Re: [Review - Good to go] suite3270 [Needs 1 more vote]

2003-12-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:26:24AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: That being said, I will list you as voting pro for suite3270. The suite3270 proposal is now only one vote away, as you stated. No, it's not. I voted already pro inclusion, right after Peter's first proposal. Corinna -- Corinna

Re: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -, John Morrison wrote: As per the thread [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove user and group which match the pattern :S-1-1-0: and ensure that there's a group root:S-1-5-32-544:0:. Since this

RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -, John Morrison wrote: As per the thread [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove user and group which match the pattern :S-1-1-0: and ensure that there's a group

Re: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:55:11AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -, John Morrison wrote: As per the thread [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove user and group which

RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Morrison, John
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:55:11AM -, Morrison, John wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:23:28PM -, John Morrison wrote: As per the thread [RFC] Globally creating a user and a group root I've modified the base-passwd packaged to remove

Re: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:36:53AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is it safe to rely on /tmp already existing when the postinstall script runs? I see from the source that setup.exe creates tmp. If it doesn't exist when postinstall scripts are being run, that's clearly a bug. I don't think we

Re: CMake 1.8.2-1 ready

2003-12-02 Thread William A. Hoffman
Did that change at some point? We have been using the same script for creating the cmake release on cygwin for over a year now and have not changed it. I can not find the docs, but I have some memory of making those changes specifically for cygwin. Anyway, 1.8.1-1 is like that as well. So,

RE: new EMacro package

2003-12-02 Thread John Morrison
#/etc/postinstall/emacro.sh copies /etc/skel/.emacs /etc/skel/emacs/**/* to $HOME What happens if there's more than one user? Personally, I think that the /etc/skel/.emacs and /etc/skel/emacs/**/* should be /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.emacs and /etc/defaults/etc/emacs/**/* respectively and

RE: [Update][Test] base-passwd

2003-12-02 Thread John Morrison
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:36:53AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is it safe to rely on /tmp already existing when the postinstall script runs? I see from the source that setup.exe creates tmp. If it doesn't exist when postinstall scripts are being run, that's

Re: CMake 1.8.2-1 ready

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-12-02T12:17-0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: ) Did that change at some point? We have been using the ) same script for creating the cmake release on cygwin for ) over a year now and have not changed it. I can not find the docs, ) but I have some memory of making those changes specifically

Re: [Review - Good to go] suite3270 [Needs 1 more vote]

2003-12-02 Thread Nicholas Wourms
Corinna wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:26:24AM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: That being said, I will list you as voting pro for suite3270. The suite3270 proposal is now only one vote away, as you stated. No, it's not. I voted already pro inclusion, right after Peter's first proposal. I say

Re: CMake 1.8.2-1 ready

2003-12-02 Thread William A. Hoffman
You can remove 1.8.1-1. Our idea is to always have the previous version be the last major release. That is the point where we reserve the right to break backwards compatibility. So, someone might need 1.6.7, but they should never need 1.8.1. Thanks. -Bill The setup.hint lists 1.8.2-1 as

Re: [Review - Not yet] suite3270

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-11-29T21:41-0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: ) http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/suite3270/suite3270-3.2.20-1.tar.bz2 ) http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/suite3270/suite3270-3.2.20-1-src.tar.bz2 ) http://www.fruitbat.org/Cygwin/suite3270/setup.hint.suite3270 )

Re: CMake 1.8.2-1 ready

2003-12-02 Thread Daniel Reed
On 2003-12-02T15:55-0500, William A. Hoffman wrote: ) You can remove 1.8.1-1. Our idea is to always have ) the previous version be the last major release. That is ) the point where we reserve the right to break backwards ) compatibility. So, someone might need 1.6.7, but they ) should never

Diff for generic readme and generic-build script to automatically generate pkg data and file listings

2003-12-02 Thread Alan Miles
All, I know somebody might get a little upset, but I believe I have a useful patch for the generic readme file and generic-build script. In fact, I know Igor has seen my emails on this matter, since he has commented on a couple of items - which I have subsequently fixed. I posted it to the main

Re: Cygwin XFree86 startx Problem

2003-12-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Igor, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi again...

Re: Latest cygwin snapshots brake XWin

2003-12-02 Thread Harold L Hunt II
Dirk, The fact that the new cygserver support for SHM in cygwin1.dll is enabled in CVS might have something to do with your problem: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg00354.html This may have nothing at all to do with your problem, but I would suspect that our linking with

FW: xwin on cygwin - cannot connect

2003-12-02 Thread Andrew Leung
I believe it was an issue with the cygwin.  The screen and the whole app it self seemed to crash when trying to connect.  I tried on a nother machine and everything is fine.   Another question,  I would like to access this box from external, it's behind a NAT/firewall.  I've been hearing that

Re: Access from outside a NAT/firewall

2003-12-02 Thread Jay Smith
Andrew, I can't speak to the direct question about XDMCP, however Some NAT devices are able to map multiple internal addresses to multiple external addresses. If your network's NAT/firewall has the multiple capability the risks vs rewards must be carefully examined. Jay Andrew Leung

Re: Latest cygwin snapshots brake XWin

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:37:30PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Dirk, The fact that the new cygserver support for SHM in cygwin1.dll is enabled in CVS might have something to do with your problem: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-11/msg00354.html This may have nothing at all to

Re: [Patch]: Create Global Privilege

2003-12-02 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
At 10:26 AM 12/2/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:55:46PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: Also, the utmp/wtmp functions use mutexes to insure safe access. That creates two problems, particularly on servers: - When users have private copies of Cygwin with different

Re: scripting sftp in a bash script

2003-12-02 Thread James Hu
On 2003-12-02, David Strozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use sftp within a bash script on cygwin (version 1.5.5 on winXP pro). Ideally I'd like to use a 'here document' rather than using an external batchfile... ... are there other ways to script/call sftp (or a _secure_

Re: Bash wait indefinitely

2003-12-02 Thread Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
Please use cygwin at cygwin dot com for cygwin-related mail. I have set the reply-to header for your convenience. On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:24:47PM -0800, Antoine Labour wrote: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Unfortunately, I don't have any system with more than one CPU, so there's no way I

BUG?: /usr/bin is accepted as /bin in PATH

2003-12-02 Thread Nguyen, Huu-Dung
Hello I want to report you a bug observed by me I have just (on 27.11.2003) downloaded CygWin and installed it with all packages installed on a new laptop with Windows XP. The installation runs without error. I have then started Cygwin by the link on the desktop of Windows XP i.e. the installed

RE: BUG?: /usr/bin is accepted as /bin in PATH

2003-12-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:27 PM: [snip] #!/bin/sh echo Hello World and move this bash file from every directory set for PATH in /etc/profile and see that i can NOT call this bash file when it is in /usr/bin. Any help is appreciated This is in Cygwin by

Re: ecpg in postgresql 7.4 generates: cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap

2003-12-02 Thread Jason Tishler
Kurt, On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:05:55PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I recently upgraded to postgresql 7.4-1. Now when I try to run my program linked with ecpg.dll I get: 12 [unknown (0x2A4)] ? 456 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x6160 0x47) in

RE: ssh hangs

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Anderson
1. Consider deleting your ~/.ssh directory on your ssh client computer and running the 'ssh-user-config' script that is provided with OpenSSH (in /usr/bin). This should allow you to do the minimal amount of configuration. Then copy the public-key file that it creates in your

RE: BUG?: /usr/bin is accepted as /bin in PATH

2003-12-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hello Huu-Dung, no private mails, please keep the discussion on the list! Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:08 PM: But after i have set ... PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH export PATH ... and see that my bash file in /usr/bin can NOT be called

Setup.bz2 currently broken

2003-12-02 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi gang, Setup (2.416 started directly from the web) seems currently broken (or at least the contents of setup.bz2). I tried 4 different mirrors and after downloading setup.bz2 I get always a Dialogbox with Parse Error and the message (null) line 783: parse error, unexpected COMMA, expecting

Re: Setup.bz2 currently broken

2003-12-02 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:50 AM 12/2/2003, Jörg Schaible you wrote: Hi gang, Setup (2.416 started directly from the web) seems currently broken (or at least the contents of setup.bz2). I tried 4 different mirrors and after downloading setup.bz2 I get always a Dialogbox with Parse Error and the message (null) line

Re: Bash wait indefinitely

2003-12-02 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:24:47PM -0800, Antoine Labour wrote: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Unfortunately, I don't have any system with more than one CPU, so there's no way I can test it on a system like that and I have not run into any

Re: Problem reading from COM1

2003-12-02 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, c||3NuL|_ wrote: hi.. i found your email at cywin mailing list. Please do not email me directly. I do read the list. And, there is a wealth of knowledge the list can provide that a single person can not. have you discovered why there is problem with serial

Re: ecpg in postgresql 7.4 generates: cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap

2003-12-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:17:34AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: Kurt, On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:05:55PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: 12 [unknown (0x2A4)] ? 456 cygheap_fixup_in_child: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x6160 0x47) in child, Win32 error 487

RE: ssh hangs

2003-12-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Ben, Some comments inline below. On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Ben Anderson wrote: 1. Consider deleting your ~/.ssh directory on your ssh client computer and running the 'ssh-user-config' script that is provided with OpenSSH (in /usr/bin). This should allow you to do the minimal amount

Re: Bash wait indefinitely

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 10:42:38AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:24:47PM -0800, Antoine Labour wrote: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: Unfortunately, I don't have any system with more than one CPU, so there's no way I

RE: ssh hangs

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Anderson
Igor, thank you very much for your reply. I dispersed more coments below 1. Consider deleting your ~/.ssh directory on your ssh client computer and running the 'ssh-user-config' script that is provided with OpenSSH (in /usr/bin). This should allow you to do the minimal amount of

Re: ssh hangs

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:16:10PM +, Ben Anderson wrote: what's easy way to find version of cygwin? I recently updated, but I can't find the number. From your cygcheck output: 949k 2003/09/20 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 cygwin1.dll v0.0

Cygwin from read-only drive

2003-12-02 Thread Ivanov Pavel
Hello, I am trying to start the cygwin from network read-only shared drive. I can not edit any files in the drive and I can not add the login name and password in cygwin configuration files. Can I start the cygwin properly in such case? May be I can submit configuration files? Thank You, Ivanov

Re: how do I convince MySQL AB to get MySQL to build out of the box on Cygwin?

2003-12-02 Thread Shankar Unni
Terrence Brannon wrote: response Windows is natively supported platform. Why do you need to run MySQL under Cygwin? /response I can sort of understand their reluctance in this regard. If *you*, as a volunteer, were to do the port, and contribute the patches back to them, I'm sure Monty or

RE: Cygwin from read-only drive

2003-12-02 Thread John Morrison
Ivanov Pavel wrote Hello, I am trying to start the cygwin from network read-only shared drive. I can not edit any files in the drive and I can not add the login name and password in cygwin configuration files. Could you get your network admin to add them once for all users and just update

annoying dos windows when running some exe's under xemacs compiled for cygwin

2003-12-02 Thread Robert Harper
I am using the cygwin version of xemacs version 21.4.11 under Windows XP. My cygcheck output is attached. The problem is that under certain circumstances (to be described shortly) invoking an .exe file causes a DOS window to pop up while the program runs. In some cases the input/output is

Problems with trivial makefile

2003-12-02 Thread Guillaume du Pontavice
hello, i am in trouble with a trivial makefile, using cygwin 1.5.5-1 and make 3.80-1 on Windows 2000 SP3 here it is : i have just created 5 folders (fold1 fold2 ... fold5) , each one contains one file ( respectively foo1.c foo2.c ... foo5.c) you can recreate this tree using this : mkdir fold1

MySQL server running on Cygwin

2003-12-02 Thread Max Bowsher
A mysqld is running on my cygwin system as I type this. Steps: 1. Get mysql 4.0.16 source. 2. Remove all #pragma interface lines from the source. In the source directory: $ perl -i.rpi -pe 's/^#pragma interface.*$//;' \ `fgrep -rl '#pragma interface' .` 3. Configure, make, make

Problem with gcc -mno-cygwin?

2003-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
So I'm trying to release a new version of mingw-zlib for cygwin(*) now that zlib-1.2.1 has been released. But I can't... (*) this package is a msvcrt-linked version of zlib, used by cygwin internal projects (like setup.exe and others) which are not allowed, for whatever reason, to link

Re: Problem with gcc -mno-cygwin?

2003-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Oh, one other thing -- here's the list of relevant (cygwin) packages I have installed: binutils20030901-1 gcc 3.3.1-3 gcc-g++ 3.3.1-3 gcc-g77 3.3.1-3 gcc-mingw 20030911-4 gcc-mingw-core 20031020-1

Re: Problem with gcc -mno-cygwin?

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:55:25PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: So I'm trying to release a new version of mingw-zlib for cygwin(*) now that zlib-1.2.1 has been released. But I can't... (*) this package is a msvcrt-linked version of zlib, used by cygwin internal projects (like setup.exe and

Re: Problem with gcc -mno-cygwin?

2003-12-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't know what this particular problem is (it sounds pretty bad if -mno-cygwin is this broken) but: == File: w32-shared-ptr.c Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.1.6.1 Repository revision: 1.1.6.1

Re: Problem with gcc -mno-cygwin?

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:14:12PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I don't know what this particular problem is (it sounds pretty bad if -mno-cygwin is this broken) but: == File: w32-shared-ptr.c Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.1.6.1

Re: scripting sftp in a bash script

2003-12-02 Thread James Hu
On 2003-12-02, James Hu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2003-12-02, David Strozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to use sftp within a bash script on cygwin (version 1.5.5 on winXP pro). Ideally I'd like to use a 'here document' rather than using an external batchfile... ... are there other