- now how do I get out of this 'None' group
that I'm apparently in, and into 'Users' or even 'Administrators'?
| Sorry, I don't know. I'm in 'None' too.
| J.
What does the /etc/groups file look like?
Regarding making sure the groups work, checking the passwd-grp.sh.done
file, it doesn't
/ Samuel Mahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi,
| I cannot compile a file.c where there is the following
| include :
| GL\glut.h
| GL\glu.h
| GL\gl.h
| I'm sure I have installed the file opengltar.bz2
Which opengl?? Could it be one runtime, and one developer version?
run:
find
What is the variable DISPLAY set to on the unix-machines??
What is the variable DISPLAY set to in the terminal you do the ssh -X
command from?
/Andy
/ John Burkhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?),
| I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine
/ Chris Twiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Thanks Jozsef,
| That's perfect information.
From what I can tell (quick research) it uses CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY.
Sorry, this I don't understand, what this sentence means.
Can you explain it?
| I think so, the Konsole app doesn't seem to use the PRIMARY
/ Kirsty Hollingworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I don't seem to have a /tmp/Xwin.log - is it hiding somewhere else or has
| nothing gone wrong (unlikely)
c:\cygdrive\tmp\Xwin.log?
This should be created!
Hmm is it so bad that it is not even the cygwin x-server firing up or
similar?? Send me
Evening!
*bonk* regarding Xwin.log, it is created in newer versions of Xfree,
quite a bit of work is done since x-mas, and nowadays it is installable
from setup.exe.
| zip disk, zip disk to linux box, ftp across house network). It fires up
| fine and I have slightly modified the startxwin.bat
/ Narasimha Reddy K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| [...]
| One thing here is, if I do the ssame source on VC++ IDE, i am getting the
| size 968 KB but with makefiles 12.4 MB.
| Need to know where exactly the change is required.
What sizes are you speaking of? It is not something like
|
| Do you think that I want to use this crappy Window$ stuff? No, I am
| forced to! This OS was bought for me by my employer and I am obliged
| to be happy with it!!! The same with VC++ and so on.
|
| THIS IS A CRY FOR HELP!
Well nmake is the problem, ask microsoft ;-) BTW What operations is
/ Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi!
|
| How can I install from an ftp server when I can't reach the internet, thus
| not beeing able to fetch the list of mirrors from ftp.cygwin.com?
One way, dirty tricks inc., could be to set up a fake ftp.cygwin.com
on your network that serves
Tar without switch 'z' doesn't like gzipped files.. either ungzip it,
or do tar -xyvfz nedit (no idea what y does)
Later on.. this is not really unpacking mailinglist but but..
/Andy
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have proglem with unzip file :
|
| tar -xyvf
/ arun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hello,
|
| Does cygwin/xfree86 support MIT shared memory extension. I am trying to port
| some code that uses these functions on linux. and I get a linker error.
No it doesn't.
It is possible though to compile xfree86 for cygwin with that enabled,
but it
/ arun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| hello,
|
| I have an x windows application compiled for linux.This application
| extensively uses graphics Can I directly port it to windows using
| Cygwin/xfree86 ??
If it is clean portable c/c++ code - yep. If you do a bunch os-specific
stuff and so on, you
/ B. Joshua Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I've got SSH partially working, I can log into the Win2K box but X
| forwarding isn't working. I've enabled X forwarding in the
| /etc/ssh_config and /etc/sshd_config files but when I ssh -X into the
| box and then try to launch Xemacs nothting
| do you ssh from, which machine do you try to run xemacs on? What is
| the value of DISPLAY in that shell you try to fire it up from?
|
| (BTW xemacs does not need to mean Emacs for X11, it is an emacs called
| xemacs, and well this compilation could be missing X11
| So can I make ssh to my winbox (having both client and server
| configuration set to enable X forwarding) and execute cmd.exe and get the
| window in my winbox/linbox or not?
Well if you run this cmd in an xterm, or x-based rxvt that is fired up
and shows nicely on the other machine.
| xterm worked fine so the problem is definitely with Xemacs.
Question still remains, is it Xemacs compiled with X11 support?? Do
you have libX11co on the cygwin machine?
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/ Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| At 03:10 PM 4/24/2002, Andrew Markebo wrote:
|
| | xterm worked fine so the problem is definitely with Xemacs.
|
| Question still remains, is it Xemacs compiled with X11 support?? Do
| you have libX11co on the cygwin machine?
|
| I
/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Dear Sir/Maddam,
|
| I am compiling some codes under cygwin. the code have the dirent.h
| included. but I got the err message like,
|
| saveloadwindow.o(.text+0x808):saveloadwindow.cc: undefined reference to
| `opendir(char const *)'
What does the gcc command-line
/ Narasimha Reddy K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| it is throwing following error on building XFREE86 source.
| LIBCMTD.lib(dosmap.obj) : error LNK2005: __errno already defined in
| MSVCRT.LIB(MSVCRT.dll)
Doesn't feel like you try to build it with cygwin?? Smells visual c++
(sorry for swearing ;-)
A hint, give vnc a try when connecting from your home-pc, can do quite
good transfer :-)
What link is used BTW when working from home? (could it be something
like MI/X running 8bit, while cygwin runs 16bit or more)
/Andy
|
| -Original Message-
| From: Uwe Schmidtmann
My first impression was that you clicked on xwin.exe, have you tried
the batch-file, or shell-script, startxwin.bat/-sh?
/Andy
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/ Mark Paulus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have this wierd behaviour, and it is causing some stats that I
| run to whack out.
|
| Every now and again (every 15-30 minutes or so), my cygwin apps
| pause for 1-2 MINUTES I have written a simple script to capture
| this behaviour:
Just a
Have you ran startxwin.bat/.sh first?
Tried it from a xterm?
Hmm weird lyx has display in a config-file..
/Andy
|
| The pat response to the query from the Lyx side of the house is to
| modify the Lyx config file. Specifically, to change the variable
| DISPLAY = from
/ Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I mean the easiest way is maybe to do a cygwin.1 man-page that
| contains the text cygwin is a windows clone for unix and then just
| add all comments received :-)
|
| Shouldn't that be a unix clone for windows? Good thing I'll be writing
|
Ahh the url I posted also contained the note:
You may also try the configuration option
--disable-included-getpass
maybe useful??
/Andy
/ Gupta, Sanjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hello,
| I am getting very hard time in compiling the mcrypt command in cygwin,
| I was
/ Gupta, Sanjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Sorry, I did not work in all unix, I mean to say Unix I worked with ( Sun
| 5.6, 5.8). I am not sure whether GNU specification is different for crypt
| command. I am not asking that crypt command should be changed in cygwin but
| rather asking is there
/ Gupta, Sanjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have read http://lists.hellug.gr/pipermail/mcrypt-dev/2001/87.html
| note and I have tried every thing which was mentioned here but did not help.
Any special reason for wanting crypt/mcrypt, maybe choose pgp or
gpg(?) (the gnu-version of pgp) that
/ Joshua Daniel Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I think this is a wonderful idea. Can I sign you up to improve the
| documentation, too? I'm sure that a lot of it is out of date or needs
| more details.
|
| Sure. I'll do my best, though to warn you I use cygwin almost exclusively in
|
What does the link command look like?
Assuming something like
gcc -lgmp -o gmptest gmptest.o
-lgmp should be last.
/Andy
/ Kris Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| When I try to compile the GMP library in cygwin, it works. However, when I
| try to make any of the programs in the demos
/ Lars Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I juts tried to install Xf100.tgz on top of an initial xfree
| installation. The instructions in the Install file supplied with xfree
| 4.2.0 says to install the fonts by using
|
| extract -C /usr/X11R6 Xf100.tgz
|
| I tried this and get an error that
Hmm weird, no idea, continue digging on the mailinglist, BTW What kind
of mounts do you have, if you type mount what does it say, do you have
more than one cvs.exe around??
/Andy
/ Michael Labhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Thanks, again, for the reply.
|
| Tried /cygdrive/c/... also
| If I try to run XWin.exe, it says that it cant find
| cygwin1.dll.
You need to install cygwin1.dll, check the installation instructions
how to install cygwin.
/Andy
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Not really xfree problem, but /etc/setup contains lists of which
modules contained which files..
do a zgrep for cygprce.dll there and voila ;-)
/Andy
| is there any fast method for checking which package contains dll which is
| missing from the cygwin-installation?
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/ Ed Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| cygwin is installd. This is a bug or somekind or config problem i have.
*bonk* you are trying to run Xwin.exe, what happens if you run
startxwin.bat or startxwin.sh??
Basically the problem is that the environment variable PATH doesn't
contain
/ Ed Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Why don't you please re-read the original message. I explained what happens
| when I run the bat files.
sorry, I became blind on the issue when starting xwin.exe, missing
cygwin1.dll, that wasnt the error you received first..
hmm checking the log files
/ Christopher Glaeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Is there a FAQ or a posting on how to telnet from cygwin to linux such that
| editing with emacs on the linux system will work correctly? TIA.
I think there is a faq, check for TERM (environment variabl) in the
faq, meanwhile set it to vt100 or
/ Michael Labhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| While trying to use cvs on cygwin (Windows XP) the command cvs -d
| /usr/local/cvs-repository update returns the error directory
| /usr/local/cvs-repostory does not exist. ls has no problem finding the
Well the cvs you use has to be compiled with
/ hongxun lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I dont know why such files were produced, and they cant be del with command
| rm. Thanks
Learn how to use your shell.. meanwhile I use to escape the
characters, so something like rm \#\?\?\?\# ought to work..
Maybe even rm \#TAB and it will fill it in
/ Robert Mark Bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Thank you to Andy and Eugene for their help!
|
| I think it should be (not \):
|
| SET TERMCAP=/etc/termcap
| SET TERMINFO=/lib/terminfo
| set SHELL=/bin/bash.exe
| set TERM=cygwin
|
| Well turn me purple, wrap me in a curtain and call me Garfield
/ matt rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| http://flognat.myip.org/xbase/
|
Weeh I am published.. I am published.. :-)
Hmm anyone tried it and managed to get it working?? Is the silence a
good sign?? Or is it a sign that I have managed to do something that
destroys the computers so much that the
/ Eli Kleinman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hello
|
| I tried to compile on cygwin gnome-libs I got a configure: error
| This is the error
|
| checking for __db185_open in -ldb-3... no
It seems to try db-3, db version 3?? if you have a libdb-4.* lying
around somewhere, maybe you should check why
/ dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi,
| Yes i do have bash installed.
Where what and how is bash installed??
So what is your definition of 'run it', what do you do to try to run
it, and what happens then??
/Andy
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/ Stephano Mariani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Strange... I do not seem to have that file (I checked three machines,
| win2k Pro SP2, Win2k Pro SP1, WinXP Pro).
Can be found on my Win2k Pro SP2, ahh well maybe something depending
on your shoesize or something, definetly nothing for cygwin ;-)
Throw a browser at:
http://flognat.myip.org/xbase
(ehm cable-modem, so it is not that fast, would
apreciate if someone with faster connection could mirror it ;-))
xbase, one package with all the required files..
There are couple of small quirks, but I thought
/ Sylvain Petreolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| --- matt rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
| dont do that Andreas!! the XFree86 4.2.0 binaries
| can easily be
| converted into a cygwin installer package..
|
| if this is so easy, why don't we have now one official
| ?
| XFree86 4.2.0 is on the
/ Robert Mark Bram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Howdy and thanks for the response!
|
| I have changed ROOTDIR so it is now C:\cygwin but I am still getting these
| problems:
BTW My rootdir isn't set to anything, try and not setting it.
| When I run Cygwin it is putting me in a home directory of
[...]
| What does ncurses do?? Creative error messages? :)
ncurses is library that replaces curses, generic interface for moving
around the cursor in a text-terminal, drawing text-lines and so
on. Works on many terminal-types.
Not the problem here, well a bit of the problem could it be, ncurses
/ Alyn Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I have installed Cygwin as per the user guide, run startxwin.sh as instructed and
|got the expected gui showing. However, I can't connect to any remote boxes because I
|don't have either telnet (in /usr/bin) or ssh.
|
| Any ideas what I might have
| How can I set up a starting script that will be run in Cygwin?
Eh exactly what do you want??
A starting script that will be run in cygwin, you mean you want to
doubleclick a .sh file and it will be thrown on bash?? Or??
/Andy
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| Fatal server error:
| could not open default font 'fixed'
| --
|
| /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi is not installed. should
No problem, nope, it seems to die due to problems finding fixed.
Where and how did you unpack the fonts.tgz-balls??
/Andy
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| - if all this is not possible, is there anybody out there who has written a
| nice installation-skript that installs xfree after cygwin is installed (this
| should not be too difficult for the average pupil) and can be edited to
| install some software too? If not, I will probably try to
| So what do I do? It seems that both Rose and Cygwin want to use rootdir, and
| Cygwin has a hard time using Rose's version.
Well then set the global ROOTDIR to what cygwin want... And well if
Rose doesn't like that.. blame rose ;-)
Or edit the batch-file that fires up bash and set ROOTDIR to
| But if I try to run the XWin.exe, it crashes without a message. The X
| server window appears for about a second, and then all is gone. Have anyone
Xwin.exe, what happens if you try startxwin.bat? or startxwin.sh?
| I hope Chris Faylor is reading this, is there any chance of cygwin
|
hmm just a thought, if you can config zonealarm to allow traffic on
port 6000 and/or 6001 it might be possible to get them working
together? or?
check the zonealarm logs and see what zonealarm blocks and if you can
tell it to allow the X-traffic.
or does zonealarm do more to the network
Hello!
Looking at the Xfree mailinglist it seems like many people have
problems due to have installed with dos-mode. My thought is if it is
their unsurability about unix/dos, and toggling that due to that..
Is it possible to hide it a little.. or similar, so it is not so easy
to toggle.. Or
| Hmm there is one tool somewhere that traces the system calls, maybe
| can be used to see which files it can't access..
|
| I scanned the mailing list using the keywords Permission denied, but
| couldn't find anything pertinent in the first 20+ hits. Could I have
| a pointer to the name
/ Pierre Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|When I start the Cygwin bash shell
| with the Cygwin installed procedure
| the the SHELL env var is not exported.
This is a feature of newer versions of bash, was discussed here a
while ago.
/Andy
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/ Robinow, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I get similar results. However, the stripped versions are the same size.
| Apparently the new compiler includes more debugging information. I haven't
| yet found any documentation describing this but I've barely looked.
But.. the new version was
/ Ryan T. Sammartino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:02:48PM +0100, Martin Bene wrote:
| Any idea why this isn't working?
|
|
| I had that problem too and worked around it by using the -W option
| to rsync (transfer whole files, instead of patches). That seems to
| work
Hello!
What is the diff between linker on linux and cygwin linker??
Basically, the problem is that
gcc -lX11 foo.o
works on linux, but not cygwin (missing symbols), on cygwin I have to
do it the order:
gcc foo.o -lX11
Is it a new feature in the gcc 2.96-version on my
Basically this problem smells like you have managed to mess up the
memory/stack before this, and well, memory problems is often
'detected' by the program crashes on some other location..
So start looking around at the code, what is done before these calls.
/Andy
(with detected I mean
/ Mattias Brändström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| After searching the FAQ for the phrase 'mkpasswd -d' I must report that
| it does not exist within the FAQ. Do you have any other information on
| where I can RTFM?
Well there is a users guide at http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/,
more exaktly
/ Charles Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Sigh.
|
| False positive.
|
| Reported 27 times already. Multiple postings over the last three
| days. Every single one was a FALSE positive. Complain to symantec.
It is a virus then.. email virus ;-) Growing and
growing.. spreading.. :-)
| Is it possible to use XFree86 for Cygwin without
| any network connection in single computer?
Yes it is, but you probably need to have tcp-ip/winsock installed, the
easiest way to do this is to add a dummy dial up networking icon..
/Andy
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Just a quick question, isn't the base problem somehthing like Bison
thinks that the target compiler is gcc..
If you create/configure a bison for msvc++, it doesn't do this include?
/Andy
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/ hrishy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| BASTARD
Comeon he probably didn't do it having a party ;-)
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Documentation:
| my $cmd= c:\\oxe\\cygwin\\bin\\sed.exe 's/^\#ftp/ftp/'
| c:\\cygwin\\usr\\local\\etc\\inetd.conf c:\\cygwin\\usr\\local\\etc\\inetd.new
| system($cmd);
If it is a cygwin perl, system would probably run it as a unix
environment/shell?? So shouldn't c:\\cygwin.. be c:/cygwin??
| I'm quite knew to Cygwin and don't know what could be responsible for the
| above error. I downloaded all the Deve1 packages, binutils, make and Utils
| packages also since I found that they would be required for compiling my C
| programs..
You need to install the w32api package.
/ John A. Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Phil Humpherys wrote:
|
| I'd sure like to get an X browser running in xfree. I don't seem to be
| able to get netscape or mozilla to work in cygwin-xfree.
|
| why in the world would you want to do such a thing??
Comeon, why do you need cygwin on
The wrong order, it should be
gcc -o file file.c -lcrypt
Basically, the library switch should be after the usage of functions
in it..
/Andy
|
| gcc -lcrypt file.c -o file
|
| unresolved linker error (crypt undefined?)
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Just a quick thought, it is not the heap chunk size
(heap_chunk_in_mb)?? Some value you can increase in the registry..
A quick search found
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00171.html
|
| File mode specification error: (error Stack overflow in regexp matcher)
Or recursion is
An alternative might be to try a rxvt from the remote host and see
what happens..
/Andy
/ Raber Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| If I do a command the produces lots of fast output to
| stdout (like ls -l for a directory with lots of
| entries), my remote xterms hang.
|
| Local xterms
/etc/profile, or ~/.profile, maybe add something like
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/grep -q /usr/X11R6/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
fi
(Well it has a bunch of safety-nets but..)
/Andy
/ Sharmin Kabir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi,
| To start X in cygwin, I do the command sh
What packages did you install? xwin, xterm and twm should be in
/usr/X11R6/bin
Did you search for xwin.exe, twm.exe??
If you have them, doublecheck startxwin.bat to make sure it adds the
directory where you installed xwin, xterm and twm
/Andy
/ ganesan ramachandran [EMAIL
/ Fractal A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Is there a way to run cygwin from a regular dos prompt? Must I log in to the
| bash shell in order to use the stuff (like g++ flex bison) in cygwin?
No you don't need to, just put c:\cygwin\bin or wherever you can find
the binaries, in your
Just a quick thought about firewalls and ssh'ing through them..
We had a firewall that allowed https-connections, and well, you can
use this to connect to a ssh-server, by telling ssh to use a wrapper
script to fire up the connection, get in touch with me and I can dig
it up..
Meanwhile,
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