Re: ssh not found error

2008-09-04 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Shyam Sarkar wrote: Hi, I installed and re-installed Cygwin many times to correct this error. But it never finds ssh to execute. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.what-packages explains this how this works, and the following question explains why, as

Re: GCC

2008-08-18 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, John Emmas wrote: Hi there - I only installed Cygwin yesterday so I'm still fumbling in the dark. One thing I'm trying to find out is whether or not it installed GCC. Does GCC get installed automatically or do I need to install the MinGW option? (I noticed that the

Re: Exim problem

2008-08-05 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, r wrote: I have a little problem with exim : sending emails to big providers like gmail.com, yahoo.com .. I have no problem. But when I send email to my company account ( where I work ) from mutt/exim, email does not arrive. Exim has various ways of routing things. You

Re: Problems with file permissions and cp when running on Vista

2008-07-28 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Tom Quarendon wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: I'd start at the source. Give yourself POSIX-style access to the files to start with. 'cp' will preserve that access. 'cp' and many other utilities don't take ACL permissions into account. They are silently ignored.

Re: Cygwin problem: lex: Command not found‏

2008-07-28 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Yau KL wrote: Hi All, I would appreciate your answer very much on this. When I do ./configure in cygwin, I got the two following related messages: ./configure for which package? checking for flex... flex checking lex output file root... lex.yy The above shows

Re: Control-c of a bat file does not kill commands run by bat file in some cases

2008-07-18 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Mark Charney wrote: Is this a bug or a feature? When I run a program loop.exe whose entire source is int main() { while(1); return 0;}, compiled with MS VS8 or cygwin's gcc, from a bat file whose contents are just loop.exe and hit control-c while it is running,

Re: un-indenting doesn't work with vim

2008-07-17 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Matt Wozniski wrote: Not very hard if you take the time to learn a bit about terminals. BS on a UNIX keyboard either sends ^? or ^H. If you have set backspace=indent,eol,start (or, equivalently, set backspace=2) in your ~/.vimrc, vim will correctly delete over

Re: Perl-5.10 on a fresh install reports unable to remap Glob.dll

2008-07-10 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Dave Wombat wrote: Still no happiness. I followed the instructions to best of my ability and got: $ exec /bin/ash \[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ rebaseall ReBaseImage (/usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll) failed with last error = 6 \[\e]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-24 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Reini Urban wrote: Hugh Sasse schrieb: On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: [...] set? Were I in this position, I'd rather not have to trawl the mail archives. That's the only mechanism suggested at http://cygwin.com/contrib.html

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-24 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Hugh Sasse wrote: So would you prefer that I NOT suggest a patch to http://cygwin.com/contrib.html. to draw people's attention to the existing Bugzilla? The contrib.html page has nothing to do

Re: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-23 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:21PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: [...] Actually, it already exists: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=cygwin . But I don't know how often setup.exe developers

RE: setup.exe needs package name selection filter

2008-06-20 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Dave Korn wrote: reikred wrote on 20 June 2008 02:08: Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes. It's called make-setup.exe-demands-and-then-sit-back-and-wait-for-people-to-implement-y [EMAIL PROTECTED] cgf [...] Please read it in the spirit of a

RE: _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed

2008-05-22 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Relson, David wrote: Hi Hugh, I'm not an expert (else I'd solve this myself), but it seems not to be a when it comes to windows, neither am I, but since nobody else is coming in on this thread I'll see if I can get you any further forward. problem with make, but a

Re: _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed

2008-05-21 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 21 May 2008, Relson, David wrote: G'day, Yesterday I reopened a project from 3 years ago. Its makefiles allowed me to build the code for an embedded project and the tools for [...] The makefiles needed some minor tweaking (notably changing \ to \\ in some paths), which

Re: wget and HTTP_PROXY question

2008-05-20 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 20 May 2008, 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: Running it with -d should encourage it to be more verbose about where it fails. Hugh -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: cygwin perl useradd command

2008-05-09 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Jaspreet Singh wrote: ok Hugh Sasse as you have saw what i have done. i understand everything you wrote as i am a programer like about using functions and grep. But, the problem is that i am a windows programer and do programing in Visual Basic, I have already

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in Ruby, but I only got

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not ntuser.dat is the filename of the per-user registry hive (HKEY_CURRENT_USER

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of the problem. It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access files

Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-16 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears. Ahah! Finally, you tell us about what you intended to do in the first place! Could

file accessibility and copying/archive/...

2008-04-15 Thread Hugh Sasse
Trying to copy a windows XP NTFS drive to a big disk using cygwin tools I encounter inaccessible files such as ntusers.dat. tar is not particularly verbose about why things fail so I wrote something in Ruby, but I only got about 70% of the contents of the disk across. I suspect this is a common

Re: about cyglsa.dll

2008-03-27 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Hugh Sasse on 3/26/2008 6:47 AM: | This is getting tiring. PLEASE follow directions. I had to once again | reformat and remunge your message. | [...] | All of which is fair comment

Re: GraphicsMagick: gm does nothing, always exits with status 53 - cygcheck-svr.out (1/1)

2008-03-06 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Andrew Schulman wrote: I tried recently to do the same as you did, and to give my cygcheck.out uuencoded. Well I didn't exactly try to uuencode it-- what I did was to attach it to a message and post it through Gmane. I'd forgotten that that doesn't work well for

RE: Escape sequence ^] on telnet

2008-03-03 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Dave Korn wrote: On 03 March 2008 12:23, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Any ideas on how to send the escape sequence on Windows/Cygwin using a spanish keyboard? On a UK keyboard (and I'm hoping it works on ESP as well) I press Ctrl+']'. when I last used this

gdb, no line numbers after gcc -g ???

2008-02-26 Thread Hugh Sasse
With gdb under cygwin I'm getting: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00405309 in image_doubles_read () (gdb) where #0 0x00405309 in image_doubles_read () #1 0x004063c8 in doublesimage_read () #2 0x004076fc in main () (gdb) info locals No symbol table info available. (gdb)

Re: gdb, no line numbers after gcc -g ???

2008-02-26 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: Is there anything else I need to do in order to get line numbers reported correctly? What other information would be good to provide? -g should work fine. Try compiling and debugging a simple testcase, and paste the entire

Re: gdb, no line numbers after gcc -g ???

2008-02-26 Thread Hugh Sasse
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Brian Dessent wrote: Hugh Sasse wrote: OK, it works for a hello world, it says the symbols are loaded. Therefore, as was most likely, I've munged something. How do I interrogate object files to see which is/are missing the symbol data (if that's what would throw