sending keys to cygwin (X)

2006-11-16 Thread Bjoern
Hello NG, I use cygwin to connect via 'X -query IP' from my ordinary PC to a Linux server. This works really fine. But on that server the vmwareplayer is running. In this vmwareplayer i have to log on a virtual Windows maschine and therefor i have to hit the CONTROL+OPTION+DELETE keys. But this

Re: sending keys to cygwin (X)

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin X)
Bjoern wrote: Hello NG, I use cygwin to connect via 'X -query IP' from my ordinary PC to a Linux server. This works really fine. But on that server the vmwareplayer is running. In this vmwareplayer i have to log on a virtual Windows maschine and therefor i have to hit the CONTROL+OPTION+DELETE

New install copy/paste woes

2006-11-16 Thread Mike Brennan
Cygwin/X copy/paste woes Yesterday I downloaded and installed Cywin: Dell XPS M1710 Windows XP Professional 5.1.2600 uname -a: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 mike-lap 1.5.22(0.156/4/2) 2006-11-13 17:01 i686 Cygwin X is started

Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()

2006-11-16 Thread Loic Grenie
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes: Loic Grenie grenie at matapp.unimib.it writes: That intermediate sh invocation can probably be slightly streamlined by doing something similar to sprintf(cmd, (%s) %d %d- %d-, program, pdes[1], pdes[0], pdes[1]); pid = spawnl(_P_NOWAIT,

Re: gnuplot and tex

2006-11-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Charles Wilson writes: Okay, so what to do? (a) custom cygwin patch for gnuplot/variable.c, on the lines of (UNTESTED; but fixup stupid linewrapping before trying to apply): - { $`kpsewhich -expand-path=$HOMETEXMF`\\fonts\\type1! }, - { $`kpsewhich

Re: Xemacs print problem

2006-11-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Eric Monsler writes: All, I have installed the xemacs as part of the cygwin setup. When trying to print from within xemacs, xemacs crashes and fails. This occurs either when selecting File-Print... or File-Page Setup. The full xemacs output is below. Confirmed. I think

[Packaging bug] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bsflite-0.82-1

2006-11-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Jonathan C Allen writes: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === BSFlite - A minimalist console AIM client /usr/man/man1/bsflite.1 should be in /usr/share/man/man1/bsflite.1 Ciao Volker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

[Packaging bug ?] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: checkx-0.2.0-1

2006-11-16 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
Charles Wilson writes: checkX is a little utility I wrote that tests to see if (a) the X11 client DLLs are installed on the machine, and (b) the Xserver on $DISPLAY (or -d x.x.x.x:x) is running and usable. Any reason the docs are duplicated, see below: /usr/share/checkx/

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical /dev directory. But by doing so, I have made it so that the

Re: 1.5.20-1: ls -F slowness

2006-11-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 15 14:34, Scott Roland wrote: I tracked down my problems with an ls -F on a network share taking a very long time. If I use cygwin version 1.5.19-4 from the time machine: ftp://www.fruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2006/06/11/081007 then an ls -F operation takes a couple of seconds.

Problems with GCC-3.4.4-2 (exp) ?

2006-11-16 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Building the following simple test case $ cat hello.c #include stdio.h int main() { printf(Hello, World!); return 0; } gcc -g hello.c -o hello $ gcc -v Reading specs from /tmp/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/specs Configured with:

UNC file names, symlinks and ssh

2006-11-16 Thread Phillip Lord
I am getting some confusing behaviour from cygwin that I don't understand. Essentially, UNC files names appear to be behaving very differently between the console and when sshing into the machine. I have the following set up (-- means a symlink) ~/mnt/webpages --

Re: Excessive thrashing when popen()ing after a large malloc()

2006-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:17:59PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: Fully implementing posix_spawn is quite a bit of work although I did tell Linus Torvalds that I'd look into implementing it in Cygwin eventually (it would make git-on-cygwin faster). I have a patch in my

Wrong root directory

2006-11-16 Thread Timothy Madden
Hello Sorry if asking a known question. I have Cygwin NT-5.1 and many applications ported for Windows with Cygwin installed separately. I recently configured OpenSSH 3.8.1 as a service to start automaticaly with Windows, and since then the file -system root directory of my Cygwin

RE: Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive

2006-11-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:26:46 -0500) Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:08 PM: * Bodger (Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:16:06 -0800 (PST)) How possible would it be to: 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most Windows

RE: Re: Cygwin Environment from ThumbDrive

2006-11-16 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] (Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:26:46 -0500) Thorsten Kampe wrote on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 12:08 PM: * Bodger (Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:16:06 -0800 (PST)) How possible would it be to: 2) With the help of some crafty shell scripts, be available from most Windows

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: findutils-4.3.1-3

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.1-3, is available, replacing 4.3.1-2 as current. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It adds an upstream patch from CVS that fixes behavior with 'find -regex' causing core dumps. Although this release is still

RE: UNC file names, symlinks and ssh

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 November 2006 12:03, Phillip Lord wrote: I am getting some confusing behaviour from cygwin that I don't understand. Essentially, UNC files names appear to be behaving very differently between the console and when sshing into the machine. I'm very confused. I always assumed a shell was

RE: Wrong root directory

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 November 2006 13:05, Timothy Madden wrote: Hello Sorry if asking a known question. I have Cygwin NT-5.1 and many applications ported for Windows with Cygwin installed separately. I recently configured OpenSSH 3.8.1 as a service to start automaticaly with Windows, and since then the

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: I know it is possible to create /dev/std{in,out,err} myself, simply making symlinks to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}, once I create an underlying physical /dev directory. But by doing so, I have made it so that the

Re: [Packaging bug ?] Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: checkx-0.2.0-1

2006-11-16 Thread Charles Wilson
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Charles Wilson writes: checkX is a little utility I wrote that tests to see if (a) the X11 client DLLs are installed on the machine, and (b) the Xserver on $DISPLAY (or -d x.x.x.x:x) is running and usable. Any reason the docs are duplicated, see below:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.5.22-1

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Champ Mendis wrote: I reinstalled the above Cygwin version. But when I run the file it behaves as follow, $ ./sensor /sensor: ./sensor: cannot execute binary file [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/simsens-5.0 $ rm sensor -REMOVED AS ADVISED BEFOFRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/simsens-5.0 $ ./sensor [EMAIL

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 16 09:27, Igor Peshansky wrote: [YAFQ] On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: [...] it seems like it might be nicer if cygwin/devices.in were to provide them natively for all users. Dunno about that. On Linux, /dev/std{in,out,err}

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin at cygwin.com writes: So what we should do here IMO is to augment the base-files package to create a /dev directory and create a couple of standard symlinks in it, which are not covered automatically by the Cygwin DLL. There already was some

Re: Bash Here... menu option howto reg-entry

2006-11-16 Thread Dave
Linda Walsh wrote: Hugh McMaster wrote: On 11/11/06, Linda Walsh wrote: After some time debugging I figured out a way to add a prompt option to the right-click menu on directories and drives that works for my alternate drives and network directories. I think it should be able to be

Re: UNC file names, symlinks and ssh

2006-11-16 Thread Phillip Lord
PL == Phillip Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PL I am getting some confusing behaviour from cygwin that I don't PL understand. Essentially, UNC files names appear to be behaving PL very differently between the console and when sshing into the PL machine. Dave

/bin/bash: Permission denied problem with ssh under WinXP 2003 x64 resolved ... somehow

2006-11-16 Thread Brian Kasper
In complete frustration, I wiped my entire Cygwin install and re-downloaded and -installed everything. Then, on a whim, I logged in as the actual Administrator account on my box (instead of my account, which *is* a member of the Administrators group) and configured sshd in a bash shell by

Question on ssh to a windows machine from linux with and without a program to run

2006-11-16 Thread Brian Keener
I originally posted this in Cygwin/X but I wonder now if this is an ssh or an X issue. Acutally I know it must be some form of authority issue but not sure which security or Authority. I have a XP WIndows machine (atl-lt-5783) with Cygwin and ssh and sshd is running and I have Linux machine

Re: request for /dev/stdin and friends

2006-11-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 16 09:27, Igor Peshansky wrote: [YAFQ] On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 15 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: [...] it seems like it might be nicer if cygwin/devices.in were to provide them natively for all users.

Re: /bin/bash: Permission denied problem with ssh under WinXP 2003 x64 resolved ... somehow

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Brian Kasper wrote: In complete frustration, I wiped my entire Cygwin install and re-downloaded and -installed everything. Then, on a whim, I logged in as the actual Administrator account on my box (instead of my account, which *is* a member of the Administrators group) and configured sshd in

make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182root=makeview=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? Thanks, Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Celliax LiveCD 0.0.32 released (Asterisk managing cellular phones, and Skype calls to/from cellphones, via chan_celliax)

2006-11-16 Thread Giovanni Maruzzelli
Celliax development and download site: www.celliax.org Celliax is a channel driver for the Asterisk Free PBX that manages GSM and CDMA cellular phones through an adapter, composed by a datacable (for commands) and an audiocable (for the voice) interfacing the computer soundcard. Runs on Linux

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Hoffman
Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182root=makeview=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When make 3.82 comes out. -Bill -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 03:45:51PM -0500, Bill Hoffman wrote: Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182root=makeview=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When make 3.82 comes out.

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
Bill Hoffman wrote: Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182root=makeview=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When make 3.82 comes out. Thanks. Is this imminent or

peeknamedpipe stdio error

2006-11-16 Thread nwann
I'm having a problem with a windows utility that I have written. It uses the windows API function peeknamedpipe, readfile and writefile to connect to a console program that has been compiled with gcc. The program reads the stderr, stdout and writes to the stdin using these functions. This method

Where is Gnu compiler itself?

2006-11-16 Thread Smith, Glenn
Dear Cygwin, I have downloaded the complete Cygwin environment from several of your mirror sites onto my Windows XP system, but I never seem to get the Gnu C compiler itself.  This manifests itself in two ways: 1) although /bin ends up full of executables, gcc.exe is never among them; and 2)

1.5.21-1: sshd occasionally fails to start

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Mount
On new installations of Cygwin 1.5.21-1, I've noticed that after installation I have to try starting the sshd service upwards of a dozen times before it will actually start. If I use net start sshd I get the following: The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. The CYGWIN sshd service could not be

Re: Where is Gnu compiler itself?

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Smith, Glenn wrote: I have downloaded the complete Cygwin environment from several of your mirror sites onto my Windows XP system, but I never seem to get the Gnu C compiler itself. Have you tried installing the gcc packages? Hint: they are in the 'devel' category. Or use

Re: Where is Gnu compiler itself?

2006-11-16 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Glenn, Make sure that you select GCC from the Development area of the setup programme. That should provide you with what you need. Hope this helps, Hugh On 17/11/06, Smith, Glenn wrote: I have downloaded the complete Cygwin environment from several of your mirror sites onto my Windows

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Rob Walker wrote: Bill Hoffman wrote: Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182root=makeview=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When make 3.82 comes out. Thanks. Is this

Re: 1.5.21-1: sshd occasionally fails to start

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Mount wrote: On new installations of Cygwin 1.5.21-1, I've noticed that after installation I have to try starting the sshd service upwards of a dozen times before it will actually start. If I use net start sshd I get the following: The CYGWIN sshd service is starting. The CYGWIN sshd

Re: make-3.81 update?

2006-11-16 Thread Rob Walker
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Rob Walker wrote: Bill Hoffman wrote: Rob Walker wrote: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/make/job.c?rev=1.182root=makeview=auto Looks like the Windows-style paths support has been accepted as an upstream patch. When can Cygwin pick this up? When make 3.82

Re: 1.5.21-1: sshd occasionally fails to start

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Mount
How did you come up with that directory name? I searched through the output file I posted and couldn't find it. I also ran a search on that computer for any and all cygwin1.dll files - I probably should have mentioned right off the bat that that's the first thing I do when I can't start the sshd

Re: 1.5.21-1: sshd occasionally fails to start

2006-11-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Tom Mount wrote: How did you come up with that directory name? I searched through the output file I posted and couldn't find it. I also ran a search on that computer for any and all cygwin1.dll files - I probably should have mentioned right off the bat that that's the first thing I do when I

guile-1.8.1-3 problem

2006-11-16 Thread ravi . sellout
I'm trying to compile something that links to guile, but it isn't working with the latest (1.8.1-3) version. I get a message that guile-config is broken. I notice on executing: guile-config info, that there is a line: LIBS = -L/home/janneke/vc/gub-dev/target/cygwin/system/usr/lib

Updated: findutils-4.3.1-3

2006-11-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A new release of findutils, 4.3.1-3, is available, replacing 4.3.1-2 as current. NEWS: = This is a minor patch release. It adds an upstream patch from CVS that fixes behavior with 'find -regex' causing core dumps. Although this release is still