completely fresh reinstall of cygwin?

2007-10-01 Thread Andy Foster
I originally installed cygwin on a network drive (p:\cygwin). Due to various intermittent network problems I wanted to move the install it to my local c:\ (e.g. c:\cygwin) so that it is no longer network dependent. Unfortunately when I tried to put a new install into c:\cygwin, the /usr/bin and /

Re: Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Saurabh Tendulkar wrote: Hi, I'm trying to troubleshoot why my pc comes out of hibernate. It seems like some of the times this happens correspond to cron jobs. Is it possible that cron could be (one of) the culprit(s) here? If so, is there a way to prevent cron from waking up the computer? Tha

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Gmain User wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Gmane User wrote: ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home, the cygwin home directory is determined by the checking the following, in the order listed: 1. Windows HOME environment variable 2. /etc/passwd 3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Gmane User wrote: > it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software systems > have cumulative release notes with each new release...would the release notes > can be findable in such a form online? less /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/coreutils-*.README -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Brian Dessent wrote: > Gmane User wrote: > >> If I were make c:/cygwin/home/UserName my home directory, what is the best >> way? >> Ssh only considers /etc/passwd, so it seems best to manually set it there, >> though I'd have to manually fix it each time I recreate it. It still seems >> to >>

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> Is there somewhere online >> where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating >> cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a >> period

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmane User
Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: >> My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I >> haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils >> 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a n

Re: llrint implementation in Cygwin

2007-10-01 Thread Charles Wilson
Diego Biurrun wrote: Next time you call shenanigans, get your facts straight first please. I never claimed that we do not *have* OS-specific workarounds, I said we do not *add* them. That's a vey fine distinction and was not at all clear from the foregoing conversation. > The libavc

Re: latest git manual pages have some problems

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Cary R. on 10/1/2007 2:22 PM: > The latest update to git (1.5.3.1) changed how the manual pages are > displayed. And that change would probably be the upgrade from asciidoc 8.2.2 to 8.2.3. > Specifically references to other git manual pa

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: > Is there somewhere online > where the release notes can be perused so that I can avoid updating > cygwin right away? I usually find that an update is followed by a > period of anomalous behaviour. [Pho

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Gmain User on 10/1/2007 10:04 AM: > My coreutils 6.7-2 doesn't have a "-r" option for the "mv" command. I > haven't been able to find release notes for the currrent coreutils > 6.9-5 to see if it is simply a new switch. Is there somewher

CVS SSH server. Getting following Error

2007-10-01 Thread Veerendra Shukla
cvs [server aborted]: Couldn't chdir to working directory /usr/local/cvsrepos: No such file or directory I have sshd running on cvs machine and executing following command. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cvs -d :ext:localhost/usr/local/cvsrepos/ co cetproj [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: cvs [server aborte

Can cron cause computer to wake up from hibernate?

2007-10-01 Thread Saurabh Tendulkar
Hi, I'm trying to troubleshoot why my pc comes out of hibernate. It seems like some of the times this happens correspond to cron jobs. Is it possible that cron could be (one of) the culprit(s) here? If so, is there a way to prevent cron from waking up the computer? Thank you. saurabh ___

Re: Sorry Resend: Cygwin For Vista Setup Postinstall post-textmf.sh With Cygcheck.out

2007-10-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Thomas Dineen wrote: Larry & All: I installed the same Cygin SW release on my 2 GHZ single core Win 2000 desk top machine and it completed the "Running" part of the installation in a timely manor. Is there a reason that it would take (possible hours) to complete on a new dual core 1.8 G

latest git manual pages have some problems

2007-10-01 Thread Cary R.
The latest update to git (1.5.3.1) changed how the manual pages are displayed. Specifically references to other git manual pages are no longer shown by name. Instead a reference number with a cross reference at the end of the file is given. From a usability standpoint this is a real inconvenience.

Re: Sorry Resend: Cygwin For Vista Setup Postinstall post-textmf.sh With Cygcheck.out

2007-10-01 Thread Thomas Dineen
Larry & All: I installed the same Cygin SW release on my 2 GHZ single core Win 2000 desk top machine and it completed the "Running" part of the installation in a timely manor. Is there a reason that it would take (possible hours) to complete on a new dual core 1.8 GHZ Laptop with Windows

interactive process is started on another user's 'desktop'

2007-10-01 Thread jae
I installed cygserver and cron with their included *-config commands. ( Originally as the user WinAdmin. ) I'm running a call processing application on user "Call Processing". I created a cron entry with crontab -e, from the cygwin prompt as the user "TC". (logged into Windows as "TC") The cro

Re: llrint implementation in Cygwin

2007-10-01 Thread Diego Biurrun
Diego Biurrun wrote: [...] So all in all you have refuted some points I never made, while bungling some of the research used to substantiate your claims. What is the point you are trying to prove here? To be a bit more precise and constructive: We have had workarounds of all sorts in the c

Re: 1.5.24-2: pthreads rwlock recursive acquisition failing

2007-10-01 Thread Gabriel Landau
Forgot attachments. Here they are, sorry. - Gabriel Landau Gabriel Landau wrote: Hello, I'm trying to develop a program that uses pthreads and needs to recursively acquire RO rwlocks and RW rwlocks. I'm not upgrading or trying to acquire an RO lock after an RW lock has been acquired, yet

1.5.24-2: pthreads rwlock recursive acquisition failing

2007-10-01 Thread Gabriel Landau
Hello, I'm trying to develop a program that uses pthreads and needs to recursively acquire RO rwlocks and RW rwlocks. I'm not upgrading or trying to acquire an RO lock after an RW lock has been acquired, yet pthread_rwlock_rdlock() keeps returning EDEADLK. I have tested the attached test pr

Re: llrint implementation in Cygwin

2007-10-01 Thread Diego Biurrun
Charles Wilson wrote: Diego Biurrun wrote: llrint is required, so I guess Cygwin compilation will indeed be broken for a while. We don't add OS-specific workarounds to FFmpeg. I call shenanigans. Next time you call shenanigans, get your facts straight first please. I never claimed that w

Re: Home directory

2007-10-01 Thread Gmain User
Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Gmane User wrote: >> ACcording to http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.home, >> the cygwin home directory is determined by the checking the >> following, in the order listed: >> >> 1. Windows HOME environment variable >> 2. /etc/passwd >> 3. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH v