Re: mksh

2011-05-05 Thread Cyrille Lefevre
Le 03/05/2011 14:39, Refr Bruhl a écrit : Has anyone else noticed in the 1.7.9 version of cygwin the mksh korn shell interpreter does not source the .profile file? Is there a work around other than sourcing it manually -- which manual sourcing breaks scripts. have you tried ksh -l ? Regard

libxml2 package does not include the static library

2011-05-05 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
Dear CygWin community, I haven't got from the FAQ how to report problems in CygWin, so I email to this maillist again. The current package v2.7.7-1 does not include the file /lib/libxml2.a, which I need for static linking. When I compile the package manually via "configure & make all install" I g

Re: ssh issues

2011-05-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/5/2011 5:07 PM, René Berber wrote: > On 5/5/2011 3:31 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: >> But now I'm trying to set up a Windows 7 build machine, and things get >> more complicated in a way that I think is related to the above. The >> first thing that fails (after I start sshd as myself, similarly to

Re: ssh issues

2011-05-05 Thread René Berber
On 5/5/2011 3:31 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Hopefully this is a FAQ in some place that I've missed... Maybe not a FAQ but its a common complaint by people using VS; you might find more information on this list by searching over Visual Studio (which I don't use). > I have an XP machine set up for

ssh issues

2011-05-05 Thread Eli Barzilay
Hopefully this is a FAQ in some place that I've missed... I have an XP machine set up for doing builds via ssh. This works fine with one problem: when ssh is started normally as a service, there's some obscure Visual Studio problem (it complains about some misconfiguration). To solve it, I alway

Re: Getting ACLs to Work on C:/?

2011-05-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 5/5/2011 3:54 PM, Kimbo Mundy wrote: In 1.5 I could set CYGWIN=ntsec and see the same (accurate) set of permissions if I did "ls -l C:/" or "ls -l /cygdrive/c". How can I do the same thing in 1.7? ACLs are already the default for mount -c, but if I do "ls -l C:/" its as if I have noacl set.

Getting ACLs to Work on C:/?

2011-05-05 Thread Kimbo Mundy
In 1.5 I could set CYGWIN=ntsec and see the same (accurate) set of permissions if I did "ls -l C:/" or "ls -l /cygdrive/c". How can I do the same thing in 1.7? ACLs are already the default for mount -c, but if I do "ls -l C:/" its as if I have noacl set. In other words, how do I get this to be t

Re: Emacs backgrounds itself (solved)

2011-05-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
On 05/05/2011 10:34 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, Strange one here... I just updated emacs and a bunch of other packages, and for some reason 'emacs -nw' now backgrounds itself immediately after starting, and again each time I try to foreground it afterward. If I run emacs-X11 directly (aga

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [security] updated: lftp-4.2.3-1

2011-05-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
A new version of lftp, 4.2.3-1, is now available in the Cygwin distribution. This release includes the following SECURITY UPDATE from upstream: * don't write passwords to transfer_log. As always see http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html for the full changelog. All lftp users are encouraged to upgrade.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libsigsegv-2.10-1

2011-05-05 Thread Reini Urban
I included Eric Blake's [PATCH] Avoid polluting cygwin namespace, also at http://repo.or.cz/w/libsigsegv/ericb.git Successfully tested with clisp. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-05/msg0.html It's a small library for handling page faults in user mode. A page fault occurs when a pro

Re: strchrnul() crashing latest dash

2011-05-05 Thread Akakima
"Eric Blake" a écrit dans le message de news: 4dc2c56d.9040...@redhat.com... Thanks. Tried again with latest snapshot. Everything is OK now Will remember the hint about the snapshots :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: strchrnul() crashing latest dash

2011-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/05/2011 09:39 AM, Akakima wrote: > I just tried to build dash. Downloaded the source code with setup.exe. > dash.exe core dumped. Using GDB found that strchrnul (the one cygwin1.dll) > was the location of the crash. > > I modified config.h to use dash's own strchrnul. Now everything seems o

strchrnul() crashing latest dash

2011-05-05 Thread Akakima
I just tried to build dash. Downloaded the source code with setup.exe. dash.exe core dumped. Using GDB found that strchrnul (the one cygwin1.dll) was the location of the crash. I modified config.h to use dash's own strchrnul. Now everything seems ok. I am using the latest cygwin dll. May be the

Re: difficulties with snapshots

2011-05-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:47:39AM +0200, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: >Hi, > >1) It seems that we have management problems with the snapshots. >The last one (indicated 2011-05-04 01:02:18 UTC) belongs in >fact to 2011-05-05, That has been fixed. Thanks for the heads up. and it is more recent than the

Re: Emacs backgrounds itself

2011-05-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 5/5/2011 10:34 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, Strange one here... I just updated emacs and a bunch of other packages, and for some reason 'emacs -nw' now backgrounds itself immediately after starting, and again each time I try to foreground it afterward. If I run emacs-X11 directly (again, i

Re: Emacs backgrounds itself

2011-05-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
s/gcc/gdb/g *sigh* On 05/05/2011 10:34 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, Strange one here... I just updated emacs and a bunch of other packages, and for some reason 'emacs -nw' now backgrounds itself immediately after starting, and again each time I try to foreground it afterward. If I run em

Emacs backgrounds itself

2011-05-05 Thread Ryan Johnson
Hi all, Strange one here... I just updated emacs and a bunch of other packages, and for some reason 'emacs -nw' now backgrounds itself immediately after starting, and again each time I try to foreground it afterward. If I run emacs-X11 directly (again, in -nw mode) it segfaults during startup,

Re: mksh

2011-05-05 Thread Refr Bruhl
Of course. However I try to avoid daisy chaining files in an enterprise setting. 6 to 1 or half dozen to the other. Both methods work. Its just a preference. --Refr inn gra "Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt." -- Uesugi Kenshin On 3 May 2011 09:42, Refr

Re: Background processes prevent terminal window from closing

2011-05-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 5/5/2011 7:38 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: > But if you do not want to be limited file in the current working > directory, use a function. > > notepad () > { > cygstart "$(cygpath -u -W)/notepad.exe" "$(cygpath -w "$1")" > } > > You might have to change -W to -S in the firs

Re: sshd in a domain

2011-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 07:57, Robert Jacobson wrote: > Is there some reason (other than the reboot-after-cygwin-update > requirement) that "ssh-host-config" doesn't automatically run > cyglsa-config as well? Yes, because it installs a kind of driver into the OS and it's not really necessary in all circumstanc

Re: Any way to prevent programs like Vim from clearing scrollback buffers?

2011-05-05 Thread Robert Jacobson
For vim specifically, the following line in ~/.vimrc should prevent that: set t_ti= t_te= For "man" -- it uses "less" by default as a pager. So, you can set the environment variable "LESS" to include the character "X". "man" . export LESS=X Note that the above will also prevent "less" from c

Re: sshd in a domain

2011-05-05 Thread Robert Jacobson
On 6/24/2010 9:24 AM, Robert Jacobson |cygwin/Example Allow| wrote: > I need some help to get sshd working so that when I login using > public-key auth to my domain account (which has local administrator > privileges), it actually has the Adminisitrator privs. > > The platform is Windows XP Pro, j

RE: Background processes prevent terminal window from closing

2011-05-05 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Ryan Dortmans sent the following at Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:30 AM >I have found that background processes prevent the terminal window from >closing. I have tried with the cmd terminal as well as mintty. Here is a >simple example: > >$ notepad .profile & >[1] >10260 >$ exit >logout > >The window r

Re: difficulties with snapshots

2011-05-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On May 5 10:47, EXCOFFIER Denis wrote: > Hi, > > 1) It seems that we have management problems with the snapshots. > The last one (indicated 2011-05-04 01:02:18 UTC) belongs in > fact to 2011-05-05, and it is more recent than the preceding > snapshot (indicated yesterday 2011-05-04 06:xx:xx UTC),

difficulties with snapshots

2011-05-05 Thread EXCOFFIER Denis
Hi, 1) It seems that we have management problems with the snapshots. The last one (indicated 2011-05-04 01:02:18 UTC) belongs in fact to 2011-05-05, and it is more recent than the preceding snapshot (indicated yesterday 2011-05-04 06:xx:xx UTC), which has now disappeared (diffs are shown against

Re: Cygwin Permissions Error - solved

2011-05-05 Thread 2del
> THE PROBLEM: (see solution below) > I used to get this error while running cygwin binaries from Visual Studio > (either linked to IIS or not). > I think it applies to other cases as well, when the binaries are being run by > other users on that box. > The Error was: >       4 [main] ssh-keygen