/usr/bin/su.exe in sh-utils always fails

On Monday 29 Sep 03, Matt Swift writes: > The Cygwin FAQ says that there is no `su' command in recent versions > of Cygwin, The sh-utils package, however, currently contains an `su' > command, but it doesn't work. The shell transcript below illustrates > the problem. You have to trust me that I o

chmod not working on Win98

On Saturday 8 Mar 03, Greg Matheson writes: > When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to > use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be > 600 on it is new. > > However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644 This is in the FAQ. David -- Unsu

Re: libtool 20030216: problem recognizing import libraries

On Friday 7 Mar 03, Teun Burgers writes: > I've found the culprit. I installed the perl LWP module which > installs a HEAD script that fetches the header of an URL. > On unix HEAD and head are different but on cygwin having > both HEAD and head.exe along the path causes a problem... Would CYGWIN=c

undefined reference to `___w32_sharedptr_initialize'

On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Jean-Luc Vay writes: > I have just updated cygwin on a Windows2000 pc and recompiled a code. > At the linking phase, I now get the following error message: > > gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Wl,--export-all-symbols \ > -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition \ > -o warpC.d

Re: Permission denied calling configure on Win95

On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Christopher Faylor writes: > Before you do that, however, you might want to try this: > > cd / > chmod -R a+r . > chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib > > If you get errors from the "a+x" line above that's ok. This needs to get into the FAQ. But first I

Re: gcc Core Dump

> just that the installation has crashed my bash installation (I had > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before...) It "crashed your bash installation"? Poor choice of words. You mean your user name is not displayed properly. Look at the mkpasswd command (mkpasswd --help) and possibly regenerate your /etc/pass

Permission denied calling configure on Win95

On Thursday 6 Mar 03, karim Hamed-Abdelouahab writes: > Hi, > I've just installed cygwin (version 1.95) Huh? There is no such thing. Where did you get it? David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: gcc Core Dump

On Thursday 6 Mar 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > uname -a says: > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ZWG15-0274 1.3.15(0.63/3/2) 2002-11-06 22:41 i686 unknown ^^ This is rather old. I would upgrade the Cygwin package first. David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsub

Re: gcc Core Dump

On Thursday 6 Mar 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > cygcheck -c gcc > Cygwin Package Information > Package Version > gcc 3.2-1 Have you tried using setup to update the gcc package to the latest available? What does "uname -a" say? Regar

Re: gcc Core Dump

On Thursday 6 Mar 03, Max Bowsher writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a newbie in programming under Cygwin, and I have a very basic > > problem with gcc: > > Any help is appreciated. > > OK, right mailing list this time, but, as I said in my previous reply, it > works fine for m

Re: Setup "Download from Internet" Question

On Thursday 27 Feb 03, BB writes: > As a followup question, In order to create a CD to install from, would it be > better to simply ftp the files from one of the mirror sites. Yes. > What would the > correct directory structure have to be for setup to install from the > d:\cygwin-setup as a loca

CD/DVD writers

On Wednesday 26 Feb 03, Maurício writes: >Hi, > >Is it possible to write CD or DVDs using cygwin (obviously, giving > that I have the appropriate equipment working under windows)? Try . It might wo

Re: Cygwin crashes on .Net Server 2003 with Terminal Services enabled

On Tuesday 25 Feb 03, Thorsten Kampe writes: > > cygwin works like a charm on my .NET Standard Server 2003 RC2 with remote > > desktop enabled. > > I tried it myself and it is definitely "Terminal Services" that make > Cygwin fail. In a few months there will be dozen of questions like > "Cygwin

Re: gcc problem with filename case insensitivity

On Monday 24 Feb 03, Elfyn McBratney writes: > > ... > > and I compile with "gcc -Imy/include/dir sourcefile.c" where > > String.h lives in my/include/dir. > > > > GCC uses my/include/dir/String.h to satisfy the directive. > > I just tried this with "check_case:strict" in my CYGWIN environment >

gcc problem with filename case insensitivity

Greetings, I have a problem which I realise comes from Windows' being case-insensitive with filenames. Even so, maybe someone here knows how to solve it. Suppose I have this source file: #include #include "String.h" int main() { // some stuff } and I

RE: upgrading broke cygwin?

On Monday 24 Feb 03, Val Schmidt writes: > Yes, this has caused much trouble. > > I'm assuming I must create a new XP account to that of a single word > username, and then change that in the cygwin passwd file. Would a reasonable > procedure be something like the following: Did you read the FAQ

1.30 gcc cannot exec \'cc1\'

On Monday 24 Feb 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Hi > > I am trying to compile ORCA (www.orcaware.com) under cygwin and get an error under > configure. I have traced the error to gcc under cygwin. > gcc -v --help gives: You've got a bit of learning to do if you think the Cygwin mailing list w

Cygwin crashes on .Net Server 2003 with Terminal Services enabled

On Monday 24 Feb 03, Christoph Hense writes: > I try to use cygwin on a .Net Server 2003 RC2 with Terminal Services > enabled. > > However none of the cygwin tools work. That's too bad... > ... > > Does anyone have any idea? Please don't ask anyone to look at this until after .Net Server is fo

Re: ssh-add could not open connection

Please keep this on the list. On Monday 24 Feb 03, Matt writes: > nope, sorry, i forgot to mention i tried that having > seen it in posts. i tried it again and here's what i > get > > $ eval 'ssh-agent' These are the wrong quotes. > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-HKmR3576/agent.3576; export > SSH_AUTH

ssh-add could not open connection

On Sunday 23 Feb 03, Matt writes: > I am running cygwin on WinXP I am having trouble with > ssh-agent not being able to establish the > SSH_AUTH_SOCK and SSH_AGENT_PID environment variables. > then when i go to run ssh-add it can't find the > authentication agent. I know this is the problem > bec

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

On Monday 17 Feb 03, David Starks-Browning writes: > On Saturday 15 Feb 03, andrew clarke writes: > > ... > > Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's > > described as a "work-in-progress" and seemingly a bit of a moving target. &g

Re: toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends

On Friday 21 Feb 03, Igor Pechtchanski writes: > You can re-run Setup and switch that setting (without installing any > packages, just set all to "Keep" or "Skip", unless you want to upgrade at > the same time). I didn't think of that. I should add it to the FAQ. Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe i

1.3.20 most recent upgrades : rxvt creates 100% load on CPU

On Friday 21 Feb 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, list, > > I was experimenting with emacs, found out about C-h and Backspace > problem, and then, in suggestion to found answers, I decided to try > rxvt. > > rxvt seems to have a load problem, however. I haven't found anything > in the maili

toggling DOS versus UNIX line ends

On Friday 21 Feb 03, Rich DeFuria writes: > Hello, > > I am (happily) running cygwin on a win2k box. > > During installation, I chose the DOS line end option; big mistake! > > Now I want to change the setting to UNIX line ends. > > How do I toggle that setting? > > BTW, I have read the cygwin

Re: GPL Violation

On Thursday 20 Feb 03, Frédéric L. W. Meunier writes: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >> I make cygwin1.dll.bz2 available so that people can run the > >> static binaries. > > > If you provide the Cygwin DLL in binary form, you must > > provide the sources of that version as well. > > Would a link

Re: rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?

On Thursday 20 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: > Thank you for the suggestion. > > David Starks-Browning wrote: > > > On Wednesday 19 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: > [snip] > > If *all* shells source that line, then you have the problem that the > > first one to ex

rxvt dialog at shutdown suggests failure to exit due to ssh-agent?

On Wednesday 19 Feb 03, Jim Kleckner writes: > Consistently when I shutdown Win2K I get a dialog > asking to end an rxvt process: > End Program: rxvt0510 > Windows cannot end this program. It may need > more time to complete an operation. ... > End Now/Cancel > > I launch rxvt

Username with space in it

On Tuesday 18 Feb 03, David Rasmussen writes: > My Windows user name is "David Rasmussen". I've found > that some things choke on the space in the user name, > for example bootstrapping gcc. So I would like to use > another name, "david" as my username. Can that be > done? And how? Do you really n

a2ps

On Monday 17 Feb 03, Ajay Simha writes: > hi, > > I tried to run configure on a2ps-4.13 and get this error: > > [asimha@ASIMHA-W2K /tmp/a2ps-4.13]$ ./configure > ... > checking for flex... no > checking for lex... no > checking for flex... ${SHELL} /tmp/a2ps-4.13/auxdir/missing --run flex > check

Re: cron and network drives

On Friday 14 Feb 03, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) writes: > >>We need an entry in the FAQ about the inaccessiblity of network shares > >>from Cygwin run services. > > > > > > FWIW, it's in the User's Guide: > > > > Igor > > T

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

On Saturday 15 Feb 03, andrew clarke writes: > ... > Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's > described as a "work-in-progress" and seemingly a bit of a moving target. I'll see if I can make this sound less off-putting. But I also agree with Chris, that the people

cygdrive

On Wednesday 12 Feb 03, Maurício writes: >Hi, > >Why can't we see /cygdrive with ls in /, and also can't see it using > word completion in bash (i.e., typing cd /cyg and pressing tab)? > >Thanks, >Maurício I guess this belongs in the FAQ. (It's not there already?) /cygrive is

Can't set mark in emacs

On Wednesday 12 Feb 03, Mike Robertson writes: > I just installed cygwin on my NT 4.0 system. I have tried using the shell > based emacs and am having some problems. > First I couln't use the C-x C-c command to exit. I figured that out > (CYGWIN=tty), but I am still having some problems with sett

Re: I can't exit emacs

On Friday 7 Feb 03, Stephen Ford writes: > Put 'set CYGWIN=tty' in cygwin.bat and now C-x C-c exits emacs. The 'M-x > save-buffers-kill-emacs' works too, but C-h does not. Any further ideas? What do you want C-h to do? Use F1 for help. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com

Re: SSH and Home

On Monday 27 Jan 03, Thorsten Kampe writes: > >>> I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...] > >> > >> Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble. Change > >> your username so it doesn't contain spaces. > > > > FYI, there was a long discussion on the list some months ago

RE: SIGINT to bash behaves differently in rxvt as compared to console

On Wednesday 22 Jan 03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Igor, > > Cheers - but I just tried that and it didn't have any effect. That variable > is not set by default in either the console or rxvt. > > Bummer. > > Duncan. Did you set CYGWIN before starting *any* Cygwin programs? Put it in your syst

Re: Emacs Problem

Scott, You don't say anything about: - whether you mean emacs to an X display or "emacs -nw" aka "emacs-nox" - assuming the latter, whether in the standard Cygwin command window, or rxvt. I don't think you'll have this problem in rxvt (I don't). If a standard command window, does Randall's

Bugs in Rsync?

On Monday 13 Jan 03, Michael Hipp writes: > I'm trying to use Rsync to back up this system to a remote across the > network. I'm butting my head against 2 probs: > > - When rsync is given a source of /, it absolutely refuses to descend into > /cygdrive. It's as if the -x (one fs only) is set. I t

Re: FAQ now misleads about cygcheck output

On Monday 2 Dec 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: > I submitted a patch for this a while ago, but it didn't seem to make it > into the FAQ... Any news on that? I haven't gotten to it yet, sorry. Perhaps tonight. Thanks, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

FAQ now misleads about cygcheck output

On Sunday 1 Dec 02, Jason C. Johnston writes: > For the Cygwin FAQ maintainer: > > Quoted from the FAQ under "Posting Guidelines" -- > > Details about your Cygwin setup, accomplished by pasting the > output of 'cygcheck -s -v -r' into your message. (Do not send the > output as a file

Newbie setup question

On Friday 29 Nov 02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My appologies for this simple question. Please let me know if this is the > wrong place to ask, but I've been struggling with this for some time now... > > I'm trying to use GCC for Palm programming. I followed the "Installing > prc-tools on MS Wi

Re: ls problem

Carlo, Do you have any anti-virus software running? 'ls -l' has to open each file, and this typically triggers your AV software to scan it. Depending on your AV product, and how you have configured it, this might explain unusual delays. If you do have AV software running, try repeating the tests

ls problem

On Monday 18 Nov 02, Carlo Florendo writes: > Hello, > > I've been using cygwin for 3 years now and last week, I downloaded the > latest cygwin from one of the mirrors and everything in well except for one > problem. I noticed that whenever I type 'ls -', the output gets delayed for > a few secon

Re: cygwin release

On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: > Thanks for the prompt response. I realized that he asked for a better > window, that's why I tried searching for both. > For the future, though, would sending a patch to winsup/doc/faq.texinfo > instead make your job easier, or harder? Patches are

Re: cygwin release

On Sunday 17 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > > Dennis Lubert wrote: > > > > > just saw the new cygwin release, and since I don't know who to ask, I > > > ask you ;) Is there any other shell, oder shell-like program I can use > > > cygwin with ? I us

later w32api package required to build cygwin

Thanks Chris, your new gcc package makes it possible to build Cygwin from cvs, using Cygwin on Windows 98. VERY impressive. Nice work Cygwinners! Regards, David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, David Starks-Browning writes: > Greetings, > > I've been attempting to build cygwin1.dll from

Mirrors very slow?

On 16 Nov 02, Henry S. Thompson writes: > Am I the only one who has found the mirrors very slow to get synced > lately? None of the recently announcement packages are available at > any of the mirrors I've checked, and over the last few weeks it's > sometimes taken two or three days for things to

emacs lockup w/ TERM = linux

On Friday 15 Nov 02, Bill Priest writes: > All, > Another piece of the puzzle. > > if TERM = linux inside rxvt (windows version) then > emacs hangs while loading the lisp files; status line > freezes on "Loading international/mule-cmds..." OK, there is indeed something wierd going on with TER

emacs lockup w/ TERM = linux

On Friday 15 Nov 02, Bill Priest writes: > I've tried this with the cygwin1-20021114.dll.bz2 > snapshot as well as the net release. Are you sure that you're using the 2002-11-14 snapshot? Did you rename it to cygwin1.dll, replacing the previous one? Because that snapshot fixes all those problems

Emacs spin-loop in X -- fixed with cygwin1-20021114.dll snapshot

Thanks so much Chris! This seems to have done the trick. I've been banging on /usr/bin/emacs in X11 with the 20021114 snapshot and I have not been able to lock it up. I will keep trying (I've been fooled before) but it looks rock solid. Gratefully, David > Modified files: > cygwin

Re: later w32api package required to build cygwin

On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Brian Keener writes: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-11/msg00045.html > > Igor > > -- > > > Actually I just responded to that - tried it on w2k and still no go - see > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-11/msg00048.htm

Re: later w32api package required to build cygwin

On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Igor Pechtchanski writes: > See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2002-11/msg00045.html Actually, I'm not convinced this is correct. I'm investigating. Unfortunately each iteration takes quite a while on my lowly PII-300 laptop. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)

On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Christopher Faylor writes: > >> There is a new cygwin snapshot which *may* fix this behavior, too. > >> Please try it. > > > >No, I tried it, it does not help. > > Well, that's wonderful. One report of "It works, sort of" and one of > "It doesn't fix the problem 100%". Not

Re: patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)

On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Christopher Faylor writes: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:31:09AM -0500, Joe Buehler wrote: > >Would those people having a problem with the Cygwin emacs > >going into an infinite signal loop please try testing the > >new emacs binaries that can be found at the following locatio

patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)

would not fail the *one time* I mistakenly thought I was running your new test version. Crazy. These tests, in which both versions of emacs.exe spin, were with the latest cygwin1.dll snapshot (2002-11-13). Regards, David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, David Starks-Browning writes: > Joe, > >

patched cygwin emacs available (for signal looping problem)

Joe, Good work! This fixes the problem for me. I tried emacs.exe with X and was not able to get it to spin. Thanks very much! David On Thursday 14 Nov 02, Joe Buehler writes: > Would those people having a problem with the Cygwin emacs > going into an infinite signal loop please try testing th

later w32api package required to build cygwin

Greetings, I've been attempting to build cygwin1.dll from within Cygwin. I checked out winsup from cvs, and am building in a separate directory. It fails because my installed /usr/include/w32api/winioctl.h (from the w32api-2.0-1 package) is out of date compared to that in cvs (winsup/w32api/incl

winsup/cygwin ChangeLog autoload.cc cygthread. ...

> Modified files: > cygwin : ChangeLog autoload.cc cygthread.cc >exceptions.cc fhandler_console.cc >fhandler_serial.cc fhandler_tty.cc miscfuncs.cc >pinfo.cc sched.cc sigproc.cc thread.cc tty.cc > > Log messa

Not just X (Was: Cygwin Emacs-X uses 99% of cpu)

On Wednesday 13 Nov 02, David Starks-Browning writes: > I also observe emacs spinning. I see it with both emacs and > emacs-nox. I also see it on an old cygwin non-X build of xemacs-21.5. > So it's not strictly related to X. (Except that it is very easily > triggered by e

Not just X (Was: Cygwin Emacs-X uses 99% of cpu)

I also observe emacs spinning. I see it with both emacs and emacs-nox. I also see it on an old cygwin non-X build of xemacs-21.5. So it's not strictly related to X. (Except that it is very easily triggered by emacs + X.) I observe it in cygwin-1.3.15-1 and 1.3.15-2. It all goes away if I rever

rxvt dosn't read .Xdefaults.

On Tuesday 12 Nov 02, Fletcher, Bob (GEAE, EB&TS) writes: > Greetings, > I'm running rxvt 2.7.2 and It's not reading my .Xdefaults Yes it does, but you need to get the entries right. > I added these lines to my .Xdefaults ( Note that bash recognizes how to expand > ~) > > ~ > cat ~/.Xdefa

ssh-add fails on win98 w/ cygwin1.dll 1.3.14,15

Greetings, With cygwin-1.3.13 on Win98, these work great, and I use them all the time: bash$ eval `ssh-agent` bash$ ssh-add But since 1.3.14, and still with 1.3.15, ssh-add fails with: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. When I run ssh-add under st

Re: Cannot compile my first Cygwin program

On Wednesday 30 Oct 02, Janos Blazi writes: > Now everything works. > ... > and I could compile my test.cpp. Congratulations. Now for the next lesson: don't call your test application "test" (or test.exe). You will probably have difficulty distinguishing it from the bash shell builtin "test" an

Re: emacs on cygwin

On Thursday 10 Oct 02, Bjoern Kahl AG Resy writes: > > However, I don't use the Cygwin port of Emacs (yet?), so I also do not > > know the status of using "emacs -nw" from a remote shell. > > > > Has anyone tried this? Does it work? > > I have installed Cygwin including the GNU-emacs package of

Re: emacs on cygwin

emote shell > > > >>works fine. > > > >To be exact, I know that there is now a Cygwin version of GNU Emacs, that > >XEmacs does not have a (setup.exe) Cygwin package, and that those URLs work. > >However, I don't the status of GNU Emacs or NT Emacs in a r

Installing problem

On Saturday 18 May 02, CiccioSPICE writes: > Hi, > a friend of mine has copied setup and every pachage on a CD, but I find a > prolem during the installation. The list of avalaible package are empty and > there is a message"nothing to install/update". My os is win 98. What can I > do? Excuse me

two installs one works; one doesn't

On Thursday 16 May 02, Jim George writes: > I have cygwin, cygwin-xfree, and postgres installed on two Win2K systems. > The first is a W2K Professional on a Toshiba Laptop, the second is a W2K > Advanced Server on a desktop. > > The first works like grease lightening, the second runs like a dog i

1.3.10: large files reported incorrectly (XP)

On Thursday 16 May 02, Dmitri Loguinov writes: > I have two large (16 GB and 18 GB) tar files on an NTFS partition in Windows > XP. When I list the files in cygwin, I get the following: > > -rw-r--r--1 Dmitri Administ 478821376 Dec 18 22:15 unix1.tar > -rw-r--r--1 Dmitri Administ 1844

Window Size

On Tuesday 14 May 02, Eric Ng writes: > May I know how I can expand the cygwin window size? do i use the 'BASH' > command or something else? Use rxvt. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documenta

where's control-o?

On Monday 13 May 02, Tye Zdrojewski writes: > Hello, > > It appears that control-o is not reaching the shell through either the > console nor rxvt. It seems like it is being caught by Windows. This > is in-and-of-itself not such a big deal. But if I'm using rxvt and hit > control-o while in a

FAQ Alert? (was Re: Problems in shm.cc from cvs)

On Monday 13 May 02, Jason Tishler writes: > > Jason Tishler has already suggested a possible cause for this problem: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00639.html > > Should the above become a FAQ? At least, until cygipc goes away? Yes, I suppose so. Thanks for bringing it to my atten

RE: Cut and paste standard input and output

> > Is there a way to mount /dev so one can see everything that's > > available there? > > No. This should certainly be in the FAQ. I'll add it. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com

F-Secure anti-virus causes system crash when scanning the C:\cygwin directory.

On Thursday 9 May 02, Brad Morgan writes: > I have a Cygwin (setup.exe version 2.194.2.15) full install on my Windows > 2000 (SP2) > desktop and on my (W2000) laptop computers. My anti-virus software is > F-Secure Anti-virus 5.22. > > On both machines, if I run a "Scan all Hard Disks" I get a bl

Re: gcc 2.95.3-5 inline patch [FAQ alert]

On Monday 6 May 02, Christopher Faylor writes: > I'm not going to be issuing any new gcc releases until sometime after > 3.1. > > I guess this needs to be a FAQ or something. OK. David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

advise on using fetchmail

On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, Mark Cooke writes: > Ive created a /etc/hosts and inserted the correct info, but I still get the > error, It doesn't go in /etc/hosts. On NT, it goes in C:\WINNT\System32\drivers\etc\HOSTS (or equivalent for your NT installation). Sorry, I know this belongs in the FAQ. R

problem with telnet and ftp server on win 2K

On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, John Vincent writes: > I've discovered that I cannot successfully telnet into my Win 2K box using > the cygwin inetd, there is also a problem with the ftp service. I've > installed inetd as per instructions, and installed it as a service. > > When I use telnet to attempt t

Where is iostat?

On Tuesday 30 Apr 02, Peter Moulding writes: > I cannot find iostat and some other commands in Cygwin. How do you find > out which package contains a command? Read the Cygwin FAQ entry "Which packages should I download?". Or find "Package Listing" on the Cygwin home page. Not too hard, really.

Re: Control-O not working in Pico When telneting

On Friday 26 Apr 02, Jeff Rozycki writes: > > > I'm running Cygwin locally (NT) only. > I am not using rxvt (just tried rxvt though and it froze when I tried > control-o to save a file while telneting) > I type "telnet" from a bash shell. Then pico on a remote linux server... OK, interesting, b

Control-O not working in Pico When telneting

On Friday 26 Apr 02, Jeff Rozycki writes: > > > When I telnet to a remote host (Cygwin/bash) and run Pico, Control-O (save > contents but don't exit Pico) does not work. You leave out important details, like whether you use rxvt, or whether Cygwin is the local or remote system (or both). Oth

True Static Linking

On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Westley Weimer writes: > I am using gcc under cygwin and I would like to ship hello.exe to a friend > who does not have cygwin1.dll on his computer. > ... > (1) Is there a "-static" switch that statically links in cygwin1.dll? Read the FAQ entry "Can I build a Cygwin program

Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?

On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Chris Metcalf writes: > On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Chet Ramey wrote: > > Readline has a set of characters it uses as word > > delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that > > set to its tastes. Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which > > makes

Re: Control-O hangs rxvt

On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, O'BRIEN,STEVE (HP-UnitedKingdom,ex1) writes: > I cannot explain why rxvt should fail to respond to ^] in this state whereas > the cygwin console does. ... Or why it should not cause problems to hundreds of other cygwin rxvt users who also have the "stty flush ^O". You *are*

Re: Control-O hangs rxvt

On Monday 15 Apr 02, Christopher Glaeser writes: > > > Control-O in emacs via a telnet session hangs rxvt. Is there a way to > remap > > > Control-O so that it can be used in emacs to insert a new line? If not, > is > > > there a way to un-hang rxvt after using Contorl-O? > > > > I don't have an

Control-O hangs rxvt

On Friday 12 Apr 02, Christopher Glaeser writes: > Control-O in emacs via a telnet session hangs rxvt. Is there a way to remap > Control-O so that it can be used in emacs to insert a new line? If not, is > there a way to un-hang rxvt after using Contorl-O? I don't have any problem using C-o in

Re: Bash shell extension ?

On Friday 12 Apr 02, Sam Edge writes: > (Most of this is really nothing to do with cygwin - it's all standard > Windows stuff.) > > REGEDIT4 > > ... But it is a Frequently Asked Question and I've been meaning to add something to the FAQ about it, so I appreciate that you went into such detail.

can somebody show me an example Rxvt config file?

On Thursday 11 Apr 02, jinhyuk choi writes: > I found rxvt works so cool. > now It replaced stupid command.com but can not find > any example Rxvt config file in doc directory. > somebody can show me an example Rxvt configuration > file? "man rxvt" David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin

is it impossible to use 2000-like command.com on 98?

On Wednesday 10 Apr 02, jinhyuk choi writes: > I use win98. > I just wanna use cmd.exe like bash shell not > command.com > free scroll, cut and paste, input locale language, > etc. Try rxvt. Regards, David -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting:

question about local variables in bash for cygwin

On Monday 8 Apr 02, Evan Teran writes: > Hello I have cygwin installed on my WinXP box and am loving it. However > I just noticed today that when I tried to use the local keyword in my > bash script it gives me the error "local: not found". The script works > on a RedHat box as expected so I wou

Re:bash script Q

Unless there is something Cygwin-specific to your question here, I would point out that this is off-topic for this list, and ask you to take your shell programming questions elsewhere. Thanks, David On Friday 5 Apr 02, Gupta, Sanjay writes: > I assuming that I am reading all files from /tmp/ dir

RE: ncftp current release won't run - missing CYGREADLINE5.DLL

On Thursday 4 Apr 02, Robert Collins writes: > > Sorry, but I ran the newest setup This Week (monday), and it > > broke my ftpd operation, ("Can't set uid") and tossed out the > > cygreadline5.dll breaking ncftp.exe so I'm not spreading old > > information. > > > > One of the posters aimed me

RE: cygqwin with mingw32 question

On Saturday 30 Mar 02, Norman Vine writes: > Since this question comes up quite frequently > maybe we could add the following 'tip' to the faq > > Q) What preprocessor symbols does Cygwin define > A) Use the tool Luke :-) > > % echo > jnk.c > % gcc -E -dM jnk.c > % gcc -mno-cygwin -E -dM jnk.c

Re: cygqwin with mingw32 question

On Friday 29 Mar 02, Jonathan Wilson writes: > I did see that but what I dont understand is if __CYGWIN__ is defined > when -mno-cygwin is selected. Try it! Bet you would have learned faster than asking here! (Would have saved *me* some time, that's for sure...) > I also need to know if cygwi

cygqwin with mingw32 question

On Friday 29 Mar 02, Jonathan Wilson writes: > I am going to be doing something thats going to use cygwin, -mno-cygwin > and mingw32 and I need to know what compiler flags I can use to test for > this. > This same code already builds on win32 with visual C++ and also on *nix > with gcc so is th

Re: bash: more: command not found

> >On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: > > > David (Starks-Browning), would it be worthwhile to add the "How do I find out > > > what package utility XXX is in?" to the FAQ? > > > >"What packages should I download?&quo

Re: bash: more: command not found

On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) writes: > David (Starks-Browning), would it be worthwhile to add the "How do I find out > what package utility XXX is in?" to the FAQ? "What packages should I download?" is already there. David -- Unsubscribe in

ntsec, ssh and cygwin

On Thursday 28 Mar 02, Daniel Holtkamp writes: > Hello everyone, > >I´m using cygwin for some time now but today i ran into a problem. >I´ve got a user-request that they want to be able to scp files to a >host without entering their password everytime. No problem i >thought, deplo

Re: rxvt / telnet / emacs

On Wednesday 27 Mar 02, Christopher Glaeser writes: > > Do you have a DISPLAY environment variable set? If so, unset it. > > Perfect! Many thanks. > > BTW, I don't know how the cygwin FAQ is updated, but a google search of the > cygwin/telnet/emacs returned many hits with no solutions. Appare

bash failed to initialize on telnet/rsh/rlogin server

On Tuesday 26 Mar 02, Polley Christopher W writes: > I'm trying to get inetd set up for telnet/rsh/rlogin on my machine and have > everything going up to the point that after login.exe gives the motd to the > telnet client, a dialog window pops up on the server titled "bash.exe - > Application Err

RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe update

On Monday 25 Mar 02, Gaethofs, Danny writes: > Dear David, > > I earlier posted a mail of setup creating new menu entries in my install > directory. I have looked at the setup version that was being used and found, > just downloaded it today, version: 2.194.2.15, while I was under the > impressio

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Setup.exe update

On Monday 25 Mar 02, Cliff Hones writes: > Despite having followed the various posts, I am > still confused by the current status of setup.exe, > and I doubt if I'm alone. > > Robert announced the new version on 19th March. > I downloaded setup.exe shortly after (but didn't use it) > and found I

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