Re: WinCompose vs. Cygwin/X

On 16 January 2017 at 15:49, Jon Turney wrote: > On 11/01/2017 22:16, Michael Schaap wrote: >> >> On 11-Jan-17 9:51, Csaba Raduly wrote: >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Michael Schaap wrote: I recently discovered WinCompose

Rsync randomly hanging until implementing socketpair solution

I have been using rsync with cygwin for years to synchronize several relatively large data sets at several different locations. When I upgraded to the cygwin 1.7 version a while back, I began noticing a random problem with rsync hanging. It would not do it in the same place, but it seemed to

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

snip< I just discovered some additional information that may help get to the bottom of this. Not sure what made me think of this, but I decided to try an older version of rsync. If I run rsync 3.0.4-1 or 3.0.5-1, I experience the problem. However, when I run 2.6.9-2, the only other version of

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

On Jul 1 07:36, Lists wrote: I tried it 6 times in a row, every time erasing the destination files. Works fine for me. Corinna Perhaps you have hit upon the problem. I am just downloading and running setup-1.7.exe and it definetly has this problem. I tried to download and Setup-1.7.exe

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

On Jul 1 07:36, Lists wrote: I tried it 6 times in a row, every time erasing the destination files. Works fine for me. Corinna Perhaps you have hit upon the problem. I am just downloading and running setup-1.7.exe and it definetly has this problem. I tried to download and Setup-1.7.exe

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

On Jun 26 23:42, Lists wrote: On Jun 19 15:55, Lists wrote: Works fine for me under the latest Cygwin 1.7.0-50 using your perl script and your rsync options. I tend to agree to Larry's assumption that some 3PP is interferring. Sorry to just now be replying but I have been out o

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

On Jun 19 15:55, Lists wrote: Can you upgrade to the latest Cygwin 1.7 package and try again. From your cygcheck output, it looks like things are not correct but this may be just a problem with an old cygcheck that doesn't know how to find the implicit mounts. If the issue is stil

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

Lists wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Can you upgrade to the latest Cygwin 1.7 package and try again. From your cygcheck output, it looks like things are not correct but this may be just a problem with an old cygcheck that doesn't know how to find the implicit mounts. If the issue is stil

Re: Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

Can you upgrade to the latest Cygwin 1.7 package and try again. From your cygcheck output, it looks like things are not correct but this may be just a problem with an old cygcheck that doesn't know how to find the implicit mounts. If the issue is still the same, resending the output of the new

Possible Bug or limitation in Cygwin 1.7 and Rsync and file number limit

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a limitation that can be worked around with a setting somewhere, but I have found a problem with cygwin 1.7 while using rsync. I have been using rsync and cygwin v1.5 for quite some time. I recently started testing cygwin v1.7 and I ran into a problem with an a

ssh: issue with file permissions on Samba network shares

Hi guys, I got a Linux home directory. On Windows, this directory imported as Windows share, and I mount it under Cygwin. This way, I can use all my Linux settings dot-files, and I don't see the Windows path name mess that much. Ssh (OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007) on Cygwin refus

Using curses with -mno-cygwin

Hi guys, I'd like to compile an old unix program that uses curses as a windows standalone application. Is it possible to do this with Cygwin? MinGW supports curses, and Cygwin supports MinGW. It looks like curses is gone once I pass -mno-cygwin to gcc. Is this intentional? Thanks in advance

RE: milliseconds on Windows

> Hello Brian, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE I've redirected this message and set the Reply-To appropriately. > I'm a student at Bonn university and I'm researching robotics. I'm trying > to write a robot controller for Windows XP (wasn't my choice!) and > measuring elapsed time down to m

Re: Problem with automake

Eric, thank you very much for your help. Below, I'm going to answer to the questions you asked. It would be great if I could get that stuff to work again. :-) Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Public Mailing Lists on 5/27/2007 8:30 PM: /us

Problem with automake

I'm trying to compile some older linux program with automake under Cygwin. (My Cygwin installation is on the latest version.) I'm getting the following error message: $ ./autogen.sh calling autoconf and autoheader... /home/test/project /usr/bin/m4:configure.in:1363: cannot create temporary file

Re: Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin

quest LOG: shutting down LOG: database system is shut down I would rather like to start everything at boot time with init. Is there anything else I need to do? Thanks for your help, Gordon Igor Peshansky wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: Public Mailing Lists wrote: I

Seeking Installation Instructions for Postgresql on Cygwin

Hi, I'm trying to setup a Postgresql server on Windows-XP/Cygwin. I've done this a couple of times on Linux, and I'm experiencing some difficulties on Windows. I have installed the packages postgresql (version 8.0.7-1) and cygrunserv (version 1.17-1), and I have syslog and init running. If

Re: Still seeing "Win32 error 1062" starting sshd with "cygrunsrv -S" with openssh-4.5p1-1. Suggestions, please?

Hello, Brian. BK> Hoping that the latest release of openssh would fix the problem I'm BK> having starting sshd as a service, I updated my Cygwin install to Ms. BK> Vinschen's latest release, 4.5p1-1. I then re-ran ssh-host-config. BK> Unfortunately, I'm still unable to start sshd as a service,

Re: Apache 1.3.33 on W2003 problems only on system boot

Hello, Igor. IP> The fact that the service doesn't work after system boot and then works IP> fine after a restart seems to suggest that it's started too early (before IP> some other service). You need to discover what that service is (could be IP> the firewall service, or Tcp/ip, or something e

Apache 1.3.33 оn W2003 problems only on system boot

Hello List, I'm running Apache 1.3.33 on W2003 Terminal Server as service starting it under sshd_server account. It works as a charm most of the time. But not on system boot - it serves static pages but whenever I'm trying to run Perl CGI script I'm getting 503 error with following lines in log:

Re: Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: Probably not. You can use every file system which can be accessed by the underlying Windows also in Cygwin, but except for NTFS file systems, the permission handling of the underlying file system drivers (here: Ext2 IFS) is usually rudimentary at best. As for upper/lowe

Cygwin and Ext2 IFS?

Hi all, I got an USB hard drive, and on this disk there is a ext3 filesystem. This filesystem is accessible under Windows XP using a software called Ext2 IFS for Windows. Does Cygwin work together with this software? Is it possible to mount this filesystem into cygwin in a way that cygwin us

/dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]

Eric Blake wrote: Don't spread misinformation. Cygwin is a Unix environment emulation, so /dev/null ALWAYS exists (none of this junk about "depending on your installation"). here is some output of my personal Cygwin installation: $ ls /dev ls: /dev: No such file or directory It seems that

Re: xargs still nok?

zzapper wrote: Is Xargs still reqd for find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i {} \; Well, not exatctly. grep -i does not show you the filename, if you call it this way. You could either use find . -name '*.cfm' -exec grep -i something {} /dev/null \; which would make grep to show the filena

Re: xargs still nok?

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 8 10:26, zzapper wrote: Hi, GNU xargs version 4.2.25 or more likely am I misusing xargs? $ ls *.cfm */*.cfm */*/*.cfm */*/*/*.cfm | xargs grep -i host bash: /usr/bin/ls: Argument list too long ^ Nothing to do with xargs. Use find in

Using rsync to sync to NTFS: permission issues

Hi, I (want to) use rsync under cygwin to sync files from a Linux box to a WinXP box. I want to maintain a full backup, including the file permissions. First, this is how far I got: - the XP box uses an NTFS partition to write the back-up on. - rsync runs on the XP box (as it is by far the muscle

RE: Serious Installation problems - possible workround but rapid fix required. - Possible Cause Found

Hello, I wasn't subed to this list so I'll paste the relevant post that I have a possible solution for .. --- Paste --- From: "John Macallister" Start with clean (no Cygwin files on disk) Windows2000 system. Downloaded kit from Internet using "Install". This completes successfully. Install from t

RE: New packge: lighttpd-1.3.0

p> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerrit P. Haase > Sent: 22 September 2004 10:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'Reini Urban'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New packge: lighttpd-1.3.0 > > Hallo R., > > > I think what is required i

RE: Request for change to /etc/profile

Hi, I've got a sort-of-related issue with the location of the home directory. On my work laptop, my home directory is on a network share (mapped as a H: drive) and "My Documents" is on their too. This is made available offline using the ... "Make Available Offline" feature of WinXP. When I'm con

RE: New packge: lighttpd-1.3.0

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reini Urban > Sent: 22 September 2004 01:12 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New packge: lighttpd-1.3.0 > > >>But why wait for me? Try it yourself? No problem that > >>cannot be discussed at th

RE: New packge: lighttpd-1.3.0

Hi Gerrit, > But why wait for me? Try it yourself? No problem that > cannot be discussed at this list (as long as it is about problems with > building some open sourced code for cygwin). Well, I'll give it a go... I just downloaded the latest cygwin + gnu toolset. The lighttpd package is also

where's cygdrive?

When I do a ls -l / why does 'cygdrive' not appear in the list returned? df yields: $ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts 39085168 32579204 6505964 84% /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts C:\cygwin\bin 39085

Re: already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES

ge, and what the next debugging step could/should be. Any ideas? Thanks a lot. -Mario P.S.: I have CygWin 1.5.9-1 on W2K, additional system data are included in the attachment - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing Lists&qu

already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES

Hi all! I am trying to compile some software (VLC from the VideoLAN project) on W2K/CygWin. Unfortunately, during the config, I get an error. I have already contacet the VideoLAN malining list, but to no avail. And I have contacted the automake guys as well. However, I am trying to get help wher