Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > DAVID SPEAR wrote: > > > I have been searching for a way to use "su" on my Win2K machine... > > from the reading I've done in this group the easiest way is to run ssh > > and log in as Administrator. An excellent solution, and one that > > works for me. I am curious > >

Re: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:40:51AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > I've fixed a couple more signal problems and made a new snapshot available. > > Please try it. > > > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html > > http://cygw

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

I can click "Cancel" but then it give me an err msg: cannot open /usr/.../setup.log for writing I checked writing permission to the folder and it checks out. I used two different mirror http://mirror.kernel.org http://mirror.rcn.net and same thing --- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A

Re: default kerberos support for cygwin OpenSSH_3.7.1p2

On Jan 23 13:07, King Lung Chiu wrote: > Hi, > > Is kerberos support enabled by default on the latest binary ssh that comes > with Cygwin? (OpenSSH_3.7.1p2) No. > Do I need to compile kerberos support into it myself? Or did I miss some > settings? Yes. No. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen

RE: wget FTP wildcards

> -Original Message- > From: Brian Dessent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:05 AM > > Václav Krpec wrote: > > > > But, as you can see, I'm trying to do __FTP__ connection, > > and these allows wildcards usage (according to wget > > man pages). Maybe "-g on" opti

Re: error 1062 when starting distccd

Mark schrieb: > Here is someone's solution that uses "cygrunsrv": > http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2004q1/001960.html Based on this I suggest the following command line to install it: $ cygrunsrv \ --install distccd \ --path /usr/bin/distccd.exe \ --args "--no-detach --daemon" \

FAQ/ug suggestion [was RE: 1.5.6 is there a problem with this build?]

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 23 January 2004 01:06 > To: zzapper > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: 1.5.6 is there a problem with this build? > > I then used Winzip to install files in c:\cygwin > > BAD. VERY BAD. The FAQ and th

RE: wget FTP wildcards

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Václav Krpec wrote: > > > > But, as you can see, I'm trying to do __FTP__ connection, and these > > allows wildcards usage (according to wget man pages). Maybe "-g on" > > option will help... I'm gonna try... No. >

Re: 1.5.6 is there a problem with this build?

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:05:38 -0500 (EST), Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanx for all the comments (and the deserved criticism)! I finally followed the instructions at How do I install snapshots? Point to note the cygwin dll has to re-i

Re: fetchmail problem with latest cygwin-1.5.6-1

> "Christopher" == Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christopher> Yes. And, building with --enable-debugging might be useful since there is Christopher> a chance that it will detect handle corruption which, I suspect is what is Christopher> going wrong. Ok here som

Python packaging bug? [Attn: Jason Tishler]

Hi, Jason, I'm not sure if this is a bug (hence the question mark in the subject), but the two python scripts in /usr/bin ("idle" and "pydoc") refer to /usr/bin/python.exe in their #! line. Is there a particular reason why they don't just use /usr/bin/python? I know it makes no difference in Cyg

Re: Cannot connect to Interix subsystem

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:22:01PM -0800, Curtis Ebert wrote: >Hi Christopher, > >While Googling for a clue on what may be causing my problem, I came across >your post 1/12/02 post to the cygwin group about "Cannot connect to >Interix subsystem" whenever trying to run any of their commands such a

Re: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:04:45PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >At 09:46 PM 1/22/2004, Ton van Overbeek you wrote: >>Any test/strace etc. you want me to run ? >>Or does this rings any bells w.r.t. changes between 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 ? >>There is one change in the 1.5.6 announcement which seems to be relat

Re: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:40:51AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> I've fixed a couple more signal problems and made a new snapshot available. >> Please try it. >> >> http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html > >http://cygwin.com/

Re: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:30:28AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:40:51AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >>On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>> I've fixed a couple more signal problems and made a new snapshot available. >>> Plea

Re: Linking VC++ apps to cygwin-based DLLs

At 01:22 AM 1/23/2004, Brian Dessent you wrote: >Tomer Zekharya wrote: > >> I want to port a certain group of libraries from UNIX to windows. I managed to >> compile and link it using cygwin, but the Windows applications that needs these >> libs are MFC based, so I can't compile them in cygwin (a

Re: Python packaging bug? [Attn: Jason Tishler]

Igor, On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:27:53AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a bug (hence the question mark in the subject), > but the two python scripts in /usr/bin ("idle" and "pydoc") refer to > /usr/bin/python.exe in their #! line. Is there a particular reason why > they

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

Hm. Something's not right here. Let's see if we can start with the basics. Can you invoke :\bin\cygcheck -s -r -v If so, send the output *as an attachment* to the list. That will give us some idea of the state you're in. Larry At 03:57 AM 1/23/2004, Ling F. Zhang you wrote: >I can clic

Re: Cannot connect to Interix subsystem

At 10:09 AM 1/23/2004, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:22:01PM -0800, Curtis Ebert wrote: >>Hi Christopher, >> >>While Googling for a clue on what may be causing my problem, I came across >>your post 1/12/02 post to the cygwin group about "Cannot connect to >>Interix sub

'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

Hello ! 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug to the authors & builders of the binary distribution, so that WORKING packages are offered for download, in the future ? ? *** From my point of view, this bug exists

Re: launching GUI programs via command-line ssh

Brian Dessent wrote: My understanding is that this cannot be done. MS Windows is NOT a network aware windowing system like X. Well, it is, but you have to pay for Terminal Services if you want that capability. I don't think that that allows you to run say notepad and display it somewhere else. I

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

At 11:46 AM 1/23/2004, Rolf Hemmerling you wrote: >Hello ! > >'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files >for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug to the authors & >builders of the binary distribution, so that WORKING packages are >offered for download, in t

RE: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Rolf Hemmerling > Hello ! > > 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary > distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to > report the bug to the authors & builders of the binary > distribution, so that WORKING

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

At a guess, either you didn't upgrade your "cygwin" package, or some Cygwin process was running while you upgraded. Had you attached the output of "cygcheck -svr" to your message (as indicated in ), this would have been apparent. Please check that your current Cygw

cygthread::detach: WFSO sigwait 0x7B4 failed w/ 1.5.6-1 & cygwin1-20040123.dll.bz2

8/9 2:21 54k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygXpm-X4.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygXpm-X4.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 2:22 60k 2003/08/09 C:\cygwin\bin\cygz.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 "cygz.dll" v0.0 ts=2003/8/9 1:28 1086k 2004/01/23 C:\cygwi

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:12:11PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >How could you possibly believe that there would be a terrible bug >existing for months and nobody would notice, or say anything, or do >anything about it? Do you think everyone is stupid except for >yourself? Heh. Can we get a gold star

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:12:11PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > >How could you possibly believe that there would be a terrible bug > >existing for months and nobody would notice, or say anything, or do > >anything about it? Do you think everyone is st

xmlto errors

Hello, 1) When I use xmlto to convert a docbook xml file to html-nochunks, I get the following error: basename: too many arguments Try `basename --help' for more information. 2) Further, if I use the plain 'html' option, no files are created. It fails with the error: cp: cannot stat `*.htm*':

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

Hi: I will do that as soon as I get to my computer (later this afternoon). I would like to also point out that I tried the following: unselect Python during the package section phase result: set freezes when trying to installed rcs (which is the next package) I suspect that some windows service

Re: xmlto errors

At 12:46 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: >Hello, >1) When I use xmlto to convert a docbook xml file to >html-nochunks, I get the following error: > >basename: too many arguments >Try `basename --help' for more information. > >2) Further, if I use the plain 'html' option, no files >are cre

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

At 12:51 PM 1/23/2004, Ling F. Zhang you wrote: >Hi: > >I will do that as soon as I get to my computer (later >this afternoon). I would like to also point out that I >tried the following: > >unselect Python during the package section phase > >result: >set freezes when trying to installed rcs (which

Re: xmlto errors

--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:46 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: > >Hello, > >1) When I use xmlto to convert a docbook xml file > to > >html-nochunks, I get the following error: > > > >basename: too many arguments > >Try `basename --help' for more information. > > > >

RE: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:12:11PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > > >How could you possibly believe that there would be a terrible bug > > >existing for months

Re: xmlto errors

At 01:20 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: >--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't quote email addresses in your responses. It's just spam fodder! >> At 12:46 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: >> >Hello, >> >1) When I use xmlto to convert a docbook xml file >> to >> >ht

RE: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Ling F. Zhang > afternoon). I would like to also point out that I tried the following: > > unselect Python during the package section phase > > result: > set freezes when trying to installed rcs (which is the next package) > > I su

sftp + cygwin

Hi, How can I sftp defauly folder when I am using cygwin. It points to c: drive right now. -- Thanks, -hp - This email was sent using DACafeMail. Get Your FREE 10 MB eMail Account Now. http://cafemail.dcccafe.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: xmlto errors

--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:20 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: > > >--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Don't quote email addresses in your responses. It's > just > spam fodder! > > > >> At 12:46 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: > >> >Hello, >

Re: Most mirrors don't have md5.sum for setup.exe

Brian Dessent wrote: Jim Kleckner wrote: I noticed that the mirror site that I am using via rsync: rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ lost the md5.sum file some time ago (2-3 months?). *at the top level* An informal and incomplete check of sites from http://cygwin.com/m

Re: Most mirrors don't have md5.sum for setup.exe

Sounds like something that's worthwhile to report to the site maintainer(s). Larry At 01:45 PM 1/23/2004, Jim Kleckner you wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: > >>Jim Kleckner wrote: >> >>>I noticed that the mirror site that I am using >>>via rsync: >>> rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/sources.redhat.com/

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

Please install the hole cygwin-distribution and you'll get these error messages. AND Rolf is right, it is existing a very long time. Remember my first posting to you, i was trying to explain exactly the same problems !!! In my opinion, not all binary packages wasn't recompiled with the newest cy

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Homar Simpson wrote: > Please install the hole cygwin-distribution and you'll get these error > messages. The Cygwin distribution is not a hole. :-) I assume you mean "whole". FYI, I do have the whole distribution, as do many others, and I don't get any of these messages. >

RE: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Homar Simpson > AND Rolf is right, it is existing a very long time. > > Remember my first posting to you, i was trying to explain > exactly the same problems !!! How is a segv from gcc during compiling glibc 'the same' problem

Re: cygthread::detach: WFSO sigwait 0x7B4 failed w/ 1.5.6-1 & cygwin1-20040123.dll.bz2

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:17:17AM -0800, Bill Priest wrote: >I noticed that I get the subject message from within emacs when I >invoke the shell. I can't get it to happen from within a console (ie >invoking bash or tcsh) from cygwin.bat; it only happens w/ rxvt (in X >or native mode). > >My cygwi

Re: xmlto errors

At 01:20 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: >Test command: > >$ xmlto -o xml html-nochunks xmlto.xml > >The file xmlto.xml is the one distributed with xmlto >(uses docbook 4.2). OK, from what you've provided, I don't see anything wrong with the installation and I cannot reproduce your

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

I cannot do cygchecks -s -r -v because of the following error: C:\cygwin\bin>cygcheck -s -r -v Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Jan 23 13:30:04 2004 Windows .NET Server Ver 5.2 Build 3790 Path: C:\WINDOWS\system32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

OK, try this: set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH% cygcheck -s -r -v If that gives you the same complaint, it's probably a permissions problem. Take a look at who has permission for the executables tweak them as necessary. Larry At 04:31 PM 1/23/2004, Ling F. Zhang you wrote: >I cannot do cygcheck

ssh configuration that is pulling my hair out!

Hello, I'm trying to setup sshd and I'm getting to success at all. Here's my situation. I've followed the instructions at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.html and when I run *ssh-host-config -y* I get this error message. To start the service, call `net start sshd' or `cygrunsrv -S sshd'

printf does not print long long ints properly

when I compile the following program: #include main() { long long i; i=100; i*=100; printf("%Ld",i); return 0; } I get the following: -727379968 instead of the expected 1 I am using gcc 3.3.1 the same code works nicely on linux machine with gcc 3.3.1 is any other information n

Re: printf does not print long long ints properly

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?iso-8859-2?B?RGFuaWVsIEplbGnxc2tp?= writes: >I am using gcc 3.3.1 >the same code works nicely on linux machine with gcc 3.3.1 >is any other information necessary? What happens if you use %lld, which is what the standard specifies for long long, instead of the L

Re: printf does not print long long ints properly

"ll" is the long long prefix. Daniel Jeliński wrote: when I compile the following program: #include main() { long long i; i=100; i*=100; printf("%Ld",i); return 0; } I get the following: -727379968 instead of the expected 1 I am using gcc 3.3.1 the same code works nicely on l

Re: prelude to a new cygwin 1.5.7 release: snapshot available

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:30:28AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:40:51AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I've fixed a couple more signal problems and made a new snapshot available. > >>

Re: installation freezes at /usr/bin/idle

I would like to report that I was finally able to install cygwin with the following adjustments: use different mirror: I tried http://mirrors.kernel.org and http://mirrors.rcn.net with the previous error, this time I used planetmirror.org 2) install everything but no source (After successful inst

Re: xmlto errors

--- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 01:20 PM 1/23/2004, Elvin Peterson you wrote: > > > > > > >Test command: > > > >$ xmlto -o xml html-nochunks xmlto.xml > > > >The file xmlto.xml is the one distributed with > xmlto > >(uses docbook 4.2). > > > OK, from what you've provided, I d

Fix for sshd service start failure problem

For what it's worth, I think I've found a fix to a problem posted in October of 2002 in this thread: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-10/msg00443.html Here's my version of the problem: After running ssh-host-config (and noticing two errors from chown about the system account), the sshd Wind

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

Hello again ! ( at first, I get the digest version of the messages, so I can´t reply in the thread :-( ) I did a complete download at 2003-11-29, with which I encountered the problems with the "__getreent missing" messages of the G++ compiler and other tools. So I beg your pardon, that I repor

Re: cygthread::detach: WFSO sigwait 0x7B4 failed w/ 1.5.6-1 & cygwin1-20040123.dll.bz2

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:22:01PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >I can duplicate this! I can duplicate this! Sob. I'm so happy. > >I'll fix this ASAP. Should be fixed in the most recent snapshot: http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Patch suggestion for netcat-1.10.2 (ping Corinna)

Hi CV, I see you're listed as netcat maintainer. I've got a small patch for netcat that gives it two new options (-D/-X) to force dos or unix line ends when it's sending to the network. This comes in quite useful for things like HTTP and SMTP servers, since strict ones only accept CRLF.

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

From: Rolf Hemmerling Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 05:26:59 +0100 The "only" useful update technology for me as Windows users, is to use WS_FTP by doing a recursive directory download, so that just "new" files ( not yet existing on my local computer) were downloaded, PLUS setup.bz2. NO! The *ONLY

Re: 'entrypoint __getreent missing' problem in the binary distribution files for Windows ! How to proceed, how to report the bug ?

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:46:03AM +, Dave Korn wrote: >Wow! "Homer Simpson supports me, but he's wrong." D'oh! Unky Moe, this sody makes my teef hurt... cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentatio