Re: Install Problems

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Ciersezwski
Ok I sent a log of my setup, I was unable to "cygcheck -s -r -v" and *attach* the output. On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Kris Ciersezwski wrote: Hello, I've tried several times to install Cygwin on my new desktop, running shitty Windows Vista Home Premium. Anyways I've tried

Re: cygwin.bat/bash fails after install

2007-09-18 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jim Allen on 9/18/2007 10:04 AM: > After a successful installation of cygwin you run cygwin.bat and the > following message flashes briefly on your screen: > > bash: can't find configuration file /usr/local/etc/profile.global; exiting. >

Re: Install Problems

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Kris Ciersezwski wrote: Hello, I've tried several times to install Cygwin on my new desktop, running shitty Windows Vista Home Premium. Anyways I've tried installing it several times using different mirrors each time and I get the same problem in every install. It stops at Running... No Package

Install Problems

2007-09-18 Thread Kris Ciersezwski
Hello, I've tried several times to install Cygwin on my new desktop, running shitty Windows Vista Home Premium. Anyways I've tried installing it several times using different mirrors each time and I get the same problem in every install. It stops at Running... No Package /etc/postinstall/qnulot

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Will Parsons wrote: > I'm curious about this. I think I recall from years ago a response to an > enquiry about cygwin security that was basically along the lines that cygwin > is as secure as the underlying Windows system. That made sense to me - why > would cygwin be less secure? Fundamentally

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread Will Parsons
Christopher Faylor wrote: > Cygwin potentially adds a whole other layer of insecurity on top of > Windows. We do try to keep security in mind but, nevertheless, we don't > recommend using Cygwin in a secure instalation unless there has been quite > a bit of validation. I'm curious about this. I

Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-18 Thread Dave
Marco Atzeri wrote: > --- Richard Toy ha scritto: >> I see from this post >> >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00465.html >> that somebody >> appears to have passed some arguments to rxvt when >> it is used as an >> argument for chere. >> >> Is this possible to do this by invoking chere

Re: what does the plus sign in a ls -l listing indicate?

2007-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Jerome Fong wrote: > Sorry, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. Using the ls -la > command, I get a listing of the files in my directory. However, I have > files with a "+" sign after their permissions. What does this mean? It > doesn't seem to show up in ls examples on the web. Th

what does the plus sign in a ls -l listing indicate?

2007-09-18 Thread Jerome Fong
Hi there, Sorry, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. Using the ls -la command, I get a listing of the files in my directory. However, I have files with a "+" sign after their permissions. What does this mean? It doesn't seem to show up in ls examples on the web. ls -la -rwx---

1.5.24-2: zero-length write() and ioctl() on fd -1 cause crashes

2007-09-18 Thread Elliott Hughes
http://software.jessies.org/terminator/ uses Cygwin to provide Windows support, and it's been most useful. i just thought i'd mention a couple of things that caused crashes in cygwin1.dll 1.5.24-2 where that might not have been Cygwin's intent (in both cases the application's skating on thi

RE: cygwin.bat/bash fails after install

2007-09-18 Thread Dave Korn
On 18 September 2007 17:05, Jim Allen wrote: > After a successful installation of cygwin you run cygwin.bat and the > following message flashes briefly on your screen: > > bash: can't find configuration file /usr/local/etc/profile.global; exiting. Nope, that doesn't happen to anyone else: the

Re: cygwin.bat/bash fails after install

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Jim Allen wrote: After a successful installation of cygwin you run cygwin.bat and the following message flashes briefly on your screen: bash: can't find configuration file /usr/local/etc/profile.global; exiting. A work-around was first documented in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: stgit 0.13-1 -- Quilt functionality on top of git

2007-09-18 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://procode.org/stgit License : GPL Offer similar functionality to quilt i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of git. These operations are performed using git commands and the patches are stored as git commit objects, allowing e

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: flac-1.2.1-1/flac-devel-1.2.1-1/libFLAC8-1.2.1-1/libFLAC++6-1.2.1-1

2007-09-18 Thread David Rothenberger
A new version the flac, flac-devel, libFLAC8, and libFLAC++6 packages are now available for download. NEWS: = This is a new upstream release. Please see http://flac.sourceforge.net/changelog.html#flac_1_2_1 for the list of changes since 1.2.0. DESCRIPTION: FLAC stands for Free Lo

Re: Issue with newest snapshot (2007-08-31)

2007-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 4 22:16, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Thorsten Kampe (Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:11:05 +0100) > > Hi, > > > > with the newest snapshot a similar issue occurred as described in > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00186.html and fixed in > > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-08/msg00339.

cygwin.bat/bash fails after install

2007-09-18 Thread Jim Allen
After a successful installation of cygwin you run cygwin.bat and the following message flashes briefly on your screen: bash: can't find configuration file /usr/local/etc/profile.global; exiting. A work-around was first documented in http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg00651.html The probl

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: bcrypt 1.1 -- Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish

2007-09-18 Thread Jari Aalto
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION === Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bcrypt License : GPL A a cross platform file encryption utility. Encrypted files are portable across all supported operating systems and processors. In addition to encrypting your data, bcrypt will by default overwr

Re: sftp removing writable bit

2007-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 06:29:27PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> IOW what's the advantage of an sftp client over just plain scp? > > Directory listings. Unless I miss something, it's hard to scp a file when > you don't already know its path. PLEASE. This thread has las

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:58:29PM +0900, d.henman wrote: >Marko, > the best way for you would be to throw Windows out and use a >mature unix like o.s. Cygwin documents that it is not made for secure >operation, due to Captial w windows, faults Cygwin potentially adds a whole other layer o

PROBLEM SOLVED! (was: Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?)

2007-09-18 Thread Marko Loparic
THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED. Thanks a lot to everyone that helped. The problem disappeared by itself without any manipulations on my side. Probably the network administrators changed something. Keith: thanks for the tip of using Process Explorer. It is a very nice tool. d. henman: switching to linux i

Re: Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Richard Toy ha scritto: > Hi > > I see from this post > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00465.html > that somebody > appears to have passed some arguments to rxvt when > it is used as an > argument for chere. > > Is this possible to do this by invoking chere in > some way or is it

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ctags-5.7-1

2007-09-18 Thread Warren Young
This is just a straight packaging of a new upstream release. Change log for this version: * Added support for DIM AS [Freebasic, Bug #1741778]. * Added support for arbitrary nesting depth [Python, Bug #1684786, Debian bug #409078]. * Added support for verbatim string literals [C#, Bug #1515910

Re: ls bug in snapshot 20070831

2007-09-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Corinna Vinschen ha scritto: > On Sep 5 09:25, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have noted this strange result using > > snapshot 20070831 when no files match the pattern > > > > $ ls -l *.p > > -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Dec 1 2006 *.p > > I checked in a patch to fix this.

Re: tin shows "?" for german umlauts

2007-09-18 Thread Reinhard.Irmer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Corinna Vinschen > On Sep 18 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hi list, >> >> I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as >> mutt, pine, >> tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are >> working fine >> in b

Re: tin shows "?" for german umlauts

2007-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 18 09:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi list, > > I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine, > tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in > bash, only tin makes problems:.look at subject. > > In a german usenetgroup was said, that

Re: ls bug in snapshot 20070831

2007-09-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 5 09:25, Marco Atzeri wrote: > Hi All, > I have noted this strange result using > snapshot 20070831 when no files match the pattern > > $ ls -l *.p > -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Dec 1 2006 *.p I checked in a patch to fix this. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinsche

RE: How to use the X clipboard

2007-09-18 Thread Phil Betts
Robert Kiesling wrote on Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:02 AM:: > I need to set the X server option, "emulate3Buttons," in order to use > the X clipboard with the Cygwin system's mouse. The FAQ tells me that > I can add, "-emulate3buttons ," to the X server arguments. > However, if I start the ser

Passing arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere

2007-09-18 Thread Richard Toy
Hi I see from this post http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00465.html that somebody appears to have passed some arguments to rxvt when it is used as an argument for chere. Is this possible to do this by invoking chere in some way or is it necessary to edit the Windows registry to pass arg

Re: Space in Home Directory Path

2007-09-18 Thread Markus Schönhaber
G. Huang wrote: > From: "Markus Schönhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Regards mks -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FA

Re: NFS mount problem: portmap error

2007-09-18 Thread DanieleRm
no one can help me? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/NFS-mount-problem%3A-portmap-error-tf4465246.html#a12752982 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

2007-09-18 Thread SQueeZe
Thanks David, that is exactly what it is. It seems so obvious in the cold light of day! I have contacted the cwRsync guys to see if they can include it. Thanks again for your help. David Rothenberger wrote: > > On 9/17/2007 11:38 AM, SQueeZe wrote: >> I have installed cwRsync which has the O

tin shows "?" for german umlauts

2007-09-18 Thread Reinhard.Irmer
hi list, I'm a cygwin-nuser who wants to use unixbased programs as mutt, pine, tin or slrn on my winxp(sp2)-machine. mutt and slrn are working fine in bash, only tin makes problems:.look at subject. In a german usenetgroup was said, that this problem is a cygwin- not a tin-problem because cyg