Re: Portable CygWin version for Windows?

2021-11-14 Thread Larry W. Virden via Cygwin
https://sites.google.com/site/devinsezer/Home/software/portable-cygwin Is an older article but discusses it. On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 6:16 AM Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > Am 14.11.2021 um 11:32 schrieb Marco Atzeri via Cygwin: > > On 14.11.2021 08:37, Peter Steiner via Cygwin wrote: > >> On webpage >

Re: test

2019-10-04 Thread Larry W. Virden
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 10:07 AM Hickey Rob (ED-TS/ENG4-Wm ED-TS/PRS-Wm) < rob.hic...@us.bosch.com> wrote: > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info:

hello Cygwin

2019-07-07 Thread Larry W. Virden
-- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Question regarding grep 2,6,3 regular expression looking for lines without something in a part of a line

2014-10-08 Thread Larry W. Virden
and something unique to express the requirements? -- Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ

struggling with xauth vs xhost

2013-04-30 Thread Larry W. Virden
in both local start up files as well as remote start up files, we do not see where the xhost is being performed. Is there a way for us to track down where that is occurring so that we can see about commenting that out? Thanks! -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W

ISO: steps to start Windows PuTTY while using Cygwin/X x authentication

2012-05-29 Thread Larry W. Virden
for information, so far to no avail. Has anyone a reference, white paper, sample code, etc. to demonstrate how to set this up? Thank you very much. -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing

Re: Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-24 Thread Larry W. Virden
-- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Re: Trying to find a solution for segmentation fault crashes in the most recent x server provided by setup.exe

2012-05-23 Thread Larry W. Virden
Well we continue to discover new things about our specific situation with xfree server crashes. This may in fact be a general cygwin problem rather than xfree. What we are finding is a change in general process handling. During our original testing - on windows 7 32-bit - we tested scripts we

Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-23 Thread Larry W. Virden
someone has gathered this information together. Thank you -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions

Re: Has anyone collected a summary of cygwin vs Windows 7 64 bit outstanding issues?

2012-05-23 Thread Larry W. Virden
EM - what does rebase mean? I tried doing a man rebase but didn't get a man page. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Bill Ross photor...@yahoo.com wrote: The message: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable is often associated with a need to rebase ... EM -- Problem reports:

Trying to find a solution for segmentation fault crashes in the most recent x server provided by setup.exe

2012-05-22 Thread Larry W. Virden
further The log file is 45K, so I didn't include it completely until I hear back that someone would find it useful -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should

Re: Segmentation fault in Tcl_Init()

2012-01-20 Thread Larry W. Virden
A Tcl programmer that I know says: He is not calling Tcl_FindExecutable() before creating interpreters. That is needed to initialize things like encodings. -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: version 5.45 of expect/tcl

2011-10-25 Thread Larry W. Virden
support for a current release should go there first. -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should be construed as representing my employer's opinions. -- Problem

ISO: recommendations while setting up a new cygwin environment.

2011-08-03 Thread Larry W. Virden
to live with processing that has to straddle the windows and cygwin environment. Thank you all for your continued useful suggestions. -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing

Re: Start a crontab service

2011-03-18 Thread Larry W. Virden
in getting it to work. If you find a sequence of steps that gets it working correctly, please let me know. I am about to start the process of trying to get it to work again. -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http://www.facebook.com/lvirden/ Even if explicitly

Looking for pointers to extended installation help

2011-02-02 Thread Larry W. Virden
A few years ago, I attempted to install cygwin on Windows XP and found that despite following the standard instructions, I was unsuccessful in getting cron to run, had some problems with gcc, etc. Are there additional cygwin tutorials, guides, helps, books  that might provide more in-depth

Re: Looking for pointers to extended installation help

2011-02-02 Thread Larry W. Virden
- Original Message - From:Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com There's the section in the FAQ for common setup questions/issues: Thank you. We haven't started yet on the setup - there's always something that needs to be fixed... - I just thought I would do some

What version of cygwin is considered stable on Windows 7?

2011-01-07 Thread Larry W. Virden
When considering building a basically frozen version of cygwin - that is to say, downloading, configuring, and building a disk image, then turning that disk image into a MSI for installation purposes (in an environment where this is being done because users will not have Windows 7 permissions

looking for ideas why an x application would display differently between cygwin/x full screen and cygwin/x multi-window

2010-06-07 Thread Larry W. Virden
. I was wondering whether this behavior, where a widget only displays the first character of a menu item, is a known issue for -multiwindow? Is there some kind of work around for this problem? Thank you very much. -- Tcl - The glue of a new generation.   http://wiki.tcl.tk/ Larry W. Virden http

Re: 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) cron service appears to be working, but no results are found

2009-12-03 Thread Larry W. Virden
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Pierre A. Humblet pierre.humb...@ieee.org wrote: Larry, Everything looks fine to me. Cron runs, reloads the crontab when it changes and execs the commands. Well, in one sense that is good news - that is, that at least we have things set up appropriately. I have

Re: Problem with bash script running under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

2009-12-03 Thread Larry W. Virden
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Almo almo2...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Almo almo2...@yahoo.com Subject: Problem with bash script running under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:47 PM echo /usr/bin/gzip -f ./$1.sql 2 error.log error.log usr/bin/gzip

1.5.25(0.156/4/2) XWin conflict with Microsoft Outlook 2003

2009-11-30 Thread Larry W. Virden
I am encountering a peculiar problem with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) The administrator has the package installed, with a vbs script that invokes a couple of batch files to get Cygwin and X started, when starting a local xterm. The first .bat file sets up some variables then does a %RUN% XWin

Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-65

2009-11-24 Thread Larry W. Virden
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2006-12/msg00082.html is an example of a report involving zombie processes within cygwin 1.5 -- Tcl - It's the real thing. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/ http://www.xanga.com/lvirden/ Anything in this posting represents only my

CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.7.0(0.214/5/3) ps (cygwin) 1.11 - how do I display the arguments to the processes?

2009-11-18 Thread Larry W. Virden
A developer has asked me to see if there is a way in Cygwin to get output more similar to Solaris or other Unix system ps commands. He specifically needs to get information about a process, its pid, and the arguments passed to the process. When I try the various flags for ps, I don't see any

Cygwin 1.7, who version 7.0 does not respond with a value

2009-10-28 Thread Larry W. Virden
when I type the who command within a Cygwin window, only an empty line is returned. The man page states that who prints info about users who are logged in. What I have found so far is that -H returns headers -q returns # users=0 while who with the -a, -b, -d, -l, --lookup, -m, -p, -r, -s, -t,

Looking for some help setting up Cygwin 1.7

2009-10-23 Thread Larry W. Virden
Today in following up some helpful suggestions by members of this mailing list I ran into some additional setup issues. For instance, right now, when I open a bash window, I find an environment where $HOME is set to /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/lvirden However, if I take a look at

Re: bash 3.2.49(23): when I start a bash window, $HOME is the DOS value rather than /home/lwv27

2009-10-23 Thread Larry W. Virden
Okay, I tried to use mkpasswd as Mark suggested. Here's what I see now: $ grep lwv27 /etc/passwd $ grep lwv2 /etc/passwd lwv27:unused:14338:13710:Virden, Larry W.,U-CAS\lwv27,S-1-5-21-15812936-299453970-766854361-4338:/home/lwv27:/bin/bash $ ls /home/lwv27 ls: cannot access /home/lwv27: No such

Re: bash 3.2.49(23): when I start a bash window, $HOME is the DOS value rather than /home/lwv27

2009-10-23 Thread Larry W. Virden
I believe I have things fixed. The issue was that there was a HOME variable set before Windows got started very far. Digging around the web, I found an article which pointed me to Control Panel-System-Advanced-Environment variables, where I deleted it and Cygwin was happy to create a

Cygwin 1.7 crontab question

2009-10-21 Thread Larry W. Virden
I now have access to a Cygwin 1.7 installation. I've been trying things out and I am having a spot of trouble that I hope someone can help me through. I created a crontab file. In it, I want to run a program from my $HOME/bin directory. However, I don't know what environment variables the

cygwin setup and ATT ast-ksh cygwin download?

2009-10-21 Thread Larry W. Virden
I'm working to get the ast-ksh cygwin download installed under Cygwin 1.7. I've run into a couple pecularities. First, the file that gets downloaded is ast-ksh.blahblahblah.tgz . I presumed it was a gzip'd tar file, but discovered that, instead, it was a plain tar file. I extracted the files,

ISO: cygwin admin guide

2009-10-15 Thread Larry W. Virden
Is there a guide for setting up and maintaining cygwin in something bigger than a personal machine? I'm wondering if there are any howtos or guides that talks about building and maintaining /etc/passwd and /etc/group, etc. on an ongoing basis, etc. in a work group or even company wide setting.

Where can I find a cygwin package for Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 or newer?

2009-10-13 Thread Larry W. Virden
The tcltk package that I find on the cygwin mirror sites is Tcl 8.4.1, which was released in 2002. Are there other cygwin download sites which would have a Tcl 8.5.4 or newer (the latest release is 8.5.7, which was released in April, 2009)? -- Tcl - It's the real thing. http://wiki.tcl.tk/

Re: Assistance sought grepping log files

2009-10-02 Thread Larry W. Virden
--- On Thu, 10/1/09, Ken Jackson cyg...@jackson.io wrote: Try:   strings -el logfile | grep ... Thanks - that works for me (as long as I remember that -el flag... -- Tcl - It's the real thing. http://wiki.tcl.tk/ http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/ http://www.xanga.com/lvirden/ Anything

Assistance sought grepping log files

2009-10-01 Thread Larry W. Virden
I regularly am forced to deal with a variety of logfiles on Windows, and so in hopes of being able to do so with some grace, I took a crack at accessing the files via Cygwin. For example, I've copied some of the 12 hive tracing logs from IIS (or maybe it is SharePoint... I'm still struggling