Re: rsync gives me error 12

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:01 PM wrote: > On the server, I got a /tmp/rsync-3191.out file which I am attaching here. > I can't make sense of what it is trying to tell me. It shows you the system calls being made. If you read down to the end, rsync writes 4 bytes and then tries to read 4 bytes

Re: rsync gives me error 12

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 10:37 AM Neil Aggarwal wrote: > I still get an error: > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) > [Receiver=3.1.3] > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes

Re: python ensurepip fails due to being unable to find files

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 9:08 PM The Other wrote: > This was due to the ensurepip stage failing. Indeed, this seems to be broken in Cygwin. The ensurepip lib is included with the main python package, but that code requires that the wheel files exist (as it has no handling for a case where the

Re: 'rsync -a' not preserving ownership

On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:17 AM wrote: > So, why is 'cp -a' able to preserve ownership while 'rsync -a' fails > and sets ownership to the login name? Rsync is rather old-school Unix-oriented, so it only checks if its uid is 0 to see if it should try to chown things. You can give it the --super

Re: using ssh-agent in cygwin

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 12:44 PM Jesse Thompson wrote: > *TL:DR;* I'm looking for options to reliably start and manage an ssh-agent > daemon in Cygwin. I recommend the "keychain" package, which is available in Cygwin. You'd add something like the following to your shell initialization scripts:

Re: Cygwin.com address down

On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 11:44 AM Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Hi, I have the same problem - cygwin.org works for me, but cygwin.com > doesn't, although tester sites suggest cygwin.com is indeed up. Since this looks to be some kind of DNS resolving issue for various people, you can try to work

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xxhash 0.8.0-1

On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 5:19 AM Doug Henderson wrote: > The following packages have been uploaded [...] > * libxxhash0-0.8.0-1 > * libxxhash-devel-0.8.0-1 I note that libxxhash-devel does not depend on libxxhash0, unlike other devel libs (e.g. liblz4-devel and libzstd-devel each pull in their

Re: Using cygwin tar from a DOS window

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 7:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote: > I need the Cygwin tar to be found regardless of whether I'm using a > Cygwin command window or a DOS command window. I think the easiest way to run the cygwin tar from CMD (if you don't want to just put your cygwin bin dir on your Windows PATH)

Re: There is no man for rsync

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:36 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > Looks like a packaging problem as the man dirs are created but not populated: What undoubtedly happened was that the git checkout used for the release does not include pre-generated man pages, and the build required the yodl document processor

Re: symbolic links to /cygdrive/X/xxx with capital letter X

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 1:50 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > The cygdrive prefix is resolved, if no other mount points match. > Since you have /mnt/C mount point, it is resolved first. I wish it would have resolved it to the cygdrive prefix, because then it would have worked (and would have been

Re: symbolic links to /cygdrive/X/xxx with capital letter X

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:05 AM Andrey Repin wrote: > And you've got exactly what you asked for. I think you missed the important part of the email. Distilled down, this is wrong: $ ln -s /cygdrive/C/Windows foo $ readlink foo /mnt/C/Windows The symlink's value changed to a path that doesn't

gnu screen crashes on ssh disconnect

In recent Cygwin versions I've had gnu screen crash if the parent ssh connection closes before an explicit disconnect is performed. If an orderly screen disconnect happens first, future closed connections (after reconnecting to the screen session) no longer crash screen. To reproduce: I ssh into

Re: Bug in TIME function

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:27 AM wrote: > In Linux [times()] returns a time value and return code of 0: The Linux man page for times() mentions this special behavior, how it isn't portable, and even advises against using the function: "On Linux, the buf argument can be specified as NULL, with the

Re: change in pattern matching in pager /usr/bin/less

On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:50 PM L A Walsh wrote: > For some reason, the behavior of less has changed recently in regards to how > it interprets characters like '\s' (whitespace). Sadly, it's been compiled with POSIX regular expressions on Cygwin for quite a while now. On Linux it is often compiled

Re: perl -- classic?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:23 PM L A Walsh wrote: > Yes...it worked for me up till the latest perl. I was surprised. Which latest perl is that? The 5.26.3 version I cited is the latest version on cygwin, and it's working fine in all the simple tests I tried (I tried scalar & array contexts for

Re: perl -- classic?

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 2:33 PM L A Walsh wrote: > Things like > Term::Size::chars no longer works as it says chars isn't exported. > but it is 'EXPORT_OK', and it used to work. Remember that EXPORT_OK means that you can ask for it to be exported, but it's not by default. I just tried out CPAN

Re: manpage searches "^\s+keyword\s" vs. ???

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 11:09 AM Eric Blake wrote: > Not so much compilation options of man and less, but rather the code > used in Cygwin itself for handling regex. The configuration of less supports many different regex libraries. I downloaded the source and ran "./configure --with-regex=pcre"

Re: sshd permits logon using disabled user?

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:13 AM Bill Stewart wrote: > I don't think Windows natively supports password-free logons using only key > files (but I might be wrong about that). Don't forget that sshd_config fully supports disabling passwords. You can turn a password off for a single user via:

Re: /dev/fd/N not synonymous with file descriptor N; it is on Linux

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:29 PM Corinna Vinschen wrote: > In contrast to Linux the symlinks are not just faked symlinks with the > underlying OS having direct access to the file descriptors. Yeah, Linux is more like a fuse where the open filehandles are used directly on open, and the stat calls

Re: setup 2.895 release candidate - please test

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 6:52 AM Jon Turney wrote: > I was hoping to look at improving the 'skip' -> 'install current > version' flow (which used to be a single click, but now requires you to > pick the latest non-test version) That's a nice idea for a future change. I'd suggest making it where

Re: How to Setup Multiple System Distro Manpages

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 1:51 PM Brian Inglis wrote: > $ l /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local/share/man/ Shouldn't those be under /usr/local instead of /proc/cygdrive/c/usr/local? Typically /usr is something like C:/cygwin64/usr, which is not the C:/usr dir you've used. ..wayne.. -- Problem reports:

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.0

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 11:40 PM Thomas Wolff wrote: > But which application does actually send the cnorm sequence? The vim editor likes to send it. I just ran into this issue with the new mintty whenever I edit in screen. I ended up changing this line in my .screenrc (which has been there for

Re: ESC followed by UP-arrow cause bash shell to hang

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Jim Reisert wrote: > [...] ESC followed by UP-arrow. This seems to lock up the > bash shell for about 30 seconds before control returns. Your up-arrow is probably a character sequence that starts with an Esc (you can verify that by typing a Ctrl+V followed by your

Re: mksetupini fails validating packages because curr is test

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Ivan Gagis wrote: > I use git repository on github to store the files. And to update it I > clone the repo, run mksetupini and then commit and push. One thing you can do after a clone/update is to run a script that tweaks each file's mtime to be its last-commit

Re: Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > Could you be more specific as to what you think is missing[?] I've mentioned the deficiencies on a couple occasions so far, but am happy to do so again. The biggest problem is a total lack of search (I've seen

Re: Various questions about 10.1.26-MariaDB on CYGWIN_NT-10.0 2.9.0(0.318/5/3) 2017-09-12 10:18 x86_64 Cygwin

On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Keith Christian wrote: > $ mysql -u 'keith'@'localhost' This is where you're messing up. You want to use "mysql -u keith" to login as the user "keith" -- you're specifying a username with a host-like suffix. In the grant commands, the host suffix indicates where

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] mysql 10.1.26-1

On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > This is an update to the latest 10.1 release: Is there any chance that readline support is going to make a comeback in mysql? I downloaded the src, changed the readline option in the cygport file to

Re: Setup v2.879 - can not scroll package list

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Jon Turney wrote: > I believe this [scrolling] option is new in Windows 10 That does indeed seem to be the case. There are also some tools you can use on prior Windows versions. For instance, search the web for "5 Tools to Scroll or Move Background Windows" and

Re: Setup v2.879 - can not scroll package list

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:48 AM, David Balažic wrote: > it does not scroll the package list, instead it changes the selection > in the mentioned drop down menu. One thing you should be able to do to work around this is to go to the mouse settings and enable the "Scroll inactive windows when I

Re: Cygwin: 2.6.0, rsync 3.1.2, "file has vanished"

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Shaun Maher wrote: > file has vanished: "BackUps(old)/Backup Pre-Rolled Payroll > 2015"16-MBTT2016.zip" (in VSSG) Those file-has-vanished errors shouldn't be affected by the --iconv option because that is a sender-side error, and the rsync

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] mysql 10.1.19-1

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution: > * mysql-10.1.19-1 > * [...] Would you consider a change in the mysql packages back to using readline? It should hopefully be as simple as:

Re: Unattended install "remembers" the download option

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Drake, Richard R wrote: > What is really curious is where this option is being stored. If I knew that, > then > maybe I could remove that setting so it would revert to the default setting. Look in /etc/setup/setup.rc. I bet the line following

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: setup.exe (Release 2.876)

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > A new version of Setup, release 2.876, has been uploaded to [...] The change from a button to a dropdown list for the View seems like a nice usability improvement, but it sadly takes away my main method of changing

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [Updated/New] Perl distributions

On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > x86/x86_64 > -- > perl-DBD-mysql-4.036-1 I tested that on 2 of my x86_64 setups and it fails to load. Here's the output of "perl -MDBD::mysql -e 1" on one of them: Can't load

Re: Latest perl JSON::XS failing when threaded

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > I've found a patch at least for the scenario that your test case uses. Thanks -- the new version does indeed get things back to "normal" (how things were behaving before). As for thread support, it looks like I need to

Latest perl JSON::XS failing when threaded

I updated cygwin today, and now perl JSON::XS fails to be able to decode json data if it is run in a multi-threaded script. I tested both x86_64 and x86 32-bit versions of cygwin, and they both have the issue: once I launch a new thread, JSON::XS refuses to parse anything, even in the primary

Re: rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 9:37 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: I'm having trouble with rsync invoked on Debian 5.0.3 pulling files from Windows XP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25. If this is not a daemon connection, then it's probably the cygwin pipe-hang bug. I have heard that a more

Re: 1.5.13-1 rsync data corruption

[Please CC me on any replies -- thanks.] On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:20:57PM -0600, Keith Moore wrote: subsequent incremental backups fail on certain large files when compression (-z) is enabled. So far, the problem only appears when making incremental backups of VMware virtual disk images.

Re: Suggestion: Make the setup dialog resizable

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:46:06AM -0600, Chuck Irvine wrote: I always find myself scrolling back and forth trying to see everything in the setup dialog. It would be very useful if this dialog were made resizable. I've been using the version that is available from the KDE-Cygwin folks. It

Re: 2004-Feb-17 snapshot change ssh option parsing behavior

Corinna Vinschen wrote: We're using the latest plain BSD getopt() now. It's permuting the options by default. This was switched off by default in Cygwin so far. Typically you should quote the command you send to the remote host: ssh somehost '/bin/bash --login -c date' This is not