/run-parts
#!/bin/bash# Name: /usr/bin/run-partsModified by Joe Smith
(joeinwap,gmail)
# Purpose: Runs jobs sequentially at regular intervals
(daily,weekly,monthly)# Concept taken from Debian, copied from RHEL-5,
modified for Cygwin.
# See end for "How to run cron jobs with elevated pri
Please add 'run-parts' to Cygwin. I have been using the attached program
(copied from Debian) successfully with Vista, Windows-7, and Windows-10.
mintty screen dump
#!/bin/bash
# Name: /usr/bin/run-parts Modified by Joe Smith (joeinwap,gmail)
# Purpose: Runs jobs seque
On Unix, support restoration of 32-bit
UID/GID data using the new "ux" IZUNIX3
extra field introduced with Zip 3.0.
The -X option does not work as advertised.
Problem: Files extracted with unzip-6.00.12fc20 are owned by root:root
even when -X is specified.
Diagnosis: The code for -X dep
"Michael Kairys" wrote in message
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Thanks for the replies...
the suggestion to use a base address in the 0x3500 area (or indeed
any of the others they mentioned) is going to horribly frag your heap and
bork
your maximum allocatable memory limit, isn't
"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" wrote:
Andy Koppe wrote:
Remember, the semantics of fork is that BOTH processes (the parent and
child) must see the SAME memory, and that includes all shared libraries
being mapped at the SAME location. But since Windows doesn't provide a
native fork, the child must rema
"Thomas Berger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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It could be a matter of interference with TortoiseSVN.
No. It could not. I don't have tortoiseSVN.
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Just in case you were not aware, Something has broken svn in the latest
snapshot. (Actually at least the two most recent snapshots have this
problem).
Here is the error: "svn: Can't move '.svn/tmp/entries' to '.svn/entries':
Permission denied"
LS output:
$ ls -al .svn
total 2
drwxr-xr-x+ 6
"Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Jul 31 11:21, Morgan Read wrote:
Hi Folks
Lots of refs to the case sensitivity nightmare in archives, but couldn't
find any to ntfs' obcaseinsensitive registry option
(HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Sessi
"Joe Smith" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nevermind. I see that the relavent changes to NT_unlink are just very
recent, and the only problem is that the latest cygwin dll does not incldue
those changes yet.
You can ignore the previous message.
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It appears that currently unlink will not immedately remove a file (that has
only one link) if a handle to the file is open, but will flag it for
deletion once the file handle closes.
This is causing a problem with Python 3000.
POSIX says:
When the file's link count becomes 0 and no process
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[snip]
I guess this means that I need to generate a cross-binutils, too.
Is a cross-binutils really needed? Which (if any) of the binutils act
differently when targeted at MingW32
than when targeted at Cygwin?
(I've never worked
"Harold Fuchs" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
[snip]
A: Yes.
Q: Are you sure?
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
I'll treat myself for Christmas ;-)
Thanks, Harold
PS I disagree fundamental
"Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:48:14AM +0100, Darryl Miles wrote:
Is my more technical discussion better put onto the cygwin-patches list
?
No. The mailing list descriptions really are accurate. If you don't
have
"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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I'm afraid you are probably not going to find anybody on this list
interested in even considering problems with these ancient versions. If
you can reproduce the problem you experience with a current Cygwin
snapshot the
"George" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. Does the admonition against setting $HOME as a Windows environmental
variable still stand, or was that an old wives' tale?
If $HOME is set it windows then it MUST be a windows path, or you can break
other (non-cygwin) programs that respect $H
"Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
Is there a flag for "last" or who or another program (cygwin or other)
that shows me the current and/or previous Windows login user? (Rather
than the "last" cygwin shell login). With a combination of cygwin tools
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"Brian Dessent" wrote in message
Sorry! -^
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"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hiroki Sakagami wrote:
What happens in the below commands? The ":" in filenames seems to be
a problem. But I don't understand the rule.
The colon is used by NTFS to signify alternate data streams. You can
google
"Igor Peshansky" wrote:
True, except cygstart won't do unconditional 'www*'->'http://www*'
translation if a file with that name exists (e.g., try "touch
www.cygwin.com && cygstart www.cygwin.com").
Igor
Cmd's 'start' command is exactly the same in this respect.
I'm betting that the 'run' apple
"Brian Dessent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Joe Smith wrote:
It was for this very reason (command-line automated privilege
manipulation) that editrights was written and placed in the 'base'
Cygwin install so that *-config scrip
Reply to my own message: Actually Igor's suggestion of just testing the
context switch is far better.
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FAQ:
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According to Igor Peshansky on 1/5/2006 3:37 PM:
Hi,
'su' used to be an executable that worked correctly from a SYSTEM-owned
shell, but now it's a shell script that simply p
'su' used to be an executable that worked correctly from a SYSTEM-owned
shell, but now it's a shell script that simply prints a "not supported"
message. Is it possible to resurrect the old "su" executable (that
perhaps prints the same message if run from a non-SYSTEM account)?
I know. It has
David said:
Probably useless if you're behind any kind of NAT device.
Unless you need the external ip address. Sometimes you need the internal
address, but other times you need the external address.
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So, maybe I will just cause the system to use MessageBox(MB_OK) aka
MessageBox(0).
MessageBox???
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I still don't see why upstream refuses to update a compressed archive, but
at least it didn't abort.
Gnu tar will not allow the use of '-r or -u' when a tar file is given on
stdin.
I assume that compressed archives work using tar as a filter, instead of
using potentially huge temporary files
"Lennart Borgman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Dec 14 19:30, Lennart Borgman wrote:
I am having trouble with patch. My Cygwin patch (and my GnuWin32 patch)
says it is version 2.5.9. But where is the sources for this? I looked at
ftp
"Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Konrad Eisele wrote:
When th cygwin bash window is closed by clicking on the window's close
button the the appliaction gets killed without recieving a sigint or any
atexit called. Is there a w
"Carl Karsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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report this as a bug
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/setup-2.513-1-alpha.exe
Where should bugs be reported?
Please post bugs to this list, but be sure to read and follow the
instructions found here: http://cy
I guess I don't see the point. Isn't Wine an emulator for running
Windows apps on Unix/Linux? If so then why would you need it under Cygwin
as Cygwin already runs on Windows so if your want to run a Windows apps,
well then just run the Windows app!
Well how about to support WINE development?
"Fernando Barsoba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm trying to build a project with sha-1 and md5 implementations from
http://www.cr0.net:8040/code/crypto/sha1/ (in case it is important
information)
and I'm getting the following error:
Incremen
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:17:15PM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
As I don't use debuggers every day, I am posing this to the list:
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, Jerris, Michael MI wrote:
With the patch on that bug in mantis
Okay, a reproducable example:
Open cygwin. Write 'notepad test.txt'. Notepad opens, write something and
then save the file. Now do an ll. The file test.txt has been created and
has the executable flag set. I want it to not be set in such cases.
/David
The problem is that windows programs
In this case, the only PTC required is for the documentation. Take a look
at 'cygpath --help', the option already exists. It is just not in the man
page.
I fail to see what he requested. What he wanted was like 'cygpath -pf -'
except that instead of using colons to seperate the path list,
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:47:38PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 03:36:38PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
"Big Action" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do I only
"Big Action" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Hi Corinna,
Thanks for the quick reply!
This should be fixed in recent developer snapshots, try the latest from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Do I only need to replace the cygwin1.dll, or should I download and
extra
"Shankar Unni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Eric Blake wrote:
Actually, I'm playing with a change to bash, soon to be bash-3.0-12,
where the postinstall script will leave /bin/sh alone if its timestamp
is newer than /bin/bash.
For one release. What happens aft
Well more on links:
Because cygwin does use windows shortcuts as symbolic links, it will
automaticly dereference windows links. If the link has a unix path in the
description field cygwin will use that (or at least I think it uses it, it
puts it there on its own links). Otherwise it uses the p
IIRC Cygwin *is* currently using windows shortcuts for symbolic links. Some
simple checks confirm this.
The shortcut files are sometimes fully formed such that they are editable by
right clicking on them, others are only partially formed.
Windows will resolve them, however symbolic links to exe
cygserver? Is it
additional software we must install?
Users Guide
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html#using-cygserver
Matt,
Basically to use cygwin's XSI IPC Message Queues, XSI IPC Semaphores, or
XSI IPC Shared Memory, you need to do a few simple things. (Assuming Windows
If, one day, I want to uninstall Cygwin. How can I do that? No icon in
Add/remove programs list, no start menu icon... I know there are values
in the registry, but I don't know what values, so I cannot delete thes
values. Is there one or more command to uninstall Cygwin?
Else, what can I do? L
if [ -d c:/ ]
then
{Cygwin stuff}
else
{Unix equivalent}
fi
More common (AFAICT) is:
case `uname` in
*CYGWIN* ) {Cygwin stuff};;
*) {Unix equivalent};;
esac
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Is there is a really good reason why the which command should return a
path
that only cygwin programs can recognize?
F:/ style notation would screw up many shell scripts that curently work just
fine.
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Are the missing environment variables defined in XP under 'System
Environment Variables', or only in the environment variables for the
specific users?
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I seccond the motion that the windows hidden attribute be ignored. I suspect
that nearly every user on the list has Explorer.exe set to show hidden
files. Sice Cygwin is very useful for system administrators, and they almost
always leave hidden files visable, it makes no sense to treat these fil
If someone does have time to correct the misleading things I would be
most grateful, as obviously I do not wish to spread misinformation!
rxvt - this is a 'terminal client' or an alternative to that dos box
popup. You need it to display various programs (vim, mutt etc.)
correctly.
I think
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