Re: invalid login gid in /etc/passwd does not show group name as 'mkgroup'

2008-10-14 Thread Herb Maeder
On 13 Oct 2008 17:54:36 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > But if it ends up sticking around, then it probably makes sense to account > > for the additional special case that was just introduced: > > > > passwd/group_GID_clash* ) > > echo "Your group is currently \"passwd/group_GID_clash\".

Re: Problem Running ssh-host-config

2008-10-14 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 13 October 2008 06:47:01 pm Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > > *** Warning: drwxr-xr-x 2 lilly None 0 Oct 12 21:41 / > > *** Warning: Please change the user and/or group owne > > *** Warning: permissions of /var/run. > > *** ERROR: Problem with /var/run directory. Exiting.

Re: Strange crash for application linked to cygwin libraries.

2008-10-14 Thread Peter Ross
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Mark Geisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Ross writes: >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > > Please don't quote raw email addresses in your emails to the list. > Sorry about that, been awhile since I've been on a mailing list. >> >> I'

Re: Strange crash for application linked to cygwin libraries.

2008-10-14 Thread Mark Geisert
Peter Ross writes: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: Please don't quote raw email addresses in your emails to the list. > >> I've written an application which does some initialization and then > >> does a tcp accept. 5 minutes and 20 seconds give or take after doing > >> t

Re: Strange crash for application linked to cygwin libraries.

2008-10-14 Thread Ralph Hempel
Peter Ross wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Mark Geisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Ross writes: I've written an application which does some initialization and then does a tcp accept. 5 minutes and 20 seconds give or take after doing the tcp.accept the application aborts with exi

Re: Strange crash for application linked to cygwin libraries.

2008-10-14 Thread Peter Ross
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Mark Geisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Ross writes: >> I've written an application which does some initialization and then >> does a tcp accept. 5 minutes and 20 seconds give or take after doing >> the tcp.accept the application aborts with exit code 0.

Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-14 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:10:05PM +0200, Dirk Napierala wrote: > Dave Korn schrieb: >> Dirk Napierala wrote on 14 October 2008 14:00: >> >> [SNIP] >> >>One of the main reasons you get so few replies is because nobody can >>find what you're actually saying among the mass of redundant and >>illegi

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rsync 3.0.4-1

2008-10-14 Thread Lapo Luchini
Version 3.0.4-1 of rsync has been uploaded. rsync is a file transfer program. rsync uses the 'rsync algorithm' which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync. It does this by sending just the differences in the files across the link, without requiring that both sets of files

Re: Strange crash for application linked to cygwin libraries.

2008-10-14 Thread Mark Geisert
Peter Ross writes: > I've written an application which does some initialization and then > does a tcp accept. 5 minutes and 20 seconds give or take after doing > the tcp.accept the application aborts with exit code 0. If I > continually send tcp data to this application then the crash doesn't > o

Re: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Z W wrote: > Question: > How can I pass arguments on command line with test.sh such that > variables MAX_MS, OFFSET_MS, THREADS, RAMP and LOOPS > could receive the argument parameters as opposed to hardcoding the numbers ? This isn't really a cygwin question; there

Strange crash for application linked to cygwin libraries.

2008-10-14 Thread Peter Ross
Hi, I've written an application which does some initialization and then does a tcp accept. 5 minutes and 20 seconds give or take after doing the tcp.accept the application aborts with exit code 0. If I continually send tcp data to this application then the crash doesn't occur, it is only after 5

Re: 1.7 preallocate issue?

2008-10-14 Thread Rob Bosch
Sorry I didn't get back sooner...was occupied with another issue. I double checked and the array had a drive that was having a few media issues at the time I was getting this issue. I think this is what was causing the issue although I don't have any hard evidence. I replaced that drive and have

RE: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Dave Korn wrote: Thorsten Kampe wrote on 14 October 2008 21:11: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'export MAX_MS=100; export OFFSET_MS=89900; export THREADS=4; export RAMP=1; export LOOPS=2; echo load01 ; cd /cygdrive/c/apps/bin ; pwd ; nohup ./start.sh \& ; ps -efW | grep java ; exi

Re: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Dave Korn wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote on 14 October 2008 21:11: > >> * Z W (Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:59:07 -0700) >>> I'm have a shell script, test.sh below to run with cygwin in a Windows >>> box. >>> >>> #!/usr/bin/sh >>> >>> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'export MAX_MS=100;

RE: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Korn
Thorsten Kampe wrote on 14 October 2008 21:11: > * Z W (Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:59:07 -0700) >> I'm have a shell script, test.sh below to run with cygwin in a Windows >> box. >> >> #!/usr/bin/sh >> >> ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'export MAX_MS=100; export OFFSET_MS=89900; export >> THREADS=4; export RAMP=

Re: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread Z W
Hi Thorsten Thanks for the response. I think you understood my question. I like to pass parameters from tesh.sh as command line arguments and then pass them into the ssh remote command string. I'm just not sure of the syntax so that I could pass the paramter values to the remote command string fr

Re: cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Z W (Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:59:07 -0700) > I'm have a shell script, test.sh below to run with cygwin in a Windows > box. > > #!/usr/bin/sh > > ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'export MAX_MS=100; export OFFSET_MS=89900; export > THREADS=4; export RAMP=1; export LOOPS=2; echo load01 ; cd > /cygdrive/c/apps/bi

cygwin shell scripting - how to pass values from command line to ssh remote command

2008-10-14 Thread Z W
Hi I'm have a shell script, test.sh below to run with cygwin in a Windows box. #!/usr/bin/sh ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'export MAX_MS=100; export OFFSET_MS=89900; export THREADS=4; export RAMP=1; export LOOPS=2; echo load01 ; cd /cygdrive/c/apps/bin ; pwd ; nohup ./start.sh \& ; ps -efW | grep java

RE: GStreamer on cygwin

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Korn
Jeffrey Barish wrote on 14 October 2008 18:05: > Has anyone made GStreamer on cygwin? I could use some pointers. When I > try to make GStreamer, I get a complaint from configure that it could not > link libxml2 test program. I installed libxml2 using setup and then I > made libxml2. Either way

GStreamer on cygwin

2008-10-14 Thread Jeffrey Barish
Has anyone made GStreamer on cygwin? I could use some pointers. When I try to make GStreamer, I get a complaint from configure that it could not link libxml2 test program. I installed libxml2 using setup and then I made libxml2. Either way I get the same complaint from configure when I try to m

RE: octave-3.0.2-2 Requires gcc4

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Korn
James R. Phillips wrote on 14 October 2008 16:14: > Hi, > > The experimental version of octave, octave-3.0.2-2, compiled with gcc4, > requires gcc4 to be installed in order to use the gcc4 runtime libraries. It only requires gcc4-runtime, then. > Currently setup.exe will allow octave-3.0.2-2

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rdiff-backup-1.2.1-1 -- incremental remote backup/mirror

2008-10-14 Thread David Rothenberger
New upstream release. DESCRIPTION: rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover file

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rdiff/librsync1/librsync-dev-0.9.7-2 -- rsync remote-delta algorithm

2008-10-14 Thread David Rothenberger
Updates to rdiff, librsync1, and librsync-dev are now available. This bugfix release includes a patch from Debian to fix problems with files >4GB in size. DESCRIPTION: librsync is a free software library that implements the rsync remote-delta algorithm. This algorithm allows efficien

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: chicken-3.4.0-1

2008-10-14 Thread Nathan Thern
The chicken implementation of the scheme programming language is now available with the Cygwin distribution. * http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ (Homepage) DESCRIPTION: CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language. CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C,

Re: recently introduced egrep problem

2008-10-14 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Oct 14 07:16, rick lavery wrote: > Up until a recent release of grep I could execute this command in > cygwin and it worked without any problems. > > echo 20081013193545 | egrep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}' As Corinna pointed out, the command "egrep -E" is redundant, since "grep -E" is just GNUese for "egr

octave-3.0.2-2 Requires gcc4

2008-10-14 Thread James R. Phillips
Hi, The experimental version of octave, octave-3.0.2-2, compiled with gcc4, requires gcc4 to be installed in order to use the gcc4 runtime libraries. Currently setup.exe will allow octave-3.0.2-2 to be installed without requiring gcc4 to also be installed. This should be addressed to avoid non

Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-14 Thread Dirk Napierala
Dave Korn schrieb: Dirk Napierala wrote on 14 October 2008 14:00: [SNIP] One of the main reasons you get so few replies is because nobody can find what you're actually saying among the mass of redundant and illegibly-formatted quotes and quotes of quotes in all your posts. If you make it n

RE: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Korn
Dirk Napierala wrote on 14 October 2008 14:00: [SNIP] One of the main reasons you get so few replies is because nobody can find what you're actually saying among the mass of redundant and illegibly-formatted quotes and quotes of quotes in all your posts. If you make it needlessly hard to get

Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

2008-10-14 Thread Dirk Napierala
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] schrieb: Dirk Napierala wrote on Friday, October 10, 2008 5:36 AM: Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] schrieb: From: Dirk Napierala wrote on Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:48 AM I'll presume the following. - You've a "good" reason (company policy?) tha

Re: Linker Search Directories

2008-10-14 Thread Jason Tishler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:58:02PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: > I also note that this is supposed to be covered by the python-config > script, such that autoconf scripts or Makefiles can query the set of > required flags to be added to LDFLAGS/LIBS/CPPFLAGS/etc by the output > of python-config. H

RE: Rsync on two WinXP Machines: how?

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Korn
Richard Ivarson wrote on 14 October 2008 11:40: > 1.) On the 2nd PC I let (auto) start "rsync --daemon" so rsync is running > and waiting. > 2) When I start rsync on the 1st PC it always says: no connection possible > (I've to write down the exact error message). > > I've used the special host sy

Re: recently introduced egrep problem

2008-10-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 14 07:16, rick lavery wrote: > Up until a recent release of grep I could execute this command in > cygwin and it worked without any problems. > > echo 20081013193545 | egrep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}' > > This same command still works on other distributions such as centos, > rhel4, rhel5, fedora cor

recently introduced egrep problem

2008-10-14 Thread rick lavery
Up until a recent release of grep I could execute this command in cygwin and it worked without any problems. echo 20081013193545 | egrep -Eo '[0-9]{1,2}' This same command still works on other distributions such as centos, rhel4, rhel5, fedora core 9, etc. in cygwin: $ echo 20081013193545 | egre

Re: Rsync on two WinXP Machines: how?

2008-10-14 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Richard Ivarson ha scritto: > Hi, > > Cygwin's rsync runs successfully on a WinXP machine > of mine which remote > syncs with a Linux PC. All works fine. > > Now I'd like to remote sync two WinXP machines. How? > > I tried the following, without success so far : > > 1.) On the 2nd PC I l

Rsync on two WinXP Machines: how?

2008-10-14 Thread Richard Ivarson
Hi, Cygwin's rsync runs successfully on a WinXP machine of mine which remote syncs with a Linux PC. All works fine. Now I'd like to remote sync two WinXP machines. How? I tried the following, without success so far : 1.) On the 2nd PC I let (auto) start "rsync --daemon" so rsync is running a