Re: distro apache2 will not start
Al wrote: The apache2 package is orphaned for this long period of time already. Maybe it's time to pull it from the distro, unless somebody would like to take over maintainership. There is an oss freak in Thuringia, currently working out the idea of a common patch repository to bring the DRY principle to patch maintenance and to lower the work for each Distro. I think the idea is interesting at least and could help in cases like this. http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf Al -- Al: This sounds like the reduce work on future maintenance might be a blessing. As for orphaning the product, I would hate to see that happen..My current version is presently 1.3.22 and I have on many occasions attempted to build a version 2 apache only not to make it. It was only within the past two years I discovered that a version 2 was available so I put this project on my to do list. The MAJOR reason I'm hanging on 1.3.22 for cygwin is that it supports true Unix-style symbolic links. It saves a lot of data movement and/or duplication. If you don't have anyone to volunteer the work on apache 2, I'll just keep my 1.3.22 system. It has been a very reliable product. I don't use any transaction nor SSL.apps. P.S. I can't volunteer any time on this due to my health. -- http://genealogy.mcferrin.org/ # McFerrin Family History, Public View -- 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
distro apache2 will not start
Hello: I'm trying to upgrade my apache from version 1.3.22 to version Server version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) that I just downloaded using setup.exe. At present, it can not kill of the children nor start them without getting the error Bad system call. I've yet to get anywhere. Version 2 is dead in the water. I noticed that /usr/sbin/apachectl2 had no .exe suffix so I ran file on and it reported /usr/sbin/httpd2: PE32 executable for MS Windows (console) Intel 80386 32-bit I'm running cygwin 1.7.7-1 on a Win XP pro with SP3 A cygchech -s output is attached. No other errors were reported when I did a apachectl2 start -- http://genealogy.mcferrin.org/ # McFerrin Family History, Public View Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Sep 16 18:11:52 2010 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\lbin C:\cygwin\bin\X11 C:\cygwin\lbin C:\cygwin\bin C:\Program Files\WinOne C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\SnapAPI\ C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ C:\Program Files\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\ .\ SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS CYGWIN = 'tty' HOME = '/home/Paul' PWD = '/c/tmp' MAKE_MODE = 'UNIX' Use '-r' to scan registry obcaseinsensitive set to 1 Cygwin installations found in the registry: System: Key: 172d431784c9776c Path: H:\cygwinV (ORPHANED) System: Key: c5e39b7a9d22bafb Path: C:\cygwin System: Key: 8906c960e8a52c64 Path: G:\cygwin_USB System: Key: 6e042ace4f7ac114 Path: C:\cygwin_1.5 a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS 51997Mb 60% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd CDFS 0Mb -2147483548%CS Audio CD e: hd NTFS211502Mb 39% CP CS UN PA FC New Volume f: hd NTFS211502Mb 2% CP CS UN PA FC New Volume g: hd NTFS 51199Mb 58% CP CS UN PA FC System h: hd NTFS107520Mb 84% CP CS UN PA FC Volume1 k: hd NTFS107520Mb 82% CP CS UN PA FC Volume2 l: hd NTFS210696Mb 12% CP CS UN PA FC Volume3 r: net NTFS211502Mb 39% CP CS UN PA FC New Volume y: net NTFS 40970Mb 62% CP CS UN PA FC z: net NTFS111576Mb 56% CP CS UN PA FC Local Disk C:\cygwin/ system binary,auto a: /a system binary \bin /bin system binary C: /c system binary D: /d system binary E: /e system binary \etc /etc system binary F: /f system binary G: /g system binary H: /h system binary I: /i system binary J: /j system binary K: /k system binary L: /l system binary \lib /lib system binary M: /m system binary N: /n system binary O: /o system binary P: /p system binary Q: /q system binary R: /r system binary \usr /usr system binary C:\cygwin\bin/usr/bin system binary,auto C:\cygwin\lib/usr/lib system binary,auto cygdrive prefix /cygdrive userbinary,auto Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk - C:\cygwin\bin\gawk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe - \etc\alternatives\cpp Not Found: cpp (good!) Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\WINDOWS\system32\find.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe - \etc\alternatives\gcc Not Found: gcc Not Found: gdb Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe Not Found: patch Found: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ssh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\vi Found: C:\cygwin\lbin\vi.exe Found:
Re: distro apache2 will not start
Sorry for double posting, went to wrong mailing list!! - Hello: I guess I should have attached my httpd.conf file since I had to make changes in my configuration to avoid more changes.. For the record, both access_log and error_log were empty. I tried using -e 999 and -E /tmp/file but all I got was the help screen. Acts like those options (regardless) aren't in there. I tried everything to get more error info. All other options in the HELP screen seemed to work except for anything that has to do with error_level or -E. Supplying -k start on the httpd2 directly produces the same bad system call error as supplying start to apachectl2. One more thing, running httpd2 in debug mode (-X) produces same error message. Jas anyone else gotten apache 2.2.6 working under cygwin 1.7.7X. It was built over 3 years ago; prior to 1.7? -Paul = httpd.conf file=== # # This is the main Apache HTTP server configuration file. It contains the # configuration directives that give the server its instructions. # See URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2 for detailed information. # In particular, see # URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/directives.html # for a discussion of each configuration directive. # # Do NOT simply read the instructions in here without understanding # what they do. They're here only as hints or reminders. If you are unsure # consult the online docs. You have been warned. # # Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many # of the server's control files begin with / (or drive:/ for Win32), the # server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin # with /, the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so /var/log/apache2/foo.log # with ServerRoot set to /usr will be interpreted by the # server as /usr//var/log/apache2/foo.log. # # ServerRoot: The top of the directory tree under which the server's # configuration, error, and log files are kept. # # Do not add a slash at the end of the directory path. If you point # ServerRoot at a non-local disk, be sure to point the LockFile directive # at a local disk. If you wish to share the same ServerRoot for multiple # httpd daemons, you will need to change at least LockFile and PidFile. # ServerRoot /usr/share/apache2 # # Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or # ports, instead of the default. See also the VirtualHost # directive. # # Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to # prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses. # #Listen 12.34.56.78:80 Listen 80 # # Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support # # To be able to use the functionality of a module which was built as a DSO you # have to place corresponding `LoadModule' lines at this location so the # directives contained in it are actually available _before_ they are used. # Statically compiled modules (those listed by `httpd -l') do not need # to be loaded here. # # Example: # LoadModule foo_module modules/mod_foo.so # # /usr/lib/apache2 LoadModule authn_file_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authn_file.so LoadModule authn_dbm_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authn_dbm.so LoadModule authn_anon_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authn_anon.so LoadModule authn_dbd_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authn_dbd.so LoadModule authn_default_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authn_default.so LoadModule authz_host_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_host.so LoadModule authz_groupfile_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_groupfile.so LoadModule authz_user_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_user.so LoadModule authz_dbm_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_dbm.so LoadModule authz_owner_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_owner.so LoadModule authz_default_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_authz_default.so LoadModule auth_basic_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_auth_basic.so LoadModule auth_digest_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_auth_digest.so LoadModule dbd_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_dbd.so LoadModule dumpio_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_dumpio.so LoadModule ext_filter_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_ext_filter.so LoadModule include_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_include.so LoadModule filter_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_filter.so LoadModule deflate_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_deflate.so LoadModule log_config_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_log_config.so LoadModule log_forensic_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_log_forensic.so LoadModule logio_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_logio.so LoadModule env_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_env.so LoadModule mime_magic_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_mime_magic.so LoadModule cern_meta_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_cern_meta.so LoadModule expires_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_expires.so LoadModule headers_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_headers.so LoadModule ident_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_ident.so LoadModule usertrack_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_usertrack.so LoadModule unique_id_module
Creating a file within Cygwin with setting SYSTEM attribute
I have access to cpio sources that I would like to add support for copying/creating Cygwin's symbolic links. At present, any files I create would be as regular files. Any hints as how I would set this attribute so I could create these symbolic links. Does setting _IFLNK in the mode automatically perform setting SYSTEM attribute? -- http://genealogy.mcferrin.org/ # McFerrin Family History, Public View -- 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
symlinks in 1.5 not readable in 1.7
I've been working for months on this problem since 1.7 went official.. I'm runningWin XP Pro sp3 on an all NTFS filesystems. I was a beta tester for several months before 1.7 went official. In all of my testing as beta, my 1.5 symlinks worked in both 1.5 and 1.7. After (or during) the 1.7 becoming official, my many 1.5 symlinks were no longer working. I have spent considerable time attempting to find and fix these 1.5 created symlinks (300+ total) I was quite taken back that such a major change would be thrown in at the last minute. Mabe it was just an oversight. I am quoting from web page titled: What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7 Chapter 1. Cygwin Overview In one of the bullet items on the first page, it states : Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin releases. If this is true, then why am I having these problems now, a few months after 1.7 release? Has anyone else experience these problems or an I just a heavy user of symlinks? Has anyone written a tool that will find and fix these 1.5 symlinks? Note: cygcheck -s is attached. web page titled: -- http://genealogy.mcferrin.org/ # McFerrin Family History, Public View -- 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
1.5 symlinks not readable in 1.7
Sorry for re-submission. Forgot the attachment. I've been working for months on this problem since 1.7 went official.. I'm runningWin XP Pro sp3 on an all NTFS filesystems. I was a beta tester for several months before 1.7 went official. In all of my testing as beta, my 1.5 symlinks worked in both 1.5 and 1.7. After (or during) the 1.7 becoming official, my many 1.5 symlinks were no longer working. I have spent considerable time attempting to find and fix these 1.5 created symlinks (300+ total) I was quite taken back that such a major change would be thrown in at the last minute. Mabe it was just an oversight. I am quoting from web page titled: What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7 Chapter 1. Cygwin Overview In one of the bullet items on the first page, it states : Cygwin 1.7 can read all old style symlinks, but the new style is not compatible with older Cygwin releases. If this is true, then why am I having these problems now, a few months after 1.7 release? Has anyone else experience these problems or an I just a heavy user of symlinks? Has anyone written a tool that will find and fix these 1.5 symlinks? Note: cygcheck -s is attached. -- http://genealogy.mcferrin.org/ # McFerrin Family History, Public View Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Thu Aug 26 09:58:50 2010 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\lbin C:\cygwin\bin\X11 C:\cygwin\lbin C:\cygwin\bin C:\Program Files\WinOne C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\SnapAPI\ C:\Program Files\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\ .\ SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS CYGWIN = 'tty' HOME = '/home/Paul' PWD = '/home/Paul' MAKE_MODE = 'UNIX' Use '-r' to scan registry obcaseinsensitive set to 1 Cygwin installations found in the registry: System: Key: 172d431784c9776c Path: H:\cygwinV (ORPHANED) System: Key: c5e39b7a9d22bafb Path: C:\cygwin System: Key: 8906c960e8a52c64 Path: G:\cygwin_USB System: Key: 6e042ace4f7ac114 Path: C:\cygwin_1.5 a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS 51997Mb 61% CP CS UN PA FC d: cd N/AN/A e: hd NTFS211502Mb 38% CP CS UN PA FC New Volume f: hd NTFS211502Mb 2% CP CS UN PA FC New Volume g: hd NTFS 51199Mb 58% CP CS UN PA FC System h: hd NTFS107520Mb 84% CP CS UN PA FC Volume1 k: hd NTFS107520Mb 66% CP CS UN PA FC Volume2 l: hd NTFS210696Mb 12% CP CS UN PA FC Volume3 r: net NTFS211502Mb 38% CP CS UN PA FC New Volume y: net NTFS 40970Mb 61% CP CS UN PA FC z: net NTFS111576Mb 56% CP CS UN PA FC Local Disk C:\cygwin/ system binary,auto a: /a system binary \bin /bin system binary C: /c system binary D: /d system binary E: /e system binary \etc /etc system binary F: /f system binary G: /g system binary H: /h system binary I: /i system binary J: /j system binary K: /k system binary L: /l system binary \lib /lib system binary M: /m system binary N: /n system binary O: /o system binary P: /p system binary Q: /q system binary R: /r system binary \usr /usr system binary C:\cygwin\bin/usr/bin system binary,auto C:\cygwin\lib/usr/lib system binary,auto cygdrive prefix /cygdrive userbinary,auto Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk - C:\cygwin\bin\gawk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe - \etc\alternatives\cpp Not Found: cpp (good!) Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\WINDOWS\system32\find.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe - \etc\alternatives\gcc Not Found: gcc Not Found: gdb Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe
Why did cal disappear in disrto??
Could I get some from authority to address this issue? I noticed that when download the latest Cygwin distro the other day into a new PC, the cal package was nolonger included in any packages. However during the entire Beta test of Cygwin, it was there. Why was there a package removal a f t e r beta testing. It appears to be a disconnect for me. It would appears to me that for a new release to be made that a freeze date be observed in which major changes (command removal) would not be introduced. Only fixes, omissions, and upgrades would be allowed. Maybe I'm being to paranoid about this. But it would sound logical that a freeze date would mean this. Does it?? It appears that another command also disappeared but after a 14-week stay in a nursing I'm clueless as to what it was. -- http://genealogy.mcferrin.org/ # McFerrin Family History, Public View -- 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
missing dependency in setup.ini
I did a total install of 1.7 and founf a missing dependency. for he man command. It failed to download the gunzip command. -- 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 dependency in setup.ini
Here is my useage: /c/cygwin/updates.$ man sort /bin/sh: /usr/bin/gunzip: No such file or directory fgets: No such file or directory Error reading man page /usr/share/man/man1/sort.1.gz No manual entry for sort ?? huh ??? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:11:40AM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: I did a total install of 1.7 and founf a missing dependency. for he man command. It failed to download the gunzip command. gzip is a dependency of man and it is part of Base so it really should be there. gunzip is a shell script so maybe you're trying to run it from the windows command prompt or something. cgf -- 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 -- 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
can't find online mainling list
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Can't find mailist archives
I can't find the mailing lists archive. Did they get moved but just didn't update the links?? I can't seem to Navigate around to find the pages entitled Mailing List Archive s. When ever I click upon it's link (discussion) , it taked me to the top of it's current page which is at: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#see-above. At page http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/ml-request?listname=cron+usageusername=o peration=subscribesubmit=Send+in+the+request, , there is ONE link on the page labeled sourceware mailing list FAQ which is BROKEN. At page http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/ml-request?listname=cron+usageusername=o peration=subscribesubmit=Send+in+the+request, I wanted to search the mailing list which I have always done by clicking on link discussion takes me to an different area on the same page. My primary entry point to the discussion lists: I have finally found at: http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?form=extended I'm done chirping now. ~ -- 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
can't find documentation on cron command
I've delayed many months for installing the /usr/sbin/cron.exe command. Mainly due to lack of documentation. Bam, at my weakest moment, . I found the documentation embeeded in the cron command itself. Just by adding a -? or --help I got two pages of very helpfull output. Just about when I was going to offer my assistance to another user, I couldn't find it again. There has been no man pages on /sbin/cron. Never has as I can tell.. Back in 2006 there were gripes in the mailing list indicating documentation missing for /sbin/cron and /bin/at. Well, I guess I had it when I needed it. Do you know what happened? -- 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
Program cgystart does not recognize .pl file type; gets mime type incorrect
I ran into my first real problem with cygstart. When I execute
cygstart with the argument:
sendemail.pl
The browser window has the source-code being displayed. If I copy from
browser window back to an rxvt window, I get my source code back.
I received no error messages from cygwin. Here is the source I was
trying to execute:
#!/bin/perl
{
print Content-type: text/html\n\n;
srand();
$k = rand() * 32767;
$m = $k % 26;
$m = int($m);
$s = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12;
$sub = substr($s, $m, 1);
open(OUT, ../htdocs/tmp/_$sub_email.dat);
$value = hex($k) + 0x06;
print OUT Input type=hidden name=codewans value=\$value\;
for ($k=0; $k=5; $k++) {
$c = substr($value, $k, 1);
printf OUT img
src=\/web_images/Image-%s.jpg\nbsp;, $c;
}
close(OUT);
open(OUT, | cat - ../htdocs/email2.html | sed -e
\/BEGIN_/r .
./htdocs/tmp/_$sub_email.dat202\ ../htdocs/tmp/email2.htm);
print OUT \n;
close(OUT);
open(MYINPUTFILE, ../htdocs/tmp/email2.htm);
my(@lines) = MYINPUTFILE; # read file into list
foreach $line (@lines) { # loop thru list
print $line; # print
}
close(MYINPUTFILE);
exit(0);
}
Of course, LF were masked by the browser.
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Error about syntax on fstab when cygwin1.dll gets loaded
Every time my cygwin system comes back up, I aways get these 2 messages: 3 [main] ksh 2964 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'type' 160 [main] ksh 2964 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'type' I looked into /etc/fstab and did not find the text 'type'. However in /etc/fstab.d/Paul, the following was found: R: on /cygdrive/r type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) Z: on /cygdrive/z type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) Is this what is being ^^^complained about?? If so, who wrote this file?? It's time for a shoot-down. (just kidding) I've been seeing these 2 error message for 2 days now. Well I removed the file 'Paul' and it went away and stayed away. I guess problem solved. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
pipes are still buggy in 1.7
Hi folks:
I've been tryinh to get the following code to work. What I trying to do
is to run a ps command 2 times (with 3 secs separation) and have the awk
program capture the output kill all processes for a shutdown script.
Something is hanging. It does not run and control-C controol-\ does
not work. Here is the script:
.$ cat /lbin/shutdown
#!/bin/bash
#
# Shutdown the cygwin system
#
# First we send SIGKILL to all process NOT in our process
# group. Then after a 5-second sleep, we send SIGKILL.
#
# The last step is to kill off our process group.
#
# Written: Paul E. McFerrin 02/15/02
#
ME=`basename $0`
TMP=/tmp/${ME}_tmp # generated script name
$TMP
if [ -z $CONSOLE_TTY ]
then
echo You must execute $ME in the console (first) window!!
exit 2
fi
echo -e \nShutting down CYGWIN ...
PATH=/usr/local/apache/bin:$PATH
if [ -f /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl ]
then
apachectl stop
fi
AWKPGM='
# PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND
# 442949 1 442949 42944618430 500 02:35:28 /usr/bin/KSH
# 652513 1 652513 42943238670 500 02:35:43 /usr/bin/RXVT
/PID/ { next }
{
if( $1 == pid ) {
ourpgrp = $3
}
pgroup[$3 ] = $3
#next
}
{
nonspec[$1 ] = $1
}
END {
print exec 2/dev/null TMP
print # Our process group = ourpgrp TMP
for( g in pgroup ) {
if( g != ourpgrp ) {
print echo + kill -15 - g TMP
print kill -15 - g TMP
}
}
print sleep 5 TMP
for( g in pgroup ) {
if( g != ourpgrp ) {
print echo + kill -9 - g TMP
print kill -9 - g TMP
}
}
print # killing off our process group TMP
for( g in pgroup ) {
if( g == ourpgrp ) {
print echo + kill -9 - g TMP
print kill -9 - g TMP
}
print echo + kill ALL -9 1 TMP
print kill -9 1 TMP
}
print # killing off remaining processes, if any TMP
for( pid in nonspec ) {
if( pid != $1 ) {
print echo # nonspec = pid TMP
# kill all other processes, except for me
if (NF == 8) {
print echo + kill -9 pid TMP
print kill -9 pid TMP
}
}
}
}'
if [ -p /tmp/pipe1 ]
then
rm -f /tmp/pipe1
fi
mknod /tmp/pipe1 p
exec 1/tmp/pipe1 # keep shell opened into pipe1
gawk $AWKPGM TMP=$TMP pid=$$ /tmp/pipe1
ps -a /tmp/pipe1
sleep 3
ps -a pipe1
1-# now we close the pipe1
rm -f /tmp/pipe1
if [ -s $TMP ]
then
trap '' 15 # shields up!
#/bin/sh $TMP
cat $TMP
fi
# in theory, the exit should not be reached as we should have been killed
exit 0
Is this a bug in pipes??
- Paul
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tail command does not work as advertised
The tail +4 commands does not work as advertised. When given such command (advertised in man command), it complains it can't open the file. With the command tail +5 -, it produces the desired output with some junk on standard output. See examples: $ ps -a | tail +5 - tail: cannot open `+5' for reading: No such file or directory == standard input == PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND 5644 15644 5644? 18 20:24:45 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv 492856444928 4896? 18 20:24:45 /usr/sbin/cron I5088 15088 5356 con 1003 21:02:39 /lbin/ksh 5808 15808 4996 con 1003 21:02:53 /usr/bin/rxvt 603658086036 55800 1003 21:02:53 /usr/bin/ksh 566860366036 56680 1003 21:32:28 /usr/bin/ksh I506060366036 45440 1003 21:32:28 /usr/bin/tail 383256686036 23280 1003 21:32:28 /usr/bin/ps /home/Paul.$ ps -a | tail +3 tail: cannot open `+3' for reading: No such file or directory All examples are supposed to produced output from the beginning of the file. - Paul -- 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
Feature Request: Allow cron to terminate with SIGHUP
With every Cygwin session I have two windows opened: One CONSOLE and the other a miscelanious windon running rxvt. When I want to shut down Cygwin and it's web servers, I just exit the console window. When I exit the console window, every process gets terminated with SIGHUP. No exceptions get terminated until now. The cron command is ignoring SIGHUP and thus causes extra stuff to be done to perform a gracefull shutdown. Is there a reason to catch SIGHUP? I would like to keep my running of cygwin. I knew something changed, now I know. With cron running all the time, it is more difficult to unload cygwin1.dll. - Paul -- 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
changes in symbolic links
Sometime within the past 1-2 years, the format of symbolic links must have changed. I keep finding broken links in my web pages. The directory bit is still set but the System attribute is not set anymore. If it is true that symbolic links did change, I would like to know which cygwin1.dll implemented the change and if this dll is still available. I want to write a tool to search for these mangled links and fix them. I would like for all of my web pages to work. (unless someone already wrote such a tool.) - Paul -- 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
I have a weird problem - double your files overnight with Perfect Disk - A Bug!!
This is a weird problem. Caused by interaction of cygwin 1.7 and Perfect Disk 7.0 (defragmeter). A couple of days ago, I was defragmenting my drive C: when I discovered a copy of every cygwin's file with a naming convention of: AY63D92E~orig.file.name~. The leading chars were 8 letters/numbers of uppercase. The filename portion surrounded by the ~ character. This happened only under the /cygwin tree while the MS-DOS (Win XP Pro) were unaffected. All of these files were copies of cygwin's files (link count == 1). Now that Perfect Disk 7.0 is done with drive C:, I'm going to delete all 47,000 of these burgers. This a weird interaction between 1.7 and Perfect Disk. The problem stopped happening when Perfect Disk finished with drive C:. This is far from a feature, a definite bug. One thing to note: The mtimes of all of the duplicate files were current. They did not reflect the mtime of the original file. -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 259 2010-02-25 18:05 L0QHCU1M~cygwin.bat~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 248 2010-02-26 09:31 NFP7AJAE~cygwin.bat~~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 248 2010-02-25 18:05 QHJ5D971~cygwin.bat~~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 259 2010-02-26 09:31 U1GLPSA4~cygwin.bat~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 248 2010-01-25 16:14 cygwin.bat~ -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 259 2010-01-25 16:28 cygwin.bat -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul root 248 2010-02-26 09:57 97CB2MO0~QHJ5D971~cygwin.bat~~~ -- 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
Question: about /proc/mounts
I discovered a read-only filesystem called /proc/mounts which is symbolically linked from /etc/mtab. My question is: who populates this data?? I got a cyclic-loop caused by drive C being mounted twice. as /c and /cygdrive/c I would like to get rid of the cygdrive one but it is special treatment when logoff. -- 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
Downloading cygwin 1.5.*
Should I always receive the warning dialog about 1.7 even though I *think* I'm about to download 1.5. That's a scary thought! Well this dialog is preventing me from continuing. I would feel much better if either: 1) dialog box suppressed or 2) some other feedback that I'm downloading a 1.5 instance -- 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
test for hard links always fail with pdksh
A new wrinkle with hard links. If you are testing for them in pdksh, they will always fail. I.E.: if test -L links/$filename.$inumb then : else ln $filename $filename.$inumb fi The above test will always fail and thus will always attempt to re-create the hard link. -- 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: Question about SIGEMT under Cygwin
This is a FYI on subject: Problem appears with httpd V2.0.63 as well as V2.2.2. I have compiled both versions and they both act the same. Sounds like a generic problem with cygwin, an educated guess. There is some code in connection.c which comments the fact that you should define NO_LINGCLOSE for specific OS's so I added CYGWIN to the list. No Change in behavior. - Paul -- 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
Question about SIGEMT under Cygwin
This question is for Larry Hall. Does signal SIGEMT mean anything under Cygwin? I have a Webserver process (httpd) that is terminating with a signal SIGEMT? When I looked at the code, I saw no use for SIGEMT. I'm assuming the signal is generated external to the process. - Paul -- 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: Best way to backup 1.5 to go to 1.7
If you have both 1.5 1.7, they can sorta co-exist. Leave your 1.5 system alone. Now crate download 1.7 into a new node. (e.g./cygwinII). Just make sure everything is separate, include your update nodes and create a new start icon for 1.7 only. You might want to enforce separate executions of 1.5 1.7 I did this for the several months before switch-over and it worked perfectly. If your machine is shared amoung users, them you will have to work that out. My was a single-user system. Frank Fesevur wrote: 2010/1/21 Brian Keener: I want to upgrade to 1.7 but would like to get a backup of the full 1.5 install before hand. I know in the past just doing copies some files didn't or couldn't get copied. Also in the unix world seems as though I recall tar and cpio have difference in terms of what they will and won't backup. What the best way to get a good copy of my 1.5 in case I need/want to get it back. I have made a backup of 1.5 by 7-Zipping the entire directory and also backup the mount v2 tree of Cygnus Solutions in the registry. I have had problems upgrading to 1.7 on one pc and could successfully restore my 1.5 installation. Regards, Frank -- 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 -- 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: slowdown in mv operation
Since I've already opened my mouth on this subject, I thought I would elaborate some on this subject: performance. I have setup two tests to execute on each of 1.5 and 1.7 cygwin systems. In each of these tests, they are not exhaustive as they should be. I developed these tests based upon a typical task that I would do. They are scripting task's involving the movement of 4,178 music files each to another directory on the same file system. In one script, it uses the basename program to create the next script which executes the ln command to link files to look different. For each filename, there are a total of two commands for each file: 1) basename and 2) ln. The total execution times for each are: _Cygwin 1.5_ _Cygwin1.7_ 996** secs 1222 secs (for the 'basename') 898 secs 900 secs (for the ln) ** The system time command was not used. Just unobserved clock awareness time. For ln time, I'm calling it a dead-heat. So it looks like the I/O times in my book for 1.7 compares closely to 1.5. There was no physical movement of data for these tests. Paul McFerrin wrote: I have over 12,000 music files I frequently move around using the mv command with both source destination on the same FS. Under Cygwin 1.5, this script would act amazedly fast that it would be impossible to read your screen.. I do have trace turned on. Now under Cygwin 1.7, my trace output scrools about 2 lines / second. Much slower than Cygwin 1.5. Has anyone noticed this slow-down. It is so slow that it is very obvious. I've already destroyed my 1.5 installation. -- 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 -- 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
Can't find any info on eventvwr or syslog-ng or eventlog
I discovered that cygwin has both packages for eventlog and syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in man, info, and the command itself. I have them both installed, (says setup.exe) but I can only find the command itself for syslog-ng. With both packages installed, I can find limited info on just one of those commands. Now the other command I can't find anything. I just decided to do some learning. It's hads to do without any documentation. I'm interested in the cygwin's version as I have a lot of time on my hand. -- 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 any info on eventvwr or syslog-ng or eventlog
Subject should read: Can't find any info on eventlog and syslog-ng Paul McFerrin wrote: I discovered that cygwin has both packages for eventlog and syslog-ng. I searched for cygwin documentation in man, info, and the command itself. I ... -- 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
Can't ujnmount my /pc filesystem
Folks: I have an unwanted filesystem (NFS) mounted as /pc that I need to get it unmounted ASAP. Here is the mount output: a: /a some_fs binary 0 0 /bin /bin some_fs binary 0 0 C: /c some_fs binary 0 0 D: /d some_fs binary 0 0 E: /e some_fs binary 0 0 /etc /etc some_fs binary 0 0 F: /f some_fs binary 0 0 G: /g some_fs binary 0 0 H: /h some_fs binary 0 0 I: /i some_fs binary 0 0 J: /j some_fs binary 0 0 K: /k some_fs binary 0 0 /lib /lib some_fs binary 0 0 M: /m some_fs binary 0 0 \\linda\c /pc some_fs binary 0 0 N: /n some_fs binary 0 0 O: /o some_fs binary 0 0 P: /p some_fs binary 0 0 Q: /q some_fs binary 0 0 /usr /usr some_fs binary 0 0 # This is default anyway: # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 Whenever I try to umount it, I get the error message: .$ umount /pc umount: /pc: Operation not permitted It HAS BEEN removed (sometimes) from the mount command but I can still do a 'cd' to /pc and see my wife's root drive. How can I make this hard-ass /pc filesystem completely be umounted. I wana stay on my wife's good side. A few months ago I did some serious damage in which I had to do a complete backup restore to get out of trouble. Is the Operation not permitted normal. The /pc never goes away and it always comes up mounted after a reboot. Even if the /pc is not shown by /etc/fstab, it still showup in a find operation. - paul -- 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
slowdown in mv operation
I have over 12,000 music files I frequently move around using the mv command with both source destination on the same FS. Under Cygwin 1.5, this script would act amazedly fast that it would be impossible to read your screen.. I do have trace turned on. Now under Cygwin 1.7, my trace output scrools about 2 lines / second. Much slower than Cygwin 1.5. Has anyone noticed this slow-down. It is so slow that it is very obvious. I've already destroyed my 1.5 installation. -- 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
Lesson on internals; what associates /
It's time for a lesson in cygwin internals. What associates the root of a filesystem?? I'm getting an invalid value for /. i.e. When I do a cd /, it will fail. I will get the error message: cd: / - No such file or directory. Obviously there is something in the environment it doesn't like. The current directory is at what the new root *should* be. I'm running the latest Cygwin 1.7.1-1 -- 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
I'm confussed: / vs. fstab
My PC has two instances of cygwin. My production is 1,7,1-1 while I'm trying to get my 1.5 working again. For my 1.5, I have populated the /c/_cygwinCD/etc/fstab with the following contents: /c/_cygwinCD/etc.$ cat fstab C:/_cygwinCD/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/_cygwinCD/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/_cygwinCD on / type ntfs (binary,auto) A: on /a type unknown (binary) C: on /c type ntfs (binary) D: on /d type unknown (binary) E: on /e type ntfs (binary) F: on /f type ntfs (binary) G: on /g type ntfs (binary) H: on /h type ntfs (binary) I: on /i type ntfs (binary) J: on /j type ntfs (binary) K: on /k type ntfs (binary) However when I startup the 1.5 system, the root (/) is set inproperly. A cd / fails. Some other particulars are: PATH=\_cygwinCD\bin;C:\Program Files;... OK(DOS) HOME=/home/Paul cd / ksh: cd: / - No such file or directory ENV=/home/Paul/.bash_login After reading the section on the mount-point, I thought that shed some light on the subject but apparently not. I also linked etc/fstab to etc/fstab.d/Paul but that didn't help. Can someone identify anything I missed in the mount-point section? Another thought I'm uncertain about. When you use mount -m as part of fstab construction, the mount command does not output the mounted filesystems on drive C: When I re-read the mount-point section again, I discovered that words like on and type are not mentioned and should be omitted. Thus my fstab looks like: C:/_cygwinCD/bin /usr/bin ntfs (binary,auto) C:/_cygwinCD/lib /usr/lib ntfs (binary,auto) C:/_cygwinCD / ntfs (binary,auto,override) A: /a unknown (binary) C: /c ntfs (binary) D: /d unknown (binary) E: /e ntfs (binary) F: /f ntfs (binary) G: /g ntfs (binary) H: /h ntfs (binary) I: /i ntfs (binary) J: /j ntfs (binary) K: /k ntfs (binary) Note: I know that 1.5 1.7 are mutually exclussive. -- 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: Lesson on internals; what associates / with root
Never mind. It's one thing to read something that is written but something else when I make a connection. I have connected. The answer is: fstab. Paul McFerrin wrote: It's time for a lesson in cygwin internals. What associates the root of a filesystem?? I'm getting an invalid value for /. i.e. When I do a cd /, it will fail. I will get the error message: cd: / - No such file or directory. Obviously there is something in the environment it doesn't like. The current directory is at what the new root *should* be. I'm running the latest Cygwin 1.7.1-1 -- 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 -- 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
can't umount my /pc filesystem
Folks: I have an unwanted filesystem (NFS) mounted as /pc that I need to get it unmounted ASAP. Here is the mount output: a: /a some_fs binary 0 0 /bin /bin some_fs binary 0 0 C: /c some_fs binary 0 0 D: /d some_fs binary 0 0 E: /e some_fs binary 0 0 /etc /etc some_fs binary 0 0 F: /f some_fs binary 0 0 G: /g some_fs binary 0 0 H: /h some_fs binary 0 0 I: /i some_fs binary 0 0 J: /j some_fs binary 0 0 K: /k some_fs binary 0 0 /lib /lib some_fs binary 0 0 M: /m some_fs binary 0 0 \\linda\c /pc some_fs binary 0 0 N: /n some_fs binary 0 0 O: /o some_fs binary 0 0 P: /p some_fs binary 0 0 Q: /q some_fs binary 0 0 /usr /usr some_fs binary 0 0 # This is default anyway: # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 Whenever I try to umount it, I get the error message: .$ umount /pc umount: /pc: Operation not permitted It HAS BEEN removed (sometimes) from the mount command but I can still do a 'cd' to /pc and see my wife's root drive. How can I make this hard-ass /pc filesystem completely be umounted. I wana stay on my wife's good side. A few months ago I did some serious damage in which I had to do a complete backup restore to get out of trouble. Is the Operation not permitted normal. The /pc never goes away and it always comes up mounted after a reboot. Even if the /pc is not shown by /etc/fstab, it still showup in a find operation. - paul -- 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
minor error from /etc/fstab
I always get the following error when cygwin1.dll gets loaded for the first time: 1 [main] ksh 3000 read_flags: invalid fstab option - '0' Anyone know why I see such a message. On the flip side, every things else seems normal. Here is my mount tab: $ mount C:/cygwinV/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwinV/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwinV on / type ntfs (binary,auto) //linda/c on /pc type ntfs (binary) A: on /a type unknown (binary) C: on /c type ntfs (binary) D: on /d type unknown (binary) E: on /e type ntfs (binary) F: on /f type ntfs (binary) G: on /g type ntfs (binary) H: on /h type ntfs (binary) I: on /i type ntfs (binary) J: on /j type ntfs (binary) K: on /k type ntfs (binary) M: on /m type unknown (binary) N: on /n type unknown (binary) O: on /o type unknown (binary) P: on /p type ntfs (binary) Q: on /q type unknown (binary) R: on /cygdrive/r type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) -- 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
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. | Folks: | | I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other | | | documentation. I'm having terriable problems is getting my | .bat/.sh script working and I'm thinking changing shells. I | normally use the same routine for all .bat scripts. | | =backup_e.bat== | echo off | set ENV=/dev/null | set PATH=C:\cygwinV\bin;%PATH% | SET IS_CYGWIN=true | set HISTSIZE=1200 | set HOME=/dev/null | set CYGWIN=tty | ksh -c echo off | set ENV=/dev/null | set PATH=C:\cygwinV\bin;%PATH% | SET IS_CYGWIN=true | set HISTSIZE=1200 | set HOME=/dev/null | set CYGWIN=tty | ksh -c C:/cygwinV/backup_e | | were the bulk of cygwin's work in done by backup_e | until I officially cut over to 1.7. Now only the backup for | e is working. Every other batch script is now fainling. | | In one batch script, I had to replace a link I used ksh. It | is working now. In another case, I got permission denied with| the target of ksh and mode 766. | I'm still playing with this one. If I can only get back to a | template that works, I'll be happy. -- 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
Missing documentation on bash
Folks: I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other documentation. I'm having terriable problems is getting my .bat/.sh script working and I'm thinking changing shells. I normally use the same routine for all .bat scripts. =backup_e.bat== echo off set ENV=/dev/null set PATH=C:\cygwinV\bin;%PATH% SET IS_CYGWIN=true set HISTSIZE=1200 set HOME=/dev/null set CYGWIN=tty ksh -c echo off set ENV=/dev/null set PATH=C:\cygwinV\bin;%PATH% SET IS_CYGWIN=true set HISTSIZE=1200 set HOME=/dev/null set CYGWIN=tty ksh -c C:/cygwinV/backup_e were the bulk of cygwin's work in done by backup_e until I officially cut over to 1.7. Now only the backup for e is working. Every other batch script is now fainling. In one batch script, I had to replace a link I used with ksh. It is working now. In another case, I got permission denied with the target of ksh and mode 766. I'm still playing with this one. If I can only get back to a template that works, I'll be happy. And the bulk of the cygwin's work is done by -- 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
What happens to disappearing programs when ones I used disappear from 1.7.1-1
Fellows: I from time to time miss some of my programs AND they are not listed in the http://cygwin.com/packages/ page. One in particular which is a heavey hitter for me is col.exe. I frequenly use the col commad as: man pdksh | col -b pdksh.man It safely removes spaces / backspaces from your formatted text file is viewable with your favorite editor. There might be more that have went this way. Is there an alias that I can use for col. I did have it in 1.5 but on my system, 1.5 was a real mess. -- 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
Need more instructions in setup.exe
FOLKS: How does one get to the util-linux package. I can't find that category using the standard setup.exe? I keep seeing this category in setup.ini but know where else. -- 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: C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1
Now that's been cleared up, I've reinstalled the default package and the C compiler now works. Should have noticed the ps.exe missing is a clue. I'm off to getting PHP installed now. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Dave Korn wrote: File crt0.o is missing. Is it supposed to be? Nope. It's part of the main cygwin package itself; try reinstalling that if it is indeed missing. Yes, file crt0.o is missing. What specific package should I reinstall. Dave Korn wrote: [ ... ] the main cygwin package itself [ ... ] i.e. the cygwin-1.7.1-1 package, which contains the DLL itself along with supporting headers and libs and utilities. B Default?? ase Devel?? Those are entire categories, not packages. cheers, DaveK -- 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: MyC Compiled can't compile {}
I don't have a Linux, This code has served me very well for years. It
is perfect. I used to be a developer with Glenn Fowler and nmake
developing compiler probe code for nmake. If your compiler can't
compile it, then something is wrong.
I also get error messages about the C compiler with reconfigure
scripts used to reconfigure a makefile.
If someone can advised me of which packages to uninstall, I'll be happy
to re-install then,
Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:08:52PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
My C compiler is at:
$ ls -l /bin/cc.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 20 2009-12-23 16:09 /bin/cc.exe -
/etc/alternatives/cc
From my years of experiences, {} is the simplest version of a
to-be-compiled C program. It is syntaxily correct. in any case, the
above DID work in 1.7-68.
It is not a syntactically correct C program. Try it on linux if you
are not convinced.
cgf
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Re: MyC Compiled can't compile {}
Well, after all of this discussion, my C compiler IS BROKEN. I.E.:
echo main{} test.c
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -O test.c
test.c:1: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or
‘__attribute__’ before ‘{’ token
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ echo main(){} test.c
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -O test.c
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
crt0.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
My suggestion is to completely UNINSTALL C Compiler packages and
restalled then. If others agree, could someome tell me which packages
to uninstall? Your installation may be working, but mine isn't.
Dave Korn wrote:
Paul McFerrin wrote:
I discover my C compiler is broken while performing a configure.
The compiler is fine.
$ echo {} test.c
Your testcase is nonsense.
$ cc -O test.c -o test
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
The compiler correctly told you so. What were you expecting? (Also, what
is 'cc'? Softlink perhaps?)
cheers,
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Re: C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1
$ cat test101.c
main(){}
$ cc -O test101.c
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
crt0.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
find /usr/lib/gcc -type f -name crt0.o -print
$
File crt0.o is missing. Is it supposed to be?
In either case, file configure does not work (mysql-5.1.41). It
complains with:
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: in `/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
I appreciate the discussion of my memory error, but my compiler is still
broken!!! I'm admitting to my memory error. Let's move forward.
Reid Thompson wrote:
Paul McFerrin wrote:
My C compiler appears to be broken:
.$ cc -v -O test.c
what are the contents of test.c
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MyC Compiled can't compile {}
I discover my C compiler is broken while performing a configure.
$ echo {} test.c
$ cc -O test.c -o test
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -V test.c -o test
cc: couldn't run 'i686-pc-cygwin-gcc-test.c': No such file or directory
/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41.$ cc -v test.c -o test
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-cygwin
Configured with:
/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4/configure
--srcdir=/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4
--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
--datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
-v --with-gmp=/usr --with-mpfr=/usr --enable-bootstrap
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-slibdir=/usr/bin
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-static --enable-shared
--enable-shared-libgcc --disable-__cxa_atexit --with-gnu-ld
--with-gnu-as --with-dwarf2 --disable-sjlj-exceptions
--enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ --disable-symvers
--enable-libjava --program-suffix=-4 --enable-libgomp --enable-libssp
--enable-libada --enable-threads=posix --with-arch=i686
--with-tune=generic --enable-libgcj-sublibs CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4
CC_FOR_TARGET=gcc-4 CXX_FOR_TARGET=g++-4 GNATMAKE_FOR_TARGET=gnatmake
GNATBIND_FOR_TARGET=gnatbind AS=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/as.exe
AS_FOR_TARGET=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/as.exe LD=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/ld.exe
LD_FOR_TARGET=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/ld.exe
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/ecj.jar
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1 (GCC)
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-o' 'test.exe' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i686'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/cc1.exe -quiet -v -D__CYGWIN32__
-D__CYGWIN__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -D__unix -idirafter
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../include/w32api -idirafter
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api
test.c -quiet -dumpbase test.c -mtune=generic -march=i686 -auxbase test
-version -o /c/DOCUME~1/Paul/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccb2jZrY.s
ignoring nonexistent directory
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/include
ignoring duplicate directory
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api
#include ... search starts here:
#include ... search starts here:
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include-fixed
/usr/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../include/w32api
End of search list.
GNU C (GCC) version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
compiled by GNU C version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1, GMP version 4.3.1,
MPFR version 2.4.1-p5.
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072
Compiler executable checksum: d5cdab7e958df0270fe64611765e0bb6
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
This is a 1.7.1-1 system.
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Re: Where did /bin/ps.exe go?
What I was asking is WHERE IT WAS. I could not find it. So I created another instance of Cygwin and copied the missing items (~12). Just trying to resolve the problem. Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 12/27/2009 12:18 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: Paul that happens sometimes if the user simply runs the setup program using the default setting, not the install setting. Try running the setup program again and setting it towards the install setting. Are you reporting a bug? Do you have a procedure for reproducing this? -- 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
C compiler is broken under 1.7.1-1
My C compiler appears to be broken:
.$ cc -v -O test.c
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-cygwin
Configured with:
/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4/configure
--srcdir=/gnu/gcc/releases/packaging/4.3.4-3/gcc4-4.3.4-3/src/gcc-4.3.4
--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --datadir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var
--sysconfdir=/etc --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
--datadir=/usr/share --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man
-v --with-gmp=/usr --with-mpfr=/usr --enable-bootstrap
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-slibdir=/usr/bin
--libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-static --enable-shared
--enable-shared-libgcc --disable-__cxa_atexit --with-gnu-ld
--with-gnu-as --with-dwarf2 --disable-sjlj-exceptions
--enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,java,objc,obj-c++ --disable-symvers
--enable-libjava --program-suffix=-4 --enable-libgomp --enable-libssp
--enable-libada --enable-threads=posix --with-arch=i686
--with-tune=generic --enable-libgcj-sublibs CC=gcc-4 CXX=g++-4
CC_FOR_TARGET=gcc-4 CXX_FOR_TARGET=g++-4 GNATMAKE_FOR_TARGET=gnatmake
GNATBIND_FOR_TARGET=gnatbind AS=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/as.exe
AS_FOR_TARGET=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/as.exe LD=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/ld.exe
LD_FOR_TARGET=/opt/gcc-tools/bin/ld.exe
--with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/ecj.jar
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1 (GCC)
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-v' '-O' '-mtune=generic' '-march=i686'
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/cc1.exe -quiet -v -D__CYGWIN32__
-D__CYGWIN__ -Dunix -D__unix__ -D__unix -idirafter
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../include/w32api -idirafter
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api
test.c -quiet -dumpbase test.c -mtune=generic -march=i686 -auxbase test
-O -version -o /c/DOCUME~1/Paul/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccB5Y0S8.s
ignoring nonexistent directory
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/include
ignoring duplicate directory
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/lib/../../include/w32api
#include ... search starts here:
#include ... search starts here:
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/include-fixed
/usr/include
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../include/w32api
End of search list.
GNU C (GCC) version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1 (i686-pc-cygwin)
compiled by GNU C version 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1, GMP version 4.3.1,
MPFR version 2.4.1-p5.
GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=100 --param ggc-min-heapsize=131072
Compiler executable checksum: d5cdab7e958df0270fe64611765e0bb6
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
What gives? Here is my cygcheck outout that follows:
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
_update-info-dir00838-1
abook 0.5.6-1
alternatives1.3.30c-10
annoyance-filter1.0d-1
archivemail 0.7.0-1
asciidoc8.4.5-1
aspell 0.60.5-1
aspell-en 6.0.0-1
atool 0.37.0-1
autoconf8-1
autoconf2.1 2.13-10
autoconf2.5 2.65-1
automake4-10
automake1.101.10.3-1
automake1.111.11.1-1
automake1.4 1.4p6-10
automake1.5 1.5-10
automake1.6 1.6.3-11
automake1.7 1.7.9-10
automake1.8 1.8.5-10
automake1.9 1.9.6-10
base-cygwin 2.0-1
base-files 3.9-3
base-passwd 3.1-1
bash3.2.49-23
bc 1.06-2
binutils2.19.51-1
bison 2.3-1
bsdcpio 2.7.1-10
bsdiff 4.3-4
bsdtar 2.7.1-10
bsfilter1.0.15-1
bvi 1.3.2-1
byacc 20090221-1
bzip2 1.0.5-10
cdargs 1.35-1
cdda2wav1.1.7.1-1
cdrkit 1.1.7.1-1
chere 1.1-1
chewmail1.2-1
clamav 0.95.3-1
clisp 2.48-3
coreutils 7.0-2
cpio2.9.90-5
cron4.1-57
crypt 1.1-1
csih0.9.1-1
ctags 5.8-1
curl7.19.6-1
cvs 1.12.13-10
cygutils1.4.1-2
cygwin 1.7.1-1
cygwin-doc
Re: MyC Compiled can't compile {}
My C compiler is at:
$ ls -l /bin/cc.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 20 2009-12-23 16:09 /bin/cc.exe -
/etc/alternatives/cc
From my years of experiences, {} is the simplest version of a
to-be-compiled C program. It is syntaxily correct. in any case, the
above DID work in 1.7-68.
I was doing a configure when it failed the first time:
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: in `/usr/local/mysql-5/mysql-5.1.41':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
== config.log =
configure:4098: result: /bin/pdflatex
configure:4108: checking for makeindex
configure:4126: found /bin/makeindex
configure:4139: result: /bin/makeindex
configure:4395: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:4438: result: yes
configure:4441: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:4463: result: yes
configure:4539: checking for gawk
configure:4566: result: gawk
configure:4625: checking for gcc
configure:4641: found /bin/gcc
configure:4652: result: gcc
configure:4884: checking for C compiler version
configure:4892: gcc --version 5
gcc (GCC) 4.3.4 20090804 (release) 1
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
configure:4896: $? = 0
configure:4903: gcc -v 5
Using built-in specs.
Does this help you???
Dave Korn wrote:
Paul McFerrin wrote:
I discover my C compiler is broken while performing a configure.
The compiler is fine.
$ echo {} test.c
Your testcase is nonsense.
$ cc -O test.c -o test
test.c:1: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
The compiler correctly told you so. What were you expecting? (Also, what
is 'cc'? Softlink perhaps?)
cheers,
DaveK
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Where did /bin/ps.exe go?
My .profile was setup to perform some intelligent switching between procps() and ps() when I discovered there was no ps.exe. Did it really disappear?? Can't find it in setup2.ini. Paul McFerrin wrote: Doing my bi-weekly update of my 1.7 installation, I noticed that it download my whole installation again and took at least an hour to perform at RR speeds. I was in the hospital for a while so I was out of it for a while when I deleted a bunch of old mail messageg but I looked first. My cygwin1.dll is dated: -rwxr-xr-x 1 paul root 2477884 2009-12-04 11:10 /bin/cygwin1.dll and the sub-sersion is 68. Did I catch it at the wrong time? (That was an hour download at 55kb/sec) Did I just pass thru the Twilight Zone?? :+) -- 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 -- 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: Where did /bin/ps.exe go?
Ok. What package do I have to reinstall to get my ps.exe back? Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 09:57:49PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: My .profile was setup to perform some intelligent switching between procps() and ps() when I discovered there was no ps.exe. Did it really disappear?? Can't find it in setup2.ini. 1) There is no setup2.ini. 2) You wouldn't find ps.exe in setup since it is part of the cygwin package itself. cgf -- 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 -- 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: A question about setup.exe
Does anyone know where the MTIMES of the installed packages are stored. I need to over-ride them all in order to re-install the packages. I could NOT find the http/ftp directory containing the files installed. So I went through to check reinstall on every package (whew) and downloaded the complete installation into a local directory. Fine. I just need to slightly adjust the MTIME to setup to reinstall the packages. When I did a full-restore, the software used the current time as it's MTIME which has no meaning anymore. If I can't get these issues resolved, I'll have to to a full install of 1.7 AND add back/test all of my local stuff. Basically what I have: A full installation of 1.7.0-65 with current time as MTIME. (useless) A full installation of Cygwin 1.7 download into local directory. No way to make #1 #2 to meet!! Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/24 Paul McFerrin: I did the upgrade to 1.7.1-1 without any problems. During the remainder of the day, I accidentally blew away my installation of 1.7.1-1. I restored my installation from a backup several days old (1.7.0-65). Now I'm trying to upgrade again. Now the questions I have are: When I run setup again, it downloads/installes everything in under a minute instead of the hour previously. It wouldn't need to download the packages again, because they should still be stored in setup.exe's local package directory. So it only needs to do the install. How can I force all of my installed packages obsolete to force a reload? If the backup and restore went correctly, you shouldn't need to, because the install state of all packages is stored in the cygwin directory, in /etc/setup. You can see which packages are going to be upgraded by switching to the Partial view on setup.exe's package selection screen. Andy -- 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: A question about setup.exe
OKAY... I finally realized that MTIME was not used by setup. I now have my installation completely restored. I used file /etc/setup/installed.db to trick setup to do a forced install. 1. Have a running cygwin system available 2. Run setup thru the Package Selection pages but NOT beyond 3. On your running cygwin system, delete all but 1st line in file /etc/setup/installed.db. 4. Shutdown your running cygwin sysrem 5. Click the NEXT button in setup and your re-installation will begin. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 03:05:57PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: Does anyone know where the MTIMES of the installed packages are stored. I need to over-ride them all in order to re-install the packages. I could NOT find the http/ftp directory containing the files installed. You're assuming a mechanism that doesn't exist. Setup doesn't use MTIME. It makes the decision to install based on version numbering. The information is stored in /etc/setup. cgf -- 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 -- 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
Borken link on cygwin.com home page
On the home page for cygwin.com, these is a broken link at: Latest Cygwin DLL release version is 1.7.1-1 (broken link) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-12/msg000XX.html I'm cleaning up my 1.5 distro. Boy I didn't tkink that day would come! Good work to all you developers that contributed to this undertaking! -- 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
A question about setup.exe
I did the upgrade to 1.7.1-1 without any problems. During the remainder of the day, I accidentally blew away my installation of 1.7.1-1. I restored my installation from a backup several days old (1.7.0-65). Now I'm trying to upgrade again. Now the questions I have are: When I run setup again, it downloads/installes everything in under a minute instead of the hour previously. How can I force all of my installed packages obsolete to force a reload? I hate to spend all that time checking the 200+ boxes on the packages page? -- 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
Did I missing the official announcement that 1.7 went official?
Doing my bi-weekly update of my 1.7 installation, I noticed that it download my whole installation again and took at least an hour to perform at RR speeds. I was in the hospital for a while so I was out of it for a while when I deleted a bunch of old mail messageg but I looked first. My cygwin1.dll is dated: -rwxr-xr-x 1 paul root 2477884 2009-12-04 11:10 /bin/cygwin1.dll and the sub-sersion is 68. Did I catch it at the wrong time? (That was an hour download at 55kb/sec) Did I just pass thru the Twilight Zone?? :+) -- 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 build PHP 5.3.1 under Cygwin 1.7.0-68
More obstacles. Referring to libxml2, the xml-config scripts reports version 1.8.17 while configure states minimum version 2.6.11. I also looked at cygports site and afer 2 invocation of setup.exe where I usede the -X option, libxml2 disappeared from the download list. Now I'm wondering what I would be missing if I use --disable_libxml2 and forget about libxml2 all together.?? About setup.exe, is there a way to clear/uncheck everything when dealing with cygports? I don't like wasting time bandwidth for throw-aways. Paul McFerrin wrote: I have the 5.3.1 distro and also have libxml2 (2.7.4-1). There is one major obstacle in the configure script. Since the xml2 distro does NOT have a file named libxml2-configure, it gives up. Where can I find a copy of this file??? I tried using --with-libxml-dir /bin without any sucess. Was this an over-sight in the cygwin 1.7 distro?? -- 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 -- 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: [REQ] Please package SendMail for Cygwin
On another side note... There is a product from sourceforge.net called msmtp which can be configured either as a smtp client or as a replacement for sendmail. I myself downloaded the sources and sucessfully compiled it all under cygwin 1.7-67. I've been using msmtp as a smtp client without any problems under cygwin1.7 for the past 2 months. I believe the download link is at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/msmtp/files/msmtp/1.4.19/msmtp-1.4.19.tar.bz2/download Enjoy... Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/12/8 Chip Panarchy: As I'm still having compilation problems, could someone else please create a SendMail package for Cygwin? While waiting for that to happen, have a look at exim, or – in case all you actually need is forwarding to a remote server – ssmtp. Andy -- 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 -- 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
Can't build PHP 5.3.1 under Cygwin 1.7.0-68
I have the 5.3.1 distro and also have libxml2 (2.7.4-1). There is one major obstacle in the configure script. Since the xml2 distro does NOT have a file named libxml2-configure, it gives up. Where can I find a copy of this file??? I tried using --with-libxml-dir /bin without any sucess. Was this an over-sight in the cygwin 1.7 distro?? -- 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: Defunct processes with 1.5.25-15; seemingly reproducible
A defunct process is not necesarily the real problem. All defunct process are processes that their parent has NOT done a wait(2) yet. Since these defunct processes have called exit(2), they must hang around until a wait(2) is completed so that the exit status can be returned to the parent. You need to understand more of the parent/child relationship before you can pass blame, if any. Dave Steenburgh wrote: cgf wrote: Defunct processes are not necessarily indicative of a cygwin problem. This could easily be a problem with gnuplot. Given the sum of my own limited knowledge of the problem at hand (in summary: every program involved is in my local cygwin directory), I figured it was best to ask here first. Dave Steenburgh wrote: $ ps PIDPPIDPGID WINPID TTY UIDSTIME COMMAND ... 416412887684 55046 1003 23:49:20 539232245984 61005 1003 23:49:06 defunct 145252405984 81045 1003 23:49:06 defunct 524032245984 45325 1003 23:49:06 defunct ... ... The PIDs seem to be the same every time this happens. Specifically, I have seen 5240 and 1452 every time. Whether that's significant, I don't know. Now, this is interesting... I killed those defunct processes with process explorer, and subsequently confirmed via ps, task manager, and process explorer that they were no longer running. I began another session with gnuplot, and this time there are three: $ ps ... 524032245984 45325 1003 23:49:06 defunct 416412887684 55046 1003 23:49:20 defunct 539232245984 61005 1003 23:49:06 defunct ... For each of those, the entire row is identical to a row in my previous message. Since I started the session around 14:00, and the last output file's modification timestamp is 17:21, I'd say the timestamps for those three processes are not reliable. Is it possible that the original defunct processes were never truly killed? If so, can they be killed without rebooting? -- 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 -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66
I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from mirror.nyi.net (http). What is wrong? .$ uname -v 2009-11-19 10:07 Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update? Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-66. If this doesn't introduce any new regressions, this will (probably) be the last test release. Bugfixes in relation to 1.7.0-65: - Fix the problem that 64 bit DLLs are accidentally getting a .exe suffix when renaming them. - Fix two potential socket handle leaks introduced in -64. - Fix security vulnerability in gdtoa: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0689 The next bugfix had been applied to 1.7.0-65 already. I just forgot to mention it: - Fix a bug in the fast math tan() implementation for x87 FPUs. FAQ: - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-66? A: The `uname -v' command prints 2009-11-25 13:41 Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3d3dyourdomain@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-66
I understand completely now that I know the mirrors operate in pull mode. Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 11/25/2009 04:30 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 03:42:45PM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote: I just downloaded cygwin 1.7 and received version -65 instead from mirror.nyi.net (http). What is wrong? .$ uname -v 2009-11-19 10:07 Did I catch the download in the middle of a critical update? Huh? No. Mirrors use a pull mechanism, not a push mechanism. If the mirror doesn't have the latest version of cygwin that means it hasn't pulled it from cygwin.com yet. Chris, you just beat me to this. :-) The only thing I'd add is you need to either be more patient (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-11/msg00842.html) or more vigilant/exhaustive in your search. In the vigilant/exhaustive category, you would have found what you were looking for with this mirror http://cygwin.elite-systems.org/. Of course, I'm not saying this mirror will always be the most up-to-date. That's where the exhaustive part comes in. ;-) -- 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: Parallel downloading of Cygwin packages
Don't you mean, Stand in line? :) Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:19:58PM +0100, Ron de Bruijn wrote: I use the latest installer, but it only uses one mirror to download packages from at the same time. I have the impression that the mirror I selected only gives about 30KB/s, which makes installing Cygwin slow. What I would like the installer to do is to download from all mirrors in parallel different packages and in case one mirror doesn't respond that it just drops that one and uses another one. The mirrors together should be able to saturate my connection. I'd like the installer to use a more intuitive UI, be more capable of running from the command line, and be able to handle RPMs. FYI. cgf -- 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 -- 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: cygcheck -cd : No setup information
Here is my ENTIRE chgcheck -c output: $ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information No setup information found The -s option does provide system information but without the package info but at the end, I get the following: Cygwin Package Information No setup information found Use -h to see help about each section 'id' program not found 'id' program not found /etc/setup.$ type id id is /bin/id $ id uid=1003(paul) gid=513(None) groups=0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers),513(None) The installed.db contains 414 records including the following: INSTALLED.DB 2 base-cygwin base-cygwin-2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 cygwin cygwin-1.7.0-62.tar.bz2 0 cygwin-doc cygwin-doc-1.5-1.tar.bz2 0 Now if we can only have better clues as to what is wrong. The error message No setup information found is not a very helpful clue. The same error as my fresh install on cygwin onto my USB Flash drive. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: What setup information is chgcheck looking for? File /etc/setup/installed.db is present. That's where it ought to be looking. Does it contain a line with the cygwin version? Has something gone wrong with the mount points? What do you see when you run a plain cygcheck -cd without grepping it all away, is there a package list at all or not? cheers, DaveK -- 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 -- 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: cygcheck -cd : No setup information
Well, in end the something changed and cygcheck is working again I download the cygwin sources and rebuilt the whole source tree. Once confident that cygcheck.exe built, I then modified dump_setup.cc and slightly modified the 3 possible error messages I was seeing. This way I can know which one was printing. Then rebuilt. When I started testing, I realized that I was picking up the installed version in /bin. It started working again without me making any changes. Since I did however downloaded the sources, the following files were touched: -rw-r--r-- 1 paul root 301 Oct 25 16:59 base-files.lst.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 paul root 15528 Oct 25 17:02 installed.db -rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None42 Oct 25 17:02 last-mirror -rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 0 Oct 25 17:02 last-extrakeys -rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None 7 Oct 25 17:02 last-connection -rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None19 Oct 25 17:02 last-cache -rwxrwxrwx 1 paul None17 Oct 25 17:02 last-action So just by downloading something, the problem went away (Humm). I can't explain this or reproduce it anymore Paul McFerrin wrote: Here is my ENTIRE chgcheck -c output: $ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information No setup information found The -s option does provide system information but without the package info but at the end, I get the following: Cygwin Package Information No setup information found Use -h to see help about each section 'id' program not found 'id' program not found /etc/setup.$ type id id is /bin/id $ id uid=1003(paul) gid=513(None) groups=0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers),513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users),1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers),513(None) The installed.db contains 414 records including the following: INSTALLED.DB 2 base-cygwin base-cygwin-2.0-1.tar.bz2 0 cygwin cygwin-1.7.0-62.tar.bz2 0 cygwin-doc cygwin-doc-1.5-1.tar.bz2 0 Now if we can only have better clues as to what is wrong. The error message No setup information found is not a very helpful clue. The same error as my fresh install on cygwin onto my USB Flash drive. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: What setup information is chgcheck looking for? File /etc/setup/installed.db is present. That's where it ought to be looking. Does it contain a line with the cygwin version? Has something gone wrong with the mount points? What do you see when you run a plain cygcheck -cd without grepping it all away, is there a package list at all or not? cheers, DaveK -- 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 -- 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 -- 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: cygcheck -cd : No setup information
What gives. I see thru-out the source code reference to fopen(a, ..., rt) but when I look at the various manual paes for fopen, I find nothing about the t. What is t? Any GURU want to answer? -- 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: cygcheck -cd : No setup information
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/25/2009 09:47 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote: What gives. I see thru-out the source code reference to fopen(a, ..., rt) but when I look at the various manual paes for fopen, I find nothing about the t. What is t? Any GURU want to answer? The opposite of rb. b = binary. t = text. Yes, I agree. Yuck! I'm glad there IS some logic to it. The only thing could come up with is t for the sticky-bit. That made no sense with me. Thanks. -- 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
cygcheck -cd : No setup information
I just got gone setting up a cygwin 1.7 installation on my USB flash drive. Everything look good except for one thing. When I do the following: $ cygcheck -cd cygwin|sed -e 1,2d -re s/cygwin[ \t]+// $ cygcheck -cd cygwin Cygwin Package Information No setup information found The flash drive was loaded running setup to download and install cygwin. What setup information is chgcheck looking for? File /etc/setup/installed.db is present. The execution of setup-1.7.exe finished normally. -- 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: gawk Has Problem With CRLF in Mixed Binary/Text Files
I don't have an answer to your specific problem. But as a side issue, I see that your PATH is very long. You might consider using a lot of hard links say in a directory /lbin with a buch of hard links to the real executables in other directories. You can then shorten PATH and remove those duplicate directories. Just be sure that /bin:/lbin is in PATH. The hard links would have to be recreated if you perform any upgrades to some things. Hard links works outside of cygwin since they are implemented at the MS filesystem level. Cygwin symbolic links are different from MS symbolic links. Choose wisely. Reminder: hard links can't cross FS boundaries P.A.Long wrote: t.a.n.s.t.a.a@comcast.net wrote: Hello! I am using a gawk script on files that contain both printing characters and binary data. Gawk is used to modify a few of the printing characters, and I expected that the binary data should be left alone. For the most part, it is, but upon occasion a CRLF will appear inside some of the binary data. All my mounts are binary (see cygcheck.srv, which is from my laptop), but as can be seen by the attached files, the downloaded *** snip *** sigh ... didn't get 'cygcheck.srv' attached; sorry about that! Thx, Phil Long File: cygcheck.srv -- 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 -- 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: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
I already found a source: http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2 which contains ascii formatted man pages for Linux. I used curl(1) to download the man pages, converted back to man(1) format, and installed them. I'm sure there are other pages besides the syscall version. At least I have a more current copy. My old version is at least 10 years old. Before B20 of Cygwin. Is Linux open-source?? Is is legal/possible to use these applicable pages? Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/18 Paul McFerrin: Yes, it is an emulation of a Kernel No, there is no _syscall interface into the kernel as there is on Linux and elsewhere. Cygwin emulates the C library layer instead. However, looking at my Debian system after installing the 'manpages-dev' package, 'man 2' is actually taken to mean 'library system calls', i.e. it contains all the C-level wrappers around the actual syscalls. Those include many standard POSIX functions that Cygwin does implement, i.e. the likes of fork() and mknod(). So I guess a volunteer is needed to identify the pages that do apply and package them up. Apart from that, I find the POSIX spec is a great resource for this sort of thing, e.g.: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/functions/fork.html And there are various online versions of the Linux man pages, e.g.: http://linux.die.net/man/2 Andy -- 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: Version error from set-1.7.exe
Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: What exactly is: local package directory. It's the directory where setup.exe keeps local copies of all the packages it installs, which you select on the fourth screen of setup.exe. My directory (/updates) is void of any *.ini files and it still complains. The only file close in my whole installation is a setup-2.ini which always seem to get re-created. Is maybe the mirror-site has an out-of-date .ini file? (/updates/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.internode.on.net%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f) Nah, it's maybe because I had my head on back-to-front when I wrote that first reply: The current .ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe ... What you actually need to do is download a fresh copy of setup-1.7.exe from the cygwin website. 'scuse my confusion. cheers, DaveK I'll postpone that activity til version cygwin 1.7 becomes official. -- 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 -- 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: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
FYI: I'm making my work on this subject available to any one who want to download my work. At http://pmcferrin.homedns.org/lman2.cpio.gz is a copy of the Linux/BSD manual pages of Section 2 of the man directory. If these man pages symbols are NOT in cygwin1.dll file, the files has been moved to a .deleted directory. Please be advised that this TOTALLY UNOFFICIAL. They have NOT been reviewed for correctness with Cygwin. They are however a valuable resource. Enjoy. I would advised putting these pages into a local man directory, separate from system installation. They were downloaded from: http://www.bigbiz.com/cgi-bin/listman?2 which were PRE pre-formatted .html files converted back to man files; including B I processing for dumb rxvt windows. Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin: I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a man2 sub-directory but it is empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual. Section 2 is system calls, which don't exist on Cygwin, because it's a POSIX implementation on top of Win32 rather than an emulation of a Unix kernel. Andy -- 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
I agree with Dave with trying to deny access to a particular user under cygwin. The support is not there. I will touch on an actual feature that provides this capability. Under Amdahl UTS Unix, e.g. SVR3 like, there was feature that relied on the proper implementation of the chroot(2) system call. You can give the restricted user his own login space and make available certain other filesystems mounted for the restricted to give him/her what they actually allowed to have access to, and no more. Login was modified to look for a * in the password field to signify a sub-login with the passwd home directory as the argument to execute the chroot(2) system call and thereby execute login again under the new chroot. In order for this to be effective, one must execute caution in setting up this painful and elaborate work in achieving the desired environment for the restricted user. Without a real chroot(2) syscall, it really can't be done. Cygwin as it stands today can't provide a true restricted environment if it provides general access to hard (C:/pathnames/) drives. Unless the PC itself is restrictive (limited networking). The above is my personal opinion on this subject and does not reflect management views. Dave Korn wrote: Matthias Meyer wrote: How to solve my goal? The user backup should backup all data but not certain directories. It cannot be done. Your two requirements amount to: 1- I want the backup user to be able to access all files and directories without restriction. 2- I want the backup user to be restricted from accessing certain files and directories. As a matter of plain logic, these requirements just cannot both be satisfied simultaneously in the same universe! There is no means to give the backup user privileges to access only-some-but-not-all of the files that the ACLs say it should not have access to, because it would essentially require an entire second level of ACLs on every file in the system to keep track of which files the backup privilege gave access to and which files it did not. cheers, DaveK -- 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 -- 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
Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a man2 sub-directory but it is empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual. I've been relying on the BSD distribution of the man pages and I get the Section 2 from there. -- 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
Version error from set-1.7.exe
I need a little help is getting rid of a pop-box from setup-1.7.exe: stating: The current .ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe ... I looked high low for a setup.ini on my system and can not find one. Where is it locating one? I've re-download setu-1.7.exe from the web site.and I still get the pop-up box. I only wish that such pop-box's give the complete location of the file it is complaining about. -- 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: Version error from set-1.7.exe
What exactly is: local package directory. My directory (/updates) is void of any *.ini files and it still complains. The only file close in my whole installation is a setup-2.ini which always seem to get re-created. Is maybe the mirror-site has an out-of-date .ini file? (/updates/ftp%3a%2f%2fmirror.internode.on.net%2fpub%2fcygwin%2f) Dave Korn wrote: (Sorry, accidentally hit Ctrl+enter when I was trying to press Ctrl+v followed by enter and ended up sending an empty reply.) Paul McFerrin wrote: I need a little help is getting rid of a pop-box from setup-1.7.exe: stating: The current .ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe ... I looked high low for a setup.ini on my system and can not find one. Where is it locating one? I've re-download setu-1.7.exe from the web site.and I still get the pop-up box. I only wish that such pop-box's give the complete location of the file it is complaining about. The setup.ini file it is referring to is in your local package directory. You could fix it by blowing that away, or by just downloading the newer version of setup.exe. cheers, DaveK -- 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 -- 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: Contents of /usr/share/man/man2 is empty
I'm a retired programmer, disabled, and several strokes. I find my use of man pages extremely useful. More than usual. Are you saying that Section 2 of the man pages really don't exist? That's a shame. I'm off looking for a more recent Unix version. Dave Korn wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/10/17 Paul McFerrin: I noticed that /usr/share/man contains a man2 sub-directory but it is empty. Any particular reason? I have Category Cygwin-doc installed for cygwin 1.7 but I am missing all man pages for Section 2 of the manual. Section 2 is system calls, which don't exist on Cygwin, because it's a POSIX implementation on top of Win32 rather than an emulation of a Unix kernel. ... so the answer to the question, Why is it there, would be that it's a superfluous hanger on, debris, an epiphenomenal artifact of some build process somewhere in some respect; i.e., best possible advice is Don't worry about it nor waste time looking into it unless you care just to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. cheers, Dave -- 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 -- 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
HELP- Can't umount wife pc as /pc
The other week I mounted my wife's PC as /pc and when I was finished I completely forgot about it. I was wonder why /pc was filled with a lot of stuff and didn't realized it was still mounted. Now that I relized it, using umount V 1.10, I can NOT umount it without getting the error: umount: /pc: Operation not permitted My pc was just booted 15 minutes earlier and can't umount it. What do I do? I tried moving it and got: mv: cannot move `pc' to `...pc': Device or resource busy I tried completely to unload/reload cygwin1.dll and no change. The mount-point is fully operational: /pc.$ ls -l | head total 2537878 drwxrwxrwt+ 1 Administrators SYSTEM0 Oct 9 18:18 4DEmbroidery -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Aug 11 2004 AUTOEXEC.BAT -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Aug 11 2004 CONFIG.SYS drwxr-xr-x 1 0 Oct 1 17:03 Config.Msi drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 Oct 9 18:18 Corel drwxrwxr-x+ 1 Administrators root 0 Nov 14 2008 Documents and Settings drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 Oct 9 18:26 MyFiles -r--r--r-- 1 47564 Aug 4 2004 NTDETECT.COM drwxr-xr-x 1 0 Oct 1 17:03 Program Files My chycheck -cd output follows: === $ cygcheck -cd Cygwin Package Information Package Version _update-info-dir00833-1 abook 0.5.6-1 alternatives1.3.30c-10 annoyance-filter1.0d-1 archivemail 0.7.0-1 asciidoc8.4.5-1 aspell 0.60.5-1 aspell-en 6.0.0-1 atool 0.37.0-1 autoconf7-10 autoconf2.1 2.13-10 autoconf2.5 2.64-10 automake4-10 automake1.101.10.2-10 automake1.111.11-10 automake1.4 1.4p6-10 automake1.5 1.5-10 automake1.6 1.6.3-11 automake1.7 1.7.9-10 automake1.8 1.8.5-10 automake1.9 1.9.6-10 base-cygwin 2.0-1 base-files 3.8-4 base-passwd 3.1-1 bash3.2.49-23 bc 1.06-2 binutils2.19.51-1 bsdcpio 2.7.1-10 bsdiff 4.3-4 bsdtar 2.7.1-10 bsfilter1.0.15-1 bvi 1.3.2-1 bzip2 1.0.5-10 cdargs 1.35-1 cdda2wav1.1.7.1-1 cdrkit 1.1.7.1-1 chere 1.1-1 chewmail1.2-1 clamav 0.95.2-1 clisp 2.48-2 coreutils 7.0-2 cpio2.9.90-5 cron4.1-57 crypt 1.1-1 csih0.9.1-1 ctags 5.7-1 cvs 1.12.13-10 cygutils1.4.0-1 cygwin 1.7.0-62 cygwin-doc 1.5-1 cygwin-x-doc1.1.0-1 dash0.5.5.1-2 db2 2.7.7-5 deroff 1.1-1 desktop-file-utils 0.15-2 diffutils 2.8.7-1 e2fsprogs 1.35-3 ed 1.0-1 editres 1.0.3-2 editrights 1.01-2 email 3.1.2-2 exim4.69-51 expat 2.0.1-1 fcrackzip 0.3-1 fetchmail 6.3.9-1 fftw3 3.2.2-1 fftw3-doc 3.2.2-1 file5.00-3 findutils 4.5.4-1 font-adobe-dpi100 1.0.0-1 font-adobe-dpi751.0.0-1 font-alias 1.0.1-1 font-bh-dpi100 1.0.0-1 font-bh-dpi75 1.0.0-1 font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi100 1.0.0-1 font-bh-lucidatypewriter-dpi75 1.0.0-1 font-bitstream-vera-ttf 1.10-1 font-cursor-misc1.0.0-1 font-dec-misc 1.0.0-1 font-encodings 1.0.2-1 font-misc-misc 1.0.0-1 font-util 1.0.1-1 font-xfree86-type1 1.0.1-1 fontconfig 2.7.3-1 fortune 1.99.1-2 gamin 0.1.10-10 gawk3.1.7-1 gcc-core3.4.4-999 gcc-g++
Re: [Bug-wget] Timeouts too long?
I've written a small nifty program that will terminate a command line
after N seconds. It was written nearly 18 years ago and has served me
very well. I'm not saying that you always live with bad program design,
but having a solution is quite nice. The usage is:
tcmd [-s {sig#}] [-t secs] [-x] cmd args ...
Ejoy. This one is on me.
Here is the source, compile for yourselves.
#ident @(#)tcmd.c - NCP 1.1 08/28/91 - PEM
/*
Execute the command line and terminate if it does
not complete within a specified time limit.
Usage:
tcmd [-s signal] [-t secs] [-x] cmd args ...
Upon timeout, signal signal (default is SIGTERM) is
sent to all children in child process group.
Exit codes:
0 = success
254 = timed-out
253 = execvp() failed for cmd
252 = fork() failed
251 = usage() exit
128-146 = cmd terminated with signal 'sig - 127'
all_others = exit status of cmd
Author: Paul E. McFerrin, 55821, Aug 27, 1991
*/
#include stdio.h
#include signal.h
#include errno.h
extern int errno, optind;
extern char *optarg;
int tlimit; /* allowed time limit */
int ksig; /* signal to use to terminate */
int timeout(); /* alarm clock signal catcher */
int timedout; /* 0 if execution timed out */
int childpid; /* pid of chil process */
char*cmd; /* the name of our process, argv[0] */
main( argc, argv )
int argc;
char*argv[];
{
int xflag, opt, i, status, ws, myuid;
myuid = getuid(); /* remember our real-uid */
cmd = *argv;/* save our name is global area */
tlimit = 30;/* default 30 seconds */
ksig = SIGTERM; /* default terminate signal */
xflag=0;
timedout = 0;
if( argc = 1 ) usage();/* no return */
while ( (opt = getopt(argc, argv, s:t:x)) != EOF ) {
switch (opt) {
case 'x' :
xflag = 1;
break;
case 't' :
tlimit = atoi(optarg);
if( tlimit = 0) {
fprintf(stderr, %s: time limit must be
0\n,
cmd);
usage();
}
break;
case 's' :
ksig = atoi(optarg);
if( ksig 1 || ksig SIGUSR2 ) {
fprintf(stderr, %s: bad signal number:
%s\n,
cmd, optarg);
usage();
}
break;
default:
usage();
}
}
if( xflag ) {
fprintf(stderr, + );
for(i=optind; iargc; i++) {
fprintf(stderr, %s , argv[i]);
}
fprintf(stderr, \n);
}
childpid = fork();
switch (childpid) {
case -1 :
fprintf(stderr, %s: can not fork()\n, cmd);
perror();
exit(252);
break;
case 0 :/* child */
break;
default : /* parent */
signal(SIGALRM, timeout);
signal(SIGHUP, timeout);
signal(SIGINT, timeout);
signal(SIGTERM, timeout);
signal(SIGQUIT, timeout);
signal(SIGPIPE, timeout);
signal(SIGUSR1, timeout);
signal(SIGUSR2, timeout);
alarm(tlimit);
do {
ws = wait(status);
} while ( (ws != childpid) (ws 0 errno == EINTR) );
alarm(0);
if( timedout == SIGALRM ) {
if( xflag ) fprintf(stderr,
%s: Command timed-out\n, cmd);
exit(254);
}
exit( (status 255) ? status + 127 : status 8);
break;
}
/*
* At this point, the child is executing this code. Become
* a process group leader to that our parent can kill all
* of our processes not known by our parent.
*/
setuid(myuid); /* give up root access */
setpgrp();
execvp( argv[optind], argv[optind] );
fprintf( stderr, %s: '%s' - not executed. , cmd, argv[optind] );
perror( );
exit( 253 );
}
usage()
{
fprintf( stderr, Usage: %s [-t secs] [-s signal] [-x] command
[ arg ..
. ]\n, cmd );
exit(251);
}
/*
* signal trap handler. If signal receive is SIGALRM then
* we send ksig. All other signals are sent as is to the
* child
Wrong permission on C:\, how to change it, possible OT
I have a PC that is running Cygwin 1.5.25-15 on top of Windows XP Pro, SP2. My problem is that it will not do a disk boot. If I use the Windows XP Startup disk floppy, the hard-drive comes up fully with XP Pro, but only with the floppy. I've tried using the Recovery Console BOOTCFG cmd but it fails when trying to write the boot.ini file. I've tried changing the mode to 777 under Cygwin but it won't allow it (no error msg). I'm not sure if I'm on the right track but I don't know of any other reason it got changed other than Cygwin or the constant powering up/down by the grandkids. Does anyone know: 1.) If I'm on the right track? 2). How do I open up write access to everyone? If I didn't have Cygwin installed, then I know it is OT. When I look at other systems, the mode is 1777. If I don't get a resolution, I'll have to just leave a floppy in the drive. -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62
What does all of these means for users converting from cygwin 1.5? Do we have to change anything we are doing today? I live in the good-ole US, speak/understanding english. Did my ancesters get on the wrong boat? Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-62. Apart from bugfixes, this patch contains a change to the internationalization efforts in Cygwin which cristalized out of a couple of longish discussions on the cygwin and cygwin-developer lists. Here's how it's supposed to work in future: - UTF-8 rules. - System objects will always be *initially* translated using UTF-8. This includes file names, user names, and initial environment variables. This is also the rule for the consile window. - By setting the locale environ variables you can switch the charset used in subsequent child processes in the console, as well as to translate filenames and other system objects. The conversions in the current process are not affected by this. Only the setting at process startup are binding. This is only a stop-gap measure, to allow to re-use old archives or scripts. Those should be converted to UTF-8 ASAP! - Consequentially, setlocale() calls in a process have only an effect on the process code itself, not on the system object conversions within Cygwin and in the console window. - The C locale's default charset is UTF-8. - Additionally there are now language-neutral C.charset locales (C.CP1252, C.EUCJP, etc). - The user's ANSI codepage remain the default charset for language and language_TERRITORY locales. - Due to potential collision problems, the special filename conversion of characters which are not available in the current character set is now prepended with a Ctrl-X character, rather than Ctrl-N. I fixed the documentation in the user's guide accordingly: http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-unusual Other changes: = - Stop faking hardlinks on filesystems not supporting them (FAT, FAT32) by copying the file. Instead, the link(2) function returns EPERM, just as on Linux. - Improve multibyte to widechar conversion and vice versa. Bugfixes: = - Fix a typo in the extended attributes handling to support the setxattr call not only on Samba. - Fix a few problems in signal handling. - More workaround an issue with crashes due to invalid references to malloc functions when loading DLLs built against test versions of Cygwin between 1.7.0-49 and 1.7.0-57. - Fix error handling in a couple of file-related functions. - Avoid a failing recv function when trying to receive data on a socket connected via a child process. This works around a WinSock bug. - Fix a bug which disallowed to mq_open the smae message queue in different processes. - Declare getpagesize correctly as int per POSIX. FAQ: - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-62? A: The `uname -v' command prints 2009-10-03 14:33 Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3d3dyourdomain@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- 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
typeset sem-failures in PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
Hello: The following simple script fails to produce a leading 0 on variable nextnum. Am I doing something wrong or did I discover a bug? PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 /home/paul.$ cat /lbin/testit2 #!/bin/pdksh n=06 typeset -L2 nextnum nextnum=`expr $n + 01` echo $nextnum /home/paul.$ /lbin/testit2 7 My cygcheck -c output is attached. Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status _update-info-dir00828-1 OK abook 0.5.6-1 OK alternatives1.3.30c-10 OK annoyance-filter1.0d-1 OK archivemail 0.7.0-1 OK asciidoc8.4.5-1 OK atool 0.36.0-1OK autoconf7-10OK autoconf2.1 2.13-10 OK autoconf2.5 2.64-10 OK automake4-10OK automake1.101.10.2-10 OK automake1.111.11-10 OK automake1.4 1.4p6-10OK automake1.5 1.5-10 OK automake1.6 1.6.3-11OK automake1.7 1.7.9-10OK automake1.8 1.8.5-10OK automake1.9 1.9.6-10OK base-cygwin 2.0-1 OK base-files 3.8-4 OK base-passwd 3.1-1 OK bash3.2.49-23 OK bc 1.06-2 OK binutils2.19.51-1 OK bsdcpio 2.7.1-10OK bsdiff 4.3-4 OK bsdtar 2.7.1-10OK bsfilter1.0.15-1OK bvi 1.3.2-1 OK bzip2 1.0.5-10OK cdargs 1.35-1 OK cdda2wav1.1.7.1-1 OK cdrkit 1.1.7.1-1 OK chere 1.1-1 OK chewmail1.2-1 OK clamav 0.95.2-1OK clisp 2.48-2 OK coreutils 7.0-2 OK cpio2.9.90-5OK cron4.1-57 OK crypt 1.1-1 OK csih0.9.1-1 OK cvs 1.12.13-10 OK cygutils1.4.0-1 OK cygwin 1.7.0-60OK cygwin-doc 1.5-1 OK dash0.5.5.1-2 OK db2 2.7.7-5 OK deroff 1.1-1 OK diffutils 2.8.7-1 OK e2fsprogs 1.35-3 OK ed 1.0-1 OK editrights 1.01-2 OK email 3.1.2-2 OK exim4.69-51 OK expat 2.0.1-1 OK fcrackzip 0.3-1 OK fetchmail 6.3.9-1 OK fftw3 3.2.1-3 OK fftw3-doc 3.2.1-3 OK file5.00-3 OK findutils 4.5.4-1 OK font-bitstream-vera-ttf 1.10-1 OK fontconfig 2.6.0-1 OK fortune 1.99.1-2OK gawk3.1.7-1 OK gcc-core3.4.4-999 OK gcc-g++ 3.4.4-999 OK gcc-mingw-core 20050522-1 Incomplete gcc-mingw-g++ 20050522-1 Incomplete gcc4-core 4.3.2-2 OK gcc4-g++4.3.2-2 OK gcc4-runtime4.3.2-1 OK gdb 6.8-2 OK gdbm1.8.3-20OK getmail 4.7.7-1 OK gettext 0.17-11 OK ghostscript 8.63-2 OK ghostscript-fonts-other 6.0-1 OK ghostscript-fonts-std 8.11-1 OK glib1.2.10-4OK glpk4.38-2
[Fwd: Re: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows]
---BeginMessage--- Well there is more than one way to kill this cat. Let me add my cocktail. I have a need to automatically run scripts, totally written in cygwin using ksh as my shell. For example I have a number of .bat files performing necessary startup functions: echo off set ENV=/dev/null set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% SET IS_CYGWIN=true set HISTSIZE=1200 set HOME=/dev/null set CYGWIN=tty ksh -c C:/cygwin/backup_e The above backup_e is the work horse. It can be anything from a complicated script or starting up anything to running under cygwin. In this case I'm not providing any parameters that can be added if you so desire. Basically backup_e is an ordinary cygwin script: #!/bin/ksh # # backup_e # # Perform a incremental backup of drive e: of all # files having the archive attribute set. # # get list of files ready to archive exec 2/tmp/_backup_tracelog 12 echo -e Started - `date` set -x cd /e /c/WINDOWS/system32/cmd /c dir /s/b/a:a * /tmp/_backupe_1 if [ -s /tmp/_backupe_1 ] Using this scheme does NOT require you to setup/configure cygwin's cron. You can use Window's Scheduled Tasks feature under Control Panel. - Paul jprice wrote: Mike Marchywka-2 wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:04:44 -0700 From: ddjo...@gmail.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Automating a Cygwin Script From Windows I need to run a cygwin script directly via windows, probably via dos prompt or some other comparable method. This method needs to be automated and kicked off in Windows at certain times, so executing Cygwin, then manually typing in the script to run in the Cygwin prompt is out of the question. I was hoping there would be some way to execute Cygwin and concurrently feed it a string of commands to execute upon opening, but unfortunately I have not had success with this. There seems to be lots of command line options for setting display options but nothing that would allow me to feed in a command. Is there any method to do this? Thanks for your time. If you have an icon on your desktop, type the target it should be something like cygwin.bat. You should IIRC just be able to invoke bash with whatever params you need. I just tried it from dos prompt seems to work. Can I invoke bash with scripts I want it to run as parameters? For instance, if I'd like a bat file that would execute bash, and then proceed to automatically run a cygwin script at at c:\foo, I'd want something like this: @echo off C: chdir C:\cygwin\bin bash --login -i -execute c:\foo Bash obviously doesn't contain an -execute option, but is there some method to achieve this? ---End Message--- -- 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: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-59
I'm not making a feature request but rather some future discussion ideas. We all seem to remember sub-version numbers like: 1.7.0.-44 There is some benefits in using a consistant numbering scheme. When I use the uname command, I don't care what date my dll was created. I would like for uname to use the same format as we all talk about. Would it be possible to get uname to report the full version with sub-version? No more dates... Without this feature, Im' going thru convuolutions to extract the full version and sub versions. I like to be able to quickly view this information in the Windows banner/title area when running multiple instatnces of the OS. Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi folks, I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-59. Just a bugfix update. What's new in contrast to 1.7.0-58 === - Nothing. Bugfixes: = - Fix a bug in wcsncpy where the function call wcsncpy (dest, src, n) could end up copying n+1 characters to dest. http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2009/msg00812.html - The getsockname/getpeername patches added to -58 didn't return the correct length for unbound AF_LOCAL sockets (3 instead of 2). - Fix a bug in readdir which could lead to incorrect inode numbers for . and .. entries on some remote filesystems (ext3 over NFS for instance). - Fix a bug in readdir which could result in wrong inode numbers on remote NFS filesystems. Also works around a bug in the Windows 7 NFS client. - Fix popen problems with standard handles http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-08/msg00582.html FAQ: - Q: How do I know that I'm running Cygwin 1.7.0-59? A: The `uname -v' command prints 2009-08-18 18:42 Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the List-Unsubscribe: tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3d3dyourdomain@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- 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
creating persistance mounts
When I first generated my 1.7 cygwin system, it created the System mount points for me. In looking the documentations for mount, I can not find the necessary info to create a persistance system mount. Anything I mount get taged as a user mount. What's the secret. I use the -s options, it gets flagged as invalid arg. I tried: mount -f -s R: /r DOESN'T WORK mount -f -o -s R: /r DOESN'T WORK mount -f -o --system R: /r SAME mount -f --system R: /r SAME mount -f R: /r WORKS, except as user The documentation does not help much (man pages web page). Can someone tell me how to mount a FS as system? -- 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
Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe
Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does work properly: $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ I like using shell expansions a lot to save me a lot of typing and to avoid MS spaces in directory names. Under 1.7, I have replace the above with the following: $ cd /c/Doc* $ cd Paul $ cd App* $ cd Moz* $ cd Fire* $ cd Pro* $ cd *.def* Or I have completely type all of the expansions CORRECTLY. It appears that you can't have multiple expansions within a single line. It is the EXACT executable ksh.exe. As you can see, you are forcing me *A LOT* of extra typing. Makes me wonder what else might be broken. Do we have an re-entrancy problem somewhere?. -- 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: Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe
Paul McFerrin wrote: Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does work properly: $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ I like using shell expansions a lot to save me a lot of typing and to avoid MS spaces in directory names. Under 1.7, I have replace the above with the following: $ cd /c/Doc* $ cd Paul $ cd App* $ cd Moz* $ cd Fire* $ cd Pro* $ cd *.def* Or I have completely type all of the expansions CORRECTLY. It appears that you can't have multiple expansions within a single line. It is the EXACT executable ksh.exe. As you can see, you are forcing me *A LOT* of extra typing. Makes me wonder what else might be broken. Do we have an re-entrancy problem somewhere?. Just in case someone needs the cygcheck -s output of my 1.7 instance: /home/paul.$ cygcheck -s Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Tue Aug 04 16:15:55 2009 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwinIV\bin C:\cygwinIV\bin\X11 C:\cygwinIV\lbin C:\cygwinIV\bin C:\Program Files\WinOne C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\MPEG C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ .\ Output from C:\cygwinIV\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 1003(paul)GID: 513(None) 0(root)544(Administrators) 545(Users) 1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers) 513(None) Output from C:\cygwinIV\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 1003(paul)GID: 513(None) 0(root)544(Administrators) 545(Users) 1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers) 513(None) SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS PWD = '/home/paul' MAKE_MODE = 'UNIX' CYGWIN = 'tty' HOME = '/home/paul' Use '-r' to scan registry obcaseinsensitive set to 1 a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS 51199Mb 58% CP CS UN PA FC System d: cd N/AN/A e: hd NTFS107520Mb 68% CP CS UN PA FC Volume1 f: hd NTFS107520Mb 1% CP CS UN PA FC Volume2 g: hd NTFS210696Mb 7% CP CS UN PA FC Volume3 h: hd NTFS 51199Mb 1% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of System i: hd NTFS107520Mb 65% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of Volume1 j: hd NTFS107520Mb 1% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of Volume2 k: hd NTFS210696Mb 25% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of Volume3 m: fd FAT32 7731Mb 42% CPUN KINGSTON o: net NTFS 40970Mb 42% CP CS UN PA FC p: net NTFS111576Mb 12% CP CS UN PA FC C:\cygwinIV / system binary,auto a: /a system binary C:\cygwinIV\bin /bin system binary C: /c system binary D: /d system binary E: /e system binary C:\cygwinIV\etc /etc system binary F: /f system binary G: /g system binary H: /h system binary I: /i system binary J: /j system binary K: /k system binary L: /l system binary C:\cygwinIV\lib /lib system binary M: /m system binary N: /n system binary O: /o system binary P: /p system binary \\linda\c/pcsystem binary Q: /q system binary C:\cygwinIV\u/u system binary C:\cygwinIV\usr /usr system binary C:/cygwinIV/bin /usr/bin system binary C:/cygwinIV/lib /usr/lib system binary cygdrive prefix /cygdrive userbinary,auto Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\awk.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\awk.exe - C:\cygwinIV\bin\gawk.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\cpp.exe - C:\cygwinIV\etc\alternatives\cpp - C:\cygwinIV\bin\cpp-3.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\find.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\find.exe Found: C:\WINDOWS\system32\find.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\gcc.exe - C:\cygwinIV\etc\alternatives\gcc - C:\cygwinIV\bin\gcc-3.exe Found: C:\cygwinIV\bin\gdb.exe Found
Re: Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe
Dave: Let's put this prob on hold for a while. At least til I investigate it some more. Something is acting weird. This prob has disappeared! I tried unloading everything just in case some name cache had it already expanded. I did get correct results from using latest pdksh. Weird. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does work properly: $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ LERN2SHELL. Try echo /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ to see if you've actually got a real path there, or no matching path, or several matching paths. Try stripping components off one by one and seeing which one you made a mistake in. The multiple expansions work just fine for me: $ PS1=$ pdksh $ cd /cygdrive/c/Doc*/Adm*/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/bfwp4loc.default $ Also, LERN2BUGREPORT. You told us all about how you feel, but completely omitted the crucial detail of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS when you try it. Error message? No error message? Boxing glove on a spring comes out of your computer and punches you in the nose? cheers, DaveK -- 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 -- 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: Minor diff: /bin/ksh.exe
I believe this is a non-problem. The cause: human error. Doing a cd /c/Doc*/pa*/App*is not the same as cd /c/Doc*/Pa*/App* Wildcard lookups are always case sensitive. I must not have been consistant when switching between Windows. Paul McFerrin wrote: Dave: Let's put this prob on hold for a while. At least til I investigate it some more. Something is acting weird. This prob has disappeared! I tried unloading everything just in case some name cache had it already expanded. I did get correct results from using latest pdksh. Weird. Dave Korn wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Just want to point out a slightly difference in behavior of ksh @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 between Cygwin 1.5 1.7 First, the above is a older version of pdksh that I had to tweek the cygwin sources a l-o-n-g time ago. Under 1.5, the following does work properly: $ cd /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ LERN2SHELL. Try echo /c/Doc*/Paul/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ to see if you've actually got a real path there, or no matching path, or several matching paths. Try stripping components off one by one and seeing which one you made a mistake in. The multiple expansions work just fine for me: $ PS1=$ pdksh $ cd /cygdrive/c/Doc*/Adm*/App*/Moz*/Fire*/Pro*/*default/ $ pwd /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/bfwp4loc.default $ Also, LERN2BUGREPORT. You told us all about how you feel, but completely omitted the crucial detail of WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS when you try it. Error message? No error message? Boxing glove on a spring comes out of your computer and punches you in the nose? cheers, DaveK -- 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 -- 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 -- 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-1.7.0-56
Folks. Try again with updating 1.7-56. When it is downloaded from mirror: mirror.nyi.net, my 1.7 instance of cygwin will nolonger come up!! Using my 1.5 instance, and the strings command, I check the 1.7.0-56 version of cygwin1.dll and it comes up with: /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-51, NOT 56. No comments about using strings. If no windows are opening up, I can't do a uname -r on a dead system. Unless someone comes up with a *good* reason NOT to use it, it stays in. I've been using cygwin since the B20 days so I think I know a little about it. I seemed to remember the days when uname -r never gave the complete version and sub-version. I frequently perform updates of the 1.7 release, This allow me just click-away and it is done. I don't always fire it up as I'm frequently running my 1.5 system. Yesterday was a bad day for this activity. Frédéric Bron wrote: It's worse than that. In an xterm, the first ls works (I get output) but then nothing works after that. Just get command prompt returned. Same issue with rxvt. Not only ls, but also vi, cat... Frédéric -- 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 -- 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-1.7.0-56
I forced a REINSTALL of cygwin1.dll and this time it downloaded the correct version. Everything is fine now. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 05:15:33PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: Folks. Try again with updating 1.7-56. When it is downloaded from mirror: mirror.nyi.net, my 1.7 instance of cygwin will nolonger come up!! Using my 1.5 instance, and the strings command, I check the 1.7.0-56 version of cygwin1.dll and it comes up with: /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-51, NOT 56. No comments about using strings. If no windows are opening up, I can't do a uname -r on a dead system. Unless someone comes up with a *good* reason NOT to use it, it stays in. There is no mystery here. The version of cygwin1.dll that you're looking at came from the 1.7.0-51 release. Maybe you're confused about where you should be looking or maybe you have a process running which is using this dll and, so, could not have been updated by setup. If it is the latter then rebooting would help. Regardless, this isn't a problem with the release. It's a problem with your installation. cgf -- 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 -- 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
Mismatch cygwin1.dll
After downloading the latest updates arount 7PM tonight, I ended up with strange version numbers: For dll 1.5 $ cd /c/cygwin/bin $ ls -lc cygwin1.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul Paul 1872884 Mar 4 04:01 cygwin1.dll $ strings /bin/cygwin1.dll | grep /cygwin-[0-9] | tail -1 | sed -e s/^.*\/cygwin-/ / -e s/\/.*$// 1.5.25-15 For cygwin 1.7 cd /c/cygwinIV/bin $ ls -lc cygwin1.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul Administrators 2464286 Jul 31 13:51 cygwin1.dll $ strings /bin/cygwin1.dll | grep /cygwin-[0-9] | tail -1 | s 1.5.25-15 Every window that is opened displays the current Version string in the banner area. What gives!! Sizes are consistance but Version #? -- 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: Mismatch cygwin1.dll
Yes, it seams weird. I'm checking the Version # being extracted from the DLL itself since I can't find any other way to get it. My /cygwin/bin is 1.5 and /cygwinIV is 1.7-xx. Here is cgychk from my 1.5 release: $ chgchk -s Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Sat Aug 01 23:45:41 2009 Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 Path: C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin\X11 C:\cygwin\lbin C:\cygwin\bin C:\Program Files\WinOne C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static C:\Program Files\Common Files\Ulead Systems\MPEG C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ . Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (nontsec) UID: 501(Paul) GID: 401(Paul) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers) Output from C:\cygwin\bin\id.exe (ntsec) UID: 501(Paul) GID: 401(Paul) 513(None) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) 1005(AcronisBackupServerUsers) SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\system32 WinDir: C:\WINDOWS PWD = '/home/paul' MAKE_MODE = 'UNIX' CYGWIN = 'tty' HOME = '/home/paul' Use '-r' to scan registry a: fd N/AN/A c: hd NTFS 51199Mb 58% CP CS UN PA FC System d: cd N/AN/A e: hd NTFS107520Mb 68% CP CS UN PA FC Volume1 f: hd NTFS107520Mb 1% CP CS UN PA FC Volume2 g: hd NTFS210696Mb 7% CP CS UN PA FC Volume3 h: hd NTFS 51199Mb 1% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of System i: hd NTFS107520Mb 65% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of Volume1 j: hd NTFS107520Mb 1% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of Volume2 k: hd NTFS210696Mb 25% CP CS UN PA FC Backup of Volume3 m: fd FAT32 7731Mb 42% CPUN KINGSTON o: net NTFS 40970Mb 42% CP CS UN PA FC p: net NTFS111576Mb 12% CP CS UN PA FC . /cygdrive userbinmode,cygdrive C:\cygwin / system binmode a: /a system binmode C:\cygwin\bin /bin system binmode C: /c system binmode D: /d system binmode E: /e system binmode C:\cygwin\etc /etc system binmode F: /f system binmode G: /g system binmode H: /h system binmode I: /i system binmode J: /j system binmode K: /k system binmode C:\cygwin\lib /lib system binmode M: /m system binmode N: /n system binmode O: /o system binmode P: /p system binmode \\linda\c /pcsystem binmode Q: /q system binmode C:\cygwin\usr /usr system binmode C:\cygwin\bin /usr/bin system binmode C:\cygwin\lib /usr/lib system binmode . /cygdrive system binmode,cygdrive Found: C:\cygwin\bin\awk.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cat.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\cpp.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\crontab.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\gdb.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\kill.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ld.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\make.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\mv.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\patch.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\rm.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sed.exe Not Found: ssh Found: C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\tar.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\test.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\vi.exe Found: C:\cygwin\bin\vim.exe cygwin 1.5.25-15 cygwin-doc 1.4-4 cygwin-x-doc 1.0.4-1 Now I'm running my cygwin 1.7 instance: cygcheck -s Well with the corrupt DLL, I could NOT run any 1.7 environment shells to open up a window. I did however restore from my Jul 29 backups a copy of the cygwin1.dll and I was able to start up my envorinment without any problems; and it is 1.7.0-51 !!! Now the version is consistance with its size. Has anyone else recently updated their cygwin1.dll to find it corrupt? Regarding my arcane method'. do you know of any easier method to extract this information? I'm listening. I don't understand the cygwin's download that went haywired on me earlier. - Pauo Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 09:50:13PM -0400, Paul McFerrin wrote: After downloading the latest updates arount 7PM tonight, I ended up with strange version numbers: For dll 1.5 $ cd /c/cygwin/bin $ ls -lc cygwin1.dll -rwxr-xr-x 1 Paul Paul 1872884 Mar 4 04:01 cygwin1.dll $ strings /bin/cygwin1.dll | grep /cygwin-[0-9] | tail -1 | sed -e s/^.*\/cygwin
Protection mode: an inquiry
Just one question... Is there a good reason why http://cygwin.com/1.7/ and below have their permission set to no access? My memory is not so good these days and I find directory searches are much easier than remembering their full names. Makes me wonder What are you hiding. -- 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: Protection mode: an inquiry
Thanks. I always wanted to know about bomb construction details. :+() Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 1 14:16, Paul McFerrin wrote: Just one question... Is there a good reason why http://cygwin.com/1.7/ and below have their permission set to no access? My memory is not so good these days and I find directory searches are much easier than remembering their full names. Makes me wonder What are you hiding. Nothing unusual, just ripped videos, stolen music, bomb construction manuals, you name it. I added an index.html file. Try http://cygwin.com/1.7/ Corinna -- 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: Selling management on Cygwin
If you are looking for technical reason to make cygwin the default, then give it up. Of a person has spent years on a MS system, they will be reluctant to change. Contrary to a person using a *Unix system will be very glad to use tools that they know. You'll trying to force everyone to use one OS. When I install cygwin on a new OS, I frequently swear cuss because the MS tool set is extremely difficult compared to a *Unix system I have over 25 years experienced with *Unix. I can't see any reason for making cygwin availablr to those that prefer to use it. With many years of using both, cygwin definitely take the cake. Those that choose cygwin, will quickly be more productive and learn how to cuss out MS! Long live U N I X ! Andrew Schulman wrote: No one here asked me whether it was safe to install open source software, but if they had I was ready to explain that it's a well established and stable product, I've been using it and contributing to it for many years, and have never had a problem with it. You might add that the applications distributed with Cygwin are used to help run millions of *nix servers around the world. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
How can I get the lynx command to display normal instead of reverse video
To reduce the total amount to light in my eyes, I use reverse video for everything (fg:white). When I view the cygwin's security html document using lynx, everything is reversed (fb:black). This happens on both my mintty and rxvt windows. Thus I am unable to use the man command to view html pages. How can I get lynx to reverse the video? How do I pass options to lynx when using the man command? -- 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/
man does not recognise html files
I think it is great for someone to add html file support to the man command. As indicated in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00300.html , the man command in 1.7 apparently does not work for html files. If this was answered, please excuse me being hospitalized for more than a week but I failed to find an answer in the archives. -- 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: Clearing the Cygwin console
What package contains cls. Can't seem to find it. Dave Korn wrote: Thomas Wiedmann wrote: cmd /c cls doesn't work. It gives the output: ♀ In a DOS console? In the usual console of Windows XP (ok - DOS console) called with cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Cygwin\bin bash --login -i How thoroughly bizarre. I haven't seen that on 1.5 or 1.7 on XP or W2k or 1.7 on win7beta. Do you have any kind of extenders or plugins installed? cheers, DaveK -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Clearing the Cygwin console
Oh, cls is one of those built-in commands. Any hints as to where clear went? Sorry 'bout not following the threads but after receiving over 400+ post after a hospital stay, I have no choice to delete about all of them. I'm a little s-l-o-w in returning, -Paul Christopher Faylor wrote: You're causing a discussion loop. Please read the whole thread. cls is obviously a Windows CMD command. That's why you need to use cmd to invoke it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: minTTY will not interrupt 'locked' process
I'll watch for it to occur again. Is there anything I can collect for you in this besides a ps(1) showing the process is inactive or should I just forget it for now. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:32:36PM +, Andy Koppe wrote: Several times recently, I have executed a command on a file that was apparently locked. ?Any attempts to perform any reads/opens on the file would block. ?When it happens, the only was out is to terminate minTTY session (no ctl-C or ctl-\ will terminate). ?Is this a normal situation? I'm afraid I don't know about those locked files, but in any case this sounds more like a general Cygwin question. When you press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-\, MinTTY simply writes the corresponding control character to the pty device connecting it to its child process. The terminal driver normally turns that into a SIGINT or SIGQUIT, but applications can override that, or choose to ignore signals. Also, Cygwin can't deliver signals while a program is executing a Win32 function. Right. If a process is blocked in a situation where Cygwin isn't expecting it, like when reading a disk file, then signals won't have much effect. This is actually more than a little like what happens Linux when you try to access a file on, say, a bad disk. Signals don't allow you to stop the process there either. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Can't get man to find local html pages
When I create directories containing html pages, man can;t find them. I have added to /usr/share/misc/man.conf, the following entry: MANPATH /usr/man/lman/htmlman1 and I placed the html file at: /usr/man/lman/htmlman1/ntsec.html. I followed the following instructions per man man: HTML PAGES Man will find HTML pages if they live in directories named as expected to be .html, thus a valid name for an HTML version of the ls(1) man page would be /usr/share/man/htmlman1/ls.1.html. I also tried moving html1man1 directory up one level to: /usr/man/htmlman1 with same effect. What am I doing wrong?? Here is the tail end of man -d ntsec: using /usr/bin/lynx -dump to dump HTML pages as text adding /usr/man to manpath adding /usr/share/man to manpath adding /usr/local/apache/man to manpath adding /usr/man/bsd_man to manpath No manual entry for ntsec $ -- 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/
