you did $ mkdir test1 $ mkdir test2 $ net share You would see something like Share name Resource Remark --- ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin IPC$ Remote IPC test1 C:\cygwin\home\jrd\test1 test2 C:\cygwin\home\jrd\test2 Is this correct? -Jason -- 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/
stupid question about user/groups shown with ls -l and ls -ln
If I run ls -l from /cygdrive/c it shows pagefile.sys as --1 1595523072 Oct 12 10:43 pagefile.sys I hate seeing the little '?' in my ls output. Normally, I just do ls -ln and look up what user name and group the SSIDs match with. However, with pagefile.sys you get this instead --1 4294967295 4294967295 1595523072 Oct 12 10:43 pagefile.sys WTF? That makes no sense. That big number corresponds with in hex or the biggest 32-bit integer (around 4GB in the 2 to the X naming convention for GB -- sorry I can't bring myself to gibibyte). I learned something new today looking that up. Everybody knows 655535, but I'd never seen this one before. Is this ls's way of saying it has no idea? Does Windows actually provide a value that internally corresponds to this number? Incidentally, getfacl comes up with the same value (not surprising). Thank you! -Jason -- 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: Links and O/S shell
On 10/9/07, Joel Rubin wrote: I ran links from cmd, started to download a file in the background and ran an O/S shell. Later, when I could see that the download was long finished, I exited the O/S shell and, instead of returning to links, the whole console box disappeared, leaving the ghost of links and the cmd session which had started it running without any visible console. I cannot recreate this. If, from within links, I request an 'OS shell' and later exit that shell, links is still running and I can just 'q' to exit it. I tried this from a Windows cmd.exe prompt using \cygwin\bin\links.exe and also from within an rxvt (no X) bash prompt. Both times, links spawned a cmd.exe prompt that worked as expected when I exited it. You could provide the information requested by Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -Jason -- 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: Users connected to my computer using Cygwin
On 10/9/07, Daniel Noll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that works, as long as you only care about the users logged on through the SSH server. If I open a clean bash session and type who it doesn't even show myself. Daniel I guess you don't have CYGWIN=TTY in your environment (I can't remember what the default is, so you may explicitly have CYGWIN=NOTTY, same result)? Even if it is NOTTY, try 'who -a' and you will see some stuff. -Jason -- 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/
Founstone Labs (now part of McAfee) violates GPL or not?
Foundstone Labs has a few free tools they release that are compiled against the cygwin1.dll. The free tools are: pasco (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/pasco.htm) galleta (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/galleta.htm) rifiuti (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/rifiuti.htm) Pasco includes its source code and is probably okay on that part, but it doesn't include the text of the GPL and the cygwin1.dll file has a BuildDate of '2003-03-18 09:20' and a File and Product Version number of 1.3.22-dontuse-21 I can recompile it with the source and it works fine. The other two products, galleta and rifiuti, ship with the same version of cygwin1.dll but don't have the source code or the license text. I've tried asking the McAfee reps that deal with my employer to look into it, but got nowhere. I have also emailed the person listed on the sites for these tools as the author and have not received a response. I'd really like to have these tools compiled under a modern version of the cygwin1.dll. Do they (Foundstone now McAfee) have one of those special license agreements with RedHat to use cygwin1.dll without provided license information or source code? Thank you, -Jason -- 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: Home directory
On 10/3/07, Gmane User wrote: Dave Korn wrote: On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: Brian Dessent writes: Gmane User wrote: it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to mv. Many software systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release notes can be findable in such a form online? less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils-*.README Thanks, Brian. I was actually asking in the context of not updating cygwin right away. Whether or not one could access up-to-date accumulation of release notes, possibly on the web. Yes, absolutely. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/. I did indeed check that before posting to ask about where release notes can be found. In fact, they can be found peicemeal at http://tinyurl.com/2dxno3, but it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to mv. Many software systems have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release notes can be findable in such a form online? I am referring to an accumulation of release notes for coreutils, all rolled up in one notice. A Google search with site:cygwin.com inurl:/ml/cygwin-announce mv turns up useful stuff, too -- 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: OpenSSH and user environment: Maybe not initialized correctly
On 9/25/07, Frank wrote: Hi, I am experiencing some trouble with OpenSSH under Cygwin. Details on my Cygwin installation can be found in the attached outputs of cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out on the machines in the zipped attachment. [I tried to send with attachment, but obviously it did not get through your protection mechanisms... Now trying without attachment...] - - - cut stuff - - - Attach cygcheck.out as a plain-text, non-compressed file and it will work. -Jason -- 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 Environment Variables should i set up?
On 9/23/07, yaojiaxing wrote: i installed Cygwin,and wanted to compile programs in eclipse , so what Environment Variables should i set up.Where to get information about Environment Variables that i should set up. Thanks a lot! For Cygwin programming questions, see if the FAQ is any help: http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.programming.html There isn't much need for particular environment variables in most cases: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-env.html and http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html The defaults normally work unless you are using a Cygwin service that needs the 'server' value. If eclipse has its own requirements, they should be mentioned in its documentation. -Jason -- 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: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?
On 9/20/07, Corinna Vinschen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...which isn't that tricky. In the Disk Management tool (for instance right click My Computer - Manage to get there via the Computer Management admin tool) disks are numbered Disk 0, Disk 1, etc. This order corresponds with /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. Partitions are numbered left to right. /dev/sda1 corresponds to the first partition, etc. Similar for CD-ROM and DVD drives. In the Disk Management tool they are numbered CD-ROM 0, CD-ROM 1, etc, which corresponds to /dev/sr0, /dev/sr1, etc.. Alternatively to /dev/scd0, /dev/scd1, etc. For tape drives, have a look into the Device Manager. The properties dialog of each tape drive has a tab Tape Symbolic Name. Tape0 corresponds to /dev/st0, /dev/nst0, Tape1 to /dev/st1, /dev/nst1, etc. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat Corinna, thanks for the tip about the order in Disk Management corresponding to the /dev/sdX order. I never thought of that since I was always trying to find a tool to give me the information from the command-line. That will make things easier in the future. -Jason -- 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: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?
On 9/19/07, Eric Blake wrote: Scalzott, Todd writes: I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the problem. There's no such thing as CORE in the cygwin distribution; you meant coreutils. I've discovered what I believe to be a problem with dd on several different XP SP2 systems with Cygwin installed involving the usage of Windows' \\.\PhysicalDrive nomenclature. That's your problem. Cygwin is a Linux emulation, and use of Window's \\.\ nomenclature is not guaranteed to work. Using the corresponding posix-y name is more likely to succeed, in which case the bug is not in dd but in your usage. That is, reading from \\.\PhysicalDrive1 with the below command works flawlessly: dd if=^\^\.^\PhysicalDrive1 of=tmp.img bs=16384 That's an unusual quoting style; it certainly doesn't work under bash. Are you by chance trying this under cmd.com? In which case, why are you bothering with quoting? cmd.com passes \ through without the need for quoting. At any rate, what you probably wanted something more like this (less typing, and no need for quoting, whether in cmd.com or bash): dd if=tmp.img of=/dev/sda bs=16K See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html for more details. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer I concur with Eric Blake. I have used dd, dd_rescue, aimage, and the sleuthkit under Cygwin using the /dev/sdX nomenclature. It works once you can figure out which /dev/sdX corresponds to which device+partition. -Jason -- 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: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?
On 9/19/07, James Adams wrote: - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r cygcheck.out 69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 bash: fork: Permission denied - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - cygcheck is a Windows program so you can run it from a cmd.exe prompt. You'll just have to make sure you use the full path or go to your cygwin\bin directory first. -Jason -- 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: [ITP] flip 1.19 -- Convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats
On 9/18/07, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jari Aalto on 9/14/2007 5:57 AM: * Fri 2007-09-14 Carlo Florendo subscribermail-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w AT public.gmane.org * Message-Id: 46EA5BF2.1020701 AT gmail.com Jari Aalto wrote: The legendary \n = \r\n end of line converter. Included in Debian stable http://packages.debian.org/flip Wow! and I thought we had d2u and u2d :) Does debian provide d2u at all? If all debian provides is flip, then that is a stronger argument for uploading flip. I'm passing on uploading this until we get a little more consensus as to whether this is duplicate functionality, or whether it is providing more usability to users used to debian. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake My Debian Etch install provides a package called tofrodos which includes the commands todos and fromdos which are symlinked to unix2dos and dos2unix. The abbreviated u2d and d2u are not present by default. It also provides the package flip that doesn't have any fancy abbreviations or symlinks. tofrodos Description: Converts DOS - Unix text files, alias tofromdos DOS text files traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters while Unix text files traditionally have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line. . Tofrodos comprises one program, fromdos alias todos, which converts text files to and from these formats. Use fromdos to convert DOS text files to the Unix format, and todos to convert Unix text files to the DOS format. . This functionality is also available via the dos2unix/unix2dos symlinks. . Homepage: http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml flip Description: convert text file line endings between Unix and DOS formats This program converts line endings of text files between MS-DOS and **IX formats. It detects binary files in a nearly foolproof way and leaves them alone unless you override this. It will also leave files alone that are already in the right format and preserves file timestamps. User interrupts are handled gracefully and no garbage or corrupted files left behind. 'flip' does not convert files to a different character set, and it can not handle Apple Macintosh line endings (CR only). For that (and more), you can use the 'recode' program (package 'recode'). Does d2u do anything special if a binary file is input or does it just go through it and try to fix the line endings? The do seem to duplicate functionality. Both packages take up less than 100k. -Jason
Re: 1.5.24-2 question about using echo on remote node.
On 9/17/07, Prakash Babu wrote: Hello all, I am trying to run the following command using cygwin on a remote node using ssh. /bin/sh -c 'echo Number=\1234567\ /tmp/file1' The command executes successfully but the file has content Number=1234567(double quotes missing) instead of Number=1234567. The same command works as expected when i run it from red hat Linux. Any idea on why this is happening. thanks, Prakash No idea. If I cut and paste your command directly from your email and into my rxvt bash window, it runs properly (double-quotes are in the resulting file). Following the Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html might help narrow it down. -Jason -- 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: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute
On 9/17/07, SQueeZe wrote: Hi All I am trying to connect to my home computer from work and I have to use the work HTTP proxy on port 443 in order to do so. I have done this using PuTTY just fine so I know there is nothing wrong with my setup. I have downloaded the windows binary of Connect and placed it in the same folder as the ssh binary (c:\cwrsync\bin). If I try to run the connect command by itself in debug mode I can connect to the proxy and thus my home PC just fine: bash-3.00$ connect -d -H proxy:8085 myhomepc 443 - - - deleted DEBUG - - - SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9 DEBUG: sent 2 bytes DEBUG: recv 19 bytes Protocol mismatch. DEBUG: connection closed by peer DEBUG: relaying done. DEBUG: that's all, bye. I have installed cwRsync which has the OpenSSH client version 4.5. I should be able to type in the following: ssh -v -o ProxyCommand=connect -H -d proxy:8085 %h 443 [EMAIL PROTECTED] However I get the following error: OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006 debug1: Executing proxy command: exec connect.exe -H proxy:8085 myhomepc 443 debug1: permanently_drop_suid: 400 /bin/sh: No such file or directory debug1: identity file /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myuser/.ssh/identity type -1 debug1: identity file /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myuser/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: identity file /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/myuser/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host The problem is that it doesn't seem to be finding the connect binary. If I remove all the connect.exe stuff and just leave it as or put random stuff in there, I get exactly the same error. C:\cwRsync\bin is in my PATH variable so I can type it from anywhere. I have tried specifying the location with: C:\cwRsync\bin\connect /cygdrive/c/cwRsync/bin/connect and I have tried copying the binary to various places on my hard drive to no avail. My understanding is that I should get some output from Connect once it finds it as I have specified the -d flag. What am I doing wrong? Thanks SQueeZe -- Hello. I have used the ProxyConnect option successfully. However, I do not use your method. Instead, I modify my ~/.ssh/config file to contain ProxyCommand sections for specific IP addresses or hosts. It might make your command line a little bit easier to read and would elimiate potential quoting errors. I am also using corkscrew instead of connect.exe for ProxyCommand and I compiled it myself inside of cygwin. See man ssh_config Also Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -Jason -- 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: sftp removing writable bit
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not necessarily against the idea of well go out and get a working copy of these programs but often clients do not give consultants that privilege. If your tools are limited or you do transfer just one file then scp is fine. One file? scp can transfer whole trees... But if you want some comfort you should go for the other ones. My point is the chances are better that scp will just work while sftp probably won't be configured... By the way: this has nothing to do with scp versus sftp. And I'm not really sure what you mean by scp - do you mean the protocol or the command line tool? Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an sftp client when in all likelihood scp is already there and ready to use. IOW what's the advantage of an sftp client over just plain scp? Anyway: if I haven't convinced you yet that sftp can have its uses and advantages then I probably never will. That's funny I was thinking the same thing! Doesn't mean we can't discuss it though... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com Everybody repeat after me ...We are all individuals. sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex transfers, but if you are more familiar and comfortable with scp, then use it -Jason -- 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: sftp removing writable bit
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an - - - - - cut - - - - - vi /etc/sshd_config uncomment line: Subsystem sftp /usr/sbin/sftp-server :wq sftp is now set up -- 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: Whither /dev/null ?
On 9/14/07, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: Hello, I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as possible) on Cygwin and Linux. A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting output to the null device, or bit-bucket. If I write the following ls nul It works as expected under Cygwin, however under Linux I must write ls /dev/null I searched and found discussions on the Cygwin mailing list that seemed to say that Cygwin supported (supports?) the /dev/null device, but I checked my installation and this pseudo-device didn't seem to exist on my system. The '/dev' folder was missing. I discovered that if I created the folder '/dev', afterwards the /dev/null device existed, even if it does not appear as an actual file under /dev I installed cygwin only a few weeks ago using the http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe method, and it was missing the /dev folder. I compared this to the other machines around me which are running a version of Cygwin which is about two years old, same results: /dev is missing, but creating it unleashes the /dev/null pseudo-device. I'm wondering what is the best way to deal with this? I'd like the scripts to work straight out of the box and not have to make the users create their own /dev and creating it for them would be tedious because every script would have to check for this... Any advice? Puzzled about nothing. J Did you check the Cygwin User's Guide? http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html It sort of explains it. -Jason -- 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: sftp removing writable bit
On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: DePriest, Jason R. wrote: sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; seems like a compelling reason if you are going to be doing complex transfers, but if you are more familiar and comfortable with scp, then use it Hey I'm just trying to learn... What complex transfers are possible in the ftp command set that are not possible with scp/ssh? Hey, I agree, use whatever you are more comfortable with I guess. I just think it makes a lot more sense to just use the basic command set, perhaps extended with the s commands for remote files, rather than set up sftp and use a different command set. IOW I've never seen the need to set up sftp and use it over just using the s commands... -- Andrew DeFaria http://defaria.com Did anyone see my lost carrier? sftp gives you a familiar FTP shell; it is not just a command you run you can list the files on the remote system and make decisions about what files you want instead of requiring that knowledge beforehand compare sftp ? Available commands: cd path Change remote directory to 'path' lcd path Change local directory to 'path' chgrp grp pathChange group of file 'path' to 'grp' chmod mode path Change permissions of file 'path' to 'mode' chown own pathChange owner of file 'path' to 'own' help Display this help text get remote-path [local-path] Download file lls [ls-options [path]] Display local directory listing ln oldpath newpathSymlink remote file lmkdir path Create local directory lpwd Print local working directory ls [path] Display remote directory listing lumask umask Set local umask to 'umask' mkdir pathCreate remote directory progress Toggle display of progress meter put local-path [remote-path] Upload file pwd Display remote working directory exit Quit sftp quit Quit sftp rename oldpath newpathRename remote file rmdir pathRemove remote directory rm path Delete remote file symlink oldpath newpath Symlink remote file version Show SFTP version !command Execute 'command' in local shell ! Escape to local shell ? Synonym for help with $ scp usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:]file1 [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:]file2 use what works; use what you know i prefer sftp because I am more familiar with ftp than i am with rcp (which scp is based on) -Jason -Jason -- 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: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server
On 9/14/07, Sam Snitman wrote: Brian, Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. That's definitely not right Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can you please elaborate what mounts are and about how to/risks of changing them to point to d:\cygwin instead of d:\cygwin2. We are currently using cygwin for our ITG application to connect with remote servers and I wouldn't want to negatively affect anything. I will also start looking at the documentation on mounts on the cygwin site. Thanks, Sam If you haven't read through the Cygwin User's Guide yet (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html), it is incredibly informative. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: setup.exe not available?
On 9/6/07, Yu Namba wrote: I need to install OpenSSL, but when I click on the link to download/run setup.exe, the file seems unavailable and I get the The page cannot be displayed page. Can you please look into this? -- When I click on the link, it works just fine for me. http://cygwin.com/setup.exe -Jason -- 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: openssh not reporting the correct errorlevel
On 8/28/07, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT)) Here are the command sequence I ran on Windows 2003 x86 SP2 servers (delhi is the hostname) C:\ssh delhi net The syntax of this command is: NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FILE | GROUP | HELP | HELPMSG | LOCALGROUP | NAME | PAUSE | PRINT | SEND | SESSION | SHARE | START | STATISTICS | STOP | TIME | USE | USER | VIEW ] C:\echo %errorlevel% 0 ANALYSIS: The errorlevel returned from the second command should be 1 instead of 0. Sorry, but that's ridiculous. You shouldn't use command line applications if you don't have a basic understanding of what you're doing. The output you gave is *not* from ssh delhi net but from net delhi ssh (or net ssh delhi). Net(.exe) is a Windows app. Do yourself a favour: use PuTTY. Thorsten The command entered looks correct to me. He is connecting to remote host 'delhi' using ssh and executing the 'net' command on 'delhi' which correctly outputs its usage information. Ssh then disconnects and returns him to the local system. -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess
On 8/6/07, jason.stott wrote: Hello, We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user Citrix server environment. One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after running the commands): Your group is currently mkpasswd. This indicates that the /etc/passwd (and possibly /etc/group) files should be rebuilt. See the man pages for mkpasswd and mkgroup then, for example, run mkpasswd -l [-d] /etc/passwd mkgroup -l [-d] /etc/group Note that the -d switch is necessary for domain users. We have also noticed that the profile function isn't saving files in the C:\cygwin\home\Jason.Stott_adm under a non-privileged user the same way that it is for a user with administrative access. Is anyone running Cygwin in a multi-user Citrix environment with user only privileges successfully and if so are there any clues that you could provide for the above issues? Thank you in advance. Jason Stott First, dang your legal disclaimer is long. Second, I haven't used Cygwin in a Citrix environment, but I do have a suggestion. Can you prepopulate the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files with all of the Citrix users account information? That would keep the users from needing to write to those files and should also let you set their home directories. -Jason -- NOTICE: This email is being sent in clear-text across the public Internet. Therefore, any attempts to include unenforceable legalese restrictions are ridiculous and pointless. If you can read this, consider yourself authorized (whether I like it or not). -- 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: Copy text from secured PDF
On 8/6/07, Joel Rubin wrote: The PDF's in question are part of pump and dump spam via botnets so I see no legal or ethical reason to respect any expressed desire of the author as to how they may be used. I googled that XPDF didn't respect the no copy/no print flags in PDF's but the version that I got with Cygwin does and gives me an error message when I try to copy text that this file doesn't permit it. Of course, I suppose I could look for an old version or cut this feature out of the source and recompile (it's probably removable with only one or two edits) My solution is totally not Cygwin-related, but why don't you just screenshot it and run it through an OCR? -Jason -- NOTICE: This email is being sent in clear-text across the public Internet. Therefore, any attempts to include unenforceable legalese restrictions are ridiculous and pointless. If you can read this, consider yourself authorized (whether I like it or not). -- 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: Copy text from secured PDF
On 8/6/07, Steve Holden wrote: Joel Rubin wrote: pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files being spammed just a few lines of text and all I want to do is forward the text to the Securities and Exchange Commission and maybe the Chinese Consulate (they seem to be spamming Chinese stocks) that's enough for me. So if you have a LEGITIMATE reason to prevent the reader of a PDF file from copying/printing don't use this method because it is very easy to break - it depends on the co-operation of the reading program. And open source reading programs can cease to co-operate. Bob, I'm sure I will be sued by the author of the PDF, especially if he can testify about the whole pump and dump conspiracy and not take the Fifth Amendment. I'm sorry to say this, but reporting each and every such spam to the SEC is merely going to compound the problem by spamming them. If you aren't part of the answer then you are part of the problem ... regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --- Asciimercial -- Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration --- Thank You for Reading - -- The FTC wants it. http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/inbox.shtm What Can I Do With the Spam in my In-Box? Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Send a copy of unwanted or deceptive messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FTC uses the unsolicited emails stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive spam email. -Jason -- 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: Request for running a test application
On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. Just please don't send information which is already available. The test application is a rewritten version of the GetVolInfo source code which I have already send once or twice. A bit of information has been added and that's what I'm especially interested in. To build the application call: gcc -o getvolinfo getvolinfo.c -lntdll To run the application, simply call it with a POSIX or DOS path to any existing file on a filesystem, which you have permissions to access. The simplest method is to access the drives directly. For instance, if you have a drive c and a drive d, just call ./getvolinfo C: ./getvolinfo D: Please run it on all file system combinations you can lay your hands on. So far, I have information about: - Local FAT, FAT32, NTFS - Local CD, DVD - Remote NTFS - Remote Samba 3.x - USB Stick with FAT, NTFS I'm looking for - Harddisk, CD, DVD over USB - Remote FAT, FAT32 - Remote CD, DVD - Remote NFS over SFU NFS - Local(?) and remote HPFS - Disk changer systems - Any other file system not mentioned above. Thanks in advance, Corinna -- This is from a TrueCrypt 4.3 16GB AES encrypted, NTFS formatted volume on a Western Digital 120GB Passport USB external hard disk drive. Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 20 Volume Name: Serial Number : 1422353431 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : NTFS Flags : 700ff FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : TRUE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: TRUE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE What do you know, it looks just like a regular NTFS file system. -Jason -- NOTICE: This email is being sent in clear-text across the public Internet. Therefore, any attempts to include unenforceable legalese restrictions are ridiculous and pointless. If you can read this, consider yourself authorized (whether I like it or not). -- 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: Request for running a test application
On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi, I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. Just please don't send information which is already available. The test application is a rewritten version of the GetVolInfo source code which I have already send once or twice. A bit of information has been added and that's what I'm especially interested in. To build the application call: gcc -o getvolinfo getvolinfo.c -lntdll To run the application, simply call it with a POSIX or DOS path to any existing file on a filesystem, which you have permissions to access. The simplest method is to access the drives directly. For instance, if you have a drive c and a drive d, just call ./getvolinfo C: ./getvolinfo D: Please run it on all file system combinations you can lay your hands on. So far, I have information about: - Local FAT, FAT32, NTFS - Local CD, DVD - Remote NTFS - Remote Samba 3.x - USB Stick with FAT, NTFS I'm looking for - Harddisk, CD, DVD over USB - Remote FAT, FAT32 - Remote CD, DVD - Remote NFS over SFU NFS - Local(?) and remote HPFS - Disk changer systems - Any other file system not mentioned above. Thanks in advance, Corinna -- drive letter mapped to EMC-SNAS share Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 10 Volume Name: 225 Serial Number : 57 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : NTFS Flags : 4006e FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : FALSE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : FALSE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: FALSE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE UNC path to share on Windows XP-E appliance Device Type: 7 Characteristics: 10 Volume Name: Serial Number : 2082771569 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : NTFS Flags : 700ff FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK: TRUE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS: TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : TRUE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS: TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION: TRUE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE -- NOTICE: This email is being sent in clear-text across the public Internet. Therefore, any attempts to include unenforceable legalese restrictions are ridiculous and pointless. If you can read this, consider yourself authorized (whether I like it or not). -- 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/
