Re: aclocal and setalternatives

Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > I am getting the following error message when running aclocal > > development $ aclocal > /usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of > AM_PATH_LIBSMI > run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' > or see > http://sources.redhat.com/automake/a

Re: Can't switch to another user.

Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Based on the document I read, I got the impression that I cannot use su > but login will work. I really do not need to login as different user. I don't know which document you're referring to, but the first paragraph of /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/login.README says Und

cygrunsrv.exe -- start the service automatically on failure??

Hello all, As with cygrunsrv.exe we can install-start-stop a service, is it possible to restart the service automatically on failure?? We can see from properties of a service, a Recovery tab is available where there are options like First failure, second failures, subsequent failures to take an ac

Re: Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.

> Hi, > > I just installed cygwin (on win xp laptop) for the first time using > setup.exe (for all users). I am having difficulty getting xinetd > working. As I can see from the attached log files in.telnetd/in.ftpd are > dying. (aa is logfile created by xinetd -d and bb is attempt to run > teln

Re: 1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

Antony Baxter wrote: > anything to work. At the moment I've set > >url-viewers = /home/ant/bin/viewUrl > > in my .pinerc where viewUrl is a 1-line script as > follows: > >echo $1 >> /tmp/viewUrl.log > > When run from the command line this (obviously) works > fine. However, If it's a s

aclocal and setalternatives

I am getting the following error message when running aclocal development $ aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_LIBSMI run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal /usr/share/aclo

Help me to get xinetd/inetd working.

Hi, I just installed cygwin (on win xp laptop) for the first time using setup.exe (for all users). I am having difficulty getting xinetd working. As I can see from the attached log files in.telnetd/in.ftpd are dying. (aa is logfile created by xinetd -d and bb is attempt to run telnet/ftp aft

Re: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: huh! That shouldn't have happened -- I use QuoteFix when using Outlook... will have to check to see a crash or something re-configured some of my settings -- Unsubscribe info: http:/

Re: xmkmf resuling in bad search path for std includes?

According to Larry Hall on 8/30/2005: > According to Thomas Chadwick on 8/30/2005: >> . >> >> I'm running into trouble at the "make depend" point in the >> process. It's not finding a couple of include files. Here's an example >> message: >> makedepend: warning: x2x.c (reading /usr/include

RE: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Reid Thompson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Thanks. > > Hi, > >I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am > > trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking > > out on the space. > > > > exp

Re: Installer option?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: >>>This was fixed in a snapshot (and it was not so much the * character >>>in key names as a bug in open() on virtual directories). > > >>Thanks. Do you know which snapshot has it? > > > See this thread: > http://sources.redhat.co

pdksh and vi-tabcomplete with spaces

When I use pdksh to expand the name of a file with spaces or other shell metachars in it, the filename is expanded without escaping the metacharacters. On cygwin: $ cd Whiteboards & Photos/ $ echo $KSH_VERSION @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 On NetBSD: $ cd Whiteboards\ \&\ Photos/ $ echo $KSH_VE

Problem mounting volumen with CygWin 1.5.18

Hi, I downloaded CygWin and installed, with base and X11 packages. If i use the startxwin.bat and get error below. So I went to FAQ and DOCs to solve the problem about opening fonts. Now, I open a console with bash --login -i and it doesn´t exist mount, umount, ls command. If i type any co

Re: expect script exits login shell OK,yet ssh.exe never exits;1.5.18

All: Again any help would be appreciated. Will anyone speculate on a cause; is there any more info that would be helpful? I may or may not be getting stackdumps - I will check.. Could this be a hyperthreading issue? I have browsed the archives - it seemed that all or part of the cygwin hypert

RE: Alternative to Cron Jobs with cygrunserv

Original Message >From: M Maki >Sent: 29 August 2005 17:34 > I then created a Windows batch file that pipes the command I > want to run to the cygwin.bat file that starts cygwin. > > For example: > > @echo on > echo ./rsyncbkp.sh | C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat > echo exit | C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat

Re: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

you also might want to look at http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg01112.html our java home changes often, this allows it to sync On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jason Pyeron wrote: export JAVA_HOME=c:\\java\ sdk\\ or export JAVA_HOME='c:\java sdk\' On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, >I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am > trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking > out on the space. > > export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK > export JAVA_HOME=c:\"Java SDK\" and, > export JAVA_HOME="c:/Java SDK/" > > all f

Re: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

At 11:41 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote: >Hi, > I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am trying to export >the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking out on the space. > >export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK >export JAVA_HOME=c:\"Java SDK\" and, >export JAVA_HOME="c:/Java SDK/" > >all fail

Re: How to set a variable with a space in the value?

export JAVA_HOME=c:\\java\ sdk\\ or export JAVA_HOME='c:\java sdk\' On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking out on the space. export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK ex

How to set a variable with a space in the value?

Hi, I have a JDK installed in c:\Java SDK directory. I am trying to export the JAVA_HOME in cygwin but it seems is crancking out on the space. export JAVA_HOME=c:\Java\\ SDK export JAVA_HOME=c:\"Java SDK\" and, export JAVA_HOME="c:/Java SDK/" all fails. Please help! Thnx, -Ashish -- Unsubscr

Re: xmkmf resuling in bad search path for std includes?

At 09:56 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote: >As I see it, either xmkmf is setting up the wrong search path, or something is >wrong with my gcc installation (since make depend is looking in 3.3.3/include >but the files are located in 3.4.4/include). Sounds like the latter. You'll need to get rid of all

Re: Can't switch to another user.

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Hi, I am a first time user and having problem using login. When I try to login as another user it goes through the authentication and finally fails. See the full transcript attached below. $ login localcontrol Pas

Re: no place like /home

At 11:03 PM 8/29/2005, beau wrote: >On 8/29/05, Larry Hall wrote: >> FWIW, following the problem reporting guidelines outlined at >> would have provided some additional >> information from which I could have made a better guess at your >> problem. >Very graciously

Re: Can't switch to another user.

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > > I am a first time user and having problem using login. When I try to > login as another user it goes through the authentication and finally > fails. See the full transcript attached below. > > $ login localcontrol > Password: > No direc

Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, PJ Halls wrote: > Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some > time, we now desire to roll this out into classrooms but have hit a > problem. > > For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed > on read-only drives / C: partiti

Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

> For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed > on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling. > However, for Cygwin to run it must have write access to /tmp and > /var/tmp. Is there any way to 'redirect' these essentials from the > Cygwin home space

Can't switch to another user.

Hi, I am a first time user and having problem using login. When I try to login as another user it goes through the authentication and finally fails. See the full transcript attached below. $ login localcontrol Password: No directory /home/LocalService! Logging in with home = "/". Fanfare!!!

Re: Installer option?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: >>>This was fixed in a snapshot (and it was not so much the * character >>>in key names as a bug in open() on virtual directories). > > >>Thanks. Do you know which snapshot has it? > > > See this thread: > http://sources.redhat.co

redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some time, we now desire to roll this out into classrooms but have hit a problem. For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling. However, for C

Re: Installer option?

> > This was fixed in a snapshot (and it was not so much the * character > > in key names as a bug in open() on virtual directories). > > Thanks. Do you know which snapshot has it? See this thread: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00499.html Any current snapshot has the fix (since

Re: Installer option?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Is there a way to permanently tell the setup.exe program NOT to update >>my version of findutils? Recent versions do not traverse the registry if >>they encounter *'s in key names

xmkmf resuling in bad search path for std includes?

I'm cross-posting this to cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, and cygwin@cygwin.com because, although it appears to be X-related, the root cause may turn out not to be. Here's what's up... I'm attempting to build an X-client from source. I've done it many times before without a hitch, although the last

Re: Installer option?

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a way to permanently tell the setup.exe program NOT to update > my version of findutils? Recent versions do not traverse the registry if > they encounter *'s in key names. The version I have (4.1.7-4) does. > Everytime I want to update

Re: Matlab Segmentation Fault error

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, René Berber wrote: > Joe Andersen wrote: > > > Not sure if this is a Cygwin problem, but it seems to be. I just > > installed cygwin so I could run Matlab on the unix servers at school > > from my windows laptop. Now that I;ve got rid of zonealarm, cygwin > > generallty works

Installer option?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to permanently tell the setup.exe program NOT to update my version of findutils? Recent versions do not traverse the registry if they encounter *'s in key names. The version I have (4.1.7-4) does. Everytime I want to update cygwin though

bug in unshar

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 unshar 4.4 coredumps due to an unitialized variable [1], (not to mention it executes arbirary shell code, which can be considered a security flaw[2], but that is inherent in the design of shar rather than something patchable in code). Since it has bee

1.5.18: Problem launching URLs from Pine

Hello, I've come across a problem with Pine under Cygwin. I've tried this with the stock Cygwin version of Pine (latest available from Setup: 4.58-1), and have also compiled up the latest version (4.63) and had the same result. I've also tried version 4.60 on Solaris and could not reproduce t

Re: Unable to access forced mounts from /bin/sh

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 8/24/2005 7:03 AM: > > Sure enough, on 'cd -L', bash always checks for the existance of the > entire path, then checks for posixly_correct, then tries chdir(); so bash > succeeds where sh fails when an intermediate path name

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: GNU CLISP 2.35 (2005-08-29)

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Compiling XEmacs 21.4.17 (was Re: Emacs from cygwin in X mode with no X running)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ht writes: > Or you can compile your own 21.4.17 from source, but this is _not_ a > 'straight-out-of-the-box' exercise. If you try this and have trouble, > I'll try to dig out my config.status and other notes from the last > time I made it all work.