installing cygwin (for C++)

Hi, I want to know what all pacakegs I need to install to be able to compile and run C++ programs .Can you also please suggest mirrors which contain these.Iam installing using setup.exe thnaks in advance, Arjun Sophomore,EE IIT Bombay -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account

Hello, I upgraded from 1.5.12 to 1.5.13, and it seems that with a non-admin account, I can't "cd" anymore : any cygwin programs trying to access something from the "/" got a Permission denied error. Exemples : C:\usr\Home\fradav>bash bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create! bash: /

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

Hi there, This is the actual error message I get in the simplest case of checking out one file only. D:\mozilla_source>cvs checkout mozilla/client.mk U mozilla/client.mk CVS checkout: cannot set time on client.mk: Permission denied Again, this is Windows ME on FAT32 with native cygwin CV

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

On Mar 4 10:40, Jacek Piskozub wrote: > Hi there, > > This is the actual error message I get in the simplest case of checking > out one file only. > >D:\mozilla_source>cvs checkout mozilla/client.mk >U mozilla/client.mk >CVS checkout: cannot set time on client.mk: Permission denied

Re: 1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account

On Mar 4 10:29, Fran?ois-David Collin wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded from 1.5.12 to 1.5.13, and it seems that with a non-admin > account, I can't "cd" anymore : any cygwin programs trying to access > something from the "/" got a Permission denied error. 1.5.13 has changed to using "traverse chec

Re: 1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account

Corinna, thanks you very much! the "notraverse" keyword did the trick. I don't really understand what do you mean by "it checks the permissions of the parent directory"... As long as I can "traverse" with windows acls in the windows world (and it is presently the case) I should be able to do the s

Re: 1.5.13-1 : can't cd anywhere with non-admin account

François-David Collin wrote: Corinna, thanks you very much! the "notraverse" keyword did the trick. I don't really understand what do you mean by "it checks the permissions of the parent directory"... As long as I can "traverse" with windows acls in the windows world (and it is presently the case)

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can you run strace on this cvs checkout? The calls to SetFileTime have debug messages attached which you will see when scanning the strace. One prints a message along the lines of "SetFileTime (%s) failed", the other error message is within a short range after a line with

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Can you run strace on this cvs checkout? The calls to SetFileTime have debug messages attached which you will see when scanning the strace. One prints a message along the lines of "SetFileTime (%s) failed", the other error message is within a short range after a line with

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

On Mar 4 11:39, Jacek Piskozub wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >Can you run strace on this cvs checkout? The calls to SetFileTime > >have debug messages attached which you will see when scanning the > >strace. One prints a message along the lines of "SetFileTime (%s) failed", > >the other

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Yes, exactly. I'm a bit surprised, though. Can you make another test, please? Something like that: $ echo foo > foo-rw $ echo foo > foo-r $ chmod a-w foo-r $ touch foo-rw $ touch foo-r The question is this: Do both touch succeed or does the latter touch fail? You'll b

Listing services

Hello, Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on the system? Cheers, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ:

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

This is from "strace touch foo-r" output: 96 56626 [main] touch 828181 fhandler_base::open_9x: 0xB8 = CreateFile (d:\mozilla_source\mozilla\foo-r, 0x8000, 0x3, 0x83E910, 0x3, 0x280, 0) 104 56730 [main] touch 828181 fhandler_base::open_9x: 1 = fhandler_base::open (d:\mozilla_sour

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

On Mar 4 13:07, Jacek Piskozub wrote: > This is from "strace touch foo-r" output: > > > 96 56626 [main] touch 828181 fhandler_base::open_9x: 0xB8 = > > CreateFile (d:\mozilla_source\mozilla\foo-r, 0x8000, 0x3, 0x83E910, > > 0x3, 0x280, 0) > > 104 56730 [main] touch 828181 fha

RE: Problems instaling perl Net::Pcap module

Original Message >From: SonOfLilit >Sent: 03 March 2005 17:08 [ ... snip! ... ] > * d/l WinPcap developer kit and put ./lib to my /lib/Pcap and ./include > to my /usr/include, without replacing 2-3 .h headers that I already had [ ... snip! ... ] > 'Pcap.o(.text+0x12b7):Pcap.c: undefined re

RE: Listing services

Original Message >From: Colin JN Breame >Sent: 04 March 2005 11:50 > Hello, > > Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on > the system? I dunno how to do it in a cygwin fashion, so this is OT, but you can use the 'doze command line utility "sc": --

Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin. > > Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot, > log in and start a bash shell before all of the services are running or > while they are still starting. Gotta love M

Re: ctime: creation or change time?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/3/2005 4:30 AM: > On Mar 2 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>In fact, NTFS has no notion of file change time as described in POSIX. Is >>there >>any chance of undoing this change? An alternative solution might

Re: "cannot set time" on FAT32 - after installing cygwin-1.5.13-1

On Mar 4 13:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 4 13:07, Jacek Piskozub wrote: > > This is from "strace touch foo-r" output: > > > 96 56626 [main] touch 828181 fhandler_base::open_9x: 0xB8 = > > > CreateFile (d:\mozilla_source\mozilla\foo-r, 0x8000, 0x3, 0x83E910, > > > 0x3, 0x2000

Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

I am having problems using /dev/clipboard. When there is a text selection on the Windows clipboard things work as expected, but if there is some other type of selection I get: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" To duplicate the problem try: cat /dev/clipboard first with a text selection

Re: cron copy on network drives

Paul, On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 08:13:36AM -0800, Paul Hodor wrote: > I am trying to set up a cron service to update some directories on a > network drive, but I ran into a problem. > > This copy command works from the command-line: > cp -a -u -v //mydrive/myshare/dir1/* //mydrive/myshare/dir2 >> l

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: --datadir=$(prefix)/share \ --mandir=$(prefix)/share/man \ Shouldn't those be braces, not parentheses? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.co

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1

On Mar 4 14:34, Max Bowsher wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > --datadir=$(prefix)/share \ > > --mandir=$(prefix)/share/man \ > > Shouldn't those be braces, not parentheses? I'm using parenthesis, because they are not expanded before put into the Makefile. So they refer to the Makefile va

Re: ctime: creation or change time? & "cannot set time" error

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:16:55AM +0100, Jacek Piskozub wrote: >>>The problem described in the following post to this mailing list >>>earlier today sounds like it is caused by Cygwin's new treatment >>>of ctime: >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-03/msg00165.html >> >>Since the CVS in qu

Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add

From: Chuck Subject: Re: keychain service--hanging in ssh-add Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:29:09 -0500 Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I tracked it down. It is not a problem with keychain, openssh or cygwin. > > Occasionally, on this particular laptop (XP SP2), the user can reboot, > log in and start a

Re: installing cygwin (for C++)

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, arjun wrote: > Hi, > I want to know what all pacakegs I need to install to be able to compile > and run C++ programs. What you need is the GNU C++ compiler (g++). Search the Cygwin packages for 'g++' on the package search page at . Remember, the

Re: Listing services

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin JN Breame wrote: | Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on the | system? psservice in pstools package at http://www.sysinternals.com will do that and more. - -- Al Slater Technical Director Stanton Consultancy ---

Re: cygstart patch

Alec Klauk wrote: I have unsubscribed 10 times to this mailing. How do you do it? First, you DON'T pick some random schmoe on the list and ask him. Second, you read and follow the instructions... http://cygwin.com/lists.html#subscribe-unsubscribe http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faqs (especially F

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pat Kane wrote: > I am having problems using /dev/clipboard. When there is a text > selection on the Windows clipboard things work as expected, but if > there is some other type of selection I get: "Segmentation fault (core > dumped)" > > To duplicate the problem try:

CSAgent warning with setup.exe

I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work. The IT department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe "tried to make system call from self-modifying code" and that this may mean the program has b

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pat Kane wrote: > > > I am having problems using /dev/clipboard. When there is a text > > selection on the Windows clipboard things work as expected, but if > > there is some other type of selection I get: "Segmentation fault (c

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Original Message >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 04 March 2005 16:55 > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Pat Kane wrote: >> To duplicate the problem try: cat /dev/clipboard >> first with a text selection and then after using Windows to copy a >> program (right click, copy), or after taking a scr

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > hglb = GetClipboardData (format); > > So, GetClipboardData is failing and returning NULL. ... yet bizarrely, GetLastError returns zero. Oh dear. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > [Switching to thread 1 (thread 9564.0x24fc)]#0 0x610b3df1 in strlen () > at /usr/src/cygwin-cvs/src/winsup/cygwin/cygserver.h:82 Whoops, this is obviously wrong. Note to self: never p

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:19 > Original Message >> From: Dave Korn >> Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > >>hglb = GetClipboardData (format); > >> >> So, GetClipboardData is failing and returning NULL. > > > ... yet bizarrely, GetLastError ret

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > UINT format; > if ((format = GetPriorityClipboardFormat (formatlist, 2)) <= 0) LOL! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubsc

Re: Listing services

On 3/4/2005 3:50 AM, Colin JN Breame wrote: Hello, Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on the system? Cheers, I do it with the following script which uses /proc. -- David Rothenbergerspammer? -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP: 0x7F67E734, C233 365A 25EF

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Original Message >From: Dave Korn >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:27 > Original Message >> From: Dave Korn >> Sent: 04 March 2005 17:14 > >> UINT format; > >> if ((format = GetPriorityClipboardFormat (formatlist, 2)) <= 0) > > > LOL! Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. T

Re: CSAgent warning with setup.exe

Will Parsons wrote: I have cygwin 1.5.13 installed on the my WinXP machine at work. The IT department apparently has recently installed Cisco Security Agent and now when I run setup.exe I get a warning message that setup.exe "tried to make system call from self-modifying code" and that this may me

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: psmisc-21.5-1

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 4 14:34, Max Bowsher wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: --datadir=$(prefix)/share \ --mandir=$(prefix)/share/man \ Shouldn't those be braces, not parentheses? I'm using parenthesis, because they are not expanded before put into the Makefile. So they refer to the Mak

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Dave, On Mar 4 17:35, Dave Korn wrote: > Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. Attached as > well, in case of line wrap. any reason you're not following the usual patch guidelines like, say, sending the patch to cygwin-patches and, that's even more important, adding a

RE: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

Original Message >From: Corinna Vinschen >Sent: 04 March 2005 17:57 > Dave, > > On Mar 4 17:35, Dave Korn wrote: >> Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. >> Attached as well, in case of line wrap. > > any reason you're not following the usual patch guidelines

Re: Seg Fault while using /dev/clipboard

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:03:38PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Original Message >>From: Corinna Vinschen >>Sent: 04 March 2005 17:57 > >> Dave, >> >> On Mar 4 17:35, Dave Korn wrote: >>> Dunno why the compiler didn't warn. This seems to fix it ok. >>> Attached as well, in case of line wr

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

>Wayne Johnson yahoo.com> writes: > >> One problem though. Where I do the chere "Bash here" menu entry, it starts >> the bash in the home directory. I dug through the xhere script and found the >> "export CHERE_DIR=`cygpath -u $2`" commented out. If I comment it back in, I >> get an error beca

Re: installing cygwin (for C++)

hi, Thanks a lot for the reply.I installed everything in the "Devel" category. However,when I try to compile a cpp file using "g++ filename.cpp" Iam getting the following error: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -luser32 collect2: ld returned 1

Re: installing cygwin (for C++)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks a lot for the reply.I installed everything in the "Devel" category. > However,when I try to compile a cpp file using "g++ filename.cpp" Iam > getting the following error: > > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: > cannot > f

Re: Buiding net-snmp perl in cygwin - Please anyone help me

Hi, comments below. Currently I uninstalled activeperl and I am having cygwin perl alone and correspondingly I changed the Path variable to D:\cygwin\bin. Herewith I am attcahing the output of "perl Makefile.PL", "make" $ make [...snip...] LD_RUN_PATH="" ld2 -s -L/usr/local/lib agent.o -o .../

Re: Listing services

Al Slater wrote: Colin JN Breame wrote: | Anyone know how to list the names and descriptions of all the services on the system? psservice in pstools package at http://www.sysinternals.com will do that and more. $ psservice.exe query sshd PsService v2.13 - Service information and configuration utili

Re: Buiding net-snmp perl in cygwin - Please anyone help me

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:12:41PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > If this all fails, the submit a bug report to the address which should > be included in the README file. Even if that all succeeds, send a bug report. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: Listing services

David Rothenberger wrote: > I do it with the following script which uses /proc. That's an interesting script but it has a couple of deficiencies. It does not list services with names that start with a "." and it breaks on services with a space in the name when -n is used. It's also very slow wi

RE: stupid noobquestion(clear)

At Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:34 AM, Alexander Thurban wrote: > Is there a command for clearing the console? > Can't get cls,clr,clear to work :( There is a package named "clear" that you can download and install using setup. One can find it under "Utils". I've also got the following in my .bash

windowsscriptinghost

How do I run wsh-files from cygwin? In cmd.exe I can just write nameofthescript.vbs to run it. -- "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." - Friedrich Nietzsche -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.c

Re: windowsscriptinghost

Alexander Thurban wrote: > How do I run wsh-files from cygwin? In cmd.exe I can just write > nameofthescript.vbs to run it. "cygstart nameofthescript.vbs" or "cmd nameofthescript.vbs" should work. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: ht

1.5.13: ssh -2 to sshd fails

I installed openssh on a host (cygwin.out-ad1 attached), used ssh-host-config -y. After starting the service, when I tried to ssh to it, I received the error message: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer This was puzzling, because it worked fine on another host several month

Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files, one with and one without a directory specifier: diff a someDir\b then all lines are reported as different. Whereas when both have a directory specifier: diff .\a someDir\b output is normal. (Filenames, argument order or using -

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > > Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files, > one with and one without a directory specifier: > diff a someDir\b > then all lines are reported as different. > Whereas when both have a directory specifier: > diff .\a someDir\b > output is no

Re: windowsscriptinghost

Brian Dessent wrote: Alexander Thurban wrote: How do I run wsh-files from cygwin? In cmd.exe I can just write nameofthescript.vbs to run it. "cygstart nameofthescript.vbs" or "cmd nameofthescript.vbs" should work. As should "cscript nameofthescript.vbs" and/or "wscript nameofthescript.vbs". -- A

Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found

I just downloaded & installed Cygwin w/ Exim on a Windows 2000 box and... - ran exim-conf successfully - chmod-ed all the log files & directories to SYSTEM:root - created the /var/mail and /var/spool/mail directories. When I try to start exim service ("net start exim" from Cygwin bash shell) it

Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found (here's my cygcheck.out)

Oops, I forgot to attach cygcheck out, as advised. Profuse apologies. -John --- Cygwin Configuration Diagnostics Current System Time: Fri Mar 04 17:56:28 2005 Windows 2000 Server Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Path: C:\cygwin\lib\subversion\bin C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin C:\cygwin\bin C:\cygwin\bin

Running Tomcat on Cygwin

I am new to Cygwin. I want to run JSP/servlets using Tomcat on Cygwin. Is there a special version of Tomcat that I need to download? Is there any documentation about running Tomcat on Cygwin? Thanks! __ Celebrate Yahoo!'

passwordless ssh (2) failing

Hi Folks This should not be a cygwin issue, but I am completely stumped, so I thought I had better rule this out. I have two identical windows 2003 servers with cygwin and openssh installed. On one, my passwordless key which I use on other linux servers primarily, allows me to ssh to the window

Re: chere doesn't cd to directory

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Dave wrote: > CHere didn't work because you either have an old or custom /etc/profile. > > > In /etc/profile I need to replace the line: > > > > > > Yes, that does the job, but not completely. > > Look for the correct snippet in a recent /etc/defaults/etc/profile (part > of th

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > Arend-Jan Westhoff wrote: > > > > Noticed that when diff is run with two differing files, > > one with and one without a directory specifier: > > diff a someDir\b > > then all lines are reported as different. > > Whereas when both have a directory

Re: Bug diff 2.8.7: Separate dir

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > I cannot reproduce this, either from a bash prompt or from cmd using > > your .bat file: > > I can reproduce this (even under bash). All you need is a textmode mount > and files with CRLF line endings.

Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Kim wrote: > I just downloaded & installed Cygwin w/ Exim on a Windows 2000 box and... > - ran exim-conf successfully > - chmod-ed all the log files & directories to SYSTEM:root > - created the /var/mail and /var/spool/mail directories. > > When I try to start exim serv

Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found (here's my cygcheck.out)

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, John Kim wrote: > Oops, I forgot to attach cygcheck out, as advised. Profuse apologies. Oops indeed. Since the messages weren't in the same thread, I fired off the previous reply before seeing this. Turns out I was wrong in my guess. Is /etc readable to the SYSTEM user? Is

Re: Running Tomcat on Cygwin

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Rahul Joshi wrote: > I am new to Cygwin. > > I want to run JSP/servlets using Tomcat on Cygwin. Is > there a special version of Tomcat that I need to > download? Tomcat itself is a Java program. There is no special Cygwin JVM, so you'd need to have a native Windows

Re: Exim says TCP port "smtp" not found

At 06:03 PM 3/4/2005 -0800, John Kim wrote: >I just downloaded & installed Cygwin w/ Exim on a Windows 2000 box and... > - ran exim-conf successfully > - chmod-ed all the log files & directories to SYSTEM:root > - created the /var/mail and /var/spool/mail directories. These last two steps are O

Re: passwordless ssh (2) failing

This is likely identical to my problem. If you do `ssh -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will using protocol 1 and not die. On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:30:54PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > This should not be a cygwin issue, but I am completely stumped, so I > thought I had better rule this out. -