Re: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Lapo Luchini
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on a system with even a semblance of a window manager? I think it's main usefulness it's not the multi-screen, but rather the possibility to run long commands from a remote terminal without the fear

RE: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on a system with even a semblance of a window manager? I can see the point of screen on a stripped-down text-only system, but when you can open up any number of rxvt+bash's

Re: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
Try the below patches. They make a workable screen on my system. I even get a screen that I can attach and detach if I comment out the '#define NAMEDPIPE 1' in config.h before building. OK, I'll look at these. This is a smaller set than the one I was looking for that Lapo found, which

Re: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
I found this googling, maybe it's a mirror of what you're seeking: http://www.j10n.org/files/screen-4.0.2-cygwin.patch Thanks, yes, that's the one. For what I do remember of that disappeared page the patch was incomplete, though: no re-attach was possible. Yes, it's buggy. But it's a place

RE: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Andrew Schulman
detaching from the session. At least for remote logins this is very useful. It is quite convenient to jump directly to pine, mutt or whatever you have running in one screen session instead of cycling through many xterms and trying to find the right one. Good point. It's especially useful

Apache ANNOUNCEMENT NEEDED! (try 4)

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
So far public requests and private email have failed. I'm going to have to take the unusual step of deleting this release if we can't get an announcement for it soon, unless someone else wants to support it. cgf On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:00:14AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Mon, Apr 18,

RE: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Harig, Mark
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on a system with even a semblance of a window manager? 1. It is useful when the underlying operating system (say, Linux) is more stable than the client operating system (in this case, one

Re: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:28:41AM -0400, Harig, Mark wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on a system with even a semblance of a window manager? 1. It is useful when the underlying operating system (say, Linux) Ok. I think

Re: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 10:28, Harig, Mark wrote: Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: Could somebody *please* explain to me why screen is in any way useful on a system with even a semblance of a window manager? 1. It is useful when the underlying operating system (say, Linux) [...] Nothing personal, guys,

RE: screen

2005-04-21 Thread Harig, Mark
my mistake. I assumed that if experienced people like Gary R. Van Sickle and Lapo Luchini were asking questions and responding on this list, then it was an accepted practice. -Original Message- From: Corinna Vinschen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:40 AM

Re: Apache ANNOUNCEMENT NEEDED! (try 4)

2005-04-21 Thread Robert Richter
Sorry Christopher, I was not online last days, I will announce the package now. Robert - Original Message - From: Christopher Faylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:27 PM Subject: Apache ANNOUNCEMENT NEEDED! (try 4) So far public requests

termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
Do we have a maintainer for termcap? The package doesn't include any documentation at all, including any mention of a maintainer. The screen package, which I am working on building, includes some new termcap entries. I could just have the screen installer append them to /etc/termcap, but it

Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have a maintainer for termcap? The package doesn't include any documentation at all, including any mention of a maintainer. The screen package, which I am working on building, includes some new termcap entries. I could

Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for quite some time. You should be using terminfo. terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's no problem. Are you saying then that I should just ignore the extra termcap entries for screen,

Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for quite some time. You should be using terminfo. terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's no problem. Are you saying then

Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
There is no harm in including them but I really don't think there are (m)any programs out there who would take advantage of them. I'll make a new release today. OK, thanks. A.

Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:37:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for quite some time. You should be using terminfo. terminfo already includes definitions for

Re: termcap maintainer?

2005-04-21 Thread Schulman . Andrew
I'll hold off announcing this until after you've released screen, though. I wouldn't want to get anyone prematurely excited about having screen available at long last. Yes, especially since it doesn't work yet. I'll post an update about this soon. A.

Re: XWin fails connecting to XDM for sending wrong source-IP

2005-04-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, norm wrote: You can specify the address to use with the -from parameter XWin -query 192.168.200.200 -from 192.168.200.2 -fp tcp/192.168.200.200:7100 obviously but it doesn't work for me without doing so. I wonder why the xserver chooses 192.168.68.1 in

Connection to Linux

2005-04-21 Thread Ullrich Genius
Hello, i' am a user from Germany and i have a question: very often, dont't ask me why, my XP computer doesn't connect to my second computer which runs LINUX 9.2. It respond's that the client has been rejected ! May be, you 've got an answer for me ? greetings Ullrich Genius begin:vcard

Re: Connection to Linux

2005-04-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Ullrich Genius wrote: Hello, i' am a user from Germany and i have a question: very often, dont't ask me why, my XP computer doesn't connect to my second computer which runs LINUX 9.2. It respond's that the client has been rejected ! How are you trying to connect?

xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:

2005-04-21 Thread J S
Hi, Could anyone help me out please? I'm trying to add another path to my fontpath but keep getting the following error: $ xset fp+ /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/test xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing

Re: xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:

2005-04-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, J S wrote: $ mkaliasfont helvetica arial fonts.alias + [ 2 -ne 2 ] + xlsfonts + grep ^-[^-]*-helvetica- + sed -e s/^-[^-]*\(-helvetica\(-.*\)\)$/-compat-arial\2 -*\1/ $ ls /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/test fonts.alias fonts.dir $ cat fonts.dir 0 It seems you need at

Re: xset: bad font path element (#58), possible causes are:

2005-04-21 Thread J S
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, J S wrote: $ mkaliasfont helvetica arial fonts.alias + [ 2 -ne 2 ] + xlsfonts + grep ^-[^-]*-helvetica- + sed -e s/^-[^-]*\(-helvetica\(-.*\)\)$/-compat-arial\2 -*\1/ $ ls /usr/x11r6/lib/x11/fonts/test fonts.alias fonts.dir $ cat fonts.dir 0 It seems you need at

Re: Suggested FAQ wrt the port 6000 listener software firewalls

2005-04-21 Thread Alexander Gottwald
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Steven Levis wrote: Im suggesting the following FAQ (or something similar) to address the issue, especially after seeing another such question on this lists archive. I added a section about this and will upload it tomorrow bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Startx not running

2005-04-21 Thread shalloo
Hello, The name is Jared Moraska. My problem is this. Startx won't start. I can get the shell to start but when I type startx it starts to load and then stops. It is doing something because it is using about 70% of my cpu, but it just won't load the xterm like window. It then gives me a line

application failed to initialize properly

2005-04-21 Thread Alec Stanculescu
We had two applications that used to work under Cygwin on XP. The hard disk broke down. We reinstalled XP and downloaded the latest version of Cygwin on April 14th. After rebuilding the two applications the first one works OK but the second one results in the following error message: this

Re: application failed to initialize properly

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:59PM -0700, Alec Stanculescu wrote: We had two applications that used to work under Cygwin on XP. The hard disk broke down. We reinstalled XP and downloaded the latest version of Cygwin on April 14th. After rebuilding the two applications the first one works OK but

not sure whats wrong

2005-04-21 Thread Mark Blaskovich
$ cd /usr/X11R6/bin/ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 6.8.2.0-1 Contact: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com XWin was started with the following command line: X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root

Re: not sure whats wrong

2005-04-21 Thread Ken Dibble
Here are some places to start: http://www.waimea.org/wiki/CygwinXTroubleShooting http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2005-01/msg00098.html http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-12/msg00053.html Mark Blaskovich wrote: $ cd /usr/X11R6/bin/ startx Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The

Re: Startx not running

2005-04-21 Thread Steven Levis
Hi Jared, Do you have any software firewalls running? If so, try the following: 1) Reboot your computer 2) Stop any and all firewalls (like Norton, ZoneAlarm, or AVG) 3) Start cygwin/x If Cygwin/X starts normally, you'll have to configure your firewall to accept connections on port 6000.

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog shared.cc

2005-04-21 Thread cgf
CVSROOT:/cvs/uberbaum Module name:winsup Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005-04-21 23:53:52 Modified files: cygwin : ChangeLog shared.cc Log message: * shared.cc (shared_info::initialize): Test previous version of shared memory magic rather

RE: No permissions on files created outside Cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread daniel.steinmann
Usually not. Looking more closely into the permissions and perhaps regenerating /etc/passwd and /etc/group might help more. Or just use Cygwin's vim ;-) Thanks for the permissions tip. I had a closer look via file explorer, select toplevel folder, rightclick, select properties, select

Re: No libintl.jar in gettext-0.14.1-1

2005-04-21 Thread Charles Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The document /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gettext-0.14.1.README tells me it should be around. Are there any reasons why this jar is not available in 0.14.1? Yep. It barely worked in 0.12.x, by dint of some kludgy wrapper scripts around Sun's jdk javac. In 0.14.1, my kludgy

Re: bash/fork problem on Win server 2003 with terminal serve

2005-04-21 Thread Lionel B
Corinna Vinschen wrote ... On Apr 20 17:19, Lionel B wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote... On Apr 20 14:09, Lionel B wrote: Lionel B wrote... Corinna Vinschen wrote... On Apr 14 14:55, Lionel B wrote: Hi, I seem to have hit the same issue as described in:

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

2005-04-21 Thread L Anderson
Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: I use rsync to maintain a local Cygwin release mirror so I can use Setup to locally install anything from Cygwin release on a number of PCs on my network. I do too but without the script part. I just have a line in my crontab: 00 10,22 * * * rsync -rlt

Re: Updated: OpenSSH-4.0p1-1

2005-04-21 Thread Shaddy Baddah
Hi, Just thought it might be wise to put on the record that the Cygwin build of OpenSSH-4.0p1-1 also suffers from the upstream bug reported in http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=996: Summary: Fatal error in xfree() when scp invokes ssh with a LocalForward config A search of the cygwin

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Dessent
L Anderson wrote: Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I discover it and change the --exclude to exclude it. The

Re: setup.exe keeps hanging

2005-04-21 Thread Henry S. Thompson
I confirm that post-texmf.sh took order 5 minutes on my 1.2GHz machine -- I used Task Manager to reassure myself that something was actually happening. So just be patient turns out to be the solution. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.15-1

2005-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 05:01, Jason FU wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: [Unneeded, useless, annoying full quote removed] After installing the latest cygwin-1.5.15-1, I restarted the computer for it to take effect. Since then, I could no longer shutdown the

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: shutdown-1.5-1

2005-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I've just updated the version of shutdown to 1.5-1. This version has some bugfixes plus two new features: On Windows NT systems, shutdown now uses InitiateSystemShutdown to start system shutdowns and reboots. This function has several advantages. It allows to specify a time until shutdown, it

announcement subject tag

2005-04-21 Thread Julian Opificius
It's a little presumptuous to use a subject tag that does not include cygwin. What does [announcement] mean to someone outside the cygwin camp? There are hundreds of organizations that might want to make announcements via email lists. What about [cygwin-announce]. thanks, Julian Opificus. --

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.15-1

2005-04-21 Thread Jason FU
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: On Apr 21 05:01, Jason FU wrote: Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin.com writes: [Unneeded, useless, annoying full quote removed] After installing the latest cygwin-1.5.15-1, I restarted the computer for

RE: announcement subject tag

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Julian Opificius Sent: 21 April 2005 14:21 It's a little presumptuous to use a subject tag that does not include cygwin. What does [announcement] mean to someone outside the cygwin camp? There are hundreds of organizations that might want to make announcements

Re: bash/fork problem on Win server 2003 with terminal serve

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:59:18AM +0100, Lionel B wrote: second it's the wrong Cygwin version, ...this is curious... I *thought* I'd installed 1.5.15. If I run setup.exe it tells me that the current version of cygwin is 1.5.15-1 (and indeed the cygcheck output gives the cygwin *package*

Re: announcement subject tag

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:20:45AM -0500, Julian Opificius wrote: It's a little presumptuous to use a subject tag that does not include cygwin. What does [announcement] mean to someone outside the cygwin camp? There are hundreds of organizations that might want to make announcements via email

vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Lars Zeb
How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment? Where can I get vi from? How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There does not seem to be anything like that in bash. Thanks, Lars -- [EMAIL

RE: vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Lars Zeb wrote: How do I install the vi editor in the cygwin environment? Where can I get vi from? How can I tell the bash shell about it? I am used to the EDITOR shell variable in the Korn shell pointing to the editor of choice. There does not seem to be anything like that in bash.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.15-1

2005-04-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 21 13:33, Jason FU wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: I've uploaded a new version of shutdown which should solve this problem. Corinna It doesn't work either as follows: ===

Re: Problem getting started, Windows 98

2005-04-21 Thread Evan Tuer
Hello Brian and Larry, After a re-install including base and devel, it now works. I thought I had selected devel the first time around but perhaps not. Thanks for your help. Regards Evan On 4/20/05, Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:44 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote: Hello, I have

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Chuck
Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Chuck Sent: 19 April 2005 16:09 Findutils is broken when it comes to using it on the /proc filesystem. The last version that worked is 4.1.7. Newer versions crash if you run find /proc. Anyone care to tackle this? Cannot reproduce:

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: typespeed-0.4.4-1

2005-04-21 Thread Lapo Luchini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 typespeed-0.4.4-1 has been uploaded to the Cygwin net distribution. Typespeed gives your fingers' cps (total and correct), typoratio and some points to compare with your friends. Typespeed's idea is ripped from ztspeed (a dos game made by Zorlim).

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: skilover Sent: 21 April 2005 16:14 Hi Chuck! Hope you didn't mean to take this off-list deliberately, because I've added the list back in. Apologies in advance if you feel this was a deeply personal communication I shouldn't have shared with the world! Dave

Re: vi installation

2005-04-21 Thread Gene Wilson
The version in Cygwin is called vim and you can install it using the same setup utility that you used to install cygwin. It's under editors. While you're doing that you could also install pdksh which is the open implementation of ksh. It works very well, I use it every day. On 4/20/05, Lars

RE: Tracking down process/memory leak

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Timothy Wall Sent: 19 April 2005 16:05 I've used msconfig to turn off all services/drivers at startup, and the memory leak persists. Kernel memory goes up slowly, Physical memory goes down faster, and Handles/Threads/Processes remain steady. I'm not aware of

Re: Mirror, Mirroring, Download, Downloading Cygwin Release Using rsync

2005-04-21 Thread L Anderson
Brian Dessent wrote: L Anderson wrote: Initially I used --exclude but decided it was safer to ask for what I want rather than for everything but what I don't want. If a subdirectory that I don't want is added to the mirror, it gets downloaded until I discover it and change the --exclude to

Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Pradip Jadav
Hi guys.. When I gave command rebase all, my monitor's screen got damaged. I mean 25% of screen is got Black and resizing screen is only upto 80% of total screen.. It appers as full screen sometimes and 80% screen sometimes. Now I have changed my monitor , and this new monitor is working fine.

RE: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Pradip Jadav Sent: 21 April 2005 17:47 Hi guys.. When I gave command rebase all, my monitor's screen got damaged. I mean 25% of screen is got Black and resizing screen is only upto 80% of total screen.. It appers as full screen sometimes and 80% screen

Re: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Pradip Jadav
ohh that means no chance for recovery... Is there any? shhhi. my fault . I think i did not read document of rebaseall command properly... Anyway thanx for reply... On 4/21/05, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: Pradip Jadav Sent: 21 April 2005 17:47

RE: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Pradip Jadav Sent: 21 April 2005 18:14 ohh that means no chance for recovery... Is there any? shhhi. my fault . I think i did not read document of rebaseall command properly... Anyway thanx for reply... http://cygwin.com/acronyms#YHBT !

Re: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:14 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote: ohh that means no chance for recovery... Is there any? shhhi. my fault . I think i did not read document of rebaseall command properly... Anyway thanx for reply... On 4/21/05, Dave Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: Pradip

RE: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Larry Hall Sent: 21 April 2005 18:24 At 01:14 PM 4/21/2005, you wrote: ohh that means no chance for recovery... Is there any? shhhi. my fault . I think i did not read document of rebaseall command properly... Anyway thanx for reply... On 4/21/05,

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
Ah. No, you absolutely shouldn't say it crashes, because it does not crash. Misdescribing a bug is the slowest imaginable way of getting it fixed! Particularly so in this case, because I don't see why find *shouldn't* return an exit code of 1 when it's had all those errors. Have you

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
Stupid webmail interface. Why can't it wrap lines, so they don't get truncated at 1000 characters en route, per the RFCs? [...] changing errno except on error. readdir() is documented as not changing errno except on error when the return value is NULL, but is allowed to change errno when

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Chuck
Dave Korn wrote: Presumably the reason that this behaviour is new is that there used to be a bug that stopped it even attempting to recurse those dirs, because nothing with '*' in it could ever be a valid filename. cheers, DaveK So there where does the problem lie? Is it

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Eric Blake Sent: 21 April 2005 18:40 Contrary to your statement, /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/ is a valid directory name (but you sure have to be careful with shell quoting to actually get there). Only on a managed mount. You simply cannot create a

RE: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Pradip Jadav Sent: 21 April 2005 18:14 ohh that means no chance for recovery... Is there any? shhhi. my fault . I think i did not read document of rebaseall command properly... Anyway thanx for reply... Time I told you the truth :) No, it's

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
Dave Korn wrote: Presumably the reason that this behaviour is new is that there used to be a bug that stopped it even attempting to recurse those dirs, because nothing with '*' in it could ever be a valid filename. cheers, DaveK So there where does the

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:39:57PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Also, I've noticed that some cygwin syscalls are sloppy, and change errno to EISDIR even when they are successful. Cygwin does try only to set errno when there is an error. If you have specific evidence to the contrary please report it.

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:59:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Eric Blake Sent: 21 April 2005 18:40 Contrary to your statement, /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/ is a valid directory name (but you sure have to be careful with shell quoting to actually get there).

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 21 April 2005 19:20 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:39:57PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Also, I've noticed that some cygwin syscalls are sloppy, and change errno to EISDIR even when they are successful. Cygwin does try only to set errno when

Re: Courier-IMAP on cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Kees Vonk wrote: I am currently trying to install courier imap on cygwin. I have seen several people on the list saying they have managed it, but I don't seem to be able to get it working. In fact I don't even get courier-authlib (0.55) to configure without errors. When I start configure without

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Dave Korn
Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 21 April 2005 19:23 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:59:11PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Eric Blake Sent: 21 April 2005 18:40 Contrary to your statement, /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*/ is a valid directory

Re: Courier-IMAP on cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Brian Dessent wrote: Kees Vonk wrote: When I start configure without the --without-authldap option I get the following error: checking for netinet/in.h... yes checking whether -lresolve is needed for res_query... configure: error: Cannot find function res_query You lack the 'minires-devel'

Re: compiling fails on cygwin with dsniff

2005-04-21 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
wrote: Hello, i think i need your help! i downloaded the more full cygwin which is about 485M. it is 1.85G after installed. And i get the dsniff2.3. When i compiled dsniff2.3 on cygwin,it failed. the mistake like this: **the mistake*** checking for Berkeley DB with 1.85

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:24:00PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Christopher Faylor Sent: 21 April 2005 19:20 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:39:57PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Also, I've noticed that some cygwin syscalls are sloppy, and change errno to EISDIR even when they are

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-libwin32-0.191-4

2005-04-21 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Reini Urban wrote: This email is to inform you about the release of the updated libwin32 perl package for the current perl-5.8.6 through http://cygwin.com/setup.exe. Compliment! Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: I just tried to build GCC 4.0.0-RC2 on Cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Mikael wrote: As the topic says, I just tried to build the second release candidate of GCC 4.0.0 on Cygwin. The process itself was simple, but it took some time to perform the make bootstrap part, but that was expected. All steps of the build process completed successfully. I proceeded to try

RE: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
Well, that was my next step, but I'm off home for the evening. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /artimi cd /proc/registry [EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/registry cd HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT cd \* [EMAIL PROTECTED] /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/* ls AlwaysShowExt

Re: No libintl.jar in gettext-0.14.1-1

2005-04-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Charles Wilson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cough. The document /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gettext-0.14.1.README tells me it should be around. Are there any reasons why this jar is not available in 0.14.1? Yep. It barely worked in 0.12.x, by dint of some kludgy

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Eric Blake
Nevertheless, Cygwin does try only to set errno when there is an error. There are some cases where that isn't true but I didn't see any that referred to EISDIR. While I didn't find any EISDIR on success (yet), I did find the following in 1.5.15: [l]stat() on /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

RE: No permissions on files created outside Cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, daniel.steinmann wrote: Or just use Cygwin's vim ;-) Hey, I use Cygwin's vim! Thanks for providing this package. I use it for quick edits. For my day-to-day Java/Web programming I prefer native gVim, because the compiler plugins work out of the box and do not need all

Re: findutils still broken

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:15:33PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Nevertheless, Cygwin does try only to set errno when there is an error. There are some cases where that isn't true but I didn't see any that referred to EISDIR. While I didn't find any EISDIR on success (yet), I did find the

Syslogd hangs on start

2005-04-21 Thread Thompson, Lloyd D. \(SSD\)
Hello, I'm trying to start the cygwin syslog daemon. I set it up using syslogd-config, then try and start it with either net start or cygrunsrv -S. The service never fully starts. The return of both commands states that the service could not be started. It does however hang in start up mode.

Re: announcement subject tag

2005-04-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:20:45AM -0500, Julian Opificius wrote: It's a little presumptuous to use a subject tag that does not include cygwin. What does [announcement] mean to someone outside the cygwin camp? There are hundreds of

Re: Syslogd hangs on start

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Thompson, Lloyd D. (SSD) wrote: $ net stop syslogd The service could not be controlled in its present state. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2189. $ net helpmsg 2189 The service could not be controlled in its present state. I do not know the root cause for why the service

Re: Syslogd hangs on start

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:21:39PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: Thompson, Lloyd D. (SSD) wrote: $ net stop syslogd The service could not be controlled in its present state. More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2189. $ net helpmsg 2189 The service could not be controlled in its

RE: Rebase All command.....

2005-04-21 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Dave Korn wrote: Original Message From: Pradip Jadav Sent: 21 April 2005 17:47 Hi guys.. When I gave command rebase all, my monitor's screen got damaged. I mean 25% of screen is got Black and resizing screen is only upto 80% of total screen.. It appers

Re: Syslogd hangs on start

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Dessent
Christopher Faylor wrote: Wouldn't ps -W and /bin/kill -f work here, too? Probably. Though ps doesn't tell you which cygrunsrv is which, if you have more than one running and don't want to kill an innocent service, which is why I use procexp. procps aux --forest works too. Brian --

Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin?

2005-04-21 Thread Jason Barnett
First of all I apologize if this was answered somewhere else, but I didn't find it. I tried searching Google, the archives

shutdown-1.5-1 does not work!

2005-04-21 Thread Angelo Graziosi (D. Zanello)
I am tried as Administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Downloads/cygwin $ shutdown now WARNING!!! System is going down NOW shutdown: Couldn't shutdown: Error 5 Accesso negato. (also shutdown 5 does not work) Thank you, angelo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info:

RE: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin?

2005-04-21 Thread Stephan Mueller
Windows programs often like ^Z as EOF. stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Barnett Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:45 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin? First of all I apologize if

Re: Newbie question: What is EOF for stdin? [SOLVED]

2005-04-21 Thread Jason Barnett
That (^Z) did the trick perfectly. Thanks! Jason Stephan Mueller wrote: Windows programs often like ^Z as EOF. stephan(); -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Barnett Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:45 PM To:

Re: I just tried to build GCC 4.0.0-RC2 on Cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread Mikael
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Mikael wrote: As the topic says, I just tried to build the second release candidate of GCC 4.0.0 on Cygwin. The process itself was simple, but it took some time to perform the make bootstrap part, but that was expected. All steps of the build process completed

Re: I just tried to build GCC 4.0.0-RC2 on Cygwin

2005-04-21 Thread Mikael
Mikael wrote: Gerrit P. Haase wrote: Mikael wrote: As the topic says, I just tried to build the second release candidate of GCC 4.0.0 on Cygwin. The process itself was simple, but it took some time to perform the make bootstrap part, but that was expected. All steps of the build

Re: 1.5.15: multiple simultaneous processes can fail to start

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:50:44PM -0700, Usman Muzaffar wrote: Hello. We seem to be having difficulty when two Cygwin processes are started simultaneously (or in close succession) on multiprocessor Windows 2003 systems. The problem manifests as this error: c:\cygwin\bin\which.exe (3824): ***

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.15-1

2005-04-21 Thread Jason FU
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: On Apr 21 13:33, Jason FU wrote: Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: It doesn't work either as follows: Running as admin? Corinna Yes, Server 2003 only allows administrators to turn off the machine. Jason

Re: bash was: can not run OPUS MAKE

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:45:28AM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: The problem is bash related. lame.exe invocation or mencoder.exe (probably arg parsing) also fails with a 1.5.15s-20050413 and latest bash-2.05b.0(1)-release (2.05b-17), but I haven't found time to debug it. Reproduced with

Re: zsh 4.3.0 dev 1 with cygwin1.dll 1.5.15

2005-04-21 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, S. Cowles wrote: I don't have a clear perception which mailing list is the more appropriate for this question, so I've sent a version of this message to the cygwin users' mailing list and to the zsh users' list. Any help would be appreciated. This is really a Cygwin issue.

Re: can not run OPUS MAKE

2005-04-21 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:42:49AM -0600, lin q wrote: Hi, It is strange:in cygwin when I am trying to run OPUS MAKE, I always get this error, OPUS MAKE: Don't know how to make '!*'. Stop. I turn on the debug mode and I see the following, *** Read c:\opus6.12/make.ini *** Note: You are

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