Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On Oct 11 13:10, mwoehlke wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >... although I can see problems arising when someone uses mount to rename > >the > >cygdrive mount. Maybe it would be worth providing a notation that means > >'cygdrive, no matter how it may have been renamed. This sounds like a good idea to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

At 11-10-2006 19:36, Dave Korn wrote: On 11 October 2006 18:15, Frank Fesevur wrote: I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is created with POSIX filenames there is no problem. Well of course n

Re: Cygwin as non-adminstrator

On 10/11/06, Tim Largy <> wrote: After installing and running Cygwin (on Windows XP Professional) as an administrator, I tried to run it as an ordinary user (no administrative rights) and ran into permission problems. When I installed Cygwin, I made sure to select the option to make Cygwin availa

Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

On 10/11/06, Johnathon Jamison <> wrote: Respectfully, I think I know how shell quoting works. If you look at the sample run, all spaces are properly escaped with either backslashes or double quotes. The problem only surfaces when BOTH the program AND the argument have spaces, AND the program i

Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:43:57PM -0700, Johnathon Jamison wrote: >Respectfully, I think I know how shell quoting works. If you look at >the sample run, all spaces are properly escaped with either backslashes >or double quotes. The problem only surfaces when BOTH the program AND >the argument

Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

Respectfully, I think I know how shell quoting works. If you look at the sample run, all spaces are properly escaped with either backslashes or double quotes. The problem only surfaces when BOTH the program AND the argument have spaces, AND the program is a .bat file. If you run what I have

Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Johnathon Jamison on 10/11/2006 3:11 PM: > Hello, > > I am having some funny behavior. If I have a .bat file that is in a > directory whose pathname contains a space, and an argument is given to > the .bat file that has a space in it, th

Re: Problems with 'dircolors'

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Long, Phillip GOSS on 10/11/2006 3:56 PM: > Mea culpa; I dropped the ball. > > Try putting this line immediately after the `eval' line: > export LS_COLORS Useless advice. Have you looked at the output of dircolors? It already inc

Re: Problems with 'dircolors'

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com ^ Phil, please avoid http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU (reformatted accordingly) and please http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR (munged raw addr

Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:39:59PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly >>does. Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the >>philosophy of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thin

Re: FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

Christopher Faylor wrote: > Good point, Brian. If anything qualifies as a FAQ, this certainly does. > Joshua, would you be willing to write something up about the philosophy > of MS-DOS and Cygwin? Known gotchas would be a good thing to include, > even if they were only examples. I'll see about

Re: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

Long, Phillip GOSS wrote after the sig: (Posting so anyone else that wants to complain knows it's already been mentioned; my usual reason for yelling publicly :-).) FYI it's also good practice to remove signatures when you reply; it confuses "good" mailers if you don't: your reply becomes a ve

Re: zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it?

On Wed 10/11/06 18:07 EDT cygwin@cygwin.com wrote: > Are you untarring files into '/' and does that tar file have a '/bin/bash' > file? Thanks Larry. I was untarring to a subdir below root. I can check the tar archive, but I doubt it has a bash file w/"000" perms, even if it did I would expect th

RE: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

-Original Message- From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:59 AM To: cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device . Reformatted. Also,

FAQ ALERT Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 02:23:56PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>>I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created >>>with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is >>>created with POSIX filenames there is no problem. >> >>Well of cour

RE: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device

-Original Message- From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:59 AM To: cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: All Files and Directories on a Windows Fileserver Share Act Like Character Special Device . Reformatted. Also,

Re: zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it?

Tom Rodman wrote: Greetings: Admittedly just barely worth posting.. Over the years I've seen a /bin/bash file, with 000 (-) perms. This file is empty, has no extension, and bash.exe is not touched. How the zero byte "/bin/bash" get's created is a mystery. It subsequently blocks you from

Re: Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1

On 10/11/2006, Wells, Roger K. wrote: When I installed this my previous installation broke and now the sshd server stops immediately when it is started. Any hints will be appreciated. Start here: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RF

Re: 1.5.21-1:Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron

On 10/11/2006, Mark Schubert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ cron_server>crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.5292 installed on Wed Oct 11 18:05:28 2006) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.8 2004/12/21 16:14:41 corinna Exp $) * * * * * rm ~/this * * *

RE: Problems with 'dircolors'

-Original Message- From: Ricardo Cardoso Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:47 PM To: cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: Problems with 'dircolors' Thanx in advance for the provided solution Philip, but I just can't get it to work. You said: `dircolors' comes with its own built-in color

Cygwin as non-adminstrator

After installing and running Cygwin (on Windows XP Professional) as an administrator, I tried to run it as an ordinary user (no administrative rights) and ran into permission problems. When I installed Cygwin, I made sure to select the option to make Cygwin available to all users, however as an or

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Hmm, yup, I bet that's it. See (1) for another example (note: I am also using Thunderbird). So, perhaps the question is why Jason complained in the first place, since this seems to be archive policy (and no one has complained at *me* for doing the same thing). Probably just overlooking "that's how

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

Dave Korn wrote: > > I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created > > with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is > > created with POSIX filenames there is no problem. > > Well of course not. Cygwin - as a special feature - interprets DOS path

Re: Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

Sorry, did not read posting guidelines well enough. Attaching output of cygcheck -s -v -r. Johnathon Johnathon Jamison wrote: Hello, I am having some funny behavior. If I have a .bat file that is in a directory whose pathname contains a space, and an argument is given to the .bat file tha

Bash fails to run .bat file with spaces in pathname and argument

Hello, I am having some funny behavior. If I have a .bat file that is in a directory whose pathname contains a space, and an argument is given to the .bat file that has a space in it, then the .bat file fails to run. Instead, I get "'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

Re: Problems with 'dircolors'

Thanx in advance for the provided solution Philip, but I just can't get it to work. You said: `dircolors' comes with its own built-in colorization scheme; that's what U get when U type `dircolors --print-database.' If U want to _customize_ your colorization scheme, dump the database to a file, l

zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it?

Greetings: Admittedly just barely worth posting.. Over the years I've seen a /bin/bash file, with 000 (-) perms. This file is empty, has no extension, and bash.exe is not touched. How the zero byte "/bin/bash" get's created is a mystery. It subsequently blocks you from 'sshing' in. It was

RE: Updated: OpenSSH-4.4p1-1

When I installed this my previous installation broke and now the sshd server stops immediately when it is started. Any hints will be appreciated. thanks Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From:

RE: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

The Content-Disposition is set to "inline" rather than "attachment". Can't offer any suggestions as to how to change that, though. :-( --Ken Nellis -Original Message- Not that I'm especially familiar with what I'm looking at, but that looked OK to me. -- Matthew Will your shell have

1.5.21-1:Windows 2003 Server & Cygwin Cron

I do not have a problem to get cron to start - but it flat doesn't work. I've started/configured it to start every way I've seen so far (except the "wrappers") stuff - I don't see how that could help... I've read a TON of information provided by Ms. Vinschen - and I am still not able to get cron

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

Dave Korn wrote: ... although I can see problems arising when someone uses mount to rename the cygdrive mount. Maybe it would be worth providing a notation that means 'cygdrive, no matter how it may have been renamed. Hmm, how about /dev/fs/? ;-) -- Matthew Will your shell have salvation? Onl

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Tim Beuman wrote: Matthew, There is a line "Content-Disposition: inline" which causes the attachments to be shown inline. Could be the file-type that causes Thunderbird to add this line to the section header. I will check if I can convince Thunderbird to not include this line when sending .tx

RE: Problems with 'dircolors'

Hi, Ricardo! `dircolors' comes with its own built-in colorization scheme; that's what U get when U type `dircolors --print-database.' If U want to _customize_ your colorization scheme, dump the database to a file, like this: dircolors --print-database > dircolors.db make whatever changes

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

On 10/11/2006 9:40 AM, Tim Beuman wrote: > There is a line "Content-Disposition: inline" which causes the > attachments to be shown inline. Could be the file-type that causes > Thunderbird to add this line to the section header. I will check if I > can convince Thunderbird to not include this li

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On 11 October 2006 18:15, Frank Fesevur wrote: > I've tried his test case and Mark is right. When a symlink is created > with a win32 path, vim can not create the swapfile. When a symlink is > created with POSIX filenames there is no problem. Well of course not. Cygwin - as a special feature -

RE: Bash 3.1.17(8): Scripts on textmode mount get problems with CR characters

On 10 October 2006 16:02, Bruun, Peter Michael (HP C&I CME OSS CoE) wrote: > It has been one of the main strengths of Cygwin tools, that all of them > understood this. That is not and never has been true. The cygwin tools are standard unix code and they only understand LFs. The cygwin dll gen

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

At 11-10-2006 18:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 11 17:56, Frank Fesevur wrote: At 10-10-2006 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.122-1. This is an update to the latest patchlevel 122. Cygwin Vim still builds >from the vanilla sources. I'

RE: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

On 11 October 2006 16:33, mwoehlke wrote: > (Since this is rather OT, is there a better place to discuss possible > shortcomings of the mail archiver?) Well, yes. You already know where that place is. F'ups-to: set. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

mwoehlke wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Tim Beuman wrote: Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Um... Huh. Thunderbird shows it as attachment. The web archive does not. Anyone that kn

Problems with 'dircolors'

Hi all, Can someone explain me how dircolors work? I don't understand the concept of the environment variable (in this case - i think - LS_COLORS) and when i try 'set LS_COLORS --COLOR' it does nothing at all. I've tried to create a file (something.txt) with the options from ' dircolors --print-d

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Matthew, There is a line "Content-Disposition: inline" which causes the attachments to be shown inline. Could be the file-type that causes Thunderbird to add this line to the section header. I will check if I can convince Thunderbird to not include this line when sending .txt files. Jason,

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

On Oct 11 17:56, Frank Fesevur wrote: > At 10-10-2006 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.122-1. > > > >This is an update to the latest patchlevel 122. Cygwin Vim still builds > >from the vanilla sources. > > I'm still having problems editing /

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.0.122-1

At 10-10-2006 10:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I have updated the version of vim on cygwin.com to 7.0.122-1. This is an update to the latest patchlevel 122. Cygwin Vim still builds from the vanilla sources. I'm still having problems editing /etc/hosts. Also see my earlier report in http://cygw

Re: cygwin 1.5.21-2: ssh-add unable to connect to ssh-agent with McAfee installed

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Tim Beuman wrote: Hi Jason, The "Ridiculous amount of stuff" was sent out as atachments but I guess somehow it ended up inline. Sorry for that. Um... Huh. Thunderbird shows it as attachment. The web archive does not. Anyone that knows the mailer so

Re: Problem with grace

Your're right, it worked. Thanks! Joao - Original Message - From: "Gustavo Seabra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Problem with grace For some reason, after the installation, you still need to run a 'rebaseall' from the ash shell. Ope

Re: fork.cc (frok::parent) problems after 3-13-06 snapshot

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 05:54:04AM +, Steve wrote: >Hello Folks, > >I origianly posted this problem on the group on Oct.21 2006 under title "1.5.21 >Forked background processes". The problem involves forking processes in the >background using `backticks` from a sh script. When doing this, the p

Re: 1.5.21: rxvt fails to shutdown due to ssh -f still running

Igor Peshansky wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Michael Hoffman wrote: When I log out of or shutdown my Windows login session, if I had a background process that I started within a Win32 rxvt session, I get an error that rxvt0 has not shut down. For example if I use ssh -f or run ssh in the back

Re: 1.5.21: rxvt fails to shutdown due to ssh -f still running

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Michael Hoffman wrote: > When I log out of or shutdown my Windows login session, if I had a > background process that I started within a Win32 rxvt session, I get an > error that rxvt0 has not shut down. For > example if I use ssh -f or run ssh in the background using &, t

1.5.21: rxvt fails to shutdown due to ssh -f still running

When I log out of or shutdown my Windows login session, if I had a background process that I started within a Win32 rxvt session, I get an error that rxvt0 has not shut down. For example if I use ssh -f or run ssh in the background using &, this symptom manifests. I can also see a related

Re: Problem with grace

For some reason, after the installation, you still need to run a 'rebaseall' from the ash shell. Open an ash shell (Run... C:\cygwin\bin\ash.exe), then ash$ /bin/rebaseall That should do. Gustavo. On 10/10/06, João Esteves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello: I'm not beeing able to run grace in

Re: WG: Memory Problem with POSIX Thread under Windows XP

On Aug 22 09:03, Martin J?hren wrote: > Hello everyone, > > ich have a problem under Windows XP using CYGWIN 3.1.17(6)-release > (i686-pc-cygwin) with GCC 3.4.4 with the following code: > > > void *testThread(void *data) > { > double kk = 1.232231212; > printf("\r\n%f",kk); > //p