* Andrey Repin (Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:20:35 +0300)
>
> Greetings, Thorsten Kampe!
>
> > I'm experiencing the issue described here[1]: files and folders
> > created with Cygwin utilities like touch and mkdir have an
> > incorrect ACL ("The access control lis
* Thorsten Kampe (Sun, 21 Jun 2020 20:42:55 +0200)
>
> * Eliot Moss (Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:10:21 -0400)
> >
> > This is normal, and has to do with how Cygwin arranges to
> > model,
> > within the Windows ACL permissions system, some features of the
> > Posix
* Eliot Moss (Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:10:21 -0400)
>
> On 6/21/2020 1:56 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm experiencing the issue described here[1]: files and folders
> > created with Cygwin utilities like touch and mkdir have an
> > inc
Hello,
I'm experiencing the issue described here[1]: files and folders
created with Cygwin utilities like touch and mkdir have an
incorrect ACL ("The access control list (ACL) structure is
invalid (os error 1336)").
icacls test.txt /verify
test.txt: Ace entries not in canonical order.
Interes
* Takashi Yano (Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:44:51 +0900)
> I looked into this problem, and found that this is due to a
> bug of ConEmu.
>
> Attached is the simple test case (conemu-chk.c).
> In command prompt, the output of this program is:
> AAA
> BBB
>
> However, in ConEmu, the output is:
> AAA
>BB
* Thorsten Kampe (Tue, 13 Aug 2019 23:45:14 +0200)
> The issue is definitely not just with ConEmu but also with a
> standard Windows console (cmd.exe).
>
> I compiled tree
> (http://mama.indstate.edu/users/ice/tree/src/tree-1.8.0.tgz).
>
> Mintty: 2.5s
> Cmd: 122s
>
* Corinna Vinschen (Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:01:52 +0200)
>
> On Aug 11 09:27, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Aug 2019 20:53:38 +0200)
> > > I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 3.1.0-0.1
> > >
> > > This release comes with a couple of
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Aug 2019 20:53:38 +0200)
> I uploaded a new Cygwin test release 3.1.0-0.1
>
> This release comes with a couple of new features and quite a few
> bug fixes.
>
> The most interesting change, courtesy Ken Brown, is a revamp of the
> old FIFO code. It should now be possibl
* Marco Atzeri (Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:39:09 +0100)
>
> On 11/02/2018 23:07, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Marco Atzeri (Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:50:30 +0100)
> >> Version 10.2-1 of packages
>
> >
> > Getting error "The procedure entry point
> > PQ
* Marco Atzeri (Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:50:30 +0100)
> Version 10.2-1 of packages
>
>libecpg-compat3
>libecpg-devel
>libecpg6
>libpgtypes3
>libpq-devel
>libpq5
>postgresql
>postgresql-client
>postgresql-contrib
>postgresql-devel
>postgresql-doc
>postgre
Hi,
Cygwin Ports has recently been shut down. How can I
identify all packages that were installed from their
web site in order to uninstall those stale packages?
Thorsten
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* Andrew Schulman (Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:22:38 -0400)
>
> My regular shell is fish. To make local terminals run fish instead of bash
> when
> I start them, I set
>
> SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
>
> in my desktop environment. This works fine: I start MinTTY, and fish starts.
>
> But when I log into that
* Thorsten Kampe (Mon, 17 Oct 2016 08:25:13 +0200)
> the following bash script results in a different output when
> redirected to a file.
>
> ```
> printf "FIRST LINE\n" > /dev/stderr
> shopt -os xtrace
> printf "SECOMD LINE\n" > /dev/stderr
&g
Hi,
the following bash script results in a different output when
redirected to a file.
```
printf "FIRST LINE\n" > /dev/stderr
shopt -os xtrace
printf "SECOMD LINE\n" > /dev/stderr
```
```
$ bash script.sh
FIRST LINE
+ printf 'SECOMD LINE\n'
SECOMD LINE
```
```
$ bash script.sh 2> file && cat
* Gene Pavlovsky (Mon, 3 Oct 2016 00:46:54 +0300)
>
> So, when installing, the type of symlinks doesn't honor the CYGWIN
> option since they are just unpacked by tar as is.
>
> The question I'm proposing now - should `tar` be modified to honor the
> CYGWIN option and automatically convert symlink
* Gene Pavlovsky (Sat, 1 Oct 2016 18:52:47 +0300)
>
> I'm installing Cygwin 64-bit on a fresh Win 7 x64 installation.
> Before running setup.exe I've set the system env var CYGWIN=winsymlinks:native
> After that I ran setup-x86_64.exe and installed cygwin64.
> The symlinks to .exe files in bin, cr
* Thorsten Kampe (Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:29:18 +0200)
> while the Cygwin shell (bash and zsh) can find and execute batch
> files (extension bat and cmd) the external and internal which command
> cannot. Is there a way around this?
On further inspection, it seems as the cause is that
Hi,
while the Cygwin shell (bash and zsh) can find and execute batch
files (extension bat and cmd) the external and internal which command
cannot. Is there a way around this?
Thorsten
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* Yaakov Selkowitz (Mon, 4 Apr 2016 16:29:11 -0500)
> Corinna just released a new Cygwin TEST version 2.5.0-0.11.
>
> If things are not going very wrong, this is basically what you'll
> get as 2.5.0-1 release (really, we mean it this time). Please, please
> test and report regressions.
As repor
* Corinna Vinschen (Sun, 24 Jan 2016 12:56:54 +0100)
> Please give this new POSIX.1e ACL implementation a test. If you
> have
> a project or maintain a package utilizing ACLs, please make sure that
> your project picks up the new POSIX.1e API and that it works as desired.
Procps warning:
```
$ p
* Woody Setzer (Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:28:36 -0400)
> I am running Mate under Cygwin on a Windows 7 Professional system,
> and
> want to connect to a Linux server running on our local network.
> Ultimately, I will be connecting through my Agency's VPN, which is so
> slow as to render using X over that
* LMH (Sat, 11 Oct 2014 20:30:07 -0400)
> Good Lord, I guess I wasn't thinking very clearly trying to use
> PATH as
> a variable for something else. I changed to,
>
> FILE_DIR=$(ls -d './'$SET'/'$FOLD'/'$FOLD'_anneal/'$PARAM_SET'/'$AN_SET)
> echo $FILE_DIR
>
> FILE_LIST=($(ls $FILE_DIR'/'*'out.tx
* Michael Wild (Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:28:06 +0100)
> This is the first release of tmux that features support for Cygwin
> and
> despite me using it for some time now without any problems, you might
> encounter some rough edges. Should you find any glitches that are not
> due to my packaging, please re
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:26:33 -0500)
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 07:14:49PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500)
> >> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am
> >> working on a
* Christopher Faylor (Thu, 20 Feb 2014 13:11:39 -0500)
> I forgot to mention that I managed to duplicate this problem and am
> working on a fix for this and the other screen garbling seen in
> recent snapshots.
Reporting a possibly related bug in connection with the latest
snapshots: connecting t
* Mike Rushton (Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:15:28 -0500)
> I am trying to put an alias in a .bashrc
>
> alias clear='printf "\033c"'
clear is part of the ncurses package, so I would simply install this.
> But what .bashrc do I put this in ? in /ect/skel or the one my user
> directory. I put this cod
* Corinna Vinschen (Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:11:18 +0200)
> On Oct 25 20:19, Steve wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:45 PM, wrote:
> > > Could not find reports on core dumps in system programs recently, or
> > > problems
> > > with the locate tool.
> > >
> > > What I do:
> > >
> > > --
* Eliot Moss (Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:33:23 -0400)
> I am upgrading from one laptop to another, the old one running
> Windows 7 and the new one Windows 8. On the old one, I disabled
> UAC and bash appears to run with admin privileges (which is what
> I normally want). In particular, if I say 'groups'
* Fedin Pavel (Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:53:39 +0400)
> On 22.03.2013 11:44, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> > I'm also considering adding possibility to customize the shutdown
> > message: shutdown -rf 22:00 "Rebooting because of Windows Updates".
> > Who knows...
> >
> > And does anybody ever use that reason th
Hello,
I just downloaded the PostgreSQL client tools and noticed that psql
crashes every time. The usual rebase didn't help. I reverted cygwin1.dll
to the latest official version (1.7.17, 2012-10-19) and now psql works
fine.
What can I do - if anything at all - to debug the issue? Obviously, I
* Dan Regan (Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:02:23 -0700)
> The root of the problem appears to be that sshd relies on the netlogon
> service to be running
Can you elaborate?
Thorsten
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* Gundament (Tue, 3 Jul 2012 22:38:36 -0700 (PDT))
>
> I am new to Cygwin but I understand it does it's best to simulate a
> linux terminal.
No. "Cygwin is: a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and
feel environment for Windows." http://cygwin.com/
> I want to make a little program
* ping (Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:01:34 -0400)
> I just installed full cygwin and I now need to access a folder from
> inside cygwin machine(win7). I did some google search but no good match.
> are there any known best practice for that (e.g through SSH)?
> the cygwin ssh client works fine but I just do
* Rurik Christiansen (Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:23:04 +1000)
> On 6/04/2012 08:44, Andrey Repin wrote:
> > Greetings, Rurik Christiansen!
>
> [...]
>
> >> and my understanding is that I can't run the sshd frontend without
> >> screwing the permissions.
> > I don't understand what you mean by this.
>
>
* Daniel D (Sun, 1 Apr 2012 07:49:49 + (UTC))
>
> > Thorsten Kampe thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> > > * Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700)
> > > >
> > > > Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting
> > > >
* Daniel D (Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:52:35 -0700)
>
> Is ~ allowed on a smb share name when mounting it? I keep getting errors
> while trying to mount //server/~foo via fstab.
>
> If yes, can someone give me some tips for what to do to mount a share named
> \\server\~foo ?
> [...]
> It looks like mo
* Jon Seidel CMC (Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:25 -0800)
> Running the following:
> dircolors -b > .dircolors
> dircolors -b .dircolors
> results in the error:
> .dircolors:1: invalid line; missing second token
eval $(dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors)
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* Mike Brown (Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:31:45 -0600)
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:42:42PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> I suppose I better update my installation. I may be in trouble as
> uname says that it is: CYGWIN_NT-5.1
>
> cygcheck version 1.88
> System Checker for Cygw
* Mike Brown (Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:33:05 -0600)
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:10:34PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > Better use OpenSSH
>
> And why would that be?
Okay, better is not correct. Let's call it equally good. It's free,
constantly updated, easy to setup
* Mike Brown (Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:22:23 -0600)
>
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:31:44PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > Use SSH
>
> I installed the bitvise WinSSHD server and can connect with it.
>
> I had to build a different start BAT file in order to get zsh started
* Mike Brown (Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:52:43 -0600)
>
> While I can use remote desktop to get from my Solaris server to the XP box,
> doing so while at some place other than the LAN, the DSL connection speed
> tends to cause the RD to fail and close.
>
> And since I don't really need a graphical connec
* Corinna Vinschen (Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:37:46 +0100)
> - Fifos have been rewritten and should now be more reliable.
Trying to run GNU Screen:
"open fifo /tmp/uscreens/S-thorsten/2756.cons1.hombre: Bad file
descriptor"
Thorsten
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* Clayton Evans (Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:43:45 -0500)
>
> I have four questions that are not clear to after reading
> /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README.
>
> 1) When running ssh-host-config, what is the correct string to enter for the
> CYGWIN environment variable?
Just leave it blank.
> 2) When runni
* Robert Perlberg (Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:10:38 -0400)
> cmd /c batch_file [arguments ...]
>
> This is such an original idea. I wish the Unix shell had something
> like that.
It does.
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* J.V. (Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:03:35 -0600)
> To run a .bat or .cmd file, I can do this:
> $cmd
>
> C:>mybat.bat or C:\>mycmd.cmd
>
> In other words, I have to type two commands (one to get to the shell,
> and another to run the .bat or .cmd file).
>
> What I want is to write a shell scr
* John Ruckstuhl (Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:31:50 -0700)
> Larry Hall wrote:
> > On 9/14/2011 1:56 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > > The obvious way to troubleshoot this would be to use a network
> > > drive (Z: for instance) instead of UNC or to mount the share and
> >
* John Ruckstuhl (Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:40:40 -0700)
> I'm trying to create files in the current dir, on a network
> fileserver. I do have the necessary permissions. The standard
> incantation fails, but some non-standard incantations succeed. I'm
> willing to bet $10 that it's a cygwin1.dll problem,
* Christopher Faylor (Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:49:50 -0400)
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 01:44:44PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:09:04 +0200)
> >> It is not at all the task of libintl to override the underlying OS,
> >> and in the case o
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 17:09:04 +0200)
> It is not at all the task of libintl to override the underlying OS,
> and in the case of Cygwin, the underlying OS is Cygwin, not Windows.
Pardon me?
"Cygwin is:
a collection of tools which provide a Linux look and feel environment
for Windows
* Corinna Vinschen (Fri, 9 Sep 2011 16:59:21 +0200)
> And above all, there *is* an official way for the user to align the
> Cygwin locale with the Windows locale [...]
Misses the point. Users who chose to have a specific language
environment most likely want to have this choice of language for al
* Thorsten Kampe (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:56:49 +0200)
> You are confusing a terminal and the shell it runs in.
I meant "you are confusing a shell and the terminal it runs in".
Thorsten
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* LMH (Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:50:01 -0400)
> If you click on the small Cygwin icon, upper left on the top window
> bar, you can select properties. This gives you a window to modify
> properties of the bash shell window such as the size, font color, font
> size, etc.
You're not modifying the bash shel
* LMH (Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:59:12 -0400)
> I have just installed 1.7 on win7 enterprise 64 bit and I tried to
> modify the shortcut that starts the bash window and I get a windows
> error message,
>
> "can't modify the shortcut
> .
> make sure it has not been deleted or renamed"
Why on earth and
* John Dzielski (Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:11:03 -0400)
> I am unable to get name resolution to work with ssh. The command ssh X
> returns the error "ssh: could not resolve hostname X: Non-recoverable
> failure in name resolution." The command nslookup X returns a valid IP
> address.
Run a Wireshark tra
* Gary (Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:25:04 -0700)
> I've tried re-running the 000-cygwin-post-install.sh & receive no echo
> from the terminal, I've moved the passwd file (from my understanding
> outside the directory before running the post-install). My passwd file
> looks like this:
>
> sshd:*:27:27:sshd
* Gary (Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:01:58 -0700)
> I've attempted chmod from the terminal and to change the permissions
> through the standard UI.
Terminal is better. Try again "chmod 700 /var/empty".
> I've attempted to chown to "SYSTEM", but the user does not exist.
It should:
% grep -i system /etc/p
* J.V. (Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:42 -0600)
> What is the exact line I should put in /etc/fstab to get C:\ mounted to
> /c on Windows 7?
none / cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0
> The documentation makes me think. Please do not make me think.
I know, thinking can sometimes hurt. This is because
* Gary (Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:59:14 -0700)
> The logs specify: /var/empty must be owned by root and not group or
> world-writable.
That's pretty clear, isn't it?
> I've tried changing permissions,
What exactly did you try?
> and also looking on the forums for this
> {http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2
* Eliot Moss (Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:40:44 -0400)
> On 8/2/2011 8:24 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> > Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >> * Sebastien Vauban (Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:46:52 +0200)
> >>> My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32
> >>&g
* Sebastien Vauban (Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:46:52 +0200)
> My goal is to have just 1 alias that would work both under Win32
> (Cygwin) and Ubuntu
Why don't have simply put your alias definitions in if [[ $OSTYPE =
cygwin ]]; then else"?
Thorsten
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* Voelker, Bernhard (Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:28:42 +0200)
> I'm experiencing windows time (which is right) being constantly 10-12
> minutes behind GNU's time:
>
> $ cmd.exe /c time /t ; /bin/date
> 09:21
> Fri Jul 29 09:33:22 WEDT 2011
>
> I've seens this for several weeks on this PC now.
>
>
* Andrey Repin (Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:06:05 +0400)
> To tell you, that was actually a good idea for me. I don't have an
> eternity to type "/cygwhatever" every time I want to address another
> drive.
Ever heard of "tab completion"?
> So the idea to map cygdrive to "/" was actually very handy, thank
* Andrey Repin (Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:05:34 +0400)
> Try it yourself, as well as what Peter tried to suggest (or "correct"
> me).
> Neither is working straight.
> Just for example:
> $ cygpath -u DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.profile
> /c/DAEMON1/anrdaemon/.profile
$ cygpath -u DAEMON1\\anrdaemon\\.p
Hello,
starting with the snapshot from June, 14th, I cannot run screen inside a
Windows Console (also Take Command) terminal anymore. It terminates with
the message mentioned in the subject while screen and the shell continue
running and consume excessive CPU. Mintty, rxvt, Console
(console.so
[screen is terminating] message from screen trying to run screen with
snapshot from June, 12th. Fine with snapshots up to the previous one
(June, 8th).
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* Roland Bluethgen (Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:01:12 +0200)
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > If you want Linux TMP and Windows TMP point to the same directory then
> > mount it in fstab or use $USERPROFILE/AppData/Local/Temp.
>
> I shortened the story a bit, it's really
* Roland Bluethgen (Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:55:56 +0200)
> I don't update my Cygwin installation regularly, but recently I did,
and
> then a script of mine stopped working.
>
> Looking for the cause I found out that the Cygwin maintainers chose to
> redefine the TEMP and TMP environment variables i
* Thorsten Kampe (Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:29:11 +0200)
> * Edward Lam (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:51 -0400)
> > On 31/05/2011 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > Oh, and, btw: All clear!
> >
> > So cygwin1-20110531.dll.bz2 is good?
>
> It still has the screen
* Andrew Schulman (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:20:16 -0400)
>
> > I have these two lines in my .screenr:
> >
> > backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME
> > caption always "%{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-%
> > m-%d %0c:%s]%{d}"
> >
> > Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll
* Andrew Schulman (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:20:16 -0400)
> > I have these two lines in my .screenr:
> >
> > backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME
> > caption always "%{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-%
> > m-%d %0c:%s]%{d}"
> >
> > Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as
* Edward Lam (Tue, 31 May 2011 10:58:51 -0400)
> On 31/05/2011 10:54 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > Oh, and, btw: All clear!
>
> So cygwin1-20110531.dll.bz2 is good?
It still has the screen issue I reported yesterday and that issue sounds
to me suspiciously "pipish". So I would say, no.
Tho
Hi,
I have these two lines in my .screenr:
backtick 0 0 0 echo $LOGNAME
caption always "%{= c}[%0`@%H:%n%f %{w}%t %{r}loadavg: %l %=%{g}%Y-%
m-%d %0c:%s]%{d}"
Screen always displayed this until cygwin1-20110520.dll as
[thorsten@hombre:0$loadavg: 0.00 0.00 0.00 2011-05-30 17:20:46]
* Edward McGuire (Fri, 27 May 2011 16:36:06 -0500)
> The globbing is not where the confusion lies. This globbing:
>
> $ ls xwin*
> ls: cannot access xwin*: No such file or directory
>
> works as expected and did not confuse anybody.
Lee begs to differ: "Globbing is case sensitive [while ...]. An
* Lee D. Rothstein (Fri, 27 May 2011 11:53:16 -0400)
> Globbing is case sensitive while full command name invocation/full
> filename use is not. And, you may never have been confused by that,
> but I maintain it's very confusing.
This has nothing to do with Cygwin. You are (still[1]) confusing Cyg
* Avishai Geller (Mon, 16 May 2011 02:09:57 -0700)
> How do I edit my hosts file in cygwin on Windows 7? VI opens it in
read-only mode. I have administrator permissions, but Windows 7 has that
UAC feature which I think is preventing editing the file.
You disable UAC or run the shell as Administr
* Henry S. Thompson (Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:10:37 +0100)
> I'm running 1.7.9-1 on my 64-bit Windows 7 laptop. I recently noticed
> that my box was 15 seconds adrift from my Linux desktop. After some
> minor hassles, I was able to use Clock/Date and Time/Internet
> Time/Change Settings/Update now to sy
* Dave Korn (Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:11:05 +0100)
> And I just learnt about the `--preserve-root' option, that I didn't
> even know about before.
You mean "--preserve-root
do not remove `/' (default)" (quoting the man page)?
I wonder whether I will receive another "If you're saying that
* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:35:33 -0400)
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 05:33:05PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100)
> >> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >> As for "rm", it already does kind
* Dave Korn (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:46:13 +0100)
> On 29/03/2011 10:12, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> As for "rm", it already does kind-of have safeguards against this, and
> that's what the -f option is for - it turns them off.
As far as I know "-f" is already the
* Dante Allegria (Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:07:32 -0700 (PDT))
> No, turns out it was because someone committed this into the nightly
> build scripts:
>rm -rf $(DOES_NOT_EXIST)/*
>
> Should cygwin's rm have some built-in safeguards for this? :)
Sure, it does. It's called "intelligent scripting" an
* Dale Harrison (Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:29:56 +)
> When creating a user inside CYGWIN using "net user *username* /add",
> could someone tell me the command that I can type to set the home
> directory the user is to land into when the connect?
Sorry, you got it completely wrong. You cannot add a u
* hardya (Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:48:58 -0800 (PST))
> I am running cgwin (for omnet++, but that's a BTW) on Windows 7
> (NTFS). I cannot chmode files I untarred into a folder and I cannot
> chmod a file I create in cgwin myself.
"I cannot [whatever]" is a bit weak. Can you be a bit more specific?
Wh
* Gary Furash (Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:02:25 -0700)
> I just had to downgrade my PC from Windows 7 to Windows XP. I
> reinstalled Cygwin (from scratch), rebased, etc. However, now, none of
> my cygwin network programs work except within my work's internal
> network (they used to work just fine with Win
* Jørgen Steensgaard (Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:34:15 +0100)
> I want to terminate this discussion, originating from my concern for
> consistency among distribution providers.
>
> Originally I reported on a successful installation of basic Cygwin, i.e.
> without X, followed by a failing attempt to ins
* Bryan Slatner (Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:25:26 + (UTC))
> Thorsten Kampe thorstenkampe.de> writes:
> > Why don't you simply run (at least) one of the scripts manually and
> > see if you see an error?!
>
> I ran them all, with the following results:
>
> bash-3.
* Bryan Slatner (Tue, 1 Feb 2011 04:33:40 + (UTC))
> I'm trying to install Cygwin on a stock Amazon EC2 Windows 2008 64-bit
> image.
>
> At the end of setup, I get a dialog that says "Postinstall script errors"
> with the
> following information in it:
>
> Package: Unknown package
> 0
* David Antliff (Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:47:02 +1300)
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 20:06, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * David Antliff (Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:31:25 +1300)
> >> Actually there is one outstanding issue with this "Hudson slaves over
> >> SSH" issue - due to t
* David Antliff (Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:31:25 +1300)
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:28, David Antliff wrote:
> > Ok, an update - I've managed to solve this problem - the vendor
> > informed me (indirectly) that the error I was seeing was due to the
> > access of files in c:\lsc_env - turns out I hadn't
* David Antliff (Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:27:36 +1300)
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 21:30, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > I don't think anyone will do that unless you provide the logs in native
> > (PML) format.
>
> Ok, I can do that - I posted them as CSV as I thought they'd
* David Antliff (Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:59:39 +1300)
> Jeremy: thank you also - ProcessMonitor is very useful, and I'm using
> it to compare the behaviour of the working (local) and non-working
> (over SSH) instances. It's going to take me some time to sift though
> them, but there are big differences
* David Antliff (Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:13:22 +1300)
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:06, David Antliff wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:06, Jeremy Bopp wrote:
> >>> I've also tried running the sshd service as the same user currently
> >>> logged in
> > [snip]
> >> people are discouraged from attempt
* Tim Daneliuk (Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:18 -0600)
> I am having a problem with ls being VERY slow on at least
> in some circumstances. For example, ls c:/ is quick, but
> lc /cygdrive/c/ is very slow.
strace, Process Monitor
Thorsten
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* Jeffrey J. Kosowsky (Sun, 02 Jan 2011 00:32:33 -0500)
> My USB thumb drive does not show up in /cygdrive/ (or seemingly
> anywhere else for that matter). It does of course show up in the
> regular Windows 7 GUI in the "Computer" folder.
>
> This happens even if I open the cygwin window using "Ru
* Andy Koppe (Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:11:22 +)
> On 31 December 2010 02:49, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> > IMHO it's 100% better than just outputting 0's. Putting out 0's
> > gives you no info at all!
>
> Bollocks. You'd be the first to complain that those stupid Cygwin devs
> don't even understand wha
* Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:17:11 +0300)
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Thorsten Kampe
> wrote:
> > * Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:26:29 +0300)
> >> I have a problem running cygwin sshd. I often end up with a lot of
> >> bash processes running and
* Vasya Pupkin (Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:26:29 +0300)
> I have a problem running cygwin sshd. I often end up with a lot of
> bash processes running and eating memory while there are no single
> active ssh session. It happens when either connection lost or user
> closes connection without logging out, ss
* Christopher Faylor (Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:51 -0500)
> However, since you are reporting 1) a nonissue and 2) a known issue
> [...]
Best of 2010.
Thorsten
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* rudolf.be...@extern.sdv-it.de (Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:13:14 +0100)
> I try to invoke the "set" command over ssh to a Cygwin 1.7.7 server
> and would expect that I get the variables I have defined in
> $HOME/user/.profile
> ...
> TEST=test
> export TEST
>
That's equivalent to "export TEST=tes
* Christopher Faylor (Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:59:26 -0500)
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >[latest Cygwin DLL and all updates]
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I cannot suspend applications (like Midnight Commander) in a running
> &g
[latest Cygwin DLL and all updates]
Hi,
I cannot suspend applications (like Midnight Commander) in a running
shell (bash or Zsh) - nothing happens. Nevertheless when I run mc (for
instance) in screen session then it works as expected:
% mc
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