Re: Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

2003-06-23 Thread S . L .
Chuck, > Similar to my message of 9-May-2002, but updated with regards to [...] LONGING, for the same 'bout gtk2 suite. Especially now, when tml advertises http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~s01397ms/cygwin/ where it's quite a patch suite, nice organized with win32/cyg-xfree86 backends. Except a minim

RE: unexpected behavior: setup v2.340.2.5

2003-06-23 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 11:39a > I don't know what you mean by "beta". If you mean packages installed > when you press the "Exp" radio button in setup, then that's > how it works. > You pick "Exp" to install any experime

is this known bug still known to be around? (re: rsync)

2003-06-23 Thread book-girl
Often, after transfering a large number of files, rsync will hang when done (src + dst on same machine). I remember this being mentioned ages ago as a problem. It seems to still be around. Same as it ever was -- all files seem to be transferred, it just doesn't want to exit when done. (rsync:

Weird error message? What does it mean?

2003-06-23 Thread linda w \(cyg\)
law> find / -name \*.lnk -exec grep -is "Documents and Settings" {} \; -print >/tmp/oldlinks find: /pagefile.sys: No such file or directory C:\bin\find.exe: *** WFSO timed out for after longjmp. I was trying to find all links that referenced "Documents and Settings", since I moved users to 'home'

Re: Script program

2003-06-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 10:28:44PM -0500, William J. Moulton wrote: >Is there a cygwin version of the script utility available? > >William J. Moulton Wrong mailing list. Redirected. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/proble

Python and PIL and rebase, oh my! (update)

2003-06-23 Thread Charles Wilson
Similar to my message of 9-May-2002, but updated with regards to python-2.2.3-2, the official rebase-2.2-2 package which was not available last May, and the recent tk-8.4 release (tcltk-20030214-1). To compile PIL on cygwin, you need: gcc/binutils python-2.2.3-2 rebase-2.2-2 tcltk-200302

Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?

2003-06-23 Thread Jeremy Hetzler
At 08:58 AM 6/23/2003 -0700, Michael Eager wrote: There are a few packages (Perl for example) which create file names with colons. Windows doesn't like this. Perl creates no such files, thus Windows does not complain. It would be good if Cygwin mapped these into something compatible, say, an equ

Re: Request Help for link problem

2003-06-23 Thread Jiang zhou
Thank you. I have get help from Dave Fletcher. The main problem is the lib is written by c++. So we have use g++ to using it. -- Best Regards Jiangzhou "gilles civario" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jiang zhou wrote: > > > I have build a lib. It create h file and l

FAQ Alert - Re: Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall
Elfyn McBratney wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Eric Benson wrote: I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist

Re: Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Elfyn McBratney
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Eric Benson wrote: > I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and > group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user > and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those > don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is the

Creating users and groups

2003-06-23 Thread Eric Benson
I'm working on a set of daemons that should run under their own user and group id. I'd like to write a shell script that will create this user and group. I'm using useradd and groupadd on Red Hat Linux, but those don't seem to exist on Cygwin. Is there a recommended way to handle this situation

Re: download the older version of openssh

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall
Arnold Wang wrote: Can someone tell me whether I can still download the older version, 3.5p1-3, of openssh? It fixed the display problem I'm experiencing. With the latest version, 3.6.1p1-2, I downloaded, certains NT console applications, like net commands, won't have its output displayed through

Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows

2003-06-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
Matthew, FYI, I've been able to associate the following with the .pl extension (in Explorer) and have it work: c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c '"`/bin/cygpath -u "%1"`"' There was no need for extra batch files or anything else. The above also worked when the path contained spaces, but I haven't teste

download the older version of openssh

2003-06-23 Thread Arnold Wang
Can someone tell me whether I can still download the older version, 3.5p1-3, of openssh? It fixed the display problem I'm experiencing. With the latest version, 3.6.1p1-2, I downloaded, certains NT console applications, like net commands, won't have its output displayed through ssh session. --

Cygwin DLL init error

2003-06-23 Thread Doru Carastan
Hello, Maybe I am missing something here but I am getting consistent errors when I try to run apps linked against a cygwin1.dll built from sources. I have tried with source from cvs, cygwin-1.3.22-1-src.tar.bz2 and cygwin-snapshot-20030617-1 without success. The build commands I used are: mkd

Inline-0.44 fails test on Cygwinperl 5.8.0 (xpstd article)

2003-06-23 Thread Soren Andersen
Hello Cygwinauts, Perl5-Porters, Ingy, The current release of Inline.pm won't build for me on the latest cygwinperl (Gerrit's most recent release, 5.8.0-3). I tried running 'test' from CPAN's shell and then went into manual analysis mode, produced some output build logs (attached to this message)

Re: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar"command)

2003-06-23 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Shankar Unni wrote: Larry Hall wrote: I know I shouldn't answer a question with a question but you intend this to be rhetorical, right? Never mind. I'll bite. If you or someone else is interested in providing a gcj package, I expect Chris would work with that person to avoid any package cla

Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows

2003-06-23 Thread Ling F. Zhang
Just based on what I have learned so far...I figure out a more geniune way of how this works: in cygwin, I made a shell script quo that goes like: #!/usr/bin/bash # this program takes user input (STDIN) and put a quote around it... # why do I have to do this? well, I can't figure out a way in dos b

Re: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar"command)

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall
Shankar Unni wrote: Larry Hall wrote: I know I shouldn't answer a question with a question but you intend this to be rhetorical, right? Never mind. I'll bite. If you or someone else is interested in providing a gcj package, I expect Chris would work with that person to avoid any package cl

RE: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar" command)

2003-06-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: > I know I shouldn't answer a question with a question but you > intend this to be rhetorical, right? > > Never mind. I'll bite. If you or someone else is interested > in providing a gcj package, I expect Chris would work with that > person to avoid any package clash. No,

cygwin presentation ???

2003-06-23 Thread Baer, Scott [LBRT/LNA]
Hello, I'm getting ready to do a presentation to our local LUG on cygwin.. and wondered if anyone has put something together that I can work from ? If not, I'm sure I can come up with something.. (basically the way I use it,.. remote X... but I know cygwin is so much bigger than that) Just th

Re: Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar"command)

2003-06-23 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
Shankar Unni wrote: Larry Hall wrote: > David M. Karr wrote: It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I can't use Cygwin setup to "uninstall" it. Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with. Is there any way we can persuade cgf to build the g

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Soren, On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:14:02AM +, Soren A. wrote: > "Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I understand that the ftpd has to have privs like "SYSTEM" and that > looking at past List messages, Jason Tischler says "run it as s/Tischler/Tishler/ > LocalS

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
Soren, On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:18:26PM +, Soren A. wrote: > Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Is this any help ? > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php > > Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like i

Distribute gcc minus gcj? (was Re: Questions about Cygwin's "jar"command)

2003-06-23 Thread Shankar Unni
Larry Hall wrote: > David M. Karr wrote: It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I can't use Cygwin setup to "uninstall" it. Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with. Is there any way we can persuade cgf to build the gcc distribution without

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
"Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like it is what > I need, but it's only made available as a file in the NT/Win2K > Resource Kit, Hehe. Altavista to the rescue, when Google fails. Thx agin. S. A. -- Un

No userid

2003-06-23 Thread Fox, Michael K
I have installed Cygwin on a Win2K box here at my job. The Cygwin environment appears to operate (I can open the Cygwin terminal and execute commands successfully.) However, Cygwin has installed with a strange userid. When I type whoami the answer is 'SMSCliSvcAcct&'. My home directory is /h

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
Vince Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Is this any help ? > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php Huhh. I guess I am screwed, because NTRights.exe looks like it is what I need, but it's only made available as a file in the NT/Win2K Resour

Re: Posible to create filenames with colons?

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Eager
jordi wrote: As win FAT's doesn't allow any filename with that kind of characters (\,/,:,*,?,",<,>,|), would like to know if a sometimes used character like colon ":", can be mapped through cygwin as it just does with slashes. Could be possible? Thanks. There are a few packages (Perl for example) w

RE: User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Yes. Cygwin only really cares about the SSID. Say my local administrator account is 'Administrator' with an SSID of S-1-5-21-11-11-11-500. However, I want cygwin to call it 'root' and call it's home directory 'admin'. So the line in /etc/passwd would look like this: root::50

Re: User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > However I'd like to just change the name of the old account using XP Pro's > > facilities for doing so, so I can keep all of my old settings etc., and > > just rename my cygwin home dir to match. Has anyone tried this? I don't > > want to mess ev

Mysterious Cron error solved

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Jervis
I'd been trying to get cron running for a day or three. Came accross someone who had the EXACT same problem as me: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00624.html But found no solution. Now I have solved it, so here is my solution: /var/run was set to be owned by my user. Not the SYSTEM u

Re: User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > > Hi folks, > > My username on one of my machines has had a space in it since long before > I started using cygwin on it. I've run into one or problems because of > this now, so for the time being I've set up another account with a > different name

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated Cygwin Package: python-2.2.3-2

2003-06-23 Thread Jason Tishler
New News: === I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.3-2. The tarballs should be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly. On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:06:03AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > >New News: > >=== > >I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.

openssl question

2003-06-23 Thread james lankton
I have configured open ssl-0.9.7b with the command ./ but am having a problem with the make command. Here is the result. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cd openssl-0.9.7b [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/openssl-0.9.7b $ make making all in crypto... make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Administrator/openssl-0.9.7b/cr

RE: Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

2003-06-23 Thread John Morrison
> From: Alan Miles > > All, > > I have a file called /etc/skel/a/b/c/d.txt, /etc/skel/e/f.txt > > Under Linux (and I certainly believe the same is true for UNIX), anything, > directory(s), file(s) etc put in /etc/skel > gets put into the user's home directory when the sys admin creates the > accoun

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Vince Hoffman
Is this any help ? http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2003-03/msg00047.php > -Original Message- > From: Soren A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 June 2003 10:14 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me > > > "Soren A." <[EMAIL P

Re: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
"Soren A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Attachment decoded: cygcheck.2003.Jun.22 > --==_=_37794.70672821764D1BD3B9== Sheesh. Did Gmane trip me up? There WAS all this text before the attached `cygcheck` output:

Patch for Bug in /etc/profile script ....

2003-06-23 Thread Alan Miles
All, I have a file called /etc/skel/a/b/c/d.txt, /etc/skel/e/f.txt Under Linux (and I certainly believe the same is true for UNIX), anything, directory(s), file(s) etc put in /etc/skel gets put into the user's home directory when the sys admin creates the account and its home directory. However,

User names with spaces

2003-06-23 Thread andrew brian clegg
Hi folks, My username on one of my machines has had a space in it since long before I started using cygwin on it. I've run into one or problems because of this now, so for the time being I've set up another account with a different name with no space. However I'd like to just change the name

RE: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me

2003-06-23 Thread Soren A.
"Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Subject: ProFTPd usable on WinXP-HE, questionable to me > > Windows XP - High Explosive edition? ;-) > Heehee. I didn't choose it (to install). "HE" = "Home Edition". -- Unsubscr

Re: Request Help for link problem

2003-06-23 Thread gilles civario
Jiang zhou wrote: I have build a lib. It create h file and lib file in usr/local/include and usr/local/lib dictionary. But when I create application using this lib, the link problem occur. The lib is Jrtplib come from http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jori/jrtplib/jrtplib.html. I can build this lib. But wh

RE: win32 dia and HOME=/usr/bin/%USERPROFILE% fix

2003-06-23 Thread John Morrison
> From: Soren A. > > this isn't a BUG in Cygwin, this is a FEATURE. I personally *want* > Cygwin to honor my setting of $HOME (%HOME%) because I keep my user dir > files outside the Cygwin fs hierarchy (makes my life easier if I decide a > total wipe-and-reinstall of my Cygwin installation is neces

Request Help for link problem

2003-06-23 Thread Jiang zhou
I have build a lib. It create h file and lib file in usr/local/include and usr/local/lib dictionary. But when I create application using this lib, the link problem occur. The lib is Jrtplib come from http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/jori/jrtplib/jrtplib.html. I can build this lib. But when I compile the ex