Re: windows-to-windows openssh buffering issue

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 6/19/2011 4:36 AM, Nathan Ridge wrote: >> What I meant was, is it possible to write a different SSH server >> implementation >> for windows - perhaps a native one - that doesn't suffer from this >> problem? >> (And if so, do you kn

Re: Pining Cygwin in Windows 7?

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Charles Wilson <> wrote: > > Try installing mintty, then launching >   C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe - > (e.g. with the argument '-') as your "pin". (I don't know much about W7, > but at least you'd be starting an executable instead of a batch file). > > -- > Chuck You

Re: Network drives & ssh access

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <> wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:49 PM -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote: > I've yet to get "net use" to work for me via cygwin. > > net use Z: \\W.X.Y.Z\Share Use forward slash or escape the back-slashes. So, you'd try net use Z: /

Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7

> The directory D:\Cplus I created during setup. the \dev\ directory was > created by the installation along with the file named nul. Is it possible > that setup misnamed > this file nul when it should have reflected the POSIX \dev\null WIN32 > substitute? > > Also, in my last email I listed some e

Re: CYGWIN UNIX FILE PATH LEAVES FILES UNDELETABLE THROUGH WIN7

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Richard Stern <> wrote: > I had uninstalled the total cygwin package by deleting all the directories > made for this software, because cygwin did not show in the list of installed > programs > in the "Control Panel" utility "Programs & Features" in Windows 7 OS. Af

Re: PCYMTNQREAIYR Re: Setup.exe update confusion

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM, David Balažic <> wrote: > On 5 August 2010 18:37, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: >> On 8/5/2010 12:24 PM, David Balažic wrote: >>> >>> On 5 August 2010 18:00, Larry Hall (Cygwin) >>> <>  wrote: >> >>  ^^ >>  Thanks. > > Wit

Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Monte Cabet <> wrote: > I always hear some applications thrown out there that you should have to > build software from source like gcc and vim, but is there a more complete > list of what is required? I built up somewhat of a list for myself to track > what I've ins

Re: Windows Server 2008 64-bit setup.exe/bash problem - Amazon Cloud

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ernest Mueller <> wrote: > Michael, did you ever find a fix for this?  I had to give up on cygwin on > the Amazon 64-bit and instead cobbled together freesshd and random > freewares. > > Larry or others - what's the "right way" to report this as a bug?  I think > w

Re: runas, su, sudo

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Lukas Haase <> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any (working) way to change privileges in cygwin? > > Regards, > Luke > > Try this: http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su It tells you to use s...@localhost but has a link to some mailing list archives that

Re: Mirrors

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Tekerman Romanov <> wrote: > Hi, I'm not able to find e-mail where I could ask > "Sourcemaster is also the place to send requests to be added to this list." > Who is this sourcemaster? > Thank you. Hello Tekerman, The mirror page on the site cygwin.com asks you to

Re: configure rxvt on cygwin 1.7.5

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, philippe <> wrote: > Jeremy Bopp a écrit : >> [...] However, if rxvt used to work for you under Cygwin 1.5, you might be >> able to make it happy again by changing your LANG setting to LANG=C. > > No, i don't know where to modify this option LANG :-) > >> I highly re

Re: cygwin 1.7.5, 'id -ng' fails when /etc/group is a symlink

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Ken <> wrote: > I was of the understanding that junctions were not supported over a CIFS > share (my ultimate target; as with 1.5x).  Perhaps you have information to > the contrary? > > Since I have to manage the Win XP side for the foreseeable future, it > appears

Re: Fortune and the "fortune startrek" command

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Alexander T <> wrote: >> Lets all say it together >> One more time >> Now cover your eyes and see if you can say it without reading it >> Close enough. > > Humorous? To me, as a newcomer, no. Funny? Hardly. Insulting? I would > say so. I don't mind jokes and hints,

Re: Using cron with network share

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <> wrote: > On 6/22/2010 2:20 PM, Oren Cheyette wrote: >> >> I did finally get it to work by using the UNC path. I had thought that it >> was >> always preferable to use a unix-style path, particularly since cygwin now >> warns about using W32-st

Re: 'cp' utility bug when .exe file exist.

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > I disagree.  This seems to me to be adopting the Microsoft policy of doing > the user's thinking for them:  "I don't care what they want - we know > what's best for them."  If a person wants to have "foo" and "foo.exe" in > the same directory, that should

Re: "command not found"-For All Commands

> I am very suspicious of anything that Windows 7 might suggest with > respect to Cygwin. > On what basis does Win 7 claim that Cygwin was not installed correctly, > and how on earth can Win 7 hope to correct this for you? > > I would suggest un-installing Cygwin, then from Cygwin setup > once agai

Re: can't find documentation on cron command

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Paul McFerrin <> wrote: > I've delayed many months for installing the "/usr/sbin/cron.exe" command. >  Mainly due to lack of documentation. Are you saying that 'man cron' and 'man crontab' don't do anything for you? Install cron and you get man 1 cron man 5 cront

Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter

> But it used to work.  I noticed this after updating to the latest release. > > If the drive-letter form of the pathname is not acceptable to the tool, it > should complain, but (like most Cygwin utilities) it probably doesn't care > about > the syntax of the pathname, as long as open(2) accepts

Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Francis Litterio <> wrote: > I notice that setfacl does not change the ACLs of a file when given a pathname > starting with a drive letter (e.g., c:/temp/zzz), but it will work when given > a > UNIX-style pathname (e.g., /cygdrive/c/temp/zzz).  Example below.  Is t

Re: Resolving '????????' users and groups

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Wes Barris <> wrote: > mkpasswd -d would return all of the domain users (we have thousands). > However, I know that these files are not owned by anyone else. > The files in question are coming from a samba share (mapped network > drive) served from a Linux system. >

Re: Setup.exe does not work.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Stafford <> wrote: > All, > > I downloaded and ran setup.exe. I have Windows Vista x64. I get to the part > that wants to pick a download site. None are listed, it should automatically > find the sites for me. Anyways, I go back to your site, find a mirror

Re: Is it possible to use any of the cygwin programs without changing registry?

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:45 AM, breako <> wrote: > > Hi, > so the standard cygwin install is to run the setup. This puts some dll's on > your file system and would also I presume update your registry. > > I'd like to do be able to run some simple cygwin programs such as grep and > ls without havi

Re: Missing documentation on bash

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Paul McFerrin <> wrote: > Folks: > I'm still having problems getting these .bat files to work under MS > scheduler.  Okay, I have swore off .bat files and have installed "cron".  No > more interactions between MS-DOS and Cygwin scripting.  These scripts are > totall

Re: Vista and CYGWIN telnet

2010/1/8 Gareth Payne : > Hi, > >  SYSTEM    3304    1572   ?  20:04:40 /usr/sbin/syslog-ng ^ syslog-ng is running. Does anything show up in /var/log/messages? Also > Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html What documentation did you follow to get sshd and inetd configured? Than

Re: The need for cygwin

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Karthik Balaguru <> wrote: > Hi, > I am eager to know the need for cygwin if emulators like  VirtualBox, > Bochs IA-32 Emulator , QEMU, Vmware, Hyper-V, XenServer are able to > provide the linux in windows ? > How is cygwin different from those and what are the adva

Updating the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin

Does anyone on the list keep an eye on the Wikipedia entry for Cygwin? It is where you would expect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin for the English Wikipedia. It has the current version as "1.5.25-15 / 14 June 2008". Someone with a better understanding of the fundamental changes may want to

Re: Front end suggestions for Cygwin?

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Rogelio <> wrote: > Does anyone have any good front end suggestions for Cygwin? > > (I'm really spoiled by apps like PuTTY which automatically put > whatever you select on the clipboard.  Ideally, however, the app would > have a few more features than something like

Re: Executing ready compiled C program using bash shell

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Jasmit Kaur <> wrote: > I have recently downloaded cygwin. I am trying to run a ready compiled > C binary program using bash shell...I get the following error...cannot > execute binary file - any suggestions? > > Thanks > Jasmit > > -- First, welcome to Cygwin. Se

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Lee Maschmeyer <> wrote: >> To verify it, all you have to do is open a bash prompt (Cygw > 0/tty2W0(2)$ echo $PATH > /home/lmaschm/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/c/Program > Files/Common Files/Microsoft Shared/Windows Live:/c/WINDOWS > /system32:/c/

Re: how to get the windows PATH env in cygwin

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > 2009/12/1 Reinier Post: >>> If you want to see the Windows PATH setting unmolested by Cygwin, you >>> will either need to strip out the additions set by /etc/profile or avoid >>> running under an environment modified by /etc/profile. >> >> It

Re: [1.7] su

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, <> wrote: > Is su supposed to work?  When I try from an unprivileged account > I get: I did the work of visiting the cygwin home page to read the 1.7 FAQ and user guide. Here you are told that it doesn't work. http://cygwin.com/1.7/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.su

Re: 'ls' not finding owner/group of some files created by other user

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM, aputerguy <> wrote: > > This is a weird one. > > If I use a non-cygwin program such as 'edit' or 'ntemacs' to create a file > under userA, say 'test', then when I list under user A, I get as expected: > -rwxr--r--+ 1 userA None 0 2009-11-14 19:00 test* > > However,

Re: Cygrunsrv behaviour triggers Anti-Virus Program

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Dave Korn <> wrote: > Andy Koppe wrote: >> 2009/11/13 Jacob Jacobson: >>> Output of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 >>> >>> 11/13/2009 1:03:09 PM   C:\WIN\CYGWIN\BIN\CYGRUNSRV.EXE Process is trying to >>> inject into another process. This behavior is typical of some malici

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-64

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen <> wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Bugfixes: > = > > - Fix a regression in cygserver which made it non-functional. > > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Developer                                mailto

Re: Finding junction points in cygwin

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:46 PM, aputerguy <> wrote: > > More generally, could someone point me to a single source that can accurately > compare and contrast the following notions of "links" in cygwin/windoze: > > 1. Hard links (ln) > 2. Soft links (ln -s) >    - Old style >    - New style > 3. Wind

Re: Bash - IF Statement

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:10 PM, briglass111 <> wrote: > > What is wrong with you people? What is the desire to continue posting in this > thread? I am a relatively inexperienced cygwin/unix user who had an honest > question and you people got so chafed up by it. If you are so insulted or > annoyed

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer <> wrote: > Hello, > > I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. > > I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. > I tried it with: > $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test > # file: /cyg

Re: How to deny directory-access for one dedicated user

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Matthias Meyer <> wrote: > Hello, > > I run cygwin on Windows (XP as well as Vista) with NTFS. > > I want to deny access to a directory for one dedicated user. > I tried it with: > $ setfacl -m u:backup:0 /cygdrive/c/test > $ getfacl /cygdrive/c/test > # file: /cyg

Re: Num lines in dirs: C:\cygwin\bin = 1152 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin = 289 WHY SO FEW?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Combs <> wrote: > I just now installed 1.7. > > Where *is* everything? > > bin has 289 files, whereas the non-beta has 1152. > > > > > > So, just how "beta" is 1.7.  "Alpha"? > > Or am I missing something, eg there's still lots more > for me to install "by han

Re: Compile time Local Cygwin vs. VMware session on same system

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Herb Maeder <> wrote: > On 20 Oct 2008 11:53:19 PDT, "Manning, Sid" wrote: -= lots and lots of things snipped =- Has anyone else gotten Herb's message 5 times (so far)? Or is it just me? -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple P

Re: install assumes.exe extension?

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Ralph Hempel <> wrote: > I'd just like to clear up some confusion on my part > about "install" as distributed with Cygwin. > > I'm building Lua, an MIT licensed scripting language. > > Part of the lua "make install" process calls install > as follows: > > cd src && i

Re: dd, physical devices, Compact flash, Permission denied

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Krisitian Ivanov <> wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a problem restoring a image back to a new CF card. > > I am using the last Cygwin on Windows XP. > > I mounted the CF card : > > > mount -s -b //./I: /dev/cflash > See if this helps: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/usi

Re: End of support for 9x

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Terry Dabbs <> wrote: > > > It is a pity; I have applications utilizing cygwin on Windows 93 and 95. > This is not a situation where I 'insist on using unsupported software', > but where a vendor has written applications I must interface with that > were written for

Re: Decompressing/Viewing zip files with Cygwin

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Thomas Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> how can (Win)zip files (or certain files only of the zip archive) be >>> decompressed or at least be viewed with Cygwin? >> >> "unzip" > > Unfortunately the "unzip" command is not available in my Cygwin environment. >

Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Ronald Fischer <> wrote: > I can't fetch anything from the web using wget (Connection timed out). > My guess is that it has to do with the proxy settings, but: > > - my environment variable HTTP_PROXY is set, and > - from a Windows command line (i.e. outside of Cygw

Re: Can't configure sshd

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:13 PM, JR <> wrote: > Thanks! I changed mirrors and setup downloaded a new version of openssh... The > script ran fine after. > > Is there any known conflict between RealVNC server with encryption on and > Cygwin/Openssh? > After I got the sshd installed my RealVNC cli

Re: Cygwin is saving my ass

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Morgan gangwere <> wrote: > Without cygwin, i wouldnt have my directory sorting algorithm running on > windows. DOS has no way of (easily) sorting files into > c:\{YEAR}\{MONTH}\{MIMETYPE}\ > (where Year Month and Mimetype are the year month and mimetype of the

Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Suan <> wrote: > > DePriest, Jason R. gmail.com> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan <> wrote: > > > Jerry D. Hedden cpan.org> writes: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Changing middle mouse button for pasting to right mouse button in rxvt

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Suan <> wrote: > Jerry D. Hedden cpan.org> writes: > > > > > > my laptop doesn't have a middle mouse button. > > Pressing the left and right mouse buttons at the same time has the same > effect. > > > > > I read that somewhere earlier and tried itdoesn't

Re: Unable to get Setup to work...

On Feb 8, 2008 11:29 PM, Mel Rosso-Llopart <> wrote: > Every attempt to get setup to work has failed. Either I get an empty > directory tree for cygwin on my C: drive or setup aborts with the tradition > XP failure window to send a message to Microsoft. Some interesting > symptoms: > 1) Dr. Watso

Re: setup.exe link down

On Feb 5, 2008 1:20 PM, Christopher Stack wrote: > hi all, > > the setup.exe (install or update now!) link is currently not working > and hasn't been since at least 10a yesterday (01/04/08). i > consistently get a peer reset page instead. i've tried this from > multiple locations, so i don't thi

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: > > Sorry, I am not used to Windows at all -- I've only been using Linux for the > past several years and I've forgotten about a lot of things. > > Because of this, it seems that I am having trouble asking the right > question... > > I am talking about h

Re: Running Cygwin in background.

On Jan 30, 2008 6:57 PM, jrtayloriv wrote: > > > > paul.hermeneutic wrote: > > > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-01/msg00527.html > > > > http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cygwin+setup+sshd > > > I appreciate the links, but I already know how to set up an SSH server. I > was actually interested

Re: ps executable does not appear to match source

On Jan 17, 2008 9:38 PM, <> wrote: > The ps that comes with Cygwin is missing a number of features that > appear to be in the procps-3.2.7/ps/ source code. The source code > does not look like it was used to build the executable. Is this > correct? Cygwin has both ps and procps available. The

Re: "su: user root does not exist"

On 12/3/07, asadollahbaik a. (aa306) wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know that this problem has been repeated thousand times. But I couldnt > understand them : I am completely new to Cygwin. > Would somebody explain in a simple language where is the problme coming from > and how can I solve it?! > > Re

Re: configure command does not run.... d2u does not help either... appreciation from Dave

On 11/30/07, MasterOfSw wrote: > > >> I am trying to compile a package called "meep" by means of cygwin. > > >> While running the configure command I get an error as: > > >> > > >> ./configure: line 13: $'r': command not found > > > > > >Guess #1: Don't use WinZIP (or any other windows GUI progra

Re: end of file characters

On Dec 1, 2007 3:07 PM, Erik Weibust wrote: > I went with the defaults when installing cygwin. Which means I used > the recommended unix/binary line feed setting. It sounded like that > means I get no line-ending translation done by cygwin, which is fine. > > So I open a .bat file and see a bu

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

On Nov 7, 2007 9:31 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - > No the alternative is Cygwin's Perl on Windows, of course. Oh, and BTW, > how much $$$ does ActiveState Perl cost? And how much was Cygwin's again? - - - - - - cut stuff - - - - - - - This is to avoid people assum

Re: Wish Setup would accept my Perl

On 11/6/07, Dave Korn <> wrote: > On 06 November 2007 16:21, Brian Mathis wrote: > > > I must say with respect that if there are problems porting from > > Activestate to linux/unix, that's a problem with the programmer who > > wrote the code, not Perl. There's no reason that code that's general >

Re: PStree on cygwin

On Nov 4, 2007 9:00 PM, Muhammad Najmi Ahmad Zabidi wrote: > Hi all, > > I tried to find the pstree package in Cygwin setup list but it was not > included. Does Cygwin community yet to deploy pstree / no plan to > release it? > > I found it useful when I did demo of forked process for certain PID

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +) > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > > fulfill a certain purpose? > > apropos > >

Re: copying a million tiny files?

On Nov 1, 2007 6:31 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote: > > --- Erich Dollansky ha scritto: > > > if I remember right, XCOPY is older than any > > networking stuff on this > > plattform. It should be there since the first hard > > disks have been there. > > Not so old. > I think only from MSDOS 5.0 > > Regar

Re: Problem with Cygwin Include Files

On 10/23/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 22 17:59, Larry Adams wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The problem is that /usr/include/cygwin/icmp.h is blank and needs to be > > "non-blank". > > - - - - words . . . - - - - > > It doesn't contain anything for a couple of reasons. > > - For ICMP you need

Re: CYGWIN sshd staying in 'Starting' status

On 10/19/07, Sam Snitman wrote: > Thanks for your reply Rene, > > In reading the > $CYGWIN/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README file, It > mentions that the substitute account should have the > following user rights: > > Create a token object > Logon as a service > Replace a process level token > I

Re: cygrunsrv: Error stopping a service: OpenService: Win32 error 1060:

On 10/18/07, Dao, Phuong wrote: > Hi, > > I get this error when trying to start the sshd service, does anyone has > a clue of the problem? > Thanks a lot > > C:\cygwin\bin>cygrunsrv -S sshd > cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error > 1062: > The service has not been s

Re: OpenSSH for windows issue

On 10/17/07, Mick Ken wrote: > Friends, > I am trying to install SSH on a Windows 2003 server since last 3 days > and still no luck. > > I have tried literally everything and searched 100s of google pages > but I am getting this error.I would greatly appreciate if someone can > help me resolve th

Re: is there a "urlencode" utility somewhere?

ackages > according to cygcheck but that probably reflects the problem with /usr being > a link. I didn't want to do a complete reinstall and setup the links just > for > one script. > > Thanks. > > >From: "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > &

Re: is there a "urlencode" utility somewhere?

On 10/17/07, Mike Marchywka wrote: > Hi, > I found out that sometime during my reinstall process I lost something > called > "urlencode" Any idea where this is, or if it is even part of cygwin? I've > been > all through setup and google but no luck. > > This is supposed to read from stdin and outp

Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

On 10/15/07, jxt <> wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - > Now, as to the original question about shared folders being created by > cygwin on vista, it appears that a solution is in hand, though I have not > yet tested it in my envrionment. Indeed I had tried some googling, and > even searching the archi

stupid question about user/groups shown with ls -l and ls -ln

If I run ls -l from /cygdrive/c it shows pagefile.sys as --1 1595523072 Oct 12 10:43 pagefile.sys I hate seeing the little '?' in my ls output. Normally, I just do ls -ln and look up what user name and group the SSIDs match with. However, with pagefile.sys you ge

Re: Users connected to my computer using Cygwin

On 10/9/07, Daniel Noll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess that works, as long as you only care about the users logged on through > the SSH server. If I open a clean bash session and type "who" it doesn't > even show myself. > > Daniel > I guess you don't have CYGWIN=TTY in your environment (

Re: Links and O/S shell

On 10/9/07, Joel Rubin wrote: > I ran links from cmd, started to download a file in the background and > ran an O/S shell. Later, when I could see that the download was long > finished, I exited the O/S shell and, instead of returning to links, > the whole console box disappeared, leaving the ghos

Founstone Labs (now part of McAfee) violates GPL or not?

Foundstone Labs has a few free tools they release that are compiled against the cygwin1.dll. The free tools are: pasco (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/pasco.htm) galleta (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/galleta.htm) rifiuti (http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/p

Re: Home directory

On 10/3/07, Gmane User wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > > On 02 October 2007 15:26, Gmain User wrote: > > > >> Brian Dessent writes: > >>> Gmane User wrote: > >>> > it makes it hard to quickly scan for changes to "mv". Many software > systems have cumulative release notes with each new rele

Re: OpenSSH and user environment: Maybe not initialized correctly

On 9/25/07, Frank <> wrote: > Hi, > > I am experiencing some trouble with OpenSSH under Cygwin. > Details on my Cygwin installation can be found in the attached > outputs of "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out" on the > machines in the zipped attachment. > [I tried to send with attachment, but obviou

Re: What Environment Variables should i set up?

On 9/23/07, yaojiaxing <> wrote: > i installed Cygwin,and wanted to compile programs in eclipse , > so what Environment Variables should i set up.Where to get > information about Environment Variables that i should > set up. > Thanks a lot! > For Cygwin programming questions, see if the FAQ is an

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

On 9/20/07, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...which isn't that tricky. In the Disk Management tool (for instance > right click "My Computer" -> "Manage" to get there via the "Computer > Management" admin tool) disks are numbered "Disk 0", "Disk 1", etc. > This order corresponds wi

Re: bash: fork: Permission denied -- how can I fix this?

On 9/19/07, James Adams wrote: > - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - > bash-3.2$ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out > 69675674 [main] bash 3156 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 13 > bash: fork: Permission denied - - - - cut lots of stuff - - - - cygcheck is a Windows program so you can r

Re: dd Bug using \.\PhysicalDriveX ?

On 9/19/07, Eric Blake <> wrote: > Scalzott, Todd <> writes: > > > > > I believe that this is part of CORE, which I have at 6.9-5. I did > > update to all of the latest just a short while ago and reverified the > > problem. > > There's no such thing as CORE in the cygwin distribution; you meant co

Re: ssh ProxyCommand not finding anything to execute

On 9/17/07, SQueeZe <> wrote: > > Hi All > I am trying to connect to my home computer from work and I have to use the > work HTTP proxy on port 443 in order to do so. I have done this using PuTTY > just fine so I know there is nothing wrong with my setup. I have downloaded > the windows binary of

Re: 1.5.24-2 question about using echo on remote node.

On 9/17/07, Prakash Babu <> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to run the following command using cygwin > on a remote node using ssh. > > /bin/sh -c 'echo Number=\"1234567\" >> /tmp/file1' > > The command executes successfully but the file has > content Number=1234567(double quotes missing) ins

Re: scp and sftp commands not working on cygwin installed server

On 9/14/07, Sam Snitman <> wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks for your response. Not sure what you mean by > "however all of your mounts point to d:\cygwin2. > > That's definitely not right" > > Unfortunately I have limited Cygwin knowledge. Can > you please elaborate what mounts are and about how > to/r

Re: sftp removing writable bit

On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > sftp provides you with an FTP command set where scp does not > > > > that's about the only thing I can think of that makes a difference; > > seems like a compelling reason if you are going

Re: Whither /dev/null ?

On 9/14/07, Jean-Claude Gervais wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing bash scripts that are required to run unchanged (as much as > possible) on Cygwin and Linux. > > A (small) detail I am having problems with is the issue of redirecting > output to the null device, or bit-bucket. > > If I write the fo

Re: sftp removing writable bit

On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: - - - - - cut - - - - - > Command line tool. IOW why go through the bother to set up an sftp > server (I assume that needs to be set up) and picking and getting an - - - - - cut - - - - - vi /etc/sshd_config uncomment line: Subsystem sftp

Re: sftp removing writable bit

On 9/14/07, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > * Andrew DeFaria (Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:53:25 -0700) > >> Much less than the possibility of scp being present. And I'm not > >> necessarily against the idea of "well go out and get a working copy > >> of these programs" but often clients

Re: setup.exe not available?

On 9/6/07, Yu Namba wrote: > I need to install OpenSSL, but when I click on the link to download/run > setup.exe, the file seems unavailable and I get the "The page cannot be > displayed" page. Can you please look into this? > > -- When I click on the link, it works just fine for me. http://cygwi

Re: openssh not reporting the correct errorlevel

On 8/28/07, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * (Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:55:23 -0700 (PDT)) > > Here are the command sequence I ran on Windows 2003 x86 SP2 servers (delhi > > is the hostname) > > C:\>ssh delhi net > > The syntax of this command is: > > > > NET [ ACCOUNTS | COMPUTER | CONFIG | CONTINUE | FIL

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

On 8/6/07, Steve Holden wrote: > Joel Rubin wrote: > > pdftotext.exe, part of the XPDF package, can be recompiled with a /* > > comment */ cut around the permission-to-copy/print code. > > > > > > Probably the other programs will also work but since the PDF files > > being spammed just a few lines

Re: Copy text from secured PDF

On 8/6/07, Joel Rubin wrote: > The PDF's in question are part of pump and dump spam via botnets so I > see no legal or ethical reason to respect any expressed desire of the > author as to how they may be used. > > I googled that XPDF didn't respect the no copy/no print flags in PDF's > but the ver

Re: Using Cygwin in a Multi-User Environment without Administrative A ccess

On 8/6/07, jason.stott wrote: > > Hello, > > We are hoping to make Cygwin available to standard users of our multi-user > Citrix server environment. > > One thing that we've noticed is that non-administrative users are prompted > each time with the following prompt after running bash (even after ru

Re: Request for running a test application

On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can > get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached > test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. > > Just please don't send informat

Re: Request for running a test application

On 8/1/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a request for help. I need as much different information I can > get. To get this information, I'm asking all of you to run the attached > test application and return the printed output as reply to this mail. > > Just please don't send informat

Re: the character problem in my cygwin manpage

On 7/31/07, sun wrote: > my cygwin man pages are mixed with error characters (such as �c). > this is the result of 'man ls', please help to locate the problem. > --- > LS(1)U

Re: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

On 7/18/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: DePriest, Jason R. > On 7/13/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > > "runas /netonly /user:machine2\userB" followed by "mkpasswd -d > > machine2 -u userB": fails > > > > If the server is stand alone,

Re: Non-trusted domain user causes mkpasswd and mkgroup to fail

On 7/13/07, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: From: Dave Korn > > Let me repeat myself: > > >> If you aren't > >> logged into the domain >^^ > > Logging into the local machine and logging into the domain > are two different > things. When you are not logged in to the doma

suggestion for FAQ update

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.firewall 26. What firewall should I use with Cygwin? We have had good reports about Kerio Personal Firewall, ZoneLabs Integrity Desktop, and the built-in firewall in Windows XP. Other well-known products including ZoneAlarm and Norton Internet Securi

Re: Reloaded Win XP, now need to reload cygwin - sorta

On 6/24/07, Vidiot wrote: Larry Hall responded: >'setup.exe' will only remove files when uninstalling or upgrading. It won't >remove configuration files that have been modified. Also, if the "user >files" in question were not installed by Cygwin, they will not be touched. Thanks. >> Also, w

Re: Cygwin installation on Windows Server 2003

On 6/22/07, DGFM-dfmsdev5b-Andrew Clark wrote: Hi, Can anyone please confirm whether Cygwin 2.510.2.2 should be installed on Windows Server 2003 only as a LOCAL ADMIN account, NOT a ADMIN USER or DOMAIN ADMIN account ? I have no idea what Cygwin 2.510.2.2 is. Additionally, is anyone aware

Re: cygrunsrv -S sshd fails not started

On 6/21/07, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, gga wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: >> >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ >>> $ cygrunsrv -S sshd >>> cygrunsrv: Error starting a service: QueryServiceStatus: Win32 error >>> 1062: >>> The service has not b

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