Re: Cron Issues

2005-08-28 Thread Brian Dessent
madjaejorl wrote: > I'm having problems getting cron to successfully process my crontab. > ... > 1265k 2005/07/03 C:\cygwin\bin\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 img=1.0 sys=4.0 > "cygwin1.dll" v0.0 ts=2005/7/2 20:30 > ... > 446k 2004/02/06 c:\PROGRA~1\OtherAppPath\cygwin1.dll - os=4.0 im

Cron Issues

2005-08-28 Thread madjaejorl
I'm having problems getting cron to successfully process my crontab. It appears as if my cron service is successfully installed and running, but it just doesn't seem to execute my crontab. First, I'd like to note that I am able to run the cron service via /usr/sbin/cron.exe and everything works f

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: automake1.9-1.9.6-1

2005-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
This is a routine update of the autmake1.9 package, which provides autoconf-1.9.x. Changes (from autoconf1.9-1.9.6-1) * Update to latest official release, 1.9.6 * Applied backport from CVS automake which is required for development of the upcoming libtool-2.0. Should have no impact on "or

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: autoconf2.5-2.59-2

2005-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
This is a routine update of autoconf2.5 package, which provides autoconf-2.59. Changes (from autoconf2.5-2.59-1) * Adds unversioned info files '/usr/share/info/autoconf.info.gz' and '/usr/share/info/standards.info.gz' * Applied backports from CVS autoconf which are required for devel

RE: Spaces in Environment Variables

2005-08-28 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> Here's a new one to add to that: Windows XP x64 uses *two* > program files > directories: > > C:\Program Files > C:\Program Files (x86) > Oh God, they didn't. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: All autotools on cygwin (autoconf, automake, libtool)

2005-08-28 Thread Charles Wilson
This announcement comes somewhat late, but is provided so that there exists some record of this change in the cygwin-announce mailing list archive. On July 1, 2005, the existing autotools on cygwin were all obsoleted by new versions, where the newer releases were more consistent with establis

Re: Updated: file-4.15-1

2005-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:02:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:55:38AM +1000, Atkins, Richard J (Richard) wrote: >>Is anyone else having trouble with this update? On my system cygcheck >>says it's missing all the binaries this package contains. It seems the >>tar.

Re: Updated: file-4.15-1

2005-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:55:38AM +1000, Atkins, Richard J (Richard) wrote: >Is anyone else having trouble with this update? On my system cygcheck >says it's missing all the binaries this package contains. It seems the >tar.bz2 was made with an extra "./" at the start of each entry, so the >setu

RE: Updated: file-4.15-1

2005-08-28 Thread Atkins, Richard J \(Richard\)
Hi there, Is anyone else having trouble with this update? On my system cygcheck says it's missing all the binaries this package contains. It seems the tar.bz2 was made with an extra "./" at the start of each entry, so the setup.exe fails to install them where it should. I've no idea where these fi

Cygwin font problems: freetype 2.1?

2005-08-28 Thread Steve Holden
Having asked this question with no reply on comp.lang.python and the image-sig list I now turn to the Cygwin community. I'd really appreciate Cc's to my email address as I am not a subscriber to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone aware of (a fix for) problems I'm having getting the Python Imaging Lib

Re: script hangs with 20050716/20050826 snapshot but not with 1.5.18 dll

2005-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 12:45:45AM -0400, Volker Quetschke wrote: >The following script hangs after running a short while when using >the 20050716/20050826 snapshots, but works with the 1.5.18 dll. > >--- start tcsh_hang.csh --- >#!/bin/tcsh >while (1) ># perl -e 'print("12\n");' |& /usr/bin/grep

Re: is there a cygwin maintainer for gnu emacs?

2005-08-28 Thread emacs user
some more diagnostics on the bug that causes repeated crashes under cygwin; I'd be happy to get additional advice as to what else I can do to help identify the source of the problem: /usr/local/emacs/src $ gdb emacs GNU gdb 6.3.50_2004-12-28-cvs (cygwin-special) Copyright 2004 Free Software Fo

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Reini Urban wrote: > > > Thanks for explanation. I assumed that perlcc is a binary file. IIRC this > > is a known issue with perl scripts. > > No. That's a known issue if you are member of the magic Windows > Administrators group. No. This applies to all Windows groups. I think it is importand to

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
> Well, I just tried, and I can reproduce a hang with this: > > while :; do quer; done >& /dev/null > > It happens with 1.5.18 and the current snapshot. I didn't check the > 1.5.18 version since I was too lazy to regenerate my copy with symbols > but the snapshot version "hangs" in sigsuspend,

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Reini Urban
Krzysztof Duleba schrieb: Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: The command /usr/bin/perlcc is actually a perl script that performs the -r check to test if it can open the file. Thanks for explanation. I assumed that perlcc is a binary file. IIRC this is a known issue with perl scripts. No. That's

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Baksik, Frederick (NM75) wrote: > The command /usr/bin/perlcc is actually a perl script that performs the -r > check to test if it can open the file. Thanks for explanation. I assumed that perlcc is a binary file. IIRC this is a known issue with perl scripts. > So when perl does the -r check, it

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Brian Dessent
"Baksik, Frederick (NM75)" wrote: (Disclaimer - I'm no expert on this stuff) > # owner: Administrators > # group: Domain Users > user::rw- > group::--- > mask:rwx > other:--- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ perl -ne 'print "hi: ", $_' new.pl > hi: print "hello world\n" Is 'e728075' a member of the

RE: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Baksik, Frederick (NM75)
> Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > > Brian Dessent wrote: > > > $ ls -l foo.pl > > > -rwx--+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 34 Aug 28 16:29 foo.pl > > > > > > I guess that in strict mode the file should not be readable by me. > > > However, cat and perl can read it without problems. > > > > I don't kno

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:47:23PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >Any ideas on how to proceed would be appreciated. Of course if you can >reproduce it and debug it on your own I guess my help won't be >necessary. Well, I just tried, and I can reproduce a hang with this: while :; do quer; done >&

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:28:13PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >I did trace this problem an it looks like a race in Cygwin but I may be > >wrong. Here I am providing two backtraces from a debug session - the first > >one shows what happens

Re: Cygwin login does not work

2005-08-28 Thread René Berber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean marc Thiault wrote: > I have installed yesterday cygwin X with proftpd (with setup exe download > then install from locak directory) > > all things seems good > xserver goodly started (i have hyperthreading on) > proftpd started oK > but > when

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > Hello, > > I did trace this problem an it looks like a race in Cygwin but I may be > wrong. Here I am providing two backtraces from a debug session - the first > one shows what happens normally and the second one shows the hang: [...] Just as a confir

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:28:13PM +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >I did trace this problem an it looks like a race in Cygwin but I may be >wrong. Here I am providing two backtraces from a debug session - the first >one shows what happens normally and the second one shows the hang: I appreciate that y

Cygwin login does not work

2005-08-28 Thread Jean marc Thiault
Hello, I have installed yesterday cygwin X with proftpd (with setup exe download then install from locak directory) all things seems good xserver goodly started (i have hyperthreading on) proftpd started oK but when attempt ftp 127.0.0.1 , then enter a good login namme and good NT password i hav

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Brian Dessent wrote: > > $ ls -l foo.pl > > -rwx--+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 34 Aug 28 16:29 foo.pl > > > > I guess that in strict mode the file should not be readable by me. > > However, cat and perl can read it without problems. > > I don't know why perlcc complains when perl does not. But t

Re: perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > $ ls -l foo.pl > -rwx--+ 1 Administratorzy Brak 34 Aug 28 16:29 foo.pl > > I guess that in strict mode the file should not be readable by me. > However, cat and perl can read it without problems. I don't know why perlcc complains when perl does not. But the above s

perlcc and permissions

2005-08-28 Thread Krzysztof Duleba
Hi There is a huge inconsistency in how perl and perlcc handle file permissions. I am wondering what the reason is. How can it be that perl can read a file and perlcc fails? There is a file, foo.pl, owned by my group, but without proper permissions. $ ls -l foo.pl -rwx--+ 1 Administratorzy B

Re: running applications build under Cygwin

2005-08-28 Thread Brian Dessent
Floris Bos wrote: > However when I call Omega.exe from my browser window I get the following > error: > This program cannot be run in DOS mode > > Along with that all of the code of the executable is displayed in my browser > window. Your problem is that your web server is just returning the exe

running applications build under Cygwin

2005-08-28 Thread Floris Bos
Hi, I'm quite new to Cygwin and there are some things I don't really understand. I've build a few applications under Cygwin. I've build Xapian and Omega. Xapian is a search system and Omega is a front-end for Xapian. (see www.xapian.org if you're interested) These applications are designed f

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > First I determined (by using strace) the place in zsh where the hang > occurs to be in or after zhandler() when it processes SIGCLD. Then I > built debugging zsh and after debugging for a while it turned out that > the hang occures after leaving t

Re: zsh: command not found => hangs

2005-08-28 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, I did trace this problem an it looks like a race in Cygwin but I may be wrong. Here I am providing two backtraces from a debug session - the first one shows what happens normally and the second one shows the hang: === In this case zsh doesn't hang === (gdb) break 593 Breakpoint 1 at 0x1004

argv[0] parsing problem with -mno-cygwin

2005-08-28 Thread Mudi Obada
Hello, when i compile an application with `gcc -mno-cygwin` and execute it from cmd.exe, argv parsing is broken for argv[0] when quotes are embedded in the command used to launch the application. For example, executing ` "."\argv0_bug "a"\b ` from cmd.exe gives arg0: . arg1: \argv_bug arg2

Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running

2005-08-28 Thread Ian MacKinnon
Harry said :- Is there a handy way (on winxp) to use emacs as if in X but without installing or using the X side of cygwin? export DISPLAY= ; xemacs& will do the job, as Xemacs will then start in MS mode. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Proble

Fwd: Octave Mode for emacs in Cygwin

2005-08-28 Thread James R. Phillips
--- Bill Denney wrote: > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:39:22 -0400 (EDT) > From: Bill Denney > To: "James R. Phillips" > Subject: Octave Mode for emacs in Cygwin > > Might you be able to include octave mode in the cygwin build's next > release? > > Thanks from a happy octave on cygwin user, > >