posgresql

2004-11-08 Thread Loyiso Tyira - BCX - Networks
Hi guys, I am trying to install posgresql on cygwin. I have installed postgesql and cygipc. Did the following steps 1. $ ipc-daemon 2. $ mkdir /whatever/path/pgsql 3. $ initdb -D /whatever/path/pgsql 4. $ pg_ctl -D /whatever/path/pgsql -o -i start 5. $ createdb testdb But step 3 fails in the

Re: posgresql

2004-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:58:55AM +0200, Loyiso Tyira - BCX - Networks wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to install posgresql on cygwin. I have installed postgesql and cygipc. Did the following steps 1. $ ipc-daemon 2. $ mkdir /whatever/path/pgsql 3. $ initdb -D /whatever/path/pgsql 4. $ pg_ctl -D

Mozilla port for cygwin help needed

2004-11-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hi, please contact me if you are interested to help porting Mozilla to Cygwin/X. Gerrit -- =^..^=

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Carlo Florendo wrote: The front page of the cygwin/xfree website says that: Cygwin/X is installed via Cygwin's setup.exe and the installation process is documented in the Cygwin/X User's Guide. Whether or not you already have Cygwin installed, you can add Cygwin/X to

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Bobby McNulty
Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello Cygwin/XFree gurus, I've installed cygwin on a WinXP SP2 machine and setup looped forever up to the point when it was post-installing the xorg applications. I got 99% done. This issue has been discussed last week only as started by these 2 separate threads of

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Carlo Florendo wrote: Don't install Xorg. that is what Hanu told me. Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ:

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Daniel Newhouse
--- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Bobby McNulty
Daniel Newhouse wrote: --- Alexander Gottwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: Did he also tell why? If the xorg packages are the problem then it should be solved instead of avoided. bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ:

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE port won't work either.

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Bobby McNulty
Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not installing, so that means the kde port won't work,. The KDE

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is Rosegarden. Which I can't because Xorg is not

Running startx from cygwin shell

2004-11-08 Thread Eamember1
Hei ! I get fatal error when running startx. It says a fatal error has occurred and Cygwin/x will now exit (Release:6.8.10-1) XWin was started with the following command-line: x:0-multiwindow-clipboard. I am very grateful for help. Truly,

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Bobby McNulty
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 01:04:04PM -0600, Bobby McNulty wrote: Alexander Gottwald wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Bobby McNulty wrote: I'm not installing cygwin on my machine until the xorg problem is resolved. One program I wanted to port to Cygwin is

Re: xorg installation fails, 99% complete only

2004-11-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Thank you all for the replies. I'm sorry but it seems that I wasn't cc'd for all messages (I mentioned I'm not part of the Cygwin/XFree ML). So, I just replied to my original message. (Sorry if this breaks the thread.) So, I've just checked the ML website and read up to the one of Bobby Mc

on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base

2004-11-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from:

Re: on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base

2004-11-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Sorry. I should've mentioned at the beginning of the mail that I'm just cross posting to cygwin-xfree for FYI (since I've discussed this already yesterday.). The mail was intended for the cygwin ML but I cc'd cygwin-xfree for FYI. Carlo Florendo wrote: Hello, I've tried installing cygwin

src/winsup/w32api ChangeLog include/winnt.h

2004-11-08 Thread dannysmith
CVSROOT:/cvs/src Module name:src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-11-08 10:08:14 Modified files: winsup/w32api : ChangeLog winsup/w32api/include: winnt.h Log message: * include/winnt.h (GetCurrentFiber): Support -masm=intel.

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-08 Thread E Shon
If this isn't the problem, my WAG is that you have a version of 'cygwin1.dll' already on your system, due to some previous install or some other software that uses Cygwin surrepticously. If this is true, remove all copies of 'cygwin1.dll' from your system and follow the uninstall directions

RE: Cron under Cygwin/Windows XP

2004-11-08 Thread Morche Matthias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm attempting to run: $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (cron/myCron installed on Fri Nov 5 14:08:06 2004) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.7 2003/04/15 15:13:41 corinna Exp $) * * * * * echo 'Boo from cron' but

getloadavg(3)

2004-11-08 Thread Reini Urban
Anyone saw a implementation similar to getloadavg() on windows? At least uptime, top, emacs, xemacs and make use the noop on windows, and some other apps defined their private loadavg() function app-specific, which we cannot use. I cannot believe that no-one created a similar function for

Re: Cron malfunction after date change

2004-11-08 Thread Xavier Nodet
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:37:12 +0100 Jacek Trzmiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cygwin1.dll 1.5.11-1, win2ksp4+patches Cron is a separate package, that was updated on 20th, October, to correct a problem where cron would endlessly sleep after a time/date change. Do you have the latest version? --

Re: Cron malfunction after date change

2004-11-08 Thread Xavier Nodet
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:38:24 -0500 Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I've always restarted cron after a date change There exist a version of Cron that is supposed to handle date changes. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00966.html -- Xavier Nodet They

FW: URGENT HELP: Please route me to TCP/SOCKET implentation part of the source code of cygwin1.dll

2004-11-08 Thread Nagamani Veerappa
Dear Experts, I need a urgent help from you ALL.. Can any one guide/route me to the TCP/SOCKET implementation part of the source of cygwin1.dll? TO be more specific, I want to know how cygwin source code is utilizing the winsock2.dll in an efficient way?? You must be curious to know, why Iam

Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin

2004-11-08 Thread Olumide
Based on the above statements, it seems you don't understand the differences in the security model between Unix-based platforms and Windows NT-based platforms. Why is this the answer that's always offered whenever someone asks this question? Some of us do know what we are talking about. Does

Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin

2004-11-08 Thread Robert Pendell
You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is not straight

Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin

2004-11-08 Thread Olumide
You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is not straight

Re: Cron malfunction after date change

2004-11-08 Thread Jacek Trzmiel
Xavier Nodet wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:37:12 +0100 Jacek Trzmiel wrote: cygwin1.dll 1.5.11-1, win2ksp4+patches Cron is a separate package, that was updated on 20th, October, to correct a problem where cron would endlessly sleep after a time/date change. Do you have the latest version?

Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin

2004-11-08 Thread Robert Pendell
I don't think it will be possible to do a straight forward port for sudo to cygwin. Even by creating a user called root. This will pretty much require a direct modification of code enclosed in 'if def's ' thoughout. Redefining what it considers to be an administrator from user id 0 to user id

Re: Creating superuser (root) in Cygwin

2004-11-08 Thread Reini Urban
Olumide schrieb: You cannot just create a superuser in cygwin because cygwin is a translation layer for UNIX applications. Cygwin is not actual UNIX and there are limitations. Basically cygwin is using the host machine's security model rather than unix's own native security model and porting is

RE: Cron under Cygwin/Windows XP

2004-11-08 Thread Harig, Mark
$ cron_diagnose.sh cron_diagnose.sh 1.3 Please run version 1.7 of this diagnostic script. It fixes some problems that were in the earlier versions, and detects some error conditions that the earlier versions did not. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html P.S.,

RE: Cron malfunction after date change

2004-11-08 Thread Harig, Mark
cron.log, crontab.txt and cygcheck.txt attached. Stopping and starting cron is workaround that does resume correct cron behaviour, up until next date change. I've been able to reproduce this (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-11/msg00153.html) problem also on WinXP with slightly older

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 03:43 AM 11/8/2004, you wrote: If this isn't the problem, my WAG is that you have a version of 'cygwin1.dll' already on your system, due to some previous install or some other software that uses Cygwin surrepticously. If this is true, remove all copies of 'cygwin1.dll' from your system

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Rebstock, Roland
All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is Cannot Switch user Context. Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Harig, Mark
Please run this diagnostic script. It will attempt to locate many types of common problems with cron on cygwin. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00207.html Please read the output of the script carefully. If it finds problems, it suggests possible fixes, and it will also

setting $HOME variable

2004-11-08 Thread Michael
Ive been trying to set the home variable. i want home to be c:\cygwin\home\ ive tried setting this in the .bat files and in .bashrc but it doesnt work. If i type echo $HOME i get this /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/UserName Ive read that its in /etc/passwd where it actually looks for

Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2

2004-11-08 Thread Doug Poland
Reid said: Doug Poland wrote: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.0.0... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file *** config.log for the exact error that occured. This usually

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-08 Thread E Shon
Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem to spot. It's nice that Cygwin is as popular as it is but it's a shame that this popularity can cause these kinds of conflicts. It would be interesting to know from where you got PDFmerge and whether source for it and the Cygwin DLL are available for it.

Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2

2004-11-08 Thread Reini Urban
Doug Poland schrieb: Reid said: Doug Poland wrote: checking for GTK+ - version = 2.0.0... gnome-config: not found gnome-config: not found no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file *** config.log for the exact error that

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Rebstock, Roland wrote: All, I have a Win2k3 server with cygwin. I cannot get cron to execute any jobs that previously ran under Win2k. The error is Cannot Switch user Context. Is there a solution? CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.5.5 Roland Rebstock Win2k3's SYSTEM account by

Re: Win32::API perl module

2004-11-08 Thread Jason Pearce
For what its worth, here is the binary install I am using. Its working nicely via setup.exe. I just pasted this at the bottom of my setup.exe @ perl-Win32API sdesc: :API perl module compile for perl 5.8.2 ldesc: Win32::API perl module compile for perl 5.8.2 category: misc requires: perl version:

Re: Win32::API perl module

2004-11-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Jason Pearce wrote: For what its worth, here is the binary install I am using. Its working nicely via setup.exe. I just pasted this at the bottom of my setup.exe Would you also send me a patchfile with all changes you finally used to build the module, please? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe

Re: JNI call crashes the JVM

2004-11-08 Thread Shankar Unni
Lapo Luchini wrote: Actualyl the way the JNI works it doesn't permit to load *ANY* DLL that depends on another DLL, that leads to a crash. That is absolutely untrue. We routinely load DLLs that are linked against other DLLs (on many different OSes), and everything gets loaded just fine. Even

Re: Need help compiling gaim-1.0.2

2004-11-08 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Poland wrote: | Thanks for the pointer. I read this thread but am not quite sure what | the solution is. I ran the command: | | host$ cygcheck -c gtk2-x11 What are the results of 'cygcheck -c gtk2-x11-devel'? | So I | | host$ export

Re: setting $HOME variable

2004-11-08 Thread Mark Bohlman
Michael wrote: Ive been trying to set the home variable. i want home to be c:\cygwin\home\ ive tried setting this in the .bat files and in .bashrc but it doesnt work. If i type echo $HOME i get this /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/UserName Ive read that its in /etc/passwd where it actually

Re: setup.exe won't unpack the download

2004-11-08 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:20 PM 11/8/2004, you wrote: Unfortunately, it's a difficult problem to spot. It's nice that Cygwin is as popular as it is but it's a shame that this popularity can cause these kinds of conflicts. It would be interesting to know from where you got PDFmerge and whether source for it and

A request for package announcers

2004-11-08 Thread Luke Kendall
Would it be possible to include a description of what the package actually is, in the email announcement? Even if it's very short. Often you can't tell from the package name alone. luke -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

RE: Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Rebstock, Roland
All, even after creating another user with Administrator or System like priveledges and modifying the local security policy per the /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.Readme file. I cannot locate the Increase Quota in the Sec Policy but all others were applied. I still continue to get the error

More Info - Cygwin Cron - Cannot Switch user context

2004-11-08 Thread Rebstock, Roland
All, I have found that the Increase Quotas Sec Policy has changed to Increase quotas policy has changed to Adjust memory quotas for a process but even adding my user to this as well still does not resolve the issue. Roland Rebstock -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

on winXP sp2, setup loops forever when installing xorg-base

2004-11-08 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, I've tried installing cygwin with X on a Win-XP SP2 box. However, installation stalls at 99% when installing some xorg packages. Message says: Cannot open log file C:\cygwin/var/log/setup.log for writing Yes, the '\' and '/' are as is :) This problem is similar to the one from:

Re: Win32::API perl module

2004-11-08 Thread Jason Pearce
I just compiled what Reini posted, it compiled out of the box for me. http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.41-cygwin.patch = http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/software/perl/Win32-API-0.42.tar.gz I actually just used the .tar.gz, and didn't even bother runing the