Re: Mailing list problems anyone?

2013-03-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/22/2013 3:37 PM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello, Cygwin mailman clams to be having problems with our site bouncing the messages (which caused a silent bail on me recently, which I did not realize until later -- for complete silence form the list). My site administrator as

Re: Fwd: reboot command behaves different on Linux

2013-03-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/20/2013 10:50 AM, Frank Fesevur wrote: The message below never made it through to the list, according to , probably because of the attached file. What is the best way to share the code I've written for the shutdown package??? Did you get a bounce mess

Re: Logging in as a domain user takes lots of time

2013-03-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/14/2013 1:45 AM, Fedin Pavel wrote: Hello! I have problems with setuid()-related operations. For example, this is experienced in ssh and nfs servers. If i try to log in as local user, everything is OK. But when i try name of domain user, setting uid takes significant amount of time. Can

Re: when will the cygwin site come up?

2013-03-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/19/2013 11:02 AM, ping wrote: it is still down now... and I just deleted the whole folder and need a re-install... If by this you mean you need to install Cygwin, if you have a recent 'setup.exe' for it, just run it and install. -- Larry __

Re: Default File Path

2013-03-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/19/2013 7:43 AM, AlanWB wrote: I am developing an application using NetBeans CygWin C++, and it is messing up the default file path. When I try to read a file using fopen (fname, "r") if the file name does not specify the directory, instead of assuming that the file is in the current di

Re: problems with COM running native win32 applications through cygwin's bash

2013-03-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/15/2013 12:07 AM, Edward Peschko wrote: All, We are having difficulties running various windows utilities through bash. Through a regular windows cmd, one can run commands like diskshadow without issue, but with bash, we are having problems with COM calls not working. We have posted an exam

Re: Run windows script remotely using Cygwin?

2013-03-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/13/2013 3:30 AM, Gokulnath Arjunan wrote: Hi, Below is my setup. Windows servers 2008 which is running some jboss applications. I have Cygwin installed with SSH setup I can login to windows server from any other linux machine using ssh. Use case: I am able to run the dos scripts using cyg

Re: Follow up regarding setup.exe hanging

2013-03-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/10/2013 10:31 AM, d.henman wrote: Now when ran with the proper permissiong, setup.exe still hangs. Here is the output just before setup.exe hangs: start $c/cygwin-packages/setup -q -n -D -K http://cygwin.com/setup.exe.sig -l C:\cygwin-packages -R C:\cygw

Re: Fwd: getting the right setup.bz2

2013-03-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/10/2013 9:16 AM, Paul King wrote: I downloaded a Cygwin repository using "wget -r -T 30 -t 20 -nc ", and I seem to be having trouble with setup.bz2. When I use it, I get the packages listed, but the top level tree in the package selection window (in setup) says "no packages found". The pac

Re: Can't install Win32::OLE in Perl 5.14

2013-03-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 3/1/2013 1:23 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: I got these errors when I tried to run cygcheck. I've never seen them before: Run from an elevated terminal if you don't want to get these errors. -- Larry _ A: Yes. > Q: Are you

Re: stderr for Windows native commands are seemed to be bufferd

2013-02-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/28/2013 10:39 PM, sm...@cygwin.akamoz.jp wrote: The stderr for Microsoft Windows native commands is undesirably buffered when they are executed on Cygwin shell, Like this: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1 localhost 1.7.17(0.262/5/3) 2012-10-19 14:39 i686 Cygwin $ which nslookup /cygdrive/c/Windows/

Re: Free Select Mode in latest Cygwin

2013-02-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/27/2013 12:21 PM, Bixler, Mark wrote: I recently got a new setup at work and installed the latest version of Cygwin. I can no longer find where to do the Edit Mode for free selection of test. I used to be able to just click and highlight anything I wanted, both columns and full body. Now t

Re: Rebase problems in Ruby

2013-02-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/25/2013 12:17 AM, Chloe wrote: I'm trying to run 'rails console' in an app with many, many gems (not a test app) and it is giving me these errors. I've already tried to run 'rebaseall' with ash and I also ran 'rubyrebase' using a script I found on this list archive. Neither helped. I've trie

Re: 1.7.7 on Windows 7: can't write to removable disk

2013-02-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/21/2013 5:55 PM, Latchen McKinney wrote: On Jan 11 15:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 11 15:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jan 10 10:40, to...@datasupporten.se wrote: Hello. I'm trying to write a disk image to a compact flash card with dd, but I get the error: "dd: writing to /dev/sdj:

Re: Is this a bug or a behavior?

2013-02-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/15/2013 12:29 AM, Centrych Administrator wrote: How can it ever be consistent while 'filename' and filename.exe' are allowed to exist in the same directory? Is there some way to differentiate between a Windows .exe and a Cygwin binary, like grep.exe, that's intended to execute within the

Re: sshd fails to start: logon failure

2013-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/14/2013 5:07 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2013 4:19 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 2/14/2013 4:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2013 3:52 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On 2/14/2013 9:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I tried to ssh to my cygwin box today and was unable to connect

Re: sshd fails to start: logon failure

2013-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/14/2013 4:02 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: On 14/02/2013 3:52 PM, marco atzeri wrote: On 2/14/2013 9:43 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: Hi all, I tried to ssh to my cygwin box today and was unable to connect. It seems the sshd service can no longer run, for reasons that mystify me: # net start sshd Sy

Re: After installing Jav​a 6.0.39 (32bit): Er​ror opening registry​ key 'Software\JavaS​oft\Java Runtime Env​ironment'​

2013-02-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/14/2013 7:29 AM, Ulrich wrote: After installing Java 6.0.39(32bit) I get the message "Error opening registry key 'Software\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment'". The key CurrentVersion of the RegistryEntry is "1.7" (which is also installed). I've installed several Java-Environements to my Wind

Re: libnotify-bin

2013-02-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/11/2013 3:54 PM, Bernd Prager wrote: All, Does anybody know if libnotify-bin is available for Cygwin? Not in the standard release, no. -- Larry _ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow

Re: Unable to log in to SSH Server using Cygwin

2013-02-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 2/4/2013 4:13 AM, Jeffrey Cheng wrote: Hello, I've been trying to set up an SSH server in Cygwin and I haven't been able to successfully log in to the localhost. Following some online tutorials, I have set up a public/private key pair, ran ssh-host-config and then when attempting to log in, I

Re: squid command doesn't do anything

2013-01-31 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/31/2013 8:29 AM, leo wrote: I have confirmed that all these dlls already existed on my system. Still squid does do anything. OK, I installed squid and noticed that invoking /usr/sbin/squid from the command line doesn't seem to do anything for me either. It exits with a code of 1. But

Re: squid command doesn't do anything

2013-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/30/2013 10:21 PM, Leo wrote: Hi there I installed the binary release of squid 2.7, but calling squid doesn't do anything. Even squid -h or squid -v just returns without any message. Any suggestion? Presumably, you're missing some dependency. Try doing a 'cygcheck squid' and seeing i

Re: cygwin:the /usr/share directory

2013-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/30/2013 10:14 PM, ping wrote: hi experts: I'm recently running out of disk and , it looks simply the /usr/share occupies around 5G . [ping@ping-new-laptop usr]$ du -sh ./share/ 4.4G./share/ I'm thinking to remove this directory to release some space. but not sure if this will affect t

Re: sshd service will not start on Windows 7

2013-01-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/30/2013 9:13 AM, David Carricajo wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:36 PM, misterblinky wrote: So ... a) cyg_server *is* in the Administrator group in Windows; and b) I ran the editrights commands just in case. Same deal. "CYGWIN sshd service could not be started". Oddly, "groups cyg_ser

Re: Fwd: sshd access works only when user is member of Administrators

2013-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/27/2013 10:12 AM, Godfried Borremans wrote: I try to use sshd on Windows 2008 Standard server: fresh install windows, fresh cygwin. Installation of ssh with ssh-host-config -y (standard) When I login with the administrator or with a user who is part of the administrators group I can login. I

Re: Problems with permissions after installing cygwin without admin privileges

2013-01-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/25/2013 10:01 AM, Alan wrote: The first problem comes when I try to install the rxvt package. Running the installer again with that package selected results in an error. Package: rxvt rxvt.sh exit code 3 rxvt is a very old, practically deprecated package of a dead code-line. If you must

Re: Not finding a file or directory

2013-01-22 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/22/2013 1:03 PM, Matt Tracey wrote: I have cygwin install on the server. When I open cygwin on my Windows XP machine, it opens fine, it finds the .login and all is good. I have another computer, Windows 7, on the same network, but when I try to >open cygwin on that machine, I get "/usr/l

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/16/2013 4:39 AM, Divakar wrote: Thanks Larry. Now i started xinetd services. added "tcp port 514" and "rsh" exception in the windows firewall. added .rhosts file. enabled "rlogin" and "rsh" conf files under /etc/xinetd/. but it says connection timed out. do you have any idea? C:\Windo

Re: stat() and tilde prefix (was bad bash tab completion)

2013-01-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/15/2013 2:39 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Thomas Wolff! The first step of converting a POSIX path to a Windows path is to normalize the path. "." and ".." components are simply dropped: "a/b/./c" -> "a\b\c" "a/b/../c" -> "a\c" which isn't correct already (even if everythi

Re: How to rsh in windows using cygwin

2013-01-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/15/2013 7:42 AM, Divakar K wrote: Hi Folks, i dont know how to rsh from windows to windows? installed below packages which related to rsh. 1, rsh 2. rsh-server 3. tcp_wrapper 4. xinetd changed the "disable" value to "no" in the rsh conf file "/etc/xinetd.d/rsh.conf". i think rshd servic

Re: ctags recursion broken? [ATTN: ctags, xemacs-tags maintainers]

2013-01-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 1/7/2013 2:56 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: Hi - It looks like there has been no movement on this bug for a month. What is the best way to contact the emacs maintainers? It does not seem correct for emacs (or xemacs) to overwrite the ctags executable. Actually, it's a little less than a month. ;

Re: Suggestion to make cygserver's unknown uid/gid messages more informative

2012-12-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/20/2012 10:52 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote: Hello, Could you please consider adding a bit more information to these two cygserver messages to help identify the offending user or group, for which they get issued: cygserver: WARNING: User not found in /etc/passwd! Using ui

Re: python2.6 appears to be missing _md5 module?

2012-12-19 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/19/2012 4:56 PM, Paul Fredrickson wrote: Hi cygwin developers, Today I went to install the mercurial package, which depended on python. It installed version 2.6.8-2 of python, but when I tried to run "hg clone" it failed with a message "abort: no module named _md5!". And indeed, if I simpl

Re: "can't commit memory for stack" error with cygpath

2012-12-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/18/2012 9:31 AM, Wojtek Lisowski wrote: Hello, During the compilation of my library using MSVC the "child_info_fork::abort: can't commit memory for stack 0x28A000(90112), Win32 error 487" occured. I have run rebase and I do not have any of the known software on BLODA. I have isolated the

Re: sigpending() crashes

2012-12-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/17/2012 6:32 AM, Andreas Steenpass wrote: On 17/12/12 11:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Does it still occur with the latest snapshot? No, it seems to be fixed now. So thanks for the fix, whomever the credit goes to. Anyway it would have been nice to be notified. In my view, it's even nice

Re: Passing PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE env var from Cygwin sshd into my ssh session.

2012-12-17 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/15/2012 4:43 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: I setup VirtualBox and Windows in it and setup sshd under Cygwin. Further development I perform in original Debian distro from ssh+Emacs+Cygwin. I need to compile a project with native Scons+MSVC. To do this I installed appropriated software and w

Re: Problem after updating and reinstalling.

2012-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/14/2012 10:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote: On 12/14/2012 3:36 PM, asallen08 wrote: Thank You for you help and advice. in theory , you should have only one called "Cygwin Terminal" And Yes I have only one "Cygwin Terminal. The version I am currently running is 1.1.2. The other shortcut is cy

Re: Problem after re-install :(

2012-12-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/13/2012 9:34 AM, andy.grayb...@casanueva.com wrote: Hey guys, I don't know how to explain my problem very well. I recently re-installed cygwin and now I have issues. I'm running Windows XP. I tried to do an offline install at first then after that didn't work I did an install online. Th

Re: "as it was replaced while being copied" error when doing a cp command to an older Samba server

2012-12-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/11/2012 8:28 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote: Hello all, I have a new Windows 7 PC (I'm already missing my old XP, sniff, sniff), and am attempting to copy files from a pretty old Samba server (2.2.5). In the upgrade to Windows 7, I also upgraded to cygwin 1.7 and specifically to coreutils to 8.1

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 4:24 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:17 PM, On 12/6/2012 10:10 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On 12/6/2012 9:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: a workaround was already available on first link you provided chgrp -R Users ~/.ssh I had tried this earlier runnin

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 3:15 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: Hi, Wanted to check to see if you were aware of this permissions bug when using Cygwin in Windows 8: http://superuser.com/questions/397288/using-cygwin-in-windows-8-chmod-600-does-not-work-as-

Re: child windows opens without window-manager

2012-12-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/6/2012 3:19 PM, egerl...@aiai.de wrote: Hi, a commercial medical program is needed to be displayed in -multiwindow mode on WinXP. Latest cygwin 1.7.5 (installed 3 days ago) seens so work. But child windows are opened in maximum size and these windows can't be resized. The X (close) and the

Re: Bug in Cygwin Windows 8 group permissions

2012-12-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/4/2012 4:34 PM, Chaz Littlejohn wrote: By my understanding, if you're distributing GPLv3+ software such as cygwin1.dll, these are not rights you can withhold on that software. This is true for all GPL versions. Cygwin's license is GPL with an exception to allow any Open Source product t

Re: Where can I find the official cygwin openssh documentation?

2012-12-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 12/2/2012 2:43 PM, David T-G wrote: Christopher, et al -- ...and then Christopher Faylor said... % % On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:50:08AM -0500, Mike Richardson wrote: % >I'm trying to set up an openssh server on Windows using cygwin. I ... % % The "recommended" procedure is to follow the defa

Re: rm command missing after update

2012-11-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/14/2012 9:40 PM, Nate Kennedy wrote: Greetings, I just re-ran the cygwin installer so that I could add svn. After completing that installation, my rm command seems to have disappeared from my system. I ran the cygwin installer again, to search the package library for rm so I could reinst

Re: Domain User getting "Permission Denied" for anything outside of /home//

2012-11-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/7/2012 12:30 PM, Cameron Gunnin wrote: On 11/2/2012 12:41 PM, Cameron Gunnin wrote: Hi, I've been struggling with this for the past week to no avail. As the title suggests, if I am logged in under a user that is not the user who installed Cygwin (regardless of the user's windows permissio

Re: Domain User getting "Permission Denied" for anything outside of /home//

2012-11-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 11/2/2012 12:41 PM, Cameron Gunnin wrote: Hi, I've been struggling with this for the past week to no avail. As the title suggests, if I am logged in under a user that is not the user who installed Cygwin (regardless of the user's windows permissions), then I cannot modify near anything outsi

Re: serial port block on the command line

2012-10-30 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/30/2012 3:37 PM, vince wrote: Hi, Why this command is blocking on the cygwin shell: echo "Hello" > /dev/ttyS0 I can't reproduce your problem. Please see the link below for information on how to file a problem report. Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry

Re: Emacs crashing on C-x C-g

2012-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2012 1:06 PM, ping wrote: On 10/25/2012 12:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:01:40 -0600 From: Eric Blake On 10/25/2012 08:55 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=12697 I imagine it will be fixed before the release of Emacs 24.3

Re: Missing shared libcrypto library from

2012-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2012 11:42 AM, Walker, Leon E wrote: Dear CYGWIN, I have upgraded to 1.7.17 and I am now receiving an error when performing and scp command: e.g. scp -vvv -oHostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa 'root@pontius:~/.ssh/authorized_keys' /tmp/authorized_keys Extract of the debug: debug2: channel 0:

Re: Cygwin 1.7.17 breaks unattended setup

2012-10-25 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/25/2012 3:07 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: As soon as I disable unattended mode (remove the --quiet-mode switch), if I just take all the default settings in the installer GUI and click the Next button a lot, the installation completes just fine. Which

Re: Cygwin 1.7.17 breaks unattended setup

2012-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/24/2012 8:15 PM, Jason Brittain wrote: Hi Larry and Stefan. I'm also seeing unattended installation broken right now, when it was working fine just a short number of days ago. I do believe it is a change in Cygwin 1.7.17 because the logic in setup.exe (whether it changed or not) has to ma

Re: Cygwin 1.7.17 breaks unattended setup

2012-10-24 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/24/2012 9:16 AM, Stefan Rusek wrote: I have a script automates installing and setting up sshd using cygwin. It first downloads the latest setup.exe then runs the following: setup.exe -q -s ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/cygwin/cygwin/ --no-verify -R c:\cygwin c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -c "

Re: Any article talk about cygwin overall architecture

2012-10-18 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/18/2012 11:38 PM, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) wrote: Hi all, I am studying two simliar compatibility layers, one is WINE, and the other of course is Cygwin. WINE has a picture shows it's overall architecture on it's web site. I am wondering if there is any article talk about Cygwin's, too? Thank

Re: Maintainer of R Cygwin package?

2012-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/16/2012 3:48 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: I'm one of the R developers. I've just noticed that the Cygwin setup offers to install R. In the past, our experience was that Cygwin builds didn't pass the tests, so they weren't reliable. Can someone put me in touch with the Cygwin maintainer of t

Re: Where is detailed setup.exe usage documentation? (old question, never answered)

2012-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/16/2012 12:26 AM, Pit Bull wrote: I am looking for some documentation - html, man page, doc file, whatever that describes setup.exe. So the specific questions I have (which I would have liked to have seen answered in a documentation file of some sort) are: Why isn't the status changed

Re: signalfd support

2012-10-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/15/2012 4:57 PM, Charles Stepp wrote: Since the performance of Cygwin fifos is orders of magnitude poorer than the equivalent Linux implementation, I've been trying to find an alternative to fifos in my Cygwin port. One possibility is to use a combination of real time signals (which que

Re: latex no longer works after update

2012-10-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/10/2012 10:20 AM, Josef Wolf wrote: Hello, yesterday, I did an update of cygwin with setup.exe and now latex stopped working at all. It just silently doesn't do anything at all, no matter what type of input or options I give it. Not even "latex --version" gives me any output anymore. I fo

Re: minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal->Terminal

2012-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2012 10:55 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 10/9/2012 5:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). Discussion of a Cygwin Ports package should be done on the Cygwin Ports mailing list. There

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2012 4:51 PM, julien2412 wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote On 10/9/2012 2:37 PM, julien2412 wrote: How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights and still access these registry keys? Windows won't let programs run by unprivileged users manipulate this registry hive. If you

Re: minor bug in cygports 'Terminal' package -- don't install a link for 'terminal->Terminal

2012-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2012 5:50 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: It prevents Terminal from loading when you type Terminal (or terminal). Discussion of a Cygwin Ports package should be done on the Cygwin Ports mailing list. -- Larry _ A: Yes. > Q:

Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user

2012-10-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/9/2012 2:37 PM, julien2412 wrote: Hello, I'm trying to compile LibreOffice on Windows but configuration tool search some keys on /proc/registry/HKLM which appear only if I launch Cygwin with Admin rights. (Visual Studio/VCExpress keys). How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights

Re: Terminal font-size changes

2012-10-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/5/2012 1:43 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote: On 10/5/2012 9:24 AM, Jim Schueler wrote: Hello. Some key stroke combination makes the font-size smaller. Actually, under font-size settings, the settings never change. In order to reset the font size, I need to manually change it to another font

Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

2012-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2012 8:26 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Hello all, Decided to check out hdparm today after reading about the utility. After install, I attempted to run the utility by executing a check on my computer's hard drive and received a message from bash stating that the hdparm command could not be fou

Re: Check if a package is installed

2012-10-03 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 10/3/2012 6:02 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote: On 01/10/2012 13:24, marco atzeri wrote: cygcheck -c I wonder how much "cygcheck -c" is reliable. For example, the libmpfr4 package. I delete /bin/cygmpfr-4.dll and /etc/setup/libmpfr4.lst.gz As a result, I can't compile sources with gcc anymore

Re: WRB - Installation Problems

2012-09-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/29/2012 11:17 AM, William R. Buckley wrote: Dear Corinna: Um, this is an email list not a private email account. When I try to install Cygwin 1.7.16, and from a variety of the mirror sites, I obtain this warning: Download Incomplete. Try Again? and the problem always occurs during dow

Re: OpenSSH, Windows 2000, cygrunsrv 1.0

2012-09-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/19/2012 7:56 AM, Andre Rothe wrote: Hi, I have to use an outdated system with Windows 2000 Server and an OpenSSH service on it. It uses OpenSSH 3.8.1p1-1 for Windows, which uses a Cygwin server v1.0 or something. The problem: I try to mount a windows network share on the Cygwin server to

Re: ls shows different permissions for the same file

2012-09-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/13/2012 8:40 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote: On 9/12/2012 8:03 PM, Larry Hall wrote: No because with Windows paths Cygwin doesn't look at Windows ACLs. It just reports a default set of ugo permissions. Where does it get the default set of ugo permissions? Like I said before, they are

Re: ls shows different permissions for the same file

2012-09-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/12/2012 2:57 PM, Boemker, Tim wrote: Larry, Do you mean that, with a POSIX path, I get ACL-based permissions, but with Windows paths, I get just user-group-other permissions? Not quite. The POSIX path will give you the correct mapping of Windows ACLs into ugo plus any additional ACLS th

Re: ls shows different permissions for the same file

2012-09-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/12/2012 8:20 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote: ls reports different permissions for the same file, depending on whether I provide a Windows-form path or a UNIX-form path: $ /bin/ls -ldi c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf 7318349394635879 drw

Re: Using rand_r and -std=c99 with gcc

2012-09-06 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/6/2012 10:37 PM, Jason Gross wrote: Hi, If I try to compile a C program which uses rand_r with gcc 4.5.3, with -std=c99, I get warning: implicit declaration of function 'rand_r'. Google gave me http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-05/msg00417.html and http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2007/msg00

Re: FW: File access slow with using key authentication.

2012-09-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/5/2012 4:47 PM, Maglinger, Paul wrote: Anyone? Running CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) on Windows 2008R2 box. When using SSH to come in through UNIX, we'd like to use public key authentication. The problem is that when we do it can take up to 5 minutes to even pull down a directory

Re: [ITP] amanda 3.3.2

2012-09-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/5/2012 12:19 AM, Mark O'Keefe wrote: Hi, I had tried posting this to the cygwin-apps list, but it would appear that maybe I can't do that. So I'll post it hear for comment. From : cygwin-apps: a subscriber-only list for discussing packaging issues regardin

Re: perl man pages not working.

2012-09-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/4/2012 4:07 PM, Erwin Waterlander wrote: Hi, I have installed the perl man pages via setup.exe, but they don't work: $ man perl No manual entry for perl It seems they are not there, while setup.exe says I have installed perl_manpages version 5.14.2-3. $ ls /usr/share/man/*/perl* ls: cann

Re: curl (7.27.0-1), even curl --version, does not work

2012-09-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/4/2012 9:50 AM, Regid Ichira wrote: Please cc your replies to the address this message is sent from. I am Regid, using another address. Continuing http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-09/msg00020.html On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 12:54:45 +0200, Csaba Raduly wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Regi

Re: pciutils package

2012-09-04 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/4/2012 1:45 AM, shashank chaturvedi wrote: Hello cygwin, I am not able to get pciutils package in the cygwin package lists. How to get the pciutils package in the cygwin? Please give me some direction about this issue. If you search for 'pciutils' at the package search l

Re: slow ssh login on a cygwin machine

2012-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/29/2012 3:43 PM, bbcolo22 wrote: I am having exactly the same problem that Ilya described. The problem appeared out of nowhere 1 week ago on many (but not all) of our production servers running COPSSH. No errors, but an SSH login that used to take 3-5 seconds now takes > 90 seconds. I can cl

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/29/2012 2:48 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 29 August 2012 19:02, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55) on a new Windows 7

Re: Password prompts for remote system echoing and not attaching

2012-08-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/29/2012 12:58 PM, Mike Casile wrote: New install of latest cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) 2012-07-20 22:55) on a new Windows 7 system. When I do ftp it prompts for uid, then prompts for pw (normal). Problem is, password echoes on the screen ... and then it hangs and connect

Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)

2012-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/28/2012 4:02 PM, Tasos Laskos wrote: On 08/28/2012 10:51 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: On 8/28/2012 11:23 AM, Tasos Laskos wrote: Hi, Thanks for the replies guys. The purpose of the build.sh script is to setup a full env under the "arachni" dir which will include all syste

Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)

2012-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/28/2012 11:23 AM, Tasos Laskos wrote: Hi, Thanks for the replies guys. The purpose of the build.sh script is to setup a full env under the "arachni" dir which will include all system libs and other dependencies. It also creates wrappers for the application's executables which setup env va

Re: Build script error (libiconv + custom prefix)

2012-08-28 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/27/2012 8:08 PM, Tasos Laskos wrote: Hi folks, I'm trying to port my project's [1] build/package script to Cygwin but I'm facing some difficulties during runtime. It runs fine under Linux and OSX but I'm not sure if that's because these environments fulfil a dependency I'm unaware of, whil

Re: /bin/bash: Operation not permitted

2012-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/27/2012 9:06 AM, michael pitoniak wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin cygwin.com> writes: Complaints like this are typically caused by commands run by the interpreter (bash in this case). This could be caused by something in your rc files. I'd check bash_profile and /etc/profile f

Re: tcsh hang while executing scripts which use pipes with backticks

2012-08-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/27/2012 8:46 AM, Sunadham, Ajay Kumar wrote: We are facing a similar problem as mentioned in the thread below. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-07/msg00014.html To reproduce the issue create 2 csh files in the same directory. When you run dotest.csh from a tcsh window, it will hang. I

Re: FW: Sudden failure of ssh sessions since upgrading to 1.7.16-1

2012-08-26 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/25/2012 7:18 AM, Walker, Leon E wrote: Dear CYGWIN, Upgraded to 1.7.16-1 from 1.7.14-1 Seemed to be ok. But after some while using noticed ssh processes died suddenly - all attempts to start new ones fail. Noticed sshd crashed and refused to start with errors: Here is an extract of ssh

Re: Non-interactive SSH connection fails - error: can't open /dev/tty: No such device or address - Host key verification failed

2012-08-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/23/2012 2:31 PM, Costin Caraivan wrote: Hello, Below you can see the log. The connection is from a Windows 2008 Cygwin SSH client to a Windows 2008 Cygwin SSHD server. The connection works ok when launched from the command line but fails when launched from Jenkins (Java Continuous Integrati

Re: /bin/bash: Operation not permitted

2012-08-21 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/21/2012 10:48 AM, michael pitoniak wrote: greetings, i have a really strange problem...i install the latest cygwin release 1.7.16(0.262/5/3) with the openssh option and configure it with ssh-host-config on a 64 bit windows 7 system...it works perfectly for one day...allowing for putty acc

Re: semi-automated installation and/or updates

2012-08-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/18/2012 4:14 PM, Tom Schutter wrote: On Sat 2012-08-18 22:37, Andrey Repin wrote: Sorry for my terrible english... There are some native speakers who I wish were as literate as you. Hey, I heard that! ;-) -- Larry __

Re: Promote sqlite 3.7.13-1 from test status?

2012-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/15/2012 4:50 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 8/13/2012 10:12 AM, Warren Young wrote: This is a *test* version which reverts the patch added to 3.7.12.1-1, which caused problems with Subversion as a side effect I haven't heard peep one from either side about this release on this list. (For con

Re: Question about UAC and bash/cygwin

2012-08-15 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/15/2012 5:39 AM, Lord Laraby wrote: Sorry if the questions are a bit too numerous. I wish I could just siphon knowledge from Corinna's brain.:) Then that would leave her with none! Probably the key point that you're stumbling over is the fact that when you're elevating your user's priv

Re: persistence of Cygwin message after uninstalling Cygwin

2012-08-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/14/2012 5:37 PM, Franckx Laurent wrote: Dear all Although I have (I think) followed completely the instructions for removing Cygwin from my computer, I keep on receiving warning and error messages that are Cygwin related when I work under the Windows command line . When I look at the f

Re: Cygwin GCC and debug info source file paths

2012-08-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/14/2012 2:13 PM, David Lindström wrote: Hi, I didn't know where to put this. I'm trying to use a cygwin build of GCC for arm (binaries from gnuarm.com). When I build a simple dummy application just doing some matrix multiplications in a loop, it creates a nice executable file with debug info

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/14/2012 11:56 AM, Paul Thompson wrote: Wow. That's rather unexpected. Unfortunately the error code -2 is just an artefact, not the actual error code. I fixed that in CVS. Did you try if rebaseall fixes this issue? OK, I just learned about rebaseall. I am not actually on the machine

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/13/2012 8:04 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: Marco: I followed the error reporting directions. How long is the usual wait for a response? Marco is generally rather prompt with replies but there is no time limit for replies on this list. I'm sure you'll he

Re: Cygwin setup scrambled permissions

2012-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/13/2012 6:47 PM, Lord Laraby wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/13/2012 5:49 PM, Lord Laraby wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ken Brown wrote: D:\Programs\cygwin\etc\postinstall>autorebase.bat /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygper

Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied

2012-08-10 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/10/2012 7:31 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: I use Cygwin a lot. And I kick off Windows processes a lot. Recently I've been having a problem with my system but from Cygwin all I see is "permission denied": Ltsdo-adefaria:cd /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/IBM/RationalSDLC/Clearquest Ltsdo-adef

Re: running interactive process on xp through cron not working

2012-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/9/2012 9:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote: so I am trying to run notepad through cron on my xp machine, but it simply won't work. running cron-config works fine: --- $ cron-config Cron is already installed as a service under account LocalSystem. Do you want to remove or reinstall it? (yes/no) yes OK

Re: App runs 8x slower on dual core machine (with test case to replicate issue)

2012-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/9/2012 11:29 PM, Zach Saw wrote: Corinna Vinschen cygwin.com> writes: Thanks for the testcase, but... would you mind to change it to take the boost lib out of the picture, by using just plain pthread functions, if possible in plain C? Apparently someone else has already encountered simi

Re: Random segmentation faults since upgrade to Cygwin 1.7.16

2012-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/9/2012 9:33 PM, Buist, Eric wrote: Hi, I am running Cygwin 1.7 under Windows 7 64 bits for some time without problems, except it is sometimes slow when performing tab completion. But after I upgraded to Cygwin 1.7.16, no more Cygwin tool is working correctly. Even simple commands such as l

Re: Visual C# 2010 console applications do not start from xterm any longer

2012-08-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/8/2012 6:03 AM, Sergei Vorobyov wrote: Previously I could easily start any VS 2010 console applications from xterm (under MS Windows XP and Windows 7), as good as from command.exe Today I discovered that I cannot do it any longer on two Windows 7 machines (one Win 7 with an older cygwin sti

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