RE: Administrator vs Administrators

> > I think you have an extra s in the user name :-) (I have an > > Administrator user, but no Administrators user). > > Can someone correct my understanding if I've got this wrong? > I think "Administrator" means the administrator account on > the local machine, "Administrators" means the a

Re: Administrator vs Administrators

On 6 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski replied to: > > Can someone correct my understanding if I've got this wrong? I think > > "Administrator" means the administrator account on the local machine, > > "Administrators" means the administrative account for the machine in the > > domain (workgroup). >

Re: Administrator vs Administrators

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the > network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. > > I had someone report this error today from a script I'd written: > > On 6 Sep, Iain Templeton wrote: > > Replaci

Re: Odd transient error about __impure_ptr

On 5 Sep, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Hard to say without a proper problem report[*], but it sounds like you > have another version of cygwin1.dll in the PATH. Windows looks for > cygwin1.dll in the directory of the program before it looks at the PATH, > and the standard cygwin.bat runs bas

Re: STL errors building setup with gcc 3.4.4 (Attn Gerrit)

Brian Dessent wrote: > going to try building a stock 3.4.4 without any patches and see if it > still fails, and if so I'll ping the gcc list. If it does turn out to > be some of the Cygwin patches I'd be at a loss to track it down though. I just confirmed that with a stock 3.4.4 w/o Cygwin-local

Administrator vs Administrators

Our policy is that for their PC, users have administrator rights in the network domain, so they can install and uninstall software. I had someone report this error today from a script I'd written: On 6 Sep, Iain Templeton wrote: > Replacing /bin/shell.exe with newer one from //handel/d/cygn

Re: Odd transient error about __impure_ptr

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Luke Kendall wrote: > On a freshly (re?)installed copy of Cygwin from September 2004, a weird > thing happened that I thought I'd mention. We use Michael Wardle's > excellent shell.c program that queries the password file to find the > user's default shell, to start that (inst

Odd transient error about __impure_ptr

On a freshly (re?)installed copy of Cygwin from September 2004, a weird thing happened that I thought I'd mention. We use Michael Wardle's excellent shell.c program that queries the password file to find the user's default shell, to start that (instead of running bash --login), run from inside a .

Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:29:14PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>It really isn't worth the effort to implement this. Eventually, /dev >>will be something more like a mountable entity but, for now, I thought >>it would be useful for it to show up i

Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:03:25PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > >Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > >> I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev' > >> (virtual) directory (and proc): > > > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01

Re: Very basic version command

Ugh, top-posting. Reformatted... On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Barry Demchak wrote: > At 03:31 PM 9/5/2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Barry Demchak wrote: > > > > > Hi, all -- > > > > > > Sorry for submitting something so silly. > > > > > > Question: What is the command for finding

Re: Problems with snap 20050905 and X?

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:31:53AM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >I have installed the snap 20050905. > >When X/Cygwin is started with startxwin.bat, xterm hangs, its window is >white instead of black (as I configured) and the prompt does not >appear. > >Windows (W2K SP4) says

Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 05:03:25PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Angelo Graziosi wrote: > >> I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev' >> (virtual) directory (and proc): > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01098.html > >> Are the message : 'ls: /dev: No such file or di

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 01:38:24PM -0700, Sean Gugler wrote: >On 9/5/05 1:24 PM, Eric Blake: >> Check out the 20050905 snapshot, instead, and notice that Chris added this >> patch: >> * spawn.cc (av::fixup): Do win16 detection for .com files. Make sure >> th

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: boost-1.33.0-1 and boost-devel-1.33.0-1

I have packaged Boost 1.33.0 into: - boost-1.33.0-1 - contains docs, - boost-devel-1.33.0-1 - contains headers and static libraries. Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. Boost libraries are

Re: ls -lrt / shows /dev....

Angelo Graziosi wrote: > I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev' > (virtual) directory (and proc): http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01098.html > Are the message : 'ls: /dev: No such file or directory', Yes. > and the date: > > Jan 1 1970 dev >

ls -lrt / shows /dev....

I have noted (with snap 20050901) that now in '/' it appears 'dev' (virtual) directory (and proc): $ ls -lrt / ls: /dev: No such file or directory total 742 d- 2 0 Jan 1 1970 dev ... dr-xr

Problems with snap 20050905 and X?

I have installed the snap 20050905. When X/Cygwin is started with startxwin.bat, xterm hangs, its window is white instead of black (as I configured) and the prompt does not appear. Windows (W2K SP4) says : Annull or Stop the process. With the previous snap (20050901) all worked fine, so I

Re: Very basic version command

Aha ... another good way. Thanks ... I'm happy to learn this stuff. At 03:43 PM 9/5/2005, Mark Blain wrote: On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:20:21 -0700, Barry Demchak wrote: > Question: What is the command for finding out the version of a library > installed on Cygwin? > > I'm trying to find out what ve

Re: Very basic version command

Thanks, Igor -- I have not yet been able to make cygcheck work, but I did find out about the pkg-config command. This command uses the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to find the library information for a particular library. That path identifies a directory full of .po files. There is a .

Re: Very basic version command

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:20:21 -0700, Barry Demchak wrote: > Question: What is the command for finding out the version of a library > installed on Cygwin? > > I'm trying to find out what version of the librsvg library I'm using. I'm sure there must be a better way, but I just cheat and browse my

Re: Very basic version command

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:20:21 -0700, Barry Demchak wrote: > Question: What is the command for finding out the version of a library > installed on Cygwin? > > I'm trying to find out what version of the librsvg library I'm using. I'm sure there must be a better way, but I just cheat and browse my

Re: Very basic version command

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Barry Demchak wrote: > Hi, all -- > > Sorry for submitting something so silly. > > Question: What is the command for finding out the version of a library > installed on Cygwin? It's easy to find out the version of an official Cygwin package that supplies a given library. If y

Very basic version command

Hi, all -- Sorry for submitting something so silly. Question: What is the command for finding out the version of a library installed on Cygwin? I'm trying to find out what version of the librsvg library I'm using. Thanks. vvv : Barry Demchak : : T

Very basic version command

Hi, all -- Sorry for submitting something so silly. Question: What is the command for finding out the version of a library installed on Cygwin? I'm trying to find out what version of the librsvg library I'm using. Thanks. vvv : Barry Demchak : : T

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

On 9/5/05 1:24 PM, Eric Blake: > Check out the 20050905 snapshot, instead, and notice that Chris added this > patch: > * spawn.cc (av::fixup): Do win16 detection for .com files. Make sure > that buffer has been unmapped in all cases. Score! Snapshot 20050905 did t

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.2.25-2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.2.25-2, is available. NEWS: = This is a minor cygwin bug fix release. The only difference from 4.2.25-1 is that xargs now uses a maximum command length of 32k instead of 1M, so you should no longer get 'Argument list

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

ly isolate the issue > to Cygwin (see below), and believe the June fix was insufficient > for my environment. Check out the 20050905 snapshot, instead, and notice that Chris added this patch: * spawn.cc (av::fixup): Do win16 detection for .com files. Make sure that buffer has

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

Nay, the crash well and truly persists even with correct application of the 2005-09-01 snapshot, though I thank Brian and Christopher for their encouragement. I've tried to carefully isolate the issue to Cygwin (see below), and believe the June fix was insufficient for my environment. Anyone else

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: singular-*-3.0.0-1

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Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Christopher Faylor on 9/5/2005 9:23 AM: > I used to compile findutils with -DARG_MAX=15 on the gcc command > line to work around this problem. Undoubtedly there is a better way to > do this, but maybe this is a hint as to what's wrong

Re: Batch conversion between vector graphics?

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Angel Tsankov wrote: > Does cygwin include an application for batch conversion of .fig files to > .eps? If so, what is it? Answered on cygwin-xfree[*], link here for completeness. Igor [*] --

Re: 1.5.18-1: Crash launching COMMAND.COM (W98)

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:56:13AM -0700, Sean Gugler wrote: >Brian Dessent replied to me: >> There was a problem with launching 16 bit applications that occured >> exactly as you state, but that was fixed around June and went into the >> 1.5.18 release. Try a snapshot. > >Thanks, Brian, good idea

Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25

> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:46:05AM +0100, fergus wrote: > >Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest > >findutils and I now find that > > cat filelist | xargs md5sum > >where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with > > xargs: md5sum: Argument

Re: Unknown keyboard

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Huszár, László wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've found these lines in my log file: > > (--) winConfigKeyboard - Layout: "040E" (040e) > > (EE) Keyboardlayout "Hungarian" (040E) is unknown > > > > Would you be so kind to he

Re: auto completion problem

yosi wrote: > I am using cygwin on a win-2k OS. > I am working using bash xterms (I start them with startx command). > on those xterms auto completion from history doesn't work. > > I am familiar with the solaris equivalent. In solaris pressing tab or ESC+P > will > cause the shell to complete t

auto completion problem

Hi, I am using cygwin on a win-2k OS. I am working using bash xterms (I start them with startx command). on those xterms auto completion from history doesn't work. I am familiar with the solaris equivalent. In solaris pressing tab or ESC+P will cause the shell to complete the command if the pref

Is console emacs broken?

I've always avoided learning emacs, but as octave maintainer, I thought I might learn just enough to create the octave-emacsen package that a user requested. However, emacs seems to repeatably lock up when requesting menu activation, whether through F10 or esc-`. So I'm not getting very far, very

Re: xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:46:05AM +0100, fergus wrote: >Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest >findutils and I now find that > cat filelist | xargs md5sum >where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with > xargs: md5sum: Argument list too

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cpio-2.6-4

I've just updated the version of cpio to 2.6-4. This is a bugfix release. A missing test for lstat in the configury resulted in cpio not being able to maintain symlinks correctly. Thanks to Chris Faylor for bringing this to my attention. To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwi

RSync Stalling issue

Hi, I have been using cygwin to run openssh on my windows box to provide functionality and backup services. Recently the stalling problem has become an issue I need to resolve, although it has always occurred. When backing up data off the desktop box ( debian <- windows ) the rsync will o

Re: Missing definitions in termios.h

On Sep 5 13:10, Alex Kholodenko wrote: > While compiling some project I've got following errors: > > picport.cc:63: `TIOCM_RTS' undeclared (first use this function) > picport.cc:67: `TIOCM_DTR' undeclared (first use this function) > picport.cc:70: `TIOCMSET' undeclared (first use this function) >

Missing definitions in termios.h

While compiling some project I've got following errors: picport.cc:63: `TIOCM_RTS' undeclared (first use this function) picport.cc:67: `TIOCM_DTR' undeclared (first use this function) picport.cc:70: `TIOCMSET' undeclared (first use this function) picport.cc:101: `TIOCCBRK' undeclared (first use th

xargs: argument list too long - new problem with v.4.2.25

Just updated xargs from v.4.2.11-cvs to v.4.2.25 with installation of latest findutils and I now find that cat filelist | xargs md5sum where filelist is a mere 1723 items long, now fails with xargs: md5sum: Argument list too long This did not happen with the previous version of xarg

Re: IP_TOS possible bug?

On Sep 5 13:37, Yung Leem wrote: > I am having a trouble with setting IP_TOS. > > Currently I am trying to send UDP packets with TOS parameter set to > something other than the default value of 0x00. > > I am using cygwin version 1.5.17(0.129/4/2). > > I have no problem sending a UDP packet if

Re: cygrunsrv.exe -- start the service automatically on failure??

On Aug 31 11:48, Dave Korn wrote: > Original Message > >From: Pradip Jadav > >Sent: 31 August 2005 07:14 > > > Hello all, > > As with cygrunsrv.exe we can install-start-stop a service, is it > > possible to restart the service automatically on failure?? > > We can see from properties of a

Re: bug in unshar

On Aug 30 07:07, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > unshar 4.4 coredumps due to an unitialized variable [1], (not to mention > it executes arbirary shell code, which can be considered a security > flaw[2], but that is inherent in the design of shar rather than