ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Jari Aalto+mail.linux
(a Debian) Python Project http://www.paganini.net/ask/ has bee ported. Please review. http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1.tar.bz2 Jari @ ask sdesc: Active Spam Killer in python. Uses opt-in method. ldesc: Python

Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: (a Debian) Python Project http://www.paganini.net/ask/ has bee ported. Please review. http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1.tar.bz2 Before you ITP any more packages, you should address

Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Max Bowsher
Charles Wilson wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: (a Debian) Python Project http://www.paganini.net/ask/ has bee ported. Please review. http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1-src.tar.bz2 http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1.tar.bz2 Before you

Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 07:21, Max Bowsher wrote: I could have misinterpreted cgf's veto. I'm not entirely sure whether he was vetoing the package, or the use of yet another build system. The build system per se doesn't matter. We hashed this out waay back. What matters is: The binary layout.

Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:21:18PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: Charles Wilson wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: (a Debian) Python Project http://www.paganini.net/ask/ has bee ported. Please review. http://tierra.dyndns.org:81/cygwin/ask/ask-2.5.0-1-src.tar.bz2

Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Charles Wilson
Robert Collins wrote: That said, I really don't think we want to formalise the package creation script. If we -really- are heading to compatibility with any existing format, surely our efforts are bested directed to achieving that, not to (relatively minor) fiddling within our adhoc format.

Re: ask-2.5.0 - a new package for review

2003-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:18:17PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: I was vetoing the package for inclusion in cygwin. I was actually nodding my head when I read your objection to packages being submitted which use cygbuild, but Chuck is right. Since there is no official package in the

patch to generic-build-script

2003-06-29 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I backported the changed I was already using in my latest packages the full diff is in attach (trying to avoid the mailer change it I'm using an extension DIFFERENT from .txt or anything that could be interpreted as text/plain...). Here goes the

Re: xinit: No such file or directory

2003-06-29 Thread Tomasz Rojek
I only run into this problem as nonadministrator. I don't know if this will help in your case, but maybe during instalation process you have selected Install for: Only me instead of All users? -- Tomasz Rojek

Re: EIO error on background tty reads

2003-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:41:56AM -0400, Rafael Kitover wrote: While working on my port of screen for cygwin, I have tracked down the issue that did not allow me to reattach detached screens. A detached screen process owns a certain tty to which the new, attaching screen process connects to and

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

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:55:17PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karsten M. Self - The shell.

Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c HANDLE'

2003-06-29 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Soren, you also wrote: I am trying to finish a test script that uses ActivePerl to call `cygpath` from itself (a system call, by open()-ing a pipe to capture the output of the tool ... {... stuff ...} open(CTH, '-|', C:/cygwin/bin/cygpath $MS_path_filename) or die Could not

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

2003-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:12:32AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:55:17PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: free pascal cross compiler from windows to linux working.

2003-06-29 Thread Larry Hall
Harald Houppermans wrote: So other weird red hat linux server behaviour... I have to use: ./hello ( just hello does work on knoppix ) That's probably a red hat linux server setting... ./ means current folder... Just wondering what that is all about. . is not in the PATH by default on most

Re: request: add hive unload functionality

2003-06-29 Thread Larry Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after browsing the source, I gathered that whenever a new process is spawned(spawn.cc) the user's hive is loaded and linked to HKEY_CURRENT_USER. but, the user's hive is never unloaded i.e. whenever the last process running as that user terminates. so I humbly suggest

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

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:12:32AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Given my research and responses (both on and off list),

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

2003-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:58:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:12:32AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: ssh

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:38:52AM +0200, Julien VARLET ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have created a RSA pair of keys.it's ok. But i want to automate passphrase. In tclsh : I have the following command line : ssh-agent $SHELL -- can't read SHELL : no such variable ssh-add -- Could

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

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0400, Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:58:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 11:26:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:12:32AM +0100, Karsten

Re: About the 'su' command

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Is this, or could this be made, part of the standard Cygwin docs and/or FAQ? Very nice explanation, Bill. Peace. on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:51:24AM -0400, Bill C. Riemers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The second says the command wont work unless I have appropriate privileges. Do you know

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

2003-06-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:32:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've been through the existing Cygwin docs. I don't see anything specifically answering this need. Huh? Addressing what need? A guide to legacy MS Windows-centric users for using the Cygwin environment, as opposed to

~^Z hangs ssh

2003-06-29 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Hello, I'm finding that ~^Z hangs the cygwin session rather than suspending my connection. I'm using cygwin to ssh into a solaris box. I've confirmed that suspension works properly when using ssh from sun box to sun box. Can't find any mention of this problem in the mailing list or Google.

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

2003-06-29 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:32:55AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: I've been through the existing Cygwin docs. I don't see anything specifically answering this need. Huh? Addressing what need? A guide to legacy MS Windows-centric users for using the Cygwin environment, as opposed to

ls.exe slow down in cygwin 1.3.13 (a followup from the ls problem thread last november 2002)

2003-06-29 Thread Carlo Florendo
Good Day Cygwineers (cygwin engineers), Last November 2002, I've upgraded cygwin and encountered a variation in the behaviour of ls. ls, when invoked as ls -l takes a bit longer to execute than the previous cygwin version. (I've attached the output of cygehck.) I haven't upgraded cygwin