Re: Setting Cygwin terminal colors?

2002-01-11 Thread Stephen Brooks
If you are using rxvt (which maybe you should) then for the documentation try "man rxvt"   rxvt -fg pink -bg yellow   works nicely for me ;-)     --Stephen BrooksSoftware Team LeaderiVB Network Solutions   Creators of Omvia, an integrated approach to next generation communication applications.

Quick question on setup.exe

2002-01-11 Thread Vincent Arnoux
Hello, Does this download application for cygwin takes in account the OS on which it is running (i.e. are there different packages to download whether you are running it on Windows 95 or Windows NT) ? Regards, Vincent Arnoux -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:45:27AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > limits" to cron. IOW I guess what I'm saying is that *something* should > be done (I know you can see this as whining and perhaps it is. But it's > whining for a good cause! :-) So, why aren't you going to roll up your sleeves an

Re: 1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:53AM -0800, Daryl Spartz wrote: > The subject line problem, reported back in November, 2001 was stated to be > fixed in message archive post > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00694.html by Jeff Mincy. I am > running 1.3.6 and STILL have the problem (running

RE:Cygwin on a CD

2002-01-11 Thread Jorge Goncalvez
Hi, I use Cygwin and I wonder if it would be possible to run Cygwin environment without installing it in hard disk, by running it from a CD for exemple, I know that some Linux distribution can be run without installing them(no special partition needed) in hard disk and running them from a CD. T

Re: telnet cannot see mount drive - another method

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:36:22AM +, Tiffany Chan wrote: > I have try another method to "cd" to another server > rather than using "mount" or "net use". > In my case, I want to get/put files from w2k advanced > server to/from HP-Unix Server. > > ---

Re: Quick question on setup.exe

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, Vincent! :) First of all - this is _NOT_ a "download application". This is an installer. Now to answer you question - No! The package selection is not based on the OS, on which setup.exe is currently running. Vincent Arnoux wrote: > Hello, > Does this download application for cygwin takes

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Jean-Michel POURE
Le Mercredi 9 Janvier 2002 17:08, vous avez écrit : > Jean-Michel, > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:12:22AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > See the following for my 4.0.2 experiences and patch: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-07/msg00949.html > Jason Dear Jason, Are there technical prob

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
No one has offered to be a package maintainer for Bezerkly db (a pre-requisite) or rpm. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygw

win32 api

2002-01-11 Thread Jean le Roux
Hi all Does anyone know where I can find some references to API calls such as those exported with /usr/include/w32api/winreg.h ? I'm rather curious as to what the parameters are intended for... not all of them are obvious. Thanx -- Jean le Roux Binary Entropy Catalyst Fairy Tale, n.:

Re: win32 api

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
Microsoft's MSDN is available online at msdn.microsoft.com. Probably someone should setup a specific project to work on free documentation for w32api which can be distributed with w32api like the glibc info pages and man pages are distributed with glibc. ReactOS is doing such documentation, but

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mmap (MapViewOfFile resp.) alwaus map whole pages. A page is 4096 > bytes long. > > If a file is, say, 8190 bytes, then we have a two page map, size 8192. > So we have two trailing 0 bytes. If getpagesize() returns 4096

RE: Quick question on setup.exe

2002-01-11 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
Just to clarify a bit: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Pavel Tsekov > > Hey, Vincent! :) > > First of all - this is _NOT_ a "download application". This > is an installer. > Well, it's really both a floor wax AND a dessert topping*,

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:32:57PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > mmap (MapViewOfFile resp.) alwaus map whole pages. A page is 4096 > > bytes long. > > > > If a file is, say, 8190 bytes, then we have a two page map

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Now, the pagesize on Windows is 4K. If the file size is coincidentally > 4096 or 8192 or any other multiple of 4K, gcc knows that it has to > fallback to it's "slow" method since getpagesize() has returned the > cor

chown problem

2002-01-11 Thread Tiffany Chan
Cygwin 1.3.3 installed in d:\ "UserA" and "UserB" in same group "GroupAB" UserA's home is in e:\home\UserA; ownership=UserA:GroupAB; mode=755 In e:\home\UserA, rwxrwxrwx UserA:GroupAB DirOne In w2k security tabs, I saw : Owner of DirOne = UserA Mode= Everyone rwx

Again Undefined Reference to WinMain

2002-01-11 Thread Prashant Kharche
Hello everybody. I read almost all the solution for undefined reference of WinMain@16 and I trying all those flags for linking with gcc. still I am getting same error. Can any body help me for this. My makefile prints following lines while linking. Please suggest a solution for this problem

Re: chown problem

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:56:07AM +, Tiffany Chan wrote: > Cygwin 1.3.3 installed in d:\ > "UserA" and "UserB" in same group "GroupAB" > UserA's home is in e:\home\UserA; > ownership=UserA:GroupAB; mode=755 > > In e:\home\UserA, > rwxrwxrwx UserA:GroupAB DirOne > > In w2k security tabs, I s

Re: Again Undefined Reference to WinMain

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
AFAIK Cygwin B20.1 is not supported anymore. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: rsync-2.5.1-1

2002-01-11 Thread Lapo Luchini
I have uploaded version 2.5.1.-1 of the open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. ChangeLog as in http://rsync.samba.org : BUG FIXES: * Fix for segfault in --daemon mode configuration parser. (Paul Mackerras) * Correct string<->address parsing for both IPv

Re: Again Undefined Reference to WinMain

2002-01-11 Thread Don Sharp
Recently, while trying to compile bcpp, I had exactly that message. My hair was becoming scarcer by the minute until I saw that I had a missing module. Adding the missing module to the link and lo and behold everything was fine! Hope that helps Don Sharp Prashant Kharche wrote: > > Hello ever

Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...

2002-01-11 Thread Andy Piper
Chris Faylor wrote: >There is a snapshot up there now which seems to work ok. > >Again, many thanks to Robert Collins for tracking this down. > >Although I said I wasn't overly interested in tracking this down >myself, I was interested in seeing the lessening in email traffic that I >hope this fi

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
Jon Leichter wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:31 PM > > To: Jon Leichter > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > > > Using `gcc -mno-cygwi

Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Many thanks for looking at this. While the iron is hot - this problem is > still outstanding and I don't know whether you would expect this to be > fixed also: Can I suggest you start a new thread when the topic changes, it h

status access violation

2002-01-11 Thread Enrico Bernardini
Hi, my program hav a strange beaviour: It is like this example: main { ... setuid(client_uid); ... switch(fork()) case default: ... break; case 0: /* child */ ... execle(...); break; } well, it works but when I remove a stupid unrelated piece of code (setuid(client_uid);) in the main, the proc

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Jason Tishler
Jean-Michel, On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:51:38AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Le Mercredi 9 Janvier 2002 17:08, vous avez écrit : > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:12:22AM +0100, Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > > See the following for my 4.0.2 experiences and patch: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/c

Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-11 Thread Andy Piper
At 11:11 PM 1/11/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Can I suggest you start a new thread when the topic changes, it helps >prevent confusion - particulary if the original thread hangs around. Sorry. I thought the two might be related. > > Interactive bash shell starts: > > -> shell scri

start up directory

2002-01-11 Thread Rob
Howdy all! How do I change my start up directory? And is usr/bin the right place for me to put scripts I want to be able to run from anywhere? Rob :-) ;-> :-] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation:

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
> Subject: RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:20:42 -0800 > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ok. I need to return to asking some questions with my new understanding > of --build, --

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Earnie Boyd
> Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:25:17 +1100 > From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - Original Message - > From: "Jon Leichter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > See above

Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
=== - Original Message - From: "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This rule is changed for 2.50 and greater. Build no longer takes on the > value of host and you're warned about this when specifying --host > without specifying --build. IIRC, if you specify build without host > then h

Error after ./configure

2002-01-11 Thread Frank Wagner
Hello, I tried to build insight5.1 on a WinNT 4.0 maschine. After the command ./configure I got the following messages: Configuring for a i686-pc-cygwin host. Created "Makefile" in /home/WagnerF/insight using "mf-frag" /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:

Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-11 Thread Andy Piper
At 11:11 PM 1/11/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Start the ash script in the background, and then use ps. See if the java >program appears in ps. If it does - check via task manager or process >explorer to see if the reported cygwin pid is the same as the actual >java.exe pid. > >If it doesn't

gcc/ld problem

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Cygwinners, I'm trying to link a library with gcc -shared plus some ld options: gcc -shared -o Zlib.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libZlib.dll.a -Wl,--output-def libZlib.def -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import \ -L/usr/local/lib Zlib.o /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.2/cygwin-multi-64int/C

Re: Error after ./configure

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
You have installed the source bundle of the w32api package. Run setup.exe again and install the missing package. Btw when you're missing a file, you can always go to http://cygwin.com/packages/ and use the search engine to find out which package contains the missing file. Frank Wagner wrote: >

Re: Error after ./configure

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Frank, 2002-01-11 14:35:58, du schriebst: > I tried to build insight5.1 on a WinNT 4.0 maschine. > After the command ./configure I got the following messages: > Configuring for a i686-pc-cygwin host. > Created "Makefile" in /home/WagnerF/insight using "mf-frag" > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwi

Re: Error after ./configure

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 02:33:41PM +0100, Frank Wagner wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to build insight5.1 on a WinNT 4.0 maschine. > After the command ./configure I got the following messages: > > Configuring for a i686-pc-cygwin host. > Created "Makefile" in /home/WagnerF/insight using "mf-frag" >

Edit file

2002-01-11 Thread Rob
Howdy! I would like to make a script that can change a line in a file.. commenting out a line in a java source file to be precise. I would like to look for this line: import visualiser.HostIDVPatcher; and edit it to this: // import visualiser.HostIDVPatcher; Can I do this? I tried using se

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
> And, I'm sorry but it really looks to me like you'd need a > release from > AT&T indicating that any patches you provided to us are > unemcumbered by > this license. I don't see how you can sign away the rights to any > patches that you make if you have been working on code that is covered >

RE: Edit file

2002-01-11 Thread Ebrey, Carl
This is rather off topic since it's not a cygwin problem, IMO, but I'll help you anyway because I'm nice like that :P What you probably want is: bash$ cat visualiser/PositionData.java | sed "s!import visualiser.HostIDVPatcher;!//import visualiser.HostIDVPatcher;!" > out.txt I've used ! instead

Solved: Re: gcc/ld problem

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Gerrit, 2002-01-11 14:51:38, du schriebst: Argh, after reading my own mail I saw the mistake: > gcc -shared -o Zlib.dll -Wl,--out-implib=libZlib.dll.a > -Wl,--output-def libZlib.def -Wl,--export-all-symbols ^ = is missing!!! [...] This question remains: > Do I need

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:53:07AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: > > And, I'm sorry but it really looks to me like you'd need a > > release from > > AT&T indicating that any patches you provided to us are > > unemcumbered by > > this license. I don't see how you can sign away the rights

Re: Edit file

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Rob, 2002-01-11 15:07:14, du schriebst: > I would like to make a script that can change a line in a file.. commenting > out a line in a java source file to be precise. [...] > I tried using sed with this line: Hey, we have perl for cygwin! Perl offers much more than sed does:-) perl -i.bak -

Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ash script pid reported by shell: 828 > ash script pid in task manager: 856 > java pid reported by ps 1640PPID 828 > java pid reported by task mnager1640 > bash pid

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
> If we just left out that patch we won't have a problem. OK. > > Two other patches mimic UWIN behavior. That can not be a > problem, since Cygwin also has adopted the UWIN symbolics links. > > Mimicing isn't a problem as long as you didn't look into the > sources and get the idea from there.

Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-11 Thread Andy Piper
At 01:22 AM 1/12/2002 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ash script pid reported by shell: 828 > > ash script pid in task manager: 856 > > java pid reported by ps 1640PPID 828 > > java pid repor

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:50:50AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: > > If we just left out that patch we won't have a problem. > > OK. > > > > Two other patches mimic UWIN behavior. That can not be a > > problem, since Cygwin also has adopted the UWIN symbolics links. > > > > Mimicing is

Re: CVS 1.11: More info about my problem (i'm sorry about the demanding tone...)

2002-01-11 Thread Randall R Schulz
Alexei, Two things: 1) What's in your CYGWIN environment variable. 2) Did you copy and paste that diagnostic, or re-type it manually into the message? Assuming the former, did you notice that it refers to "mypoj" not "myproj"? Perhaps there's some corruption in you CVS repository in the form

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Fleischer, Karsten (K.)
> > All other patches are bug fixes or small corrections to > make Cygwin behave more consistent. > > Yeah, I was talking only about AST related stuff. If a patch > has nothing to do with AST, go ahead. But be aware that we will > discuss it and it still could be rejected, of course. That's >

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed. You will discover, among other things, that we have repeatedly said "somebody needs to port/maintain/contribute the package" and "(ditto) db". Then we ask "Do you want to volunte

RE:Cygwin on a CD

2002-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 04:27 AM 1/11/2002, Jorge Goncalvez wrote: >Hi, I use Cygwin and I wonder if it would be possible to run Cygwin environment >without installing it in hard disk, by running it from a CD for exemple, I know >that some Linux distribution can be run without installing them(no special >partition

Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-11 Thread Joshua Franklin
A while ago I was helping students that were new to bash and UNIX and I wrote a little guide in HTML. Late I put together "Cygwin-Lite" (Cygwin on a floppy) and added the guide. This was before the setup.exe changes that made a minimal install easy. I've stopped updating Cygwin-Lite but I think

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Well, I just want to know - what's the thing that prevented the db package from being ported so long ? Is it extremly difficulk or it's just a matter of no one having the time/interest of doing it ? I may be interested in maintaing this package but what some details first :) Charles Wilson wrote

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-11 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:55 PM 1/10/2002, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > > Of Christopher Faylor > > > >[snip] > > > >For Bourne style shells I use > > > > > >runme > filename 2>&1 > > > > > >This redirects stdout first and t

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Jean-Michel POURE
Le Vendredi 11 Janvier 2002 17:10, Charles Wilson a écrit : > Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where > the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed.  You will discover, among > other things, that we have repeatedly said "somebody needs to > port/maintain/contribute th

Re: start up directory

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Rob wrote: > Howdy all! > > How do I change my start up directory? > > And is usr/bin the right place for me to put scripts I want to be able to > run from anywhere? Probably not. Put them in /usr/local/bin , but make sure that $PATH contains that directory. --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info:

Webmin on Cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Lapo Luchini
I noticed on http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ that "cygwin 1.3" was a "supported" platform of webmin... and it is indeed, but it has some quirks (is that the right word?). With various operations (like updating a package) I get the following cluttering of the console: > /bin/rm: ERROR: the directory

Re: Solved: Re: gcc/ld problem

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > This question remains: > > >>Do I need .def files? No. BTW, why are you building a libz dll? (Just for practice?) There is already a cygz.dll provided by the libz package... --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporti

possible patch for cygwin.bat

2002-01-11 Thread Joshua Franklin
Here's a possible patch to include a couple rxvt lines REMed out. No changelog yet since I figure it needs comments. Anyone? --- desktop.cc-orig Fri Jan 11 10:38:12 2002 +++ desktop.cc Fri Jan 11 10:46:18 2002 @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ make_cygwin_bat () backslash (concat (get_root_dir

Re: possible patch for cygwin.bat

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, Joshua :) Joshua Franklin wrote: > Here's a possible patch to include a couple rxvt > lines REMed out. No changelog yet since I figure it > needs comments. Anyone? > > --- desktop.cc-orig Fri Jan 11 10:38:12 2002 > +++ desktop.cc Fri Jan 11 10:46:18 2002 > @@ -199,6 +199,9 @@ make_cy

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Charles Wilson
Jean-Michel POURE wrote: > Le Vendredi 11 Janvier 2002 17:10, Charles Wilson a écrit : > >>Please search the mailing list archives (cygwin and cygwin-apps) where >>the RPM issue has been ENDLESSLY discussed. You will discover, among >>other things, that we have repeatedly said "somebody needs t

Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:53:07AM -0500, Fleischer, Karsten (K.) wrote: >> And, I'm sorry but it really looks to me like you'd need a >> release from >> AT&T indicating that any patches you provided to us are >> unemcumbered by >> this license. I don't see how you can sign away the rights to a

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Jean-Michel POURE
Le Vendredi 11 Janvier 2002 18:04, Charles Wilson a écrit : > It's not windows that has no future -- it's the level of participation > of people who want rpm that will trend to zero. I also noticed it when working on the Windows PostgreSQL administration interface called pgAdmin (http://pgadmin.

Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:48:01AM -0500, Robinow, David wrote: > You are using: >2) cygwin1.dll: 1.3.6-cygwin-1-3-6-6 (APIVersion: 0.47, >BuildDate: 2001-12-08 17:02); > > Although you may not have been asking about cygwin's internals, the answer, >as has been pointed out to you before, involves

ssh w/ntsec and password auth

2002-01-11 Thread Richard Campbell
The story so far: nt 4.0, sshd running, inetd running, CYGWIN=ntsec. I can telnet to my machine and login successfully. I can ssh to my machine using a generated identity (ssh-usr-config) successfully. "id" shows "uid=11340(campbe_r) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=0(Everyone),10513(Domain Use

Re: 1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:53AM -0800, Daryl Spartz wrote: >> The subject line problem, reported back in November, 2001 was stated to be >> fixed in message archive post >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-11/msg00694.html b

Re: 1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
I thought "me toos" are not welcomed on this list :P Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >>On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:53AM -0800, Daryl Spartz wrote: >> >>>The subject line problem, reported back in November, 2001 was stated to be >

RE: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-11 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me > about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally??? > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 a

RE: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-11 Thread Robinow, David
You are using: 2) cygwin1.dll: 1.3.6-cygwin-1-3-6-6 (APIVersion: 0.47, BuildDate: 2001-12-08 17:02); Although you may not have been asking about cygwin's internals, the answer, as has been pointed out to you before, involves cygwin's internals. Chris Faylor mentioned on 4-Jan-2002 that he thin

Re: Solved: Re: gcc/ld problem

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles, 2002-01-11 18:30:44, du schriebst: >> This question remains: >>>Do I need .def files? > No. > BTW, why are you building a libz dll? (Just for practice?) There is > already a cygz.dll provided by the libz package... No, I'm poking around with perl to get the cyg instead of the lib

Re: 1.3.6 ssh Write failed: The descriptor is a file, not a socket

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:33:04PM +0100, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >I thought "me toos" are not welcomed on this list :P That's what I thought, too! HTH, cgf >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:02:24AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:50:53AM -0800, Da

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Pavel, 2002-01-11 18:39:43, du schriebst: > Well, I just want to know - what's the thing that prevented the db > package from being ported so long ? Is it extremly difficulk or it's > just a matter of no one having the time/interest of doing it ? > I may be interested in maintaing this package

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New on sourceware: Whois

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Bradshaw
The most recent version of GNU Whois (4.5.17) has been uploaded to sourceware. The whois client allows you to query a whois db (RFC-812). Using whois you can get information on a domain name (whois redhat.com), IP addresses (whois 1.2.3.4), and more. This tool is commonly used to determine the

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-11 Thread Andrew DeFaria
> > >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:45:27AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > >>limits" to cron. IOW I guess what I'm saying is that *something* should be done (I >know you can see this as whining and perhaps it is. But it's whining for a good >cause! :-) >> >So, why aren't you going to roll up your sl

[OT] Re: CVS 1.11: (reposted many times!) Will anybody answer me about "cvs co -r" bug under cygwin, finally???

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 06:24:49PM +0100, Bernard Dautrevaux wrote: >>Why do I keep thinking about "hen's teeth"? > >Perhaps because after nearly 100 million years, Kollar, E. J. and >Fisher were able in 1980 to grw some? see >http://zygote.swarthmore.edu/prox1.html for description and even of

RE: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Jon Leichter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Earnie Boyd > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:01 AM > To: Jon Leichter > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Compiling apps to Mingw32 with cygwin > > Jon Leichter wrote: > > > > Th

setup.ini for custom distrobution

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Adler
I'm putting together a modified distrobution of CYGWIN so that I can easily install just the packages that I want, including some custom packages. I wrote a script to create the setup.ini, but I'm not yet satisfied because when I execute setup.exe most of the packages are set for 'skip'. The setu

Re: CVS 1.11: More info about my problem (i'm sorry about the demanding tone...)

2002-01-11 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
Randall, - Original Message - From: "Randall R Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexei Lioubimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: CVS 1.11: More info about my problem (i'm sorry about the demanding tone..

1.3.6: sscanf bug (error with %n)

2002-01-11 Thread William Joye
There seems to be a bug with trailing spaces and %n with sscanf strings. In particular, %n fails if it is the last item in the format string and it is preceeded with a space. Here is some sample code: #include main() { char foo[] = " name .1 "; char bar[8]; float ff; int nc; int

Re: Setting up user mode cron

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > > > >On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:45:27AM -0800, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > > >>limits" to cron. IOW I guess what I'm saying is that *something* should be > >>done (I know you can see this as whining and perhaps it is. But it's >

Re: status access violation

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:15:37PM +0100, Enrico Bernardini wrote: >My program has a strange behavior. It is like this example: >main >{ >... >setuid(client_uid); >... > >switch(fork()) >case default: >... >break; > >case 0: /* child */ >... >execle(...); >break; >} > >well, it works but when I re

Kylix Installation???

2002-01-11 Thread Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte
Hi, folks! has anybody installed Kylix under Cygwin/XFree? I tried running the installer, but it doesn't seem to like Cygwin, and it fails to run complaining of the versions of gcc and a few libraries. If anybody knows the way to get it running, I would like to know. Thanks, Marcus Vinicius Eif

Re: Kylix Installation???

2002-01-11 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Whoa - you're trying to run a linux application on windows! Maybe you need to visit http://cygwin.com and see what's the aim of the project... Marcus Vinicius Eiffle Duarte wrote: > Hi, folks! > > has anybody installed Kylix under Cygwin/XFree? > I tried running the installer, but it doesn't se

Re: CVS 1.11: "cvs co -r" works Ok with cygwin-20020110 snapshot -- Thanks to everybody!!!

2002-01-11 Thread Alexei Lioubimov
Yes!!! I got it: I've downloaded the cygwin-20020110.dll snapshot and "cvs co -r" works right now! Two things: 1) Excuse me kindly for the tone of my messages -- i was really upset and did not know what to do; 2) I'm sorry, i did not understand the answer from Chris Faylor correctly: i never dow

building openssh clients

2002-01-11 Thread Bing Wen
hi, could you please tell me how to build the clients (ssh.exe etc) that use the current directory to store the known_hosts files? i have cygwin installed on my pc so i have no problem with directories such as /cygdrive/c/winnt/profiles/wen/.ssh/known_hosts2 but i need to give the clients (ssh,

How do I use expect to read and write to the serial port

2002-01-11 Thread Craig Hackney
Does anyone know how to use expect to read and write to a serial port on a windows machine running cygwin? Thanks, -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.c

Re: Setting Cygwin terminal colors?

2002-01-11 Thread Jeff
As seen from lists.cygwin, on Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:31:03 +, "Stephen Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you are using rxvt (which maybe you should) I wasn't, but I think I'll begin to. :) > then for the >documentation try "man rxvt" > >rxvt -fg pink -bg yellow > >works nicely fo

Re: Webmin on Cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:47:20PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: > I only wanted to know if that "inode number changing" is normal > behaviour for CygWin, something that will be fixed or.. what? ^_^ You should debug it. It can be normal in Cygwin due to the way inode numbers are emulated. Neither

Re: Proposed Mailing List Page Reorg (was: RE: No stderr output)

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Joshua Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and added the guide. This was before the setup.exe > changes that made a minimal install easy. I've > stopped updating Cygwin-Lite but I think the webpage > is useful: Yes!, thank you, thank you! I was starting to wonde

start up directory

2002-01-11 Thread Rob
Hi all! > How do I change my start up directory? I got the following response: > edit your entry in /etc/passwd. It lists your home directory. However, I don't understand how my system is working at the moment. This is what I see at startup when do a "pwd": Robert Mark Bram@ROB ~ $ pwd /cyg

Re: possible patch for cygwin.bat

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
Yes, this should be a post-install shell script to replace/update cygwin.bat. Direct (non data driven) creation from setup.exe of _anything_ is deprecated. Rob === - Original Message - From: "Joshua Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 3:

Re: setup.ini for custom distrobution

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Michael Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How can I write a setup.ini so that it will install everything without > having to click on 40 packages? 1) Don't use a setup.ini. 2) Put everything into base. 3) read http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html > If this is a RTFM

Re: start up directory

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Rob, Am 2002-01-12 um 00:18 schriebst du: >> How do I change my start up directory? > I got the following response: >> edit your entry in /etc/passwd. It lists your home directory. 1. no need to edit the /etc/passwd file, create one with `mkpasswd'. 2. it depends how you start the bash shel

Re: RPM installer needed for my PHP project

2002-01-11 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Hallo Gerrit, Am 2002-01-11 um 18:59 schriebst du: > Pavel, > 2002-01-11 18:39:43, du schriebst: >> Well, I just want to know - what's the thing that prevented the db >> package from being ported so long ? Is it extremly difficulk or it's >> just a matter of no one having the time/interest of

Re: Ash spawning win32 programs (was Re: bash/cmd CTRL-C problem...)

2002-01-11 Thread Robert Collins
- Original Message - From: "Andy Piper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Its a console app that happily responds to ^C. If you run it directly from > within bash then ^C works, so I assume from what you say above that this is > a bug of some description. Have you tried the latest snapshot and conf

RE: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Karsten Fleischer
> I would *really* like to get something official from AT&T if you were > actually working for them, too. OK, I triggered this. I'll be quiet now. Karsten P.S.: I gave you some clues about real bugs in Cygwin. Maybe someone else could have a look at those. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Did you get your check ?

2002-01-11 Thread Mike
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Re: ksh on cygwin

2002-01-11 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:54:17AM +0100, Karsten Fleischer wrote: >>I would *really* like to get something official from AT&T if you were >>actually working for them, too. > >OK, I triggered this. I'll be quiet now. I'm just asking for assurances. Can you get someone from AT&T to send email he

Re: start up directory

2002-01-11 Thread rashie athukorala
Hi Rob -- I had a similar problem. It turns out some windows program had defined $HOME, and this supersedes cygwin's $HOME. On win2k I removed it from: my computer -> properties -> advanced -> environment variables -> user defined variables --ra At 06:44 PM 1/11/2002, you wrote: >Rob, > >A