Re: 'gm convert' in 1.5 and 1.7

2009-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have attached a simple test case Simple maybe, but a bit much to spam the whole list with! I am afraid if it spams, but I haven't understood what you mean: I have attached a simple test, as often required by the list

Re: 'gm convert' in 1.5 and 1.7

2009-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Half a megabyte times thousands of list users only one or two of whom may actually want it == lots of waste. Really $ du -s test.jpg.bz2 336Ktest.jpg.bz2 Ah, but: $ du -xcsh \'gm\ convert\'\ in\ 1.5\ and\ 1.7.eml 464K'gm convert

Re: setup-1.7.exe can't use I:\ for Local Package Directory

2009-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
Ken Jackson wrote: This email list is very good, but it has so much traffic that I can only stand to be on it for a few days before I jump off it again. You're not obliged to read every single one you know! (And if you use e.g. gmane's newsgroup interface, you don't have to subscribe at

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-62

2009-10-03 Thread Dave Korn
Paul McFerrin wrote: What does all of these means for users converting from cygwin 1.5? Do we have to change anything we are doing today? I live in the good-ole US, speak/understanding english. Did my ancesters get on the wrong boat? They sure got on the

[patch] Update build flags for new compiler feature

2009-10-02 Thread Dave Korn
So, nobody did ask for a compiler version check(*), so here's the patch plus changelog, and I'd like to get separate OKs from both cgf and cv to say that you've each either updated your cross-build environments or don't mind patching the flag back out locally until you can.

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Lilja wrote: Hi Eric, and thanks for your kind words, I also wanted to ask if there's a summary somewhere about what's changed since g++ (GCC) 4.3.2 20080827 (beta) 2, what problems have been solved regarding Cygwin? The best place to look is in the cygwin-specific readme:

Re: Error in [1.7] involving /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: $ ./this_is_the_user_executable.exe assertion root_idx != -1 failed: file /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc, line 363, function: void mount_info::init() Stack trace: Crazy I know, but is there anything obviously wrong (or recently changed) with mount.cc at

Re: Error in [1.7] involving /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: More. I tried locating the executable in different places. In tests so far, the failure just reported appears to occur when and only when the executable is located in the root directory of the drive i.e. at d:\ or g:\ or t:\ or wherever. If located in a subdirectory elsewhere

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Phil Betts wrote: There's a tree package available from here: http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/release/ Oooh, I didn't know about that at all. Somebody's actually using the key management features in setup.exe and signing their custom setup.ini! Good, maybe we can get some end-user feedback

Re: Error in [1.7] involving /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Fergus wrote: The executable is then co-located with cygwin1.dll and together the duo provide me with a portable application. (Actually a fast and elaborate stats package, amazingly compact with exe + cygwin1.dll ~ 3 MB, and fully operable on host machines a million miles from the nearest

Re: latest libstdc++ causing ffmpeg mplayer to segfault

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Nathan Thern wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com wrote: Nathan Thern wrote: Yaakov- I thought I would bring this to your attention ... Compiler problems are always worth reporting on the main list too! I just discovered that ffmpeg

Re: Error in [1.7] involving /netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-61/winsup/cygwin/mount.cc

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Yes, it's absolutely certainly this. We should probably add a fallback mode that treats the same directory as the dll is found in as the root when it's not possible to ascend one level, because I suspect this mode of distribution won't turn out

Re: coredump when compiling gettext from source

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Tim Prince wrote: Tim Prince wrote: Vincent R. wrote: I have installed a fresh install of cygwin 1.7 and I wanted to compile gettext-0.17 from source so I entered: Did you apply the patch which is provided with the source when you get it via the cygwin-1.7 setup.exe? ./configure make

Re: Assistance sought grepping log files

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Larry W. Virden wrote: For example, I've copied some of the 12 hive tracing logs from IIS (or maybe it is SharePoint... I'm still struggling to figure all this out) into a directory to which I have access. Now I'd like to crunch those logs to see the errors, etc. awk and grep, however,

Re: coredump when compiling gettext from source

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
[ Sorry, my first reply to this post went astray because the OP was crossposted to both cygwin and cygwin-developers, and cygwin-developers set a reply-to header, and my mailer merged the two duplicates into one. ] Vincent R. wrote: Are you sure the problem doesn't rely on gcc version release

Re: Donation question

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Gustavo Seabra wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Michael Richards wrote: I was thinking of making a donation and saw the list of donators at http://cygwin.com/donations.html. The list you see there is not of donors, but of cygwin developers *to whom* you could make a donation.

Re: latest libstdc++ causing ffmpeg mplayer to segfault

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Nathan Thern wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Dave Korn wrote: Nathan Thern wrote: Yaakov- I thought I would bring this to your attention ... Compiler problems are always worth reporting on the main list too! I just discovered that ffmpeg and mplayer are segfaulting on me

Re: latest libstdc++ causing ffmpeg mplayer to segfault

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 01/10/2009 17:06, Dave Korn wrote: Do you mean more back-compat fixes are necessary beyond that in the 2009-09-20 snapshot? Yep, fraid so. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com

Re: latest libstdc++ causing ffmpeg mplayer to segfault

2009-10-01 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: On 01/10/2009 17:06, Dave Korn wrote: Do you mean more back-compat fixes are necessary beyond that in the 2009-09-20 snapshot? Yep, fraid so. Correction: the fixes in the snapshot are sufficient for now, and will allow mplayer to work

Re: Installing previous versions of binutils

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
Ian C wrote: Sorry if this is a silly question (new to this), I know how to uninstall the binutils 20080624-2 that comes with Cygwin 1.5.25-15. ...but can I use the setup routine to install previous versions of binutils (such as version 20060817-1), which should be compatible with the

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
Ehud Karni wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:52:02 Dave Korn wrote: That is precisely why I asked for the source, and precisely the advantage of open source over proprietary closed sources :-) I attach a source code for my own (simplified version) treed program Thanks for trying to help

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
Eric Blake wrote: Furthermore: This program is released under the GPL, so you can do any modification to it. If you do, please post your changes (and the reason behind it). One of the freedoms guaranteed by the GPL is that you are free to make modifications without any requirement to push

Re: Email problem with local users

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
Troy Bull wrote: I have cygwin 1.7 installed. Exim is installed and configured and working. [ ... ] if I do this ls -l | email bull it complains that bull is an unknown user. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this issue? Is it a problem with exim or email? Dunno, but here's a

Re: List all installed pacakges

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
Steven Woody wrote: Hi, How can I list all the installed packages on my system? Thanks. cygcheck -cd gets a full package listing. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation:

Re: ldd in cygwin

2009-09-30 Thread Dave Korn
Steven Woody wrote: Hi, In Linux, we can get a library dependency list by running of 'ldd'. In windows, executable still depend on libraries, such as DLLs, but I don't find a 'ldd' command in cygwin. Is there any tool that will do the job? cygcheck /path/to/exe cheers, DaveK

Re: Pulling the switch on GCC4.

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: If 4.3.4-2 comes really, *really* soon, then it's ok. Yep, you see how limited the to-do list is in the announcement post; I'm not going to extend that any unless something critical turns up in the next 48-72 hours. cheers, DaveK

Re: Pulling the switch on GCC4.

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
Chris Sutcliffe wrote: After 4.3.4-2 is out, any chance we can work on getting a mingw cross compiler out so that we can put -mno-cygwin out of it's misery? Yes, now the compiler is stable that can be the next big thing I get on with. cheers, DaveK

[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
instance, to the main Cygwin mailing list. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com.use.the.list.please Please address all questions to the Cygwin mailing list at cygwin@cygwin.com This is the key used for signing Cygwin GCC releases: pub 1024D/6A388C3E 2008-05-31 uid

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 03:11, Dave Korn wrote: You get precisely one chance and once chance only to make setup-1.7 perform a parallel installation for you. The very first time you ever run it you must select a new installation dir, and a new local package cache dir

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
︶ㄣ無名氏 wrote: here is a tree command ad...@ubik /tmp/tree $ 7z x tree.7z 7-Zip 9.04 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-05-30 p7zip Version 9.04 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs) Can't load '/usr/lib/p7zip/Codecs/.keep-p7zip' (Permission denied) Processing archive:

Re: Tree command - Display Structure of Directory Hierarchy

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: Dave Korn wrote: ︶ㄣ無名氏 wrote: here is a tree command You just distributed the binary of a program that is linked against the Cygwin DLL, and hence is covered by the GPL. Please send me the source. Not to mention that there no one should EVER run an executable, posted

Re: [1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: This version works OK in a cygwin shell, but not in a Windows command prompt, because gcc.exe is a symbolic link. Indeed. Use gcc-3 or gcc-4 explicitly from a windows shell (or even use 'bash -c gcc ... ' to chase the link). There's no one answer that would suit

[1.7] Updated: stable compiler package gcc4-4.3.4-1

2009-09-29 Thread Dave Korn
instance, to the main Cygwin mailing list. Cygwin port maintained by: Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com.use.the.list.please Please address all questions to the Cygwin mailing list at cyg...@cygwin.com This is the key used for signing Cygwin GCC releases: pub 1024D/6A388C3E 2008-05-31 uid

Re: Pulling the switch on GCC4.

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does the new gcc version now set the TSAWARE flag by default? That would be quite important, so that at leats new applications run on a Terminal Server right from the start. Especially bash is an important candidate. Arrgh. No, it doesn't. Blast, knew I was

Re: Pulling the switch on GCC4.

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: 4.3.4-1 will be ready to upload as soon as I've finished updating the README, run the cygport packaging step, and test-installed the packages. Glad I did that. It doesn't work on 1.5, owing to it having detected the availability of stpcpy() in 1.7 and linked against

Re: gcc 4.3.2 rethrow exception

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
zevel12 wrote: Rethrowing an exception in Cygwin's gcc 4.3.2 causes an abort. This works with gcc 3.4.4 and in Linux with gcc 4. Below is an example that is compiled as: gcc rethrow.cpp -lstdc++. This could be a Well, don't do that then situation. I tried your testcase, but I compiled it

Re: Installing 1.7 alongside 1.5 - can it be done safely?

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
David Antliff wrote: I have found some serious issues with Cygwin 1.5 that I want to test against in the 1.7 beta, before I commit to abandoning 1.5. Is it possible to install Cygwin 1.7 on the same PC/filesystem as Cygwin 1.5, yet maintain absolute independence between the two versions?

Re: gcc 4.3.2 rethrow exception

2009-09-28 Thread Dave Korn
zevel12 wrote: Dave Korn-6 wrote: It's always best to use the proper language driver for compiling C++ instead of adding -lstdc++ to the C compiler command-line, in fact it's not a supported mode of operation It did indeed fix the problem. As an added note, I also had to use g

Pulling the switch on GCC4.

2009-09-27 Thread Dave Korn
Evening all, 4.3.4-1 will be ready to upload as soon as I've finished updating the README, run the cygport packaging step, and test-installed the packages. With this release, I'm planning to throw the switch that makes gcc-4 now the default system compiler. This is a last call in case

Re: Pulling the switch on GCC4.

2009-09-27 Thread Dave Korn
Charles Wilson wrote: Dave Korn wrote: With this release, I'm planning to throw the switch that makes gcc-4 now the default system compiler. This is a last call in case anyone thinks there is any reason not to do so, such as anything that isn't working right or anything I've forgotten

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
Sep 23 16:23 run drwxrwx---+ 2 je28004 mkgroup-l-d 0 Sep 23 16:23 tmp je28...@s-exsyslog01 ~ $ - Original Message Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:13:31 PM Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server On 09/23/2009 06:28 PM, Dave M wrote: *** Warning: The file /etc/passwd

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
Larry, I am installing the latest version. I can try a local user, no problem. Dave M - Original Message Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:38:57 AM Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server On 09/24/2009 10:22 AM, Dave M wrote: $ ssh-host-config *** Query: Overwrite existing

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
---+ 2 Test Users 0 Sep 24 10:13 tmp t...@s-exsyslog01 ~ $ I saw something that said I should try 'chown system:system /var/empty', then 'chmod 755 /var/empty' should I try that, or what would you suggest? Dave M - Original Message Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:38:57 AM Subject

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
, but if you could point my in the right direction, I would be greatly appreciative. Dave M - Original Message Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:38:57 AM Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server On 09/24/2009 10:22 AM, Dave M wrote: $ ssh-host-config *** Query: Overwrite existing /etc

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
for and then run the shell and type ssh-user-config or? Key is a text box, I assume after I figure out which key file it is using, I willopen it and copy the contents into this web form, no? Thanks for all your help guys, I feel like I am really close. Dave M - Original Message Sent: Thursday

sftp Key info

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
== bps_mailg...@s-exsyslog01 Key Password: (optional) Did I enter the Key incorrectly? What is Server Path? I was hopijng it would make a folder for me with that name. Should I make that folder or is it not related to file folders at all? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dave M

Re: sftp Key info

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
Larry, Um, OK. I just don't know what questions to ask. I am not sure how it is supposed to work (sftp), so I am not sure if I am doing it right and it is not working or I am entering the incorrect info. Which key needs to be on the remote machine, the pub or private key? Dave M

Re: sftp Key info

2009-09-24 Thread Dave M
Larry, It worked! Thank you so much for all your help! The private key in id_rsa file in the .ssh folder is the one used for authentication apparently. I really appreciate your vigilance with this issue. I did get good help from Julio, and Mark and Dave K did try and help, but you were

Re: Small cygwin.com fonts

2009-09-24 Thread Dave Korn
Jon Grant wrote: Did you know the fonts on cygwin.com display quite small? Would you be able to boost it to the normal size by not reducing the font size by -2 ? You can do something about that for yourself: hold down Ctrl and scroll your mouse wheel up and down. (Advice based on FF,

Re: Rsync and Alternate Data Streams

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Korn
Andreas Heinlein wrote: thanks for your reply. It turned out I had not checked closely enough. I found out it has nothing to do with ADS, but with file ownership. Some of the files in question have UID and GID 4294967295 (aka 2^32-1), though they are owned by a valid Domain User. Rsync on the

Fw: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
Dave, I checked that readme file. Um, I am not sure what it is telling me, it is not really laid out step by step. I think it would be more useful if I read it from the bottom to the top. But still, I THINK I did everything it suggested. I had run ssh-host-config before, today I ran ssh-user

Re: Fw: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
Andrew, Is this another thread with the same subject? The only users I am testing with are local users on a server. I did not do the -d command, becuase I don't really need it to read domain accounts. Sorry if I am interrupting a conversation with another poster. Dave M - Original

Re: Fw: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
Brian, I never saw that, is there a way to get archives of this list for recent mail? Why would my subscription to this list be sending me part of the mail sent to this list? Have there been any other posts about my problem besides Dave K's? Dave M - Original Message From: Bryan

Re: Fw: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
and the project I am working on is at a complete standstill until I can get a backup solution in place. Any time spent helping me is enormously appreciated. Dave M - Original Message From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23

Re: puttycyg, emacsw32 and cygwin

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:25:53AM -0700, Bryan Karsh wrote: Hi guys, I updated Cygwin, and now puttycyg doesn't work. I suspect I have two copies of cygwin1.dll floating around, or maybe some environmental conflicts. I know that puttycyg doesn't work out of the box

RE: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
. Again, thanks for your assistance, any further assistance would be greatly appreciated. Dave M - Original Message From: Dave M dinden...@yahoo.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:56:27 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard

RE: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
(this won't be going over the internet, but will be going over tcp/ip on our internal network)? Dave M -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
for your help! Dave M - Original Message From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:56:40 PM Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server On 09/23/2009 02:41 PM, Dave M wrote: Larry (or anyone), OK, I

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
, the file from notepad and converting it with Word 2007, no dice. I think its the Yahoo server, but I am nost sure. Dave M - Original Message From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 1:47:49 PM Subject: Re: sftp

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
+ 2 je28004 Users0 Sep 23 13:58 log drwxrwx---+ 2 je28004 Users0 Sep 23 12:56 run drwxrwx---+ 2 je28004 Users0 Sep 23 12:56 tmp Did I mention you are awesome. Dave M - Original Message From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
Larry, I am SO sorry, I didn't even see that there was an address in the original message. Dave M --- On Wed, 9/23/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

Re: Using bash(cygwin) inside C# program

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Korn
amir knippel wrote: i created a process that runs bash and redirect stdin,stout and std error but I can’t get tty to work attached is a sample code that starts bash process and redirect the input/output. the problem is that i don't have tty device. if i try to run tty command or stty command

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
completely removed cygwin again and rebooted this server. I am just about to re-install, any suggestions on packages that I need besides openssh? Dave M - Original Message From: Larry Hall (Cygwin) To: Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:34:32 PM Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server

2009-09-23 Thread Dave M
with LocalSystem or Adminstrator IDs je28...@s-exsyslog01 ~ $ Um, is it because the ntsec environment variable is already set? Thanks for taking the time, I know I am eating up most of your day and I really appreciate it. Dave M - Original Message Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:56:57 PM

Re: Problem with GCC4[1.7]

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Here's one I just regenerated Now it WORKS!! I hacked out a duplicate call to __main and updated the checksum in the PE file header. Also, this version gives you infinite lives :-P cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http

Re: how to let cygwin does not mount /bin /usr/bin automaticlly?

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
tianlijian wrote: how to let cygwin does not mount /bin /usr/bin automaticlly? Lots of things won't work without that mount. I advise not to tamper with it. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: how to let cygwin does not mount /bin /usr/bin automaticlly?

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
tianlijian wrote: I use a older version of 1.7, which do not mount `/bin', `/usr/bin' automatically. Something must have gone wrong with creating fstab during the upgrade I guess, it should have been done. It works well. What happens when a shell script begins #!/bin/sh? Alternatively,

Re: 1.7 beta vs MSSE-- breaks 'cvs co', apparently on rename()

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
John Hood wrote: I'm having a problem with 1.7 beta on Windows XP with the Microsoft Security Essentials public beta installed. Microsoft Security Essentials Version: 1.0.1500.0 If I try 'cvs co modulename' or 'cvs up', CVS will run for a while but eventually exit with cvs

RE: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-22 Thread Dave M
be greatly appreciated. Dave M cygcheck.out Description: Binary data -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
Dave M wrote: Hi! I am following this: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html All but the part about not asking questions here if their non-standard instructions don't work for you! Heh, moving swiftly along there ... And I am to the part where I am testing ssh

Re: Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Korn
{ Cc'ing the list back in. ] Dave M wrote: Dave, Where are the standard instructions? Dave M Ah, now there's a question that's entirely on-topic for the list! The standard instructions for any cygwin package are in /usr/share/doc/packagename; but these are just the standard docs

Re: Avoiding the final setup.exe page

2009-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the very first installation (easy) or should there be a Don't

Re: Problem with GCC4[1.7]

2009-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Alternatively, apply the attached hotfix using bspatch! Hi Dave, I think I haven't understood which file should be patched... I have tried this (which does not help): ROFL, dur me; I didn't think about how this format doesn't have headers like

Re: [1.7] gvim Cannot fork error

2009-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: I can say that any DLL built with cygwin-1.7.0-51 - cygwin-1.7.0-56 is probably suspect. That's 2009-07-13 - 2009-08-13 . Argh, that's my fault isn't it? Sorry for not figuring out we should have done this when we first fixed that bug and thanks for putting in the

Re: Write access for BUILTIN\USERS - cygwin privilege escalation vulnerability for Windows 2008 default installation

2009-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew McGill wrote: I can pwn the box from IIS by writing content to these files -- and not much creativity is needed to think of many more: Waittaminnit, are you saying IIS by default lets you write any file you like anywhere on the server and relies on ACLs to save it? I think you have

Re: Problem with GCC4[1.7]

2009-09-21 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: $ ls -lrt gnat1.exe* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10045440 12 Mar 2009 gnat1.exe.orig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42546570 21 Sep 17:58 gnat1.exe (*Note* the size!) *facepalm* doh. I must have rebuilt and installed a debug version on top of my system install! Sorry!

Re: nice program for network usage?

2009-09-20 Thread Dave Korn
Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Wes S (Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:40:49 -0400) Is buried in the Cygwin project, a program like nice which keeps the system responsive when heavy cpu jobs are running except this is to use as much of bandwidth as possible unless other processes want bandwidth. I dags but

Re: Problem with GCC4[1.7]

2009-09-20 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Angelo Graziosi wrote: I have done a minimal installation of Cygwin-1.7 and have tried to use it playing to build GCC-4.4.1, but 'configure' hangs. checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... --- Here it hangs

[patch] Fix a couple of null-derefs in setup.exe

2009-09-18 Thread Dave Korn
Hi gang, There are a couple of places where setup can bomb if you blow away your stored settings (cached mirror list or last mirror), as it gets a null pointer on trying to read them back; both strtok and the std::string(const char *) ctor blow up on this. Attached patch trivially

Re: gcc-4.3.2(beta) - Invalid conversion to pointer to protected base class

2009-09-18 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Paul Bibbings wrote: The following code [ ... ] appears to be closely related to (if not duplicating) GCC Bugzilla Bug 35640 (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35640). Yep, sure looks like it to me. I don't think I'll have time to look at this before 4.3.3

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
Lapo Luchini wrote: Dave Korn wrote: Ah, looks like Cygwin only supports xattr on Samba filesystems. Mhh, well okay, then maybe I can upload the new 3.0.6 release anyways, announcing that the xattr feature is in testing (but the rest of the release is really as good as the previous

Re: mingw question : Post repetita

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
; hard to predict. Dave, by the way when will it be possible to play with your cygwin-mingw-4.3x compiler I'm running the final full testsuite. Started Monday evening, exploded horribly late last night somewhere in the fortran compiler tests, needs restarting from where it left off, will take

Re: I want my FPE!

2009-09-17 Thread Dave Korn
Mark Geisert wrote: Is there something I need to do to condition the Cygwin environment to generate FP exceptions? I saw the code in winsup/something/or/other to map x86 FP exceptions to SIGFPE but it seems somehow the exceptions aren't being generated in the first place. Very possibly

[PATCH] Update location of mirrors list on package-server.html

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Something I noticed while answering a post on the main list this morning. http://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/package-server.html still refers to the old mirrors.txt file, which is no longer extant. This patch updates it to refer to the canonical mirrors.lst file instead. *

Re: setup.exe: Determine Geographically closest mirror programmatically

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Dr. Christoph Gille wrote: Closest mirror? I'm not sure what you mean by this. 'setup.exe' does not require this as a setting. Actually, there is no such concept. You need to specify a mirror to work with but you can do that with '-s'. With each superfluous click I lose a user, so it

Re: Cygwin 1.7/1.5 C99 conformance (GCC, libc)

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Matthias Andree wrote: Now, Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 appear to lack long double library support in libc/libm -- which is required for a hosted C99 implementation however, but not for a freestanding C99 implementation. Trying to solve this, I found another Cygwin issue: GCC 3.4.4 sets

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Lapo Luchini wrote: The real reason is the following test: configure:8272: checking whether to support extended attributes configure:8321: result: No extended attribute support found ...well, judging from configure lines 8272-8321 it seems rsync xattr support is only available in

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Lapo Luchini wrote: Lapo Luchini wrote: Dave Korn wrote: It appears that cygwin has the xattr functions implemented and exported Of course I'd like to; I didn't hope it could be as easy as that. =) Yes, it seems it was as easy as that. Hmm, it may or may not be... % rsync-3.0.6-1

Re: Bug or feature missing in rsync.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: I downloaded ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/attr_2.4.43-1.tar.gz and found it builds OOTB, but my first attempt to use setfattr got me an error: $ ./setfattr/.libs/setfattr.exe -n bar -v baz foo setfattr: foo: Operation not supported Nor was getfattr

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: Wouldn't be easier to access directly to a drive without entering cygdrive? Is there any reason for that ? Go ahead. You can create a mountpoint anywhere you like, so if you want MinGW-style /c, /d, etc., just use the 'mount' command or edit the fstab. cheers,

[ANNOUNCE,cygwin-improvements] New GCC branch created for Cygwin target fixes.

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Hello all, I have created a branch in the GCC SVN repository for development work on the Cygwin-targeted port of the compiler. The URL of the branch is (r/o) svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cygwin-improvements (r/w) svn+ssh://username@gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cygwin-improvements

Re: cygdrive prefix

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Andy Koppe wrote: 2009/9/16 Thorsten Kampe whatever) prefixes when accessing stuff from the other side of the fence. Never mind the fence, what colour are we going to paint the bikeshed? This is purely a matter of taste. To each their own and de gustibus non disputandum est. cheers,

Re: tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight [Was: Re: [PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.]

2009-09-16 Thread Dave Korn
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: which, honestly, isn't very much. I'd be concerned about all those tcl-db${old_version} packages -- but it looks like there are no in-distro users of them. That leaves gdb, ruby, python, git, and parrot -- all of which have active maintainers. Plus suite3270 and

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Jerry DeLisle wrote: gdb says: (gdb) r Starting program: /home/jerry/prs/test/a.exe [New thread 162.0xa9] [New thread 162.0x8e] Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. set_fpu () at ./fpu-target.h:80 80 ./fpu-target.h: No such file or directory. in

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Jerry DeLisle wrote: gdb says: (gdb) r Starting program: /home/jerry/prs/test/a.exe [New thread 162.0xa9] [New thread 162.0x8e] Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction. set_fpu () at ./fpu-target.h:80 80 ./fpu-target.h: No such file or directory

Re: Core dump on hello world.

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: Nah, hang on, I'll give the psychic debugging a go. places hand to forehead, covering eyes, waves other hand out in front of me in a mystical-looking way I'm getting something the spirits are talking... or maybe it's just the beer... and they tell me: The problem

Re: Reading what should not!

2009-09-14 Thread Dave Korn
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Why 'root' should read, for example, private mails of the other simple users of that PC? Root is the superuser. Root is the administrative account. Root can do anything. The sysadmin /has/ to be able to access all the files on a system, it is a necessary part of

[PATCH] Define _TIMEVAL_DEFINED consistently whenever defining timeval.

2009-09-13 Thread Dave Korn
Hi all, Granted that the whole _TIMEVAL_DEFINED/__USE_W32_SOCKETS thing is basically an ugly and undesirable hack, but until we have a plan to fix the whole tcl/tk/expect/dejagnu/gdb/insight combo (as well as gnat), I figure we have to live with it, and so it should at least be correct

Re: gcc4.4

2009-09-11 Thread Dave Korn
Vincent R. wrote: And then after that. I'll probably be more inclined to go straight for a test version of 4.5.0, and skip over 4.4 series altogether. Is there any reason to ignore 4.4 family ? Main reason, as Eric suggests, is time. I've had to prepare and test a big set of

Re: [1.7] binutils-2.19.51-1: ld -r bug ?

2009-09-11 Thread Dave Korn
Christian Franke wrote: Testing build of grub 1.97 beta on Cygwin 1.7, I found that the grub .mod files are much larger than on 1.5. The modules are build by 'ld -r' (and later converted to ELF). The root of the problem is that the binutils-2.19.51-1 ld behavior differs from previous 1.5

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