Re: Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed some discussion on the list a while back, where people > reported that if they logged in remotely to their Windows PC via > slogin, they didn't have access to their network shares. > > I'd never worried too much about this, since I always just manually > mapped

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 18 Jun, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install >> set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet", >> and burn that. >> >> Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I thi

Re: cygwin presentation ???

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Larry Hall wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Suggested presentation: > > [snip] > > Finally, I leave you with this directive: > > Cygwin - use it and SHUT UP. > > Thank you! > > LOL! Maybe we should put this on the Web site. It's perfect! :-) Well, it's certainly a ve

RE: Mail to cygwin generating subscription requests

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > Same here. Me not so too. I was getting them a couple of weeks ago and from a kde list with a .nl domain. Elfyn -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documen

RE: Mail to cygwin generating subscription requests

Same here. -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mail to cygwin generating subscription requests > > > I'

Mail to cygwin generating subscription requests

I've sent a few emails to the list today. It seems like each time I do, I get an email from either Yahoo! Groups or kde-transl-request saying that someone has attempted to subscribe me to those lists. I don't believe I want to, and I was wondering if there is some mis-configuration of a mailing l

Re: Download from internet = 1Mb?!

On 18 Jun, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The mirror is 1.2Gb, and I wanted to just write a copy of the install > set to take home. So my idea was to choose "download from internet", > and burn that. > > Trouble is, that option results in a 1Mb download (I think all it does > is download s

Re: Determining the location of a Cygwin installation

On 26 Mar, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Let me describe a problem scenerio (real world). > > You have a bunch of people in your domain who rely on Cygwin but who do > not always keep up with the latest. Indeed often they are way behind. > These people do not bother to add Cygwin's bin direct

RE: cygwin presentation ???

> > List Rule #1 Cygwin has no problems - only issues. > > Rule #2 If you have an "issue" you can "issue" it to the list - > but only if it is a problem. > Wait wait wait - your numbering is off: First rule of Cygwin: You do not talk about Cygwin. Second rule of Cygwin: You DO

Re: cygwin presentation ???

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suggested presentation: Hello, First, use the setup and be satisfied with the results - even and especially if it causes your machine to hang and you lose a days worth of work. Cygwin is more important anything else you might have been doing. If you don't like the size o

Re: Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Meier, Daniel W. wrote: > Any hints on how to get the files off of a SDLT tape created by Solaris > ufsdump? > > I can access the tape handily: > $ mt -f /dev/st0 status 3 > tape capacity: 34571200 KB remaining: 34571200 KB > current block:0

Network shares under ssh: some can, some can't

I noticed some discussion on the list a while back, where people reported that if they logged in remotely to their Windows PC via slogin, they didn't have access to their network shares. I'd never worried too much about this, since I always just manually mapped the drives. Today I also modified o

Reading a Solaris tape created by ufsdump

Any hints on how to get the files off of a SDLT tape created by Solaris ufsdump? I can access the tape handily: $ mt -f /dev/st0 status 3 tape capacity: 34571200 KB remaining: 34571200 KB current block:0 write protected : yes datcompression :

Re: unable to autologin to 2003

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > I hope this isn't a stupid question. I configure cygwin with a script which > installs all passwd, hosts.equiv, inetd etc. I have hundreds of > machines configured this way on which all is well. I just installed 2003 > server, cygwin, and ran the

unable to autologin to 2003

I hope this isn't a stupid question. I configure cygwin with a script which installs all passwd, hosts.equiv, inetd etc. I have hundreds of machines configured this way on which all is well. I just installed 2003 server, cygwin, and ran the autoconfig script. I am unable to rsh to this ma

Re: unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll to same address asparent(0x7C0000) != 0x7D0000

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Urs Rau wrote: > when trying to add/compile the perl module XML::DifferenceMarkup (v. > 0.09) to the perl 5.8.0 under cygwin "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 quin10 > 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686" I get the following iconv-2.dll > error msgs: (error is same with either libiconv2-1.8.2

RE: Problems with cron

About your crontab file: * * * * root echo "Hello World!" 1. 'root' is not a valid value for the fifth field, which should be the day of the week. Possible values: '*', 0-7 (Sunday is 0 or 7), or use names of days. More details can be read in the manual page for crontab. Enter '

RE: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference?

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Karsten M. Self >- The shell. Bash. >- Directories. '/' rather than '\'. Cygwin naming conventions. > Accessing legacy MS Windows paths. >- Essential commands. Likely: ls, cd, pwd, rm, less, cat. >- Getting h

RE: Interrupting program from command line

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Alex Vinokur > I have some program that works endlessly. > I want the program to be interrupted in some time after starting. > Is it possible to do that from command? > > Something like (pseudo-code) : > $ run 6 sec my_program, I th

Re: Interrupting program from command line

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Alex Vinokur wrote: > Hi, > > I have some program that works endlessly. > I want the program to be interrupted in some time after starting. > Is it possible to do that from command? > > Something like (pseudo-code) : > $ run 6 sec my_program, > >Alex Vinokur Sure. Write

Re: OT: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, orreference?

Your best bet would be to pick up a few "Unix for Dummies" books, or bookmark a good beginner's unix tutorial on the web. For the cygwin specific, spend a day or two putting a custom doc together to describe the "cygwin specific" stuff. A "Cygwin for Dummies" book would probably not be a waste of

unable to remap C:\cygwin\bin\cygiconv-2.dll to same address as parent(0x7C0000)!= 0x7D0000

when trying to add/compile the perl module XML::DifferenceMarkup (v. 0.09) to the perl 5.8.0 under cygwin "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 quin10 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686" I get the following iconv-2.dll error msgs: (error is same with either libiconv2-1.8.2 or 1.8.3) $ perl Makefile.PL Checking if

OT: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference?

I'm advocating rolling out Cygwin as part of a production environment based on Win2K systems. Though I've got extensive 'Nix experience, most of the crew here doesn't. I'm looking for a guide that covers the essentials of what are needed to know to use Cygwin, for a legacy MS Windows / DOS user.

Re: [[ ]] test always reports a "not found" error in bash shell scrip t

Michael, At 09:21 2003-06-26, MATTHEWS,MICHAEL (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: Thu 2003/JUN/26 0921 PDT Hello, I am porting a Linux build system to Windows XP by using the Cygwin 1.3.22-1 environment (see the attached text file for output from "cygcheck -s -v -r"). All of the bash shell scripts use th

Re: Win32 Gdb nice graphical interface

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, giuseppe catania wrote: > Hi, > I recently upgraded my cygwin environment via setup network > distribution, and discovered that the old graphical interface supplied > with gdb I used up to now is not available anymore. I found on cygwin > user manual (cygwin-uh-net.pdf, pag.7

RE: CRLF to LF Issue

If you just want a quick fix, try using the dos2unix and unix2dos utilities _ On the move? Get Hotmail on your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem repo

Interrupting program from command line

= Windows 2000 CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(5)-release-(i686-pc-cygwin) = Hi, I have some program that works endlessly. I want the program to be interrupted in some time after starting. Is it possible to do that from comm

Comparative performance : Reading contents from file into one string

Here are some C/C++ Performance Tests performed with using C/C++ Program Perfometer. http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpp-perfometer http://alexvn.freeservers.com/s1/perfometer.html Reading contents from file into one string --

Re: [[ ]] test always reports a "not found" error in bash shell script

MATTHEWS,MICHAEL (HP-Vancouver,ex1) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am porting a Linux build system to Windows XP by using the Cygwin 1.3.22-1 > environment (see the attached text file for output from "cygcheck -s -v > -r"). All of the bash shell scripts use the [[ ]] test in if statements, > simila

cannot find name for user id

I'm having problems with cygwin on Win XP. The error message on login is: id: cannot find name for user ID 56986 This has all sorts of ramifications for various utilities, such as pine. I have read through the archives and I see the common solution being the password file entry. Here is mine:

[[ ]] test always reports a "not found" error in bash shell script

Thu 2003/JUN/26 0921 PDT Hello, I am porting a Linux build system to Windows XP by using the Cygwin 1.3.22-1 environment (see the attached text file for output from "cygcheck -s -v -r"). All of the bash shell scripts use the [[ ]] test in if statements, similar to: if [[ "$(uname -s)" != "Linu

RE: CRLF to LF Issue

All, Sorry, no joy - same outcome Here's my mount : [EMAIL PROTECTED] / $ mount C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)

Re: Win32 Gdb nice graphical interface

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, giuseppe catania wrote: > Hi, > I recently upgraded my cygwin environment via setup network > distribution, and discovered that the old graphical interface supplied > with gdb I used up to now is not available anymore. I found on cygwin > user manual (cygwin-uh-net.pdf, pag.7

Problems with cron

Hi, I have scoured the net, run cron_diagnose.sh (no reported errors) and followed every suggestion I could find. Yet I cannot get cron to work. At the prompt I get the following error: Cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error 1062: The service has not been started.

Win32 Gdb nice graphical interface

Hi, I recently upgraded my cygwin environment via setup network distribution, and discovered that the old graphical interface supplied with gdb I used up to now is not available anymore. I found on cygwin user manual (cygwin-uh-net.pdf, pag.73), that GDB comes with a full-featured graphical in

Re: CRLF to LF Issue

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Richard Bland wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to use the 'patch' utility to modify some source code files > created in MS-Windows Notepad. The source code is designed to ONLY be used > in MS-Windows, so I'm not interested in porting between Unix/MS-Windows. The > source code f

Re: Error: gs: package of cygz.dll? (FAQ Alert)

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, mxgl wrote: > Which package does "cygz.dll" belong to? I was pretty sure this information was in the FAQ, but I just looked at it and couldn't find it there. So here goes: To find out which package contains a particular file, go to and enter th

"\dev\pipew" or "\dev\pipew.lnk" SMB STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_NOT_FOUND

We're running 1.3.20. In trying to debug another problem, I noticed these SMB errors, looks like cygwin is (wrongly?) trying to find: "\dev\pipew" or "\dev\pipew.lnk" on our remote file server. See part 2 - packet capture errors. This is way over my head; not sure how imp it is. Looks like a

Re: cygwin presentation ???

There's always this: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/full_papers/noer/noer.pdf But it is a bit out of date now. I'm sure there used to be a link to it from the cygwin homepage but I can't find it now, unless I've lost the plot. Andrew. On Thu, 26 Jun 2003,

Re: cygwin presentation ???

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Suggested presentation: [ Snip various derogatory comments about Cygwin. ] You could take a few moments to step back from your rant, and consider the nature of Cygwin - a volunteer project. You could allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised by the general cohesiveness o

RE: Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

Jason Tishler writes: > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:06:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > 7) rebase, but this time including the PIL dll's > > > > first, set things up to 'trick' rebaseall > > My intention is to enhance rebaseall (and in turn rebase) to support an > option to specify additio

Re: Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:06:18PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > 7) rebase, but this time including the PIL dll's > > first, set things up to 'trick' rebaseall My intention is to enhance rebaseall (and in turn rebase) to support an option to specify additional DLLs so it won't be necessary to "t

Re: _pread() _pwrite

Ah, yes, "the file offset is not changed".. I forgot about that.. Thanks for correcting me :) rlc On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Brian Dessent wrote: > Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > > > pread and pwrite are not in Cygwin (or at least are not exported by > > cygwin1.dll). They are hardly the most por

Re: [Re: Error: gs: package of cygz.dll?]

Many thanks for the speedy reply, I searched through the packages dialog, but I used, a google habit, as I just found out, quotation-marks, "cygz". Sorry, for bothering the mailing list. ---mxgl "Gerrit P. Haase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mxgl schrieb: > > > Which package does "cygz.dll"

Message ("Your message dated Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:43:17...")

Your message dated Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:43:17 +0800 with subject "Re: Application" has been submitted to the moderator of the SOCKS-USERS list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

Re: cygwin presentation ???

Suggested presentation: Hello, First, use the setup and be satisfied with the results - even and especially if it causes your machine to hang and you lose a days worth of work. Cygwin is more important anything else you might have been doing. If you don't like the size of the setup program, rig

CRLF to LF Issue

Hi All, I'm trying to use the 'patch' utility to modify some source code files created in MS-Windows Notepad. The source code is designed to ONLY be used in MS-Windows, so I'm not interested in porting between Unix/MS-Windows. The source code files are line terminated with a CR and LF, in the norm

Re: Error: gs: package of cygz.dll?

mxgl schrieb: > Which package does "cygz.dll" belong to? The Package Setup Search is your friend: http://cygwin.com/packages/ Searched for cygz.dll: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=cygz.dll it spits out: Search Results Found 2 matches for cygz.dll. zlib/zlib-1.1.3-7 The zl

Re: _pread() _pwrite

Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > > pread and pwrite are not in Cygwin (or at least are not exported by > cygwin1.dll). They are hardly the most portable functions in the world. I > suggest you write a wrapper. Something like: > > > ssize_t pread(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset) > {

Re: _pread() _pwrite

pread and pwrite are not in Cygwin (or at least are not exported by cygwin1.dll). They are hardly the most portable functions in the world. I suggest you write a wrapper. Something like: ssize_t pread(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset) { if (lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == (o

Re: assertion "ptr != MAP_FAILED" failed while using mmap

"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alex Vinokur wrote: > > > > The program prints: > > === Error : 22 Invalid argument === > > > > Which argument? > > The flags argument requires at least one of MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE, I > think. > > Brian > It works

Re: cygwin presentation ???

Sorry, should have spoken up sooner. I am about to give a presentation on Cygwin (in french, so I don't have the same language problems cgf apparently had). Basically, the red line in the presentation will be: * Cygwin - what is it? * Cygwin - the - kernel * Cygwin - the - distribution * Cyg

Re: Error: gs: package of cygz.dll?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:30:41AM +0200, mxgl wrote: > Which package does "cygz.dll" belong to? At a guess, cygz.dll is akin to libz.so, hence is part of zlib. -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsu

Error: gs: package of cygz.dll?

Which package does "cygz.dll" belong to? -- 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/

_pread() _pwrite

Hi folks, I am compiling some files which need functions like -pread(), pwrite() which shud be in libc.a. But they are not. This file was actually mean to be complied on linux. Any ideas how can I overcome this problem Vikram -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P