Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test case

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
Biederman, Steve wrote: Any suggestions how I can proceed to debug why tar acts the way it does for me and not for you? I think you're down to building and debugging the code. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893

Re: "aux" file everywhere

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
errors. It's a reserved file name in Windows. You won't be able to create a file with that name, although the upcoming Cygwin version 1.5.x will provide a way to do so in restricted directories. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Par

Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test ca se

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
#x27; (initially at least) may help someone on this list spot your problem. Good luck and enjoy! ;-) Larry Biederman, Steve wrote: Which I've never done; I'm not a cygwin developer, just a user. Do you remember where cygwin documents how to set up a build environment and get a build goin

Re: 1.5.0 - gettimeofday() out of sync with Windows time

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
, and are there any patches available? Not yet. But this was mentioned on the developer's list this morning and someone is looking at the problem. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 8

Re: 1.5.0 - gettimeofday() out of sync with Windows time

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:53:02PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Chris Church wrote: I'm using version 1.5.0 of the cygwin1.dll on Windows 2000 Professional. I've also seen the problem described below on earlier versions of cygwin (1.3.22). I've

Re: Unable to use iisreset through ssh

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
h the certificate method. -Crispin -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:51 AM To: Crispin Bivans Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unable to use iisreset through ssh Crispin Bivans wrote: I have a weird problem where if I try t

Re: getaddrinfo function

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
developped ? No. PTC :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simp

Re: cygwin 1.5.0 managed mode & backward compatibility

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
Pavel Rozenboim wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, July 17, 2003 4:15 PM To: Pavel Rozenboim Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cygwin 1.5.0 managed mode & backward compatibility Pavel Rozenboim wrote: -Original Message-

Re: rebaseall question/problem

2003-07-17 Thread Larry Hall
, but no other types of errors. How does rebaseall know where to go to find these; how do I get it to stop looking for these non-existant dll's? See the rebaseall script. It pulls the files to rebase from the the list of installed files in /etc/setup/*.lst.gz -- Larry Hall

Re: Windows home path

2003-07-18 Thread Larry Hall
username is my current logged in windows username) as my home directory. As I stated before, I can change it by modifying the HOME env var in the batch file, but this doesn't seem like a good long term solution. Thanks, Bill ----- Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" &l

Re: tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test ca se

2003-07-18 Thread Larry Hall
o know where to start when things go wrong. This should get me started next time something does... Andrew. On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Larry Hall wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:13:22 -0400 From: Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Biederman, Steve" <[EMAIL

Re: Problem with tty

2003-07-18 Thread Larry Hall
Cygwin shell prompt with 'tty' set. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygw

Re: getaddrinfo function on win2k & XP

2003-07-18 Thread Larry Hall
i-linux24-s20030707.tar.bz2 in the directory usagi/usagi/libinet6 getaddrinfo.c needs to patch netdb.h also to add some definitions (the new netdb.h is in the include_glibc22 directory) hope this helps... enzo --- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Jérôme DESPATIS wrote: Hello in the m

Re: Installing Cygwin Under W2k

2003-07-18 Thread Larry Hall
Ah. Well then you'll want to look here: Larry Julian Gardner wrote: ash was installed so we still have the same problem joolz "Elfyn McBratney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Julian Gardner wrote: I have do

Re: bash: cat << EOF

2003-07-19 Thread Larry Hall
Samuel Thibault wrote: Le sam 19 jui 2003 17:27:59 GMT, Larry Hall a tapoté sur son clavier : Looks like your /etc/passwd and /etc/group aren't correct. Run mkpasswd and mkgroup with the appropriate flags for your installation (i.e. is your user in a domain or not?) I couldn't ge

Re: Problem with xinetd as a service

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
ly give those offenders a "time-out". Alternatively, how about a swat on the nose? Hm, I'm starting to like this one, provided we can find a good image to go with it. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893

Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
missing? What does the output of 'mount -m' say about '--change-cygdrive-prefix'? BTW, the steps above work fine for me. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street

Re: Call dynamic pointer

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
f you'd like someone here to be able to help solve it. Otherwise, you might want to make a similar inquiry to a Windows C++ development forum. I'd suggest including sample code that reproduces the problem too. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners,

Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /c

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
Try restarting your computer - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Cygwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Remounting /cygdrive/c as /

Re: Problem with tty

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
of is to avoid the situation wherever possible. If you run Cygwin's vim, there's no problem. The Cygwin distribution doesn't include gvim though, if that's what you're looking for. Another option is Egor's ttyfier program. See: <http://ns.logos-m.ru/~deo/ttyfie

Re: RE : Call dynamic pointer

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
Sorry, this still isn't enough to see exactly what you're doing and where the problem is. If you can't make a simple case that can be sent to the list so others can easily build and try your code to reproduce the problem, then you're unlikely to see much help coming from anyone on this list. Also

Re: Cygwin version 1.3.20

2003-07-21 Thread Larry Hall
on of the GPL. If this is the case, this list would like to know about this violation so it can be resolved. Can you enlighten us on this aspect? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Stre

Re: How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
d be something like what I've written here (read "~" as "includes"): version < 1.3.18 then $CYGWIN ~ \ The version where ntsec was turned on by default was 1.3.13-1. See the announcement here: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-10/msg4.html> -- Larr

Re: How to tell if ntsec is on or off

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:54:06AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jul, I wrote: I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote the ab

Re: DLL 1.3.22 - etags 5.5.4 fails on XP Pro

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
e Cygwin tools, then please describe the problem you're having. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: DLL 1.3.22 - etags 5.5.4 fails on XP Pro

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
27;s emacs, ctags directly, or some emacs lisp wizardry to resolve this issue. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- U

Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
ion around. Are you interested in implementing and submitting a patch to do this? I'm sure folks here would be willing to discuss the viability of such functionality in the context of a patch to implement it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RF

Re: Error message from gcc: "entry point putc_unlocked could not be l ocated ..."

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
nearly as I can figure, everything on my system is completely up to date -- and I've also reinstalled cygwin and gcc. Any suggestions on what to try next? David Guaspari ATC-NY 33 Thornwood Drive, Suite 500 Ithaca NY 14850 (607) 266-7114 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Hall

Re: Cannot link C++ code under gcc 3.2 running cygwin under Windows2000

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
oduce a working executable file with no problems. However, when I try to compile a trivial C++ code, I get the following message: $ gcc -v -o hello2 hello.cpp Guess you missed this posting: <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00313.html> -- Larry Hall

Re: How to diagnose Cygwin / Windows shutdown problem

2003-07-23 Thread Larry Hall
Richard Anderson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Timothy C Prince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:41 AM

Re: Backspace problem on VMS

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Hall
the 'cygwin' terminal settings. But this information should help guide you to a line of research which will offer a solution I hope. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washin

Re: Inetd question

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Hall
large file in the drive's root and you add 'ntea' to your CYGWIN environment variable. This isn't an alternative for FAT32 drives however. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washi

Re: check if cygwin in makefiles?

2003-07-24 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:16:25AM +0200, kaio wrote: ??? uname Wow! Now that's mind-reading! ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington S

Re: upgrade question

2003-07-25 Thread Larry Hall
d and that you don't run apps that can find the other DLL. There can be only 1 Cygwin DLL loaded at a time. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893

Re: ftp: can't set gid

2003-07-26 Thread Larry Hall
and the '-s' flag. You need '/', '/usr/bin', and '/usr/lib' to be mounted as 'system' for services to work. They'll be mounted as 'user' if you chose "Just Me" in setup.exe. -- Larry Hall http://

Re: Apache Bug

2003-07-26 Thread Larry Hall
#x27;d be open to getting involved in fixing the problem if I can get a little direction. Can't find it in the archives (I'm sure it's there - I just can't find it) but I think the fix was post 1.3.22. I'd suggest trying 1.5. That might be the quickest solution. -- Larry Hall

Re: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
art there anyway. A review of their knowledge base might provide some insights. If you do find that this is some wierd Cygwin issue, report it back to this list. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 8

Re: How to delete cygwin files?

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
ould find other ways to solve this problem too. ;-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: Erroneous complaint about being unable to run emacs

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:57:31 -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:35:04 -0500, Bill McCormick wrote: Martin Cohen Wrote: The reason for this is that my McAfee firewall was set (due to my mistake) to not allow emacs to access

Re: Assembler messaes:FATAL can't create /cygdrive....

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
e to create its stuff. Set TEMP to something different, and your temporary files will be created there. Can anyone tell me where I've stuffed up? Thanks Guy You didn't -- Windows did. I'm not quite sure why /cygdrive/c/TEMP as the value for TEMP doesn't work for you (works for

Re: missing exported function from cygwin1.dll

2003-07-27 Thread Larry Hall
y ideas would be appreciated. > Thanks Hmm, exactly which missing function does the error mention? Also, it's usually a good idea, when reporting Cygwin problems, to attach the output of "cygcheck -svr", as indicated in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. -- Larry Hall

Re: DLL 1.3.22 - etags 5.5.4 fails on XP Pro:K@N@!:

2003-07-29 Thread Larry Hall
Exactly. That's why I mentioned using ctags directly in Doing so should remove the magic, mystery, and the problem. Larry Jeffery B. Rancier wrote: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The solution which should

Re: cygwin and NTFS

2003-07-30 Thread Larry Hall
ons (by disabling them), there is a cost to doing so. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http:

Re: no path set after installation on win2k

2003-07-30 Thread Larry Hall
ther utilities, put Cygwin's directory first in your path. If you're having trouble with Cygwin shells, then you probably didn't start the shell as a login shell. Cygwin.bat will do this for you using bash. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com

Re: cygwin and NTFS

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
g the permissions problems. I can't remember exactly what version the behaviour changed but, Cygwin went to ntsec off by default (your NTFS bliss) to ntsec on by default. So, adding 'nontsec' to your CYGWIN environment variable should fix that for you. Elfyn -- Larry Hall

Re: Developing with cygwin: library troubles

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
se. Still, that's likely to be allot of work for nothing. You should try just linking against msi.lib (or even the DLL directly). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street

Re: Problems with man

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
3]0;\w\007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] What do I have configured wrong? This looks like a permission problem but there's nothing obviously wrong from your setup log or cygwcheck output. Can you invoke any of these directly from bash without problems? What do the ownerships

Re: using a dll created by cygwin in msvc++

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
gt; for some information on this. There's plenty more in the email archives too if you're interested. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FA

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
x27; terminal database. You can find that in /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubs

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
et again, has made my little project happier. I do note that the laptop running win98 I tried this on took a good 20 seconds to give up the terminal to the program. Is this just because the lap top is slow (it is...) or is win98 simply that poor compared to NT in performance. The delay on NT, if

Re: postgresql, cygwin newbie, issues

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
un setup again, leave the 'Curr' button selected, and let it install whatever it thinks it needs to. That will give you consistent binaries for Cygwin 1.3.22. Then read <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-05/msg01125.html>. This contains pointers to all the inf

Re: Problems with man

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
lp is fixing your home directory to point to something reasonable. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe inf

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Hi Terry, Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with 98. Like you say, could be just a slow machine. You'd have to debug it to know for sure. One point. /usr/share/

Re: using a dll created by cygwin in msvc++

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
docs in the mailing liste archive, but i have great great difficulties with the search engine http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ You're better off with google and just pointing at 'cygwin.com' for better or worse. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners,

Re: Problems with man

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
funky in my Windows Env Variables? Changing them in Windows doesn't change them _everywhere_ in Cygwin, eh? Nope. /etc/passwd is generated by mkpasswd which is invoked as a postinstall script when you run setup. I can't fathom how it came up with way you have thoug

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
ou need to create the mount point I suggested or otherwise wrap your application to make sure that C: is always the current drive when it runs. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
of the private key files in .ssh should have permissions to access these files. Public key files should be readable by anyone. You'll want to check the permissions on these files relative to the above. 3. Generally, you should read <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>. -- Larry

Re: 'setup.exe' under Win2K Terminal Server in AS mode

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
sted in working towards the goal you mentioned above, please send some email to the cygwin-apps list. That list exists to discuss setup- related issues and development. As with many such project, resources are scarce so I'm sure any help you might be willing to provide would be appreciated.

Re: vnc under cygwin

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
ly, I think the message as the URL above says it all, with the exception that cygipc is now available as a package in the Cygwin distribution. So that's your answer. If you disagree, I recommend you follow-up on the cygwin-xfree list. I've reset the reply-

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
not received the error you are describing. You might want to check the value of the CYGWIN environment variable. By default ntsec is turned on but if that variable includes "nontsec" or "ntea" then that might be what is causing your problem. -Mark - Original Message - Fro

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
t was linux...), so I can't help but use the default drive. So, although it may be something to be aware of, it does appear it is hard to screw it up. Terry Dabbs Larry Hall wrote: Terry Dabbs wrote: Thanks for the help. Since your advice kept me from having to "install" cygwin

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
vices/sshd/Parameters/Environment/CYGWIN It should read 'binmode ntsec tty'. If it doesn't, use the registry editor or regtool to change it to that. Restart sshd as the 'SYSTEM' user. See if that helps. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk

Re: FAQ page margin width issue

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
. I've tried everything and I can't force it to work, other than specifying in pixels the width to the TD element that contains the offending bits. That's obviously bogus. Or don't use IE. ;-) With Mozilla, the line you indicate is the only one that scrolls off the right side

Re: FAQ page margin width issue

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
Brian Dessent wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Or don't use IE. ;-) With Mozilla, the line you indicate is the only one that scrolls off the right side of the page. Actually, a quick check of IE 5.5 (yeah, I know it's out of date but I don't use it so I don't care) shows me the

Re: Setup bug --- probably already reported and fixed, of course

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
scusses setup issues. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: how to debug dll compiled from cygwin in windows

2003-08-02 Thread Larry Hall
, BBB.dll and CCC.dll in one environment like Visual C? Or Any other choices? See the FAQ entry: Can I use the gdb debugger to debug programs built by VC++? <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC121> Also, a review of <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> would be worthwhile. -

Re: vim speed issue

2003-08-02 Thread Larry Hall
rtcomings. Some use it on NT/W2K/XP too. ;-) See: Is there a better alternative to the standard console window? <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC66> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Wash

Re: vim speed issue

2003-08-02 Thread Larry Hall
David Selby wrote: Larry Hall wrote: David Selby wrote: Hello, OK newbe cygwin user here, have read manual + faq ... so not just lept in with a question ! I have a 700MHz PIII 256MB, I have installed cygwin on 98SE. When running it can seem a little slow, ie "man man" takes 2-

Re: cygwin performance hit

2003-08-03 Thread Larry Hall
larger hit? Beyond the fact that makedepend calls into system services for Cygwin go through an emulated API and POSIX path to Win32 path conversion, no. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington

Re: default X wm + .LIBX11.DLL missing

2003-08-03 Thread Larry Hall
LL so that would be Cygwin. See <http://cygwin.com/packages/> to find which package this is in and install it. BTW, this is really a question about X on Cygwin so it should go to cygwin-xfree. I've redirected the conversation there and reset the reply-to appropriately.

Re: Cursor is frozen in Vim and Emacs

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
terminal/console, review the advice from Chris and Igor. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Error while running tcsh

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
increasingly dependent on the Cygwin 1.5.x test package. Kishor, is this what you did? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-04 Thread Larry Hall
Ville Herva wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: Please *attach* your cygcheck output next time rather than including it in the text of your message. Sorry. I suggest the following two changes. 1. Remove 'ntea' from your CYGWIN environmen

Re: Incomplete installation problems

2003-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
stalling and using Cygwin but never really paid much attention to anything else. See <http://cygwin.com/packages/>. That should help you. Where is my mistake ? Good question. Of course, cygcheck output is missing (as an attachment). That helps diagnosis. Also, run through this thread from tod

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

2003-08-05 Thread Larry Hall
me, if it works Cygwin->Cygwin and Cygwin->Solaris but not Cygwin->Linux, then it's not likely that a change on the Cygwin side is going to help, IMO. FWIW, this worked for me Cygwin->Cygwin from bash and from rxvt without tty set for either attempt. -- Larry Hall

Re: Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS

2003-08-06 Thread Larry Hall
ot;\r\n" by the io library, but your code will be portable to any other posix system. If you explicitly use "\r\n" in your program then you have to make sure the file is always opened in binary mode otherwise you'll could get ^^

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-06 Thread Larry Hall
ative. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Controversial what if.... we disable ntsec by default again?

2003-08-06 Thread Larry Hall
butes (1) and it's convincing, then that just means that (2) now applies to this new implementation. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889

Re: Less fails with link error

2003-08-08 Thread Larry Hall
ys_ work. Did you install 'less' via 'rpm'? If you did, you want to inquire at the site that provided 'less' as an RPM file for assistance. If you did not install 'less' via 'rpm', why are you surprised that it's not in t

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

2003-08-08 Thread Larry Hall
o, all things considered. I'm fine with leaving that as a mystery for another day though. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, M

Re: Operating system information

2003-08-08 Thread Larry Hall
Ehud Karni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:20:46 -0400, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to find out the amount of physical memory and available swap of the machine through cygwin? In Solaris terms p

Re: "cannot find username for UID XXX"

2003-08-09 Thread Larry Hall
wd, or can I do something to convince Cygwin I'm uid 66015 instead? mkpasswd -d -u erajpaa >/etc/passwd mkgroup -d >/etc/group See the email archives for more discussion of these if you continue to have problems or are interested in learning more. -- Larry Hall

Re: Administrator lacking super-user privileges on cygwin installation

2003-08-09 Thread Larry Hall
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Ville Herva wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:03:18PM -0400, you [Larry Hall] wrote: I tried adding '-d' to the sshd parameters, but that doesn't help (gives the same error 255) - it seems to die earlier than that. What does /var/l

Re: question concerning wmdebug.exe

2003-08-09 Thread Larry Hall
test versions of some packages. This will fix it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cyg

Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?

2003-08-09 Thread Larry Hall
it can if you ask it to. Convenient. Wonder why MS didn't distribute this (or similar) version with some VC++ 6 SP... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508)

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

2003-08-10 Thread Larry Hall
m, perhaps with a bent toward Linux. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe

Re: man "h" command triggers error while viewing man page

2003-08-10 Thread Larry Hall
t as ^G Signal 127 ~ (repeat to bottom) @/\less/\help/\file/\@ (file 2 of 2) (END) If previous threads/other documentation contain the answer, please advise. Must be a 9x thing. Works fine here on W2K. Maybe this is some kind of terminal problem? What are you using as your terminal, command.com or

Re: portable install on usb flash drive?

2003-08-12 Thread Larry Hall
at be a problem? Depends on what you install. You won't get any services for free. You'll also need to update /etc/passwd and /etc/group to reflect the current users and their SIDs on each system. Then you want to set up your mounts via 'mount'. But yes, it will work

Re: Install 1.3.22-1 problem - default text file type - DOS

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
en the pointer to take advantage of the technique below. Francis R. Harvey III WB303, x3952 [EMAIL PROTECTED] VB programmers know the wisdom of Nothing -Original Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:31 PM To: Brian Dessent Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Setup.exe fails to access mirrors

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
d you can't figure out why. Larry Nathaniel Street wrote: Hi I have no problems accessing the website. I just tried to install the program again after a break of a few hours but still no joy. Larry Hall wrote: Nathaniel Street wrote: Hi When I run the setup.exe program, it fails whe

Re: Setup.exe fails to access mirrors

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
that doesn't work either. Works fine from here now. Do you have trouble accessing the cygwin site? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Hol

Re: SSH session terminates with Ctl+C

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
Jeff Nokes wrote: --- Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't know why this would make a difference with one server and not the other but do you have 'tty' set in your CYGWIN environment? If not, you might try it. The fact that rxvt doesn't have the problem so

Re: Less fails with link error

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
David Balazic wrote: -- From: Larry Hall[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6. avgust 2003 17:32 To: David Balazic Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Less fails with link error David Balazic wrote: If I try to run less from bas

Re: rfe: seamless windows integration

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
ced article on "smart questions" and the descriptions of the various email lists available and the topics they cover. HTH, -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street

Re: Yes but I don't understand ...

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
ns, which, while present in the B20 era, was less conspicuous. Personally, I think I lean towards the "God created a ChangeLog with evidence of previous Cygwins in it as part of His inscrutable plan." This *must* be the one, true Cygwin lore! -- Larry Hall

Re: Win2k and cygwin memory leak

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
ther Windows apps. I don't see that further debate on this subject is leading anywhere. Since the thread has long since turned unproductive, can we end it now? I'm sure if someone happens to find something useful and relevant, it will be subsequently reported. TIA, -- Larry Hall

Re: proftpd issues

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
itting out on the mirrors - perhaps it has fixes for this? No: <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-08/msg00071.html> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street

Re: [BUG] pututline () & rxvt: rxvt leaves stale utmp entries

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
u state without the snapshot though... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/

Re: Win64 status?

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
en no mention on this list of anyone working to make Cygwin function with AMD64 or IA64. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA

Re: SCO/IBM legal issues

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Hall
on some non-Cygwin issue in this regard, see if you can find one of those lists instead. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston,

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