Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 6:12 PM Bill Stewart wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via Cygwin > wrote: > >Windows protected your PC >> Microsoft Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. >> Running this ap

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup (2.917)

I cannot run setup 2.917. When trying to start setup-x86_64 -n -B under cmd.exe or by cygstart under bash, I get the following error message. Unable to start 'C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\setup-x86_64.exe': The operating system denied access to the specified file. Adding -w to the command line does n

RE: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary

> -Original Message- > From: David Eisner via Cygwin > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 2:33 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Date of first Cygwin release / 25th Anniversary > > Cygwin started in 1995. [1] Does anybody know the date of the first release? > I recognize that there

RE: non-persistent storage?

>On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:08 PM Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >>Erik Soderquist sent the following at Thursday, December 12, 2019 5:45 pm >> >> On Thu 2019-12-12 (21:59), Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] via cygwin >> wrote: >>> >>> If the temp fil

RE: non-persistent storage?

Eliot Moss sent the following at Thursday, December 12, 2019 2:19 pm >On 12/12/2019 7:00 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > >> I need to store some data (a few kB) non-persistent. >> On a real UNIX I would use /var/run, because after a shutdown all its >> content is lost. >> But on cygwin /var/run is stor

fdupes option

According to the GitHub page https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes fdupes has a --time (or -t) option that lists the file times. The Cygwin version doesn't have this feature. It is not clear to me whether this is something to do with how cygwin was compiled or this is an option added aft

RE: script.exe is missing from util-linux 2.32.1-1

Rusty Lemur sent the following at Thursday, January 24, 2019 11:30 AM > >I noticed that script.exe is not included in util-linux 2.32.1-1. I had >to downgrade to util-linux 2.25.2-2 before it was installed. This is >a tool that I use heavily, so if it is being migrated to a different >package (not

RE: License question (Distribution of cygwin1.dll

patrick schmidt sent the following at Monday, May 07, 2018 10:28 AM > >I want to use iPerf3.exe in an commercial projekt. iPerf uses the MIT >License but needs cygwin1.dll in order to function correctly. > >I need to distribute iperf3.exe in our commercial software, but we cant >release the source

RE: Searching full, portable Cygwin package for windows and NOT just the installer

David Allsopp sent the following at Saturday, February 03, 2018 3:16 AM >The setup program includes a "Download" option which allows you to >save the entire package repository locally, which you can use in >future. To be explicit: You can download as David points out, scan the downloaded packages

RE: setup takes a long time

Jon Turney sent the following at Wednesday, January 31, 2018 9:02 AM >On 31/01/2018 06:18, Fergus Daly wrote: [...] >> >> The setup program does seem to take a long time, even when it just >> means "update" and even when there's nothing to update. Here's what >> happens in unattended mode: > > The

Setup request

To keep up to date, every day when booting I automatically update Cygwin with the following in a startup batch file. setup -B -q -n -o -R -l Even when nothing is updated, setup seems to rebase and run all the /etc/postinstall/zp_* files. This seems unnecessary. If that is correct, would it be

RE: Updated: Cygwin 2.9.0-1

Ken Brown sent the following at Thursday, September 07, 2017 7:05 PM >On 9/7/2017 6:27 PM, Dave Johnson wrote: >> got this error on x86 and x86_64 update: >> >> Package: _/Unknown package >> cygwin-doc.sh exit code 2 > >That's because of this: > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-09/msg00079

RE: Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page

one is looking for a regex needs to be >> documented. > >Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes: > >You rather have the wrong expectations w.r.t. the text you are >attempring to match. >> Found 769 matches for /usr/share/ > >If you click on one of those results you'l

Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page

On the Cygwin Package Search page either regular expression matching doesn't work or way to let the search engine know that one is looking for a regex needs to be documented. Found 769 matches for /usr/share/ Found 0 matches for ^/usr/share/ Found 0 m

RE: open IE from command line

Nellis, Kenneth sent the following at Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:11 AM >Thanx to all who responded to my query... >> On 12/20/16, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> > How to open a web page (remote or local) or launch IE from the >> > mintty/bash command line? > >I've tried all the suggestions and the s

RE: Installer names not meaningful enough

Lee Dilkie sent the following at Thursday, December 01, 2016 7:19 AM >On 12/1/2016 5:51 AM, Roberto Ríos Gallardo wrote: >> Please give the installers more meaningful names. In particular, make >> sure "cygwin" is part of it. "setup-x86_64.exe" is not very obvious. >> A version number would be ni

RE: BashHere Prompt

Mark Hansen sent the following at Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:26 PM >On 5/26/2016 11:21 AM, Kevin J. Duling wrote: >> Possibly not. Mine certainly isn't bundled up as nicely. It was just >> a Q&D hack I put together eons ago. >> >> Mine allows you to right-click on both the folder and the drive >> l

RE: BashHere Prompt

Kevin J. Duling sent the following at Thursday, May 26, 2016 1:48 PM >Several years back, I wrote a utility to create a "Bash Here" prompt >similar to the "Command Prompt Here" WinXP powertoy, but I really didn't >have any way of sharing it with others. > >It doesn't really bundle in to a package,

RE: faster opening Cygwin from Explorer window

Marco Atzeri sent the following at Friday, March 18, 2016 11:01 AM >On 18/03/2016 15:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >> I frequently ping-pong back and forth between working in the Windows >> and Cygwin environments, needing to keep both Explorer windows and >> Cygwin PWD focused on the same folder/dire

RE: locate and updatedb

Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:21 AM >On 2/17/2016 11:00 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: locate >> Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 >> AM >>> On 2/16/2016 5:55 PM, Buchbinder, Bar

RE: locate and updatedb

Byron Boulton sent the following at Wednesday, February 17, 2016 8:43 AM >On 2/16/2016 5:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> >> This is technically OT since this involved a non-cygwin tool. >> >> find is slow compared with a non-Cygwin tool, specifically d

RE: locate and updatedb

Linda Walsh sent the following at Saturday, February 13, 2016 7:15 AM >Marco Atzeri wrote: --- >> On 11/02/2016 19:33, Byron Boulton wrote: >>> On 2/11/2016 1:18 PM, cyg Simple wrote: On 2/11/2016 9:00 AM, Byron Boulton wrote: > Does anyone here have success using `updatedb` and `locate` i

RE: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

cyg Simple sent the following at Wednesday, November 25, 2015 3:59 PM >>> Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:39:08 Andrey wrote: >> >> You can precreate fstab, I think. >> >>> Yes I do this all the time. If, for example, C:\cygwin64\etc\fstab already >>> exists >>> when you run setup-x86_64.exe the first ti

RE: Ability to specify /cygdrive mount value in setup

Andrey Repin sent the following at Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:39 AM >On 11/25/2015 10:56 AM, cyg Simple wrote: >> I find /cygdrive/ just unbearable and I always change it to / after an >> install. The issue with this is that post install activities will >> create symlinks using /cygdrive moni

RE: Can MKS Toolkit and Cygwin safely co-exist on Windows servers?

Peter A. Castro sent the following at Monday, November 16, 2015 9:17 PM > >Oh! I've been there and tried to do that but was shutdown for corporate >policy reasons. Remember that business wants someone to shoot at when >things break. That license you have for MKS means your company can >demand suppo

RE: Command echo

Gluszczak, Glenn sent the following at Monday, November 16, 2015 11:16 AM > >When I shell to cmd.exe, the commands I execute are echoed (not sure if >stdout or stderr). This doesn't happen under native cmd.exe. Is there a >variable that controls this? I only have CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning > >Notice t

Documentation problem with the UG - POSIX devices?

https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices In the paragraph starting "Block devices are accessible ..." "... or the first partition on the third harddisk is \device\harddisk2\partition1." Shouldn't partition1 be the second partition, not the first? Best wis

rebase by setup

Running setup in unattended mode runs rebase even if nothing is installed. Is this intended/necessary? I run setup every day when I boot and rebasing is time consuming. Not really a problem but it is annoying. Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: php-5.6.14-1

Yaakov Selkowitz sent the following at Friday, October 09, 2015 4:40 PM >The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution: > >* php-5.6.14-1 > >PHP (recursive acronym for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor') is a >widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is >espe

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New: sl-5.02-1

Mike DePaulo sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 7:47 PM >On 09/01/2015 07:13 PM, Jared Buck wrote: [...] >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz >> wrote: >>> The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution: >>> >>> * sl-5.02-1 >>> >>> SL (Steam Locomoti

RE: Default Architecture of Package Search/List Pages

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:59 AM >On Sep 1 15:50, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:35 AM >> >On Sep 1 12:36, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: &

RE: Default Architecture of Package Search/List Pages

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:35 AM >On Sep 1 12:36, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> On the cygwin package search and package list pages, the >> architectures are listed with 32 bit first/default. >> >> x86 x86_6

Default Architecture of Package Search/List Pages

On the cygwin package search and package list pages, the architectures are listed with 32 bit first/default. x86 x86_64 If it is known that currently the majority of cygwin users are using 64 bit, might it be appropriate to make 64 bit the default? Thanks for considering this. - Barry Disclai

RE: suggestion for setup.exe: on quiet mode start window minimized option

Roger Pack sent the following at Friday, August 28, 2015 1:29 PM >Today I wanted to script an unattended install of cygwin. It works well. >However, I also wanted to be able to do it without showing a window to >the user at all. Suggestion/feature request: for --quiet-mode start >minimized, or perh

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Early Deprecation Notice: Windows XP and Server 2003 support

AC sent the following at Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:57 PM >On 2015-08-26 18:04, Andrey Repin wrote: Well rsync is fine for making >>> Is there a document somewhere that can describe this process of making a >>> mirror? I have two XP machines that I won't be able to upgrade and I >>> just want t

RE: getent services enumeration glitch

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:24 AM >On Aug 18 09:40, Mark Geisert wrote: >Congratulations! You found a 13 years old bug in Cygwin's getservent >implementation, which returned the port number in host byte order >instead of in network byte order for all this time.

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: mintty 2.1.2

Thomas Wolff sent the following at Thursday, July 23, 2015 6:15 PM >mintty 2.1.2 is an update in response to a number of crash reports under >unclear circumstances; mintty only detaches from the caller's terminal >if the option -D is given Neither man mintty nor mintty --help document the new -D o

RE: db_home setting in nsswitch.conf is ignored.

Suggestion for the Cygwin developers: What about a file in /etc that contains contain environmental variables that sets cygwin-specific variables and overrides anything in Windows' environment? It would also make it possible to clone an installation by copying - no need to modify the environment.

RE: File permissions different inside and outside cygwin root

Yaakov Selkowitz sent the following at Tuesday, June 02, 2015 3:01 AM >On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 19:01 -0500, Steven Penny wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> For goodness sake, do not do this. Do not break your computer because Cyg

RE: File permissions different inside and outside cygwin root

Duane Ellis sent the following at Sunday, May 24, 2015 11:03 AM >(Sorry I cannot reply directly to the previous email I just subscribed >to the list, I am quoting from the list archive) >>> (from the archive - permissions inside and outside of /cygwin get messed up) > >I think this is *THE* cause o

RE: Problem with posix flags and permission denied on domain computer

Jirí Engelthaler sent the following at Tuesday, May 19, 2015 2:44 AM >I'd like to hear an answer from Corinna Vinschen pls. She's on vacation.

RE: Is it possible to display English phonetic alphabet in Mintty?

Rexdf sent the following at Monday, April 20, 2015 9:59 AM >David Macek sent the following at Monday, April 20, 2015 9:47 AM >>> I have a dictionary in cygwin. It cannot display the phonetic alphabet >>> well. >> >> What are your LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_* variables? I see boxes when I set >> LANG="en_US

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: vim-7.4.692-1

Yaakov Selkowitz sent the following at Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:26 AM >On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 12:22 +0200, Frank Fesevur wrote: >> Is it by design that vim now requires tcsh? >> >> tcsh(6.18.01-6) >> An enhanced version of csh, the C shell >> Required by: vim-common > >I hadn't notice

RE: less color option

Steven Penny sent the following at Friday, April 17, 2015 5:08 PM >man less > >Reveals this >-Dxcolor or --color=xcolor > [MS-DOS only] Sets the color of the text displayed. x is a sin? > gle character which selects the type of text whose color is > being

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated package: pdftk-2.02-1

There is no 64 bit pdftk package. Is that an oversight? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubsc

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 1.7.35-0.1

Denis Excoffier wrote on Friday, February 13, 2015 4:31 PM > You misunderstand. I don't need this stupid > 'Document and Settings' thing. "C:\Documents and Settings" appears to be something Windows handles. On Windows 7 Professional (ver 6.1, SP 1): Open cmd.exe. "dir" does not show "C:\Docume

setfacl man page

The setfacl man page does not document the new -b and -k flags. However, they are documented by setfacl --help . - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

RE: Missing Mirrors

Barry wrote at February 06, 2015 9:23 AM > A lot of mirrors have just dropped off the mirror list. > > I count 30 this morning. 124 are listed on the page saved by Wayback > Machine on 2014-12-26 The numbers above count http and ftp from the same server as 2 mirrors. Counting domains after remov

Missing Mirrors

http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html A lot of mirrors have just dropped off the mirror list. I count 30 this morning. 124 are listed on the page saved by Wayback Machine on 2014-12-26 - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygw

RE: Force "ls" to show .exe extension

Paul sent the following at Tuesday, January 06, 2015 7:12 PM >I'm wading through many files in two file trees. In particular, I'm >looking at corresponding directories in the two trees where "diff -qr" >revealed differences. I want the absolute truth of what the filename is >with minimal distractio

RE: Is there a tool for viewing all cygwin/GNU Software submissions

Arthur Schwarz sent the following at Tuesday, November 25, 2014 5:49 PM >Is there a general tool that will allow someone to see the definition of >all software in cygwin and allow browsing of libraries for content? If >there is not, how can I go about creating one (any ideas)? > >What I would like

RE: Direct/efficient way to chop off trailing \n

Eric Blake sent the following at Wednesday, October 01, 2014 10:33 PM >On 10/01/2014 08:25 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >> You could write my solution as: >> >> echo -n `cygpath -aw foo`>/dev/clipboard > >'echo -n' is not portable (in fact, you can disable it in bash, and it >may misbehave if cygpath ou

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.14-7

Alive sent the following at Tuesday, September 30, 2014 1:49 PM >On 30/09/2014 4:22, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote: >> A new release of bash, 4.1.14-7, has been uploaded and will soon reach a >> mirror near you; leaving the previous version at 4.1.13-6. > >I've checked for updates several time, but I d

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6

Eric Blake sent the following at Monday, September 29, 2014 5:29 PM >On 09/29/2014 03:23 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Eric Blake (cygwin) sent the following at Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:14 >> AM >> >> Using the new version of bash, two scripts t

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6

Eric Blake (cygwin) sent the following at Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:14 AM Using the new version of bash, two scripts that I use have both started giving me the following error message(s). /usr/bin/bash: error importing function definition for `BASH_FUNC_make-log' /usr/bin/bash: error import

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.1.13-6

Eric Blake (cygwin) sent the following at Saturday, September 27, 2014 2:14 AM >I also turned on the (undocumented) 'bash --wordexp' mode (actually, >that happened in 4.1.12-5, although I failed to mention it at the time), >which allows the C library call wordexp() to now function. From a user sta

RE: latest cygwin: 'run' problem

Andrey Repin sent the following at Tuesday, September 09, 2014 9:08 AM >That makes little sense. Could be solved, though. CMD doesn't offer a >way to distinguish between file and directory, but we have test. Every directory contains a virtual file named nul (note: only one L; serves the function o

man-db requires line

On 32 bit cygwin. man wasn't working for me; it complained was missing iconv. The man-db requires line includes libiconv2. cygcheck -c reported that libiconv2 was OK. I installed libiconv. man now works. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Proble

RE: Cygwin kill utility //Was: cgwin_internal(): difference b/w CW_CYGWIN_PID_TO_WINPID and CW_GETPINFO_FULL for taking only dwProcessId ?

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Tuesday, April 08, 2014 5:01 AM >On Apr 8 03:30, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: >>> I cannot supply patches for you guys because of the GPL. > >What on earth keeps you from sending patches to a GPLed project while at >the same time using it is no

RE: Current mirror size

Jon TURNEY sent the following at Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:18 AM >On 10/03/2014 20:09, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Jon TURNEY sent the following at Monday, March 10, 2014 12:17 PM >>> On 10/03/2014 09:36, Alexander Kurilo wrote: >>>> could anyone

RE: Current mirror size

Jon TURNEY sent the following at Monday, March 10, 2014 12:17 PM >On 10/03/2014 09:36, Alexander Kurilo wrote: >> could anyone say how much space does Cygwin mirror currently take? >> I'll be really grateful if someone can run du -hs * (or something similar) in >> the root of existing Cygwin mirror

RE: Problems with new setup

>On 2014-02-26 17:08, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> It is also a lot bigger than the previous version. >> >> 730624 2013-11-07 13:45:22 setup-x86.old.exe >> 2366464 2014-02-25 13:28:35 setup-x86.exe >> >> Is that expected or is that an ind

Problems with new setup

The new setup (32 bit) now requires admin privileges, which I don't have. I've used all of the usual tricks, re-naming to remove "setup" from the name, copying by cat > new_file.exe, moving to a FAT and then back, playing with windows permissions. It is also a lot bigger than the previous version.

RE: sox - package is broken

David Stacey sent the following at Monday, February 24, 2014 3:27 PM >On 24/02/2014 17:27, Dr. Alexander Kleinsorge wrote: >> But after (export AUDIODRIVER=ao ; play ding.wav) >> I see messages indicating successfull playing and application is waiting >> the time the wav-file takes, >> but no sound

RE: Little cygpath improvement request

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Sunday, February 16, 2014 10:11 AM >> > NATIVE=$(cygpath -ml "$2" 2>/dev/null) > >And what's the problem with redirections? > >I fail to see the big difference between adding a redirection compared >to adding an option character. Some of us avoid redirectio

RE: Reduce noise in dependency declaration during uninstall in setup.exe

Cliff Hones sent the following at Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:19 AM >- a non-Cygwin envelope (which could even be installed as an msi) and Please not an MSI. In my experience, one may need admin privileges to install with an MSI in a locked-down environment. One of the things that I like about

RE: cygstart fails

Thomas Wolff sent the following at Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:26 PM >After today's setup update, cygstart (e.g. "cygstart .") fails >with: /usr/bin/cygstart.exe: error while loading shared libraries: >cygpopt-0.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >(happened on two system

RE: C:\Windows\System32\drivers oddness

Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Thursday, December 26, 2013 1:32 PM >On Dec 26 11:11, Max Polk wrote: >> From the bash shell, sitting in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers >> directory, when I run "ls" I can see about 6 files/dirs total. The >> "etc" directory is mysteriously missing from the o

RE: beep perl script

Gigabit Pony sent the following at Sunday, December 22, 2013 2:09 AM >Well I know the beep script is not yours but.. I am trying to >configure it so I hear a sound inside of Windows 7. I have >cygwin with weechat curses running in it. The set command >/set plugins.var.perl.beep_beep_command_highlig

RE: Change in behavior of bash / if [

re I thought to test to see if the behavior had fixed itself.) I don't expect anyone to read it or do anything. Eric Blake sent the following at Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:28 AM >On 12/18/2013 07:18 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >>>> if [ "x$1" = xcl

RE: Change in behavior of bash / if [

Eric Blake sent the following at Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:08 PM >On 12/17/2013 08:02 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: >> Today, a script that I use every day stated giving me the following >> error message. (I grant that it might have started earlier and I &

Change in behavior of bash / if [

Today, a script that I use every day stated giving me the following error message. (I grant that it might have started earlier and I didn't notice.) Note that although it gave the error message, the script seems to still have worked. ./lddir: line 77: [: too many arguments Line 77 was as follow

RE: something is wrong with cygwin's mirror checker

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:30 PM >On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:08:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>I don't know why but the mirror checker is screwed up. The last email I >>got from the system said that the mirrors were in good shape but >>http://cyg

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: cygcheck-dep-1.0-1

Mikhail Usenko sent the following at Tuesday, November 05, 2013 3:55 AM >Subject: New package - cygcheck-dep-1.0-1 > >Version 1.0-1 of cygcheck-dep has been uploaded. > >cygcheck-dep is a bash script helping to show dependencies for installed >Cygwin packages. It can be useful if you are trying som

RE: How about a 64-bit installer that doesn't require UAC?

Denis Excoffier sent the following at Friday, November 08, 2013 1:34 PM >On 2013-11-08 15:01, Shaddy Baddah wrote: >> In my view, this option should only be used by users who understand well >> enough general Windows file permissions, user privileges, etc... >> the general security model, and how

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, November 04, 2013 3:31 PM >On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:13:41PM +0000, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >[E] wrote:> >>Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November >>04, 2013 1:28 PM >>>

RE: Seeking a suggestion for unattended mass install procedure

Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] sent the following at Monday, November 04, 2013 1:28 PM >Thanks for the suggestion. My Systems team need to install from >scratch on bare boxes, from only an image DVD (which contained all the >requisites of the future machine, including CYGWIN's setup and the

RE: Install puts home in /c/Users

Would the ability setting environmental variable in /etc/profile do the job? To expand on http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00977.html - Perhaps it would be useful to have a way to override any environmental variable provided by Windows via text file. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made he

Update readpst?

Cygwin is 0.5.3. Current version seems to be 0.6.61. http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/ Thanks, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Christopher Faylor sent the following at Wednesday, September 25, 2013 1:06 PM >On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 04:59:57PM +0000, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) >[E] wrote: >>>Does setup for 64 bit cygwin need to be 64 bit? Might all this >>be avoided if setup-x86_64.exe were itse

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Does setup for 64 bit cygwin need to be 64 bit? Might all this be avoided if setup-x86_64.exe were itself 32 bit application? - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cyg

RE: Running setup-x86_64.exe without admin privileges

Frédéric Bron sent the following at Tuesday, September 24, 2013 1:10 AM >I have built a version of setup-x86-64.exe for people that do >not have administrator privileges. It can be downloaded here: >http://www.casalibus.fr/cygwin/ Merci! For your next update: Trying to compress it with upx faile

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) sent the following at Sunday, September 22, 2013 9:42 PM >No, "All Users" is also required to set up services (like sshd, crond, >etc.) to work for all users (i.e. switch user context). This is the >recommended way to install so that these subsequent facilities can be >used with

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) sent the following at Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:42 PM >UAC Installer Detection only affects x86 binaries, so that only helps >with setup-x86.exe. As for setup-x86_64.exe, its builtin manifest >requires Admin privileges because otherwise it won't promote itself >automaticall

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Ryan Johnson sent the following at Thursday, September 12, 2013 11:31 AM >>> Try *copying* setup64.exe to foo.exe. Or download it again but save it >>> with the name foo.exe. >>> Windows may be remembering that the file used to be called setup*.exe. >>> That memory might not get copied. >> Doesn't

RE: cannot run setup64.exe without admin privileges (even if renamed foo.exe)

Frédéric Bron sent the following at Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:07 AM >I would like to run setup64.exe on Windows 7 without asking for admin >rights but the computer asks me for admin credentials. I read this: >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-06/msg00286.html where Corinna >suggested to rename

RE: Process command lines for Cygwin processes no longer viewable in Windows task manager as of Cygwin 1.7.21

Tom Honermann sent the following at Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:53 PM Does this (or a variation thereof) do what you want? c:\cygwin\bin\procps -A --format cmd - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

RE: MSYS mode (continue)

BGINFO4X sent the following at Tuesday, July 09, 2013 6:39 AM >Regarding to the fstab format, I don't know if it is supported, but it >would be nice to support Environment Variables. > >For example, Instead of: C:/Users /desktop > >Use: %USERPROFILE% /desktop > >It is only a suggestion/example. As

RE: offline cygwin install question

<... wrote: > I have a win7 64-bit machine that is not online and I want to update > the cygwin install. What is the best method for doing this? Can I just > copy the current cygwin install off of my XP 32-bit machine and drop > it into the 64-bit win7 rig, or will that create a problem? Do the ex

RE: 1.7.20: cygicons-0.dll has gone missing

Erik Falor sent the following at Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:07 PM >I ran setup.exe yesterday to update my Cygwin system and noticed that >afterward most of my Cygwin-related desktop icons reverted to the >Windows default icon image. Upon further investigation I found that >/bin/cygicons-0.dll is m

RE: [BUG REPORT]sed -e 's/[B-D]/_/g' replaces unexpected characters

Lavrentiev, Anton sent the following at Tuesday, June 25, 2013 11:44 AM >> The character ordering is based on the default Windows ordering for the >> locale, and that's dictionary ordering, apparently. > >Ah, I see what you meant here. There's an elaborated explanation: > >http://www.gnu.org/softwa

Problem with FAQ heading

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.msvs-mingw 6.19. How do I use cygwin1.dll with Visual Studio or MinGW? This section doesn't actually mention MinGW except in its heading. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: htt

RE: Setup.exe won't run from Bash on Windows 8

Yaakov (Cygwin/X) sent the following at Monday, June 17, 2013 7:17 PM >On 2013-06-17 18:13, Chloe wrote: >> But it will run if I double click it from Explorer. I have >> execute permissions. What is wrong? > >Due to UAC Installer Detection, setup.exe requires Admin permissions >in order to run, b

RE: Patch for shutdown

Fedin Pavel sent the following at Monday, May 20, 2013 10:00 AM > And following the same logic we would need to teach our find.exe (already > mentioned on this list) to understand Windows options instead of UNIX > options... FYI, Windows find = grep c:\> find /? Searches for a text string in a

RE: Installing VIM installs lots of other stuff

Rick Patterson sent the following at Tuesday, May 07, 2013 10:09 PM >I am wondering why installing VIm installs so many other things: After >doing a default install of Cygwin, and then not finding VIm, I added VIM >to the install as well, but found it greatly increased my Cygwin install >as follows

RE: Install Problem: No Shortcuts

Scott Roland sent the following at Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:46 AM > >I tried to do a fresh install of Cygwin on a Windows 7 machine. I have >attached the cygcheck.out. > >The only option I selected during the install was the mirror. The rest >I left as default, but no shortcuts were placed on my D

RE: Mintty.exe not found

marco atzeri sent the following at Wednesday, March 13, 2013 2:33 PM >On 3/13/2013 6:17 PM, James F Ross wrote: >> I have been using cygwin successfully for months, but today it >> suddenly crashed and would not open. I tried rebooting my computer, >> but all I get is the error "Windows is searchi

RE: Certificate of Networthiness for Cygwin 1.7.17 (UNCLASSIFIED)

Orourke, Robert B CIV (US) sent the following at Wednesday, January 16, 2013 5:25 PM > >You may be able to help me. I have been assigned to apply for an Army >Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) for Cygwin 1.7.17. You may be able to >provide me with certain information I need for this application:

RE: suggestion/feature request: some help to pick a mirror for setup.exe

Roger Pack sent the following at Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:05 PM >it might be interesting/useful to have the list of "mirrors" ordered >somehow, it is a bit bewildering (at least for this user) to get >this large list of mirrors to "unfamiliar" mirror sites and I think >"ok...so...which one shou

RE: disk format question

bartels sent the following at Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:00 AM >I frequently need to destroy a file system on removable media. The >windows format.com claims the fs is write protected, but I hope dd >can help out. In Windows Explorer, right clicking on the drive should give a format command. Whe

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