Some questions about ImageMagick and cygwin

(for more background, see http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-12/msg00072.html ) Bob --- It looks like we have a sucker^W volunteer to contribute (and maintain) an ImageMagick package for the cygwin platform. However, a few packaging questions have arisen. I raise a bunch of issues bel

Cygwin GPG + Outlook 2000 + G-Data plugin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, If somebody wants to use Cygwin GPG with Outlook with G-Data plugin. G-Data plugin is available from www3.gdata.de, with sources. I had to rebuild GDGPG.dll with some small changes, because I got "wrong passphrase" error and then, an outlook fopen

Installing from local directory, fatal error

This is my first time using Cygwin, and my first time on the mailing list. I have downloaded the full Cygwin packages, meaning everyone single one. Then, I run setup.exe, click Next, and select Install from Local Directory. Then, I select the folder of where all the packages where downloaded to,

HSBC ENQUIRY.

My name is Sarah Cappa. I am a senior partner in the firm of Cappa Consultants: Private Investigators and Security Consultants. We are conducting a standard process investigation on behalf of HSBC, the international Banking conglomerate. This investigation involves a client who shares the same sur

HSBC ENQUIRY.

My name is Sarah Cappa. I am a senior partner in the firm of Cappa Consultants: Private Investigators and Security Consultants. We are conducting a standard process investigation on behalf of HSBC, the international Banking conglomerate. This investigation involves a client who shares the same sur

Re: Re: Bash file doesn't appear

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:30:06PM -0800, Skews Me wrote: >On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Skews Me wrote: > >> I've installed Cygwin twice from two different mirrors, but the bash >file >> is nowhere to be found. >> >You mean /bin/bash.exe? What is "the bash file"? > >- >Version:

Re: Re: Bash file doesn't appear

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Skews Me wrote: > I've installed Cygwin twice from two different mirrors, but the bash file > is nowhere to be found. > You mean /bin/bash.exe? What is "the bash file"? - Version: 1.5.5-1 No executables were installed on either of my hard drives.

Re: Cygrunsrv and spawned processes

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Frank Seesink wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Cygrunsrv has no idea about child processes > > started from it's inferior process. It's the responsibility of that > > process to care for its children. This is different from the situation > > in the shell where a Ctrl-C res

Re: Bash file doesn't appear

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Skews Me wrote: > I've installed Cygwin twice from two different mirrors, but the bash file > is nowhere to be found. > You mean /bin/bash.exe? What is "the bash file"? Please have a look at http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Enginee

Re: Cygrunsrv and spawned processes

Corinna Vinschen wrote: *snip* This tells me that cygrunsrv is not giving you a full environment within which to run the app. I've looked into spawnlp() and the P_NOWAIT mode, It gives you the system environment plus everything specified by the -e option. Where else should it get its environm

Re: test post: how2 prevent a cygwin post from being spam-blocked?

This is just FYI, no response needed. (BTW - I did get the answer to my post to via the package maintainer. ) -- thanks, Tom Rodman # # header for first failed msg, sent ~12:47 CST 12/4/03 # o e-mail sent to the below From o

Re: Cygrunsrv and spawned processes

Igor, Just to be clear, I have now spent the better part of the day working on this, trying to fathom what's going on. All I can say is, cygrunsrv is doing _something_ differently when it comes to running Cygwin apps compared to running them from the BASH shell. I have now tested this every way f

A cygwin backup function?

Hi, I am wandering if in cygwin exist any function or package that can do any automatic backup of a hard drive? TIA, Aldi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:06:40PM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote: >"Christopher Faylor" wrote: >> Does MicroCross provide source code for the cygwin >> they provide? >> >> I'm sure this has come up before but I'd like to hear from anyone who has >> purchased something recently. >> > >http://www.mic

setup seems to miss a few packages

Hi All... I noticed during a full install, that setup seems to miss a few packages. What I mean is that I ran setup for a new install. I then ran setup again, as soon as it finished from the same mirror and it found a few more packages to install. I was asleep at the wheel, so I didn't notice w

Bash file doesn't appear

I've installed Cygwin twice from two different mirrors, but the bash file is nowhere to be found. __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

Michael Robbert wrote: Brian, Thanks for your quick response, but we have done multiple searches on google and the list archives. I read every post that I could find about the problems in October where setup was hanging during postinstall. That is where I got many of my ideas for debugging alrea

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

Brian, Thanks for your quick response, but we have done multiple searches on google and the list archives. I read every post that I could find about the problems in October where setup was hanging during postinstall. That is where I got many of my ideas for debugging already i.e. gdb, strace, s

Anonymous ftp - ls hangs

I decided to resurrect anonymous ftp on a server here under Cygwin and managed to get it working again except that when one ftp's and types ls the ls hangs. I search the list and found one person having a similar problem but his question was never answered. Why is ls hanging and how do I fix it

Re: Setup hangs in postinstall

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Michael Robbert wrote: > A co-worker and I are trying to debug a problem that we came across > while trying to do a new install of Cygwin on a clients computer. We > have the current version of Setup.exe(2.416) and we have tried to > install from a couple of mirrors, but even w

Setup hangs in postinstall

A co-worker and I are trying to debug a problem that we came across while trying to do a new install of Cygwin on a clients computer. We have the current version of Setup.exe(2.416) and we have tried to install from a couple of mirrors, but even when doing just a base install the process hangs

Re: setup hangs when installing keychain

Hi All... Thanks Igor. I looked at /var/log/setup.log.full and saw that it failing to write to /usr/share/doc/keychain-2.0.3/ChangeLog. The directory had no write permission for the owner (administrator). I have never touched this directory, so I don't know how the permissions got broken. Look

Re: Cygwin Package List Web Page Suggestion

> * Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-05 13:09:43 -0500]: > > Often I have question about package (for example, what it requires) and must > look up the answer in setup.ini. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, it > would be convenient if the mechanism that makes > http://s

Re: InitDB with Postgresql after logging in as different user with ssh

Sheela, On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:36:21PM -0800, Sheela Rayala wrote: > Creating template1 database in > /usr/share/postgresql/data/base/1/... FATAL:could not > create shared memory segment: Function not implemented > > Detail: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, > size=1081344, 03600) > > ini

Re: postgresql /usr/include/sqltypes.h conflicts with /usr/include/w32api/sqltypes.h (was RE: broken?)

Rafael, On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 02:25:38AM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote: > Looks like /usr/include/w32api/sql.h does an #include , > which if you have postgresql installed, will read postgres's version > when building under cygwin. > > Any chance the postgres /usr/include/sqltypes.h could be moved

Re: test post: how2 prevent a cygwin post from being spam-blocked?

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Tom Rodman wrote: > Yesterday (12/5/03) I posted a question 3 times to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For two of these I was able to watch and verify that a redhat MTA > accepted the mail. None of the posts shown yesterday, and no > bounced e-mail was returned. > > What checks are done b

test post: how2 prevent a cygwin post from being spam-blocked?

Yesterday (12/5/03) I posted a question 3 times to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For two of these I was able to watch and verify that a redhat MTA accepted the mail. None of the posts shown yesterday, and no bounced e-mail was returned. What checks are done before a post is accepted, so I/we can adjust. Yest

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

"Christopher Faylor" wrote: > Does MicroCross provide source code for the cygwin > they provide? > > I'm sure this has come up before but I'd like to hear from anyone who has > purchased something recently. > http://www.microcross.com/html/copying_rights.html "Microcross provides customers sour

Cygwin Package List Web Page Suggestion

Often I have question about package (for example, what it requires) and must look up the answer in setup.ini. If it wouldn't be too much trouble, it would be convenient if the mechanism that makes http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/ or http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/packages/package_name

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Jon A. Lambert wrote: >"Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >>I encounter the problem while installing a tool running on Cygwin, that >>comes from MicroCross (www.microcross.com) XTools The tool installs all >>important things and the bash setup file to /usr/bin. > >R

Re: rsync horribly broken

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:01:40AM -0800, linda w wrote: >If that's the case, how did rsync generate the list of files to copy? >Why would rsync not be able to read them but cp would? Seems like an >odd restriction "rsync can read and compare network paths, but can't >actually open the paths to co

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: pdksh-5.2.14-3

I've updated pdksh to version 5.2.14-3. This is a maintainership change release, so it's marked "test". Please install and test it. If no problems crop up, we'll make it "curr" in a week or so. See below for a list of changes. NOTE: this version requires Cygwin 1.5.*, and *will not* work with

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

"Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: > > I encounter the problem while installing a tool running on Cygwin, that > comes from MicroCross (www.microcross.com) XTools > The tool installs all important things and the bash setup file to /usr/bin. > Right. They are the ones creating a physical c:\cygwin\usr\bin

Re: setup hangs when installing keychain

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Karl M wrote: > Hi All... > > I just tried to update keychain on two machines, both win2k. In both > cases, setup (the version currently on the Cygwin web page) downloads > and then when it says it is installing, goes to 100% CPU and starts > eating up memory until the machine

setup hangs when installing keychain

Hi All... I just tried to update keychain on two machines, both win2k. In both cases, setup (the version currently on the Cygwin web page) downloads and then when it says it is installing, goes to 100% CPU and starts eating up memory until the machine runs out of memory. I tried a reboot, and a

[Fwd: perl-enabled vim]

At one point there was some talk of enabling perl with the functionality being loadable (that's the default, actually). When the perl command is used, that's when it goes off and looks for perl61.dll. I was wondering what ever happened to that effort -- were people afraid perl61.dll was alwa

Re: rsync horribly broken

If that's the case, how did rsync generate the list of files to copy? Why would rsync not be able to read them but cp would? Seems like an odd restriction "rsync can read and compare network paths, but can't actually open the paths to copy them because it can't understand the paths that it cre

[ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: WordNet-2.0-1 - An online lexical reference system

Hi The package WordNet is now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ (Homepage) * ftp://ftp.cogsci.princeton.edu/pub/wordnet/2.0/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: WordNet is an online lexical reference system. Word forms in W

Re: Missing October 2003 mbox archives

Hello, Igor! On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:03:23AM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Ok, the files are there now... Thanks much! With kind regards, Baurjan. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

Re: Download discrepencies

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:00:24AM -0500, Vinod Gupta wrote: I tried to download cygwin, using setup.exe version 2.416, chosing "default" for all packages except "install" for XFree86. Tried 3 different mirrors and all gave me me different number of packages and MBytes

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, December 05, 2003 3:23 PM: > > Nah. It's just because we are so frigging mean. > > Walking on the edge for so many years now You mean "teetering on the edge", don't you? ;-) > > WASFM > > Igor, wtf cannot translate

RE: bug in gcc3.3.1

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Brian Ford wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:47 PM: > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:38 PM: > >>> what was the reason for dropping the support? > >>> ( I have to now fix few li

Re: Missing October 2003 mbox archives

Ok, the files are there now, but the links to the October mbox archives on the archive pages are still broken for the following lists: , . , . While we're on

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

"Jörg Schaible" wrote: > Jon A. Lambert wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:03 PM: >>"Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >>> Thank for the answers >>> >>> Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount >>> point and /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin >>> directory

RE: Where are mount points stored?

Ok, so (1) is curiousity. As for (2), why not simply run "mount" instead of the reg query? It will give you the same exact information. Igor On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Joaquin wrote: > No. For one (1) I don't want to be ignorant and want to learn how > things work. Secondly (2) this helps me

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

Christopher Faylor wrote on Friday, December 05, 2003 3:23 PM: > Nah. It's just because we are so frigging mean. Walking on the edge for so many years now > WASFM Igor, wtf cannot translate ... :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Re: Download discrepencies

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:00:24AM -0500, Vinod Gupta wrote: >I tried to download cygwin, using setup.exe version 2.416, chosing >"default" for all packages except "install" for XFree86. Tried 3 >different mirrors and all gave me me different number of packages >and MBytes downloaded, like: > >ufl.

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH= "/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:45:43PM +0100, Nguyen, Huu-Dung wrote: >Now i understand a little bit (NOT 100%) the fine features of /usr/bin >as mount point and as physicically existing directory. > >I encounter the problem while installing a tool running on Cygwin, that >comes from MicroCross (www.mi

Re: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:59:15AM +0100, J?rg Schaible wrote: >It is the way mount works (in any Unix)! You can force a mount without >a mount point, but ls the parent directory and you see why. The only >question you could arise for Cygwin here is why they use a mount at all >for /usr/bin, but t

Re: cygwin port of Perl broken on Win32? Or does cygwin not run on win32?

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:06:34AM -0800, linda w wrote: >I've always wanted to put cygwin tools *first* in my path before win32 >tools since in some cases, there are hidden win32 tools that obscure >well known *nix tools, like 'find' (being a primitive file string >search). > >Do you actually inst

Re: rsync horribly broken

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:53:41PM -0800, linda w wrote: >Went to copy a dir: > >rsync pooped all over the place: >law> rsync -avv --progress //ishtar/root/usr/src/packages/BUILD/dictd-1.4.9 >/usr/src/packages/BUILD/ I doubt that rsync understands Windows '//' style paths. -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: Broken links on page http://cygwin.com/ported.html

On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:50:16PM -0800, Spirit Traveller wrote: >Hello, I am enjoying cygwin quite a good bit. So I decided to spend a >little time helping out the website. > >I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place for this, but I was >unable to find an email address of a webmaster fo

Download discrepencies

I tried to download cygwin, using setup.exe version 2.416, chosing "default" for all packages except "install" for XFree86. Tried 3 different mirrors and all gave me me different number of packages and MBytes downloaded, like: ufl.edu 122 files 88.8 MB rcn.net 120 files 81.1 MB anl.go

Re: rcp problem

Some things to check: - the .rhosts file on Linux must be owned by you or by root and have permissions of 0600. - did you use a hostname or IP address in .rhosts? It must be a hostname. Also, ping that hostname and make sure it displays the IP address of the cygwin system to be sure it resolves

rcp problem

I tried to do rcp from cygwin to linux machine but I got following error : $ rcp temp.txt 10.10.10.45:/home/mohanlal 10.10.10.45: Permission denied This seems to be user validity issue. Command "whoami" at cygwin as well as at linux machine returns "mohanlal". On machine 10.10.10.45, I have c

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH= "/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

OK Now i understand a little bit (NOT 100%) the fine features of /usr/bin as mount point and as physicically existing directory. I encounter the problem while installing a tool running on Cygwin, that comes from MicroCross (www.microcross.com) XTools The tool installs all important things and the

Re: Cygrunsrv and spawned processes

On Dec 4 16:33, Frank Seesink wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Frank Seesink wrote: [LOTS OF USELESS FULL QUOTES DELETED] > This tells me that cygrunsrv is not giving you a full environment within > which to run the app. I've looked into spawnlp() and the P_NOWAIT mode,

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Win32:: Perl library updated for latest Cygwin

It's been almost a year, and I've received some reports about builds failing. I've resolved a few problems and everything should be working. Hoping to pick this up a bit again and maybe make a Cygwin package. This project provides the core Win32:: and libwin32 ability for Cygwin Perl. It is availa

RE: bug in gcc3.3.1

Jörg Schaible wrote on Friday, December 05, 2003 10:04 AM: > In case you did not know ... Sorry, could not resist. Regards, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs

RE: bug in gcc3.3.1

Brian Ford wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:47 PM: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:38 PM: >>> what was the reason for dropping the support? >>> ( I have to now fix few lines of code!!) >> >> It is not ANSI compatible and

RE: How to execute bash file under /usr/bin despite setting PATH="/us r/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH"

Jon A. Lambert wrote on Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:03 PM: > "Nguyen, Huu-Dung" wrote: >> Thank for the answers >> >> Can any gurus tell me what is the real use of /usr/bin as a mount >> point and /usr/bin as a physically existing directory in the Cygwin >> directory ? Sometime i am too much cur

Re: Cygwin port of Perl broken on Win32? Or does Cygwin not run on win32?

I've always wanted to put cygwin tools *first* in my path before win32 tools since in some cases, there are hidden win32 tools that obscure well known *nix tools, like 'find' (being a primitive file string search). Do you actually install both Perl installs? I'm still running on a laptop for m

Re: d --tree problem with "line draw" characters

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First, my apologies for the delay in response. My old computer on which I packaged 'd' died soon after, and I was without a computer for a few weeks. I just tonight got online with my new(er) computer. I duplicated this bug with similar results in eve

rsync horribly broken

Went to copy a dir: rsync pooped all over the place: law> rsync -avv --progress //ishtar/root/usr/src/packages/BUILD/dictd-1.4.9 /us r/src/packages/BUILD/ building file list ... expand file_list to 4000 bytes, did move 199 files to consider delta-transmission disabled for local transfer or --whole