can you help me?

2005-01-25 Thread KAMURAN ÇANAKLI
Hello I download cygwin and fetchmail.exe (for NT&w2000). My computer has got XP PRO Operating system. 1. I installed cygwin. 2. I installed fetchmail.exe 3. I configured fetchmail.cfg file # Configuration created Wed Feb 17 15:43:25 1999 by fetchmailconf #set postmaster "postmaster" #set syslog #s

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:20 PM 1/25/2005, you wrote: >> > >> >after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my >> >current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some >> >days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin >> >directory is undeletable. >> >

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Dan Ch
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Neven Luetic wrote: > > > It says: "x cannot be deleted. Access denied. Maybe the source file > > > is opened" (maybe this translation from german is bad, but I saw it > > > before, so you'll recognize it). > > > > Does any process have this file opened? Try using Process Explo

RE: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Larry Hall
At 01:34 PM 1/25/2005, Dave Korn wrote: >> This subject is really off-topic for this list. The "cygwin >> time machine" is not a service supported by this list. > > Larry, you're being too harsh there! The "how to uninstall" procedure is >standard advice and fully backwardly compatible. If

Re: Cygwin Time Machine

2005-01-25 Thread Charles Wilson
Actually, I think this is a neat idea. I tried to do something like it for personal use about 18 months ago -- I wanted a one-time snapshot of the cygwin-1.3.x baseline just prior to the 1.5.x transition. But I waited too long (e.g. after packages which required 1.5.x had "polluted" the server

Re: Moving to the Desktop

2005-01-25 Thread Charles Wilson
> Can anybody help with a single keyboard command that would move the > user to the Desktop, usable across all systems? Well, the following THREE commands will work on any system, and then you can easily reference the user's desktop: mkdir /desktop foo=`cygpath -D -w` mount -u [-b|-t] "$foo" /des

mingw and cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hello, These inquiries are more of a curiosity rather than any problem regarding a specific issue: 1. I've downloaded the source of cdrtools and they compiled under cygwin very nicely :) Additionally, the distribution contains the build instructions for mingw. The readme for building in min

Re: Where can I get the source code for setup.exe

2005-01-25 Thread aschwarz1309
As near everyone in the know knew, it all seems to work fine. I've done a configure and make and executed the generated setup.exe once (thanks Dan). However, there was an error detected during execution which caused the program to abort. My next step is to (try to) make the code with debugging o

Multiple installations and 3PP

2005-01-25 Thread Bruce
On the 25th of January another one rode the bus, Time to put this thread to bed isn't it. Bruce -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Neven Luetic wrote: It says: "x cannot be deleted. Access denied. Maybe the source file is opened" (maybe this translation from german is bad, but I saw it before, so you'll recognize it). Does any process have this file opened? Try using Process Explorer from SysInternals.com. Process Explorer

Re: Courier-0.47, linker error: perlfilter.c: undefined reference to `_boot_'

2005-01-25 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 11:53:46PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: perlfilter.o(.text+0x36):perlfilter.c: undefined reference to `_boot_' It seems that the xsinit.c file was generated wrong: = xsinit.c = #include #include EXTERN_C void xs_init (pTHX);

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Neven Luetic
> > It says: "x cannot be deleted. Access denied. Maybe the source file is > > opened" (maybe this translation from german is bad, but I saw it > > before, so you'll recognize it). > > Does any process have this file opened? Try using Process Explorer from > SysInternals.com. Process Explorer

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:07:18PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, David Dindorp wrote: > >> Cristopher Faylor wrote: >> > Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. >> >> On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. >> If it's

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, David Dindorp wrote: > Cristopher Faylor wrote: > > Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. > > On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. > If it's as easy as you say, I'll spend some more time on it. > > > Have you even t

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Neven Luetic wrote: Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 11:47 -0800 schrieb Andrew DeFaria: Neven Luetic wrote: In the meantime I moved the directory away and I am able to install a new cygwin and remove it by deleting the directory. However I can not get rid of the old directory. Everything inside, tha

Re: more coreutils problems

2005-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 06:46, Eric Blake wrote: > It looks like the lstat() call is violating POSIX - it should be checking > the path prefix, note that `file' is not a directory, and set errno to > ENOTDIR, but instead it is just setting ENOENT. I tested the following three situations on Linux and on Cygwin:

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Neven Luetic
Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 11:47 -0800 schrieb Andrew DeFaria: > Neven Luetic wrote: > > > In the meantime I moved the directory away and I am able to install a > > new cygwin and remove it by deleting the directory. However I can not > > get rid of the old directory. Everything inside, that's

RE: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Neven Luetic
> > >after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of > > cygwin over my > > >current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some > > >days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but > > the cygwin > > >directory is undeletable. > > > > > >This is due to some

Re: possible for win32 links to work as cygwin links?

2005-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 11:44, linda w wrote: > Forgive me if this has been covered somewhere, but I was > wondering if a setting could be added in CYGWIN, to process > "windows links" [.lnk] files as "cygwin" links. Is this > possible? No, it's not. > It sure would be handy to have the linux utils like find

Re: cygwin bughunt (FAQ alert?)

2005-01-25 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: > Actually, we do. We provide the source code. It's easy to build. On your particular system which is tuned to do precisely this, maybe. If it's as easy as you say, I'll spend some more time on it. > Have you even tried it? No. For a couple of reasons. 1. Prior exp

Re: cygwin bughunt (using snapshot)

2005-01-25 Thread David Dindorp
Cristopher Faylor wrote: >>> Again, this doesn't address your immediate concern. >>> A snapshot is your best bet. >> >> Using the snapshot in the test environment, I now get these errors: >> >> sleep.exe (1924): *** MapViewOfFileEx(0x188, in_h 0x188) failed, Win32 >> error 6 >> >> Any ideas why thi

Re: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch

2005-01-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:55:24 +0100 > From: Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], bug-texinfo@gnu.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cygwin@cygwin.com > > > > Another way to fix the problem is to adopt the solution used by autoconf: > >

possible for win32 links to work as cygwin links?

2005-01-25 Thread linda w
Forgive me if this has been covered somewhere, but I was wondering if a setting could be added in CYGWIN, to process "windows links" [.lnk] files as "cygwin" links. Is this possible? It sure would be handy to have the linux utils like find and readlink to work on win-links and run cleanup jobs on

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Neven Luetic wrote: In the meantime I moved the directory away and I am able to install a new cygwin and remove it by deleting the directory. However I can not get rid of the old directory. Everything inside, that's a real file, can be deleted manually by setting the appropriate privileges - wha

RE: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall > Sent: 25 January 2005 17:42 > At 11:28 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote: > >Hello, > > > >after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of > cygwin over my > >current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Neven Luetic
> > > >after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my > >current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some > >days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin > >directory is undeletable. > > > >This is due to some symbolic links fr

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Neven Luetic
Am Dienstag, den 25.01.2005, 12:20 -0500 schrieb Brian Keener: > Neven Luetic wrote: > > I am able to change owner and permissions of these files to whatever I > > want, but I can not delete them ("Permission denied"). > > > > What should I do, to get a clean new install? > > > Have you complet

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:28 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote: >Hello, > >after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my >current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some >days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin >directory is undeletable. > >This is d

Re: Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Brian Keener
Neven Luetic wrote: > I am able to change owner and permissions of these files to whatever I > want, but I can not delete them ("Permission denied"). > > What should I do, to get a clean new install? > Have you completely rebooted (never hurts just to make sure) and followed the directions in

Re: Setup Failure

2005-01-25 Thread Arthur I Schwarz
Igor Pechtchanski To: Art

Problem uninstalling/deleting cygwin

2005-01-25 Thread Neven Luetic
Hello, after a (stupid) attempt to install an older version of cygwin over my current installation (using the "cygwin time machine" mentioned some days ago) I just wanted to throw it away and start anew, but the cygwin directory is undeletable. This is due to some symbolic links from versions of

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-25 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:29:26AM -0600, Brian Ford wrote: >On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> If you give me your perl script and details on how to set this up, >> I could give it a try. >> > >Not perl, but procmail: > >:0 >* ^Sender: cygwin-announce-owner at cygwin dot com >{ >

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-25 Thread Brian Ford
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If you give me your perl script and details on how to set this up, > I could give it a try. > Not perl, but procmail: :0 * ^Sender: cygwin-announce-owner at cygwin dot com { SUBJECT=`formail -c -xSubject:` FROM0=`formail -X'From '` FROM1

installation problem

2005-01-25 Thread Unal Topuz
hi I have tried to download cygwin (all packages) from many ftp sites, but the download process always stops at %99 . May it become because fo the virus program installed on my network connected PC.This virus program always scans the immediate downloaded or created files ! regards -- Unal Topuz

RE: squid DNS problem

2005-01-25 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:42 AM 1/25/2005, you wrote: >> It could well be old "SYSTEMROOT not set in the env vars for the user id >that >> squid is running under" problem. > >So it is, but with a twist. Windows sets SystemRoot, when bash starts it >upcases all environment vars so SystemRoot becomes SYSTEMROOT and eve

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

2005-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 09:08, Steven Read wrote: > Corinna, > > Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment > before posting my original message: No, apparently you didn't... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ set|grep SHELL > SHELL=/bin/bash > SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:h

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

2005-01-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Steven Read wrote: > Corinna, > > Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment > before posting my original message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ set|grep SHELL > SHELL=/bin/bash > SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-commen

RE: squid DNS problem

2005-01-25 Thread Mironov, Leonid {PBG}
> It could well be old "SYSTEMROOT not set in the env vars for the user id that > squid is running under" problem. So it is, but with a twist. Windows sets SystemRoot, when bash starts it upcases all environment vars so SystemRoot becomes SYSTEMROOT and everything works fine, but I tried to start

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

2005-01-25 Thread Steven Read
Corinna, Thanks very much for nailing this one. I had checked the environment before posting my original message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ set|grep SHELL SHELL=/bin/bash SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /bin/bash [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Multiple installations and 3PPs

2005-01-25 Thread Roman
I did not know to much about mount and regtool in Cygwin. As regtool is a Cygwin program and uses the Cygwin environment (am I wrong?) fiddling around in the registry seems to me like changing the car on the race track at full speed instead of going for a pitstop. I seemed more save to me changin

more coreutils problems

2005-01-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The pathchk executable changed between coreutils 5.2.1 (where it stat'ed every component of the path name) and coreutils 5.3.0 (it now calls a single lstat() on the entire name) in how it checks for invalid filenames. This causes a regression on the f

RE: squid DNS problem

2005-01-25 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Mironov, Leonid {PBG} > Sent: 25 January 2005 11:52 > cygwin squid cannot retrieve a single page because > >The following error was encountered: >Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.cygwin.com > > >The

squid DNS problem

2005-01-25 Thread Mironov, Leonid {PBG}
cygwin squid cannot retrieve a single page because The following error was encountered: Unable to determine IP address from host name for www.cygwin.com The dnsserver returned: Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query. and error 503 (service unavailable) is

Re: Fw: bug in texi2dvi, and hack patch

2005-01-25 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hi, On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:58:16PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > AC_SUBST(TESTF, "test -f") > > testfile=conf$$.exe > > touch $testfile > > if test -x $testfile; then > > test -f $testfile || TESTF=: > > fi > > rm -f $testfile this code was full of silly

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 25 02:08, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:27:34AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > If you give me your perl script and details on how to set this up, > > I could give it a try. > > Is there any reason not to just subscribe cygwin at cygwin dot com to the > cygw

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-25 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:27:34AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 24 20:03, Brian Ford wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > > Nope, the forwarding from cygwin-announce to cygwin is not working. I > > > just checked the mail archives and there's a note from Brian Ford

Re: Lynx - Unable to Shell

2005-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 24 22:58, Steven Read wrote: > When I attempt to shell out from Lynx the message "Spawning your default > shell. Use 'exit' to return to Lynx." flashes briefly but nothing else > seems to happen. Upon exiting Lynx after browsing the message "Spawning > your default shell. Use 'exit' to ret

Re: is cygwin-announce broken?

2005-01-25 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 24 20:03, Brian Ford wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > Nope, the forwarding from cygwin-announce to cygwin is not working. I > > just checked the mail archives and there's a note from Brian Ford (Jan > > 10th) saying he has internet problems and the forwarding was bro