Cygwin running as Windows Service not showing service status

Hi All, I am using Cygwin on 64 bit Windows 2008 machine to host Webmin. Cygwin version is 1.5 and Webmin version is 1.490. I am running cygwin as a windows service. Following is the command to create the service: sc create "Demo Service" binPath= "C:\demo\bin\cygrunsrv.exe" start= auto. Wh

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: lilypond-2.12.4-1

I have updated the version of LilyPond to the new stable release 2.12.4-1. CYGWIN CHANGES == * Use '*' globbing instead of '.' to build packages. * Move to Cygwin 1.7. * Move to GUB3: http://lilypond.org/gub . NEWS See http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/topdocs/NEW

1.7.1: Problem with cygstart and arguments containing spaces

I am trying to launch instances of Console 2.00b145 [1] from my Cygwin bash shell. I am using Console's -d switch to specify the startup directory. The following works: $ "/cygdrive/d/Software/Console2/Console.exe" -d "C:/Program Files" As does this: $ "D:/Software/Console2/Console.exe" -d "C:

Re: How to properly set up /etc/passwd and /etc/group

On Mar 3 12:31, Wes Barris wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >On 03/03/2010 00:34, Wes Barris wrote: > > > >>My W: drive is a mapped network drive. However, it is mapped to a > >>share coming from the same physical computer. This drive contains > >>all of my data including a folder that I wish to use

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Re: "tail" command does not work as advertised

>> Note that the +N notation is specific to --lines=, not the '-n' >> shorthand. > > Wrong - the +N notation also works with -n: > > ps -a | tail -n +5 Ah, I was confused since 'tail -5' still works, but: > This is a side affect of the change to the newer POSIX standard. > > http://www.gnu.org/

Re: Cygwin 1.7 cannot access network share

According to Ilya Beylin on 3/3/2010 12:42 AM: > $ ls -l '\\HERA\shared\benchmarks\test' > ls: cannot access \\hera\shared\benchmarks\test: Not a directory Use POSIX-style paths, to see the difference. $ ls -l //HERA/shared/benchmarks/test > > I do not quite understand what is going on; doesn't

SV: Cygwin 1.7 cannot access network share

> Use POSIX-style paths, to see the difference. > $ ls -l //HERA/shared/benchmarks/test Thank you, but POSIX style paths make no difference Actually I mentioned it in my first mail, but I did not give any example. Here it is: $ ls -l '//HERA/shared/benchmarks/test' ls: cannot access //HERA/sha

Re: mintty colors

On 3/3/2010 2:33 AM, Gary Johnson wrote: Thanks, but I guess my explanation wasn't clear enough. What I would like to be able to configure are the colors that mintty uses to display the 16 colors of a 16-color terminal. I guess these are termed ANSI colors. These are the colors that programs s

Re: LSA package & Windows Domain

On Mar 3 17:49, Dmitry Sheremetv wrote: > Hello, All! > > A small question - will work a cygwin LSA package, when user accounts are > placed on the domain controller (another computer) with Active Directory? > Of course, tokens, created without user passwords, will have a traditional > problems w

Re: Non-canonical mode input via tcsetattr(), under mintty console

Thomas Wolff: > Dave Lee schrieb: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I was testing a program that uses non-canonical mode input via >> tcsetattr(). >> >> ... >> Specifically, I entered the chinese character "例" (which means "rule" >> or "example"). It occupies 3 bytes in UTF-8 representation: E4, BE, 8B. >> >> On

Re: mintty colors

Gary Johnson: > I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read > mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color > palette other than to send escape sequences. You're right, there isn't, as documented. > I could echo the > escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty is

cygpath -AO

$ cygpath -AO cygpath: failed to retrieve special folder path

Re: cygpath -AO

On 3/3/2010 12:13 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: $ cygpath -AO cygpath: failed to retrieve special folder path WJFFM. If you want to report a problem to the list, please see the problem reporting guidelines found here: -- Larry Hall

RE: cygpath -AO

> From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 17:23 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: cygpath -AO > > On 3/3/2010 12:13 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > $ cygpath -AO > > cygpath: failed to retrieve special folder path > > WJFFM. If yo

Re: git-svn unable to load _Ra.dll

On 3/3/2010 9:22 AM, Blomqvist Kim wrote: > > After some recent (last month) upgrades (using setup.exe) git-svn stopped > working for me. Reinstalling every installed package didn't help. > > $ git svn fetch > Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/SVN/_Ra/_Ra.dll' > for m

Re: mintty colors

On 2010-03-03, Andy Koppe wrote: > Gary Johnson: > > I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read > > mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color > > palette other than to send escape sequences. > > You're right, there isn't, as documented. > > > I could echo the

Re: cygpath -AO

On 3/3/2010 12:54 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) [mailto:reply-to-list-only-lh cygwin com] ^^^ . Don't feed the spammers. And actually, all of this header inform

ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me? (Apologies if I've missed something obvious. I am admittedly a little rusty. I have Googled and checked the mailing list archives though, and can't find anything matching these symptoms.) j...@acer-f7ke5hmde0 ~ $ mkdir links j...@acer-f7ke5h

Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

On 3/3/2010 1:48 PM, John Gilmartin wrote: Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me? (Apologies if I've missed something obvious. I am admittedly a little rusty. I have Googled and checked the mailing list archives though, and can't find anything matching these symptoms.) j...@acer

Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

According to John Gilmartin on 3/3/2010 11:48 AM: > Am I going mad? Why doesn't the following work for me? > > $ ln hardlink1 hardlink2 > ln: creating hard link `hardlink2' => `hardlink1': Operation not permitted $ df -T . I bet you are trying this on FAT, which does not support hard links. Con

Re: git-svn unable to load _Ra.dll

David Rothenberger schrieb: On 3/3/2010 9:22 AM, Blomqvist Kim wrote: After some recent (last month) upgrades (using setup.exe) git-svn stopped working for me. Reinstalling every installed package didn't help. $ git svn fetch Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/SVN/_Ra

Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 3/3/2010 4:54 PM: > On 3/3/2010 1:48 PM, John Gilmartin wrote: Larry, is your computer clock or timezone off? You're sending messages 5 hours into the future, at least by appearance. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com+1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization

Re: mintty colors

Gary Johnson: >> You could just make that bit conditional on the value of TERM. > > Except that mintty doesn't have its own terminfo database, so TERM > needs to be set to "xterm". Set it to 'mintty' in the options and change it back to 'xterm' (or 'xterm-256color') as part of the conditional code

Re: ln command in Cygwin (hard links)

Solved. :-) Apologies Larry, I will know to look up the reporting guidelines for next time. Eric, thanks, you've hit the nail on the head. I didn't realise this could be due to a file system type limitation, but I know now. :-) Always learning! Thanks. John On 3 March 2010 18:59, Eric Blake

Strange symlink behaviour

Do symbolic links work over CIFS? I'm having a really strange problem with symlinks. Here is the story. We have a small NAS box that is accessed via both NFS and CIFS. The former is needed for the actual production access of the files on the share, but the latter is used to update the co

Re: taskkill - error while loading shared libraries - LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

Hi All, No one else has seen this sort of issue before? > I have upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) > 2009-12-07 11:48) and am having trouble running a windows commands > that I use a lot as part of Cygwin. For example, when I use taskkill I > get: > > /c/WINDOWS/system32/task

Re: taskkill - error while loading shared libraries - LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

On 3/3/2010 6:12 PM, Robert Mark wrote: Hi All, No one else has seen this sort of issue before? I have upgraded to Cygwin 1.7 (CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48) and am having trouble running a windows commands that I use a lot as part of Cygwin. For example, when I use taskkill

Redaction Request

Dear Cygwin Team, I'm writing to find out if you can help me. How can I get my name redacted from a post I made years ago. It continues to pop-up as a top google hit. These days when co-workers or future employers see such posts it can reflect negatively on ones knowledge base. I know you are bus

Re: Redaction Request

On 3/3/2010 7:20 PM, Ravila Helen White wrote: Dear Cygwin Team, I'm writing to find out if you can help me. How can I get my name redacted from a post I made years ago. It continues to pop-up as a top google hit. These days when co-workers or future employers see such posts it can reflect negat

RE: Redaction Request

> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 19:36 > > On 3/3/2010 7:20 PM, Ravila Helen White wrote: > > Dear Cygwin Team, > > > > I'm writing to find out if you can help me. How can I get my name > > redacted from a post I made years ago. It contin

Error about syntax on fstab when cygwin1.dll gets loaded

Every time my cygwin system comes back up, I aways get these 2 messages: 3 [main] ksh 2964 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'type' 160 [main] ksh 2964 read_flags: invalid fstab option - 'type' I looked into /etc/fstab and did not find the text 'type'. However in /etc/fstab.d/Paul,

Re: terminals getting killed on parent's termination

Thomas Wolff: > Andy Koppe: >> Mintty has default handling for SIGHUP, i.e. it exits. > > Actually (another topic but related) mintty has a great feature here: it > passed the SIGHUP to its client application and if that application catches > and handles the SIGHUP, mintty does *not* exit. I don't