Re: Java alternatives (was Re: Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-3)

2010-01-10 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 10/01/2010 21:37, Dave Korn wrote: BTW I'm going to ship AWT with the next GCJ, if that's of any interest to anyone. It builds and appears to be passing the mauve testsuite, so that's probably worth chucking over the wall and letting people start playing with. Good idea, but a heads-up;

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-10 Thread Raman Gupta
On 01/10/2010 06:00 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 9 10:05, Raman Gupta wrote: One thing I'm not certain about is why mkpasswd returns my username twice, once with a "Unix User" prefix and once with "SERVER" prefix -- I note your example does not do that: $ mkpasswd -L server -S_ -U root,r

Re: Java alternatives (was Re: Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-3)

2010-01-10 Thread Dave Korn
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: Happy New Year, since then, BTW :) pardon me for taking a little time to reply. > On 11/12/2009 14:58, Dave Korn wrote: >> As part of its infrastructure, GCJ uses the Eclipse Compiler for Java >> (ECJ) > I still don't understand what the problem/worry is with licensin

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/10/2010 07:20 PM, Steven Monai wrote: On 2010/01/10 3:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes, if you do something brain-dead you can expect bad results. There can be non-"brain-dead" reasons for attempting to upgrade one package while holding another related one at a specific version.

Re: Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/10/2010 06:33 PM, sbre...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: $ awk bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied One option is to invoke the executable pointed to instead. Another i

Re: Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-10 Thread Cliff Hones
Paul McFerrin wrote: > I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other documentation. > I'm having terriable problems is getting my .bat/.sh script working and > I'm thinking changing shells. I normally use the same routine for all > .bat scripts. It's not difficult to find bash document

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 3:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:28:34PM -0800, Steven Monai wrote: >> On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM: No one thinks its a good idea. >>> >>> And here's one reason why. Newer vers

odd network inconsistency tween 'win-secureCRT' & cygwin-(ssh)

2010-01-10 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm trying to expand my networking horizons ...*cough*. I won't claim I know what I'm doing, so try to keep that in mind... I am trying to 'connect' (in various ways) from my win7-64(athenae) box (on the ".sc" or "default" subnet) to a separate box on another subnet subnet (.hz subnet) through

Running Cygwin from an NFS drive (symlinks with system attribute)

2010-01-10 Thread sbremal
Hello, I am trying to run Cygwin from an NFS drive. Everything works fine as long as no symbolic link executables are invoked: $ awk bash: /usr/bin/awk: Permission denied The NFS drive does not seem to support the DOS system attribute which makes basic UNIX utilities unavailable. Is there an

Missing documentation on bash

2010-01-10 Thread Paul McFerrin
Folks: I can't seemed to find any man pages for bash or other documentation. I'm having terriable problems is getting my .bat/.sh script working and I'm thinking changing shells. I normally use the same routine for all .bat scripts. =backup_e.bat== echo off set ENV="/dev/null" s

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:28:34PM -0800, Steven Monai wrote: >On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM: >>> No one thinks its a good idea. >> >> And here's one reason why. Newer versions of cygwin1.dll introduce new >> entry points. But

Re: 1.7.1: problem with public key authentication on domain accounts

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Nisbach
Thomas Nisbach cityweb.de> writes: > > Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > On 01/06/2010 07:35 AM, Andrew Ng wrote: > > > I've also been seeing problems with sshd (and inetd) since upgrading to > 1.7.1. > > >> From my investigations it does look to be something to do with launc

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/10 12:31 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM: >> No one thinks its a good idea. > > And here's one reason why. Newer versions of cygwin1.dll introduce new > entry points. But suppose you are updating cygwin1.dll and bash at the > same time. I

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Eric Blake
According to Christopher Faylor on 1/10/2010 12:27 PM: > This idea has been put forth many times since that time. The fact that > it isn't implemented means that either 1) It's more difficult than you > anticipate or 2) No one thinks its a good idea. And here's one reason why. Newer versions of

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 09:36:50AM -0800, Steven Monai wrote: >On 2010/01/09 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>On Jan 8 17:28, Steven Monai wrote: >>>Not to beat a dead hippo here, but if Cygwin allows in-use files to be >>>replaced, then what is 'setup.exe' needed for? (Aside from the initial >>

Re: Installing 1.5?

2010-01-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:33:19PM -0800, Dan Kegel wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Yes, and that points you at setup-legacy.exe. ?So if you want to run a >>legacy version of Cygwin you now know what to do. > >Except that setup-legacy.exe doesn't run on Wine yet. Official response: Yawn. c

Problems running courierauth (UNIX-sockets)

2010-01-10 Thread Oliver Meier
Hi list I tried to compile and run courier-imap on the latest cygwin-release according to the HOWTO at http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Courier-Cygwin. The whole compilation worked well, but when i try to start courier-authlib i get the following syslog entry: Jan 10 02:22:12 santiago authdaemond: modul

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/01/09 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 8 17:28, Steven Monai wrote: >> Not to beat a dead hippo here, but if Cygwin allows in-use files to be >> replaced, then what is 'setup.exe' needed for? (Aside from the initial >> bootstrap of Cygwin, of course.) Shouldn't it be possible to h

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-10 Thread Kevin Bond
No, no tunneling or remote shell.. I am not sure how to run it without ssh. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Kevin Bond (Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:10:08 -0500) >> >> Hello, I am trying to use rsync in cygwin but it seems to be hanging. >> Right after it asks me for password of

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 12:48, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Only the GUI is crippled in XP Home. From the comand line > > everything works fine. > > I had been under the impression that XP Home would not permit the > machine to join a Windows Active Di

Re: rsync hanging

2010-01-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Kevin Bond (Sat, 9 Jan 2010 10:10:08 -0500) > > Hello, I am trying to use rsync in cygwin but it seems to be hanging. > Right after it asks me for password of my host the 'building file > list...' message displays then hangs.  I can ssh into the host fine. > > Any ideas? Are you tunneling via

Re: question with cygwin.bat and Windows Scheduler

2010-01-10 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* aviate (Sat, 9 Jan 2010 19:02:46 -0800 (PST)) > > I was avoiding cron...but it might be most useful here. Is there any way to > hide the window popping up by Windows Scheduler?? hstart -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Doc

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-10 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Only the GUI is crippled in XP Home. From the comand line > everything works fine. I had been under the impression that XP Home would not permit the machine to join a Windows Active Directory domain. Is that wrong? Is this simply a featur

Re: Update problems

2010-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 9 23:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:09:41AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >The most pressing problem is the replacement of the cygwin DLL itself. > >It's like installing a new kernel in Linux. However, in Linux you have > >to reboot to use the new kernel, whi

Re: 1.7.1-1 noacl on samba share has incorrect directory write bit

2010-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 9 10:05, Raman Gupta wrote: > One thing I'm not certain about is why mkpasswd returns my username > twice, once with a "Unix User" prefix and once with "SERVER" prefix > -- I note your example does not do that: > > $ mkpasswd -L server -S_ -U root,raman > Unix User_root:unused:1:9:

Re: NFS client

2010-01-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 10 10:07, tuli tanssi wrote: > Is there an NFS client in Cygwin? I noticed there is an NFS server, > but that is not what I need. > Or if Cygwin doesn't have it, what good (and free) NFS client would > you recommend? Microsoft SFU 3.5 for anything < Vista. The NFS client which comes with V

NFS client

2010-01-10 Thread tuli tanssi
Is there an NFS client in Cygwin? I noticed there is an NFS server, but that is not what I need. Or if Cygwin doesn't have it, what good (and free) NFS client would you recommend? (I tried to find older postings of this but didn't find the answer.) Cheers, Tuli -- Problem reports: http://c